The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-28
FOREIGN NOTES.


Napoleon is arming locomotives with ar
tillery for scouting duty.
Two dioceses in France have given the
Pope six twelve-ton guns and quantity o.
ammunition.
"A comic paper in Spain was recently seized
because it glorifed "thin women" It was to-
ken as a slur upon her portly Majesty.
The Prince Imperial dances awkwardly
but is q great adept in music. The last fond
ness the Emperor Restraints. '1n have him nc
Coburg," is attributed to the Emperor Of his
son. s.-
In Milan, Italy, there is man si1ty-eight
years old, who married his fourth wife about q
year ago, and during the last few days had his
thirty-frst child baptized.
-Si1ty-fve velocipedes were entered for a
series of races lately held near Paris. A ne W
four-wheel vehicle just invented was intro
duced. It is said to be safe, swifter and less
fatiguing than the others.
The Great Eastern has at last ano ther job.
After being laid up for many months in the
Mersey it is being thoroughly overhauled and
fitted up t., lay the cable between France and
this country. Sir James Anderson will resume
command. zr-
The fashion for gentlemen's full dress in
Paris this winter Will be small clothes with
silk stockings. Gentlemen who have not been
kindly treated by nature will supply them
selves with false calves. Rufled shirt fronts
and full rufdes at the wrists will also be iuds-
pensable. 10 -
Mile. Dejazst took her "6rst communion
Commonly administered to children when
twelve years old), and was confirmed at Lyons
three weeks ago. This brilliant, witty, disso-
| lutte, ever young actress, made her first ap-
pearance on the stage when she was eight
years old, and she has played without inter-
ruption for sixty-two years.
-Disraeli, it is asserted by the English pa
pers, will probably make another Of bis bold
political changes Of opinion. The Pail Mall
| Gazette, from sentence in Sir ]. Packington's g
election address, draws the conclusion that
Mr.. Disraeli is preparing to throw over the
Irish Church, and again divert the popular
feeling from the Liberal party towards himself.
The statement that $4,000 French soldiers
will soon receive furloughs to visit their homes
is cited by the French newspapers as deci-
ded proof Of the pacific intentions Of Napo-
leon Ill On the other hand, the army is to be
largely increased by fresh material. For, &C
cording to reports sent in by the projects,
29S, ,214 conscripts have been called for in 1868.
AT Berlin, proposals have been circulated
for the formation Of q company to lay down q
new telegraph line between Europe and Amer
ica to be called the International Peoples Co.
bic. One plrt Of the arrangement is that the
subscribers ere to receive bonds which will be
accepted in payment for the transmission Of
messages when the line is in working order.
! The occupation Of Rome by the French
troops is still the subject Of diplomatic com.
munications between the French and italian
Governments. It is asserted that the Italian
Government has recently sent formal de-
mand upon the French Government for the re.
call of the imperial troops as the necessary con
sequence of the accomplishment by Italy of all
the obligations imposed upon her by the Sep
tember Convention.
Among the current rumors in foreign di
plomatic circles is one which relates to On even
which, should it take place, will create quite 6
change abroad. The heir presumptiye to the
Belgian throne is not expected to live. In case
of his death it is proposed that the Prince I'm
perial OF France shall marry the Princess Anne
liza, of Belgium, and thus consolidate the two
powers under one head. There are serious OBJ
stacles to such pleasant family arrangement
and Count Bismarck would, no doubt, have 6
word to say.
Rather an interesting question has ariser
tn France occasioned, as many other questions
have been, by the famous Lanterne. The
publisher, following custom, deposited witt
the postofice sum Of TWO thousand one hun
dred and fifty-nine francs on the night OF Fri
day, August 7, to pay the postage on the mum
ber Of copies he expected to send away the
next day, 80 there might be no delay in mail
ing. Early the next morning the whole edi
ton was seized, and, of course, none were
mailed. M. Dumont now wants his money
back but the postoffice refuses to give il
up, contending that it was ready to per
form its contract, but was prevented by high
er power.
The expenditure devoted to the mainten
ance Of warlike establish ments in England is
so heavy that the claims possessed by the DIFF
ferent colonies upon English blood and treas
ure are sure TO be sharply examined by the
next Parliament. More than one-thrd Of the
army, exclusive of the troops in Indla, are now
scattered through the colonies at cost to the
mother country of moro than three millions
sterling; or, If the garrisons maintained at such
places as Gibraltar Malta and Bermuda, fol
purely imperial purposes, are deducted, there
still remain about $500 men, costing, after
creditng the colonies with the sums which they
contribute for military defence, f2. 1885, ,OOO
The British taxpayer, under the pressure o.
the burden, asks with e1asperated feelings
what obligation compels him 10 send his fellow.
citizens to fight Kaf6rs and Maoris at the Capt
or in New Zealand for the benefit of squatters
or to scken and die in the West dies, the
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