SOCIETY

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 236, 21 March 1885, Page 6

SOCIETY

We gladly receivs communications under tTiis lieid. Senders' names are not divulged. • Truth remarks: The expenditure of £50,000 (the real amount will be nearer £70,000 when everythiug is paid for) on the Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, is a piece of profligate extravagance, for the Osborne and Alberta are amply sufficient for the Queen, who, in twenty years, has not passed twenty days on board the Victoria and Albert. The yacht will be a perfect floating palace when she is finished, for money is being spent upon her with a lavish hand ; and perhaps in the course of the next three yeaz-s the Queen may pass in the aggregate six days on board of her. A sensational elopement is said io have taken place from Dublin. A wellknown newspaper reporter left that city during the past week for America, taking with him a young lady of great personal attractions, who will have, when she comes of age, three years hence, a fortune of £8000 in her own right. After the pairhad flown it was discovered that the faithless swain, who is only twenty-two years of age, has two wives living, and has by one of them a family. The matter is now in the hands of the police. This is the third Dublin reporter who has left Ireland suddenly during the last three months. A strange tale is circulated from Munich. According to this the true heirs to tie Brunswick succession are simply three natives of the Bavarian capital, who trace back their origin to Duke Charles 1., of Brunswiek-Beverne, alleged to have married — in fully legal and legitimate wedlock — Anna Maria Scheii, the daughter of a miller at Bamberg, in 1753. Descendants of the offspringof this marriage living, are — George Bevern, an inmate of a workhouse ; Max Bevern, a functionary of the royal stables ; and Maria Bevern, member of the Court Theatre at Munich. It is asserted that both the late Duke and his brother had cognisance of the existence of these relatives.