The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-06-18 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ROMANTIC MARRIAGE OF AN INDIAN PRINCE. —The Maharajah Duleep &ugh is here (writes a correspondent from Alexandria to a contemporary). When passing through Cairo, on his way to India, with his mother's body, he saw and fell in love with a girl at the Presbyterian Mission School, the daughter of one of the partners in a leading English mercantile house, and, after some hesitation on her part, the Matter is settled, and they are to be married in a few weeks. The American missionary tells me that she is one of the most beautiful girls, both in person and in character, that he has ever seen or known, and, like the Maharajah himself, is a devout Christian.  THE CONSEQUENCES OF GAMBLING ! The gambling dens of Germany are turning out their usual number of victims. The following cases have °enured within the past few months in connexion with Homburg and Wiesbaden alone:— A bookkeeper in a Frankfort banking house, after having lost at play every farthing he possessed, out his throat in the baths at liombu-g, last November. In the begl ' g of March a young Frenchman, after having played away his last franc, comnatited suicide by cutting open the blood vessels at Disguise, and allowing h maelf to bleed to death. On the 2nd of May, a man from Kreutzbach, who had lost all his money at the gambling table of Wiesbaden, hung hima-If in an inn as Mayence. He left • wife and ten children behind. In Kirtorf, a village near Homburg, the body of a gambler was discovered :n a pond. On the 17th of May, the body of a confectioner's apprentice MU found in the river Maine. Before falling in the water, he had shot himself with a pistol through the head. He left a letter behind stating that his losses in flomhavg had driven him to suicide. On the 22nd of May, a waiter, twenty-one years old, living in Frankfort, who had lost all his savings at Homburg, drowned himself in the Maine. THE FEDERAL NATIONAL Darr. —An Amen-. can (says the Panama Star), has measured and weighed the Federal national debt, which is 4,000,000,000 dole. Estimated in silver dollars, he says that if they were placed edge to edge they would stretch nearly 90,000 miles. Their weight would be 125,000 tons, which would load 62,500 railway trucks, the aggregate length of which would be 353 miles.  -- LUXURIOUS TRAVELLING,— Respecting the arrangement made for the journey of the Emperor of Eu-sia, it is stated that the Imperial train which conveyed their Majesties from Petersburg consisted of 12 saloon and ordinary carriagem, all of winch were fitted up with the titmoit attention to comfort and convenience, and included a kitchen, abilbarcbroom, sleeping chambers, &c. The great luxury of the Imperial joa,meys, the terrace-carnage with balcopies, which is splendidly ornamented, it was nece.sary to leave behind, DA a ith it the train would have been too long. The fittings of the greater part of the carriagee were of a truly imperial nature; bat by his Majesty's airh his own salmin carriage was simply lined with green leather. Communiaction from one carpage to the other was provided for, and every one was taken to avoid draughts of ,-eid air entering during the night. This carefolly Franged tin could only travel as far as the German frontier on account of the difference in the gouge of the rails  --1--