The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-18
Foreign No,es.

In WssterH Australia new tariff hss
been proclaimed which, il is expected,
will yield e200. 600 per annum.
The tombs of Beethoven, Mozart,
Gluck and Haydn in the Vienns Fried
hof are TO be covered with flowers
throughout the year, at the expense of
the c.ty, and kept in repair Us long as
Vienna is in existence.
There have been many men on the
turf IN England. TIE Rev. Mr.. King
openly kept race horses aud raced un-
der the name of Mr.. Lsunde, and the
Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley
svowedly owned aud trained race.
horses, and there have been judges on
the Eaglish bench, one of whom is
now living, who have kept and run
rsce horses.
The system of depaiionsl ltion in
Poland is, We learn, pursued with even
greater striotness by the Russian gov
ernment now than formerly. NJ. La
poushtin, Curator of Education st War
saw, has just issued degree forbid
ding the students of the university, un-
der severe penalties, to use the Polish
language, either in private or in public.
The receipts from the Slez Canal
have been steadily decreasing for the
last two years. The decrease in 1878
amounted to 1916. .000t., and during
the last nine months of the present
year there has betn further decrease G
below the average. During the last
three quarters out of 1871 shios that
have passed through the canal 760 bore
the British flig.
For the theoretically peaceful occu
patton of province the losses of the
Austrian army have been considerable.
The report on the campaign has ju.
been issued, according 10 which there
have been AZ superior officers and $50
rank and file killed. To these must be
added 40 missing, and SO officers, 22S
noDcommiss'oned officers and 2030 rank
and file, who have been swept away by
diease-Gn absolute loss therefore, OF
3443. To these must be added nearly
four thousand wounded, of whom
quarter haze been invaded. The
strength of the army at present in the
field, according to the number of ra-
tions issued, is 1913 $50.
The value of land in ireland ia so
deprecated ut this moment, says Lon
don Vanity Fair, that Ia the Landed
Estates Court, last week, Judge Flana-
gan declined 10 allow the sale of an es-
tate in RoscommOn, for which no higher
Uffer could be obtained than fourteen
years. purchase. There were no fewer
than seven estates for s4le tbat day,
November 2, but only four were sol6,
For two of these there was absolutely
no bidding. Is this the result of Mr..
Gladstone's Irish Land act or of the
state of the country2 Whatever the
and can hardly last.
In order to prove the superiority of a
republican form of government French
liberal paper furnishes the following
STATISTICS on the subject of European
| finance for the current year. The Prus
sian deficit, it remarks, amounts to 62,
| 500, O0Of., or fourteenth of the total
budget; that of Austria to 80, 900, 000f.,
or the thIrtY-frst part OF the total
budget that OF Hungary 10 As, 900, =
000f., or the thirteenth part of the
budget; that OF Holland to II, 500, 000f.,
or the fourteenth part of the budget
As for the English fl lating debt, that
has been increased by 238, 900, 000f., ;
and the theoretical equilibrium of the
Italian and Russian budgets has only
been obtained by means which leave a
very large margin for the deficits OF
the future. The state of Spanish f.
nance needs no comment. The French
surplus, adds the writer, will not be
less than 100, 900, ,000i., this year-a
fact which we are told should inspire
serious reflections among neighboring
nations.
A letter appeares in the London
Times from Mr.. Thomas Scott on the
demand for wheat and the sources of
supply. He thinks that England will
require ct least II, 900, 600 or, to supply
her wants; France wants 5000, 600 or.
Italy, 2 $50, 900 Or. Belgium, Switzer-
land, China and the West Indies, 2, 000,-
600 or, each-together 900, 900 or. /;
Austro-Huugary, Germany, Spain and
Portugal, 1000, 600 Or. each-together
5000, 600; Holland, 750. 900, or.
These show an aggregate want of 81. =
$50, 600 Or. The estimated surplus
after repeated revision up to the begin
ing of the month, are now set down as
under: United States and Canada,
"a, coo, 000 Or. Russia, 5000, 900 or.
Turkey, Egypt, India and Australia,
3, 600, 900 Or. and Algeria, 200, coo or
together 80, 200, 600 Or, which is
5, $50, 600 or, less than Is required for
ordinary consumption. This circum-
stance, he says, more than any of which
we have any record, shows clearly that
the owners of wheat are in favorable
position for holding it. Three months
ago the average price cf homegrown
wheat wss undri 40s Or nov it lie
| 39s I'd IN spite uf tie greatest Imports-
ton during ti:. !, oi two mcnths ever
known, ranging from $50, 600 to 4S0,-
600 quarters p week, which lattea
quantity is ct he rate of more than
double our total consumption.
Some new light may be expected to
be thrown upon contemporary history
by the work on which Kossuth has
been for some time past engaged.
Despite his advanced ege Kossuth daily
devotes ten hours out of every twenty
four to the work OF composition, ccm-
pilation and arrangement, for the book
he is about to give the world will con-
sist not only of his personal memoirs,
but of his political writings and speech-
es, whose name is Legion. The first
volume is announced for publication
before the end Of the present year. It
will be pursued nowhere with more
lively interest than wIthI0 the family
circle of the EmpcroT-King, in the first
year OF whose reign the great Magyar
patriot was condemned 10 death as a
rebel and compelled T. quit bis eoun-
try, prescribed end penniless exile.
The Crown Prince Rudolph is as eDthu-
siastic an admITer OF the Hungarian
language literature as are his august
parents, and Kossuth's oraiions N thar
tongue, unrivalIed for ciegsnce Of
style, are fayorite reading with the fu-
ture Hungarian King. a pleasant story
is told how, some short time ego, be
learned by mere accident that one Of
the speeches in question had been kept
back from him by bis tutor, on the