National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-09
FOREIGN PARAGRAPHS.
INTERESTING NOTES IND TOPICS
FROM THE OLD WORLD.

6ROA THE OLD WORLD.
BRITISH SOCIETY INTELLIGENCE THE
FIRST EARL OF sHREwsBURY-THE SPAN
ISL COURT AND CoRTEs-DECAY OF THE
TUILERIEs-DASCISG IN INDIA.
The Russian royal family is about to contract
another auspicious matrimonial alliance. The
Vienna PreSss says that the Emperor OF Russia IL
expected st Stuttgart this month to be present at
the be:rothal of his niece, the Grand Duchess
Vera; with Duke William Eugene, of Wurtem-
berg. The event will put an end to Q long
standing disagreement between the houses o! Ro-
imanof and Wurtemberg, which dates i-Om the
beginning Of the present century.
BRITISH CHURCH LITINGS.
The Bishop Of Lincoln has struck hard blows
at the evil Of simony, or Of buying and selling
church hvipgs, which seems, he Gays, to be In
creasirg in the English Church. Sometimes the
advertisements Of liVings for sale are set forth
with strong recommendations, such as the allure
uents Of greenhouses, gardens coaches and sta
hes trout streams and watering places, and hints
Of the lightnssI Of the work. the snallness Of the
congregation and the old age of the incumbent
The Bishop says: I'VE have ehut up the slave
market Of Zanzibar, but we have opened slave
markets Of souls N London" The purchase sys-
TEN OF the English army was long looked upon as
q disgrace, hut hero surely is q deeper shame, Of
which eOgniEance should speedily be taken.
BRAVE ENGLISH BOYS.
At q recent meeting of the Royal Humane So
oiety IL London the silver medal was unanimously
voted to William Osborne, aged twelve, for saving
. lad near the hood-gRtes IN Kings Mead, Chelns-
ford. Another lad, named Westrop, received the
bronze medal for first going TO the assistance
Of the drowning boy. Several boys wore bathing
near the fOod-gntes, when one who could not
swim got cut of his depth IN the food gate hole
Young Testrop first went to his assistance, but
the other threw his arms around him in his terror
and both were in danger Of being drowned The
boy Osborne ran to the spot, and dlTod in just as
the two lads had sunk for the last time. Both
chung TO him, but he succeeded in shaking them
off and bringing them to the surface. One was
brought out ofthe water by a man, and the other
by Osborne. Both were quito unconscious
HOPE FOR TOURISTS.
conference Of hotelkeepers in the Rhine
country of Switzerland was recently held at
Baden Baden. The principal speakers agreed
that the practice Of covering years expenses by
eItorting high prices from those entertained
during a short season of travel is a mistake
High hotel charges cause people, It was observed,
to hurry on their way and shorten their journeys
1t was, therefore, proposed to extend the tourist
season by the simple expedent of making the
prices more moderate throughout, and opening
the establishments for longer terms than the
ordinary three four months. The reformers
admitted that 1t would take some time to accus-
tom the public to the change Of system, and con-
sequeutly TO remunerate those who try it. The
matter therefore, Tor the present remains in abey-
ance.
GENEROUS" PUBLIC.
The ublie Of Padus seem to have taken 8
Inanlacai distrust of all efforts to please them at
the Teatro Concord and the Teatro Garibaldi.
at the latter house "Un Ballo in Maschera" pro-
duced an awful onslaught upon the footlIghts.
The orchestra was sCOrmed and its rubicon
crossed, and full assault delivsCod upon the
stage. Seats were used weapons, lamps few
about like bombshells, and the proscenium sQd
auditorium were soon a wreck. A delegate, wear
ing tri-colos scarf, appeared, accompanied BY
guards and carbineers, and tried to soothe the
mob. but was encountered with cries of "GITe
US back our money" At last young man jumped
up and made proposal "Send the receipts to
the poor of the town. he cried. The suggestion
found favor; applause followed; and the audience
quietly stroiled out Of the despoiled theatre,
merely breaking q few bones OF the box-keepers
and other officials on their road out.
A MARRYING QUEEN OF LONDON So
CIETY.
Frances Countess Waldegrave, an acknowl-
edged queen of London society is the wife of
Right honorable Chichester Fortesque, q de-
feated candidate for Parliament from the Irish
borough OF Louth. Chichester Fortesque is not
Lady Waldegravs's first husband; indeed, he is
not her second nay, he is not even her third.
She has been led to the altsr-always by person
ofexcellent lDeage-four times. Thrice @ widow
four times wife, she Is still D.ooming-s belle
snd, in sober earnest handsome and winning.
And yet, though her two first husbands were
Wsldegraves, one Of them sn earl, and her two
last. respectively, the grandson Of an archbishop
and the nephew Of a baron, she herself could
A.. -.
daugkser Of the famous jewish tenor singer,
Graham, who delighted the fashionable audiences
ofLondon more than nifty years ago, and was the
Sims Reeves Of his time.
THE SPANISH CORTES.
Miss Kate Field, the viVaciCus and adventurous
hasvisteG the Spanish Cortes and this is what she
Tacre ts nothing remarkable about the Span
fish COrtes. Plain externally 1t has numerous we'll
furnished committee rooms, containing modern
portraits aad paintings OF no artistic value, while
its Chambers Of Deputies, arranged like an
AmphI-:heatre, is remarkable for nothing bu: its
deeds The Bourbon crown, tine Queens por-
trait, have been removed, but the great doors by
which her Majesty used to enter have never been
thrown open to the President. The odor of royalty
still clings to the Cortes. "Are you we'll be-
hsyed bodyg' I asked. The good-natured
deputy smiled, and the emable sonora replied
"Wcll behaved? They act like children. They
exercise no selfeontrOL You never in your life
heard such a noise as they make. And then how
shey use up carpets Spit! spit! spill They are
Forever splitting; and what would happen to q
Woman's SKIRTS if she came upon the hoor leave
you to imagine" Ibid the rain Of expectoration
set in with the reign of the repubIcP" sOh, no.
Il has always been. see no difference" Here
was revelation. The noble art of splitting is not
confined to the Western Hemisphere 1t is not
peculiar to republican Institutions. 1 breathe
more freely.
"GENTLEMAN" CARD-SHARPER.
SIN club life" says London correspondent,
"the particulars of terrible scandal are in every
body's mouth. A gentleman, bearing an historic
name and connected by marriage with a ducal
house in a northern portion Of the kingdom and
holding an important public post, has been re-
auested to retire from the Arlington and Mari
Borough clubs, and Will be invited to Q similar
course by the committee Of the GarrIck Club It
seems that for some time past the Of the
person in question in the card-rooms Of the Ar |
lington and Marlborough attracted attention |
and be WAS watched. At length the gentlemen
who habtually played with him were satisfied !
that by sleight-ofhand he was enabled whenever
he pleased to deal himself or partner or both 4
certain card. His winnings amounted 70 i've
thousand pounds before he was discovered. He
6as then waited upon by members of the two
clubs have named, and informed that If he did
not Immediately retire the matter would be made
public. He has accordingly retired, bnt whether
he has made restitution am unable to tate"
THE FIRST EARL Or SHREWSBURY.
According to q report from a whitechurch |
lEng) correspondent the bones Of John Talbot !
hrst Earl Of Shrewsbury, have been discovered in
the parish church Of that town, where sn urn, |
said to contain the embalmed heart Of the great |
soldier, was already known to exist. A few days |
ago, while some EOrsmen were repairing the |
monument bearing tls recumbent figure Of Tai.
bot, in the south aisle, the remains of coffin were
discovered, with a number OF bones. The rector
and church watdens carefully removed the bones,
which were wrapped in cerements Only q few Of
the Vertcbral bones were missing At the back of
the skull wss an opening, apparently caused by q
battle-axe. 1t may be remembered that while at
lacking the intrenchments ct ChatilIcn, Talbot
was dismounted and killed by q Frenchman. The
antiquarian Society, with whom the rector COM
4hunIcated. desired him to take casts OF the skull
Ind other parts Of the skeleton and Information
OF the discovery also sent to the present Earl
pr Shrewsbury and others. A coffin has been pre-
pared, and it is expected there will be public
interment Of the remains In the porch, whore the
heart is believed to lie.
THE DECAY OF THE TUILERIES.
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