The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-23
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
Gossip Gathered from Con
tinental Capitals.
FACTS. FIGURES AND FANCIEs.

Ministry OF Foreign Affairs The Car has expressed
his satisfaction with Staatsrath Giers distinguished
ana interchangeable conduct Of affairs during the
Princes Absences fact announced in the official
Journal de 81. Petersbour9
Much comment has been created in London by
Mile. Hank' sudden withdrawal from Her Majesty's
Opera The step appears to have been justified
the part OF the prima donna. Some months ago
Mile. Hauk concluded engagement with Mr. Carl
Rosa for his grand English season. commencing Mt
Her Majesty's on the 10th of January, to sing Elsa,
Mlgnon. and III the flaming OF the Shrew." The
peculiar family arrangements which now exist ut
Her Majesty's seem to have induced Mile. Hauk to
break of her connection with the Henry Mapleson-
Roze management. OF which Americans have enter
tanning memories London critics agree that Mile.
Hauk is grand acquisition for Mr.. Rosa, whose
English season promises to be . most brilliant one
letter from Phiippopolis speaks of the
it appears to have upon the officer the head
Of the militia. There was great attempt to make
something theatrical out of Aeko Pachas departure
for Constantinople. but none but officials went to
see him off, and in point of fact. his popularity
does not extend beyond these. The night before
his departure he signed decree prepared by Prince
Tchereteef. the Russian Consul General. and the
National Committee, purportng to dissolve the gym
nsstic societies and incorporating the members in
the militia reserve. thereby keeping within the
limits of the statute. But the Governor. rather
Prince Tcheretele has not thought fit to disarm the
gymnasts. the effect OF the decree Is merely to
strengthen the organization by placing 1t upon .
legal footing
London World:-''There Is once more q GOODNESS
between the Gear and the Czarewitch. Returning to
st. Petersburg. after enjoying the sense OF liberty
experienced while travelling in Europe, the Czare-
witch found the constraint OF his position particu
larry irksome. He was specially annoyed by the
presence OF the Cossack escort. which. since
Solovies crime. attends, by the Emperor's orders.
The Czarewitch rather affects the popular prince.
and. writing to his father requesting to be relieved
OF the attendance Of his escort he imprudently OBJ
served that for him at all events there
danger. This thoughtless insinuation naturally
reused the Emperors wrath. and his reply is said
not to have been too amiable. The Cxarewitch has
retired In high dudgeon to Tsarskoe Selo and was
too i'll to 60 to Moscow to meet his father"
The Moniteur Beige publishes the following esti-
Belgium yield below the average; Austria Hungary.
moderate harvest no export Of grain this year:
Russia. pretty good harvest.e5ports Of grain will
be between 100000 and 900 quarters: Ger
many. satisfactory harvest; In Prussia and Wur-
tenberg up to the average. and in Saxony
and Bavaria considerably behind it; Italy. bad
harvest Spain tolerably good; Switzerland, average
harvest; Turkey. harvest generally good; Holland,
harvest only middling; France, the harvest will be
fifteen per cent below the average; England, bad
harvest-Engsnd will require about "a. 600 900 quar-
ters of wheat moro than she has grown; United
ters which, after deducting the 200 required
for home consumption and Seed leaves 16S. 49,. 800
quarters for expectation to Europe.
London Notwithstanding In editorial lite in ST.
Petersburg Not long ago M. PolilikoK. editor Of
the M0lud. moderate journal, the organ Of the edu
Gated commercial classes. ordered to attend at
.
hour. he was conducted into the Chaucellerie. A
gendarme appeared ordered him to stand to atten-
ton, ranged himself beside him and held him by the
sleeve OF his coat. II in custody. door opened
and the frowning military dictator appeared and
thus addressed tho captive, journalist:-'Your
conduct ofs your paper has obliged to send
for you. Should I have to do SO again your
journal will be suppressed. and you viii incur very
serious personal consequences.' Next ito the gen
darme). March out and dismiss the prisoner The
Gotos. the most intelligenty conducted journal in
Tha aff m Mad nj tha nd upaoo and
verify Of his punishment. requested IN audience
with NJ Makoh. the Minister Of the Interior. He
revolutionist. cried the excited official II, replied
the journalist If am revolutionist then 80 are
oil educated Russians The Minister did not risk
any further such pertinent observations from the
editor and Immediately dismissed him."
The following celebrated authorities have by the
directors of tho Royal Prussian museums been in
cluded In the committee for awarding the Schiller
dramatic prize OF 1000 thalers. founded in the year
1859 by royal patent in commemoration Of the great
poet aud for the promotion OF his art:-Herr
Husen general intendant Of the Royal Theares Pro-
fessor II. Grimm, OF one of the famous brothers
Of the same name and occupant of the chair OF art
history; DR.. Julian Schmidt. the historian. among
other things OF French and German literature; Pro-
lessor Treitschke. the essayist and historian;
Professor Scherer. Gustave Freytsg. the novelist:
Otto Devrent of histrionic family. intendant the
Frankfort Theatre, and DR.. Forster OF the Leipsic
City Theatre premium OF $3.50. 1t is true. is not
OF itself calculated to ncite high creative efforts in
the regions OF dramatic art; yet. like the simple
laurel OF Olympia the Schiller prize is accepted with
stage piece.
Dublin Freemans .Journal-"Dire Distress sp-
pearng only In patches in the interior of the
try and on its moro favored coasts Enthusiastically
grpped In its remorseess clutches great tracts and
counties along the whole length OF the West OF Ire
land that the patches dwindle there into merely
places Of exceptional comfort. due in instances
not less to good landlords than to good land.
The sensible people who proclaim this melsn-
.aritators. are not conspirstors.: have no
private ends to serve. and would scorn to
speak or write q misstatcment. Sister Mary Vincent
Ryan. Superioress OF Clifden Convent, does not
hope to get into Parliament; Dean MacManus does
want to undermine tho constitution; Maurice
Blake. J. p. whose name lind to-day among
others to memorial to the Lord Lieutenant for aid
for the people OF the parish Of Borriscarra in
the county Mayo. Is no enemy to his class and does
not wish to wrest from his friends and relatives
their land. Yet what do this lady and these gen.
tenen sayi The nun-thst the poor young chill
dren coming faint with hunger and cold to the
schools; the Dean--that unless something be done
and done quickly for Connemara. AZ will be re-
peated in all it's original horrors of famine and pes
thence; the magistrate. signing his name with
Father Thomas. the parish priest-that restitution
Of general character is certain to bring the people
to gricvous straits during the winter and that 1t
can be averted only by State aid.
Mr.. Frederick Harrison. In m article on MARTIAL
Law in Cabul" printed In the December number OF
the FortniDhfiy Rerieu, thus characterizes modern
English warfare TN spite of the conspicuous cool
and generosity Of soldiers the fact remains
that they meet their equals or civilized foe.
generation has passed since Englishmen met in
Tight white men. aud even those were hardly of
European civilization. They never fight under the
conditions and rules OF modern war. They hardly
ever Tight with foe whom they treat an honor
able foreign enemy. They forever engaging in
battues of black skins, red skins. brown skins.
'niggers' savages of some kind. Their enemy
are almost always rebels. or 'mutincers.'
insurgents or 'marauders. with whom
they do pretend to hold the conventional laws of
warfare Our officers. therefore. aro almost always
partly executoncrs. and partly criminal police as
well soldiers They not only their swords.
but they have In their train ropes and halers.
gibbets and cats, and all the apparatus of Russian
pris oners In cold blood after all resistance has
ceased. They blow them from guns by platoons.
they hang them from the hrst tree they shoot them
In squads, they hcg them by scores they burn viii
lagos Wholesale their men knife wounded men lat
least they boast that they dol they hold drumhead
courts martial on priests ana officials they proclaim
martial law at their own tree will"