MAIL ITEMS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2589, 25 April 1877, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

(FROM THE THOME NEWB.)

The relations between the Irish Government and the Royal Dublin Society are now in a critical state. The society have held a meeting, and have authorised their counsel to send six delegates to London to confer with Sir Michael HicksBeach, or the representative of the Government, upon the subject of their rights, as these will be affected by the Irish Government's project for the establishment of a museum of science and art and a national library. These delegates, however, are to be hampered by very positive instructions. The general feeling of the members of the; society is in favor of a prompt settlement, so as "to seenre for the Irish public the boon intended by the Government, which.the society now stands in the way of. An official and a clerk from a well known bank in the City took their places in a railway-carriage at Baker street.very recently, having with them bags containing no less than £1200 in coin. On their alighting from the train at Bishopsgate Station it appears they left all the money in the carriage, which was empty. The train had hardly moved out of the station before the los.s was discovered, but although, the sta.tion-master telegraphed at once to Aldgate, the train had arrived, and the money was gone before, the mes-. sage was. delivered. The City police at once; tpokactive measures, which resulted in one of the railway carriage washers being taken, into custody, and the recovery of £1000 in sovereigns, which were found buried in the earth near the rails some distance down the line. -■■ ■ "

The reappearance of Her Majesty the Queen in public life at the opening of Parliament has been hailed with great satisfaction by all classes. It must, hovvever, we fear, be accepted as inevitable that, however much the Queen may desire to gratify the loyal, wish of her subjects by taking part in State ceremonials and discharging the social duties of her exalted position, the physical conditions of ihe Queen's health are such as to preclude the possibility of her enduring the heated atmosphere of crowded rooms or the fatigue of prolonged ceremonials. The prostration which they induce is such as many persons suffer on sea voyages; and the discharge of- her onerous political and official duties taxes Her Majesty's strength to the utmost.

At a meeting of the friends of the Princess Louise,. Home, the case of Caroline Carter, who had .been so seriously illtreated by her master and mistress at Slough, was brought under notice, and much indignation was . expressed at the treatment of the girl, who was stated to be still very weak and in an exhausted state. It- was resolved that as soon as possible-she should be removed to the Home at Wpodhouse", near Wan stead, and that counsel should be engaged at the trial. An opinion was expressed that although an application to a judge in chambers might be made, yet that bail onghttobe refused, and that the trial should not be removed from the Bucks Assizes to the Central Criminal Court. One speaker suggested that the, girl?s wages, amounting to £6, should be recovered. '