MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 30, 18 June 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Moyaux, the Frenchman who con* fessed that he threw his little daughter into a well at Bagneaux, and baffled the detectives for more than a month,, was, arrested in. Paris on March % under strange circumstance*. A woman who. had bought hi* photograph fcom cariosity thought that she recognised him reading a newspaper in a shop window of the line St. Paul. She mentioned her sus* pioions to the keeper of a wine shop who. happened to know Moyaux, having one©, been his fellow clerk. Two policemen, wore summoned* and the man, was ar*. rested. A correspondent sends Troth the fol* lowing historical parallel :— ln 1761 M> Pitt resigned the premiership, having just created his wife & peeress. In 1)868,, Disraeli resigned, the Premiership, baring; lost created his wife a peeress. la 1776, Mr Pitt created himself Earl of Chatham, and Viscount Pitt, and held both the Premiership and the Privy Seal. la 1876, Mr DisraeM created, himself Sari of Beaconsfield and Viscount ULughenden,, and held both the Premiership and the Privy Seal. In fp«l» 1778, Lord. Chatham delivered his last speech in the House of Lords. In April* 1878, Lord* Beacons field.— Ahtii onm> The history of the Second Zouaves,, one of the best regiments in, the French, army has just bean published* The regi« ment was created by decree in 1852, its first commander being Colonel Vinoy,. now General and Grand Chancellos of the Legion of Honor. It had been hardly organised when,two,of its. battalions wen sent to Laghoaat. Then, cam* theCrimean war ; the regiment food* it, the battle of the Alma, and ito-Cobnel, the heroic Cler, planted the ftenah, fcg on. the telegraph tower. U nert tootpart in. the battle of Mafeota, and it* colors. w*re~ dpcoratwl with the Cross of the Lefkm of Honor^ In Mexico it was engapd ia, the taking of Poebla. At Froeenviller K in the last wax, 47 ofßosrs aod 108 a pri»i«sof th#«^im«t fell on the field. ot baMl»^ tbe debris wen at Sedam* Colnmjen, ana other engsfements. Do*« ing. the tea years of its existence no team, than 5000 privates and 400 office** of

ihi§ gallant regiment have fallen in battle. , „ , Misa Braadon, wife of Maxwell has published another novel. Is that the third or fourth within a year? The facilities which are afforded to this industrious lady in the way of trade do not appear to satisfy her, for she, too, wants a journal of her own. A few weeks ago the proprietor of the London Journal was seized with a severe illness. All at once Mi Maxwell presented himself at his house with the most pressing enquiries after hit health* and tried all he know to gel admission to his bedroom, but the doctor and nurse were inexorable. Then Mi Maxwell wrote o letter to his "Deai J— ■," expressing great grief at his illness, and making known his readiness tc soothe his last moments by a cheque foi £30,000. He merely asked for the '.London Journal in return. But "Deai «T— — " did not seem to see it. Whc would not be the owner of a popular storypaper which pays at least £8000 a ycai and can to sold at aDy moment for, say ; £W,OOO, It is as well that no false notions a3 to the Queen's reappearance in public should be allowed to get abroad, inasmuch ag any such hopes must bo doomed to disappointment. No one is more anxious than Her Majesty to discharge all the duties, whether political, social, or ceremonial, -'of her position, but after many efforts she has been forced to acknowledge her physical inability to do more thao she has hitherto done. It is false deference and false modesty which hide from the public the real state of the Queen's health, and the medical men in attendance upon hor would be better ad« tisad if they would causo to be published in some medical organ, such as the Lancet, the reasons which must always stand .in the way of the Queen's appearance in public. It is no secret amongst the small coterio who surround the Court that Her Majesty is unable to bear the heated atmosphere of crowded rooms, which affects her in precisely the same way as the passage from Dover to Calais affects so many delieato travellers.^ It this were widely and authoritatively stated great allowances would be made for H«r Majesty's absence from mere ceremonial matters, it being felt that she has need of all her strength, for the proper discharge of ,' her official and political duties, in which she has nover failed.