The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-14
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.
The ladies Of Hungary have asked Parlia-
ment to authorize the Queen Of Hungary (the
Empress Elizabeth OF Austria) to appoint
twenty female members OF the Hungarian
House OF Magnates.
The Queen of Holland recently made an
attempt at suicide. Domestic troubles are
said to have driven her to the rash act. Her
life was saved, however, and steps were taken
to hush up the whole matter.
The Pope is said to entertain the intention
OF conferring on the Prin 70 Imperial OF France
the title Of Roman Patrice, which was once
destined for the Emperor himself. and which
was last borne by CharlemaSue.
AS proof OF the remarkable decline of
Alexandra Dumas popularity as romancist, II
is mentioned that the manuscript Of his last
move. was offered to six publishers, none Of
whom would give him more than q few Chous-
and forms for it.
For the last two years the English military
system has undergone severe ordeal from the
criticisms Of the press, and the public mind is
being prepared for the discontinuance of the
sale Of commissions. A more thorough knowl-
edge of the elements of drill and discipline is
also perpetually being impressed.
Mr.. Vernon Harcourt, 'Historicus," of the
London Times, is said to be extremely unat-
tractive in person and manners. One of the
London papers tells the story as current am ong
the clubs. that six gentlemen mutually agreed
% dine together, each asking the most unpop-
ular man Of his acquaintance to join the p ,rty,
thus making twelve in ell. and that when the
company assembled there were but seven to
sit down to dinner. Each bad selected Mr.
Haroourt as his most unpopular acquaintance
Some rather curious statistics have been
collected in reference to the composition of
the British House of Commons. 1t is said to
contain 33S university graduates. among whom
are ISL Of Oxford and 1872 Of Cambridge. There
are 287 members who were educated at pubic
schools. 131 at Eton. 69 at Harrow, 20 at Rug
by. and the remainder in smaller number, at
others. OF the nobility there are IRISH
peers and LOG sons of peers. The barristers
number 12O, the members OF the army SO,
those in the navy 49, Commerce is represent
ed by Is bankers and 1875 engaged in other
kinds OF business. There are 10 fathers who
have sons sitting with them in the House, "a
pairs of brothers, and 8. broth ,rs Of one faulty
-Four men and two women have just been
tried before the Tribunal OF Correcti onal Police
OF Paris. on q charge Of introducing the Ian
terne into France. Nearly seven hundred CO.
pies Of that publication were found at the resi-
dences Of two Of the accused; there we're also
found q petticoat with eight large pockets, by
the aid Of which one Of the females had re-
Gently brought from Brussels one hundred and
thirty numbers Of the prohibited work, and
waistcoat, flannel vest and belt; containing in
all twenty-three reoeptacles, in which one Of
the men had imported one hundred and sew
enty copies. The accused were sentenced tv
terms OF imprisonment varying from two to
six months, with the addition Of fines.
Recent proceedings Of the North German
Confederation force upon lookers-on the con-
viction, which is also universally prevalent in
Germany, that the present state Of things is
merely provisional, and that il is designedly
such. at the present moment. for all intents
and purposes. the twenty-four millions who
make up Che mighty kingdom Of Prussia are
living double political life, and are ruled by
o double government. On the one side there
Is the Prussian Parli sment, the Prussian Min
istry and the Prussian bureaucracy; on the
other side there is the National Parliament.
the Federal Chancellor, and the Federal
Chancellor's Office. The individuals who COM
pose these bodies are very much the same.
Four -ifths Of the National Parliament con-
sist Of Pfusslan representatives; and the Fed
eral Chancellor and the Prussian Premier are
one and the same person. To Judge by pres
emit appearances, it is to the National Parlia-
ment that the centre Of political gravity ia
rapidly shifting, and in the Federal Chancel-
lor's Office that the executive is beginning to
centralize. Rapid strides are being made to-
wards the creation OF federal government,
and the federal government once IN existence,
must be looked upon as the halfway house to
the creation Of the federal sovereign, l. O.. to
the assumption by the Grown OF Prussia Of
title, be it that Of emperor or OF king Of the
Germans, which, while investing it with sover-
eign prerogatives over the confederation in it's
own right (an1 not by mere procuratlon as at
presently will complete the national structure
of the present ed:tice.
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