CLIPPINGS FROM THE HOME NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 143, 19 June 1877, Page 2

CLIPPINGS FROM THE HOME NE WS

A Roman telegram states that Prince Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenic have, through Cardinal Bonaparte, sent assurances to the Pope that the Prince, during his recent visit to Rome, was not made a Freemason, as somebody had reported. Tiie Hon. Mrs Hobart, wife of Admiral Hobart Pasha, died on April 13 and wa-in-erred at the English cemetery at Scutari. The Duchess of Edinburgh, who is now in London, attended a service at the Russiaii Church on Sunday last, April 29, at which success was supplicated for the Russian arms. The Imperial Manifesto has been read in all the Russian Churches, but, in spite of affirmations to the contrary, the enthusiasm is great only in the army. The nation is rather silent and resigned. The Emperor himself seems thoughtful. ' , A six days' walking match at the London Agricultural Hall between O'Leary and Weston ended on Saturday, April 7, 'O'Leary haviug walked 520 and Weston 510 miles. The Grand Duke Constantine is to com-; ruand the Russian fleet iv the Mediterranean this summer, and will hoist his flag on board the Prince Posharsky. This vessel is a broadside ship, with an iron hull, plated with 4 J inches of armour, and carries eight 8 inch guns, For some years past.it has been .laid .up at Croristadt on account of the numerous defects ,|n its boilers, but the Admiralty is now using every endeavor to get it ready for sea by June, Messrs Finsjel and Sons, of Bristol,, who own the largest sugar refinery in the world, but whose trade has been ruiued by the French bounty system, have placed their affairs in the hands of their creditors. The 1 liabilities are estimated at half a million of' which £200,000 is owing to a Bristol bank, and a similar amount to a local firm of sugar, brokers. An arrangement is considered probable. When the latest mail left New York, Tweed was to bave been liberated from gaol, the condition being that he should make restitution as far as possible and give evidence against his other associates in the frauds. It; is stated that nearly thirty persons, some ' filling high positions in the city, will be compromised. The amount realised from Tweed alone will reach 1,200,000 dols., in additiou to which his real estate in the name of -his brothers and others \yill Ije fyanded over. Sweeney will restore about half a million, and this sum, with the amounts returned by, other confederates, will swell the total likely 1 to be recovered to about half the amount— 6,000,000 dols— .which was "appropriated." The papers publish alarming accounts of the spread of typhoid fever in Pera and the adjoining quarters, and several cases of death from .that disease in families of distinction have undoubtedly occurred. The causes of tlje scourge are not far to seek. The dead in the Turkish cemetpry of Ainali Kayak, says tlie Levqnt Herald, are interred by the score in shallow furrows which do not dpsprve tije name of graves, arid neither quick-lime nop auy qttjer cl}e_qioq,l preparation is made to mitigate the results of so slovenly a system of sepulture. Hence the poisonous exhalations breeding the fever by which certain quarters are ravaged. The horrible state in which nearly all the cemeteries, and especially most of the Mahomedan burial grounds, are left round Constantinople and its suburbs, supplies the most melancholy evidence «}£ £fye <jegeneratiou and decay of this Moslem race, one; of whose signal virtues used to be reverence for the remains of the dead. ' ■■■■■■■■■*■

The Court newsman thus describes the head-dress of fl, lady who was presented on her marriage to the Queen at the last Draw-ing-room;-" The front hair was curled a la neige (hke snow), a. the top an ornament n diamonds like a peacock's tail. The back hair raised from the roots, accompanied on each side by curled marleaux (hammers ) A recent book of travels gives the following account of the negresses in the interior of

Africa:-," The are satisfied.^ with little clothuig, but.they bestow muchcare on the decoration of their heeds, i Their woolly locks are saturated /with oil, often of the most .unsavory description. In < front they are arranged in masses of frizzy! curls, *Md the hair behind is drawntightly/vtotftetbpbf the head and twisted. into a knot, into Vhicfi is stuck a bunch of peacock, ostrich, or other feathers. If time and hair permit, there are other knots at the side of the head, to which more feathers and beads are attached. Suet or chalk is then blown through a reed over head and face, and the cheeks are plentifully bedaubed witb red paint;"- - WfaidM is' .& most barbarous— I assert also the most preposterously absurd— the head-dress of a lady of rank or tbat of the poor savage?— " Atlas;" A disclosure of Russian cruelty, which will suggest to some minds the Sinope affair of '53, has just been made in a Parliamentary paper obtained by Mr Lewis, apropos of the treatmentof the Uniat Greeks in Poland. On the ground that these were gradually being transformed into Roman Catholics, the Russian authorities determined to step in aud reassert the loyalty of their co-religionists to Oriental Christianity.' Colonel Mansfield, the-BritishConsul-Generalat Warsaw, was on thb spot.and saw how this was effected---by tte whip, the shotjthe knout, the dance, and, the gaols- „ Those .who refused :t0 sign the -declaration proposed by the Russian authorities received from the Cossack whip— every adult man 50 blows; every woman 25, every child- ID. One woman received 100 On; January 1, 1675, Colonel Mansfield reports that "the details of the antagonism between tffe .authorities and .the f peasants have been most harrowing. Iri one ViUage'a feasant;; suffocated himself ank i_ii~ family With charcoal rathec _than have Ihis' child baptized bj. the .Government 'parish pope The.peasants were assembled and beaten by ihe-Cosaacks until themilitary -urggbn stated fjhat more would endanger life; they were theh a half-frozen 'river up to their jwaist into the' parish church" through flea of; soldiers, whfere their ; name.; were entered in petitions expressing their bouudless; "devotion to their -august Sovereign Liberator, arid their readiness to walk-in the course traced but by his powerful'. -Imperial willl" Such-is the pious zeal with-which Holyßussia propagat^Christian orthodoxy.