The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-03
FoREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE needle-gun now definitely adopted b
the Russian War Office, is Of the Prussian pa
| tern, but the needle being somewhat shorte
and thicker, the rapidity Of the firing is said t
be slightly increased. II Russian accounts ar
trustworthy, an ordinary soldier Will easil
accomplish eight discharges in q minute
while skilled hand is stated to have no diff
Guilty in reaching up to fourteen. There ar
not many new rifles being made, the old one
admitting Of adaptation. e..
! For persons who are frequently in tn
habit of, sending telegraphio messages, q ney
system is coming into operation in Paris OF
the LIST Of January. Adhesive telegraphi
stamps will be issued, to beput on the origina
dispatches by the senders themselves. Specia
boxes for the receipt Of these dispatches vii
be placed in the different quarters Of the city
These boxes will be cleared every ten minutes
As the dispatches will be sent to the diferen
offices by the atmospheric tubes, they must b
enclosed in envelopes of given dimensions il
order to insure their immediate transmission
The Irish Church Establishment, con
demned so long by enlightened opinion, bid
fair to make stubborn fight. The commits
sion of inquiry which was devised by the pre-
sent government Of England as respite from
the duty Of saying what should be done
seems resolved to regard their powers and du
ties as limiting them strictly to the investiga
ton Of what may tend to reform Of the Irisl
Church from within. All idea Of maturing {
plan for the re-appropriation Of ecclesiastica
property to the common use Of the whole peo
pie, without regard 60 creed, is repudiated.
The short winter session Of the Englist
Parliament gave to the students Of parliamen
tary history an event without parallel in the
annals Of the British Senate, viz: the father
| leading the House OF Lords, and through Mr.
Disraeis absence, the son at the same time
leading the House Of Commons. This was 6
happiness denied to Elizabeth's great minis
ter, Lord Burleigh, although his son Robert
on the death of his father, succeeded him il
what would now be called the premiership
and it was denied to Lord Chatham, although
his son, the younger Pitt, became Chancello,
of the Exchequer at twenty-three. Lord Sian
lev acquitted himself excellently well.
Quite a lively diplomatic bobberylhas beer
kicked up in Alexandria by charming young
Circassian slave, who escaped from the hsrem
Of the viceroy Latif Pasha and ran as fast al
she could to the Prussian Consul. The Cousu
decided that she became free from the moment
she set foot upon the constructive Prussian sol
Of the Consulate, and had her emancipation
papers made out. Lstif Pasha then had hel
arrested for theft, but the Prussian, backed up
by the British Consul, resisted. The Viceroy
proposed to submit the matter TO the Russian
Consul as arbiter, but the Britisher used such
strong language on the subject that the Rus
sian complained to France, and asked the pro-
lection Of that government. Thus the matter
stands, four nati0ns ip sq1abble about q
The London Times publishes long COM
municstion from MIR. Vernon Harcourt, ellis
toricus," on the process OF naturalization over
here, and freely admits, for its own part, that
on grounds Of policy, not to say common
sense, the argument tor the revision OF the
present law is irresistible. II the hundreds Of
thousands of Irish emigrants who are now
citizens of the United States owe full allegiance
to Queen Victoria, it may also be doubted, adj
mits the Times, whether they are not entitled
to English protection against conscription; yet
it would have been utterly impossible for the
British Minister at Washington to grant them
such protection during the late American war.
In short, the present theory of Great Britain
is quite untenable when any practical strain
comes to be put upon it. The Times sees no
good reason why the British Government
should decline any friendly overtures that may
be made by us with view to its amendment.
The English papers, in noticing the mon
ster show Of fine cattle which takes place every
Christmas in the largest building in London,
put forward at the commencement OF their ac-
counts, as especially important, the fact that
the Queen this year exhibits animals in her
own name, and not as supplied by the chief OF
her household. Her Majesty has with some
suddenness conceived a fancy for rearing fine
oxen, and goes to her farm at Windsor, 1t is
said, and punches the animals ribs in the most
approved connoisseur way. So interested is
she in the subject, that she had one Of the
huge beasts which was dispatched from its
Highland home for the exhibition, stopped in
its transit and taken round to Windsor Castle,
that she might Judge Of its merits. The taste
is an Innocent one, and runs in the family, fol-
George III. was better farmer than KING. 1t
is unnecessary to add that her Majesty obtain.
ed q prize. The British agriculturist knows
what is due to his sovereign.
The atrocious threat Of killing 'promi.
nent Englishman" for each Fenian executed al
Manchester had not been acted upon, but We
find that policemen were kept throughout the
night outside Lord Derby's private house, and
that the Home Secretary had detectives round
his person in his daily jaunts. Sad is it, mean
while, that though the ha6eas corpus has beer
suspended for nearly two years, no measure
for the benefit of Ireland has been proposed
In the short session just closed, with Fenian
ism in full bloom, not word was uttered cal
culated to inspire the expectation Of policy
All this while the London papers represent TIN
state Of trade in the metropolis as unsatisfac
tory, and the Daily News gives deplorabl
accounts Of the distress which prevails at thu
east end Of London. Immense numbers
workmen are out Of work, and in many case
the shopkeepers have had to close their shops