She has been lost sight of for a long time, bat it seems M this poor and, I must say, foolish lady, has gone from bad to worse, and that recently she has been committed to Newcastle gaol for contempt of Court in haying failed to obey a summons ordering her to attend and make a full disclosure of her effects to the Court. This unhappy soi^dimnt countess has been taken ill, and lies in a very serious condition. Of course we have had our. usual exhi bition of obesity at the Agricultural Hall, Islington ; and, as if the show of qvet grown oxen and fat pigs was not guffi-. ciently ; attractive, our country, visitors had the opportunity of gazing their fill at plump humanity in the person of the " Claimant,", who chose that particular time for giving two "demonstrations" at St. James's|Hall. Tou may be certain they were rot well attended. If ever ". Sir Roger" felt shy \of being ptared. at v he has quite got over that diffidence now. " Necessity knows no law." The trial will not take place till April. Lady Doughty,: the mother of the child who is

-"*^»usseiwioa_of the estates; lies at the point of deaffiramnirxiiH«rcondition had to give evidence to the lawyers for the Crown who stood at her bedside, aril, still worse, to undergo three hours' cross examination from the claimant's counsel ! Law is certainly very cruel. The poor lady solemnly declared her belief that the claimant was not the real Roger. The Princess of Wales has presented 1 to Sandringham Church a beautiful ' m einfc rial of thanksgiving for the happy issue of the trial sha underwent about this time last year. This is in the shape of a hand some lectern in the form of an eagle with outstretched wings, on the breast of which is a red cross with this inscription "To the glory of God ! a thank-offering," with an appropriate text also. As a rule we do not prosecute nobility in England, but in Russia it seems they are more just. Prince Michel de Lusig nan, who bears the title of King of ; Cyprus, Jerusalem, arid Armenia (a Greek Prince) has just been found guilty of for gery and condemned to transportation, Though a Prince with all these titles, the poor young man and his. 