The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-30
Foreign Items.

" Oohs lanunOple. Dinner services of rare de-
eiSn ana great value are said to have been pur-
chased, though we know there is not enough
money in the Treasury TO pay for the breakages
OF the old sets. Chefs dc cuisine, maitres de
oume onneo, 9anseuses and opera singers have been
engaged and this when the Sultan's purse is so
low That it would not authorize him to 90 at
nali-price to any London theatre. The bank
Fuptcy OF Kingdoms is, we suppose, different
from that of individuals. If Turkey stop
ped payment tomorrow, it is not the
hospitable SULTAN himself who would suffer-
lie would probably build another palace to
divert his mind from the annoyance, and think
no more of the matter; yet somebody must pay
LOT all these dinner services and opera singers,
we lear the expense will fall on old friends.
H to whom we already owe much-the poor
cleTgymen with the large families and the
n goyernesses who invest in Turkish stock. These
again will ultimately come upon the TatepaveTs
4 Tor subsistence; this will make the rates high
and the ratepayers economical. This economy
VIII show itself by cutting down the vestrymen's
banquets. We come, therefore, to this homely
but painful conclusion, that every glass of cham
pagne the Empress drinks at atConstantinople will
n be taken out of our vestrymens mouths.
Letters and newspapers from Victoria help
TO explain the general disgust of all classes in
n that part of the world at the item of e35OO
charged in the English estimates for the Duke
OF Edinburghs presents. In themselves, the
articles, so far they have been publicly
u acknowledged. appear to have been of very
Fl paltry kind Their only value in the eyes OF the
"A recipients was that they came from the Queens
II son as personal gift and this value is lost when
n it is known that they were paid for by the
British taxpayers. Moreover, when all the
presents to officials and ether public persons
are reckoned up only a fraction OF the
43500 is accounted for, and member
4 of the Legislative Assembly has given no.
~ tice of a motion for an Inquiry in order to
discover who received the bulk of the gifts. In
"A short, the view of the Vctorians is this: if the
presents were to be paid for by the mother
country, they should have been bestowed openly
and on public grounds alone, and should more
rar hov va hoo ho1I nd hoX
n they were merely personal gifts to intimate pri-
vate acquaintances, then the Duke should have
paid for them himself, especially as he accepted
large quantity of costly articles in return.
NJ awhile the Indian government is perplcXed
n to decide what rule shall be laid down as to the
n Dukes presents in India. The Queen, it is said
forbtds him either to give or accept anything
III but this will seem very strange to the native
~ princes, who cannot dissociate friendship and
III respect from offerings.
Says an English iournal:-A curious exam
pie of the extent to which we suffer from
adulteration Is afforded by the case of shep-
herd named Heath, who has been committed
" for trial from the Newbury Sessions on charge
of attempting to poison his wife and family with
poisonous powder used for destroying insects
in sheep. 1t is alleged that Mr.. Heath emptied
box of this insect t-powder into the family sugar.
basin, but mo fatal results ensued.' If sheep
are to be dependentfor freedom from vermn on a
i powder which may be swallowed with impunity
by the family and friends of the person whose
duty it is to apply it to the suffering animals,
we pity the sheep. Apparently adulteration has
spread from our food to our very poisOns. 1t
is, in fact, monopoly of murder; the tradesmau
will poison us himself, but denies the privilege
to any one else, and then talks about free trade
AT the recent meeting of the British Medical
Association, Mr.. 7. Pridgin Teale read paper
ON Rectangular Stumps," having, 1t seems,
previously exhibited at the infrmary number
4of patients operated upon after the method OF
his late father by various surgeons. Some OF
these patients ran races their wooden legs,
and ''all the stumps were of the highest degree
ii of excellence" To cut off mans leg, and then
to see your patient with a rectangular stump
bounding over racecOurse, must be Il most in
teresting sight for a surgeon. Races OF
this description are scientific triumphs, and are
open to none of the objections with too much
reason frequently urged against those which
take place ut Newmarket and EPSON. On this
W account we should be sorry to see them abused
There should be no betting. Let the patients
with rectangular or triangular stumps run lairl.
without fear or favor, and the object being sim
81 ply to find out what shape OF stump is mos
favorable to activity we feel sure that emincn
surgeons, who having entered patients see thei
"a own colors first past the winning post, will sc
a good example to the younger members of tn
profession by handing over the stakes to thu
afflicted winner.
The Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland i
their annual report state that the disposition t.
do justice to Ireland has not yet extended itsel
to the repeal of the law of removal of Irish
born persons becoming destitute and needin!
relief in England or Scotland. The deportatio
81
red on as formerly and is stilattended in man
M cases by circumstances of great hardship, an
A in all cases by patent injustice as between GreG
Britain and Ireland They maintain that tn
primary element of national wrong in this rC
moval law is the fact that Irish persons relieve
in Great Britain are removable to their place {
birth or last place of residence in Ir
land, whereas Englishmen and Scotcl
men becoming chargeable in IrC
land are not removable from thence
England or Scotland. They instance case
which they state are of most ordinary occu
renee, of women alleged to have been desertC
by their husbands, and thereupon compulsOrl
H removed from their homes with their your
children TO the places of their birth
~ Ireland. In many of these the husbar
had left his family to look for work, and +
turning to his home has found to his surpri
and dsmay that his wife and children have
4 his absence been removed against their W
(sometmes by actual force) across seas to son
l union workhOuse in Ireland They particular
= object to the removal of lunatcs taken out
a5.- lunatic asylums in Scotland and brought to un
M workhOuses in Ireland. The details they give
the working of the law it at present eXiS
certainly show that great misery and incony
nience are caused by it, and the question certain
deserves TO be added to that long list of matte
W reserved for ministerial consideration in t
autumn.
The pauperism of England and Wales at t
close of May last was, according to the month
|H statement just issued by the Poor Law BOal
2W all told except the vagrants and lunatics
m asylums, 947. .48S being an increase of 1873
ference to the last annual report of the depal
ment we find that the numbers in the four
* week OF May, 1867, were 9OO,2 O,256, and in the We
before that S4S, S73; so then comparing the pl
sent muster-roll of rate-supported poor with q
numbers inscribed three years ago, we ha
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