General News.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1017, 22 April 1869, Page 2

General News.

The Moniteur slates that a marriage has been arranged between the Prince of Asturias and a daughter of the Duke ds Madrid. The prince is very young, and his bride-elect is not born yet. Sib. Bernard Burke tells us, in Ins “Vicissitudes of Families,” that of the2s barons who were appointed to enforce the observance of Masna Charta, there is not now in the House of Peers a single male descendant. A cuniocs but characteristic incident occurred at thebal masque of the Coliseum, in Vienna. Two masked individuals, representing Count Beust and Count Bismark, and walking about arm in arm, were at once surrounded by the crowd and vociferously cheered, so much so that the police intervened and pounced upon the two pseudoMinisters, who passed the remainder of the night at the next police station. “Jo aw Kwox ” confides to Mr Punch his opinion that “ like all people between two stools.” Ritualists must come to the ground. They ave’neither Protestant nor Papist, “ neither fish, flesh, nor good red herrin’.” Neither fish, nor flesh, perhaps. But Punch must demur to the rest of the description. Many Ritualists are “ good a few are not only “read,” but “well read,” and all, without exception, arc ' “ erring.”

A whiter of the Journal dc Paris estimates the sum lost and won at cards in the Paris clubs at one million francs a day. The cards alone cost eight thousands francs per night. A very extraordinary rumour is in circulation, and which probably has some truth in it, that a large number of the extreme Ritualists, who cannot consent to conform to the recent judgment of the Judical Committee ot Privy Council, in the case of “Martin v. Mackonochie,” are considering the propriety of an immediate secession with a view to the establishment of a “ Free Church of England.” In the event of their carrying out this course they would elect Bishop Jenner, who is returning from Dunedin, as their Bishop, and a church organisation would be at once completed.