The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The Berlin journals say they consider an
European war inevitable.
In Paris the fashionable invitations to din.
ner are said to contain the bill of fare.
The London Telegraph says the number
of British troops in Canada is TO be reduced
by 5000.
Spain is anxious to have Gibraltar ceded to
her by England, and the CorLes mediate de-
bate on the subject.
Nine. Proudhon, widow Of the French
writer who startled the world with pamphlet
entitled property is Theft" now earns pre-
carious living as laundress.
-Vesuvius, according to the journals Of Ma
pies, has not returned 10 the state of rest
which usually follows extensive eruptions.
Columns of smoke are sill rising from tho
craters and the assures, and the lava ;s still
VAIN. though no eruption has taken pla % for
over month.
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galleries of the Louvre, it appears that largo
number Of works of art for which thero is no
room are stored away in the attics. The French
Government has determined to turn these hid
ded treasures to account by distributing Ihem
among the chief towns OF the empire.
Tho furniture, plate, oil portraits and
prints of the members Of "rhe Sublime So
ciety of Beetsteaks," in London, are to be dis
posed OF by auction. This club. consisting 81
twenty-four noblemen and gentlemen, who, in
rooms Of their own, behind the scenes OF the
Lyceum Theatre, partook Of five o'clock din
ner Of beefsteaks every Saturday from Noyem-
ber till the end of June, was founded in 17s5,
, by John Rich, the patentee Of Covent Garden
Theatre, and George Lambert, the scene
painter, and IS now dissolved.
1t cost nearly million Of francs to estab-
lish the obesk OF Luxor in the Place de Ia
Coucorde at Paris, and nov the English are
talking Of spending some twenty thousand
pounds in bringing over the Cleopatra's Nee
die, which lies half barred in the sand near
Alexandria, and placing 1t somewhere on the
noble e,nbankment lately finished by the river
Thames. The Needs is sixty-four feet long,
weighs two hundred and eishty.four tons, and
has been considerably damaged by the donkey
boys, who chip pieces of it as souvenirs for
vandal travellers.
Many eminent Frenchmen will be candi.
dates from Paris for the Corps Legislatif in the
approaching elections. Among them are Henri
Rochefort; Lanfrey, the Historian OF Napoleon
+; Provost Paradol, the aeademician and tai
ented pole1ise OF the Debats; Louis Blanc, the
London correspondent Of the Temps: Eugene
Tenot, of the Steele, author of "Tho CocE
d'Etat;;n Emil Girardin, OF the Lberte; Genera
Changarnier, Edmund About, Casimir Perier
PiDard, ex-Ainister; Odillon Bsrrot, Ledrr
Rollin, Cremieux, the Duke Decazes, and Cor
nells de Witt, sou-in-law Of NJ. Guizot.
"A curious lawsuit was lately brought be-
fore an English court, in which the rights o.
her Majesty's fat subjects were humorously In
volved. 1t was an attempt to compel a Lady
GIamis to make certain public passage OF
her property wide enough to admit very stou
people, An arbitrator decided that the latera
dimensions OF heavy dowager would require
three feet two inches, but Lady Glamis con
tended that thirty-four inches was quite vide
enough. Lord Chief Justics Cockburn gravel,
shook his head at this attompt to curtail th'
privileges OF rotund beauties, and the court
decided in favor Of the greater width.