The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21
Foreign Items.

-several gentlemen, including Mr.. George
Cruikshank, have addressed Con behalf of Mr.
Frederick Rowe) "a petition to the First Lord
of the Treasury for an award from the Treasury
fund, in consideration of twenty-five years
occasional and grdtuitOoS contributions to lite
rature." This is the first time, we believe, that
such grounds have been stated for such an appli-
cation.
of the enlarged edition of Sir David
Lyndesay's works printed in 1868 by John Skot
for I'll. Charters, Mr.. Christie-Mller's copy at
Britwell has been hitherto supposed, to be the
only one; but a second and very good copy has
lately turned up in Lord Mostyns library. This
enlarged edition of the works contains six
minor poems not included in the two earlier
Scotch editions.
"A new volume of poems by Mr. Gerald Mas
sey entitled "a Tale of Eternity, and Other
Poems, will shortly appear. 1t is eight or nine
years since Mr.. Massey published his last book
of poetry, "Havelock's March, which passed
with little or no notice from the reviewers, pro-
badly on account of predatory note which
misled them into thinking the book was merely
a reprint of old material.
An interesting discovery has been made by
Mr.. Wynne, in preparing the catalogue OF the
Hengwrt MSS in the Peniarth Library. He
found quarto volume entitled Legendary
Lives of Saints, written, not in Welsh, but in
Cornish. Improves to be most important addi
ton to our scanty remains of ancient Cornish
literature. No mention is made by any Cornish
writer that such q work had ever existed.
AT the Inauguration of the monument re-
Gently erected at Prague to its first Archbishop,
the ancient city was not a little surprised to see
the Jews houses and the Synagogue gaily
dressed with flags in honour of the OCCASION
The Jews had not forgotten (what had slipped
from Christian memory that five hundred years
ago the Archbishop had beenia kind-hearted man
towards their cruelty predecessors.
When readers of Mr.. Hepworth Dixon s
work. "Her Majesty's Tower" closed the book,
they felt that the author had broken off just as
n series of the most exciting stories presented
to ba told These latter gtOrns will
not remain unnarrated. They will appear in a
second series of the work, in October next; and
the public may open the book with self-gratu-
atory murmur of 'The Tower! aye, the Tower!
1t has been reserved to an ingenious doctor OF
Stettin to demonstrate the correlation between
taxation and longevity. From an article pub
| lished in the VoltszdlLuagSbertch 1t appears
| that throughout Northern Germany of one hun
| dred persons paying fifteen thalers per aunum
| in taxes one dies yearly; among those who pay
| twelve thalers the number of deaths is two;
| among those who pay nine thalers, three; and
so on in u regular progression, an increase OF one
| per cent. in the deaths corresponding to each
diminution of three thalers in taxation.
| All the extraordinary proceedings of the
| many fanatical sects whose rapid increase has
| excited so much anxiety in Russia are fairly
| thrown into the shade by terrible act of self
| immolation which is reported from the Govern
| ment of Saratow. few months ago the pro-
| phets OF a new religion made their appearance
in that part OF the empire, preaching self-de-
| Slructlon by lire rs the only sure road to saliva
| tion; and so readily was their dreadful doctrine
! received by the ignorant and superstitious pea
santry that in one large village less than 100
| persons assembled in some wooden houses, and
! having barricaded the doors and windows set
| the buildings on fire and perished in the flames
The authorities are doing all they can to stay
the progress of this new madness, but their task
is obviously difficult one. The punishments
which the law can intilct must have little terror
for enthusiasts who deliberately choose death
so horrible as the true road to heaven.
"A part of the hospitable reception of an
| Eastern prince is to give him n concert, though
| the least consideration would show that concerts
| can form but small part of the occupations OF
| such personages. AS the princes must profess
| to admire the divine art, they are terribly bored
| They have quite enough at home when, to show
| their civilization, they are compelled to accedC
| to the request of an ambassador and hear some
| travelling celebrity. La PerseUerdnzd gives the
| following account of the gracious reception 10y
| the Sultan of the celebrated vlolinist, Wieni
| awski. On getting into the palace of Dolm,
| Bakche, he was ushered into small room
where there were only piano and music
STOOL This room was between two great sa
looms, one crowded with the attendants, and il
the other was the Sultan, so placed In corne
that he could not be seen by the player, and a
the door was chamberlain to give orders 70
the proceedings. Wieniawsld, accompanied b.
the court maestro, Guatelli began his perform
ance, and II was a horribly cold day, and @
course there was no fireplace or fire. AS 500
as he had finished his first piece, the chamber