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Otago Daily Times, Issue 68, 3 February 1862, Page 2

The Bursting of tub Bubble. —The Emperor of the French has just arrived at a stage in his career which inevitably awaits every spendthrift. The scapegrace comes into an unexpected fortune, and believes that it has no limits. He grows weary of staid advisers, ca:its off the man of business of the family, in.jtals in his place a.steward who fully understands his duty to be to provide money by loans or any otlier contrivance, and to a-ssure iiis employer that hi.s aifairs are in admirable order, that his utmost extravagance is justified by his boundless income, ami that any exceptional devices for raising the wind are temporary and accidental measures which involve no possibility of permanent embarrassment. For a few years the illusion maintains itself. Old establishments and new buildings eat into the capital of the estate, until at last a time arrives when the rent-roll falls off and money is hard to come by, and the complaisant steward is compelled to confess that he is at the end of hi.s resources. Then comes a humiliating return to the old counsellors, an enormous amount of debt is confessed, the steady ina:i of business, is recalled—not without stern conditions on his side— favourite projects of extravagance have to be nipped in the bud, the estate has to be nursed, retrenchment is insisted on in every direction, and the old debts are consolidated by a new loan; and shorn of his gtory, the spendthrift begins a new course of self-denial, which may perhaps retrieve his fortunes if he persists in his better resolutions for year after year, without relapsing again into hia former weakness.— Saturday Review.

It appears that the late King- of Portugal caught his filial illness whilst shooti-ig with his brothers in one of t'lu royal pnvks, where a species of tertian fever is prevalent during' tliu summer months. A National Dentist Hospital was inaugurated in the metropolis on Monday.