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Southland Times, Issue 864, 13 December 1867, Page 3

Cobal JeweliiEby. — The special correspondent of the " Times" at the Paria Exhibition says that coral has risen enormously in estimation as an article of jewellery. Pieces that five or six years ago would hare sold at twenty shillings an ounce, now fetch one hundred times that sum. Formerly, too, the dark red coral was the most esteemed j now it has yielded the place of honor to the rose pink Tariety. Whether this new taste is a mere ephemeral caprice that will die out remains to be seen ; but it is certain that coral which but a few years since held a secondary place aB an article of personal ornament, now commands in the rough a price equal to about twenty times its weight in gold. In 1865 the principal gold-producing countries of the world yielded 559,587 lb. troy of gold, and upwards of four million pounds of silver. Put coal and iron together, and the result is wealth, trade, population, power. These mighty agents turn a Barrow into a borough. The schoolmasters of Austria are agitating for freedom from clerical control ; those of Scotland are petitioning Parliament in favor of compulsory education. There is not in the whole of Switzerland a toll-gate. The government forbids by law anything which may tend to interrupt or interfere with travel in or between the different cantons. A very curious coincidence respecting the letter C, as connected with the lamented Princess Charlotte, only child of George IV. She was born at Carlton-house, her mother's name was Caroline, her own Charlotte; she was married at Careton-house by the Archbishop of Canterbury, her husband's name Cobourg. Their town residence was Camelford-house the property of the late Lord Camelford (who was killed in a duel), their country residence was Claremont, the property of the late Lord Olive, who killed himself. She died in childbed, her accoucheur's name was Croft, and many of her younger day were passed in Cranbourn Lodge, and Lady de Clifford brought her up.