FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3119, 15 February 1879, Page 3

FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

The King of the Belgians has completed the thirteenth year of his reign, as he ascended the throne on Dec. 17, 1865.

, There is an end of the Italian Opera In Paris. The building of that elegant lyric temple is sold to the Foncier Insurance Company for some 3,000,000fr. The Porte has signified its willingness to surrender Spuz and Podgoritza, without, however, taking responsibilty for the consequences. The French Government is about to appoint consuls to the city of Metz and the town of Mulhouse, which were taken from the French in the late war.

Intelligence received from Mogador, in Morocco, states that a terrible famine is raging there, about twenty-five persons dying daily from want of food. About forty Social Democrats are to be expelled from Berlin in virtue of an order issued. Amongst them are two of the Socialist Deputies. M. Aiirelien Scholl has been fined 500 franca for declaring in the Evenement that Borne of the French judges were the shame of France and a laughing-stock for the whole world. , ,

The English residents in Alexandria and Cairo,have resolved to send an address of condolence to Queen Victoria and a telegram of sympathy to the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt.

A royal decree has been published in Spain authorising the Minister of the coloJH?J to accept the proposal relative to the ■faying a submarine cable' ' between Manilla and Hong Kong. "A' proposal has been; made ito transfer the control of German railways from the Government of the State to the Government of the Empire, at any rate in Prussia.

A military academy is being formed at Sofia for.the province of Bulgaria. The'establishment is to be placed under the command of a Russian officer, Captain Fleischer.

The National Zeitung states that it has reason to beli ye that, if the English Government should agree to guarantee a new Turkish loan, it will demand as compensation the cession of Alexandretta and of Messina on the coast of Cilicia.

A letter from Finland informs us that Lapland has suffered dreadfully from the ravages of wolves this summer. Onethird of the reindeer belonging to the Lapps have been destroyed, and nearly all the young ones. The rumour which was current in diplomatic circles at Constantinople that Russia might raise objections to a new Turkish loan guaranteed by England is declared in well-informed quarters there to be without foundation.

Information has been received at the St. Petersburg Ministry of the Interior from the governors of the various provinceg of Bosßiv stating that the loss occasioned by the cattle plague throughout the Empire is expected to exceed 30.000,000 roubles this year.

The Gazette de Lausanne announces that the Municipal Council of Zurich has granted ttieicompany for the incineration of bodies a spot of ground in the cemetry of Wiedkon whereon to Bet up an apparatus for the cremation of the dead.

The Eussian Government is, it is stated, endeavouring to ensure the attendance of young men from Eastern Eoumelia at the sew military College which is now being formed for the use of the province of Bulgaria at Sofia. A fatal duel waV fought at Cherbourg the other morning between two captains of Marine Infantry who had quarrelled about some professional business. One of the officers was shot in the throat and died in an hour.

Suleiman Pasha; one of the most prominent generals in the Turkish army, has been sentenced by a court martial to be degraded, and to be confined in a fortress for his 'conduct in the late war.

A telegram from Berlin says that great distress and suffering will result in some cases from the expulsion of the Socialists, as they were denied any extension of time for the arrangement of their affairs. Most hare already left Berlin.

The Duke ojtponnaught has been appointed \j rhe.xiferman Emperor honorary colonel of the Brandenburg Ziethen Regiment of Hussars, the commander of which is Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.

We learn from St. Petersburg that, in compliance, as is prete">^ed, with the special request of the. Shfjh, a number pf Russian staff officers bekgiging to the Army of the Caucasus are aboui to proceed to Teheran to organise the Persia^ forces.

Widoweri.—A widower, who had never quarrelled with his wife, said the last day of his marriage was as happy as the first. Another widower said the last day of his marriage was the happiest.

The surest way to lose your health is to keep drinking other people's.