Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-30
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes.
Count Arnim, on the eve of his re-
cent condemnation, sold to his son his
last remaining great estate in Prussia
for 5000, 900.
Don Carlos has been refused per-
mission to live in Paris or even France,
and he will travel in Belgium and Swift
zerland. 1t gave Alfonso the headache
to have him SO neal Madrid.
A private letter from London a y
that E. d. Winslow, the Massachusetts,
forger, is still living near the Strand,
and occasionally visits Bowles's Ameri-
a Exchange. He has a beard, and
looks like his former self, but he evil
IDENTIFY feels his lost position ~acutely,
and says that his mental suffering in
prison was terrible. 2
The death of the Duchess of Aosta
is announced at San Reno. For a few
months, with her husband, Amadeus,
she occupied the throne of Spain, and
it was one of the current reports OF
Italy that her ambition led him to &C.
cept the troublous Spanish crown at the
hands of Gen. Prim. The Duchess was
a young woman at her death, in her
Doth year, and was of the princely house
of Cistema, her mother being a Countess
of Merode.
One more knave, sailing under
American colors, has been sent to
Coventry by the English courts for
playing upon the confidence of amiable
people in that island. Charles Howard
by name, Count Won Howard, Herr Won
Howard-Seefeld, and various other
names for convenience, according to
the place of his operations, was lately
detected in a novel kind of swindling,
the bases Of which was a last will,
drawn in favor of the intended victim,
of which the swindler protested to have
exclusive knowledge. Two respectable
gentlemen were taken in by this ro-
mantle device, and cheerfully paid over
the money demanded, $4,000 each, be-
fore seeing the promised will.
Careful investigation points to the
conclusion that the gendarme lately
found dead on the railroad between
Client and Brussels was not killed by
the criminal whom he was conveying
from London, as at first supposed.
There were no marks of a struggle in
the carriage. Meeus, the gendarme, is
known to have been very sick i'll cross
ing, and it is c~onjectured that he went
to sleep in the train, when his prisoner
contrived to steal the papers relating to
his extradition, and then leaped out.
Meeus awoke, and almost instantly fol.
lowed, but far less adroitly, and was
killed. The police have traced the
prisoner some way, and discovered tc
whom he sold his watch, but at last &C.
counts he vas still at large.
Sir Stafford Northcote, who is now
to assume the leadership of the British
House of Commons, and perhaps very
soon that of the Government, is So. He
is of very ancient family, and his bar
onetcy dates from the reign of Charles
/. His seat is at Pynes, Exeter, Devon
in which county his family has beer
seated for centuries. He is a kindly
man, extremely quiet and domestic il
his habits. His aspect is agreeable, bu
he is very short sighted, and almost al
ways YEA spectacles. Sir Statfort
has a fortune of about $4,000 a year
He has seven IONS and daughters. HI
is now going to live in the official resi-
dence of the Chancellor of the Elk
chequer, in Downing Street. Only thre
or four of the Ministers have officia
residences, and they, with the excep
ton of the First Lord of the Admiralty
rarely live in them. The Foreign Sec
retary has no official residence, but tn
new Foreign Office contains splendi'
suites of rooms for entertainments.