The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-17
FOreign Itens.


French and Russian dead have been reyerently |
gathered together, but the English cemetery on |
Cathcarts hill is in q shameful state notwith- |
standing the Gl3,OO0 paid by the Government |
Tor its proper maintenance The Russian Gov |
enment has done more than could be expected
OF 1t, but all the monuments i'm the cemetery are
being chipped to pieces, and no attempt has
been made TO gather the remains of our fallen
soldiers in one spot. After the close of the Ame-
rican war the first work of the United States
Government was TO collect the dead from the
battlefelds, and erect memorial to them. At
Gettysburg and Antietam Cor Sharpsburg) the
task is completed, and the soldiers of North and
South have been laid together This is what Dr.
Russell suggests should be done with the re-
mains of English soldiers in the Crimea, (which
now lie broadcast over the land" For less than
G13,000 the dead might have been brought into
one graveyard and some sort of mark put over
the remains which could be identified. If the
GOvernmentwill do nothing further, private sub
scriptiOn Will have to prevent the English ceme-
terry from remaining national disgrace"
Two young Englishmen have Just favored
the Inhabitants of Stuttgart with another eX-
ample of that high spirit and gentlemanlille be-
havior which have made English tourists so uni
versally respected on the continents: and we are
happy to be able to add that their exploits have
met with due appreciation. On the Schloss Platz
stands statue of the late King, hanked by two
weeping female figures, and great was the con-
sternation of the loyal towns-people on dis
covering morning that some daring mis-
creants, regardless of the ''divinity that doth
the rainbow, besides other indgnities un-
mentonable to ears polite. A reward of
1900 forins offered for the detection of the
offenders at once led to the arrest of retired
officer of the 9th Lancers and his brother, whom
the German police, with the national slowness
at understanding joke confnedin in the common
gaol, and put on prison diet. with German
Bible apiece to beguile their leisure hours.
After three days of this regime they were con-
Quoted by two gendarmes to the frontier and dis
missed with an admonition, which theyare hardly
likely to forget never to re-enter the kingdom
of Wurtemburg. Last year a similar jeu deSpra
was played by some OXonians at Dinan.
The fourth volume of "Austrias Campaigns
in 1865 has just been published by the head
quarters staff at Vienna. 1t contains an import
ant despatch addressed by Count Bismark on
the Goth of July 1866, to the Prussian Ambassa-
dor in Paris, which is now printed for the first
time, and throws new light on the negotiations
which led up to the peace of Prague "The
King" Says this despatch) has only agreed to
the armistice with great reluctance and out of
regard for the Emperor Napoleon; and his con-
sent was made conditional on his being secured
a considerable acquisition of territory in North
en Germany in the event of peace being con-
cluded. The King attaches less Importance to
the establishment of n North-German Federal
State than do. On the other hand, he values,
above ALL anneXations of territory, which
/ also consider as a necessary adjunct
of Federal reform, as otherwise SaXcny
and Hanover would be too large for close
union. Isend you confdentially, for your
ersonalinformaton and guidance the following
words of his Majesty:-I would rather resign
than withdraw without acquiring considerable
amount of territory for Prussia An official
report in the same work adds that King William
expressed very strong wisn 70 annex "a portion,
ut least, of SaXony to his dominons, and based
his claim on the ground that ''the Saxon Gov
eminent was the chief originator of all the Ger
man complications" 1t only owing to the
warm intervention of France and Austria on
Saxony's behalf that the King yielded. Count
Karolyi then demanded, on the part of Austria,
that Saxony should be attached to a Southern
Bund; but Prussia replied with fiat
refusal ''Count Bsmark declared the nego-
tiatons would be at an end if Austria
persisted in this demand. He added that he was
so nheXible on this point that if the King him
self ordered him to comply, he would at once
resign" The book concludes by asserting, on
the authority of information received by the
Austrian Government from trustworthy
source" that in view of the increase of territory
acquired by Prussia, France 'took the opportu-
nifty of secretly raising at Berlin the question of
the recovery of her frontiers of 1914
When the French diplomatists limited at a restO-
ration of Landau Saarlous, and perhaps Lux
emburg, they did not meet with peremptory
refusal. 1t also appears that the Prussian Cabi-
net would have had even less objection to an eX-
tension of the French frontier in the direction OF
Belgium
Monsieur Lunier, the lnspector-General of
the lunatic asyums of France has recently pre-
sented to the Academic de Medicine n memoir
on the increase of insanity, the conclusions of
which are really alarming. According TO this
authority. in 1885 the proportion of lunatics
was 496 in 1000 inhabitants; on the LIST of Janu-
ary, 1869 it had risen to 24'28 per 1000. Taking
the population of France at 30 900 600, we arrive
at the conclusion that the number of lunatics
nearly equals that of the French army. The
enormous apparent increase may be partially
attributed to the very imperfect statistics avail
able thirty-four years ago, and the greater tacil
ties then existing for the concealment by families
of the presence of this infrmity, but after making
every allowance for this circumstance, Nj. Lunier
the greatest living authority in France on this
subject is convinced that the number OF insane
persons has more than doubled in the last thirty
four wears. With regard TO the lunatcs confined
in Government asylums, the exact numbers arr
easily obtanable; these establishments now con
tain SO 600 inmates MS compared with 10, 600 il
1885, and the number of admissions becomes
each wear greater. On this subject Monsieu
Iunier makes the somewhat curious remark
that the increase in the number of admi ssiOns il
now 'tcontre- balance dams une mesure beaucoul
plus large par les sorties la suite de guertsons
de deceS" which would seem TO indicate
the adoption of Kill or cure mode OF treat
ment. While madness is thus spread
inc with such frightful rapidity, a con
siderable diminution is observed in tn
number of idiots and cretins. This fact ma
probably be traced to the greater material com
tort now enioyed by the agricultural classes
who had hitherto furnished the largest propol
tion of idiots, and principally in those district
where the greatest poverty was prevalent In
popular idea that women are more liable
mental arrangement than men Is declared
fallacy. 1t is true that the number OF females /
lunatic asylums slightly exceeds that of Tn
males; but this arises from the fact that the
madness being usually more difficult OF cur
when once admitted they generally remain il
mates for u long period. The relative number