New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

4 PruSsian publisher in Berlin has been fined,
if said selling caricaturcs Of Louis NAPOLEON and
Eug6ne attircd as mountcbanks. The publisher is any
10 know whom rditule ii not the eremics of
ones country.
A bureau has been established at Frankfort
ontheMan for the purpose Of supplying sGernan CAPT
tal@ts with information about American financial and
other afars. 4 weekly paper, entitled The Gsrman-
american Economist is published by this bureau f9r the
use OF bankers, merchants, ana persons intending to
emigT8te.
1t is said that of the IA splendid buildings
owned I'm Paris by the Rothschid5 not has been
harmed by shells during the German siege. by the
Communists during the fierce interecinc strife Tie
great bankers have always been lucky II they had been
sOmcbOdy else, and worth comparatively Little, they
might have been ruined.
The Earl of Aylesbury is a young gentleman
born rule his fellow Brtons, and to show his capacity
he drove home from the playully sprinkng the
pedestrians with -four, bng OF which he had in his
ing eye and s00rhed turbulent democracy by filming the
noble lord forty shillings" ana costs for his froc.
Lord Tenterden, of the High Commission,
has written private letter TO friend here in which he
says he does not know what has happened to the English
cInatc but that anything more horrid than the cx-
change from the brightness Of NewYOr to the chill and
gloom of London, as it now Is, could hardly be imagined
lie wishes he could borrow some OF the sunshine from
Fifth-avc for he has hardly seen the sun since his
turn.
On July I, 1901, exactly 20 years ago. one of
the first steamboats, built, made trial trip the
Thames This is the account of 1t given by the London
papers Of the day. "An experiment has taken place
the the purpose Of working barge any other
heavy craft against wind and tide by means of steam
engine, on very simple construction The moment the
engine set to work, the barge brought about
answering her he I'm qucky and she proceeded at once
to make way against strong ebb tide at the rate Of
nearly two miles and half an hour"
"Master Magrath," is the name of famous
Hish greyhound and this is the way that the people Of
Belfast propose TO reward his achievements. In public
meeting assembled they resolved THAT recognizing
with honorable pride the unparalleled triumph OF Lord
lurgans celebrated greyhound which, on no ess than
llree ulherehJ occasions, whilc competing WIN the
most famous dogs OF the United Kingdom succeeded in
rorters tie leash in Ireland resolve that steps be at
once taken to commemorate in hitting manner Master
was opened, and large amount was subscribed.
The operation of lengthening screw steamers
has been, says Scotch journal for some time past most
successfully performed at Granon. The vessels are
placed on the patent slip in the usual way and in the
course Of day two two and drawn apart to
the requisite length. The space between them is then
built mp, and in few weeks the vessel is gain ready for
sea- The steamship Garrison the last vessel heightened
to Constantinopie, made 81 feet longer. This has
increased hGr carrying power from $50 to l2S0 uns with
ont diminishing her speed, rendering larger
necessary The advantage thus gained 10 whose
vessels and trade require the outlay Is equal in the
OI ihe Garrison, 10 new steamer of $50 tun without
the great expense OF engines, coal, or crew.
The German weekly paper IAN Neuen Reich
says that Germany has also her Black Sea question:
The town Of Wi5mar the Mocklenburg coast, which
formerly belonged TO Sweden, was in the Seventeenth
Century Of the strongest in Europe IL
was repeatedly beseged ana TAKEN its value being
universally recognized rs OF great strategic importance
10 the SWEDISH army; and In I7l6 Russia compelled
sweden 10 sign treaty under which the fort cations
were TO be demolished. and not be again rebuilt This
treaty also provided that the town aud its bay should
never be ued ~ naval station harbJr that .he
bay was 10 al lntehs and purposes neutrailcd 1893,
INC King OF sweden ceded by the Treaty OF Mamoc his
IN uEc ~ Nj.
burg; but, the principle that man caun0t give rights
10 another which he does not possess lin Ell the bly,
though now German territory. continues % hr neutral
before. A. j. Lo| fusst ,cd tat Gg4nant ,EoJd abolish
Ca modify tAe treaty.