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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 May 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

Change of Fortune.—-The « Memorial de Lille has the following:—" A sudden change of fortune from an incident which has all the appearance of a romance has just occured to a cotton spinner at Roubaix. This man, aged 29, who was in the employment of M. Desrousseaux, of the above town, being about to marry a young workwoman of the same establishment, had sent to Brussels for a certificate of birth, having been brought up at the Foundling Hospital of that city. Instead of the certificate asked for, the young man received a notice to call on the burgomaster of Brussels on important business, and on doing so was surprised to learn that he was the son of a Russian prince and a young lady belonging to the Belgian aristocracy, and that a property of eight to ten millions of francs awaited him." The famous Yelverton case presents a new feature. The second wife, Mrs. Forbes Yelverton, writes to the " Examiner" to say that she had never heard of the claim of the first- except as a cast-off mistress, and, indeed, could not, as she did not invent it till afterwards, out of revenge. Thereupon Mrs. Longworth Yelverton's solicitor writes to the " Scotsman," denying the allegation, and promising, in the absence of their client, that she will bring an action for libel for the letter.—Spectator.