The New York herald., 1879-11-16
EUROPEAN TABLE TALK:
Gossip from Clubs, Cafes
and ConditOrein.
KIN GS IN E X IL E.
Princes and Bull Fighters, Ministers and
Ladies of Fashion.


with him at varzin for few days. for the Prince
seeks the aid Of this trusty doctor at every little
ailment. =.
A letter from Sgnor Blanchi, Of the Milanese Com
mercial Expedition. states that King Johnof Abys-
snia has detained as prisoner the Catholic Vicar
Apostolic in the Gallas country-Mgr. Massaia-whom
King Menelek had sent to him on some mission.
Signor Blanch had not been allowed to see the pris
oner. who, however. is not in danger Of anything
worse than expulsion.
London Worid:-"Frascuelo. the torero whom all
Madrid escorted the other day to his grave is stated
to have left q fortune OF close upon fs0.000 ex-
elusive Of a fine mansion In the Spanish capital:
diamonds or the latter set of buttons alone.
with which he was presented by the ex-Queen
aeea @ at the c,oss 70 q m rsa Is
occasions. embroidered with silver and pearls. cost
him 1000 reals
NJ. Gambctta took formal possession. on the 4th
inst of the Palais Bourbon for the French Chamber
of Deputies, and attended by Vice President Senard
the questor, and the secretaries and several Depu
ties, visited the house in every part The President
down in the chair and tried bell to il it
was sufficiently resounding. secretary mounted
tho tribune. and road a paper to try the acoustic
cient. but the just observation made that in an
empty house the effect of speech in full one can
not be judged. .
NJ. Emmanuel Crezzulesco. formerly Roumanian
Envoy at Paris, has published pamphlet entitled
Lies Israelites en- Roumanie in which he cites tho
treatment OF the Jews in other countries in justhca
ton Of the refusal to nsturalize them masse Be-
ginning with England he reminds Lord Beaconsheld
that he would still be plain Mr. Disraeli had not his
father embraced Professionalism (sic that Baron
Rothschid was for eleven years excluded from Par
lament and that certain high offices are still closed
against the jews although they only number 10000
i'll population of "a 000 while Ireland owing to
its poverty. has only sixtvthree The Unirers. COM
Iand and regrets that the Jews have been admitted
in France to the full rights of citizenship.
With respect to the rumored visit of the Emperor
Alexander to the Berlin Court, the semi-ofhcial
No,ddeutsche Alge,neine Zeitung. in letter from ST.
Petersburg. publishes the following intelligence
ceiyed here lin st. Peters6ure our monarch intends
to remain during considerable portion of the
month of November still in Livadia. His Majesty
contemplates then paying visit to the Empress at
Cannes in the south OF France, and thence returning
hither ito st. Petersburg) at the beginning Of
the traditional the festival of the Order Of St.
George is to be celebrated in former in the
ander his journey to from Cannes will take the
route through Berlin 10 not yet known in this city,
The story which has appeared in organs of the
press to the effect that on our sovereign calling at
Berlin the Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy
would likewise meet him there is declared at St. Pc
tersburg to be perfect myth"
The Vienna correspondent of the London Globe
says:-'Graf Zichy Farraris has challenged Prince
Batthyani for expelling kim from the Pcsth Jockey
cluC for cowsrdice. in having refused % to hght As
scandal of this summer will be remembered in
which Asboth accused the Count of dishonesty in
his post of secretary of the Finance Ministry
Zichys defence was lame, and consisted principally
of abusive retorts. whereupon Asboth-who is also
q member Of Parliament-calied him out, sugges.
ton which was. however. declined with thanks
Zichy plays the re-eater. and challenges Prince
Batthyani President of the Jockey Club. who de-
clines to fight with seconds on the field, as he
siders his adversary unworthy of such an honor
He at the same time declares that. be the result of
honor remains patent to all the world. In view Of
these unsatisfactory and 1t must be ackno wlcdged
rather unhattering conditions tho Count has with
drawn his challenge"
London Word:-''The statement that has found it's
way into some of the English papers respecting
Prince Hatzfedts intended marriage with the sister
of the circus rider recently welded to Prince Reuss
is pure fabrication. Prince Hatzfeldt, who would
not make such fool Of himself. is one OF the most
popular and respected patrons of the German and
Austrian turf and besides keeping select stud of
horses in training has few superiors gentleman
rider. both on the nat and across country Tho
Prince is equally well known in England. where
he intends to pass most of the forthcoming
must be familiar to all frequenters of Baden
Baden races OF latc years. and an amusing circum-
stance has come to my knowledge that will afford
sort OF cew to his recent notorious escapade.
At the Baden meeting of 1876 the Prince purchased
Count Tassclo Festetics' famous team of Hungarian
jnkers and forthwith tclcgraphed Paris for an
perienced coachman who in due presented
HIMSELF An engagement was speedily formed. and
turn to Paris and arrange his affairs which
ishcd the Prince that the latter exclaimed "A fort
night Why. shall most likely be in want Of .
situation myself by that time"
London World lit is no mystery that hers 10
the likeness attempted by NJ. Mphonse Daudet In
his novel just published with such considerable
cess. Los Rois Exil' She bcars in 1t the trans-
parent pseudonym of the Queen OF ilyria The
work. by the way. is q very clever and Interesting
one; and while carefully avoiding the coarseness
. graphic account of the realities OF
fast life in the higher circles Of cosmo-
acters introduced in the book already current,
tho with the previous novel OF the author.
lie Nabab;' but it is perfectly obvious to the init
ated that the intention Of tho writer was by no
means to limit himself to tho portraiture of living
sna .at the s sons at pm1g
title Of Queen of nlyria;. Don Carlos as
as tho Duchess do Malines'-are entirely
taken from life. But many others-like the King
of Palermo. the infant. the agent Tom Lewis. the
broker 'Lemarey and the dethroned prince himself
whose weakness and vices rests tho chief burden
OF @ the ar.ms.ars pnrposeiy creatures Of fiction
living models NJ Daudct has thus happily
cschowed the danger of falling into libel carca
nizable. while the others. true and masterfuliy
drawn they are could be said to correspond
exactly with any historical ngure."
STRANGE STORY.
'Not long ago." says the London Daily Telegraph,
ga we'll known collector OF curiosites In Par.s who
had devoted considerable sums of money to the
gathering together OF bank notes of all countries
and all values. became the possessor OF q Bank of
England Ave pound note to which an unusually
strange story was attached. This note paid
Liverpool merchant's Office in the ordinary way of
business sixtyone years ago. and its recipient the
cas- hcr Of the firm, while holding 1t up to the
light to test it's gcnuineness noticed some FAINT
red marks upon It which. on closer examination,
proved to be scmi-effacod words scrawlcd in blood
between the printed lines and upon the blank margin
of the note. Extraordinary pains were taken to
deciphcr these partly obitcrated characters, and
eventually the following sentence was made out:--
IF this note should fall into the hands Of John Dean
of Long Hill. near Carlisle he will learn hereby that
his brother Is languishing prisoner In Algiers."
Mr.. Dean was promptly communicated with by
the holder OF the note, and he appealed to tke
government OF tho day for assistance in his
endcavor to obtain his brothers release from
The prisoner. who, as 1t subsequently
appeared, had traced the above sentence upon the
note with splinter Of wood dipped In his own
blood. had been slave to the Dey of Algicrs for
eleven years, when his strange missve first attracted
attention in Liverpool counting house. Ills family
and friends had long believed him dead. Evontu-
ally his brother, with the aid OF the British
authorities In the Mediterranean succeeded ia ran
soming him from the Dcy and brought him home
to England. where however. he did not long survive
his release his constitution having been irrcparnbly
inimred by oxposuro priYationa aud forced labor in