The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-09
Foreign Items.

end of their troubles yet. Their cry for re-
trencbment has been visited upon them with
| humorous vengeance. When the Rhenish
members presented themselves the other day
| at the Bureau to obtain, as is customary ia
! that simple minded country where it is the
| candidate and not the voter who is compen-
| stated, their travelling expenses, they received
| to their amazement one thaler less than they
! had paid. On their remonstrance the clerk
! politely pointed out to them that since the
| last session certain branch lines had been
| opened by which they might have saved just
| three shillipgs. 1t was useless for the sena-
| tors to plead that they had not used these
new lines because they never heard of them,
| and, indeed, they were not quite open to
traffic. The M. P.'s paid, but their grumbles
are loud and continuous.
The sculptures from Halicarnassus,
which, on their arrival in London, were de-
posted in temporary sheds erected for their
reception outside the British Meseum, are now
in process of removal to the interior, and will
be disposed of in the Egyptian, Elgin, and
Roman galleries. In the Roman gallery an
additional shelf has been provided for num-
ber Of ancient busts, and the walls are colored
to higher shade of red, adapted to give effect
to the marbles. A gstatue of Hadrian, from
Cyrene, of great antiquity, is also placed in
this gallery. Some very interesting statues
from the recently-acquired Farnese collie ,tion
have been arranged in the Egyptian saloon;
the JaSsi relieUi, and detached friezes, together
with figure of Mercury and the ancient copy
of the famous Diadermenos, are now exhibited
in the different sculpture galleries.
The Russian Government has decided
upon assisting the starving Firms by sending
them out bodily to colonize the Amoor regions.
An old German vessel has been bought for
this purpose at the price of 10000 roubles,
and the emigrants will be carried by install
ments from Bremen. Every man is to receive,
| on his arrival, two hundred acres of ground,
free of taxes, for twenty -four years, together
with the necessary implements, cattle, etc.
| This stock, as well as the expenses of the
| journey, is to be repaid in eight years. time,
| by instalments, to commence after the fourth
year. The four -and-twenty years over, the
colonist will be called upon to pay tax for
| his land, at the moderate rate of twenty -four
| roubles annually. 1t is said that the Firms
are very grateful, and that both they and
Russia are likely to profit greatly by this
| colonization.
| The statement issued on behalf Of Mr.
! Peabody's trustees appears to dispose COM
pletely of the complaints concerning the ad-
| ministratiOn of the fund, for in the first place
an account is given of the occupations OF per-
SONS in possession of the buildings already
erected, and in the next it is shown that these
tenants receive low wages and pay very
moderate sum as rent. 1t was Mr.. Peabody's
own design 10 aSSlSJ Lu6 luuuSulOuS pOOT, uOt
to do the work OF parochlal authorities by
attempting to deal with actual pauperism.
The poor, as he believed, suffer many dis
advantages from not having comfortable and
decent homes, and to the supply OF this
special want he wished his fund to be devoted.
When three excellent rooms can be had free
of rates and taxes for 5s. a week, with baths,
washing rooms and laundries in the house
for the use of tenants, it is obvious to us all
hon oh thar xUaa m ha ahar O
the fund was being turned into Commercial
speculation" 1t is quite evident that the
complainants wrote, as many people like tC
write, without taking the trouble to acquire
proper information beforehand.
-Ifthere had been any doubt as to the cur
rent of popular opinion in France on the sub
iect of capital punishment, it would be set q
rest by the conclusion of the trial of the Mar
seilles prisoners. 1t is clear that there is NJ
crime SO horrible no murder SO crueland das
tardly, but that the discriminating eye of !,
French jury can discover in it the extenuatinl
circumstances which save the perpetrato
from the guillotine. There never was cas'
more surely proved than that against the maj
Joye. He had not only supplied the poison
which had enabled two of the wives to xii
their husbands, but had actually persuaded
one of them to commit the deed. From be
ginning to end there is no shadow of excuse
for him. lie murdered for pay, Yet thi
wretch is sentenced not to death, nor even t,
penal servitude for life, but only for twenty
years. Mdmes. Vile, Gabriel, and Fanny
Lamberte are let off with the same punish
ment, Salvage being condemned for life. A
to Flayo ol and Marie Dye, they, as might b
expected, escaped scot free. Joye himself ap
pears to have thought that in his instance tn
, proverbisl laxity OF French jury would Civ
way, for whilst in prison he tried to commi
suicide in three different ways. This was jus
the instance where death inflicted by justic
would have the deterrent effect which man
kind has always ascribed to it.
There is no new thing under the sun
: The velooipede mania which is now at II
height in France was very violent i
, England fifty years ago. A colored engrayin
. published by Ackerman in February, 1915
shows the pedestrian Hobbyhorse, now exh
biting at 377 Strand, Mr. Johnson, patentee
rs Long. Acre" 1t is identical with the two
! wheeled velocipede now to be seen all owe
Paris (where it has penetrated to the stage
. Homo .my- Thumb, at the Ath6nee), exceI
!, that it was worked not by treadles attache
y to one of the wheels, but by putting the fe
;, to the ground on each side, just as the presel
. French velocipede has to be started. The d'
n scription given on the engraving says'-
,, This machine is of the most simple S'n !,