EUROPEAN NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3511, 25 May 1874, Page 2

EUROPEAN NOTES.

n Velocipedes are becoming an institution in Pans for forwarding * messages from the Exchange (Bourse) to the central telegraph office, Rue de Grenello. The rates charged by “ velocemtn •” are 2s. The run there; ahd baok, including delivery of messages, takes about twenty-five minutes for a distance of three miles 1,320 yards. pother,” says the 4 Bangalore Spectator, “is now exhibiting her child in the pubhe thoroughfares here,, of. About ten years old and,2ft. high. The,body as far as the shoulders is uniform, but the , head and hands have the form of a monkey, and all its actions resemble that animal. Many , natives are attracted, and in commiseration give the mother a small dole.” . ■ The Berlin correspondent of the ‘Daily .Telegraph says the recent change of Ministry m England ha* been received with undisguised satisfaction in official circles in that city, upon the grounds that a Conservative Government will certainly adopt a distinctly friendly policy towards Germany. Messrs Onslow and Whalley, M*P«. having been written to by a juryman’s "wife’ refused to contribute to-her collection of celebrities connected with the 1 late trial a signed carte de yisite, and this on thh ground that they ‘ decline to have their portraits associated with any, persons who are. resporisible for eenaing an innocent person > into penil servitude.” , 4. v ? r y interesting report has been written by the Comte de Falikao, -who commanded the French army in China, in reply tue request for information as to whether the Chinese museum formed at Fontaineblean was national property, or belonged to the ex-Empress in her private capacity. "The General stated that the French army was so much pleased with the generosity of the Empress Eugenie, who had out of her private purse forwarded all sorts 6f comforbs-jamt jellies, aud potted meats—to the army of the East, that the soldiers resolved to send her their share of the booty captured by them and the English as a testimony of their gratitude. In the opinion of Comte de Palikao the contents of the Chinese museum are personal mid not public property. At the close of this report the general gives the following explanation why the summer palace of the Emperor was burnt“ When the English soldiers saw the mangled re-mains-of the ‘ Times’ correspondent, whom the Chinese had put to deal with gtsat bar* barity, they resolved to burn the palace, in order to take vengeance upon the murderer of their fellow-countryman. I recollect perfectly well making some observations upon the destruction of the palace to Lord Elgin, whoreplied to me in confidence. ‘What would the ‘Times’ have said if I had not revenged their correspondent’’ ’* Prince Frederick Charles ®f Germany contemplates making a tour round the world and \yill probably visit India, China, Japan! California* and America before returning to Berlin. It is not impossible that he will make a detour to Australia, New Zealand and some of the isles of the South Pacific’ The voyage will be partly of an official character, but it is hinted in this gossiping city that the real reason for his Royal Highness quitting the delights of Outer den ..Unden is that ho does not find his domestic life vety pleasant; and that, but for the scandal to which the Emperor and Empress entertain a profound objection, the Prince would try to obtain a judicial separation from Madame la Princess Upon the ground of utter and thorough incompatibility of temper. A telegram from New York states that the captain of the British man-of-war Niobe was to have tendered to him, on his arrival’ a testimonial and, of coarse, a dinner This is the British captain who stopped the massacre of the Virginias' crew at Santiago de Cuba last November. He has had one test!menial already, being a brick of silver from * Virginia City, State of Nevada (the silycr state) having as an inscription the following s —“ This is a brick, you are another, November, 1873. Virgma, Nevada.” Our American cousins think highly of the captain for his plucky interference.

A scandalous story is going the round oi the circles here, and is generally believed, although no allusion to it has been made m the London newspapers. An Lnghshman a cadet of one enough amongst escrow, but, o£e very unusual amongst men of honor, S con’ tnvea to turn- up an honor whenever the necessities of the game made it requisite to f, 080 * “ember of the turf club at whiSh the gentieman m questiou was in the habit th£ l Sr S; J0I: MBh Btftkeß « suspected was fair and above board; and, watching very closely,; found out how every, thing was managed. He boldly ohhrgedMr

Blank with foul play, and .compelled him to disgorge a considerable portion of hia winnings. Mr Blank withdrew-hia- name from the club at which the discovery w>s made, and the next morning sent in his resignation to all those of which he was a member. But he now stoutly protects his innocence, asserts that he was at first overwhelmed on a false charge being made against him ; and a large number of bis fr ends, amongst whom is no less a personage than the Prince of Wales,, believe most thoroughly in his innocence,' although they all admio that his good luck in the way of holding honors was very remarkable.