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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 3, 5 January 1869, Page 3

We (the Lancet) understand that the mental derangement of the Empress Charlotte has reassumed an acute form ; that she is now subject to attacks of furious mania; aud, on the authority of her medical attendants, the ' beginning of the end' is now so near that telegrams are passing daily between Yienua and Lacken, her place of confinement. 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown ' was true of the ill-starred Empress during her tenure of power; and, now that recovery seems more than doubtful, it is hardly humane to hope for the prolongation of a life which, has had scarce a gleam of happiness for the last three years. A Bale paper states that the keeper of the buffet at the railway station charged Queen Victoria and a suite of 30 persons 700 francs for a breakfast of coffee, eggs, aud cold meat, being at the rate of 23 francs a-head. The Bale people are very indignant at this extortion, but the restaurateur would probably justily himself as the English innkeeper did who presented George 111. with a bill of one guinea for a slice of bread and one egg. The king, while paying ; the money observed that eggs must be very scarce in that part of the country. 'No, your ■ Majesty,' was the reply, 'eggs are plentiful enough, but king's visits are rare,' Pet : * Ma, do speak to George. He says I must be a mongrel, 'cause I ■hav'nt got a black roof to my mouth!'