The New York herald., 1868-03-23
Our Foreign Correspondence.

ness IN tnls most trying hOur.
Our Foreign Correspondence.
No pains nor expense have been spared to
make the foreign correspondence of the NEW
YORK HERALD one of its prominent and cha
racteristic features. The result is that from
various and numerous points in Europe, Asia,
Africa and on the islands of every ocean the
latest news is regularly transmitted to us either
by cable, by letter or by journals in all printed
languages.
In yesterdays HERALD, for example, we
published telegraphic news from Ottawa and
Montreal; from Havana, from Vancouver
Island via San Francisco; from Queenstown,
Cork, Liverpool and London; from Paris, Ber-
lin, Vienna, Frankfort, Antwerp, Florence,
Rome and Constantinople; together with spe-
cial correspondence from Buenos Ayres, from
Cork, from London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort,
Rome, Constantinople, and the harbor of
Hiogo, in Japan. Moreover, in addition to
other extracts, selected and translated from
English and continental journals, we repro
duced in full the Calcutta correspondence of
the London Herald, containing a most inte-
resting account of recent explorations in India
towards Great Thibet by two English taught
Pundits, who had been specially trained by
Captain Montgomerie, of the Royal Engineers,
in order to qualify them to make route sur
vey of the Brahmaputra and of the great road
eight hundred miles from the Manasarowar
lake to Lhasa. The persevering efforts of one
of these Pundits to accomplish this design were
crowned with extraordinary, if not complete
success. The transcript Of the narrative, in
one of the old translations of Herodotus or
Marco Polo is of great popular as well as
scientific interest.
Our special correspondent at Hiogo gives
an entertaining account of the voyage of
the United States steamer Oneida from Hong
Kong to Nagasaki; of the strange inland ia
panese sea through which the steamer went
from Nagasaki to Hiogo; of the more than
Highland scantiness of the costume of the ma
tives who came aboard, and of the reverential
awe with which they bowed down before the
gorgeously uniformed marines; of the feet of
American, English and French war vessels in
the harbor, and of the salvos of artillery and
the playing Of different national airs at the
ceremony Of proclaiming to Japan on the first
day of January, 1868, ''the ratification of an
event which will find an echo through the
world, viz, that the selfish policy which so
long sealed up its ports to commerce has at
length by wise policy yielded to the onward
march of the commercial brotherhood of ma
tions."
Our Buenos Ayres correspondent chronicles
the ravages of the cholera throughout the
Argentine Confederation the latest Cabinet
changes; the progress of the Santa Fe rebel
lion and of the war with Paraguay, and alludes
to the sensation produced in Buenos Ayres by
the editorial articles in the HERALD on the
commerce of South America and the ste amship
wants of the coast.
Our Constantinople correspondent speaks Of
the severe winter weather and of the many
fires Gncluding the fire that burned down the
palace of the Grand vizier) which have lately
afflicted Constantinople.; of the proposed pub
lication by the Porte Of Blue Book, to con-
tain all the documents relating to the Cretan
question; of newspapers, books and the state
of education in Turkey; and relates the origin
of the difficulty between Mr.. Morris, the United
States Minister, and Fuad Pacha, which,
according to our special telegram from Con-
stantinople, also published yesterday, is In o
fair way to be adjusted, in consequence of q
conciliatory despatch from Mr.. Seward, at
Washington.
Our letter from Rome describes the carnival
as having been .fasco, SO far as the tradi-
tional outdoor amusements are concerned but
saws that, on the other hand the festivities In
the Doria Palace, at the signing Of the marriage
contract of the Princess Gwendoline and the
young Count Somaglia, of Milan, were parti-
cularly brilliant, as were also ball at the
Braschi Palace, in behalf of infant asylums,
and the series of soir6es dansontes given by
Mrs. General Hooker, "which have proved
the most attractive entertainments ofthe carni-
val" The arrival in Rome of George Pea
body, Robert G. Winthrop and the landscape
painter Bierstadt is mentioned, and statistics
of the marvellously rapid growth and spread
Of Catholicism in the United States are given