The New York herald., 1879-07-14

FOREIGN NOTES.


Sir Garnet wolseley has gone out to zululand ex-
pressly to make peace. He said much III the
painest language ut private breakfast party just
before he started
rave of whose travels gave recently, is to lec-
ture before the Geographical Societies London and
Paris. 1t is stated that he has been offered $50 600
by the Messrs Hatchette for the right to publish his
book.
According to the Berlin correspondent Of the
Standard arson rife St. Petersburg and every
mart of Russia The town of Siszan on the Volga
has been nearly burned down. At Kef, st. Peters,
burg and Moscow persons have been arrested for
carving u clandestine trade in nhammable and
explosive materials Revolutionary pacards have
again been posted up at KieG Moscow and ST. Peters,
burg. Revolutfonists and vulgar criminals pretend
ing to be revoutionsts having repeatedly succeeded
in levying blackmail upon wealthy citizens General
Gourko has issued . decree declaring all such in
voluntary contributions to the revolutionary
chequer as reasonable
London Worid:-"Prince Rudolph, of Austria led
most exemplary life during his short stay in Paris
on his way back from Spain. His Royal and lmpe-
rial Highness travelled under the name OF Count
Hohenembs. visited the Museum of Natural His
tory-where he presented by the professors with
some stuffed birds-and spent his evenings at the
Hippodrome in the company of his uncle. Prince
Count Bombelles; his equerry, Major Bacalovtch;
his professor. Herr Brehn and his privy councillor
Chevalier Klaudy with whom he dined punctually
at six. Shall papas wrath be soothed by their re-
port OF such good boyr
The police OF Breslau have had their attention
called to the advertisement of his wares which a
death the late social democratic Deputy Bres
lau. Herr Render. The placard runs follows:- -
You earnestly requested to select Havana, Am
balema, Southieaf, Estramaduro, New Orleans Cap
Ida and Londres, Agau. Echte tgenune) smoking to-
hacco, Iarinas Echte snuff ano Rcgalia cigarettes at
krncker tobacco and cigar stores Atbusser strasse
No. 35." The capitals OF this apparently innocent
| advertisement are printed with unusually emphatic
| prominence. and little study OF this phenomenon
reveals the unexpected fact that the tobacconists 3
prospectus Is really an eectioneering piacard put
forward by the socia-democrats II the captals are
! mt be
omnous name of Hasenclever. the social-democratic
candidate. who has been commended in this un-
usual manner to the voters OF Bresau.
Kossuth has written u long and interesting letter
| to the Hungarian papers concerning the reconstruc-
| tion OF Szegedin. He draws attention to the vast
undertaking of rebuilding town tor $4,000 inhabi-
tants with all the modern appliances which will be
necessary in order &c ennaDc 1t to the i'm
portabce which it once held. Kossuth next urges
that the greatest should be taken with the
foundations or the houses. as the unsatisfactory
condition of the few solid buildings that reInaii,
shows the state of the ground. There only two
countries in Europe. he says. where the word
''home" is thoroughly understood viz. England
| English DO followed. Let the dwellers on the AL
| faed have heretofore their little homes,
however small rather than great barracks, in which
most families on the Continent are crowded to-
gcther.' The sanitary condition of szegedin is far
from satisfactory. Much smallpox, lever and even
spotted typhus prevail
London Worid.-.Cardinal Manning is the most
ascetic among the princes of the Church Il never
aud never drink. says Cardinal Grandson, and
his prototype has nearly approached similar state
! OF gastric negation. His Eminence breakfasts
early dimes lightly at half-past and con-
! cudes his day. SO far the pleasures
| OF the table concerned with a cup of tea
and piece Of toast ut seven. Naturally therefore
he does not take the dining engagements of his flock
into serious consideration when he is king the hour
for an evening meeting. circular issued last
week from ArchDshop's House, requesting the at
tendance of the laty at educational conference
be held in ST. James Hall Monday evening, at half
past seven. 10 those, says the Cardinal, who have
their time at co mmand, and hndered only by the
voluntary engagements OF society, little sefdenial
in so sacred u cause the education of poor chill
dren will, am confident, not be thought too much
for me to ask Well, we live in heroic DAYS; the
Duke of Norfolk's grandfather certainly would not
have given up his dinner.
| The Neue frcie Iressc of Vienna has been under
taking rather desperate statistical task in which IL
has not succeeded quite so well as might have been
wished. This Is - census OF the whole society OF
Freeinasons distributed over the face of the globe
The total number of members is asserted to have
cccded five millions at the end of last year. The rank
and die distributed among about thirteen thou
sand lodges. England, however, which boasts as
1 many of them any other country, does not
| appear the list of the Prcsse, which also
| oinits all mention of the society as established
/ in Holland, Belgium. Denmark and Russia.
! Tho countries mentioned afford. however, plenty
| of opportunity Tor comparing the popularity
of the association in different parts of the globe. II
il not, perhaps, surprising that China should only
be possession OF ID aud Japan of o. although Hayi
ia already able To boast of many 80, Among the
civilized countries IL that the Western are as
a rule, more prolific in Frccmasons than the others.
Thus Spain contains 800 lodges, Italy no. and Greece
no more than II. The English speaking races are