The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-15
Foreign Items.


rt' Foreign Items.
! PA Pa has an editor who has fought fifty
In B6. the last census, the population of
Franc was 3S, ,067 ,O94.
The airy, fairy Lillian" of Tennyson's
early, ainty muse, is Mrs. Rawnesley, the
s.outi mother of seven children.
hechatenu of Maisons Lafflte. near
Paris, he Peuple states, has just been pur-
chasedor the Prince Imperial, the price
being 100, 900 francs.
NeIAugust the entire imperial family Of
Franewill celebrate the one hundredth an
niveRv of the birth of the great Napoleon,
in Ctsica .U.
Seeral Berlin journals, among which are
th s&nown to be devoted to Count Bis
mard, connider var inevitable.
TIL weather is so severe in the Pyrennees
that ears have been seen among the villages
at tn foot of the mountains. Sheep, cows
and oe child have been carried off.
En1ish newspapers recently discussed the
questbn whether or not Gibraltar ought to
be ceed to Spain, and the subject will now
probaly form the text for debate in the
Span,h Cortes, as on Monday, the Goth ult.,
the leder of the Republican party. Senor
Orene, gave notice thathe Uouldp put ques-
tion the Ministry with reference to it.
Tht Gaulois, of Paris, mentions that the
frend Government has addressed q note to
Berlin asking for some explanations re-
specthg the mobilization of tmops that is
being effected in Nassau, Hesse Frankfort
and a, Hanover.
The frontiers Of Russia and Prussia, from
Citovnu as far us Memel, are at present q
prey 10 horrible famine, the atire popu-
lation but especially the Jews, being de-
cimated by hunger and typhus ever.
One half of Prince Napoleon's civil list of
1000 600 francs is paid, not hin, but to his
creditors. The Prince has squlndered the
whole dover of the Princess Cltthilde, who
owned property worth upward # 5000, 600
francs in her own right. and wlo was gene
rous enough to place it at th disposal of
her spendthrift husband.
A pnnio oaussl III the cathedral ut
Palermo Holy Week, by a bomb being
thrown through q window thring divine
service, and when the bui dipgwas crowded.
The missile exploded without hurting any
one seriously, but in the onfusion and
hurry to escape, many persons were thrown
down. The author of thie o:4rage has not
been discovered.
A recent telegram from Pars stated that
a deputation from the Inhabitants of the
islands of the Sporades, situated in the
niCuipeieSo, uao arrived IN LnhL city 1Ol
the purpose of inducing the French Go.
vernment to use its influence b prevent the
attempted infringement by the Sublime
Porte of the guaranteed autonomy of these
islands. A Paris correspondent states thai
the French Government has refused to in
terfere in the matter, and tits announced
that the deputation is now i, London 70,
the purpose of obtaining the Intervention
of her Majesty's Government.
The comparatively little mccess OF the
North German Pole expedition of last yeal
has not proved any disconngement to O
similar enterprise next sumner. Fou
ships are to take part in it-namely, two
steamers, the Albert and Bl.neAkorb. ant
two sailing vessels, the HUDSON and tn,
Hanover. The Blenenkorb, Captain Ha
gems has left Bremen, and DR.. Dorst, O
Julich. learned meterologia and natura
philosopher, has sailed with her. A part O
the present programme is to make the ex
pedition pay for itself. Captain Hagen
will engage in the seal fishery near Jal
Mayen, and afterward steer Eastward, en-
deavor to gain some accessible point on th
coast of Greenland, and then proceed
Northward by ship or boat rs far as he i
able
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