The New York herald., 1870-04-01
OLD WORLD ITEMS.

The Italian government ls abollshiag all paolfc
Onlcal slnecuras.
Famine prices for grain still prevail In the districts
Of Jodhp0re and Marwar, India.
February % the mountains back Of Yokohama,
Japan, were covered with snow.
The heat In Natal was SO great IN January that
oxen dropped dead at their work.
Very fair specimens OF Havana aud Shlraz tobacco
have been grown III Dharwar, India.
Gold is again found In paying quantities In tho
Leydcn6urg district, In the TransYaai republic.
The Natal, Africa, papers report the crops OF DO.
tatoes and Kafr corn Ia the vicinity OF Grey town
failing.
Tho Diocese OF Madras, India contains 6o,923
Christians, with 1o5 clergymen, OF whom 70 are
natives.
At Snanghae a proposition ON the part OF otfic
personages to institute lotteries was not received
with favor.
The Japan Times states that Mr. II. NJ Lay has
positively concluded the contract for railroad from
Jedio to Kt0to.
Colonel G. Mo,r q. B., of the Royal Horse artillery
died at Umballa, India and Captain Waits Russell,
OF the Sixteth Rlnes, was killed by fall from his
horse At hurdle race ut Beparcs.
The total import duties of the Cape OF Good Hope
coioay o the year 1869 were $50 or s922z more
than IN 1865. The value OF exports was f383 2G2 iOr
last year and but 927ief9 III 1858.
At Milan, 8 society OF amateurs and artists have
been formed ior the purlase OF establishing per-
maent exhibition or WORKS OF art In that city. Two
handsome and spacious picture galleries have been
opened with 200 paintings.
The Chinese steamer Confucus has been totally
wrecked IN the Yaagtsze river. She was butt in
on the Yang-tsze, where she piled for years. Con.
yerted Into vessel OF war, she rendered loag and
faithful service TO the ChneSe government.
plan for establishing o Russian university IN
Siberia that was under consideration two years ago
and then abandoned has been again revived IN con-
necion with the reforms ana alterations about TO be
introduced in the administration and geographical
division OF that part OF the Russian dominions.
The Bremen Emigration Commissioners report
lnat ain
emlgrants sailed from their port O. 665 vessels. III
1860 only ten steamers sailed thence for New York.
with 3C3s, but IN 1860 there departed 104 steamers
with 4y,458 emigrants for the United States
The Prussian navy consists OF thirty vessels car
rytng $40 guns vlz.:-Flve irOn-cads, nine cor
vettes, two despatch boats and twenty-five gum
boats. Ere 1874 eleven ironclads, eleven corveLtes
and ten small vessels are 10 be constructed-thus
filing the programme laid down by the RelcnstaG IN
1867.
The missionaries at Yang-Caow, China, report
cessation OF tnfriendness on the part OF the popu.
lice; but at Forniosa the Chinese oflGais are an.
having offered $500 for tae head Of one English cam.
phor merchant and placing another IN irons after
robbng him.
Great excitement prevails among foreign residents
at Nagasakt in consequences Of the arrest ana de.
portati0n--whither II Is not known-of more than q
thousand native Christians The oficial placards
contain such phrases AZ this:"The peryerse reli :
gon OF Jesus, the teacher from heaven Ia calamity
which menaccs the empire" &c.
Florence journals state that the agents OF the
EXYptfaH 8OtefHueHt ule Quietiy recruiting In tnat
city for the viceroy's army. They find many Italian
Subordinate officers, who have lately been relieved
from service, willing to accept their terms, VIZ, an
advance or 500 francs and their subsistence and
travelling expenses as fur rs Cairo.
A singular fancy has come upon tho Kanrs near
Cape Town. When tho Great Eastern arrived at
Taole bay thousands Of them lett their employers
without notice, In some cases abandoning large ar
rears OF wages They imagined that the .'Dig snip''
had come out TO carry fhcm away TO forced labor In
England and could not be dissuaded Of this inlatu-
atlOD.
The Emperor OF Russia recently presented the Don
CossacKs with the newly consecrated banners Of st.
George, adorned with the Alexander ribbon and an
Inscription commemoratfng the 300 years. existence
OF the Cossack army Of the Don. Its fullest muster
WAS during tho Crfmean war, when eighty regi-
ments Of 500 men each. forming an aggregate Of
6i, 900, were called out.
the city Of Algers-whicn may now be considered
European--nas been very gay tnis winter. IL nun.
bers 900 Inhabitants including representatives OF
all nations. Horse racing and boar hunting were
the iayorite out OF door sports. Grand Turks,
Mutis, Algerine Jews, French oiiicers aud ladies,
English ladies ana gentlemen, fair Mauresques,
Arabs aud Kabyles were the delighted spectators.