The Queen of Holland gave birth to a son at
four o'clock on the morn- ing of the 24th, at the Hague.
The Bishop of Bath and Wells has been obliged to have three of his fingers amputated ; mortification ensuing in these parts, the painful opera- tion became necessary to save his Lordship's life.—Skerborne Journal.
The Queen of Holland gave birth to a son at four o'clock on the morn- ing of the 24th, at the Hague.
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna announces the death of the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg Kohary, elder brother of the King of the Belgians, at six o'clock on the morning of the 27th. His Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha, was born March 28, 1785. The late Duke was brother to the Princess Anna Feodorowna, widow of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia; to the King of the Belgians, and to the Duchess of Kent ; and uncle to the reigning Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha, and to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. He has left four children. The eldest, Prince Ferdinand, is the husband of the Queen of Portugal : the others are Prince Augustus, husband of the Princess Clementine of Orleans ; the Duchess de Nemours ; and Prince Leopold, Major in the deceased's Hussar Regiment.
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