Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-13
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
in consequence Of the prevalence Of
cholera at Rome, q thousand women
| formed themselves in procession at mid
night recently and marched through all
of the streets barefoOted and with dis
heveled hair, bearing torches and chant
ing litsnies.
The king of Italy has latterly spent
a month on hunting excursion in the
mountains, near Naldieri. He encamped
I in tent, end lived in the most frugal
style. a few boxes Of preserves, brought
along from Florence, some lOaves Of
1 bread, which one Of the groODls fetches
every morning from Cuneo, and venison
prepared on diminutive cooking stove,
/ furnished the courses Of the royal table.
/ Victor Emmanuel was accompanied on
| this long hunting excursion only by
/ few groOms. 81
Alexander Dumas, jr., was promoted
on the 18th Of August to the grade Of
officer of the legion of honor. The inde-
pendent papers OF Paris deuounce him
| for importuning the minister of the i'm
perial household, Marshal Valiant, for
| this promotion. They state that he
called on him at lesst twenty times for
| that purpose, and went almost down on
I his knees 10 obtain the much lOnged for
promise from the marshal.
The South London Press says Some
months ago we announced that a mite of
a Methodist preacher, only one inch
/ taller than Tom Thumb, was causing 9
| great sensation in the country, and that
he would soon appear in London. We
had a visit from this little man the other
day, when he was profuse in his thanks
for the notice taken Of him, and assured
US he was AgOing about doing good -
He creates, he says, as much excite
ment wherever he goes IS does Mr.. Spur
geOD, and frequently breaches to 1000
1 persons nt time"
Spain il financially, socially and Do
litieally going 20 the bad, and the peoples
freshest trouble is Sunday law which
shuts up the market and leaves the bull
fights unmOlested.
One OF the novelties in the Paris eX-
hibitiOn is a praying machine, exhibited
by the Buddhists. IL consists of little
square box, with handle at the right
side. When you wish TO say q prayer a
turn of the handle will DO it as easily as
if it were tune on a barrel organ. The
Buddhist machine has this advantage
over a BsrbaFy organ, that il is noiseless. [
/ Is inventors guarantee it to say a hun
dred and twenty PRAYERS a day, and it .
will never get out OF order.
The races, on the 4th, at Ideseim, 1
near Baden, were q great success, and /
were attended by an immense COncOurse. /
Nearly every nationality was repre- /
sented. The principal event was the in ,
ternatiOnal st. Leger, for which some of /
the best French, English and German /
stock was entered, and which was won
by the French horse Traeadoro, owned .
nv the Mqruuis de T,QOraUyA
The London Times Of the 4th has an .
editorial commenting on the ,cOrespon- /
deuee between the British and American .
governments in the Alabama case. 1t {
remarks that Secretary Seward shows by I
his dispatches ne is unwilling to forego
by 3 definite settlement a popular
ground Of complaint against England,
and, like lawyer, is less anxious for
Judgment than TO prolong litigation. It
asserts the counter claims Of England for
Indemnity at least balsnce- those Of the .
United States, and com plains that Sew
ard now declines to adopt the plan of
mixed commission, which was proposed Z
by himself. The article concludes that
Lord Stanley had acted all along in good
faith and with determination not to give
capital to circle Of American politicians
who are ever seeking causes of COM
circumstances he viii wait until the
United States government reduces its
pTstensi0ns.
The bank Of England is said to have
been the result of an idea which first
originated with Mr.. William Patterson,
London merchant. He saw that the
British government, which was at that
time paying twenty to forty per cent.
interest annually for borrowed money,
would quite readily give greater privi-
legss to such persons as would in return
furnish it fixed loans at q reasonable rate
Of interest. He brought his plan TO the
attention Of King Charles II, who sub
mitted it TO his privy council, where the
details were arranged, and the matter
proposed in parliament. Here the scheme
met with great opposition, but the gov
eminent succeeded in carrying their bill
through, and with its passage, on April
25, 1854, the Bank Of England began its
existence.
The following on the home of Maxi
milan, appeared in the columns of CO.
temporary The objects Of interest In
Trieste are now many. There are re-
mains of an attributive temple of Jupi-
ter under the DuomO, and their is near
st hand the museum OF classical antiqui-
ties founded 10 honor of Wiekelman,
murdered at Trieste by the iIl-advised
PistOgese. Ancangeli, who had seen the
medals on the sntiquary by Maria The
ress, aud believed him rich. FF
There is also 8 scientific museum
founded by the Arehduke MsximiliaG,
and above al, there is the beautiful resi-
dence Of this unhappy prince, the Mira
mar, where the half eraZsd empress of
the Mexicans vainly waits her husbands
return from the experiment Of paternal
government ia the new world. ItwOuld
be hard to tell how art has there charmed
rock and wave, until the spur of one OF
those rugged Triestine hills, jutting into
the seas, has been made the seat Of ease
and luxury bat the visitor il aware Of
the magic as soon as be passes
the gate Of the palace grounds.
These are in great part perpendicular,
and are oVerclambered with airy stair
ways climbing to pensile srsors. Where
horizontal, they are diversified with
mimic seas for swans to sail upon, and
summer houses for people to lounge in
and look at the swans from. On the
point of land farthest from the activity
stands the castle of Miramar, half at sea
and half in the clouds above.
aAnd fajn it would stoop downward
To the ID iTFowed wave below;
And lain itWOuld soar upward
In the evenings crimson glow"
/ remember that little yacht lay be-
side the pier at the castles foot, and
lazily tapped its sail, while the sea beat
Inward with ss laDguid pulse. That
was some years ago, before Mexico was
of at Miramar. Now, per-
chance, she who is one Of the most HR-l
happy among women looks down dis
traught from those high windows. and
finds il the helpless sail aud impassive
wave the image OF her bsffied hopes, snd
that ifnmeasurable sea which gives back 1
It's mariners neither to love nor to sor-
row. l think though she be the wife
and daughter of royalty, We may pity
this poor empress at least IS much as we
pity the Mexicans to whom her dreams
have brought so many woes.
THE popular idea that Crossus was the
richest man in the world is altogether a
mistake. His property was only valued
1t two and half millions Of pounds ster-
ing. The philos Dpher, Seneca, had an (
equal fortune, while Tiberius left more !
han twenty-three millions at his death,
which Caliguia squandered within one
year Antony squsndered about hun
ired millions in his lie. Applus COM
mitted suicide because be considered