National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-11
FoRETGN NOTES.

| FOREIGN NOTES. !
The young Prince Louis Napoleon has al
ready been made the subject Of an abusive
pamphlet, which has been duly seized at Brus-
sells.
On the Gath ultimo Prince Arthur was initia-
ted as . Freemason in the Prince Of Wales
Lodge by his brother the Prince Of Wales, the
Worshipful Master Of ths Lodge.
The venerable ex-Minister, N. Guisot, has
paid q, 600 into the French National Treasury,
having learned recently for the first time that
his son had solicited and received that amount
from Napoleon III.
NJ. KstoH, editor Of the Moscow (Russia)
Gazette, Is likely to be made q prince, so that
he win be put on the social plane Of his wife,
who is BY birthright the Princess schalikow.
The Khedive Of Egypt is collecting for Il
brary which he has founded at Cairo the valu-
able Arabic manuscripts preserved In mosques
and monasteries throughout his dominions. He
has already secured so copies ofthe Koran, one
of which Is /, $50 years old.
Roman Won Rampony, an Austrian officer
and student at the University of Innsbruck,
was recently challenged by several members of
an atheistic club. He refused to fight, being a
good Catholic, and consequently has been dis
missed from the Austrian service.
of Monaco, is an Englishwoman by birth and
daughter of Letitia, sister of the great Ma
poleon, who married Sir Thomas Wyse. Mime
Rattazzi, who was one Of the court beauties of
the second French Empire, remains sever
lovely"
GEL Libro Talonaria" CThe Checkbook, } q
comedy by Senior Echegaray, Spain's present
Minister of Finance, is drawing crowded houses
at Madrid. The government creditors proba-
bly, want to get hint as to how they can draw
their checks SO that they will be honored by
Senior Echegxray.
The Duke OF Cambridge was not visible dur
ing the recent royal entry into London, and a
certain journal, remarking that the Guards
memorial was concealed on that occasion by a
Crimea, wants to know if his grace was hidden
for similar reason.
The Emperor of Germany has conferred
upon Miss Anna Thacker, of Northampton,
England, the war medal, with ribbon, and
the insignia and diploma of this decoration,
for services rendered to the sick and wounded
in the hospital at Cologne. This is in addi-
ton to the cross already received by Miss
Thacker.
/ March is the month of King Victor Emanuel.
He was born on the 18th of March, 1920; on
the 23d, 1S49, he succeeded his father, Charles
Albert; and on the 18th, 1861, he took the title
Of KingofItsly. Further, on his own birthday,
his eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince
Humbert, first saw the light In 1874.
Latest reports from the famine-stricken dis
tricts of India state that immense quantities OF
grain are pouring into Behar from the PunJsub.
An enormous transport train has started from
Patna. The number Of people employed on
the relief works approaches nearly 400, 900.
Monsignori Dechamps, Antici, Mattel, De
Merode, Vitelleschi, Nina, simeoni, and Bar
tolucci have received intimation that they will
be elevated to the rank of cardinal at the next
consistory. OF Archbishop Manning's probable
elevation we have already been apprised by
telegraph.
NJ. Ghyezy, the new Minister of Finance In
Hungary, has announced in the Diet that hi.
first duty will be to reduce the expenditure, In
order to improve the state of the finances.
This depended upon the establishment of an
equilibrium. He spurned the thought of q
collision with the other section of the empire.
In year or two 1t will be quite the style for
tourists to talk in that style of easy familiarity
they have of Irkontsk, Krasnoysrsk, Tsooroo-
hairo, and Werckreondinsk, It Is good time
to commence studying their pronunciation, as
they are stations on the projected Russo-Sy-
IBERIA Chinese railroad from st. Petersburg to
Hong Kong and Pekin.
The Grand Dukes sergius Alexandrovitch
and Paul Alexandrovitch, of Russia, have been
commissioned as lieutenants in the Austrian
army. The former is attached to tho infantry
regiment bearing the name of the Emperor
| Alexander l., and the latter to the regiment OF
lancers Of which the reigning Gar Is honorary
colonel.
| The question of continuing in circulation the
British half crown has been decided. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced
that the half crown and the two shilling piece
are still to flourish side by side. The decision
was arrived at by inquiring among bankers and
others their opinions as to the advisability OF
Withdrawing the half crown from circulation
as step towards establishing decimal cur
rency. The smallest number were in favor Of
the form or two shilling piece alone, the larger
number favored the good, old-fashioned half
crown, while the majority were for continuing
both coins in circulation. The coming of Vic
toria half crowns, Of which are none as yet, is
now in order.
The Communist Riva, writing from his place
of transportation In New Caledonia to the Paris
Petit Journal, says: hate one hen, one cock,
and five chickens. To-day, the LIST, the hen has
begun to set on fourteen eggs; on the 10th,
therefore, I shall possess one-and-twenty head
Of poultry. Thus by degrees shall come to q
poultry yard of some value. Going on quietly
at the same rate reckon that in years time
/ may have five thousand head of poultry. A
hen is now worth seven or eight francs, a cock
five or six francs. These Ave thousand will
therefore be worth about twenty-six thousand
francs, and 1 shall have reached this splendid
result in eighteen months.