The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-11
EOreinn Kfens.

Foreign htemSs
lie Figaro says of Sainte-Beuve that few
people ever wore mourning SO often as he
did. He made an ideal of the character and
future of his famous contemporaries, which
was seldom realized When he perceived
that he must renounce his chimera he put
Grape on his hat and simply said:-'Such an
one is dead, and am wearing mourning for
him." Thus he mourned for Lamartine, La
mennais Victor Hugo, Buloz, Chateaubriand,
and Beranger. On the day of his nomination
to the Senate he wore his mourning hat to
take his seat in the Luxembourg.
The opening of the Suez Canal is eX-
pected by commercial men in Russia to pro-
duce great advantages for Russian trade, and
preparations are being made for using 1t
largely as a means of communication with
India and Central Asia. The Steam Navlga-
ton Company at Odessa has determined to
establish a regular line of steamers between
the southern ports of the empire and the East
and has sent an agent to India for the pur-
pose of obtaining statistical data as to the
quantity and quality of the articles of COM
merce which it might be profitable to import
into Russia. Telegraphic communication is
also to he established between the southern
ports and Constantinople. Meanwhile, the
Government has made a very good stroke of
policy with the object of strengthening its
influence in Central Asia. 1t has persuaded
the Emir of Bokhara to send his son, who is
thirteen years old, to the Russian University
at Warsaw, thus securing a valuable hostage
for the Emirs future friendship, and at the
same time gaining an opportunity of filling
the young princes mind with admiration of
the greatness Of Russia, and conviction Of
the hopelessness Of resisting her.
"A Partisan contemporary gives an anus
ing instance to which love of routine will
push French officials When a dog is found
wandering about masterless in Paris he is
taken to the ,t0,tlricre, or municipal pound,
where he is kept eight days, and if not
claimed by the end of that time, either hanged
or sold according to his value. 1t seems,
however, that to claim dog it is necessary to
have certificate of morality" delivered by
the commissary of police of the quarter in
which one may reside. Here is q specimen
of the document required. It was delivered
to lady:-''We, Commissary of Police of the
City Of Paris, and specially appointed to the
quarter of -, under our personal response
bility, certify that the black and white haired
dog, answering to the name of Badin, which
is at the Jot1Tiere, belongs to Nine b., liv-
ing Quai --, and that the conduct of this lady
has never given cause for reproach; in faith
of which we have delivered the present certi-
fcate, etc. On the margin of the paper is
blank form, to be filed up with the descrip-
ton, not Of the dog, but of the lady.
The uneasiness which has prevailed in
Government circles at Berlin of late has been
considerably increased during the last few
days by the opposition shown in the House to
the Ministerial bills relative to the proposed
loan of 100, 100000 thalers and the new pro-
vincial organization. On both questions the
Government has been attacked, not only by
the Fortschrittsmen, but by the free Conser-
vatives and national Liberals, who are usually
among its supporters, and it is generally be-
lieved that, if the bills are rejected, Herr Won
der Heydt, the Minister of Finance, and
Count Itzenplitz, the Minister of Commerce.
will resign 1t is also stated that the King
finds it very inconvenient to carry on the
Government in the absence of Count Bis
mark, and that the appointment of another
Minister in his place is in contemplation.
passage in his Majesty's last speech, in which
he spoke of ''his own policy instead of ''the
policy Of his Government, has been much
remarked, and is regarded as significant of an
approaching change in the direction above in
dicated. Among the candidates for the post
of Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the
North German Confederation, which would
thus become vacant, the reactonist General
Manteuffel and the Conservative leader Herr
Won Bodelschwingh have been mentioned, but
neither of these seems to have much chance
of success According to trustworthy ac-
counts, it appears more probable that, if the
King should decide to remove Count Bismark
from the direction of his Ministry, his choice
will fall upon Herr Won Werther, now the
Prussian Ambassador at Vienna.