The New York herald., 1879-03-28
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Council Of tho Royal Geographical Society of
England have presented memorial to Her Majestys
of Cambridge and to the government bodies of each
university, urging upon them the importance of
tanv q STRANGE FACT that IN EnSand with business
ramfcations and colonial possessions in every part
of the world. the science OF geography has been
systematically neglected in the public schools and
entirely ignored at every university In the United
Kingdom.
The members of the Buda-Pesth Boat Club will
hold their regatta on unusually grand scale this
year and have invited the .Donau Hort (the Vienna
Boat Club to compete in the friendly contest. Both
these societies. which have been founded some ten
twelve years, get many OF their best boats from
Searle English manners. boating language and
dress are closely initiated as possible. and even
training is attempted far is compatible with
beer and tobacco, which, most boating men who read
this will say, is not very far Baron Walterskirchen.
the well known politician, is president OF the Vienna
Boat Club, which boasts three Englishmen among
its forty members. Excursions Of several days dura
ton made as far up stream as Regensburg and
far down as Pesth.
The 81. Petersburg Gazette gives the Russian tax
payer gratifying account Of the cost OF an impe.
rial nursery The household of His Imperial High
ness the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrowitch. aged
four mouths is limited to fifteen people, Of whom
alone the English nurse receives l,143 roubles and
1925 roubles are allowed for His Imperial High
ness table. Considering the price of pint of milk
His Imperial Highness must be well supplied. un-
Emperor Nichoias. TO mention one of a hundred
similar instances. 1t happened that the Emperor
asked one day for some tallow for application to
rial household investigated an item of 100 pounds
Of taliow which appeared in the weekly accounts Of
the Emperor's personal necessities; whereupon it
was discovered that for ten whole years this amount
had been charged weekly. Had not HIS Majesty once
used half An ounce?
A few weeks ago the trial Of another batch Of
nihilists opened at Charkof in Southern Russia
III. de Jomn young noblelnan or twenty-six, the
principal accused. is charged with the murder of Q
detective engaged in transporting the Polish po-
Htcal offender, Woinaralski 1t appears that year
ago Jomin and some accomplces. having put
military uniform to enable them to travel unino-
lested attacked the gendarme and his colleagues on
the public highway, killing one wounding others
and setting free the prisoner escorted by the ser
be acting member of the Central Rovolu-
tionary Committee in Southern for Little,
Russia. whose purely Slavonic inhabitants are
leading the movement against the institutions
created by the northern half. At the trial Jomn de-
clined to answer the questions Of the judge He was
taken back to prison to be chastised for his rec-
sancy The large number OF nihilst ladies' and gen.
temen recently arrested at Kief after sharp light
with the military will probably be sent to Siberia
without the preliminary formality of trial. Among
them are Mlle Olga Rassovska. who killed the gem
darme that the first to enter the room where the
consprators met; Mile. dc Gersefeld. the daughter
OF General Gersefeld who fred her revolver at tho
them like so many dogs. and Countess Panin the
daughter of lady in waiting to the Empress. Ar
rests continue. especially in Southern Russia.
..The Russian press" says the London Globe '.is
taking ADVANTAGE OF the jubilee of the Polish na-
tiona writer Krashevsky, 70 advocate rdpproche-
men between the two countries. and the suggestion
Savonic Congress should bo organized this year at
Warsaw. The last attempt of this nature was the
Slavonic Assembly at Moscow in 1861. promoted by
Prince Tcherkassky, at which strong endeayors
made to patch up the feud between the Polish and
Russian writers but the brualites marking the fu-
tile revolt three previous still fresh in
the minds of the former ind consequently the only
result OF the meeting increased bitterness the
part OF the Poles and sterner rcprisas exaeted by
the Russians. Tho destruction of the French power
i'll 1870 helped largely to lessen the hostile feeling.
throughout the late Poland maintained the
most perfect tranquility, and further repetition
of the revos of the past would appear to be hey
the range ofihuman probability. On this account,
therefore, the Russian press would have the Slavo-
philcs OF Moscow rally round the veteran Polish
writer and take advantage OF his jubilee to cement
the alliance between the rival natiops. That this
would be to the advantage of both countries is OBJ
vous, but at the same time Europe will hardly for
get that the reconciliation will not be with the
Poles of yore, but with bruised, inanimate nation.
atty, the Intellect and force OF which have been
dispersed and wasted in exilo.abroad."