NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2151, 29 March 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

(From (he Argus Correspondence.) The Mallow Farmtrs’ Club have passed a resolution hailing “ with satisfaction the return of J. O’Donovan RossEsq., as representative for the shire of Tipperary in the English Parliament.” Of late years the silly custom of hoaxes has been a good deal revived. It began, I remember, with a false account of the tall of Sebastopol, and has every now and then been carried on on a large scale. But the worst and most atrocious form of hoax is one perpetrated last week, in which cheques for LI,OOO were sent to various charities, who found, to their cost, that “no account” was the result of inquiry. For a man who cm thus trifle with charity and distress, no punishment can be too great, and I sinc rely trust that the delinquent will be found out. I he personalities of society during January have one or two features of more than usual interest. To commence with the highest in the land, the Queen is not wed, and has been suffering from her old enemy, tic doloreux, which, if we arc to believe the Lancet, plays the very deuce with her general health. The Princess Teck hj s presented Teck with a son, and, according to the tftlo of the old farce, “both mother and cidld are doing well.” The Priuco of Wales has had a cold. This in itself is scarcely worth special mention, had he not been rather unfortunate in the use lie made of it. He had promised to pay Lord Fitzh irdinge a visit at his castle at"Berkeley, where a large gathering of Gloucestershire swells had assembled to meet him. The luggage was gone, and everybody was on tiptoe of expectation, when a message came to say that the Prince had a cold, and his luggage was to be sent back. Unfortunately, on inquiring as to his Royal Highness’s health that evening, the message was that he was gone out to a dinner party, Here are two advantages of being a prince—one, that he could not tell a taradiddle without being immediately found out, and the other being that Lor,l Fitzhardinge will be very happy to ask him again, whereas if it had been I who served him so, he would have seen me at Old Scratch first,