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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 289, 7 June 1862, Page 3

The Pbince's Death — Those persons who put faith in astrological predictions will feel some interest in having their attention called to the following prophecy in reference to the death of the Prince Consort, which appears in "Zadkiel's Almanac" for 1861:— "The full moon nearest the ingress of the sun in Aries is 2h. 12m. p.m., 26th March, 1861. This lunation is remarkable, because the same sign ascends as at the ingress, and very nearly the same degree. Again, we find Saturn retrogade in the ascendant, and Jupiter in the twelfth, with Mars again fiercely burning in the tenth house. Some very pugnacious feelings are displayed by the ruling power. The revenue fails, and turmoil arises on that question. A royal marriage is now indicated by Venus, lady of the tenth house, being in exact sextile aspect to Mars. Mercury, in the eighth, promotes much mortality during the spring amongst children, and many deaths by catarrh, coughs, cold, and asthma. The stationary position of Saturn in the third degree of Tirgo will be very evil for all persons born on or near the 26th of August. Among the sufferers I regret to see the worthy Prince Consort of these realms. Let such persons pay scrupulous attention to health. Some singular calamity for London is threatening about the Ist of August. It may be by tumults, or the death of numbers by the fall of some building, &c. The evil will be sudden and singular." The Rev. H. Hulcatt, an army chaplain, having occasion to visit an aged woman at Osborne, saw sitting by the bedside a lady in deep mourning, reading the Word of God. He was about to retire, when the lady remarked, " Pray remain, I should not wish the invalid to lose that comfort which a clergyman might afford." The lady retired, and the clergyman found lying on the bed a book with texts of Scripture adapted to the sick, and he found that out of that book portions of Scripture had been read by the lady in black. The lady was the Queen. — Albion. The Yotctng Wipe. — It takes a heroine to be economical ; for will not many a woman rather run in debt for a bonnet than wear her old one a year behind the mode ? — give a ball, and stint the family dinner for a month after ? — take a large house and furnish handsome reception rooms, while her household huddle together anyhow ? She prefers this a hundred times to stating plainly, by word or manner, "My income is bo much a year — I don't care who knows it — it will not keep comfortably both my family and acquaintance j therefore, excuse my preferring the comfort of my family to the entertainment of my acquaintances. And society, if you choose to look in upon us, you must just take us as we are, without any pretences of any kind ; or you may shut the door, and say goodsbye I"— Miss Muloch, The Pbince a HoaitEOPATHIST. — Great surprise has been expressed among high medical authorities at the fact- of the Prince having been carried off by typhoid fever, especially when it is known that he was attended by four of the most eminent phyßicians of Europe, one of whom, Dr. Jenner, has a speciality for the cure of this disease. It is asserted that in all probability the Prince's life would have been saved had he obeyed the instructions of his physicians ; but that, unfortunately, he was extremely adverse to stimulants, — the grand remedy in such a case, sustaining the body while nature worked the cure — and that he positively refused to take them until the illness had prostrated him — then it was too late. The Prince's aversion to stimulant 8 and to all strong remedies arose from his bias for homoeopathy, to which, doctriue he was for some time, if not to the last, a firm ad* herent. A Vbkbatim BejPobteb.— " Well, Cuffee," said a minister to hia colored servant, " what were you doing.in meeting jthis afternoon P*' ' Dping, mastoP-VTj^ '■, "¥ou 1 t&Ktag not^" - 6xdiwm^d : *ti|a<3t l •BiMtsri'*v-* < Swtlni

maesa; all the gentlemen take notes." *'Well,: let me see them," said he. Cuffee thereupon produced his sheet of paper, and his master found it scrawled all over with all sorts of marks and lines, as though a dozen spiders, dipped in ink, had marched over it. " Why, this is all nonsense," said the minister, as he looked at the notes. "Well, massa," Cuffee replied, " I thought so all the time you was preaching" The Redan.— Of all the spots we visited, the Sedan was, perhaps, the most striking, and told its tale most clearly. The earthworks all remain. Time has worn them down a little, but every ridge and trench can be followed. From the Redan the whole plan of the warfare can be traced. We stood on the spot where General Windham made the desperate assault, and where he had in vain called for support : we looked down into the trench where such fearful slaughter took place. Slowly and silently we crossed that fatal space between the advanced trench and the earthworks of the Redan. When, on all sides, were seen the Russian batteries bearing upon that space, one felt, what was the courage needed to leave the shelter of our trenches, and how miraculous the escape of any one alive to tell the tale. — ' Ten Days in the Crimea? in Macmillan's Magazine* A Double Mind. — An account is given in Once a Week of a young lady, who, although possessed naturally of a good memory* which had been well trained, and was well stored with knowledge, awoke one day after a long and found that she had lost every iota of acquired knowledge, and that her mind was reduced to a perfect blank. With great effort, she was gradually mastering, as a child would do. the first lessons of youth, when she suddenly fell into a sound sleep, on awaking from which it was discovered that she had recovered her old state of knowledge. The old and new states alternated with each other; at one moment she was the accomplished woman, at another she possessed the mental calibre of a child ; in the old state, she wrote a beautiful hand — in the new, a cramped, stiff character, such as children do. In this extraordinary condition she remained for four years ; a double mind, as it were, took possession of her, she being conscious only of the state she may happen to have been in at the time. Prince At.bsbt and a Bishop. — The London Examiner, commenting upon an alleged remark of the Bishop of Oxford's, that the death of the Prince Consort was a chastisement of Providence provoked by the sins of the nation, says : — * Prince Albert had penetration. He was solicited by a Bishop, we will not say by whom, to support the claims of a man of very doubtful opinions to a bishopric. He demurred, expressing his misgivings of the ambitious candidate's orthodoxy. Shortly afterwards the disappointed man went over to Rome. When next the Prince met the Bishop, he observed how fortunate it was that he (the Prince) had not recommended his friend the renegade to ecclesiastical advancement, to which the indiscreet but characteristically unprincipled answer was, 'Had your Royal Highness done so, the apostacy would not have happened.' From that moment the Prince knew his man j and that man, whoever he is, now treats the Prince's death as a judgment.' xVJaklbobottg-h:. — The Revising Officer is likely to have plenty of work on hand in this juvenile province. For the district of Wairau, one hundred and four objections have been made to persons whose names appear on the electoral roll as entitled to vote for members of Council and General Assembly ; whilst the Picton roll is still more unceremoniously treated by having 116 of its free and independent electors to pass through the revising ordeal ; and ail these at the suit of one Michael Aldridge, of Ocean Bay, Port Underwood.