The New York herald., 1879-07-27
FOREIGN NOTES.


ysn." and, as general corrective. the hqueul
"Marche-Droit."
Gad's Hin Place. the famous residence of Charles
Dickens has at last found purchaser The histori,
house near Rochester, is gloomy old place. and i
has boen in the market for a long time The new
owner is Captain Austin Budden. of the Twelfth
Kent artillery.
From fl20 to fl30 is being offered for singl,
lecture by DIR. Talmage. all expenses paid. BY tn,
way, DR.. Talmase described the Saturday Reetee'
article upon him as comparable to nothing but
little dog baying the moon. 1t pleased the dog ant
did the moon no harm"
The Pstite itatiique Fyancaiss says that the jury
acquitted A. Paul de Cassagnac because 1t regarded
the accused AS unworthy of the rigors OF justice.
This theory would lead to but one logical result
None but honest folk that is say, non-g gulty per
sons. would ever be condemned.
More than twenty thousand objects were found
during tho Exhibition at the Cham Mars and III
the Trocadero Palace Very few OF them have been
claimed. Notice is given that they will be kept at
the Lost Property Office ut the Prefecture of Police
for another year and then sold by auction.
1t will be remembered that the cable announced
that great placard written in Flemish was found
July posted on she Palace of Justice in Brussels
1t ran The law OF the schools is signed; Let us
now stab the King for God and the Fatherland y
This is The second time within few weeks that the
King has been threatened
Tne British Meteorological Office. says the Echo.
''dctermined to leave no stone unturned in its en-
deavor to show that it is really worth the money ex-
pended upon il, is about to send gratuitous tee-
to agrcuituriss in various parts of the coun-
try. with the view of guiding them in their hay
making operations. Tho Office asks i'll return an
honest opinion to the value OF the prognostlca-
tions sent.
the abolition or the seat in the army, recalls the
TACT that it's founder. Mr.. Thomas Wakley formerly
NJ T.. for Pnsbury, the first who seriously ques-
toned the practice in the celebrated Hounsow case
should not be forgotten however. that it was FOR
aenouncing tho inhuman logging Of militiamen at
Ely that William Cobbctt, i'll 1870 was condemned to
TWO years Imprisonment in Newgate and line OF
fl.O0o.
poet actually soaring in the clouds is sight
<bat nnya a,3a all riS aces
heavenwards had they only been aware OF the phe-
nomenon. However, on July o. at hve O'Clock IN
the afternoon, Victor Hugo, accompanied by his
family and suite of twenty-five friends and ac-
quaintances ascended in the captive balloon to the
full extent of the cable The illustrious poet will.
of course. write stanza the subject and proba-
bly, letter to the proprietor OF the BALLOON
The official documents IN the Egyptian question
show that protest against this policy Of the
Khedve came from Germany. The next to protest
Austria. England followed Austria and France.
Russia and Italy came after England. But II our
government late its protest certainly strong
enough. Lord Sasbury's despatch. which for lit
crary skill will take rank with his celebrated San
Stephano protest is a most withering nvective,
cusng lsmal OF crimes in which breach of faith.
mendacity and treachery are secondary details. The
despatch is undoubtedly clever.
1t may be some consolation to disappointed as
pirants to the Legion OF Honor to know that
siderable number of the members OF the Institute Of
France have not the slightest scrap Of red at their
buttonholes. The following is list of the non-
decorated:-Mr. Emile Littre. Mr.. Dufaure. Mr..
Henry Martin, Mr.. Emile Olivier Mr.. Duvergier de
Alr. le Due dc Noaiiles. Mr. 10 Due d'Audiffre,-
PasQueicr, Mr.. Jules Fayre. Some of these sys-
tnmatic puritans, others grands seigneurs, who
would not accept an order created by "roturicr."
Indifference and pride influence the Others.
FetiDg the Tooth representation of play has be-
come subject on which imagination tries to over
step its bounds. Olenbach invented the supper.
with its matutinal prolongations, into the mid
die OF the next day People ran the supper for
ten years, and then Ofenbach introduced dljeaner
with terpsichorean prolongation toward evening.
Mr.. Edouard Paileron celebrated the 1GOth night or
the ''Age Ingrat" last week by hiring a steamboat
and taking oil the artistes and his friends down to
lie Pecq. near ST. German. Potel and Chabot served
lunch. The ladies' thought of being seasick. and
the weather turned out squally. In ordinary years.
when July is sunny month. the picnic would have
been very enjoyable.
Alderman baron. who had been playing heavily at
"makao," at the Pesth National Casino, aud had
during few months. won $4,000. was discovered
cheating few weeks ago in u very curious way. He
always appeared anxious to .'take the bank" by
which means he, OF course, always dealt. lie kept
down the pilo OF bank notes in front OF him with
his polished silver tobacco box. He dealt this.
aud could thus the cards he dealt his players
hected in the lid OF his box! certain general of
the staff observed this and begged for the loan the
box to roll cigarette. This request he frequently
repeated, and observed that when the box was away
the baron had variable luck, like the Others The
lucky gambler, we'll known racing and OF ex.
celent family, Is TO be prosecuted as q common
swindler.
French republicans do not disguise their displeas-
ure ut the sympathy shown IN England for the
Prince Imperial and tho sorrowing Empress. They
regard he expression of these feelings political
demonstration i'll favor OF the Empire. ana the ar
rangoments for the Princes funeral will strengthen
this suspicion. "But." says the Paris correspond
ent of the ItneS ga little reflection would show that
Englishmen have been moved only by a sentiment
of personal conmiseraton, and that. considering
the circumstances of the they would have been
deemed unfeeling had they not expressed pity
which is evinced, moreover, all over Europe A
friend who passed through Germany . few days ago
tells me that he in Berlin shop window . wax
work figure of the late Prince. and that snorn-
ing to night sympathetic crowd collected before IL.
Certainly no one would suspect the Germans Of q
political sy mpathy for the Prince Imperial"
About six months ago a young BRAZILIAN aged
nbout twenty-e:ght arrived i'll Paris from Rio Ja-
neiro. lie called himself Ferdinand Cos tales, and
gave himself out as doctor rich enough not to prac-
tice. or q pleasing exterior, and provided with
authentic papers and letters of credit and introduce
tou. the young Brazilian penetrated the srions of
the noble taubourg. He indefstg gable dancer,
al agreeable talkei aid always welcome after these
lie used to 90 the boulevard restaurants, and
carry. on tho gaycty through the night. Tho
brazilian always wore his hair pasted over
his forehead and temples at all hours the day and
the night Mr. Costaes was supping in company
with two girls and u fourth person at one OF the
boulevard rosta urants. The fourth person. tegning
drunkenness, put his fngers through the hair of
CostaIes. The latter rose furious and very soon
left the room. The next morning he arrested ut
his house. Tho fourth person was % detective who
had suspected Cosales to be a certin NORM. who
had escaped from New Caledonia. The cicatrice dis
covered under the hair conclusive The noble
laubourg has once more received Vautrin into its
bosom.
Hese is hint for the superintenoents of American
nfndhOuscs. The innovation has been introduced
recently in the great Vienna establishments. A
Autographed newspaper. published in the institu-
ton, is contributed to by the inmates Those
patients for whom this slight mental excrtion can
only be beneficial send articles and essays on the
questions of the day and 1t is only fair say that it
would be comfort to realcrs some OF the matter
published in the Vienna nowspapcIs, by people gen
orally considered sane, were clever and well
wrtton as some of these letters. Those who
hcted with any monomana may vcntilate their telu-
sions and support their convictions by argument and
example In the columns OF this extraordinary paper
The logic employed in article in mt nu IA Der
lsays correspondent by gentleman to disprove
the belief of another that his beard OF heather
and required constant Watering fauitless and
incis,vc as to have done credit to Rogius professor
OF moral philosophy. Alas he himself firmly be-
Eevcd that his nose was mado uf sugar and to pre-
vent its getting wet. and consequently melting
away. always drank through straw. Had he only
boon able to apply his logic to himself he would
have bcen curcu.
OBITUARY.