The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-04-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

HOME, FOLEIGN, AND COLONIAL.  BEING EARLY !-1 he London Correspondent of the Lirerpod Al Linn, svriting on the ACene at the House of Commons Mot Thursday night. says :  _ The excitement within the Homo, and eatable of It was much greater on Thar,day. when the seeond reading of the Reform Bill was moved, than on the occasion when Mr. Gladstone introduced it. It will scarcely be credited, hot I have the fact from the door-keepera and ti e p!lice cn duty, that persons having orders to the strangers gallery began to arrive at half-past two o'clock in the morning, or fourteen boars before the thee at which the gallery was to be opened. At four o'clock there were thirty of the orderholden outside the door in Palace-yard at six o'clock there were a hundred. The entrance to the cell beneath the gallery stairs was then thrown open, alld by seven o'clock, there lens more than the full of the gallery sitting round the walls of that gloomy and prison like place of waiting. At four, pm , the hour when the members u•nally commence to arrive in rapid succepion, there was no crow 4 whatever from Charing-cross to the venerable Abbey" . . .  but ti ere seas a muster of some hundreds from the  ....—__ palissding on the west of Palacwyard to the entrance of Westminster ball.  THE PRINCE OF Rory Que.—Prince Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who has been elected to rule the united Principalities of Walbudlia and Moldavia as Prince (or Hospodar) of Roumania, in the 101181 of the deposed Prince Couza, is second son of Prince Charles Antoine, the head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who, it will be remembered, renounced his rights in favour of the late King of Prussia in 1949, receiving the prerogatives of a puisne prince of the Royal House, and who as late as 1861 was, in his own person only raised to the rank of royal highness. The new ruler chosen for the Principalities is the issue of the marriage of his father to Josephine-Frederica Louise. daughter of the late Grand Duke Charles Louis Frederic of Baden, and is now within a few days of completing his 27th year, having been born on April 20, 1839. The baptismal names given to his highness were Charles Eitel Frederick Z-phyrin Louis. He is at present in the Prussian military service as an officer in the 2nd Regiment of Dragons. His highness has three brothers—Prince Leopold (the heir to the family honours), Prince Antoine, and Prince Frederick; also a sister, the Princess Marie. The new prince is connected with the reigning family of France; his aunt, the Princess Frederica- ilhelmin a, having married, in 1844,Joachim Napoleon Marquis Pepoli, grandson of the King of Naples, Joachim Murat. A " Brmo" STORE! Baron de Colt; the Pr laden diplomatist, is renowned for his canstic humour, of which many anecdotes are extant. The latest given to the world is rather the other way, it seems. Tho Baron was at St. Petersburg one evening in the salons of Prince Gortechalcoff, awl amusing every one by his satire— • good deal of which was at the expense of the Prince. After saying a very biting thing he left, leaving an trlat rb rire behind, but immediately after the Baron's voice was heard calling " Murder! murder ! help I" The Prince ran to the windo A and there beheld the Prussian diplomatist standing terrified at an enormous I fallen llBf. the dread of the household. The Prince, nothing alarmed himself for his guest, hallooed out, "It is you, 111,4a.ieur PAtnbasaadenr ; pray don't bite my dog, too !" and he quietly closed the window.