The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-25
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The London Standard has an editorial on
what it calls the "Musical Tornado at Bos-
TOM
An American wedding is soon to come Oh
in Paris, clergyman having been imported
from this side expressly 10 tie the knot.
The experiment OF providing specially for
infants brought in arms to the Royal Alfred
Theatre in London proved q very great sue
cess IN one respect. The children left were 80
numerous that it became necessary to post up
noeaces that no more could be admitted. 1t
wss discovered, however, that the mothers
who brought their babes locked upon the insti-
tuition as fouudlng hospital, and did not call
,promrtly for their offspring. There is an &C.
.cumuIation Of babiesasnd the management
does not know what to do with them; bat the
.childrens cloak" room has been closed
Sir Rutherford Alcock, the Britieh Minis
ter in China, gives an unhattering but appa1-
emily truthful account Of the pro gress which
China is willing to make. The representations
of Mr.. Buriingame would seem, according to
Minister Acock, to bs entirely unSounded.
The mandarins show no Willingness to favor
commerce, and their sole object in tolerating
foreigners is to secure that their coal fields be
properly worked. Tho English Ambassador
further warns all capitalists against believing
representations which might irduce them, IN
the hope Of increasing civilization in China, 10
invest in companies organized with the object
of making railroads and constructing telegraph
lines.
During the recent Disturbances in Paris
there was but single attempt to raise barri-
cade. This absence of barricades is quite
new feature in Partisan er'seutes, and there is
very good reason for it. Barricades are pos
slble only in a very short or crooked street,
where the nature of the ground renders them
secure from an attack by artillery. For this
reason our July rioters did not attempt barri-
cade fighting, for the dullest OF their leaders
could not avoid perceiving that barricades are
impossible in q city where the streets are laid
out on uniform rectangular plan. Napoleon,
during the last twenty gears, has been steadily
converting the tortuous, narrow streets OF
Paris into broad, straight avenues. There is
now hardly quarter IN Paris where any ex-
tensiye system Of barbados could be built.
All the new boulevards can be swept from end
to end by cannon.
The woman question" 80 far as educa-
ton and diversified means Of employment are
concerned, is, if possible, more persistently
and successfully agitated abroad than here.
Women are being more and more employed in
postofaccs and other government departments.
In France and Russia they are now in the tele-
graph offices, and the government proposes to
make them eligible to the postal service.
Courses Of lectures on history, philology, ma
thematics, and the natural sciences are to be
opened next fall at the st. Petersburg Univer-
sity, for the benefit Of women, and an inter-
natioh periodical is about to be established in
London, under the patronage Of the crown
princess OF Prussia, Queen Victoria's eldest
daughter, for the promotion OF feminine edu-
cation in the higher branches, and for an e1-
tension OF the list Of occupations available to
women. The workers for the elevation Of wo-
men have certainly cause for thanhufness
and courage at the progress everywhere being
made.
Prussia aud France are already pursuing
hypothetical war in the newspapers. A writer
in the Spectateur Mllitaire says that when the
crash comes "the northern frontier Of France
will be ably defended; part Of the active (sec)
army will embark at Brest and Cherboure, os-
tensibly for an expedition against Kiel or Dant-
zic but in reality it will 20 southwark, passing
the Straits Of Gibraltar, take up with part Of
another active army, and then land at Genoa
or Trieste. If the South German States are
allied with France, the Danube will be gained
at Rstisbon, Passau or Linz, from viii n point
the united army will march through Tyrol and
Bavaria to the Main." Geography is no OBJ
stacle to this writer, only it ought to be sug-
eestei: How Will the united army get Inn.
spruck at some point between Ratisbon and
Frankfort.on-thc-Main Then, in the opinion
Of the writer, Austria is to side with France,
the army issto march from Trieste to Vienna
or Presburg, then along the March through
Moravia to Silesia. avoiding the Rhine, the
Weser and the Elba. "a great battle will be
fought somewhere between Dresden, Bantzan
and Breslau, the road to Berlin will be cleared,
and the peace Of the world assured" But what
will Prussia be doing all the time France is to
be accomplishing these fine things?
-Bismarck's German Confederation is net
composed entirely Of harmonious elements.
The citizens of Frankfor cannot forget the
fame of the old {" free CITY," and even now
chafe bitterly under the humiliation Of Prus-
sian rule. correspondent who attended the
Oster-fest, held in the forest near that city,
last May, gives, in the following anecdote,
good illustration Of the feeling Of the people.
as Uell rs OF their peculiar ways Of expressing
it. He says I" But one incident occurred to
mar the festivities of the day, and even threat
ened greater disturbance between the people
and the soldiers. I have said that politics
were apparently forgotten; the old hate against
the Prussians only slumbered. The Prussians
Gould not get our forest, anyhow, hard es they
trled,' said one. The old Wald is consecra-
ted by too many tests for the city to part
with IT. said another. About seven o'c'Ock in