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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 148, 9 September 1876, Page 3

The London correspondent of the SUir writes :—Parliament will soon bo called to stump up cash for a couple of pairs of i-oyal lovers. The Duke of Connaught has for some time been casting about for some eligible parti, and it is said that he took a violent fancy for a daughter of a noble duke, this, however, could not be permitted, and a good many swell mammas who have boon indulging in dreams of Koval sons-in-law have been disappointed. He has come out of it very well, thanks to the fact of his being lucky enough to have a pretty cousin, a daughter of the ex-King and Queen of Hanover, tho Princess Frederica. “The Cumborlands” were asked (o visit at Windsor a few weeks ago, and the cousins managed to get spooney at once. Every one hopes that Avhon the marriage comes off tho Duke of Cumberland, and his family will come over to live in England, Where they are very popular. Prince Louis of Battenburg is to marry the Princess Beatrice, and as ho is a plucky Young follow, and a general favourite, tho connection has a prospect of happiness to all concerned. Of course when the grants are proposed thero will bo tho usual amount of opposition from Sir Charles Dilke, and a few other graceless loons, but tho people will, as usual, bo charmed. The old legal maxim that every wrong has it right can no longer hold good. A married couple were sued in Melbourne for slander uttered by the wife. There Was no defence to the case bti the merits of it, but the plea was put in for the defendants that the husband was not in any way responsible for the words used by his wife, and that as she had no separate property, she could not be sued. Agreeing with this view of the case, Judge Cope nonsuited tho plaintiff with ten guineas costs, and so made it perfectly plain that there is orle wrong at least that cannot be righted. This may bo very good nows for husbands whoso wives are given to scandalmongoring, but it is rather rough on tho people whoso characters are taken away. Thero is a young man in Taranaki with ench thin legs (says the Budget ) that the police intend prosecuting him under the Vagrant Act, for having rio visible means of support .