FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 236, 24 January 1860, Page 3

FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

The Bishops of Strasburg and Mende have ordered prayers to be offered up for the Pope in all parishes and religious communities of their dioceses. In Belgium, the Bishop of Tournay has also ordered prayers for the Pope to be offered up in all the churches of his diocese; and the Bishop of Ghent has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Orleans, expressing approbation of its protest in. behalf of his Holineiss.

Prince Napoleon has just taken on lease for four years the Chateau de la Boissiere, on the skirts of the forest of Rambouillet.

M. Garcin, a celebrated shot with the pistol, residing at Lyons, lately made a bet that he would hit with a ball 10 out of 20 10-sous pieces thrown into the air. He has gained his bet by hitting 13 out of the number

The Echo de Vesone gives an account of a grand wolf hunt at Ge*nis (Dordogne), by M. Piston d'Aubonne, master of wolfhounds,, and a party of about 20 gentlemen on horesback and some 400 persons on foot, most of them armed with guns. They first proceeded to a wood which a litter of young wolves was known to frequent. The hounds soon found one of them and killed it after a short run. The next day not a wolf could be found anywhere, but on the following morning saveral were discovered, and one of them was shot. At a dinner given by one of the sportsmen he treated his friends to a dish of cutlets, which were found rather tough and insipid. He afterwards told them that what they had eaten had been cut from the animal killed* that day. Most of the party seemed to think that the sport had been carried rather too far.

A fire broke out on the morning of October 28, between 1 and 2 o'clock, in the Palace of Luxembourg, and has done considerable damage to the interior of the building. The large hall in which the senators hold their sittings, is gutted, all the woodwork being destroyed and the fittings consumed. The origin of the disaster is not known, but the belief is that the overheated flue of a stove set fire to the timber near which it passed. Although the firemen were soon on the spot, it was only possible to prevent the flames from spreading to the rest of the building. Fortunately the paintings and works of art have not been injured. The Chevalier Guidi, and enthusiastic archaeologist, returning to Rome from a trip to Naples in search of curiosities, was stopped near Velletri, and relieved of the gold he had taken with him to purchase certain objects. The* brigands returned him his watch but kept his scudi. A Paris letter in Le Nord elates that the Academy had received a communication from Mexico to the effect that a statue had been decreed by that city to the illustrious Alexander Yon Humboldt. The statue is to be executed in marble by an Italian sculptor. It will be placed in the interior of the " School of Mines," and will bear the inscription—" A Alexandre de Humboldt, le Mexiqufc reconnaissant." A conimission, appointed by the French Academy of Sciences to draw up a report of the results of the scientific expedition undertaken to observe the late total eclipse in Brazil, calls attention to the very important total eclipse which will occur in July, next year, and will be visible in Spain and Algeria. The commission believe that at least 40 astronomers, from France, England, Germany, Russia, and Italy, will assemble in Spain or Africa to witness it.

A company is in treaty with the city of Paris for the open space of ground around the city wall which-is to be pulled down, in consequence of the extension of the barriers to the line of the The spa&s thus become applicable to builds ing purposes, is sis or seven leagues long, and, perhaps, a, hundred ya^da virile, qj^ an average. ■•■ ■• ■\' '-^ V;