The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-18
Foreign Miscellany.

The Empress Eugene's mustache is said
to rival her husbands.
Lord Russell has written letter on the
state of Ireland, that will soon be published.
The English papers publish, with great
satisfaction, o. Fenian riddle that has just
been concocted. The problem is "My first,
when he makes my second. calls himself my
whole" and the solution ls--Patrlot.
Felix Belly, once well known as a French
railroad contractor in Central America, mas
been sentenced in Paris court to pay heavy
fine for publishing slanderous article against
the Government of Nicaragua.
When the Empress Carlotta was informed
of the death OF Macmillan, she at tirst burst,
ed into flood of tears, then summonlng oil
er calmness she said she had long suspected
it, and asked to put on mourning garments.
1t is said that wild pigeon has been shot
in Switzerland which had neat bandage OF
leaves carefully covering an old wound. inns
is, perhaps, the first instance known OF pigeon
surgery.
"A pastoral from Cardinal Cullen condemns
tho Zines and the Quarterly Review for add
ino despair to the other evils which afhlct
Ireland. by informing the Catholic bishops
that no redress of grievances is to be ex-
pected.
Naples is frightening Europe by manufac-
turing red shirts, presumably for Garibaldlans
They all have an immense letter IN placK
cloth on the breast, which, it Is said, stands Tor
uendetta and means that the ,arers are 10
execute vengeance agalnst-the frencn.
Not long ago boy was seen putting up
Ferian posters in London. Tue police arrest
ed him. All the papers copied the poster, but
the editors were not arrested, although they
gave the lnceudiary document far greater pub
licity than the boy could have done.
The latest thing in newspapers is new
daily in London on a novel principle. 1t pro-
poses to insert, free Of charge. advertisements
of reputable shopkcepcrs, being PAD py the
| latter q commission on the amount OF pull
choses by readers, who will receive from sellers
checks of the cooperative system, emitting
them to share in the distribution OF reserve
commission by lottery.
The underground railway of London, dur
ing the five years Of it's existence, has carried
eighty millions of passengers, at an average
speed of sixteen miles per hour, and WITHOUT
the loss of single life. Twenty-one millions
of passengers were carried IN lS66, ana twenty,
three millions in 1867. About three hundred
trains run over it per week, running the
greater part OF the day every five minutes.
Some of the crowned heads Of Europe re-
ceive very large pay for their services. A Ger
man statstican has made tabular exhibit Oh
their salaries from which wo leurn that the En-
peror Alexander Ii. receives daily sum equal
to the annual compensation OF the PRESIDENT OF
the United States. Louis Napoleon get Sl4, ,I4G
day; Queen Victoria. s6O27; Francis joseph,
$40, $50; and the King If Prussia, S82lO. Vi
the nine soverclgns mentioned, the smallest
salary is paid to King Leopold, OF Belgium, and
is only s164S day.
"A new charity ls in progress in Paris. In
each reimbursement there is Peoples kitch-
ems called the "Fourneau Economique, which
is under imperial and municipal direction. Tho
object is to supply tho INDECENT with meal
which could not be obtained elsewhere at pro-
badly less than three times the charges made
at these establishments. Each portion OF soup,
vegetables, meat and bread is charged one sou.
The quantit, OF soup gwen is nearly pint, OF
meat about two ounces, nearly pint bowl OF
vegetables, the same quantity of rice soup ana
about quarter Of pound ol bread OF the hrst
quality. For five sous sufficient fooo IS dis
nensed to afford an excellent meal for two per-
sons. while those wuo have only two soas IN
their pocket can procure soup and broad III
sufficient quantities 10 sustain lie.
From Tunis, the accounts Of the famine
prevailing there are very sad: correspon,
dent writes that Famine OF the most dlreful
description is docimating the population,
owing to drought and failure OF the crops
for the last three years. The Arabs are dying
by thousands from cold and starvation. III
Tunis alone, eight thousand have died IN two
months. Tho streets are full OF OF orphans from
three to eight years old, naked and starving,
eating the offal they find. 10 add to their
sufferlngs we have winter OF exceptional
severity. Mothers abandon their chidron,
or sell them to Europeans for less than shil-
lingl Private charity can do little, and the
embarrassed government not much more.1
The annual revenues Of the much-talked-
of English Church establishment in Ireland
are as follows: Salaries OF alchblshops and
bishops, s4OO 900; benefccs, s2,515, 600; trus-
tees and their chapels. sS5OO; minister's money,
s5oO ece!esastSal ada cGmss.Sl nus sSE oGS
aily to Trinity College, Dublin; 19O, 00O acres OF
land, aud $3.50, ,OOO from the students fees an
nualiy to tho college. Ii the church property
were put into the market it would bring an an
nual income of over sG,O00,0OO. According to
tho census Of 1861, there we're in ireland
sos 900 members OF the Established Church,
sos 600 other Protestants, and sos, 900 Catho-
lies; total, 5,7O1,O 900. TIE whole population in
1S45 was S,750,00O, lut by a system OF forced
emigration aud famine the population has
been reduced 5000, 0UO in twenty-five years.