FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1889, 2 July 1863, Page 4

FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

A Tubin correspondent of the « Debats' says •" — " lam in a position to give you positive news respecting Garibaldi's health. His wound is all but cured— it is kept open for precaution's sake; but his general health is excellent, and no one doubts that in two month's time he will be able to mount his horse."

Three bales of lint, prepared by the Paris ladies for the wounded Poles were stopped and confiscated by the Prussians as contraband of war (!) The Pope has determined to put an end to mendicancy in Rome. These picturesque beggars, so endeared to every traveller to the Seven Hills, are to be " put down." "It is affirmed," says the * Sieele,' " thf.t Russians of large fortune, holding important offices, are just now realising their property, and investing considerable sums in foreign securities, from fear lest the rising of the Poles should occasion a revolution at St. Petersburg or Moscow."

An American paper says that there is one Irish Mormon in Utah, and that he has nine wives and 47 children.

A letter from Coburg states that hpr Majesty Queen Victoria will pass some time during the summer at the chateau of Rosenau near that city. A Vienna paper publishes the following account of the lady who was said to have been aide-de-camp to Laugiewicz, the account being communicated by Langiewicz himself to a gentleman who recently visited him:— Mdle. Pustowaydora accompanied me when I passed the Vistula, and that incident has given rise to all sorts of romantic suppositious. But it was a necessity imposed by the fact that I had a Norwegian passport in the name of a Pole travelling with his son, a young man of 18, and of all my compapions Mdle. Pustowaydora was the only person who could assume the character oi so young a man. Numberless stories have been propagated respecting that lady. She cannot be more truly or more briefly characterised than by saying she was the best of patriots and the bravest of soldiers. You should have seen how she was respected in the camp, and how scrupulously all avoided using any expression that could have ofiended her modesty. It has often been stated that she was my aide-de-camp, but that is not true ; she was the aide-de-camp of General Czakowski, an old soldier, who has a wife and family, and who loved his brave companion as bis own child."

A letter from the Prague of the 6th April announces the arrival there of Mdle. Pustowaydora, accompanied by an aged domestic. She was dressed in black and wore a thick veil, which never raised, so that no one suspected her to be the ex-aide-de-camp to General Langiew icz.

The Treasury Department at Washington, says an American paper, is about to make appointments of women to the offices of recording clerks.

Ladies in North America are constantly being arrested on charges of complicity with the Southerns.

It is thought, says the Copenhagen correspondent of the 'Daily News,' that Prince Wilbelm might marry one of the daughters of Queen Victoria, either the Princess Helena or Princess Louise. The stipulation made by the Greeks that the successors of their new king should be brought up in the Greek faith may, however, prove an obstacle in the way of such an alliance. " i

Mr Hennessy, M.P, has received an ovation at Cracrow as au expression of gratitude for bis services to the c.-iuse of Poland. At a dinner given there in his honor, he made a speech declaring that the sympathies of the English people, and Government as well, were with the Poles, and that on this question Russia stands alone in Europe. King Victor Emmanuel is reported to have sent horses to England for training, and means to enter the list as a competitor for the blu& ribbon ot the turf.

It is stated in a Paris paper that the Prince and Princess of Wales is expected early in May to pay a visH to the Emperor and Empress of the French at Fontainbleau.

The English residing at Borne have subscribed for. a parure to be presented to the Princess of Wales, the execution of which was committed to the hands of Signor iCasteHahi the emiiient Koinan jeweller. | . >