The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-04
FOREIGN ITEMS.

| 1t is rumored In Tamworth that Sir Robert
Peel is about to be raised to the peerege under
the title of the Earl OF kngsbnry,
| From the commencement OF the work on
| the st. Gothard tunnel to the end OF last
month, 100 men have been killed In 1t and
400 wounded.
The German government has at length
decided not to make any further effort to-
! raise the Great Elector. The loss Is com
puted at 81, 100000.
| Mr. babouchere will not be surprised TO
| hear some day that 81 marriage is arranged
| between the hereditary Grand Duke OF Baden
and Princess Beatrice.
| The Chateau of OhantIly is at this mo-
ment being restored by the Duke d'Aumale.
who intends that magnificent residence to-
reappear In Its former splendor.
Although the st. Gothard tunnel is opened
Its ventilation Is rs yet defective, aud ON the
third instant man was found suffocated TO
death in IT, II Ia calculated that the tunnel
will not be finished till December.
Austria, Germany and France are all on
tlptoe OF expectation, and do not hesitate TO
whisper In political circles that, should Glad
stone and his party come into power, there
will he European war In less than two
years.
Four or five enormous blocks have been
removed by order Of the Khedive from the
great pyramid for the purpose of building a
mosque This fnutllation has been severely
criticised by the Egyptians, whose faitb II
pinned to anything, is pinned to the great
relics OF the Pharaohs.
Heartrending reports come from famine
stricken districts of Armenia. In Van alone
hfty-two persons, it is eaid, have died Of star
walton. Thousands OF peasants are endeavor-
Ing to emigrate TO negbbotlng Persian
provinces, but as the roads are covered with
deep snow, many perish from cold and ex-
haustion on the journey.
Pope Leo XIII Is even more simple In his
diet than his predecessor. His breakfast con-
sists of coffee and milk and two little rolls.
his dinner OF vegetable soup, boiled beef, a
dish of etewed Or roast meat, fruit. and half a
bottle OF wine; his supper of bread soup.
called In Rome "pappa." A basket of pears
ls an acceptable present to hlm.
The oldest bishop In Catholic Christenlom
at present officiating John, Archbishop of
Tuam, to wit-has just entered his nlnetieth
year And he still sails about the wild isles
OF the West carrying his crozier and preach
ing In the native tongue; he holds his monster
stations on the hlllsides and takes care Of the
politics of his archleplseopal province
Reports from the wine districts of France
say that the extraordinary cold winter has 80
severely Injured grape vines that this years
crop will probably be very poor. The vines
pagne, have suffered most 1t Is very doubt
tul If the greater part Of New York wine
drinkers would find this out II 1t was not pub
lished.
The ex-Khedive of Egypt has left Naples
for Paris, urged thereto by q vexatious law
suit, and also by the deseTtion of one OF his
prettiest wives, Circassian Of twenty SUM
mers. From the terrace of the harem she
sped n young lazzarone on q nsighboring
terrace, whereupon to elances suceeeded
smiles, and on the strength of these loves
telegraph went into operation A few days
after she eloped with the young man.
A Norwegian paper states that some fisher
men, on the twelfth of February, found off
the coast Of an island on the western coast OF
Norway damaged railway wagon. with the
words Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway"
painted on 1t. 1t Is supposed to be one of the
wagons separated from the train which met
with the disaster on the Tay bridge. In the
carriage was portmanteau OF clothing,
Some Of which was marked "P. b"
The great Chinese rebellion, which had for
Its object the conquest of the province of Ha=
nan, and OF which Gen. Id -Yang-Tsai was the
leader virtually ended with the capture OF
customary In China to put leaders OF rebel
lions to death by. torture. The Emperor has,
however, ordered the prisoner to- be simply
beheaded and bis head will be forwarded TO
the capital OF the kingdom OF Hanan for pub
lie exhibition.
dukedoms Of Norfolk and Somerset we're
both under attainder and they are the only
English dukedoms with the exception of that
of Cornwall which date from or before her
only English mafquisate which then existed,
while the Eoglish earIdoms OF that time are
represented by those Of Shrewsbury, Derby,
Huntington, Pembroke and Devon, which are
In higher titles; and those OF Arun-
del, merged In the dukedom Of Norfolk,
Worcester, In the dukedom OF Beaufort; Rut-
land In the dukedom Of Rutland; Bedford, In
dukedom OF Bedford, and Lincoln, In the
dukedom OF Newcastle
Five Kabyle chiefs, representing the iuha-
bitants of portion OF the coast OF Morocco,
have lately arrived Mt Malaga TO petition the
Governor OF Granada and the Spanish gov
ernment to undertake the protectorate OF the
districts from which they come. Strong
hopes are expressed by the Spanish press
that the authorities will aceede to this re-
quest The annexations lately made by Ger
many, 1t Is urged, beginning with that OF the
Danish Duchies and ending with that OF the
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine; the annex
ations made by Italy from Sicily TO the Papal
States, by England from India to Cyprus,
and the occupation OF Bosnia by Austria were
all the results of more or less costly wars,
but now Spain Is freely offered a territory
with some forty-five miles of seaboard ex-
tending thirty miles Inland and inhabited by
Is 600 men, women and children.