The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-14
FOREIGN MISCELLANI.

An rrcvcrent Frenchman writes that
Queen Victoria is "lttle dumpy. red-faced
old lady, having in her eye dull sort Of CLEAN,
which makes ono involuntarly think Of q lu-
natic asylum"
Tho last dress Eugenie was seen in at
BiarritZ was chestnut poplin, trimmed with
crosscuts of the same. bordered with satin OF
the same shade, White cloth loose jacket and
chestnut brown straw hat trimmed with
velvet.
Mr.. Gladstone, in reply to an appeal from
q lady OF Liverpool, England, on tho subject of
female suffrage, says that lit deserves con-
sideration in what way property in female
hands can adrantngeousy be represented in
the constituencies !" but beyond that he asks
leave to reserve his full discretion"
1t is horribly limited thai two-thirds OF the
thirty thou sand patients in French lunatic asy-
lums are perfectly sane, but have been placed
in them for various Infamous reasons. II is
exceedingly easy 10 get person ncarcerated,
only the certiica te Of police doctor being re-
qured; but 1t is proportionatey difficult to
procure release.
Under The new order of things by which
tho tolcgraphs of England are owned and man.
aged by government, MIR. Reuter- is likely to
find his occupation gone. A press association
is forming for the collection and transmission
or news. All uTTlunCucuI ID W w CulCiCu
into by which leader writer can send late
article by Telegraph to his paper for about five
shillings.
Paris has formed new trado for some OF
her people. 1t is the hiring OF fruit for grand
banquets. In the same way as people hire
china and glass for balls, apples and pears,
prize melons, &c., are hired for the central
piece. AS soon as tho banquet il over the
spcculator removes his fruit, aud it is next day
~Il, OBJ fip fhinnOnQ
are also hired in Paris by tho day for parties,
or by the month.
The working expenses Of tho railways Of
Europe during 1865 are estimated to bear the
following proportion to the receipts: Austrian,
38S per ceut.; PrussIan, 40.4 per cent; French,
407 per cent; Netherlands, 43.7 per cent; Dan
ish, All per cent; German States, 47.G por
cent; English, 47.9 per cent; Spanish, 55 per
cent; Portuguese, 55.1 per cent; Russian SO.
per cent; Italian, 59.7 per cent; and Swedish,
1913 per cont.
Fifty thousand francs salary is paid to the
editor OF the Independence Beige, of Brussels.
This paper has larger circulation IL Paris
than any OF tho French government papers ex-
cept the Patre, and is very rich. 1t lately tried
to have all its Paris correspondence sent by
telegraph, but that would have obliged oil its
contributors to reveal their true names, and as
they were unwilling to do this the prt ject was
abandoned.
Horse railroads have been tried in England
and failed. The experiment was not made on
O. yery extensive scale. About one hundred
feet OF "tranwav" was laid down about ten
years ago in BIackfrlar's road; but no cars
cars we're provided 1t has never paid any
dividends, and now the order has been issued
to take up the track, because many horses
have been crippled by falling down on the
rails. 1t is very clear that horse raj roads will
not pay III England.
-"Charles VII of Spain," as he calls him
self, is still staying in Paris. and lodges in gen
teel apartments in Inc Rue Cardinal Fesch. He
is said to be handsome young man, with
grave, polished manners. He reminds visitors
of his rank and the cloud which overhangs
him at present by invari ibIy banding them q
chair with his own hands. Strict Spanish
ellouetto forbids any one to sit i'll the presence
Of the sovereign and this action ID intended
to impress upon his visitors that lie valves lts
provisions for the time being
"A new process Of manufacturing steel IS
noticed in the English papers. The Bes5emer
or pneumatic plan requires pig iron OF the hu-
est brand, aud Is unequal to the conversion OF
metal of inferior quality charged with large
quantities OF sulphur and phosphorus. The
new process, it is reported, is chemical and
not mechanical, thus securing great economy
of time and labor. Nitrate OF soda is the i'll
gredient employed in the manufacture; and tile
report of a committee upon the tensile md re-
sisting strength of steel mada by this method,
places it upon an equality with the finest kinds.
Vast deposits of ore, hitherto considered use
less, it is asserted can now be manufactured
into irst-class steel.
In Great Britain, statisticJ compiled from
authentic sources relative to the moneyed
power OF the laboring population Of Great Bri-
tain show that there are one thousand nine
hundred and ten cooperative societies carry
ing on the business OF grocers or provision
sellers, with an aggregate capital OF twenty