MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 9, 10 January 1872, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A letter, speaking of the Tichborue case says : — The cost of taking and priuting the notes of evidence was £1800. Hundreds of witnesses have been brought from Australia, and South America, and witness after witness comes up, and swears he recognises the claimant as the real Sir Roger. The defence try to prove mercenary perjury on the part of witnesses. Paris is not happy. In raauy of the new boulevards there are long rows of shops unlet. The restaurants and the theatres are comparatively empty. The strangers who go to Paris do not remain there, nor, with the exception of one or two fashionable milliners, are the usual purchases made by them in the shops. No

doubt this stagnation is in part due to the unsettled state of the country; but much of it is also owiug to the fact that almost overything in Paris is at least fifty per cent. dearer than it is elsewhere. With the one exception of house rent, prices, which were extortionate under the Empire, have now increased. The shopkeepers are trying to make up for small sales and crushing taxation by fleecing their customers. The Ivuight3 of the Order of St George founded by the Empress Catherine in 1769, celebrated their anniversary at St. Petersburg on the 7th December. A grand banquet was given at which the Czir and the first dignitaries were present The Czar, in toasting the Emperor of Germany, said he hoped that the ultimate friendship which existed between that monarch and himself would last as long a 9 they lived, and be carried down to future generations; that the fraternity of the armies of Germany and Russia would be perpetual, and thus would be constituted the best guarantees for the maintenance of peace in Europe. The sudden and severe coldness of the weather causes great distress among the poor within the city of London ; 17 deaths have resulted from extreme cold since ice and frost appeared. Measures are beiog taken to provide for the suffering.