The Portland daily press., 1874-06-03
Foreign Notes.

Inere are 3, ,40o,6S unmarried women III
England above the age of fifteen, who are
engaged in specific occupations, and are earn
ing money thereby.
The King of Denmark is about to visit Ice
land-is probably on his way thlther now. 1t
is expected that important changes in the
Government of the country will be inaugur-
ated on the occasion.
Several Russian papers sent special cores
pondents to England to report the incidents
of the Cars visit. This is the first time
anything of the kind has been attempted, and
is mentioned as another instance OF the
spread Of modern enterprise.
Another African explorer in the person of
Mr.. Charles New has started from England to
follow up Lvngstone's inquiries concerning
the sources of the Nile. Mr.. New is cores
p0nding member of tie Royal Geo graphical
Society and of the British and Foreign Anti
Slavery Society.
A Dublin correspondent say. that the dis
establishment OF the Irish Church seems like
ly to end in its destruction by sehism. There
are divisions between the clergy and laity in
regard to the government OF the church
which seem likely to lead to the Archbishop
of Armagh and Dublin seeding from the
Synod.
During the visit of the Gar to the Queen,
at Windsor, he took trip on the Virginia
water i'll one of the royal barges. That barge
has curious history. 1t was built in 1902,
to the command of Queen Anne, for Prince
George, of Denmark, and had certainly been
seen by Peter the Great, but very probably
NAV have been in part constructed by him
when he was working in the English dock
yard
The number of emigrants who left Ireland
being natives of that country-during the
first four months of the year, was % ,429. In
the corresponding period last year tne num-
be- was 81 1892, so that there is reduction OF
g.5ti3. The total emigration from Ireland,
since May, 1851, the date at which the col
lection OF the returns commenced, to the Both
April, 1874, was 2,275, ia persons.
The discovery has just been made in
France, at Amgny-Rouy, in the Department
OF the Aisne, by farmer named Delamotte-
Lavasseur, of 800 bronze coins, ranging from
Diocletian TO Constantine l. They were
found near the strategical road constructed
bv the Romans to connect the Suessiones
with the Viromandi, in passing by Contra
Agenum, the station which protected the
passage of the Disc.
The Convocation of London University
has, by SO against IS votes pronounced iD fa-
,y0r of the admission of women TO its degrees.
| The subject will now have TO come before
the Senate, and should that body desire to
give practical effect to the vote of convoca-
| tion, it will be necessary to go to Parliament
for new charter. But, as convocatioh con
slsts OF nearly 1900 members, the vote is not
considered of much Importance.
| A Frenchman was sentenced the other day
by the Correctional Tribunal of Paris to a
/ fine of 500 francs for writing ''Vive Napoleon
| IV.!' on the walls. He appealed against
/ the decision, and the superior court has just
| given its Judgment, and considers that the
/ ,0Nense charged against the defendant was
nothing more than a breach OF the act OF
1862, regulating the posting Of bills, and re-
,duced the fine to 200 francs.
1 According to Russian military periodical,
the reglllaS army of Russia numbered on the
/ list Of january, 1872, 2S,O76 officers OF all
1 ranks. and 732,06S non n-commissioned OIL
4 GERS and soldiers: on the 1st of January
/ 1878, the effective force consisted OF 2o ,39-
officers. and 726.9O3 soldiers, of whom 500,
476 belonged to the infantry, 62,632 to th'
cavalry, S,20S to the artillery, and l6,92z 4
| the artillery, and 1922 TO the engineers,
II sOut of 519,852 men on active service. zoo, AT
/ were in government barracks, ana tne
\ onsi,ers quartered in private houses
H "A statue of John Bunyan has been pre-
H scented by the Duke OF Bedford to the town o.
\ iBe,lfocd. and will be unveiled on the 10th o
II lime. THE statue is of bronze, 10 feet high
\ and weiqSs 81 tons. The pedestal, of gra!
\ granite, ,yyeiahs neatly At tons, and has thre'
bronze moiaiRgs in alto rilieuo that on th'
frant represeHt}ag the final conflict OF Chris
tian with Apoliyon, that on the left th'
meeting of Christian and Evangelist, ant
I that on the right his release from sin at th
fool of the Cross and Interview with angels;
| relic has turned up In the Orwell, IN the
sh,,ne of q vessel imbeddel IN the mud
IIa 4au dimensions are Is feet long ana "a lee
hoan, ne, but her depth amidships is Only feet
S,an1,h;, S.a, >us run down her centre from IN
s,a',, 1 ~, stern-both OF which are SHARP
o.en sa ~ ~ ~, H. stand at equal distances, the
therefre ao en no, It to having supported thwarl
enere,ole poi1 r., e boat only dries at very 10y
nhnr lJ[ lo"G,s P nn t is conjeetlred that she is
Danish wargaey, some %rwe ., wn d1rns @etg the sn
sssemet o. se etIsv between ,e &ng Alfred and tn
Danes in 8S5. .tment has q,
The Gesnan War ID, 'pal> the easter
dered that the fortifcaticn on course
frontier shall be completed in the timate
the present year. The plans and es, ,n.I
for these works were approved some IN. %
ago, but certain modification S nave slt.
been decided upon. At Posen the fodlnca
/ tioDs are to be on much larger scale thaI
| was originally contemplated, AM 1t IS salt
that the works at Wilhelmshaven on the lant
side will also be greatly extended. Al kiel
besides the Notifications OF Friekrchsort
two forts win be erected at Oberjagersber
and Korugen, on the right bank OF the Bay Q
| Kiel