The true northerner., 1872-01-05
Foreign Notes.

kew in command Of a Turkish pan'ol-
war.
A HAMBURG journal predicts that up
ward of half million dollars will be
collected in Germany for the relief OF
the Chicago sufferers.
GEORGE SAND has purchased all the
copies of her book against Musset, her
former lover, that could be found In
France, and destroyed them.
Two hundred and nineteen insur-
cents have been shot by the French
troops in Algeria since the breaking out
of the insurrection in that country.
The Car of Russia has five sons liv-
ing-Alexander the heir, Vladimir,
Alexis. Sergio and Paul, and an only
daughter, Marie, seventeen years OF
age.
THE new military organization OF
Germany enables the Emperor, in case
of war; to put within five days an army
of thirteen hundred thousand men in
the field.
JULES FAvRE, the French statesman,
recently said to an English diplomatist
that he was sure there would be gen.
eral European war in less than twelve
months.
THE Bey of Tunis recently paid the
Sultan of Turkey forty-five thousand
dollars in order to secure to his de-
scendants the hereditary right to rule
over Tunis.
SHoUTIsG "Vive rEmpereur I" and
groaning President Thierss name cost
the other day some ardent Bonapartist
in Corsica one weeks imprisonment on
bread and water.
The great enterprise to connect the
Black Seaand the Caspian Sea by large
navigable canal will be realized in the
course Of five wears. 1t will cost eighty
three million dollars.
THE Hawaiian Government has agreed
to pay a subsidy of $4,000, for the next
eighteen mouths, toward the mainte-
nance of the Webb line Of steamers
from San Francisco to Australia.
AT an anti-vaccinationist meeting re-
Gently held in Manchester, the resolu-
ton "That vaccination does not pre-
vent smallpox, but doubles disease and
death" was unanimously adopted.
BISMARCK wants to sell the magnifi-
cent estate Of Schwartzenbeck. which
the Emperor William presented to him
several months ago. The price asked is
fifteen hundred thousand dollars.
CHARLES Dickens has settled in his
fathers old home at Gadshill, and
taken his place as the director of All
fE1 d ioI
year with its usual Christmas story.
THE owners of Nova Scotia coal mines
are much pleased at Secretary Bout
wells recommendation to reduce the
duty on coal to fifty cents per ton. They
have hopes that Congress will go further
and make coal free.
M. THEIRS has done another foolish
thing. While other nations are reduc-
ing the rate of postage, he has run up
those of France. America charges three
cents per half ounce, England two
cents, and France, not content with
four cents, proposes to raise to five.
ADvICEs from Pembina report that
three French half breeds have been on
tria, at Fort Garry, on the charge of
taking active part III the late Fenian in
vasion under the command of Gen.
. Neill. One of the prisoners has been
convicted. and condemned TO suffer
death.
A PARIS correspondent of the Etoile
Beige relates that, when Mr.. Washburne,
the United Minister, informed Presi-
dent Theirs OF the Chicago confagra-
ton, the French statesman frankly ac.
knowledged he had never heard of the
place before, and expressed considera- /
bic surprise when informed of the fact
that it was city of over three hundred
thousand inhabitants.
THE Brussels art Revic,o says that
there is in Europe no first-class painter
who, on an average, clears fifty thou.
sand francs a year, except Rosa Bon.
heur. That eminent artistic has recently
devoted h erself to battle painting. She
has nearly finished her grand tableau of
the battle of Orleans, in October, 1870,
which is said to be work of great
power.
OSCAR LEssINEs, the former lover of
Queen Isabella of Spain. who urged ,
Napoleon III. so strongly to annex Bel.
gium to France, and whose secret me-
MORALS, addressed to the Emperor for
that purpose, were recently published
in the Independence Beige, was publicly
caned in a Paris coffee house by an
illeeitimate brother of the present King
of Belgium, of whom he had spoken
disrespectfully in his writings.
The King of Siam is resolved to avail
himself of the knowledge and expert
ence of the English miners and men of
science. Several Cornish tin. miners
have been engaged to proceed to Siam
to work over the auriferous deposits of
that country; and Mr.. Charles Twite,
gentleman who has spent many years in
Parliament, is engaged to 90 at once to
Siam, TO direct, in the first place, the
mining operations, and, during the hot
season, when work in the field is not
possible, to give instruction in geology
TO the youth of Siam.