The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-19
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Italian War Minister has ordered the cavalry
troops raised in 1884 and the troops Of IL; Hnis
raised III 1886 and 1888 discharged to nnuii'cd
THROUGH after the autumn manUnyres.
i is rumored that before very long Lord Duiiarin
VIII be transferred from st. Petersburg to Constnt-
nope, The necessity growing more and more appar-
ent that Ehgland needs an Ambassador there WHO
will not be triaed with.
London Echo;-"Did or did not Mr. Parnell term
some OF his colleagues "a cowardly set of Papist
rats Old women.' Wooden headed mlstinets' and
'Poiiticai assesr such is the important question
now being ventilated in the Irish papers"
Whitehall Reriew:-'A Missions to the jews are not
very paying speculatons The report OF the Free
Church of Scotland Mission shows that tho expense
II, l24 As head while anxious inquirer of tho
ancient faith cost the Established Church 5000.
IT, IT., the new bishop OF Jerusalem has gone
likely to be grievously disappointed"
strange coincidence is reported to have occurred
the Milan journals. cemetery was made
there in 1887. and the first interment was that of a
child named Pont aged twelve months ON the lat of
August The burial ground had lattery become too
small and new one was ordered to be opened the
LIST August and the first body laid in the ground
is that OF brother OF Ponti, aged seventy eight
years.
Several of the French newspapers have lately
planned that the German section OF the international
Art Exhibition at Munich contains too many pictures
which disturbing to French susceptibility. 1t
need hardly be said that the pictures repre-.
1901. in all OF which the French are play
ing the part OF the beaten An Austrian
journal remarks that tho French irritation has re-
called mind the irritation of the Austrians who
visited the Paris Exhibition in 1867, and were
greeted from the walls with countless represents
tions ofsthe defeats their armies by the veto.
rious Napoleon ILL. and his generals in the war OF
1859.
Kaiser Wilhelm will start tor the north of his
kingdom on the 4th of September. after reviewing
the garrison ut Berlin on the Sedan commemoration
day. to attend the autumn Manruvres OF the First
and Second army corps at Konigsberg and Stettin
rcat)e q
Berlin His Majesty will thereafter proceed south
ward to Strasburg and Metz to inspect the move
of the Fifteenth army corps. and 1t Is said.
too that he will seize the opportunity to revisit the
fateful battletelds of that border region In less
than o month the Emperor will thus traverse his
don.inions from extremity to the other. doing
work which very few men would be equal to after
passing their eightieth year.
NJ Mayoussier, old traveller and resident in
Abyssna. has recently returned to Alexandria from
Massowah He states that peace between King John
and the Egyptian government has never been signed.
and at the present moment Kasalloula and
Waldenkel. Princes OF tho Tigre. have been
ordered by King John to march with $4,000
Ailette Gomoot. Assous and the districts in the vi
cnity of Massowah, and afterward Boghos. Hatab
Barka Allied, Maria, Mansa and Galabat. The
Egyptian army consists of 300 soldiers at Massowah
and 200 at Semitic, but Colonel Gordon has left
Knartoum with 5000 men from the Soudan and
twelve cannons, by forced marches, for Semitic
King John has lately returned from the kingdom OF
Shoa to Adowa.
The following information regarding the salaries.
pensions and allowances drawn by Sir Bartle Frere
is furnished us. says the Whitehall Record. by an
official :"Pension from Indian government FL 600;
annuity retired member OF the Indian Council.
$500; Governor of the Cape Colony, f6.OOO; as
High Commissioner of South Africa. fl.OOO; rent
Africa. $4,000. Total. flO.000 year. OF this sum
81 800 comes from the revenues Of India, f6.bOO
OF Great Britain There are sundry small expenses,
such as travelling allowances. &C.. not included in
the above, but which We presume are paid proper.
tionately by the Cape Colony Natal the Transvaal
and Griqualand West Is.
The Wh,tehaH Rerieo OF the 9th inst. says:-"The
storm which the Yankees prophesicd. though some
what post-dated lost none of its force in its delay
The Orleans Club suffered perhaps the greatest
damage. The conservatory has died 'paneess'
room, with it's beautiful parquet floor is COM
pleteiy dsfaurcd the debris lying in heaps
extent 'I Of over sr' sGoo was inflicted. and tina
card players were appalled, by the deafening
uproar OF the elements and the noise of the hail on
the zinc roof which entirely drowned their voices.
Vegetable marrows cut in hair in the garden.
aud the smooth stretch Of lawn was perforated to
the depth OF two inches with clean cut ndentations
an inch in diameter"
Enormous as is the number Of crimes of the
knife committed in Italy. it is impossible to imagine
been perpetrated on tho person Of an old Dominic
can monk OF Santa Maria sopra Minerva named
by the Doria Palace. called tho vicolo Doria he
passed cabs standing in the shade, when
one OF the men about them, man he had never
seen before stepped forward and saying. lit Ia time
to finish with YOU fellows, stabbed him in the abb
domen. inhicting wound from which he died in
the course OF the night. 1t was Mt first supposed
the deed a vendetta but it is now placed beyond
doubt that the assassin had never seen the Padre
Cardon before had either directly or Indirectly
any cause OF quarrel with him. The blow was in
hicted i'll absolute wantonness.
A correspondent of the Russian Kdackas gives a
terrible picture of the sucrings OF the Tschekshljar
division Of General Lazareffs expedition. from
which the following particulars taken:-"Be-
tween the 9TH and 10th Of July eighty patients with
pital. The eye affections consisting of Inflammation
OF the membrane. are chiefly caused by the rays OF
the sun. and the constant west and southwest Winds
charged with PARTICLES Of sand, from which the skin
tents do not afford adequate protection. No one
can imagine what those men have to endure who
work in the open air who guard. The fat
and arid nature of the country surrounding Tschek
ischijar where the troops are situated permits the
sand and dust to have free course. Nose. mouth.
eyes and filled by it, and the hair has tho
appearance of being powdered.
"a trial which has just been ompleted at Kien
Affords" says the raj Mall Gasette. further evi.
dence that the nihist movement has taken pretty
deep root among the Russian peasantry 1t appears
from the report that ut the beginning OF the yeaI
1877 communes formed secret societies, with
the object OF taking possession of the land in the dis
trict which did not belong to the peasants, and d.
viding il in equal shares among the Inhabitants. The
scheme devised for carrying out this project in
yolved an attack on the landowners and the clergy
and armed resistance to the authorities. These
secret societies were well organized and notwith-
standing the vigilance of the police. rapidly num-
bered upward of thousand members. all of tho
peasant class. Eight hundred and twenty mine Of
these brought to trials two died In the hospital
escaped and the remainder sentenced to i'm
prsonment for from two to three years.
According to tho Constantinople correspondent OF
the Cologne Gazette Osman Pacha at the present time
receives as Minister OF War, f3l5 month; com
nlander n-chief of the army. another f3l5 months
an marshal OF the palace f45O. and as commanders
in-chef OF the Guard, f225 per month-recciving.
therefore, aggregate monthly wage of f1.305. His
wife also is paid $50 and each OF his two children
81 month of the private purse Of
the Sultan. Moreover for each Of the ap-
pointments no holds Osman Pacha receives .
certain number of rations daily, and the sale OF
these brings him in about f360 month. Alto
gethcr. therefore, no receives regular income OF
81. 800 month. All this monsy he and does
his whole household, wife. children and servantss
receive three meals day from the imperial
kitchens. the food being conveyed to Osman's
konak in wagon specially constructed for the