The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-16
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

England Is about adopting nau-penny Sys-
tenn Of newspaper postage.
The Prussian Cable Company intends to hire
one OF the English cables already laid, instead Of
putting down new one.
Over IL, 900 Partisan workmen are on long
strike, which must last all winter, and produce
misery. They embrace nearly every trade.
The North German correspondent says there
are $50 American students at German universities
and upwards Of 1000 American youths and girls
attending the high schools.
The Grand Master Of Freemasons in France
sons Of Europe, at Paris, on the sth Of December,
in opposition to the Ecumenical Council.
Miss Rye has sailed from Liverpool for Canada,
having under her charge eight boys and sixty
eight girls, who are accompanied by nineteen
adults. The children are mostly from the Liver
pool Industrial School, the others being from the
London workhouses.
The Empress of France is said to have sent to
the Pope most affectionate letter, in which her
Majesty excuses herself for not being able to go to
Rome, as she had intended, to present her re-
spectful homage to the Sovereign Pontifr, and
sends the assurance Of her affeetien for the god
father OF the Prince Imperial.
Several Of the London papers had their arti-
cles on Lord Derby in type before he died, and
some Of them printed obituary notices in advance.
One weekly remarked that the earl was not dead,
but that he would be, probably, before the paper
reached its readers, and then proceeded to speak
OF his lordship in the past tense.
The Pope's enthusiasm respecting the Council
Is said to be nnabated. Not long ago priest
brought him o large sum Of money from the la
dies of German diocese, and In accepting the
gift the Pope inquired whether the bishop was
coming to the Council. Thepriest replied that he
was too old, being in his seventy first year. "You
call seventy -one old,n exclaimed the Pope. ~
am seventy eight, and feel young and shall as
sist at the Council without neglectlng my other
duties"
Napoleon is said TO be greatly changed In ap-
pearance. He looks haggard, careworn and
anxious, and walks with considerable dificulty.
But for the support Of o cane end the arm Of one
of his suite his movements would be exceedingly
slow. The encouraging reports which are pub
lished about his health are all dictated from OIL
cial sources. During the last ten days OF his So
journ at Compeigne DR.. Nelaton was in constant
attendance upon him, land the catheter had to be
used repeatedly.
The PantIn murder Is still the subject Of in
terest IN France. All the police Of the kingdom
have been employed to find the dead body Of the
father, Kinck. The lakes and pools Of water
throughout Asace, the woods and ravines, have all
been explored, but in vain. No Kinck-but In
stead, great many other bones and bloody vests
and ensanguined dlrks have turned up, which
tell the tale Of many unknown murders. Traup-
mann has been subjected to many rigid cross
examinations, but refuses to say anything.
The weather in Europe during October has
been very severe and supports the prognostica-
tIons Of bitter winter. On the night Of October
II, and the morning Of the 18th, snow storm Of
the most extraordinary violence swept across
Styria and adjacent districts, and great deal Of
injury was inflicted on the gardens and vineyards.
At Laibach the heat OF October II was intense
and yet on the following morning at O'Clock the
Snow began to fall. In the night violent thun-
der storm broke over the district. At Gratz it
showed the whole night and forenoon so heavily
that the ground was completely covered, and the
branches Of the fruit trees, still in full leaf, were
broken by the weight OF snow.
1t is stated that at the Cabinet meeting held
on the 30th OF October, Mr.. Chichester Fortescue,
the Secretary for Ireland, laid before his col
leagues the measure which he had been instructed
to prepare on the Irish land reform question. Mr..
Fortescue is himself GA Irish landlord and an
Irish Protestant, but 1t is understood that the
measure proposed by him is the joint produc-
ton OF himself and Lord Chancellor 0'Hagan,
q Roman Catholic Ulster man. The measure,
it is rumored, proposes to give to the tenant
right of Ulster, now provincial custom, the
force OF law, with universal application through
out the whole OF Ireland; and adds to this
scheme by which, In gradual manner, the trans
fer OF land by free bargain and sale from English
Protestants to Irish Catholics may be promoted,
aided and effected This Is so very much better
than anything which the government has been
supposed to be prepared to grant, that 1t will pro-
baby go far towards satisfying the Irish people.