CLIPPINGS FROM HOME. PAPERS. DEVOTIONS OF A SPANISH PRINCESS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4697, 12 September 1872, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM HOME. PAPERS. DEVOTIONS OF A SPANISH PRINCESS.

The Qiornale di Mrenze relates the following anecdote:— "The Princess Clotilda, sister of King Amodeus of Spain, stilUin-habits-Prangms.- As she is a , very pious woman, she oftenlgoestoGeheviv'and takes the sacrament at JST6tre Dame. About a fortnight ago she' 1 arrived $arl£ at the church, according to custom, and saw that a service was about to commence at the attar of the Holy Virgin. To approach the chapel and hear the mass afforded-graat.pleasure to the princess. Nevertheless, she had remarked that aeve'ral persona were watching her. She wished to know the cause, and.learnt .that the mass she had attended was celebrated, at the request of the Duchess; of Madrid ', fop the ;trratnph of the 'C*rl|sjis iii Spaing juicl of course for the downfall of her own brother,"

PRESENT STA.TE OF/.F^NCEj ,*>! Mr. William' Chambers,- who in on' a (son» tinental tour, writes in a letter which, is published in th« t Scotsman : " The state 'of affairs in France is gettingijeyond a joke. All with whom I conversed spoke despondingly of the, future. Tradesmen. on a*l hands are complaining of the increased taxation, and of the probable distresses arising from an erroneous commercial policy. Yet France has large resources, and it may contrive to get through its financial difficulties. At present, I must nay, things do not look well in the money way. D.uring* my t whole stay I encountered only one gold napoleon. Circular notes are cashed in notes'-of the Bank of France, and for small change I was favoured with notes of from two to five francs." .»

. SCARCITY OF MEAT.IN BRITAIN. I The " cheap food" Agitation is apx-eading in the mining districts of the North. The I miners' wives are acting independently of their lords and masters in this matter ; and the absence of the mon from the meetings which are held daily certainly does not : detract from the spirit and interest of the I proceedings. At Sleekburn and Bedliugton the chairwoman recommended a strike against the butchers, and she lamented that " a vast ' I' of people" would still buy butchers' meat. ( The meeting is reported to have Bhrieked in ' cborua, " We'll watch 'em ;" " We'll tar \ 'cm ;" and to have shown in other ways that they have not been unobservant of the practices adopted by the rougher sex (so called) when trade interests are in dispute. Mrs. Grieves "wanted to know" whose fault it was that the supply of cattle and sheep was falling off. "Let them look at the hundreds and thousands of acres of land that these dukes and lords and squires, and all the rest of them, keep waste just to feed their bucks and' does and rabbits and such like!" She "expects to see the day when half the House of Commons will be composed of woiking men, and then the evils of which they complained might be remedied." Another speaker, Mrs. Watson, was inclined to moderation; but she was overborne by the the* crowd, and the meeting broke upjn a mood which portends evil to the butchers. — European Mail.

EXTRA ORDINARY TRIAL AT , ROME. A criminal trial afc the Assize Oourb of Rome has just been brought to a most unexpected end. A woman from Aibano, named Apollonia Matooci, was changed -with' the murder of her child, aged two years. The trial came on recently, but it was soon found that there had been some foul play in the matter. The evidence tendered by the witnesses in Court was widely different from the written depositions. ' Tho president ordered further inquiries to be made, and it soon appeared that Apollonia Matocci bad been the victim of a diabolical conspiracy. It seems that her good looks had attracted the attention of a legal functionary in Albano, and that her peremptory rejection of his overtures bad converted love into hatred, and desire into a cruel thirst for revenge at any cost. The disappointed lover, it would appear, had influence enough to induce several persons of seeming' respectability to become his accomplices. , The poor creature .was accused of infanticide, and in the absence, of' the usual examining Judge the case was got up by a stranger, who put his signature' to the documents set before him, without knowing> what .they contained, and, indeed, without having taken the trouble to interrogate a single witness., ,When these facts were bt ought to light, the prisoner was at puce set at liberty (after 'probably- .many months' imprisonment), and the authors of the conspirftcy-Miwo magistrates, a medical man, and a nurse-— were put under lock and key, where they will remain 'Until they shall be called, sooner or later, < to give an account bf their misdeeds, ' . ' „

A FRENC& PLAY ADORED BY THE } PRINCE OF WALES. j Describing the new play, "Paris in 1869," ivhichthe Prince, of vMesJs said to hav^ enjoyed so much on the first night of its re; presentation, the Paris' correspondent of the paily NevoB observes^-r^'^he second act makes us acquainted with Worth's dressing The man., milliner of the Rue de In - |»aix goes on the • stage .of the . Gymnase >by I the name of Kramer. He.ia presiding, as the . Qurtain rises! at a 'filiug past of ladies whom he has just dressed..' A pair* of .soistfore is his Enchanter's wand, and the moral, power, he exercises' over his'lovely cujJtdmers-'-tfor it is ; impossible to regard themes, lub patronesses, ' 4-ena.blea him to take,temble Jiber^ieaaiDtho ijaapipalation of, their shoulders> and in 'orit^; dising thds«'ch*rmS'of' beatrt^'s 1 'MaouUl^ttycff, ; «iiik'aiid'swell«^a,ctly k ,i|kS Wj^pbriKfimerj/ jttea&V" Let not" lady readers lmagin&^batFrench sisters ,onjy, werp.admjtijed to this Jpeusis. We 'have *a' certain^ 'Duchess ( who dompeted .for the^J office ! of 'Mist're'Bs' bf the Robes in the .filing past ( of, drepes,,. ,M. « 1 Gp^ibet,cliqb>es ! ,^6i<?all l b.er % LaQycflawkinsi' Here is a de'sorigtion of attnH-"whi(itt, iJ( T u am afraid, will not meet with the, approval of "toe ' Dress Reform Association, I,},—An1 ,},— An enierald green skirt, infinite in latit'aoe and longitude, with countless flounces' 6£ ! {h'e 4 g^mis'p'liss6 all I1 '' The tiblier is highly ornate, and ,elaD6rately em-l]roiderediwitllvwhitteli!pinkr.)'lTb.\j-c6rsage i| half open, and shows, tp advantage $c |all/i oi'MdllerPferßoh's graceful Bhouldors,(V!duoh.' tpe man milliner admiringly strokes down. s ic' first'b'&meto Pam,/(i(Mft3»ma'M*uri*rine] f f i l point of splendour, well-nigh eclipoeaXady I [awkins. The <Tnf J MiWIiM her q u-net »ndtVg6ldife%i^ri>iaere i 'd^lVe l Crobe a Imits of ii, that the sash tC^r&ftw^Hfgh in J icinthe ii hftbitftd in a thick i*illh i ¥ilk' ( 'or t kaipeouliar sUdo p^onwej^y tWP/inpes* n mftwiter gre^om ,Ja ligtUcJoudrfof €im%j' t illeia thrown over tKe grl^ifaygni^,^^^ y bi^!*M.^l^ w^'^ St^ iW P| >£^^^ I^ I™Bi''1 ™8 i '' 1 bfisPloiof ithef-piecfe; tu^nsi o«>' sttii^ftl^lfcis^ o $&*tiM«<mt bt^him^mmfM^ i \ describe." -"-„,. . * .

• i The . impecunious^m»Tket»jt»rdeu9ft», who wants to know niQW to v.*,' ; S»H^»jHJ''W6,iiors©iJV i« strongly advised tojget mwtiedr^ o '*' i*s.'*T PfrfcuiSi ; c ' Ahil w6tll^h|C J^^towa Ojf^