The New York herald., 1879-08-30
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Paris correspondent of the Pal Mall Gazette
says:.-"A writer complains that every day we read
in the meteorological contained in the various
Journals that the New YORK HERALD announces a
depression which will affect the coasts OF France and
England-that storm coming from America is on
it's way to Europe. Instantly the barometer goes
down. tho winds blow. and the -ain falls. 1t is
asked how it comes that Europe sends no storms to
the other side of the Atlantic, and If King Eolus has
taken up his abode between New York and San
Franciscor
The St Petersburg correspondent of the SoieI says
that tho Russian universities there two equally
strong currents of political opinion which exercise
a prcdominating influence on the students; these
are nihilism and pansavisn, or. as it is commonly
called in Russia. Slavophilism. The slayophils are
extremely popular but are much feared by the gov
ernment. Their, leaders are certain Moscow pro-
fessors, some literary men OF ST. Petersburg. and
several journalists-notaby the members of the
editorial staif of the Nocoe lremyd
The Frankfort Gazette says that the further har-
vesting operations advance the more evident it be-
comes that the results OF the harvest in Germany
WILL on the whole, be very satisfactory In South
Germany, after the rye and barley crops had been
gathered in during most glorious weather. the
greater part OF the wheat has now been harvested
under equally favorable circumstances. IN % few
districts only the crops have been somewhat dam
aged by heavy storms sometimes accompanied with
hail, but the injury done has not been great or
widely extended.
Tho attention OF the Prussian government is just
greatly taken up with the late portentous in
crease in the number of tramps and masteress men
who throng the country districts demanding work
or bread. Arrests for vagabondagc and mendacity
have increased from $50 in 1875 and 6.S4 in 1896
to ,2OS in 1877 and 1900 in 1878. The number of
arrests has thus almost doubled in four years, and
the cost of maintaining tramps in prison amounted
last year, tor the kingdom, to 2.6O0OOO marks
S6O0oO0). The OF this unsatisfactory state of
affairs is attributed to the pressure OF tho times and
the consequent difficulty of obtaining work.
The London Erdn,,ner says.-'Tho question of
creating naval station at Port st. Olga has been be-
tore the Russian public quite six months, during
which time articles replete with information have
appeared in the Gotos, N0r0c Eremyd, the M0rSkot
.Sbor,k and dozen other Russian journals. An
article giving all the nformasion that the member
for Pembroke asked for appeared in the columns of
the Giote. The gst of this article that Vadivos-
tock being too large to be properly defended tho
dockyard to tho smaller port of 81. Olga, 30 miles
to the north. The question not to pe settled till
Admiral Tchikovskys comiiD Dssion have visited st.
Olga and made their report.
\ paper read before tho international Law Confer
in London by Sir Travers Twiss contains
novel suggestion for the establishment aud main
precodents Tor international action in the matter of
lights and lighting dues, and proposed that where
of all maritime nations they should be established
and kept up at the Joint expense, proper stpulations
being made at the time OF their establishment that
the State in whose custody they arc to remain is not
to make of its position for political or ambitious
purposes.
Tho Dnly Telegraph says:-"A fierce conflict is
raging in Bulgaria aud Roumelia between the parti-
sans of articles of headgear supposed to be typ
ical two different nationaties. The controversy
Is of kapak versus fez; aud the interests in
volved in the dispute not only of political but
OF commercial nature. The growing prcdomi-
OF the kalpak among the Buigars and the Rou-
meiiots is beiQg anxiousy watched by Austria; for
extensively manufactured by the subjects
OF Francis Joseph. and the houses which devote
themselves to thor production are becoming seri-
ously alarmed. The annual expectation OF this class
OF goods from the Austrian domi Mons has already
diminished to the extent of 900 fezzes ana IL is
feared that tho falling OF next year will DO even
greater II is significant but IT is likewise diverting
to the fez pcrverscly banished from Bulgaria aud
koumelia, and the cumbrous and ugly kslpak put
In its paco since IL Is notorious that nturies be-
fore sultan Mahmoud established the fez tho kalpak
shared with the turpan the honor OF being par exce
lencc the Mosleuf headdress."