(FROM THE HOME NEWS.)

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2783, 15 January 1878, Page 3

(FROM THE HOME NEWS.)

Prince William of Prussia, Queen Victoria's eldest grandson, i 3 reported to be pursuing his studies afc the University of Bonn with great zeal and perseverance. He attends lectures, privatissimme, by Professor Bona Meyer on philosophy, by Professor yon Strutzing on Eoman Jaw, and by Professor Clasius on physical science. In addition to .this the Prince it a Tery regular attendant at the public lectures of Professor M aarenbrecher, a rising historian, only recently appointed to his present chair. . A statement comes from St. Petersburgh to the effect that the Grand Duke Nicholas, who has for some time past been "interned" in the, Caucasus for an offence which gave rise at the time of its discovery to a good deal of scandal, has Been pardoned by the Czar, .and that he is now travelling in the steppes of Central Asia with a view to exploring a new route for a proposed railway. The last fortnightly return of the Bank of Russia shows the total amount of notes issued for wSv purposes up to the 22nd inst. to bo 226,000,000 roubles. The igsue is regarded as temporary. Besides this amount the Hussiau Treasury has borrowed 163,000,000 roubles. It is, ■tated to be the intention, of the Russian Government to introduce at the beginning of next year an income tax upon small incomes, corresponding to the Prussian " Klassensteuer. 1' The party of Grcenlanders expected at the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris arrived there last week. They consist of ,a family of Esquimaux—three men, a young woman, and two female children aged respectively eleven and twenty - five months. They bring with them some seals, white bears, and sledge-dogs, and occupy, on the lawn on which the Nubians were encamped, huts exactly similar to those inhabited in the Polar regions.^ A wine-seller named Hervieux, residing at Petit-Courselles* Paris, had placed in a cellar which has no outlet for ventilation a Tat containing the must of wine in fermentation. The other morning he sent a maid-servant to get a bottle of Macon for two customers. Ab she did net reappear Madame Hervieux descended into the cellar; but as she also did not return, her husband went to ascertain the reason, and as he did not come back, one of the customers, disquieted at what had happened, followed the wine-seller, and met the same fate. His companion, alarmed, called in some aid, and among those summoned was a doctor, who rapidly questioned the cook, the only person of the household left, and learning that there was fermenting wine in the cellar, he suspected that the carbonic acid gas which it emits was the cause of the grave accident. Leaving the door open he attempted to penetrate into the cellar, but was obliged to return in order to breathe; redescending again rapidly, he succeeded in withdrawing the tavern-keeper, who was deprived of consciousness, and by the aid of the persons who had been called in the three others were brought from the cellar. By care all were restored to consciousness except the maid, whose death was the result of the inefficient arrangements.