, 1875-06-19
Foreign Hens.

The failure of the BesSmer sWinging-saloOn
steamer is ascribed largely to the incompe-
tency of her commander. The two great
faults with the BesseHaer are that she draws
too much water TO enter Calais on ordinary
tides, and lacks speed.
The number of suicides in the German
army amounted in 1874 to 1913, which gives
the proportion per 1000 men Of O54 annu-
ally. This proportion is-in the Austrian
army, 0S5; in the French army, 0.5l; in
the Belgian army, 0.45, and in the English
army, OBS
In the Court of Probate, in London, there
has been tried ia which two elderly
maiden sisters made wills in each others fa-
VOr, bnt by some error one signed the will of
the other, and vice versa. One of these wills
was III dispute, and the Court declined to
probate.
\ Berlin letter recalls the fact that ga
| little more than year ago the citizens Of
the capital remember that Prince Bismarck
| said in so many words, at "A public sitting of
the German Parliament, that if he were ever
| convinced OF France arming for immediate
wax, le should deem it his duty not to ALLOW
the enemy to choose his own time for attack.
4 remarkable lundslip has just occurred at
Konigshutte, near kartowi;z, Bohemia. The
| strata lying between the Kug and Erbrcich
coal-pit shafts fell in with terrible crash on
| the works beneath, TO the depth of 500 feet
beneath ihe surface, and over an area of ten
acres. Fortunately no lives were lost, as ii
Was Sunday, and no one was IN the mine.
The number of dogs in Paris, calculated
I a.
| 600 that - TO say, 50 many pay the duty.
But 10, 600 more are supposed to live IL the
streets without home or master. The COM
| putation as to the whole of the race in France
| has not as yet been made accurately, but All
| approximate estimate gives total Uf over a
| million.
Lord Mayo .ritcs TO the Tall Hal Ga-ctte
| that, under the rule of King Johannes, Of
| Abyssinia. the rebels III that country have
been wholly subjugated. and the natives
pursue their avOcatiOns in peace; that the
| reports of threats by AbysSinians to murder
the missionaries are baseless; and that the
people are amply able TO protect themselves
| against any incursions from Egypt.
4 discovery of treasure has just been made
at Courbevoie, near Paris. \ labOrer named
BRONX. while digging the foundation Of a
wall in the Avenue de St. Denis, near the
site of a former Convent Of Ursulines, found,
at depth of about foot below the floor Of
a cellar, two small boxes, one containing -
| cold pieces of IS livres, bearing the image
! of Louis XV., and the other 5S7 silver coins
of 6 livres, of the same ana the following
reign, the whole forming a value of about
1000 francs, to the half of which the finder
is entitled.
A pastoral letter by Cardinal Manning and
the Bishops of the province Of Westminster
was read in all Roman Catholic churches and
chapels in London on the 9Th of May II
calls attention TO what 1t terms The oPPres
| sive laws which have been made against the
liberties of the church in Germany and
Switzerland, and directs that copies Of de-
claration of the Bishops of Germany, in an
swer to the circular dispatch Of the imperla
chancellor on the next papal election, and al
eneyclical letter from his holiness the Pope u
the Prussian Bishops, shall be placed IN th'
hands Of the faithful