ENGLISH MAIL

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 162, 16 July 1870, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL

VICTORIA'S RUMOURED MARBIAGKE.—THE.EEPORTS IN LONDON.

A Loxdgx correspondent says :—" One cannot approach so clulicate a subject without hesitation—but the rumour lately revived in London is supported upon such high authority that it cannot quite be dismissed as mere idle gos*ip It is reported tliat Queen Victoria isabout to. bestovr her hand on a Prince of the Ilouse of Sehleswig-Holstein. A near relative of Prince Christian is mentioned as the favored suitor. The Queen's partiality to Prince Christian is well known. Indeed it is said that it is the hand of her Majesty, and not her daughter, Prince Christian sought, and the Queen, in refusing him, bade him transfer hia affections to her favorite daughter. Be it remembered that Prince Christian's years were fur more suited to a union with the mother. At all events, the Queen overwhelmed the Prince with marks of distinction, snd greatly excited her English subjects by conferring upon him the title of " Boyal Highness," and further roused their indignation by placing him in a position of equality with the highest oTiners of the English army, where the Bug.:*!* think the German Prince has no right to any footing whatever. But to return to Her Majesty's pi-o-spectire marriage. We have not yet heard the name of tho mysterious individual who solicits and is, they say, likely to win the soft, white hand of Queen Victoria, but there is littlo doubt that England would rejoice over any event which drew her from her long persistent seclusion.

Mr. Nicholas Chevalier is on his way to England with his wife, lie loft the Galatea at Ceylon. Messrs. Wilson and Mackinnon, of the Melbourne Argus, were among the specially invited guests at the annual dinner of the Provincial Newspaper Society, hold at the Crystal Palace on the 12thof May. On Sunday morning, April 21th, a nun known as Sister .Agnes made her escapo from the convent at Badderly, near Knowlo, Warwickshire. She was captured by a servant of the convent. Although alleged to be insane,' she had provided herself with victuals, and when seized was on the public road calling to a man to help her. Sister Agne3 is described as " one of the inner circle," and it is said that only on rare occasions she had an opportunity of escaping. At chapel she feigned illness, and said she would say her prayers in the gnrdon. On getting out she climbed over a high wall, aud got into the roa'l, but was pursued and captured. Mr. John Ewau, who, by the way, purposes returning to Dunedin in a mail or two, has so •ucceeded in forwarding the interests of the acclimatisation of Otago, as to obtain gifts of blackcock from the Duke of Buccluch, of grouse from a gentleman residing near York, and two head of fallow deer from Mr. Lippincot, of Over Co urt, near Bristol. Mr. Ewen hopes to ship the whole before he loaves himself.

The newest style for dressing the hair is called "The Cleopatra." The hair is brushed high off the forehead and braided low in the neck, surmounted by a large imitation snake, which is coiled around the head.