The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-12

Society, will not be ready till next year
Among other causes Of depopulation de-
vastating Polynesia, and threatening the early
determination of the natives, is the great
spread of leprosy. 1t is now infesting Maui,
IN the Hawaiian group, and the Marquesas
Islands, and there is fear of its being propa-
gated among the crews of American and other
trading vessels; so that ii may spread among
other populations.
There is now preparing for publication in
England work by General Garibaldi. The
theme, if not the title, is ''Rome in the Nine
teenth Century" 1t is understood to be a
popular book, and one which will throw some
light upon many matters which have hitherto
been but partly seen or quite concealed.
The Generals great ambition now being to
assist in the education of Italy, we may ex-
pect in it some information respecting the
reasons for the need of education in q country
which was once one of the lights of the world.
-Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will shortly pub
Lsh ''The History of the Life of Albert Durer,
with Translation of his Letters and Journal,
and some Account of his Works, by Mrs.
Charles Heaton. This work will be illus
trated by reproductions by the autotype
(carbon) process of photography, of many
etchings by the artist including ''Melanco-
liza, "The Knight Death, and the Devil
est Jerome Reading, ''The Prodlgal Son"
the limestone carving which is styled "The
The burial of Lady Palmerston in West
minister Abbey was in fulflment of the con-
dition on which she consented to Lord Pal
merston being buried there, viz, that her
own remains should be placed by his side
The statement which has appeard that Lord
Russell was the last visitor whom Lady Pal
merston received at Brocket, and the last per-
son with whom she had heightened conversa-
tions, is true. The visit was proposed by
Lord Russell, who desired to confer with Lady
Palmerston as to the memoir from Lord Pal
merston's papers on which Sir Henry Bulwer
S engaged, and the conversation during the
interview chiefly referred to this subject,
which must be one of great interest to the
eX-Premier.
There cannot be doubt that the system
of official candidates. which has created a
great outcry in France, is bad, and must be
reformed The supporters Of the Imperial
Government rely on the retort that they did
not originate the system, but found it in ex-
istence. That is no defense; still it is per-
fectly correct to say that good number of
the abuses which are rampant under Imperial
rule were sanctioned, if not originated, under
the republic. There has Just now been raked
up and published letter of Citizen Jules
Favre, dating from the Office of the Minister
of the Interior and addressed to the commits
saries of the republic in the departments in
which he insisted that the candidature of M.
Theirs was to be opposed "by every means
possible, and that the said commissaries
were expected by the Provisional Govern
ment to fight might and main against the
election of all candidates who belonged to the
ministerial ma jority under Louis Philippe.
There is being privately circulated in
England the prospectus of another forthcom-
ing weekly periodical for Freemasons. Among
the matter promised is ''The True History of
Freemasonry, tracing its foundation to the
Shepherd Kings" Considering that other
Masonic inquirers can barely grope their way
among the guilds of the Middle Ages-and
that, as to the Shepherd Kings, DR.. Beke
and other correspondents are seeking
to find out who they were-the attempt
is ambitious. 1t is only lately a worthy
brother connected Freemasonry with the
Cuneiform Inscriptions; but as the said in
scriptions obstinately refused to be read by
him, and nobody who could read them would
give the Interpretation wished, this discovery
has collapsed. In the last century, Joseph
Balsamo, as Count Cagliostro, found no diff
ficulty in persuading the ign 7rant among the
Freemasons in France that he possessed
Egyptian records of Freemasonry; and this
before the hieroglyphics had been interpreted!
It is an instructive comment on the vitality
of impostors and dupes among the semi
educated that another Egyptian Freemasonry
was started in France in this century, and is
not yet extinct.
The PdD MdD Gazette says:-
It is q mistake to talk or write of the wife
of Lord Byron, the poet, as Lady Noel Byron.
Her designation was Lady Byron. 1t is the
habit of peers on succeeding to fortune en-
failing the assumption of name to prefix
that name in their signature to their title
Thus the late Duke of Portland used to sign
himself Scott Portland. In a newspaper cor
respondence with Sir Charles Napier the lattel
through ignorance believed that he was car
rying on a controversy with Mr.. Scott Port
land. The late Marquis of Salisbury, in ikC
manner, used to sign himself Gascoyne Sails
bury. and Lord Ellesmere Egerton Ellesmere
Noel was the name attached to Lad.
Byron's fortune and according tC
precedent her husband prefixed that nam
to his title in signatures Lad,
Byron, however, can no more be designated
as Lady Noel Byron than we could say thC
Duke of Scott Portland the Marquis of Gas
coyne Salisbury, or the Earl of Egerton Elles
mere. While on the subject, it is curious t
trace the change that has taken place in the
pronunciation of Lord Byron's name Wher
at school, and even later, the French pronun
citation was given to the g. The was pro
nounced not as the q in syren, but as the
in syringe, as though the name were write
Bi,1on. So to the last used it to be pre-
nounced by his old schoolfellow the late Gen
eral Sir Robert Garrett. Another schoolle
low still surviving, Baron Heath, the Consu
General of Italy, might, if appealed to, cor
firm the statement, for which, however, ther
is abundant evidence.
Among the phenomena OF change re
ported from India the press is engaged VII
the snectacle of dancing Indian kings. Th