The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-14
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Charles Dickens, by invitation, had an in
terview with the Queen on Thursday. 1t is said
that the great novelist is to be knighted.
The British Home Secretary takes credit
for leni4ncy because O'Donovan Rosa has not
been dogged in prison.
The propriety of the British bench was so
outraged by the publication of Wales letters to
Lady Mordaunt that there was talk of making
it case of contempt OF court.
Much anxiety is expressed in Paris by the
friends of Rochefort, as it is rumored smallpox
prevails in the prison in which he is confined,
and he is now quite i'll.
The Empress of Russia and the Baroness
Rothschild will be the leading contributors to
the proposed international art exhibition to be
held in London.
Passenger railways are becoming popular
in London, where large meetings have recent
ly been held in their favor. 1t is proposed to
build one hundred and twenty miles of iron
tramways, and to raise capital amounting to
s7,OOO,0OO. One Of the arguments used is, that
during 1867 1t required 6577 horses to convey
$4,000, 900, passengers In omnibuses, while in
the same year the passenger railways in New
York carried 100000 persons with only
1880 horses.
Another Swedish nightingale follows in
the wake of Jenny Lind and Miss Nllson.
Nine. Tellepsen is just now winning applause
in the best salons Of Paris among the amateurs
and connoisseurs in art. She was lately lis
tened to with delight at the house Of rich
Egyptian, II. Saka RIM, whose large and mag
niicsnt apartment would hardly hold the nu-
merous and brilliant company invited to his
musical fete. Egyptians are in high fashion
now In Paris.
The postponement ofthe TuilerIes ball, some
weeks since, Is accounted for by the alleged
discovery of a plot to assasslnate the Emperor,
which Is thus told In the Place du Carrousel
enormous bonfres are Kept lip on ball nightsY
for the comfort of the servants, who are
the open air. Somesot the conspirators
we're to have obtained access by Disgusting
themselves in llveries, and, OF given signal,
they were to have set Ere to the carriages by
blazing brands plucked from the fires, while
the. horses were to have been frightened by
the explosion Of bombs. Nothing burns more
quickly than carriage, on account Of the
quantity of varnish with which 1t Is covered
nothing produces more confusion than the
rushing about of terrified horses. The plottefs
calculated that all the servants about the place
would flock to the courtyard to restore order,
and in the melee it would be easy, they hoped,
for dozen determined men, disguised as
gentlemen" to force their way up stairs and
assassinate the Emperor.
"A letter from Rome, dated February Is,
says: "On Tuesday, the crash of the 'usury
banks came in Naples. Either through sus-
picion that there might be some political In
| trlgue at the bottom Of the swindle or because
the promoters had neglected to bribe the au-
thoritles sufficiently, the .fscus came down on
Rufro, Scllla & Co., and insisted on examining
their books, which showed that these indlvid.
uas were practically robbing Peter to pay
| Paul, for of other assets they had none. Ru6o
Scilla and their partners were put into prison,
as was every other broker who could not
prove. balance at his bankers equal,
i
at least, to the claims against his house
To Egive an idea Of the violence OF this
curious epidemic, one case is given, OF the
keeper of an eating house who offers three
meals per diem gratis to every person who
would advance him one hundred francs during
one month, with the repayment VI the loan q
the end of twenty-five days: The moderate
and radical press blames the interference o
the government, at this late hour, with sys
tenn which would have died a natural deatl
within month, whereas now the stupid masses
will accuse the authorities of murder Th'
Conciliatore says: The mob threaten to attacl
the banks. and do not reflect that the bankers
ask for nothing better than to be closed by thu
police or to be sacked by rioters; either woult
relieve them from great embarrassment, ant
their chief desire is that the acts of violence
may be perpetrated without delay"