The Marquis of Hastings, who died about two years ago, was also one of this same set of spendthrift, young harum-scarum, unprincipled scions of the Bluest Blood of which England can boast. All his magnificent fortune went in horses, and women, and yachts, and at last, when he died, at the age of 26, he had squandered some three or four millions of dollars, and, I believe, the title created as far back as 1389, became in the direct line, extinct. The Marquis lost one day at the Derby race on Lady Elizabeth, a favorite horse of his, the enormous sum of $150,000 in gold. He married a beautiful and wealthy girl, and her fortune went in the general crash after his death. He owned a magnificent yacht, and was in the habit of cruising in the Mediterranean with a coterie of dissolute young aristocrats like himself, and on board of this yacht scenes took place that might have made the cheek of Sardanapalus to blush--that is, provided that that bloated Assyrian ever blushed. [Illustration: THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS.] Prince Christian of Schleswig, a beggarly little German kinglet, who was allowed to marry the Princess Helena, a daughter of Queen Victoria, and a very good girl, is said to be rather wild in his ways, but his allowance, £10,000 a year from Parliament, has to satisfy him whether he likes it or not. But in 1869 Prince Christian and the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz had occasion to journey from Dover to Calais, and the little German had the impudence to send a bill of sixty eight pounds expenses to Parliament, despite the fact that he received his allowance regularly. Professor Fawcett, a liberal member of Parliament, who brought in bills to abolish religious distinctions in Dublin University, and in favor of woman suffrage, demanded the items of the bill, and failing to get them, moved that the Prince Christian's bill be struck out of the estimates. To show what is thought of such unbridled extravagance--the fare being only about two pounds from Dover to Calais--I give the satire and comments of the _Queen's Messenger_ of August 5, 1869, upon the matter. This paper is a weekly organ, published in London. "Happily there are always two ways of looking at a question, else the following bill, which was presented last week to Parliament, might have suggested puzzling reflections: DUE FROM BRITISH TAXPAYER TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT: For cost of presents made by Duke of Edinburgh during voyage to Cape and Australia, £3,374 14 0 For conveyance of Prince Christian and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from Dover to Calais, 68 0 0 For royal present to Peter, king of Congo, as reward for act of Christian charity, 0 12 6 For luncheon to Prince William of Hesse, 13 0 0