An Hour at Chislehurst.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 114, 16 January 1872, Page 6

An Hour at Chislehurst.

CasseWs Magazine for October contains an article written by a lady who visited and conversed with tho ex-Empresa Eugene, at Ohislehurst. The writer says : She looked what Tennyson calls divinely i *■ fair, but as one who has suffered much, '■ s rhere was a worn, weary look, inexpressibly l pathetic, in her eyes, just touched under tiie 3 lower lids with black ; her cheeks were thin I' md very pale,—her fair hair simply arranged : 1 low on the neck behind, drawn back at the j sides, and with curls on the forehead, aud it j' was her own hair—distinctly and palpably ' J her own. Her dress was of a black paramatta, :' self-triniined, with a small tunic, and a gene- j * ral look of scantiness about it. She wore a' ] little white shirt-collar and cuffi, and not a ! 1 single jewel save one diamond star that held ; ! the little collar. Her manner suits her Im- i ' perial presence—simple, courteous, earnest. | ' It is as of a ready-witted woman, —?weet-: ' tempered, full of human interests and feeling, j ; impressionable, mobile, fascinating ; empha- j sising all she says with her grandly-cut Spanish eyes, that might almost, indeed, stand • her in lieu of speech, so eloquently do they converse. There is a wonderful and varied ' charm about her, Cleopatra-like, that neither j age nor customs can wither nor stale. To see how the womxn strugscled with the Em- ! press, and how it brought her down to claim sympathy and pity from a solitary stranger, was very touching. Decorum alone kept the tears from my eyes. She began, in English (which she speaks readily, and with a good accent, only now! and then wanting a word, which she asks yon with her eyes to supply), by regretting that the Emperor was too ill to see me. "Not j seriously ill," she said ; " far from it, thank I God ; but suffering greatly from rheumatic I pains, in consequence of a chill when he first j arrived at Ohislehurst. The weather had j j been warm and line, and he had been tempted ! out, too much wrapped up (for it was so cold ' lat Wilhelmshohe), and he had incautiously taken off his paletot, and so caught cold, which had produced an attack of rheumatism." Earl Behnore estimates the white population of the Fiji Islands at about 3000. Fruit has been so plentiful in Ballarat that several of the citizens have allowed the children in the charitable institutions to come i into their gardens, and oat as much as they liked.