The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-27
FOREIGN NOTES.

-Dickens' works, it is announced. ara to he
illustrated by Gustave Doro
John Bright wants America to abolish cap
ital punishment as IN experiment for Englands
benefit.
Paul Huet, one Of the most distinguished
landscape painters of the original Romanic
school, died in Paris on the 9th of February.
He was G5 years old.
1T is said that tiie Pope has commissioned
the Able Liszt to prepare scheme for rescu-
ing sacred music from the state Of degrada-
ton into which it has fallen in Italy.
Cardinal Cullen, in his regulations for
Lent, published in England, warns his people
that if Freemasons, Ribbonmen, or Fenians,
they cannot be admitted to the sacraments.
Ono of those simple improvements in the
construction of a long known article, has O.
Gently been announced in England, in regard
to the cumming of envelopes, consisting in
applying the mucllage to the lower part Of the
envelope, instead Of the flap. On moistening
the edge of the flap, as usual, and pressing it
down upon the gummed surface below very
borough adhesion takes place, without the
objection Of getting the taste of the gum in
the mouth, or removing 3 part Of it by the
tongue.
In criminal prosecutions in France, barris-
ters are mover seen speaking now for the ac-
cused, and now for the prosecution. Once on
listed in one OF these two cantending armies, a
barrstcr is bound for life to sec and convict
guilt in cverv case, or, On the contrary, 70 sup
port and protect innocence. This is the result
Of the government system Of employing attor-
neys for life to serve in all it's courts. Each
Procureur- General or Procureur Imperial is
surrounded by q staff of lawyers known as
duocd!s generauI or eu6statuts. These arc
wholly severed from the bar, and enlisted in
the public service. 1t is from this class Of
lawyers that the judges are chosen.
"A case which exctes extraol dinary inter-
est was recently commenced in the Court of
Queens Bench, England. The plaintiff, Miss
Saurin, sues Mrs. Starr, Superioress of the Ro-
man Catholic Convent OF Hull, on charge Of
conspiring with other persons to secure her
expulsion from the convent; demands restora-
tion Of certain small articles belonging to her.
and asks $4,000 worth of damages for libel.
an accusation Of theft contained in letter
from the Superioress to the Roman Catholic
Bishop Of Beverley. The case is nearly unique,
the ladys complaint being, not that she was
kept in convent-the usual form Of such COM
plaints-but that she was driven out by sys-
tenn OF petty persecution. The persecution
took the form Of compelling her to do menial
work, eat bad food, and generally submit to
discomfort; and the defence will probably be
either that the facts are untrue, and the hu-
miiatons were inflicted for the souls health,
or that, having been economically expelled, the
complaining nun was really pauper boarder.
The International, of London and Paris,
Of the 81 instant, publishes q plan of Count
Bismarck's geographical views respecting the
future of Europe. The most striking feature
is the solid and square proportions given to
the PrHssian empire, the frontiers of which are
indicated as follows: To the north along the
Baltic from the Vistula to the frontiers of Hol-
land, including Denmark; to the southeast it
avoids Cracow and Vienna, but includes Bohe-
mia, Bavaria and Wurtemburg on to the right
shore of the Rhine, the left being ceded to
France. Switzerland and Holland are left, as
it were. in doubt, the frontier line not being
in either case carried past the present boun-
daries Of those countries. Berlin is indicated
as the imperial capital, while Hanover, Posen,
Dresden, Prague, Stuttgart and Munich are
classified as the seats of viceroyalties. Austria
and the Principalities are entitled the Danu-
ban Empire. The Russian limits start from
the north at the mouth Of the Vistula and
strike off eastward at the city of Cracow, which
oity is included IN the Danubian empire. The
line OF the French empire follows the left shore
Of the Rhine from the frontiers OF ]IollAnd to
the frontiers of Switzerland.
AN accident probably without parallel oc-
CURED Oh the 4,h instant, to number Of gon-
tlemen whilst hunting. The York and Ainsty
hounds met at Stainby House, between Har-
rowgate and Rlpon, and fox was found at
Monkton Wyn. 1t took the direction toward
Copgrove, and thence to Newby. The hounds
crossed the river 'Ure, nearly opposite Newly
House, the residence Of Lady Mary Vyner and
sixteen or seventeen gentlemen entered q large
ferry-boat, with their horses, for the purpose
OF continuing the pursuit. Before the boat
had got Onc-third over the stream one Of the
horses began to plunge, and something like q
panic among the animals took place. The boat
was swayed first to one side and then to the
other, and finally 1t was capsized and turned
bottom upwards. The spectators on the bank
took prompt measures to rescue the persons
who were thus plunged into the swollen river.
Those who could thus swim cast OFF their coats
and plunged in to save their friends, whilst
others formed lines OF whips tied together, and
threw them within reach Of the drowning men.
Several beams Of wood which fortunately lay
scattered about were also quickly laupched on
the stream. BY these means several lives we're
saved, but dix OF the party were unhapplly
drowned: Sir Charles Slingsby, Bart, Of
scriven Park; Mr.. L. Lloyd, Of Liagcroft, near
York; Mr.. Etmnnd Robinson, os York; ".
Ovls (hrst whlp), Warriner gardener at Newly
A&ll), and his son.
The Paris papers publish manifesto
which has just b. lcn issued by the ex-Queen
Isabella OF Spain to the people OF that coun-
try. She commences by stating that men
whom she had overwhelmed with fayors sud
denly pretended, though they had q hundred
times sworn the contrary, that her DYNASTY
was an obstacle to the development Of the
nation, and that though her heart told her
this was false, she shrank from civil war, and