The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-08
FOREIGN NOIes.


The Bodleian Library, at Oxford, is to be
enlarged, as it has not proper room for all its
books and manuscripts. The University are
going to build new examination-schools on
the site of the old Angel Inn; and they will
give up the whole ground-hoor of the present
Bodleian building to the library.
"A cromlech in the island of Jersey has
been recently opened. This proved to be
small but undisturbed cromech, in plan
parallelogram, consisting of an avenue of up
right slabs running nearly east and west,
closed at both ends 10y broad slabs, and whose
centre is covered with three capstOnes. Appa-
rently, the two end c8pstOnes, which wouldhave
completed the structure, have been taken
away The northern side slabs were seven in
number, and all tilted inwards by the pressure
of accumulated sand. The southern side was
composed of five larger slabs, with a slight
inclination outwards from the same cause.
The three capstones averaged seven by three
feet, but were slightly deranged from their
original site and slipped between the support
ing rocks. The length of the structure is
twenty feet by four broad, inside, and the
depth of the side slabs averages four feet six
inches. Under the upper layer of the
white sand was found very fine
dark soil. In the northwest corner
broken pottery was found, and
as the working proceeded urns were disco
have been preserved, and are more or less
perfect; slight traces of osseous interment,
and few fragments of chaTred ash, whether
vegetable or not is uncertain, were discovered.
stone amulet, drilled with two holes, appa-
rently for suspension, and a few flint flakes,
were also found; the jars were always placed
within small cists of flat sea-wOrn stones.
One curious feature, which is generally appa-
rent in similar structures, was here wanting:
Of oh tyryi+b ,r,,in
probably indicates the inteTments as being of
a secondary or later period. Mr.. Lullis has
preserved several ancient bronze wedges,
which were picked up in this locality. 1t is
hoped that strangers will not be allowed to
carry away these valuable curiosities-valuable
only, however, when associated with the
localities in which they were found.
The British Archaeological Society of
Rome has ended its proceedings for the sea-
son. The weekly lectures and excursions
were continued so long as there were any
English or Americans in Rome. Mr.. Parker
concluded the series with an account of recent
excavations, and announced that, for want of
funds, they could not be continued during the
summer. The latest discovery was of re-
mains of the Therne of Seyerus and Com
modus, on the opposite side of the Via Appia
to those of Antoninus. Mr.. Parker announced
that the Lecture on the Ancient Streets of
had been printed for members, with an en-
craving of the foss-ways, or hollow-ways.
The Emperor is so highly displeased with
the choice recently made by the French
Academy in filing up vacancies, that he has
written to the perpetual secretary to say that
he shall be glad to dispense with the usual
ceremony of receiving the new academicians,
In truth both NJ. Barber and NJ. dHausson-
vile have never spared the BOnaparte dynasty,
he #
Rome and the First Empire, which the latter
gentleman is now publishing, is violent in
dictment brought against the Emperor Napo-
leon for his naughty and insolent dealings
with Rome.
According to letters from Jerusalem, the
Marquis of Butte is edifying the dwelers in
that city by his piety and his hberality. He
passes long hours in tears and prayer at the
various spots where the last scenes of the
Passion are supposed to have been enacted.
| His lordship's almouer, Monsignor Capel has
been preaching in English to large bodies of
| pilgrims belonging to numerous English and
American creeds, and his remarkable elo-
quence brings together a large and hetero-
geneous audience, whenever it is known that
he is likely to occupy the pulpit in the chapel
OF the Ecce Homo.
One of the most important reforms an
nounced by the Turkish Government is the
establishment of civil code, which will be
binding on all the subjects of the Sultan,
without distinction of creed A legislative
commission is to be appointed for this pur-
pose under the direction of Ali Pasha. This
commission will be instructed to commence
its labors by careful examination of all the
precepts of the Koran relating to the civil
organization of society, with the object of
using them as basis for the new CODE The
Koran will then no longer be, as hitherto the
official textbook for courts of justice, but
only be recognized as an authority in dues-
tions of dogma and religious practice. This
reform will doubtless be violently opposed by
the clergy and the Turks of the old school,
but it has been approved by the Sultan and
his Ministers, and steps are already being
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