HOME NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 224, 24 September 1867, Page 2

HOME NEWS.

The rumor that the Princess of Wales had been invited to pay a visit to the Empress of the French at Biarritz, was still" current, but it was stated that she would go to Wildbad, for the benefit of the mineral springs there previously. The Princess drove in the Park for the first time since her tedious illness on Saturday the 6th July, and she was received with the most marked expressions of gratification by the public. It is pleasant to iiud that she did not bear the signs of illness which might have been expected from her long confinement within doors.

Queen Mary of Hanover haa received peremptory directions from her husband to remain on the soil of his former kingdom, until sent away by the Prussians.

Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart., 8.C.L., All Souls College, has been elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, the period for which Mr Mathew Arnold was elected having expired. The Rev. Herbert Kyneston, D.D. and the Dean of Emly were also candidates.

After the mauy alarming rumors that had been circulated, on seemingly good authority, it is pleasant to hear that the health of the French Prince Imperial was thoroughly restored. The cure is complete, and the physicians declare that the alteration in his health did not arise from constitutional malady, but was merely accidental and occasions no apprehension for the future.

It is proposed to drain the Zuyder Zee, a work similar to, but incomparably greater than, the draining of the sea of Haarlem.

The death of Dr Trousseau, the great French physician, whose reputation was European, is announced.

It is said that Luxemburgh is not the only possession which Holland has to sell, and that she is desirous of finding a purchaser for her dependencies on the Guinea Coast and in the West Indies.

The Emperor and Empress of the French were invited by the Queen to be present with the Sultan at the grand naval review at Portsmouth, but declined on the plea of the sad news which had just arrived from Mexico.

It was reported that the Sultan had obtained a loan of 10,000,000 francs from two Greek bankers at Paris, to defray the expenses of his visit to Paris and London.

The proprietors of the Times presented each of the members of their numerous staff with a fortnight's salary, to defray the expenses of a trip to Paris.

The revenue of the Atlantic cable this year promises to touch £450,000, or within £150,000 ofthe original cost of the last laid cable.