Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-16

opinion, as decided as it was authoritative,
| in favor of the issue of notes by the govern
ment, to the exclusion of the banks. After
referring to the general depression of trade,
he said that the Scotch banks fswould do
much to lift up the cloud of depression if
they led the van, as they could so well and
so rapidly do, in abandoning the archaic sys
tenn of private issues, and recognize that when
bank notes have been raised to the dignity of
money, which ours have attained, they
should be invested with the authority and
the sanction of state issue, and with the in
disputable security of State responsibility.
Mr.. Jameson is a director Of the Royal Bank
of Scotland, and the London Economist
speaks of him as one of the most influential
of Scottish bank directors.
Berlin papers report the death some weeks
ago, in condition of great poverty of wo-
man who pissed for several years as one of
the last surviving representatives of the
House of Vasa. Her story that she was
daughter of Gustavus ", King of Sweden,
by his wife Frederika of Baden, and that
after the abdication and exile of her father
she was brought up at the Court of Carls-
ruhe. She returned to Sweden to claim her
rights, although the ex-King lad renounced
all pretensions of any kind for himself and
his family. She succeeded in persuading
| several persons of influence of the truth of
her story, and what was of more Importance,
the late King Charles XIV. seems to have
| thought it probable, and manifested much
interest in her welfare. He assig ned her a
yearly subsidy of 500 krone, afterward in
creased to 5000 But when King Oscar sue
ceeded to the throne in 1872 he had search
| ing inquiry made, which proved that the
soi-disante princess was ths daughter of a
small Stockholm tradesman named Magnus-
son, that she was born in 1917, more than
esght years after the abdication of Gustavus
", and that her real baptismal name was
Anna F1orentine, and not Helga as the
'Princess'' gave out. She never abandoned
her pretensions but her adherents gradually
died or fell off, and she became reduced to
great destitutfon, dying in a garret near the
Geological Gardens in Stockholm.
Mr. Randall's bill for increasing the navy
authorizes the President to select a board of
six civilians, skilled in wood and iron con-
struction, shipbuilding or engineering, the
secretary of the navy to be the seventh mem
Der and president of the board. The board
is to invite suggestions from all competent
persons, both in the service and in civil life,
| in relation to types of vessels and other mat
| ters pertaining to the building of a navy.
| After considering all suggestions, the board
shall determine the general character of the
| vessels to be constructed, and, with the ap-
proval of the President, shall call for compe-
titive designs, with working models and
specifications. For the design selected as
best an award of $50, 900 will be made: for
| the second best $15,0 900 and for the third
best $40 900. The results of the competition
are to be reported to the President for trans
mission to Congress. One vessel of each Sc
lected type, if approved by the President,
is to be built by contract with the lowest re-
sponsible bidder. If after months trial it
proves satisfactory the vessel shall be adopt
ed as standard for its class, and if there
after any contractor shall build a vessel of
the same class which proves superior in
speed, or which being equal in all other re-
spects will maintain its maximum speed with
out recoaling for longer time, it shall be
purchased by the secretary of the navy at the
same cost as the first vessel, with such ad-
ditional bonus as the secretary and Congrt IS
superior in all respects to the model it shall
be optional with the secretary and the Presi-
dent whether it shall be purchased.