The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-09
FRESHEST FOREIGN ITEMS.

FRESHEST FOREIGN ITEMS.
-Napoleoa the Third has ordered NJ. Grlvot
syoung portrait painter, to paint full size por
traits OF President johnson and General Grant
bur the galleries Of Versailles.
tt--An old Brahmin widow burned herself
with. her husbands corpse some months since
and the English Governor has sent all the men
engaged in the ''suttee" to prison for sever
years. ri:
The German School Review says there are
ESQ American students at tee various German
universities, and over 1000 male and female
American pupils at frst-class German board
ing schools.
,sG-Dr. Canneau has ordered the Prince lmPe-
hal toTquit velocipede riding. he says the
Prince is too delicate for that kind OF exercise.
The Prince, who is passionate yelocipedist,
faels very unhappy about it.
elW the five cables which connected France
and Belgium with England, two had been rup-
tured by the tempest. The land communica-
tions which join the three others on each slde
OF the cbannel have also been broken, 80 that
all tolegraphic correspondence between France
and ENGLAND is completely suspended.
1t is rather curious popularity OF En-
zlish law that although a Jewish patron can
appoint person to church living, a Catholic
cannot. Baron Rothsohild has just filed e
Yacantvicarage, but there are fifty six livings
within the patronage Of Catholic peers, none of
which cen be given away by the present peers.
German papers state that the whole tract
on whiah the, City ofSt. Petersburg is built is
sinking slowly but with fearful regularity, and
thAt at the present rate it will be wholly sub
merged in fifty years. 1t is added that tho
Russian Government is taking steps to remove
the court to some other city. The s.ory
suseks strongly OF sensationalism.
"A grand exhibition Of implements OF war,
Ills announced, Will be opened about the be-
ginning Of April, at Amsterdam, under the
Haatopssge, atse OF the King Of Holland. The dis
play will comprise ancient and modern armor,
hass Apd instruments Of warlike music mill
tiny yrdsrs and insignia, medals commemora-
tifs of great exploits, besides models and curl
ous books relating to the art Of war.
o-M Tounsy's invention, it is predicted by
tat1mefabers Of the French Academy OF Sci
euees, Mill bring about perfect revolution IN
the manufacture Of printing paper. By his
process, Old papers can be converted, IN course
OF Q few minutes, into verytwhite and nice pa
nor. he first communicated his invention to
EsDslah hiye, q leading paper manufacturer OF
Trpyes; Who was 50 greatly surprised at what
u al SsTounav
wizard 2ps.. And when the inventor fully ex-
phinsd to him the particulars OF his process,
Delahaye added, "Good.bye, paper mills !"
Hero isthe latest from Paris. at recent
opera ban. a yellow domino was observed bow
ing to every lady in black or rose domino,
Whose hsnd he kissed respectfully and retired
Mfthodt eaying Rord, but making a note in
his tablet. Yellow domino was ono of the
distinguished editors in Paris, who was on
gagged in the solution OF great social problem.
HoI many pairs Of new gloves are worn to-
night at this opera mask? And he found that
Of ithres hundred ana aftv-si1 which he had
Ernelt at under pretenee Of kissing there were
snly eiohteen which had no arena of benzlne,
or which had not been cleaned.
frederick the Great, in his contempt tor
a.zmsn educadon and literature; used to m m
poils privates Or serseants from his ortny to
r. .choolmasters; whsther they could read or
not, RuasiA seems to have adopted his plan'
bst In q somewhat improved fashion. There
haYo bacn certain military schools at WORK
syer since 1861, and so successfully has the eA-
pcrimont turned out that the whole army is
now intended to form a preparatory KIND OF
sohcol for tho whole nation. The most ad-
yanccd soldiers are at once to be made school,
mcxtors or magistrates clerks, and it is calcu-
lated thcs out of the, 600 600 men who form the
standing Russian army, at least 1000 may be
drafted OF annually for the Education Civil
Service
-Aadrid correspondents give description
Of the cpsning Of the Cortes. They say that
when tho Marshal proclaimed that the 'Ses-
sicn Of the Constituent Cortes was legally
oroncd in the n.me Of the sovereign nation, %
q shou. for ths sovereign nation arose, followed
by 7jyss to the Provisional Government, to
Serrano, to Prin,. One voice was then heard,
cry;,g "Tiua Ia RepubItcd !" which was met
by bya,oouator CRY, "Vspa Ia Koaarqsio Demo-
cratsoc." There cnsued uproar and confusion
for iuI dve nisutos, the President vainly ring
ing hi, tsn till it cracked. Marshal serrano
stccd up, ordssed silence and obtained it, and
ram;sacd the aulis.oe that in that place any
pira 75oald DO ynbcoomins. except that which
proslaiaied the so7croignty Of the Constituent
gartes. This cry Was then taken up enthusi
.sa:esl!y; the tu.aait was allsyed, and upon the
withdrawal Of tho ministers tho House broke
up.
r.--ch:.@s ct lest coToa forward to recognize
r.Yaioua rreet...rn, by the proclamation OF the
Imperial Com-,!s::sner to the eh'os that thf
preaching Of -eiiaion is permitted by treaty
and that any1cdy aald everybody may freely
submit himself to be proselytlzed. Hence
undes tho term, OF TIE treaty, no religious es'
tst':shments within tl,s Empire arc to be dis
turbod, and oil oSsneera c:.aiust the new order
.-..it-c I, .ror~. ~, 1,ppfShed wlthOnS hope OF