The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-PTl0ce AlITeQ Wds SlOdliJ P"'osCd WIN luC
huIahula, the can-can of the Sandwich Islands,
"A second series of Hepworth Dxons "Her
Maiesty's Tower" will be published in October.
1t is libelIous in England to call man ''no
gentleman" with intent to bring him into con-
tempt.
General Prim is taking Vichy water-a
strange remedy for the complaints OF the Gu.
ban and Spanish people.
! Prince Napoleon has an iacome from his
Swiss estate of 80, 900 francs, which he says he
keeps Sin case Of accident"
The London Spectator sums up Louis Ma
poleon's clemency by saying that'he has par
duned everybody who has done nothing.
The lions of the Paris hippodrome che wed
up an exhibitor the other day. and would have
eaten him hut for the bravery of an assistant.
"A iourneyman tailor OF Frankfort has, at
the age OF sixty.eishi, made enough money to
! enable him to marry the girl to whom ho has
been bet1othed for forty-six years.
Egypt goes to GottiDgen for a professor Of
its own history and antiquities in the new
Cairo Academy. Professor Brugsch has re.
ouasted leave of absence for some years for the
purpose of going to Cairo.
The Pail Mall Gazette gives new inter-
pretation to Scripture when it speaks of the
1emarriage Of the Hind widow, instead of
the suttee, as conforming to st. Pauls advice
that .it is better to marry than to burn"
One result of the opening OF the Sueg Ca
nal will be to increase the facilities OF the cot
ton factories on the European continent for
getting supplies of the raw material from the
East, which will by just 80 much ipjure the
English cotton manufacturers.
At Florence, the Marquis Coviuo was con
versing with the Countess Ghirardi, who sat
in her carriage, when the horses Of a.vehicle
taking frieh. started off and before the NJ ar
quis could get out Of the way knocked him
down and so fearfully injured him that he e1-
pired few minutes alter.
Mr.. Spurgeon in recent sermon referred
to the velocpede, saying that these new in
ventions which the lads we're riding down our
streets would not keep up unless they were
kept going; the homent they stopped they fell
down; and in this they we're exceedingly like
the Christian church, which would fall unless
it was constantly moving on.
August 18th, the anniversary Of the hun
dredth birthday OF the Emperor Napoleon 1,
vas made the occasion by De Lesseps, of-a
grand festival among the worlmen on the
Suez Canal In addition to the banqneting,
fireworks and music, the waters Of the Medi-
terranean and Of the Red Seas were introduced
into the Su:z Canal, and met each other in the
Bitter Lakes. >:
Opium raisers in India are troubled. Last
years crop failed and the higher prices ore not
likely to compensate for the small amount.
The increased cultivation Of the poppy in
China, and especially in Persia, adds still
further to their difficulties. The amount now
raised iu Persia is very large, there being
hardly province where it is not grown. In
China the breadth Of soil devoted to opium is
80 largo as to encroach upon territory that
ought to be devoted to the culture OF grain.
M. Rochefort declines to profit by the Ma.
poleonic amnesty. his refusal. published in the
"Rappel" being thus worded: The OILY con-
demnations and the only amnesties that l can
accept are those which the people distribute.
This is the sole tribunal nd power to which
submit. I shall not, therefore, return to
France until the day when the people recall
me by their votes. Ishall re-snter my country
only in virtue of my election as deputy, which
I mean shortly to solicit from the voters OF the
first circumscription. receive willingly every
thing from those whom Iknov and Low e; but it
does not suit me to find myself under obiiga.
tions to personswhom have never seen, and
and who have not been introduced to me. !"
The following is an extract from letter just
received from London: Last nigh; we visited
Drury Lane Theatre, to witness Bourcicaulrs
new play of 'Formosa, as it's peculiar morality
at present excites all classes in the great city,
We found the vast auditorium densely packed.
In act fourth, scene first, Mrs. Boxer, the wife
of the retired priza fighter. speaks the follow
ing lines: They say the law amt no respecter OF
personsl Mol but it's respecter of tho fine
cloths upon 'em, and the 'ouse they lives iu!
What's fashionable folly in a cubis felony in a
skittle al!ey That's where tits! They ont let
me and my tax cart in the plrk, we're not in uni
form but printed hussey in brougham
can ply her trade there under the eyes OF
princess p AS Mrs. Bilngston uttered the
conclusion of thc speech gentleman (?) in
the stalls deliberately Missed, when the pit
rose at him with such yell that the occu-
pants or the stalls actually covered down; for
few moments the noise WAS terrific, when
.popull' became quiet, and awaited with pa
tience the great University boat race scene
with which the drama concludes. The play is
an overwhelming SUCCESS"
Another of Mr.. George ". Ripley's letters,
in the Tribune, describes the journey from
Liverpool to London. He regards the English
arrangements for railroad trav,l as far prefer
able to our system, and especially agree
able to him was the absence of baggage
checks. ITO be sure" he says. sit YOU
lose trunk you hava perhaps moro diff
Guilty in recovering it, but the chance of
loss, under the English management, is
combaratively small" His arrival in the
London station was surprising from its
quiet and absence of confusion no crowds
of eager friends surrounded the car
riages; the hackme2 were silent and re-
spectfrl, waiting the summons OF travel
lers without urging their services; the railway
porter took the baggage from the van and put
it on the one-horse coach, which rolled easily
through the streets, although the load was one