The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-15
FOREIGN NOTES.

Watkins is to have baronetcy or course this will
nominay be the result Of the recent royal visit to
Irimsby.
1t may not be generally known that the govern.
ment OF the Isle of Man spend over 10000 year.
About $4,000 year goes in "Civil List and SINH
lar amount is spent on lawyers and police.
The name of "Carey" is not very popular with
some people in France just now, for il is rumorel
that several families who bear it have applied to the
government FOR authority to change the designation
for something else.
The submarine cable for the Caspian Sea has Just
arrived at St. Petersburg. 1t is slowed in five boats,
sixth containing accessories and kitchen and din
ing room tor fortyfve persons The boats will pro-
coed by the Neva the Mary Canals and the volga to
Astrakhan
is not only anxious to have the cenotaph. but would
have been glad to have had the Imperial corpse
itself. As custodian of the Abbey he has a craving
for all notorious corpses, and is known familiarlY
among his friends OF the cathedral The body
snatcher.'
Lord Justice Bramwell made shrewd and sensible
speech at Leeds i'll summing up breach of promise
case:-"The man had changed his mind. That was
pity; but was it not infinitely better that if man
changed his mind, either because he had found
lost love, or because he found person he pre-
ferred better. to marry that person than to marry
possibly he might go wrong? II they decided to
give damages he hoped they would not give such dam
ages would terrify men into marrying where their
consciences told them they ought not"
Nearly seven hundred years ago-thet is to say, in
1854 sturdy Teuton, named Wittelsbach was cre-
ated baron of the Holy Roman Empire and granted
the barony Of Bayern. The llneal descendants OF
Wittesbach succeeded each other as time rolled on.
and as their possessions extended, until in 1879 We
hnd Wittelsbach still holding court In the lands
and halls Of his fathers under the style and title Of
King OF Bavaria In $780, the sixth centennial
brated by jubilee at the Monastery of Scheyern.
where the bodies of 100 male Wittelsbachs are
crumbling to dust.
The French Chambers were not prorogued on
August l, expected. There was scene" in
the Senate during the discussion of bill depart
mental training colleges for schoolmistresses. M.
hos oil hAv hnnfNr tnn 1s-
signed to supersede nun teachers in elementary
schools M. Jules Ferry asked why there should not
turning to the Right. you conceal dark designs"
The Right rose and demanded o call to order; but
M Ferry told them their anger proved the truth Of
of the Right left the building and the bill passed by
159 TO 109
In the neighborhood OF Rotcnburg, on the Fulda.
Germany, the geologist Dr. Moesta. has discovered
subterranean oak forest at depth OF eight feet
under the ground. The number OF well preserved
bog oak. in consequence of the influence of water
for centuries but it is hard and sound and forms
excellent material for wood carving and mosaic The
size OF the trunks is astonishing One OF them.
about eighteen metres in length and 150 metres in
nss rof osss IN h
longs to very remote period in the formation OF
our globe.
London TruM:-"Accordng to the Times the Ule-
mas have pronounced that Khereddines programme
contrary to sacred law. These Uiemas very
convenient personages When the Turks first con-
trary to u text in the Koran. The matter was re.
ferred to the Ulemas The text, they replied, for
this we may take their money. provided that we do
not pay tor the accommodations and it must be ad-
mitted that the Turks nave most religiously acted
upon this view or the obligations of borrower.
Everyth observed the able and cynical Grand
Vizier. Fuad Pacha lis to be found in the Koran IL
only you understand how to interpret its texts"
London Echo:-..Ihe menacing advance OF Rus
sian army toward Merv is not making the rapid
progress which was anticipated. Difficulties Of
transport present similar obstacles they did to
the British forces in Afghanistan. Ii the pressure
which is being brought to bear by the agents of the
Car on Persia to obtain her consent to the use OF
her territory for the passage of troops should sue
coed. the Russian advance would be greatly facili.
tated. 1t is inferred. from recent kilograms. that
English infuence is being exerted to prevent any ar
rangement of the sort. Persia is to-day very much
in the position OF Aghanistan in 1877 and the Shah
finds it hard to decide between the two Powers. IL
he makes friend of Russia, En- gland is sure to feel
offended, and vice versa.
The French Maritime Society has devoted one Of
its meetings to discussion of the projected Sihara
Railway M. Soleillet stated that canal between
the Niger and the Senegal would be
more feasible undertaking than railway.
This would necessitatc the removal Of tho
bar Mt the mouth of the Niger. NJ. MCCARTHY
considered that the projected railway would be OF
great utility to the population OF the Soudan, as it
would reduce the journey from five months to two
days. M. MacCarthy likewise said that the estimate
of the Sahara population greatly exaggerated.
Tamassinine which represented as a town, con-
tanned only single house, and the tribe OF Tona-
regs, who occupied 20O000.O00 hectares OF the
Sahara. did not number 100000 souls. NJ. MacCar-
thy described the Sahara u stony plateau, inter-
sected with downs of sand.
London Echo asks that statue be erected in
Westminster Abbey for Oliver Cromwell. 1t asks:-
lis not the present favorable opportunity for
doing honor to the greatest statesman that con-
trocd the destinies of country? The royalism
of former days desecrated Cromwells grave and
flung his dead body into ditch The said royal
ism. conformity with the funkcyism OF the present
day. is even proposing to insult Oliver Cromwclls
grave, anu the French Republic ut the time.
by setting up monument to the so-called Prince
Imperial Why set up memorial of this small
man among our great menp But II they will
set up this craven image over Cromwell's
now to put u statue of that great aud good man
over his own grave? The two side by side would
form admirable contrast The figure Of tho
young man who did nothing for our country would
make adm rable back ground to the figure OF that
heroic Christian who in his day did everything for
IT"
titled 'fhe Netherlands Incorporated with Ger.
many" which has caused no small sensation in
Dutch circles The ostcnsible author, certain M.
Nori, ex.member of the Dutch Lower House. busiea
himself with the difficult question OF the succession
to the Orange throne and would fam sketch out the
future programme of his native country. Sin.
gular TO say. NJ Nori has but poor opinion
OF it. Both at homo and abroad, he argues.
tho Netherlands have become powerless and
havo almost lost the right TO be regarded ~ an
independent State Among his Infatuated country
men, he sadly admits there is decided prediction
for France, but hope cannot come to them from
Paris, nor salvation from the banks OF the Seine.
ethnic origin, Holland belongs to Germany, and il is
high time for the Dutch people to reconcile them
selves with the thought of being incorporated with
or annexed by their great Teutonic neighbors. Tho
book is thought to be pilot balloon"
London Spectator: fall OF khaireddin Pacha,
reported this week from Constantinople, is a very
important event. For the second time Grand
Vizier. backed with more or less earnestness by
all the European Embassies, has attempted to
limit the ssmi-sacred authority of the Sui
tan. and for the second time the failure has
been complete khaireddn, like Midhat. was very
able man, and, like Midhat he appealed to the re-
forming party only 70 learn. like Mdhat, that this
party has no strength. Popular power III Turkey.
such as IL is. remains with the Old Turks, who are
led by the Ulema. which latter cannot, IL they
would. declare the khaf less than absolute with
khareddin falls, according to one generally trust
worthy authority, very great scheme. An Arar
and Tunisian he had idea IL Is said. OF sacri.
fcing the European dominions OF the Sultan and
| compeuaatinp him Inv rpviviup his authority