The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-14
Foreign Btens.


M. Offenbach is invading the car of Paris
simultaneously at two theatres. At the Varieties
he has produced three-act opera entitled Les
BrigdndS Qibretto by NM. Meilhac and Halevy)
at the Bouffes Parisiens (his former seat of
glory) one-act operetta called La Romance de
la Rose sQibretto by NM. Trefeu and PreveD.
These works were brought out within twenty
four hours of each other Con the 10th and 11th
of December respectively. In the Romance de
la Rose, the Irish melody of which M, Flotow
has made such excellent use in Martha has, it
appears, served NJ. Offenbach to equally good
purpose.
"A characteristic sign of the times is reported
from Rome. The German Kunsterverein met
recently for the purpose of amending its an
cient statutes. Most particularly was it the one
paragraph reading "1hat this union, in all those
exceptional cases in which it requires q special
protection, shall place itself under that of the
King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria as
the two most powerful rulers of Germany"
which, it seemed to many of the members, re-
quired certain alteration. And the alteration
was wrought, almost mem. con-, to the effect
that the name of the Emperor of Austria was
struck out and only that of the Prussian mon
arch was allowed to stand.
The North German Correspondent, tolerably
we'll known as the organ of Count Bismark,
replies to an attack made on that statesman in
the Edinburgh ReUieac, and denies that personal
pique had anything to do with the late war.
The writer in one portion of his defense of the
Count, alludes to the schemes of France and
Austria in these terms-"Prussia was first to be
then to be dismembered 1t is well known to
the initiated that Venice had been ceded to
| France before shot was fired in 1866, and that
| on the 18th of June of that year, one day after
| the letter of the Emperor Napoleon to M.
| Drouyn de Lhuys, convention was concluded
| between the Cabinets of Vienna and Paris ac-
| cording to which France, after the overthrow
of Prussia, was to be indemnifed by compensa-
| tions, or, in other words, by the left bank of
| the Rhine" This, according to the North Ger
man Correspondent, was the cause of the sud-
| den attack on Austria.
| The Medical Nelos of st. Petersburg gives
some interesting particulars relative to the out
| break of cholera in Russia 1t attributes the
| outbreak to the extraordinary heat and drought
| which prevailed last summer in Central Russia
and which was in striking contrast to the fire.
| quent rains in Northwestern Russia and
| Western Europe generally. Several cases of
| diarrh9a and summer cholera, some of which
were fatal, occurred at Kieff in july but there
| was no epidemic until the middle of September.
At first it was supposed that the cholera had
| reached Kieff from Persia, but 1t appears this
year Tifis has been unusually healthy, and that
| there is no communication between Kieh and
| the Persian districts where cholera prevailed.
| The disease appeared unfortunately both in
| the poor and the rich quarters of Kief, and car
ried off several victims in the higher classes. In
| September the number of patients was 65, OF
| whom upwards of 40 died How many persons
| were attacked in October is not known, but there
were upwards of 80 deaths from the epidemic.
At Orel the number OF persons attacked between
the 18th of November and the 9th Of December
was, according to the official reports, w, 40 OF
whom have died, and at Retchitz, in the Govern
ment of Minsk, IL cholera cases had ended
fatally up to the 18th of December. On the 7th
q soldier died of cholera at st. Petersburg.
"A new edition (dite de luIe) of the works OF
Beaumarchais has just appeared at Paris. The
joint editors, Messrs. D'Heilly and De Marescat.
have availed themselves conscientiously of every
source OF authentic information, contrasting the
original manuscripts of the plays with their act
ing edition, thus giving at once the study anc
the finished picture. The second volume of this
edition, moreover, contains hitherto unpub
lshed drama in three acts, LAmi de Ia Mdtson
forming part of seven volumes of MSS. left IL
London by Beaumarchais when he visited Eng
land in pursuit of solution of his doubts
on the sex of the Chevalier DION, whom h'
persisted in believing to be cteUdhere
This important collection of manu-
scripts was in the hands of Messrs Dulau, o
Soho Square, who, in 1896, in vain attempted 4
dispose of them for 800 francs. In 1868 M. Ed
stoned by the Societe de rAcademie Franchise
obtained them for the moderate sum OF 5O
francs. Scarcely was the bargain completed
when NJ. Dulau received an offer OF GlOO0 from
an English amateur. The drama LAmt de Il
MdiSOn deserves especial mention, as bein!
almost identical in its plot with Nj. de Girardin'
much abused but successful play, lie Sttpptlc
dune Femme. 1t is somewhat remarkable tha
a century after Beaumarehais wrote his play
Girardin and Dumas Fills, wholly ignorant of it
existence should have had an inspiration in al
points similar to that of their predecessor
"A letter from Trebigne Capital of th
Turkish province of Herzegoyina), published Il
the Northeastern Correspondence, says tina
great agitation prevails among the population
there in consequence of the prolongation of til
revolt in Dalmata The province Is now occu
pied by large body of Turkish troops, but 1t
feared that they will not suffice to put stop
the revolutionary movement which is nov
spreading rapidly among the Herzegoyiniani
The people, says the correspondent, seem con
7 yinced that the whole of Dalmatia Will rise mex
spring, and they are only waiting for signi
from their old chief, Luka Voukaloyitch, t
/ join the insurgents of the Cattaro district in
/ combined attack of the Southern Slayonians 0
u Montenegro and the Mirditcs of Albania, til
correspondent adds, has greatly encourage
0 these revolutionary projects. The prince OF IL