The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-31
Foreign Items.


negotiations now pending between France and
Switzerland for the conclusion of new treaty
of eXtradition The French Government de-
mands that political assassination shall be re-
garded in the same light murder committed
from any other cause, and justiiying without
further inquiry the eXtraditiOn of the criminals
this principle the Swiss authorities refuse to
admit, asserting that no such clause exists in
the treaties concluded with any other State, and
declining to make exception in favor of
Franch, which would be looked upon as an un-
due concession to the pressure of powerful
neighbor As matters stand at present the nego-
tiations are at dead lock, but there is reason to
believe that the French Government will with
draw the contested proposition.
We have received from trustworthy source
copies of two dispatches on German affairs,
hitherto unpublished, which are to be laid be-
fore the Austro-Hungarian Delegations at
Vienna. In the first, addressed to Count
Wimptfen, at Berlin, Count Beust remarks upon
the hostility towards Austria shown by not only
'the whole of the Prussan newspapers, both
those which are Independent and those which
are influenced by the Government, but that of
''the persons who direct the policy of Prussia"
and even ''in the highest quarters at Berlin"
This hostility, the Count says, appears to
have been partly caused by the publication of
the Red-book. But this publication is n
necessity for the Austrian Government as
its foreign policy is not discussed in Par
lament, but in the Delegations. whose busi-
ness it is to inquire into the budgets
of the War Office and Foreign Office, and who
can only obtain an accurate notion of the rela-
tions of Austria with foreign States from the
Red-bOOk, which offers them real and tangible
source of information on the subject. As regards
the policy of Austria towards Roumana, South
Germany, and North Sleswick, the Count OBJ
serves that much has been omitted from the de-
spatches in the Red-book in order to avoid
giving any cause of offense to Prussia, but that
Austria cannot reject the sympathy which has
been manifested towards her by the South Ger
mans, and that Count Bismark himself acknow-
lodi har riCrht toln tp inf in thn Nth
Sleswick question. The second despatch
relates to the plan of forming South
German Bund. 1t is addressed to the Austrian
ambassadors at Munich and Stuttgard, and be-
gins by recalling the opinion expressed by
Count Beust on this proposal in November,
1867. He then considered that a Southern
Bund would be desirable as guaran-
tee for the maintenance of peace, and
communicated his views the subject to
the Prussian Government as well as to those of
Bavaria and Wurtcmberg At the same time,
though retaining this opinion, he neither then
nor since took any steps to promote the forma-
ton of the Bund. Austria has legitimate in
terest in the independence of South Germany,
and hence also in the maintenance of that indie
pendence in a definite and secure form.
But for the present we will confne ourselves to
urging this important truth on all concerned.
We do not wish to have even the appearance of
taking an active part in the development of af-
fairs in Germany. We ought to wish for
Southern Bund; perhaps we do wish for it; but
to create it, If it should come into existence
no one shall have the smallest right to describe
it as the work of Austrian influences. Pal
QdU Gazette
The clerical party in Baden and Bavaria
who, Notwithstanding Count Bismarks recent
coquetting with Rome, still remain the most
bitter enemies of Prussia, and use every means
in their power to stay the progress of her infu-
ence in these States, are making great capital
out of an accident which lately occurred ut the
castle of Hechingen, the cradle of the Hohen-
Zollern family. During recent thunderstorm
the lightning struck the castle less than seven
times, and having almost melted one of the
conductors, did serious damage to the building.
SO good a chance of improving the occasion
could not be lost, and from hundred pulpits
the event has been related to the superstitious
and priest-ridden peasantry as a manifestation
| of the Divine anger against the grasping and
heretical ruler of Prussia
Some curious devices were resorted to at NJ.
Oppenheim's ball (the spendor of which is still
| the talk of Paris) to amuse the Viceroy New
figures were invented for the after-supper cotil-
Ion. Large sealed envelopes were distributed
| among the ladies, who opening them found
grotesque headdresses inside, with which they
were expected to crown their partners. Crack
| ers containing pieces of fancy costume were
| also pulled, between the figures of one of the
| Dances and the gentlemen had to wear the finery
which fell to their share. In what was called
| the steeplechase dance the ladies received fans
| bearing the names of .well-known race-horses,
| and the gentlemen cards similarly inscribed At
n signal the music struck up, and each gentle
| man hastened to discover the lady on whose fan
was written the same name as on mis- card An
| other fantastic novelty was the distribution of
| hoops among the gentlemen, one to each six
The six advanced to a lady, carrying their hoop
| between them, and on touching spring it sud
| denly imprisoned the one destined to be the
| lady's partner. Both the Oriental visitors and
| the native visitors are said to have been much
| amused by these performances.
| The Pail Mall Gazette says-ln the name OF
all that is profane, who is it that is responsible
| for the exposition of ''objects" connected with
Jerusalem in the Dudley Gallery The eXhibi-
| ton comprises q variety of articles of really
| and some models of Jerusalem as 1t is, and as 1t
| is supposed to have been, which well deserve
| inspection. But in a glass case in the room is a
! special collection provided by Mr.. Macgregor,
| of the Rob Roy canoe, which presents that gen.
tleman in much more ecceHtric light than any
of his VOYAGES have done. Within the case,
carefully displayed and legibly ticketed Is eX-
hibited every article which Mr.. Macgregor has
used or has notused in the course OF his career as
an explorer. There is his cooking apparatus,
and some arusts of bread saved from his repasts
on certain named occasions; there is his pistol,
described as that with which he shot 'the peli-
can:" there is his medicine box, ana separately
labelled there is his emetic there is his dressing
case, consisting of specimens, very worn ana
dirty, of a hair brush, hair comb, and tootl
brush If Mr.. Macgregor were Roman Catho'
lie we might fancy he was saving up Chese
relics in anticipation of the value they will have
after his canonization. As 1t is, there Is an I'M
pertinence, not to say indecency, in articles con
nected with his digestion and external cleanl
ness being thus Obtruded on civilized puDnc
and in iuXtaposition with memorials Oh scenes
the most sacred and reyered
| The InUdLide RuSSe, organ OF the Russian
War Office, has just completed series OF aru
cles urging the necessity, for strateglcal pur