1 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 2

John, King of Saxony, died on Wednesday, October 29, and

was succeeded by his son Albert, the soldier of the Franco- German war. There is not much importance in the change,_ except that King John, though he accepted Germany after his defeat, always preferred the Catholic Hapsburgs, and detested the Protestant Hohenzollerns ; and his son Albert, though a Catholic ruling a Protestant people, is a faithful pillar of the Empire, with as many liberal ideas- as a king can be expected to have. He fought well in France, is sufficiently popular, and will probably be less suspected by his subjects of intending to set up a despotism than any king of the Albertine line ever yet was.