A Contrast.
--We read side by side with the bear treading accounts of distress among the English open Ives, and famine among the Irish peas antre, statements to the effect that "the royal plate on the Prince of Wales's marriages breakfast table will be of the value of ton millions of dollars," and that "the Palace of Wales's supply of plate for Marlborough House will cost nearly fifty thousand pounds."No wonder that "poor Joe,"in Dicken's book, thought the ways of the world were "all a muddle."