The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-24
GOSSIP FROM abroad.

GOSSIP FROM ABRO4D.
The Prussians are now cutting down the
trees in the public promenades at Mentz, just
as if they were on the brink Of war, and it is
reported from we'll informed parties that they
are working day and night in their arsenals
1t appears that they do not feel quite comfort
able about Austria recovering strength and
France being well armed and provided.
All the paintings from the Louvre which
had been sent to private persons, mostly favor
ties of the imperial family, have been eent
back to the Louvre, and NJ. de Nieuwerkerke
the Inspector General of the Imperial Art Gale
ries, now announces in O card that these paint
ings shall be exhibited in special hall, ''sc
that the public may no longer be deprived O
them." This is one Of the few triumphs which
public opinion has recently achieved in France
The University boat race in England has
for the ninth time in succession been won by
Oxford. The contest is matter of absorbing
interest to every man, woman and child ir
Great Britain, and the prospects Of the two
crews were the subject of ceaseless conjsc'
lures during the week preceding the race. The
Cambridge men were deeply impressed with
the disgrace of eight successive annual de-
feats, and even employed the Oxford profes-
sional trainer, but to no avail.
The Jews of Hungary and Transylvania
are making bold and united effort to procure
an improvement Of their rights and privileges
with regard to the practice of the: 5ion
These people number 775,OO0, and they are
formed in regular districts. They ask the lib
erty OF educating their children and conduct
Ing their ceremonials Of worship with the free
dom accorded to others. They have held one
congress, the results of whose deliberations
have been presented to the King, and will hold
another soon. It will consist Of eighty-six oi
their highest intelects.
"A singular instance Of the absurdities OF
charitable bequests is furnished in London,
where some hundred years ago some good old
soul left house and garden in the city as a
perpetual maintenance for three poor women
and cat. The property is now worth f40, 600
year. Three poor women and their cat
friends of the trustees-are maintained; and
the rest of the income, f39,650 per annum. is
expended in salaries on uncles, aunts, cousins,
appointed as secretaries, treasurers, chaplains,
visitors, &C., who see to the proper distribu-
tion Of aims, catschise the old women, and
stroke the cat.
1t is stated that the interest of Victor Hu-
go's new story, "L'Homme Qui Rlt," turns in
great measure on the fendish practice Of o
secret society that existed In Europe near the
close of the seventeenth century, and had for
its object the manning and mutilation of chill
dren. The miscreants of this body were known
as the Con.prachicos, or 'robbers Of infante'
nests," and it was their habit to take children
from unnatural parents, or steal them when
opportunity offered, and either for purposes of
state, of family intrigue, or for the uses of
professional mendicancy, to distort and dis
figure them past all recognition or hope Of fu-
ture benefit
The Parisans display great ingenuity in
showing their political opinions without un-
pleasant consequences to themselves. On
recent occasion on of tho "Conferences" now
so much the fashion, was held at the Theatre
de rAmbigu-Co -Comique, on the phenomena Of
Light" subject, one would have thought,
about as unpolitical as could well have been
chosen. The lecturer, in order to demonstrate
certain theories, proceeded to enlarge some
photographs Of celebrated persons. This be.
light, all tho theatre, except in the immediate
neighborhood Of the operator, was in almost
total darkness. The audience could be heard,
not seen. Tho portrait of the Emperor was
received with u storm of Kisses and cries Of
"a la port ?" Vipe la RepvbLaqae?' "N sen
ira Jientotl - SC. That 1T th,. Empress met
with worse reception, Il possible, than her
husbands. On the other hand, the portrait of
Maximilian was received with cheers and cries
of "Qut IA trahi'" Macmillan, as bystander
remarked, probably owed his popularity to
the fact Of his having been shot. The opera
tor, like prudent man, soon brought his ex-
periments to an end; and when the gas was
turned on, the ''agents" We're very busy look
ing about; but of course, every one looked in-
tensely loyal.
For many years the standing butt Of the
Continental journalists has been the Prince of
Monaco, the impecunious potentate of ten
acre principality on the margin Of the Medi-
terrapean, through which passes the pictur-
esque Corniche road from Nice to Genoa.
Luring The war in the Crimea the Plincc was
represented as having been called upon by
the Allied Powers TO send q contingent OF
twelve men and drumstick to the field OF mill
tary operations, and at other times ho was an
nounced as having arrived in Paris for the pur-
pose of negotiating temporary loan with the
Rothschilds, of two hundred and fifty francs.
But times have changed. The Prince at this
moment is in the easiest circumstances OF any
monarch in Europe He has just abolished NIL
taxes throughout the five or six square miles,
be the same more or less, of his happy domln-
ions. This Utopian result of carrying on q
government without taxation has not been due
to any extraordinary increase in the produc-
tions OF Monaco, which chiefly consist in olives
andmaccaroni; nor is it to be attributed to any
Camden and Amboy Railroad passing across
the little territory. The Fortunatus' purse OF
his Righness is replenished by the gambling
tables OF his small capital, and the money is
won from travelling Russians, Frenehmen and
Englishmen, upon whom the Prince can now
fairly turn the laugh.
according to an old tradition OF the village
of Biddcnden, in the middle of Kent, England,
the Siamesc twins arc not tho only known ex-