The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-03
Foreign Tfenns

M. Mermet's Jeanne dArc is to be delivered
10 the director of the Opera on the 31st of De-
ccmber, but the composer has the right to APP
point his singers, and, as he is very exactng it
will probably be many months before his heroine
will approach the footlights
we hear from Bohemia Of the publication
by the venerable historiographer Palacky, of
volume, in Latin, of documents which illustrate
the life character, doctrine, aud prosecutions of
John Huss, whose somewhat confused story is
said to be there made simple, clear, and intel-
gible.
The production of Lohenqrin at Bologna
has been indefinitely postponed, in consequence
OF q difference of opinion between the Syndic of
4 the city and the publisher of the music, on the
4 merits of one of the ladies to be engaged. The
Bolognese have been saved from an inhiction
i and Herr Wagner from another failure.
There Is some talk of Orphee-the Orphee
of Gluck, bten entendu-being revived at the
Lyrique, Paris, for Madame Wertheimber. 1t
was at the old Lyrique that Madame Viardot
gave her memorable impersonation of the hero.
The talented lady, by the way, has completed
Il the score OF an opera, lie dernier Jour des Sor-
Ciers, to Hbretto by the Russian novelist, Tur-
genieff.
Don Cesar de Bdzdr is to be set to music
for the Grand Opera, Paris. NJ. d'Ennery is
commissioned to write the ibreto, and NJ
Duprato the music. The author intended some
time ago to work upon the subject in conuuc-
ton with NJ. Aime Mallart, but the latter has
been obliged by ill health to renounce compost
J ton Our readers need hardly be reminded that
Vincent Wallace made his first success in Mari
tdnd, as his lyric version of Don Cesar was
styled.
1t is announced that lie F7orentin, the opera
which has been chosen from among a large
number by the jury appointed for the purpose,
is by M. Leuven, whose cantata, Rendud dams
les Jdrdins dArmide, gained the prir de Rome
in 1865. The young composer has spared neither
himself nor his singers, the tenor in lie Forentin
having no less than SIR solos to sing. The work
is to be brought out at the Opera Comique.
TAamonter dt Regiment and LEcldir are
o1O no dat lie fha ar,anof fp1r
of Paris theatres.
"A correspondent at st. Petersburg says
"After endless delays and mistakes, the final
preparations have at length been made for pro-
viding the whole of the Russian army with
Il breech-loaders. Hitherto the only regiments
which have been armed with the new weapon
are those of the Grenadiers and the Guards, the
other corps having only had 10 few served out to
them for practice. The officials on the Warsaw
Railway have now been instructed to pass with
out question all the rifles as fast they come in
from Prussia, so that there may be no further
delay in the matter. The number of rifles
pected from Prussia is 100000, and it is stated
that the troops have now thoroughly learnt,
though not without great difficulty, the use of
the new weapon. Every effort is also being
made to render the army efficient in other re-
spects Both officers and soldiers are constantly
~ employed In making trenches and other field for
n tifcation work; and a nocturnal sham fight is
often got up, at which the troops are attacked
while in the trenches by a supposed enemy
This sort of exercise has wonderfully developed
"A the intelligence of the Russian soldier, who is
now very different being from what he was in
the Crimea. The late inspections both in the
kingdom of Poland and the empire have pro-
duced results which have filled with surprise the
Russian generals of the old school, hitherto
accustomed to look upon the private soldier as a
mindless machine"
The following details relative to the St..
Gothard Railway, settled in the final protocol
of the International Conference, are taken from
Swiss paper, the TdgeSpost:-The st. Gothard
lines will start, one from Lucerne, the other
from Zoug, for Goldau. where there will be q
junction. The first passes through Kussnacht
and Immensee, the second through St. Adrian.
From Goldau the line is continued through
Fluellen and Biasca to Bellinzona. From this
place there are two branches, one to Chasso,
passing through Lqgano, the other to Magazine,
and thence to the Italian frontier near Luino
with further extension to Locarno. The total
length of these lines is 1853 kilometres. The
greatest elevation of the line is in the tunnel of
Goschemen at Airola, where it attains a height
of 1852 metres and so centmetres
(3S75 fee); the gradients are not to ex-
ceed one in four. While the adjoining
respective territories the Confederation will
exert itself to unite the station of Central
Switzerland at Bale by a bridge across the Rhine
to the Baden system of railways. The piercing
of the tunnel, and consequently the construc-
ton of the whole line, is to be completed in
nine years. With the view of inducing a com
pany to undertake these works, it has been con-
sidered necessary that subventions should be
of S5 600 600 francs. Italy undertakes 45000,-
600; Switzerland, 20, 600, 900; the German States
the remainder-the Grand Duchy of Baden will
have to furnish at least 3000 000 So long as
the line does not give per cent. to the share
holders, the States who have granted the sub
ventions will have no right to any share of the
profits, but if the undertaking gives more thar
n per cent, half the profit realized above that
rate will be divided among the States according
to the proportion of their subventions
The chief superintendent, both for thu
construction and the working of thu
line, is confded to the Federal Council
The company which undertakes the work will
have to deposit the necessary caution money
with the Federal Government. The latter ha
reserved to itself the necessary steps for securing
tho neutrality and the safety of the country
The States which have granted the subvention
have the right to satisfy themselves by local in
spection as to the state of the works, naming
delegates for the purpose. Moreover, joint IN
specton will annually take place to verify tn
state of the boring works in the st. Gothard an
Monte Cenere tunnels. Should a canton situate
lon the line oppose the construction or workin
thereof the Confederation will undertake il
rights and duties. If any question should aris
between the Confederation or the cantons an
the company, it will be settled by the Federl
courts. Provisions are also made for the sea-
of charges TO be established by the st. Gothar
Company. 1t is needless to say that all thes
arrangements are subject to ratification by I'll
Aseveral Governments interested.
The German weekly paper Hermann
much scandalized by the clandestine trade
human creatures which it has discovered take
I>says, to count how many newborn childre
have been offered for adoption within certai
time by the morning papers most widely circl
lated in England, and have found the number