The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-01-25
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIA-N .--January IS, 1873
FOREIGN ITEMS.

her hair being but slightly touched with gray.
In the area within twelve miles of
Charing Cross, London, the population is 4S0O,-
OO0, while twenty years ago 1T was 100000.
That is, three Liverpools have been added with
in that area in this short time.
The best foreign authorities now
count the population of Europe at 100000,
or nearly treble that of the palmiest days of the
Roman Empire.
Mr.. Gladstone, the Prime Minister
of England, recently declared in the House of
Commons that the entire extent of his patron
age the appointment of his own private
secretary.
THE FRENCH PRESS govern
ment has at last commenced proceedings against
obscene publications which have of late assumed
proportions unexampled under any previous
regular government New papers, illustrated or
otherwise, are daily cropping up, the solespecia'
ty OF which is the publication of immoral articles
or Designs and without energetic repression
there is no telling to what length the thing
would go. Even large sized papers have owed
their rapid success to this class of literature, and
found subscribers in all sections of the Pa lslan
world; and working girls and women may every
morning be seen on the quays in the most popu
lar quarters. devoting their small savings to the
purchase OF sheets which they eagerly conceal
reserved for their mealtime rest.-Pdris Cores
pOndent, London Times.
AN ANCIENT ROMAN STATUE-An
interesting discovery is reported from Pola, the
chief naval station of the Austrian empire and
formerly a station of the Roman fleet. Near
the huge amphitheatre, only second to the Coli
in size and massiveness of construction
some workmen were lately engaged in digging
an ice cellar for the use of the squadron and the
naval arsenal when, at about Yards depth
sta
feet tt zee inches in height representing a Ro-
man emperor, and In a state of almost perfect
preservation. This effigv, executed in Grecian
marble of the finest quality, is stated to be the
most beautiful and highly finished effigy of its
kind in existence. it has not as vet been re-
cognlzed as the portrait of any particular EN-,
peror, but would appear to be rather an ideal or
typical presentment of the Roman Caesar. 1t is
supposed that this noble statue originally adorn-
ed one of the inches of the vestbule belonging
to the theatre built by Augustus Cesar in honor
of his daughter, Julia, and bearing her name
Since the surrender of Alsace and
Lorraine France has never for a moment halted
In her preparation fer repetition of the conflict
with Germany. For ten years she has been en-
gagged In the reconstruction of the line of forts
about Paris, broken through by the Germans
Perhaps 1t would be be ter TO say the construc
ton of new line, for the present chain of for
tihcations is far in advance of the old Ones
The latter was from two to three miles beyond
the old city walls The new line is from seven
to ten, protecting greater area of territory and
including In Its circumference Versailles, St.
Cloud and other cities of note. 1t is estimated
that with these new defenses Paris will be able
to successfully resist three times the force
brought against 1t in 1870. Twenty thousand
men placed in this ring of forts will for the pro
lection of the country, be worth vast army in
the field Paris alone will cover the centre,
west and south of France. The construction of
the line fully offsets all advantage gained by
Germany in the advance of Ter military lines
to the annexed provinces. That the Germans
realise this, as also the certainty of the coming
struggle, is evinced by the fact that the first
full description of the defenses of Paris appeared
in the National Military Gazette of Berlin, and
in the perfect knowledge they have of every
French military movement.
THE CATHOLIC BANK-Our Paris
correspondent points in his cable dispatches to
the Union Generate as the pivot of the financial
panic in France and is by no means sure that it
will the crisis. If it falls the losses will
be enormous Its operations are of unprece-
dented magnitude. Its interests extend from
Russia TO Brazil it has aimed at controlling the
traffic on the Danube and in the Euphrates Val
ley and was said to be making a special appeal
to the Irish in the United States. Its directors
and representatives are of the Oldest families in
France It's president Is the Duc Decazes the
Marquis de Beauvoir, his brother-in-law, is one
of the vice presidents Castellane writes its
bulletin, D'Harcourt is It's agent at Belgrade
the NJ. rquis d'Abzac its envoy to 1T. Petersburg
and among Its most active supporters are the
DeBroglies and that stout legitlmist the Count
de Nun. The Count de Chambord Is said to
have subscribed FIVE MILL IN francs foreign
princes and Processes by the score have taken
shares prayers have been said in monasteres
and converts for the success Of the enterprise
M. Bontoux, who is by profession engineer
maintains that the scheme was not meant to
have a religious character; it was to draw to it
all those wealthy active, and intelligent people
whom tn establishment of a republic had driven
out of political life in France. He claims that
at the close of last autumn its profits had been
thirty six million francs, and that those which
are already insured for the next three years will
be still greater His professions now likely
to be put to the test, and French spectators are
not too sanguine of the result.-N. Y. Herald
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