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Evening Star, Issue 6915, 30 May 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

With all the members of the Royal ; Family, except, of course, the Queen, the Battenberg alliance is most unpopular.- It is even said that the Prince of Wales made his objections very pointedly when at ■ Berlin, and that the Crown Princess added "her'a to hissen," as the Yankees say, but so far ineffectually. Meanwhile the young Prince, although unmercifully snubbed by his future brothers and sisters according to> law, lives on at Windsor and enjoys the goodwill of the Queen, if not the love of his future wife. He is a handsome youth, but not so good-looking as his brother. The Queen is said to wish for an alliance be-. tween her grand - daughter the Princess Louise of Wales and the young Prince of Bulgaria, who was engaged to Princess Victoria of Prussia, but was subsequently refused by that young lady, much to the vexation of her friends and relatives. The Prince and Princess of Wales, however, donot approve of the match, and the Queen, notwithstanding, absolutely refuses even to hear the subject mentioned. In point of fact, if the Prince has his own way his daughters will marry Englishmen, and they could not do a more popular thing.— Exchange. Anti-tobacconists will not be able to - evolve a very strong case out of the melancholy end of James Freeman, tailor, of Newark. It is true that Freeman hanged himself, that he was of melancholy temperament, and that he was "an inveterate smoker of very strong tobacco." But unfortunately for the argument of the nonsmokers, he delayed his private despatch until he had attained the ripe age of threescore years and thirteen, thereby exciting ''- the reasonable conclusion that if he had not ':l cheered his pilgrimage through life with'fcji'/ plentiful emission of the soothing smokeiot\' K tobacco, he would have run himself aground .'' long before he did. "'.';■*