The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-04
. Foreign Miscellany.

Tickets to the horse dinner in London
were sold for about seven dollars.
Sir. Frederick Bruce left persona property
to the amount ofSS50, 600.
Queen ,Yictorih's journal is to be printed
with embossed letters, for the use of tho bind:
Famine is destroying the people of Tunis
at the rate of nearly1~o nulIurru u uay: .
Seven thousand persons in England pos.
sess one-seventh Of the whole national income;
there are only 1864 who Lave an income OF
more than fl0O0 and only 81 600 who own
more than ten acres OF land.
-Auber, ut eighty-seven. has just completed
q new opera called I'm Jour de Bchheur, to be
put on The stage this month in Paris. L is
said 10 be as brilliant as any of the triuInphs
of his youth.
Jack Howard, of Bradford, Eng, is match
ed to Jump over full-sized billiard table
lencthways. Captain A. bets s260 to f100 on
hun, three trials to be allowed, the man to foot
from the ground.
"A French scientific paper states that the
pulse of the first Napoleon, when he was calm,
beat only fortt times q minute, or almost half
less than ordinary persons, and that this was
tho secret OF his GOODNESS in tho weightiest
moments Of his stormy life.
"A scandalous pamphlet has been published
in Paris asserting that the Empress Eugenie
Emperor; that this child is in England, III the
hands OF persons who arc constantly levying
black mail On her Majesty, and that her famous
trip to England was solely caused by her de-
sire to hush up the clamor of the above-mcn-
toned persons.
- mere has boon meeting at Liverpool to
consider the low condition of commercial mo-
rality in EnglanR Tho result was very mark
ed expression of opinion that extravaganza OF
in II
takinSs are tho causes of the increased number
of dishonorable and dishonest transactions,
and of tho general dullness of trade and dis
tress of the working classes.
In Dublin publisher and editor have just
becn sentenced to imprisonment-one for SIX
and the other for twelve months-on the
charge of publishing articles that reflected
upon the British Government. This is spec
tacle of freedom of the press in the British
lowed the poor privilege of making their po-
itical condition known to the worll through
the medium OF the press, and the unfortunate
men who made the attempt to ten the story
will be obliged to pass weary aGd painful
months within the walls Of prison
Reports have been received in England Of
the outbreak of an alarming revolt in India.
There.has been for some time great excite
mcnt in several districts, and the revolt, there
England has many devoted adherents in India.
and an overthrow of English rule at this time
could not but be attended by the most disas-
trous c6psequences; still England trem Dles at
eyely repoaf5Sf an Indian insurrectioD. She
has only eighty-four thousand troops in India,
and the whole English population, inclusive of
the army, only numbers one hundred and twen-
ty.tiye thousand, while the native population
amounts to one hundred and fifty million.
Enrlrnl
but little hope of retaining India the moment
an instruction should spread over all her In
dian possessions.
There is an advantage in France in being
o soldier, as a military career offers certain
privileges to all who enter it. 1t is reported,
ior instance, that French sol lier named
Brlcker, absent on leave from his regiment,
lately entered an inn near Chartres and mrr-
dercd the hostess and farm agent who ran to
her assistarcc. For this crime he was tried by
The civil court OF Chartres aud condemned to
the guillotinc. BY accident, Marshal Canro-
bcrt heard of the affair and wrote to Marshal
Mel who promptly sent orders to Chartres
that Brlckicr should be shot and net guiilotin..
cd-in other words, should meet the death of
q soldier instead of that of murderer. The
Paris Figaro reads sharp lecture to Marshal
Mel for this nnwarranted interference with the
course OF Justice. 1t says the block on which
AIalosherbes. Condorcet, Madame Roland,
yeremaud and Marie Antoinette have placed
their heads was good enough for this assassin.
Rosa Bonheur, tho distinguished artist,
whose farnl-yard pieces are famous, has been
elected an Acadcnlicienne by the Antwerp In
stitutc. Her career is illustrated by honors
richly deserved. Two years ago the French
Empress drove from the Palace of Fontaine-
bleau to present her, in person, with the
decoration oil the Legion OF Honor. Md'le
Bonh ur's residence is more like q farm than q
regular country seat; all varieties of horned
cattle and horses, sheep and goats, are to be
sen not only on the surrounding lawn, but
crowding round their proprietor, who is attired
in a cloth blouse in winter. and ruder gar
himself an artist of great promise. She walks
with stick in hand, and a hat stuck any way on
q small hut remarkably wel.shaped head; her
hair is cut short Like man. The ANIMALS
know her and follow her about.