MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 98, 30 December 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Berlin.—Berlin;; growing mor& rapidly than any other city in Europe r having come up from the eighth capital city in 1832, with a population, of 250,000, to- the third, in- 1869; with a population.of 800,000, a number only exceeded iii London and Paris. <An Odd Shades jS'elson? [ Evening Mail,' by a blundeVin "mak-iug-up," ha? the following 4«tragraph: —"A correspondent writes:—'You. should have seen the partial at tne Sfe.. Cloud station. The hour of it was unknown to Paris ; but there was a cheerful crowd present nevertheless. The* scene was one of rare and"'•'touching solemnity. ; The Empress acted the Empress throughout, and none the less for showing the uioi;:ieriiuess..aa well as tne patriotism of her .noble nature. Pressing her boy to- her breast, sue-said" —FOX REMAINDER OP NEWS SEE FOTJKTU Pl(xK ? " l V.

.A Jeu D'Espett.—The 'Xreuzzei. tung ' has the following "feud'esorit" on the "Fall of the Empire:"—The Empire respires (May 8) ; the Empire aspires (July 14) ; the Empire fires (August 2) ; the Empire retires (August 6) ; the Emuire expires n(SeT>fccmbor 2). * : . x

Ths Princess LoTJisE.--Goinniciit-ing on the proposed riiarria£e of the Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorn the Melbourne 'Daily Telegraph' says:' —Since the Duke of Gloucester degraded himself by a marriage with an illegitimate daughter of &r Edward Walpole, no member of. the jtfoyal family has been permitted to contract a legal union (illegal unions they have entered upon by the score) w.tj an English man or woman. Ths indiscretions of the brothers and children of George 111 have "been visited upon the children of the.third and fourth generations. The ifroyal Marriage Act has always been-pleaded as a? bar, even in cases where a mutual affection has been known to csi&t We may presume, however, that it will be no. longer necessary tor an English pnneess.tonnda German husband or remain in single blessedness. She may now be a respected, and wealthy, and happy English duchess, if: she cannot be> poor and contemned foreign princess. And it is a noteworthy fact as showing The tendencies of the age, f*atthe Duke, whose one son isio wed with Eoyalty, astonished- the ,%f<«4d a v*mi« or two ago by sending another 10 a merchant's counting-house. A que<=tion which corner nearer home i«, whether our princes are to be mare restricted in their choice than.oar y.rmessses ? Is the Duke of Edinb.ur/ii at liberty to choos?. an Australian or New Zealand bride ?. And if sp r4 ought he riot to commence the ■•round 2i the Colonies thac the ia,uies id eae.i might start fair ? -

Holloioays Ointment and JPiIU most J&fficaeious Remedies for• ttie. Cure, of MadjLeys and Old JVoaiids — Several months ago,'; Mr. H. Caunter, of 44 Rich mouth, had the misfortune to cuL his The wound festered, and .spread to the size oi* the iop of a tea-cup. He had recourse.to-various Muds of treatment, but withoutavaU,.auU it-continued tt> increase in -virulence and -size. He was then advised lb try &6116 way's Ointment and IMis, and these-excellent medicines quietly ef- * fected a perfect cure, and Lis leg is now as well as before the accident,. Mr. Hidtlansleigh,. chemist, of Plymouth, can vuaoii lor the accuracy of this statement.