General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3903, 2 July 1881, Page 4

General News.

Princess Louise is described by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press as fond of housekeeping and the kindest of friends and hostesses. There was sickness at Rideau Hall almost from the Princess' arriving there. Lady M'Namara was taken ill with scarlet fever and the Princess nursed her through it; then a young mother and her baby, guests at Rideau, contracted the fever and the baby died and the mother was very near death ; the servants would not attend to the sick woman', and the Princess nursed her night and day. , Every meal, every cup of water or bowl of gruel,-the Princess took to her sick guest with her own hands.

" There is a story current," says the London Cuckoo, "that the late Mr Carlyle was a terrible domestic tyrant. At breakfast time he would come down grumbling,- and glancing at the well spread board, declare the food to be unfit fora dofe. .Mrs Carlyle thereupon would order the girl to take the despised viands back* to the kitchen. Presently, when the philosopher was beginning to get desperately^ hungry, his spouse would order the same dishes to be brought back, which her husband immediately proceeded to devoiir with infinite relish and without any more ado. No wonder the sage considered his wife a greater woman than either Georges Sand or George Eliot.' 1

An English paper says : —So this is the end.. After a reign of almost unparalleled glory, royalty smiling on her, the populace cheering her, the press praising ber, j poets celebrating her, a world to admire her beauty, and hor beauty exhibited in all windows for the world to admire, the end of it all is the sound of the auctioneer's hammer in the little house in .Norfolk street. Society, which had flattered and, fawned, wa3 there to sneer, to criticise the neglect of the house, and to pour scorn.on the twadry appointments. Mrs Langtrf' herself is all the'time in Jersey. Her husband is recuperating in the United States. She may yet succeed on the stage if she chooses it as her profession, for she is intelligent and an actress, or Norfolk street yesterday would not have made pilgrims of so many envious and inquisitive ladies. But the paragraph " Mrs Langtry occupied the box next tbe royal box, and was dressed more marvellously than ever," will appear never again in/the papers. With their queen the whole regime of the "professional beaaties " is passed away.

At-a ipeetiing of the Southport branch of the Society for promoting Christianity among the • Jews, held lately, a protest signed by. the leading, Jews of the district, was presented to the Bishop of Liverpool who presided. The Society for promoting Cristianity among the Jews is denounced as a "sham '■' and a " fraud," and indignation at the insults which, through the • medium of the society, are constantly directed against the intelligence of the Jews'and their religion, which is dearer to them 1 than life. In conclusion, ifc is pointd out that her Majesty'a father, the Duke of Kent, withdrew from the society, saying that he could not find in his heart to encourage monetary conversions. Mr Hsyermans, the gentleman who presented it, says that on his way to tho platform to present the protest to the bishop, an attempt was made to stop him, and he was locked up.