The New York herald., 1879-03-19
FOREIGN NOTES.

The departure of the Prince Imperial for Natal.
which announced to the French public by the
appearance in the papers of his letter to NJ Rouher
has not made a very great impression in France.
The Zulu does not interest the French at large.
most of whom were up to the recent disaster to the
British forces. in entire ignorance that such of
men existed
Journalism is looking up in Bulgaria. The Maritsa
and the Boigarn to be followed by the Dounarsa
Za'a. which will be brought out by Mr.. Genovitch.
at Sistova. Very shortly also will appear a news
paper at Trnova in the French and Slavonic lam
guagcs. The Naritza is an official and the Bolgars
an ant-Russian newspaper. There are now seven
newspapers appearing in the Bulgarian language.
'we have it on good authority" says the London
Examiner, 'that negotiations in progress between
the Courts of St. Petersburg and Madrid for the
sion by purchase to Russia of the Ladrone Islands in
the North Pacific. These, as Russia is well aware,
would constitute magnificent base for cruiser
operations in the China and therefore trust
that Her Majesty government will have u word to
say in the negotiations before they come to head"
NJ Rohher's paper. the Ordre says that stop
ping at st. Helena the Prince Louis Napoleon will go
to the willow. to mediate on the spot where the
Emperor rested, and ask "hs great shade for inspi
ration and counsel" "why. by the way asks the
Spectator, "has this singuary superstitous form of
idoatry always formed part of the true Napoeonic
tradition? The late Emperor was always invoking
the great shade Of his uncle who was, however,
very cold shade to him."
Respecting Lord Chelmsford the London STANDARD
says -'Something is also due to the memory of
those 500 slaughtered English soldiers. Lord Chelms-
ford has not been judged without evidence, and
whatever responsibility has been imputed to him
for the calanitous events of January % has been
imputed on the strength OF his evidence. Under
these circumstances there ought to be but
open for Her Majesty's Ministers, and but one prn
cple BY which they should; in pursuing this course
merely to supplement- Lord Chemstord's general
ship with that of an officer of the highest ability,
but they are bound also, if possible, to secure u
leader whose name aud fame can be accepted by the
whole community as guarantee of his eligibility to
the Office.
Prince Leopold, of England, has been making q
speech to students. He thinks the study of chess
good thing. He especially directs particular aten-
ton to the opening Now, he asked, is it not
true that in lte in chess it is often the opening,
and the opening only, which is under con-
troll? For the first few free, and we
sometimes fno that it will repay to sacrifice
pawn piece, as to give lis at position
which may secure us decided advantage throughout
the whole game What the trnce means !. Is DIM
pold might have instanced the late King Of Belgium
refusal Of the crown OF Greece at o time when the
kingdom of Belgium was not yet created. That was
very happy instance Of playing the Kings gambit
in actual life.''
at the annual meeting of the Society for the Re-
lief of Foreigners in Distress, held at Liverpool on
the 7h Of March, it was stated that .there had been
during the year q remarkable decrease in the num-
Der of Germans who had applied for relief. and not
less remarkable increase of Americans. The lat
ter consisted for the most part of young
men employed to attend the cattle now imported
i'll such large numbers from America. who were
paid triing for their services and discharged
in destitute condition and without of re-
turning to their native country The society had al
first relieved these cases, but had come to the con-
clusion that they were not of the nature to which
the funds of the society should be directed and had
resolved to refer applicants to the parish authorities
The Mayor (Alr. T. g. Royden). in moving the adop-
ton of the report ndorsed this action of the society
and said it to be hoped the employers of the
would i'll future take measures for enabling them to
return to America"
The silver wedding of the Emperor aud Empress OF
Austria is to be celebrated at Vienna in April next
The Austrian painter Makart is with two of his pu
pills busy sketching the costumes for grand fancy
procession which is to take place on the occasion
He is also engaged on several other sketches which
carefully kept from the eye of the public. They
have been ordered by the Emperor's brother, Arch
duke Charles LOWS, for series of tableaux vivanrs
| which are to be given in his palace il the
Favoriten strasse. These tableaux will repre-
sent out OF the history of the Hapsbure
dynasty and the actors will consist exclusively Of
members OF the Imperial family The only spec
tators will be the Emperor and the Empress. Arch
| duchess Gisela is expected from Munich purpose
to act and Hans Richter is writing the music. One
of the most eminent historians has been requested
to select the to be represented and less cele
brated author is to write poem. which will be de
livered by OF the Oldest actors of the Imperial
theatre. It is asserted that none of the literary and
artistic persons engaged in this enterprise will escape
being nude u Baron at least.