The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.


The Berlin journals say they consider an
European war inevitable.
In Paris the fashionable invitations to din
ner ore said to contain the bill of fare.
The London Telegraph says the number
of British troops in Canada is TO be reduced
by 5000.
Spain is anxious to have Gibraltar ceded to
her by England, and the Cortes mediate de-
bate on the subject.
Nine. Proudhon, widow of the French
writer who startled the world with pamphlet
entitled Property is Theft" now earns pre-
carious living as q laundress.
-Vesuvius, according to the journals of Ma,
pies, has not returned to the state of rest
which usually follows extensive eruptions.
Columns of smoke are sill rising from the
craters and the assures, and the lava is still
warm, though no eruption has taken pla ,e for
over month.
Besides the pictures which fill the 40
galleries of the Louvre, it appears that large
number OF works of art for which there is no
room are stored away in the attics. The French
Government has determined to turn these hid
ded treasures to account by distributing Them
among the chief towns or the empire.
The furniture, plate, oil portraits and
prints of the members Of ''The Sublime So
ciety of Beefsteaks," in London, are to be dis
posed Of by auction. This club, consisting Of
twenty-four noblemen and gentlemen, who, in
rooms Of their own, behind the scenes Of the
Lyceum Theatre, partook of i've O'Clock din
ner Of beefsteaks every Saturday from Novem-
Der till the end of June, WAS founded in 1875,
by John Rich, the patentee Of Covent Garden
Theatre, and George Lambert, the scene
painter, and is now dissolved.
1t cost nearly million Of francs to estab-
lsh the Obelsk Of Luxor in the Place de Ia
Concorde at Paris, and now the English are
talking of spending some twenty thousand
pounds in bringing over the Cleopatra's Nee
die, which lies half buried in the sand near
Alexandra, and placing 1t somewhere on the
noble embankment lately finished by the river
Thames. The Needs is sixty-four feet long,
weighs two hundred and eighty. four tons, and
has been considerably damaged by the donkey
boys, who chip pieces of il as souvenirs for
vandal tr avellers.
Many eminent Frenchmen will be candi-
dates from Paris for the Corps Legislatif in the
approaching elections. Among them are Henri
Rochefort; Lanfrey, the Historian OF Napoleon
I; Provost Paradol, the academician and tai
ented polemise OF the Debats; Louis Blanc, the
London correspondent Of The Temps; Eugene
Tenot, Of the Steele, author OF 'The Coup
d'Etat;" Emil Girardin, Of the Liberte; General
Changarnier, Edmund About Casimir Perier;
Pinard, ex-Minister; Odillon Barrot. Ledru
Rollin. Cremieux, the Duke Decazes, and Cor
nells de Witt. son-in-law Of M. Guizot.
"A curious lawsuit was lately brought be-
fore'a an English court, in which the rights Of
her Majesty fat subjects were humorously in
volved. 1t was an attempt to compel Lady
Giamis to make q certain public passage on
her property wide enough to admit very stout
people. An arbitrator decided that tho lateral
dimensions OF heavy dowaser would require
three feet two inches, but Lady Glamis con-
tended that thirty-four inches was quite wide
enough. Lord Chief Justics Cockburn gravely
shook his head at this attempt to curtail the
privileges OF rotund beauties, and the court
decided in favor Of the greater width.