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aLy* (wij ■ tilBI ' <% JkmT flfifk g&X p ':.\ PaBB jk,J ^5~ L-v-- v a jfjpl^ ® , 052 TRU v 1 G> ■ I J \ \ 0 5^- U- • TRUTH { Pf: ., %S%7 “Cultores Veritatis Fraudis Inimiei.” — Cicero. ^ No. 392. Yol. X'VI. Thuesday, July 3, 1884, Peice Sixpence. INTRB NOUS. THE Queen will hold an Investiture one day next week in the White Drawing-room, at Windsor Castle, at which the new K.C.B.’s will be knighted, and Lord Derby will receive his Garter. The attendance at this function is to be as small as possible, in accordance with the Queen’s express commands ; and several individuals who, under ordinary circumstances, would be summoned, will learn with disappointment that, except in a few special cases, the ceremony of investiture has been dispensed with for this year. Her Majesty drove to Ditton Park a few hours after her return to WTindsor, last Wednesday, and drank tea with the Dowager Duchess of Buccleuch, who, with the Duke, met her Majesty at the drawbridge. The Queen remained at Ditton for about an hour. The precautions taken to shield Aladdin’s Princess from the public gaze, when she passed through the streets of Bagdad on her way to the baths, were not more stringent than the prohibition which was issued from Balmoral last week against the admission of any person whatever, except indispensable officials, to the stations when the Royal train stopped between Ballater and Windsor. When the Queen was coming home from Darmstadt, the stations at Bonn, Coblenz, and other places at which the train was to stop, were most elaborately decorated with flags and evergreens, and there were many people with large bouquets of flowers. It may be supposed, therefore, that the Germans were not much pleased when the blinds of the Royal saloon were sharply pulled down as the train entered the various stations, and were not raised again till after it had left. The Duchess of Albany, who arrived at Windsor Castle on Thursday, is to remain on a visit to the Queen until the removal of the Court to Osborne, which will take place about July 18. Her Majesty is expected to arrive at Balmoral from Osborne for the autumn between the 23rd and 30th of August. The precise date of the Queen’s departure for Scotland will depend on the health of the Duchess of Albany. The Prince and Princess of Wales are to arrive at Abergeldie Castle during the second week in August, and the Duchess of Edinburgh will reach Birkhall about the same time. The Duchess remains in Russia for about fortnight longer ; and, till she goes to Scotland, her children will continue to occupy Abergeldie Mains. In compliance with a wish expressed by the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales will not attend any theatres this season. The Prince’s schooner, Aline , is fitting out at Cowes and I hear that it is the intention of H.R.H. to take a fortnight’s cruise in the Channel before he goes to Scotland. Princess Beatrice was much better for her visit to Aix-les-Bains last autumn, but she has again been suffering from rheumatism, and I hear that it is in contemplation for H.R.H. to go to Amsterdam for a few weeks to be under Dr. Metzger, from whose treatment the Empress of Austria and the Queen of Sweden have derived so much benefit. It seems to me that H.R.H. would do well to give our native waters a trial. She was on the point of going to Bath last year, and there can be no doubt that the waters there are quite as efficacious as any in Europe, and the baths are the most luxurious in the woi'ld. Edmund’s account of “ Prince Albert Victor at Heidel¬ berg ” deals with everything and everybody in and about the place, except the young Prince ; but this is not strange, as the article must have been written at least a day before H.R.H. reached Heidelberg, and if he had stopped at Wiesbaden, to pass Sunday with the King and Queen of Denmark (as was first proposed), it would have been pub¬ lished before his arrival. Edmund ought to have waited another week. The wedding-gift of the Grand Duke Sergius to his bride was a parure of daisies, which is said to have cost £20,000. The Queen presented her grand daughter with her trousseau. During the last month the King of the Netherlands has been recruiting his health (which is in a most pre¬ carious and critical condition) at Carlsbad, and the Queen has been taking the waters of Ivissingen. A few days ago a rumour reached the Hague that the Queen is enceinte , and it has caused much excitement, as, in the event of her giving birth to a son, the difficulties of the Dutch succes¬ sion would be solved, as far as the most troublesome points are concerned. In any case, however, a Regency Act will have to be passed at once, as, under the Dutch Constitution, this is a question which must be settled during the life of Ipttf. CnVrtor^ _ - . . . ■ \ _ HA A 2 TRUTH. [July 3, 1884. the King. It is expected that Queen Emma will be ap¬ pointed Regent, under the guidance of a committee of Dutch notables. Unluckily the Queen is by no means popular in Holland, and she is particularly disliked at the Hague. If the King leaves no son, the Duchy of Luxem¬ burg passes to the Duke of Nassau. The large fortune of the late Prince of Orange is divided between his father and his half-sister. The King and Queen are expected to reach the Hague this evening from Germany. The mistakes which have been made by English news¬ papers in their comments upon the consequences of the death of the Prince of Orange are curious. As a matter of fact, Princess Wilhelmine, the daughter of the King, is heiress to the Crown of Holland, for in that country there is no Salic Law. The King, however, is Grand Duke of Luxemburg, where the Salic Law exists, and, consequently, the Princess will not inherit the Grand Ducal Crown. The correspondent of the Standard in Amsterdam writes : — Even in the sad event of anything befalling the young Princess, the succession would devolve on the King’s sister, Princess Sophia, and on the Princess Marianne and Prince Frederick, his aunt and uncle. A Frenchman once called the Dutch une nation eteinte, but even he never supposed that they could be ruled over by dead Princes and Princesses. Princess Marianne died May 27, 1883, and Prince Frederick, Sept. 8, 1881. Queen Marie of Hanover, who has been taking the waters at Kissingen, has arrived at Schloss Frohliche, near J ena, on a visit to the Princess Th6r&se of Saxe-Altenburg, where she has been joined by Princess Frederica, who has been staying at Leipzic. This is their first meeting for nearly five years, as the Queen resented her daughter’s mesalliance (as she considered *it) almost as bitterly as the Duke of Cumberland, who has never since held any com¬ munication with his sister, and who sent a letter to the Queen remonstrating, in very strong terms, against the manner in which she had thought fit to help on the affair. The Countess von Hutten-Czapska, the mother of Madame de Kalomine, has just arrived at Wiesbaden from Russia, and is described in the local journals as “ wife’s mother ” of “ Seine Konigliche Hoheit der Gross-IIerzog Luis von Hessen.” By the way, the Duke’s morganatic mariiage, and its diverting sequel, have led to a legal prosecution, instituted by the State Prosecutor of Berlin, against the comic journal Schalk, u for having ridiculed and insulted a reigning Federal Prince.” There are few busier men in the kingdom than the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, and possibly none whose occupa¬ tions are so varied. After a busy time in the North of Ireland, Lord Spencer had a terribly heavy week at the Viceregal Lodge. Every day he attended the meetings of the Rifle Shooting Association at Dolly- mount, and took an active part in the contests. On Tues- The General Stock Exchange, Lim., 48, St. James’s-st., comer of Piccadilly. — Private special telephonic and telegraphic communica¬ tion with the City and other business centres. Great convenience to West-end and Country Clients. Every class of Stock Exchange business transacted. Moderate commissions. Telephone No. 3722. day he dined with the Benchers at the King’s Inns, Hen- rietta-street, at six o’clock, the traditional banqueting hour, which even the sacredness of tradition hardly makes commendable to general taste on a sultry June afternoon. On Friday the rifle teams were entertained at dinner by Lord and Lady Spencer. Finally, the postponed birthday review was held in the Phoenix Park, on Saturday, General Lord Clarina being in command. Lord Spencer rode with Sir Thomas Steele and a brilliant staff. Lady Spencer, with Lady M. Boyle, was present in a State car¬ riage with outriders. Her Excellency’s costume was of dark green silk with dull red stripes, and bonnet and sunshade to match. Amongst those near the flag-staff were Lady Annaly, Lady Hamilton, Lady Gertrude Astley, and Mrs. G. Dawson-Damer, the two latter ladies wearing toilets of the Guard’s colours, with sailor hats. A hoax after the Theodore Hook fashion was perpe¬ trated last week in Dublin, when invitations to a festivity “ To have the honour of meeting their Excellencies,” were apparently issued by the authorities of Trinity College. The bidden guests arrived at the stated time in large numbers. When the facts of the case became known, the tableau in the College Quadrangle, where the company was assembled, can be readily imagined. The Forestry Exhibition, in the grounds of Donaldson’s Hospital, Edinbui’gh, which is to be opened this week by Lord Lothian, ought to be a success. There are nearly six hundred private exhibitors, and more than fifty different Governments have sent exhibits. The exhibition, however, will not be in proper order for at least a fortnight to come. The Queen has sent specimens of oak, beech, and ash, from some of the oldest trees in Windsor Great Park ; also a model of her Swiss chalet in Ballochbuie Forest. The Duke of Connaught’s contributions include specimens of silver fir, and of a Spanish chestnut at Bagshot Park, which were planted in the reign of Queen Anne. Lady Wil¬ loughby d’Eresby has sent a very fine collection from Drummond Castle, which has long been famous for its trees and its gardens. One interesting object is a Manitoba farm-house, with miniature buildings and fields of corn. Mr. Gladstone’s presentation axe will no doubt be viewed with intense interest by his legions of admirers North of the Tweed. At Lady Freake’s last week, the tableaux of Schiller’s “Song of the Bell” drew a good many guineas from the pockets of the benevolent. A convalescent hospital, a young women’s help society, and the Princess Frederica’s Home at East Molesey come in for the benefit. But there was something worth seeing and hearing for the money. Mr. Clifford Harrison read snatches from a translation of the “Song” — hardly enough to please me; the organ played rather too continuously; whilst a few choruses from Wagner, and what sounded like “ Hymns Ancient and Modern,” enlivened the dumb show of the scenes. These, however, were pretty lively : a wooing, a wedding, a nursery full of pretty children — but, horresco referens ! — a new lady each time ! “ Allen & Hanburys’ ‘ Perfected ’ Cod Liver Oil is as nearly tasteless as Cod Liver Oil can be.” — Lancet. “No nauseous eructa¬ tions follow after it is swallowed.” — Medical Press. In bottles at Is. 4d., 2s. 6d., 4s. 9d., & 9s. Trade mark a Plough. Sold everywhere. July 3, 1884.] TRUTH. 3 Some thought it rather hard that she who was woofed (Miss C. Taylor) was never wed, and that she who was wed (Miss Florence Fowlie) was not called upon to preside over the nursery. Mrs. Finney managed that, however, very well. The baby was very good ; it didn’t cry — it was wax ; but people at the back of the room didn’t know that, and the ladies were in ecstasies over the little darling. The bell-casting pleased me most. Guido Schmidt, the artist, and Messrs. Schloesser and Carl Haag arranged the scenes. Lady Freake paid for the dresses, which were certainly capital throughout, and Mr. Malcolm Lawson looked after the music. I am told the tableaux are to be •> repeated. In that case I should advise the performers to rehearse their pieces before a skilled actor*. He would at once rectify a few little technical faults, such as the lover kneeling on the wrong knee — the knee next the footlights should, of course, have been used — the crowdiQg-up of the chief figures in the wedding-scene, &c. Lord Bridport has been appointed Lord-in- Waiting to the Queen, in succession to the late Lord Torrington, in accordance with the anxious wish of her Majesty. Mr. Gladstone, with his usual kindly consideration for the Queen’s pei'sonal feelings, has consented to this appoint¬ ment, although Lord Bridport is a strong Conservative, and such posts are almost invariably given as payment for political services and votes, to Peers who support the Ministry. Colonel Ewart, C.B., Groom-in- Waiting, suc¬ ceeds Lord Bridport as Equerry, and is himself replaced by the Hon. Alexander Yorke, who was for several years attached to the household of the late Duke of Albany. Mr. and Mrs Yyner received the Prime Minister and Mrs. Gladstone, and the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, at their villa near Wimbledon, from Saturday till Monday last. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar have been staying during the last week at Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight. They have consented to visit Southsea on the 16th, to open an Egyptian Bazaar, which is to be held in aid of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The Duke of Cambridge has sold Coombe End, his villa near Kingston- on- Hill, to Loi'd Tankerville. Ismail Pasha, the ex-Khedive, has been staying at Trentham during the last few days, on a visit to the Duke of Sutherland. The Duke of Bedford returned to town last Wednesday, after a month’s cruise in his yacht Northumbria. He goes afloat again in about a fortnight, when the Duchess and the Ladies Russell go to Endsleigh. Sir Charles and Lady Louisa Mills, who have been staying for some time at Mulgrave Castle, came up to Camelford House last Tuesday. Lord Cranbrook has gone to Marienbad for the benefit of his health, and  Arabian Furniture and Decoration. A new Sketch¬ book post-free. Liberty & Co., Chesham House. Eegent-street, W, The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk who have been abroad for nearly two months, are expected to return shortly to Arundel ; but there will be no party at the Castle for Goodwood week. The Duke and Duchess will pass the autumn at Derwent Hall, their place in North Derbyshire. Lord and Lady Monck have returned to Charleville, their place in Ireland, from Bath, where they had jbeen staying for a month. Lord Monck has derived much benefit from a course of the waters. The Duke of Argyll returned to town on Friday from Inverary Castle, where he had been staying for a week. He stopped at Edinburgh for a day on his way up. Lord Durham received a small party at Lambton Castle last week for Newcastle races, and Lord and Lady Hastings entertained a few friends at Seaton Deleval, their place in Northumberland. Nearly the whole of the tradesmen and other inhabi¬ tants of the little town of Evesham assembled at the railway station on Friday afternoon to welcome the Due d’Aumale, who is paying a visit to Wood Norton, his pretty Worcestershire residence. The Prince is very popular in the neighbourhood through his former residence there. Lord Cloncurry lias taken a lease of the Duke of Sutherland’s extensive shootings at Loch Inver, on the north-west coast of Sutherland. Sir Alexander and Lady Mackenzie have gone to Switzerland for a few months, and Delvine, their beautiful place in Perthshire, has been let, with the shootings and the salmon fishing in the Tay, to Mr. McFarlane, of Port Dundas distillery, near Glasgow. Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie have a large party at Fawley Court this week for Henley Regatta, and Mr. and Mrs. Scott-Murray are entertaining a few friends at Danesfield for the same festival. The pleasant and lucrative po3t of Warden of Raglan Castle has been conferred by the Duke of Beaufort on Mr. Raglan Somerset, the son of his cousin, the Rev. William Somerset, Rector of Woolastone. Valentine Baker has returned to London in greatly improved health, having derived much benefit from his visit to the Italian lakes. Visitors to Dorking may be glad to know that the guardians of the new owner of Deepdene have opened the beautiful grounds to the public, on payment of a small fee, which goes to a local charity. It is proposed to present a testimonial to Mr. Jacob Wilson, the well-known Northumbrian agriculturist, in recognition of his long and valuable services to the farming interest. The movement is promoted by Lord Lathom, Lord Egerton of Tatton, and Mr. S. P. Foster. “Liberty” Art Fabrics. — Original inventions for Ladies’ Cos¬ tumes and Toilets. Patterns post-free. Eegent-street, W. 4 TRUTH. [July 3, 1884. Tournaments are so popular now that the management of the Ranelagh Club have arranged to hold one on Satur¬ day next in the Club grounds. It is to be under the direction of the Earl of Harrington and General Fraser. Given fine weather, I should say that at this time of year, an out-door tournament would be in every way preferable to one held under a roof. What with the tournament itself, the Maori King, and the ex-Khedive, all on view, the afternoon’s entertainment ought to prove attractive. By the by, when his Majesty the Maori King honours such resorts with his company, I wonder what arrange¬ ments are made as to his refreshments 1 The Bibury Club dinner at Stockbridge, on the evening of the race day, is an institution which has wonderfully revived of late years. It is not so long since, when the Steward of the year dined by himself ; but last week no fewer than thirty-six sat down, under the presidency of the Duke of Portland, Lord Zetland, and Mr. Alexander (the Club Steward), whose place for next year is taken by Lord Zetland, while the Duke of Beaufort succeeds Mr. Craven as Steward of Stockbridge. Her Majesty did not exhibit so largely as usual at the show of the Royal Counties Society which was held at Guildford last week. The Queen took second prize in the Devon class with a nine years’ old bull from the Flemish Farm at Windsor, which was bred at Tregothnan by Lord Falmouth, and her white pigs from the Shaw Farm carried off three prizes. Lord Coventry carried all before him in Herefords. The Prince of Wales took prizes for Southdown rams (second) and ewes (first). Lord Northbrook’s dairy at Stratton Park carried off the first prize for butter. A decided novelty in the racing line came off at Campa- ment, near Gibraltar, last week Captain Dalton, D.A.A.G., offered two prizes for the winners of a trotting race, the competitors to be ladies, mounted on their own ponies. A very large company assembled to see the sport, and no fewer than sixteen ladies entered for the prizes. The race was run in two heats, and j was eventually won somewhat easily by Lady Gifford, on her pony, “The Pink ’Un,” Miss Adye being second, and Miss Cochran third. Matches for cruisers have, I am told, become the fashion. But at present no one seems to know what is or what is not a cruiser. One day one hears of such a race being won by a famous twenty-tonner of a season or two ago, on another of a crack yawl of but a season past scoring honours. Such a state of affairs can have but one result — and that is protests. If cruiser races are encouraged, one day a flying cruiser will be built, witli iron ballast and all the rest of it; in fact, as it is, I am told that one cruiser at present racing is fast enough to beat many racers, and that one, if not two, of last year’s forty-tonners intend calling themselves cruisers later on. Would it not be better either to abolish the term “ cruiser ” or to impose penalties on winners, since “duffer” races must be intended to enable each craft to win a prize in turn? Screens, witli tea-cup shelf on each fold, from 21s. A large variety of screens in Japanese leather paper, needlework, stained glass, and hand-painted in all sizes and styles. — C. IIindlky & Sons, 290 to 294, Oxford-street, London. The Eton and Winchester match last week was only remarkable, from a cricket point of view, for the poor¬ ness of the batting on both sides ; but the beautiful weather attracted a great many spectators, and the College grounds at Winchester looked their best, although the view is a good deal spoilt now by an embankment for the new Southampton line. I must say I cannot agree with the unfavourable criticism often passed on the Winchester school authorities, for not allowing the match with Eton to take place, as of old, at Lord’s. The present system of playing it at Eton and Winchester alternately seems to me far better for all parties ; and I will even commit the heresy of saying that no one-— except, I suppose, the M.C.C. — would lose much if the Eton and Harrow match were played under the same conditions. Up till Saturday afternoon few among the vast crowds of spectators at the Oval imagined that the well-contested match they were enjoying was to end disastrously for the English Gentlemen ; but so it was, and the conspicuous failure of some of our leading players at the crisis showed that, in the very essential particular of nerve, our amateurs are, as a rule, far inferior to their colonial rivals. W. G. Grace, by obtaining one-third of the runs scored on the English side, proved that his title of Champion cricketer is as indisputable as ever. C. T. Studd was again disappointing ; in fact, he seems to have a regular “ fit of the funks.” W. W. Read showed that his high average cannot be maintained against first-class bowling ; E. J. Diver was a failure, and W. E. Roller and F. J. Welman were evidently nervous. Young Christopherson bowled finely, and fully justified his selection; but that is more than can be said for several others of the team. “ Unlawful games,” said Mr. Justice Hawkins, in delivering judgment in the Park Club case, “are ace of hearts, faro, bassett, hazard, passage, roulette, every game with dice except backgammon, and every game of cards that is not a game of mere skill ; and he was inclined to add any other game that was a mere game of chance.” Now, as a matter of fact, there is no such thing as a game of cards which is a game of “ mere skill.” Whist is, of course, the nearest approach to such a game, but what whist player has not repeatedly seen the most inferior per¬ formers win rubber after rubber against the best players in London1? Will the police, therefore, make a raid against all clubs where whist is played ? The truth is, that the regulations about gambling are illogical and ridiculous, and the sooner they are thoroughly overhauled the better. Mr. Bernard Becker has published an interesting article entitled “ Games and Gamesters ” in the current number of the Fortnightly Review. Whist-players would do well to treasure up this ; — • Why it is better to lay the odds of five to two after the first game of a rubber of whist than to take them, is that if it be even betting on any game it is three to one, and not five to two, against either side winning two coups in succession, which the side having lost the first game in a rubber must do in order to win. That it'is always three to one against two events on each of which Almond’s Hotel, situated in the best position of the West-End and close to the theatres, parks, &c., is now re-opened. A spacious Salle it Manger and Ladies’ Drawing-room have also been added, hot and cold baths and many single bedrooms. Special attention directed to sanitary arrangements. Clifford-street, Bond-street, W — J. It. Rot, Proprietor. July 3, 1884.] TRUTH. 5 the betting is even is easily demonstrated thus : put one piece of money down on a table, suppose the event one and add another piece ; put both pieces on the second winning event and cover with two others. The result is four pieces, including the original stake of the backer, who thus wins three pieces by staking one. Considering the number of intelligent persons who play at whist, it has always been a matter of wonder to me that no person ever seems to act upon this very simple statistical fact. Assuming all players at a whist table to be equal as to play, a person has only invariably to bet 5 to 2 whenever he has an opportunity in order to secure to himself a percentage that must tell in the end. The game of baccarat is erroneously explained by Mr. Becker in many of its details; but its votaries will benefit themselves by acting on this calculation : — The reason why the punter should not draw when he holds five is the fairly obvious one that it is five to four against his improving his position. Thus the tenth cards and the court cards being null, he may get any of nine draws, the lower four improve his position, the five and the higher four draw over and destroy his chance of winning. A curious innovation as regards costume was introduced a few days ago at the matinee given at the Comedy Theatre for the benefit of Mr. D’ Albertson. The day being intensely hot, several of the occupants of the stalls and boxes increased their pleasure and made their life endur¬ able by donning evening dress. When one considers how much cooler than the ordinary morning costume this is, it seems almost a wonder that some enterprising tailor does not invent something similar in cut for ordinary summer wear. It is settled that “ Sigurd ” shall be produced at Covent Garden on Thursday, July 17. This opera had a great success at Brussels, where it was brought out last winter. The composer, M. Beyer, who is a Frenchman, is Bibliothe- caire en Chef of the Grand Opera of Paris, a member of the Acad^mie, and a distinguished writer on musical sub¬ jects. He has produced many works, of which his oratorios and ballets are best known. It was his opera, “ La Statue,” which procured him the honour of the Academie. As I stated last week, Madame Albani is to create the part of Briinhilde, and Monsieur Jourdain, of Brussels, whose services have been specially retained, will make his first appearance in this country in his original (tenor) role of Sigurd. Fiirsch, Madi, De Reszke, and Devoyod will also appear in the opera, which is thus assured a most favourable rendering. The libretto treats of the “ Nibelungenlied,” but in place of the series of operas by which Wagner has illustrated the legend, Beyer has compressed the tale into one. The music may be said to be of the advanced school, but as there are sustained and beautiful melodies, the opera is probably destined to prove as great a favourite in England as it was in Belgium. It has been decided that the New York season at the Metropolitan Opera House is to be carried on this winter by the Boyal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, and Mr. Gye will take over with him the strongest company ever known in New York. The subsidy offered by the directors of J. B. Brown & Co’s New Price Listof Iron Hurdles, Bar and Wire Fencing, Fencing Wire, and Galvanised Wire Netting. Champion Prize, Three Gold Medals— J. B. Brown & Co., 90, Cannon-st., E.C. the American house is very handsome, and the season is likely to prove a lucrative one to the Boyal Italian Opera company. The Vienna Neue Freie Presse has a paragraph respecting the examination at Southampton of the luggage of Miss Hauk, the prima-donna, by the Custom-house officers. The lady had forty-six boxes, and a day and a half were passed in examining them. The officers came upon several dozen little stuffed crocodiles, which Miss Hauk was bringing over as presents to her friends, and it was only after rigid investigation, which showed that they were stuffed with wool and not with dynamite, that they were allowed to pass. Maurel has engaged Madame Patti for the opening of the Italian Opera House in Paris next November, She is to sing in “La Traviata.” Princess Pignatelli’s little manoeuvres have at length been successful. Her family has given way at the thought of her holding a bar at the Folies-Bergkres and she is now to receive a handsome allowance under the express condition that she remains away from Paris. H.B.H. Princess Louise honoured Mrs. E. M. Ward’s studio with a visit on Thursday afternoon last, and in* gpected the students’ drawings. A memorial has been signed in the House of Commons urging the Government to acquire the Raphael, and one or two other pictures in the Blenheim Gallery. Professor von Angeli, of Vienna, is at present engaged upon paintings of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Germany, which are to be a present from them to the Queen. The newspapers of the United States have not treated the Queen’s book with the same amount of consideration that it has received in England. One journal parodies it in the following manner January 1st. — This is the first day of the year, and Beatrice reminds me it is New Year’s Day. What a beautiful coincidence ! We had cream, toast, and muffins for breakfast, and I had two helps to each. Beatrice said she was delighted to see my old appe¬ tite for muffins returning. March 8th. — Brown has a cold. Four mustard plasters were applied to him by the Royal College of Surgeons. He is better. 1 ordered Dean Stanley to sing a “ Te Deum.” He sent back word that personally he would prefer to whistle it. I will order Tennyson to write a poem on it. Tennyson is a worthy man. April 1st. — Brown came in this morning with a large placard on his back, which bore the initials, N.G. When I called his attention to it, he was real angry, and said he supposed it was done by the Prime Minister or somebody. [I shall ask Mr. Glad¬ stone about it. The cat had a fit this morning, which quite upset us all. Jenner was in attendance, and prescribed; he said it was meat. Dear me ! April 10th. — I sent for my lady-in-waiting and read her this Journal for a year. She sat with closed eyes, nodding her head whenever I came to a favourite passage. She then said that she did not think any distinguished woman had ever written anything like it. I chided her for flattery, but she assured me it was honest truth. I will read it to Mr. Gladstone. April 11th. — Mr. Gladstone called ; I read it to him. April 13th. — Mr. Gladstone is very ill. April 15. — -Beatrice and I went out for a walk. We walked up a hill and then we walked down. May 2nd. — Brown said this morning that Mr. Gladstone ought to settle that Egyptian matter right off. I sent for Mr. Gladstone at once and told him. He said nothing, but seemed to be in a brown study. International Health Exhibition. — In referring to Messrs. Fry’s Exhibit of Cocoa and Chocolate, The Grocer says : — “ Their goods are displayed in an exceedingly attractive style — the Chocolate Creams and similar articles of Confectionery are offered to con¬ sumers in the most dainty form, and the boxes in which they are placed are quite works of art. They turn out nothing but the best.’ 6 TRUTH. [July 3, 1884. The second series of the extracts from the “ Diary of Henry Greville” is capital reading; indeed, I think the book is an improvement on the first series, for many of Mr. Greville’s French stories had previously appeared in the “ Diary of Mr. Burke,” while most of the anecdotes in this volume are new. One of the choicest “ plums ” in the book is the remark of the late Duchess of Sutherland after Victor Emmanuel had been invested with the Garter. “ He was the only knight of the many I have seen who looked as if he would have had the best of it with the dragon.” If a second edition is called for, Lady Enfield will do well to supply an index. New editions of popular books seldom call for special notice, but the “ Lord Beaconsfield ” of Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., is an exception to the rule. It is a good many years now since the young Irishman, who was slowly making his way in London journalism, suddenly found his biography of Mr. Disraeli the most talked- about, and in consequence the most successful, book of a season of successful books. The time has been long enough to allow the work to pass out of print, but not out of the position it at once assumed of being a most remarkable biography. The new edition which Messrs. Chatto & Windus have just published is something more than a mere reprint, for it includes an introduction, written with all the descriptive power and the irony of the early text, in which the career of Benjamin Disraeli is carried on to the death of Lord Beaconsfield. The Hector of Lincoln College has just deposited his papers, including a large portion of his journals and corre¬ spondence, in the Bodleian Library, in a sealed box which is not to be opened till 1910. Mr. Patteson’s health is still in a very unsatisfactory condition, and he continues in a state of considerable depression. On Saturday the Master and Fellows of Balliol enter¬ tained the Speaker at dinner in the College hall, and invited two hundred old Balliol men to meet him. The whole of the guests were quartered in the college, and the invitations were from Saturday till Monday, but most of them left on Sunday afternoon. The speaking was par¬ ticularly good, especially on the part of the Master, the Speaker, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Justice Bowen, Sir R. Lingen, Mr. Nettleship, and Mr. Arnold. The Speaker’s response was in every way admirable, both in manner and matter. Mr. Peel has singular dignity of presence, a charming voice, and perfect elocution. Had it not been Saturday, Cardinal Manning, the Bishop of Exeter, and Dean Bradley would have been among the company, and the Duke of Westminster was also prevented from attending. The whole raffair was a brilliant success in all respects. Dr. Hornby is not to assume his new office as Provost of Eton till the end of the “ summer ” half. According to the old Eton etiquette, the Provost must never go “ into school ” after he has once taken up his residence at the Lodge. The new Head-Master (Mr. Warre, in all proba- Heal & Son, Bedsteads, Bedding, and Bedroom Furniture at Moderate Prices. Catalogue free by post. 195 to 198, Tottenham Court Road, London. bility) will begin work when the school re-assembles at the end of September, after the holidays. People who intend visiting the Cathedral of St. Giles, in Edinburgh, would do well to notice a discussion which took place in the Edinburgh Presbytery last week. One gentleman complained bitterly of the money-grubbing which was carried on in the church, and narrated how on one occasion, when he had been looking at a pillar, an official had come up to him and informed him that he must either pay something or go out. Another member of the Presbytery explained that the word used was not “ pay,” but “ pray,” and a somewhat acrimonious debate on the point ensued. In any case, it is perfectly evident that the motto of the St. Giles’s officials is “ pay, pray, or go,” so visitors should be prepared to take their choice. The zeal of the Bishop of Truro seems to outrun his discretion. It is very probably desirable that there should be harbours of refuge in Cornwall ; but the Bishop goes somewhat far when he encloses to a clergyman a letter from the Chairman of the Harbour of Refuge (Cornwall) Committee, requesting him to desire his clergy to preach in favour of petitions being signed advertising the scheme, with the observations that : — Ho who wept by the grave of Lazarus bids us, His Ministers, so far as in us lies, to carry on the echo of the words He spoke to the widow of Nain, and, by diminishing the risks of our seamen, to lighten the anxioties and lessen the sorrows of their wives and mothers. I hear that the late Bishop of Ripon had insured his life for a very large amount, and that it was mainly owing to pecuniary considerations that he did not resign his See, as he certainly ought to have done, for he was quite incapable of doing his work for two years before his death. A correspondent writes : — There will be some dreadful accident at Westminster Abbey on an early Sunday evening unless the Dean and Chapter alter the present scandalously defective and confused arrangements for admitting the public to the nave services. Under Dean Stanley the general public entered by the great west doors, which were opened an hour before service commenced, and the narrow and inconvenient cloister entrance was available only for persons con¬ nected with the Abbey, and for those among whom had been distri¬ buted the limited number of tickets which were issued for the seats in the reserved space round the pulpit. This plan worked admirably, but it has been altered for some reason (or no reason), and on Sun¬ day evening there was a scene in the cloisters for half-an-hour which reminded one of the traditions of the pit-door at Drury-lane on Boxing Nights. I arrived at 6.40, with an order for a special seat from a member of the Chapter, but there was not a place to be had, and, on returning to leave, I found that the Cloister gates had been locked, and that the public passages were literally as full as they could hold of a really furious mob of “highly respectable” (or rather genteel) persons, who were battling with the officials at the gate. It was as impossible to get out as it was to get in. The members of the choir were dragged through by the police, amidst howls of remonstrance from the crowd, who thought they were being unduly favoured. Some ladies who were crushed against the rails made piteous appeals to be allowed inside the gate wdiere, at least, they would be in safety ; and the families of some of the Abbey clergy, who fought their way in, aided by the police, literally had their outer garments torn off their backs. Canon Fleming, after a prolonged struggle, was hauled into safety in a state of exhaustion, and two well-known members of Parlia¬ ment could be seen fighting vigorously, but vainly, to get through. The Dean and the Bishop of Ripon were escorted by vergers and police, but could only pass after a long delay and a most unseemly row, and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter was nearly knocked down. Although every available seat was full long before the service commenced, the crowd (many of whom had special orders) would not leave as the officials continued to admit people they knew, which, of course, excited the hisses of the mob. I was compelled to kick my heels between the aisle and the cloister inside the gates till after the service commenced, as it was simply impossible to get out, and it Spectacles scientifically adaptedto assist & strengthen the weakest sights by Mr. Laurance, F.S.S., Oculist Optician, la, Old Bond-st. July 3, 1884.] TRUTH 7 would have been dangerous to have made the attempt. Finally, when the Psalms were being chanted, the select crowd was allowed to go into the choir ; where, being separated from the congregation by the organ-screen, there was nothing to be seen or heard except tho music. The sooner there is a return to the old plan the better. Professor Westcott is in residence at Westminster Abbey this month, and he is to preach for the first time in his official capacity as Canon next Sunday afternoon. The Bishop of Manchester will be the special preacher at the evening service in the nave. There has just been an octave of special services at St. Alban’s, Birmingham, a famous “ high ” church. The offertories amounted to nearly £2,200. I am informed that the Bishop of Salisbury intends to resign his See in the course of a few weeks. It is to be hoped that the following job will not be per¬ petrated. Our Naval officers are not so worthless that it becomes necessary to give an important Naval command to an estimable but inexperienced German Prince : — Sir, — Priuce Leiningen is again named as the probable successor of Vice-Admiral Rice at the Nore. That such an appointment should be possible is discreditable ; but that it should be made by a Board of Admiralty serving under a Liberal Administration will be disgraceful. The Broad Arrow of June 21 gives a risumi of the Prince’s services, from which it appears that, omitting midshipman's time (from March, 1849, to April, 1855), he has served as a commissioned officer rather over nineteen years, of which sixteen and a-half have been in the Royal yacht, and two years and seven months actually at sea, viz., one year and six months as lieutenant in the Cossack, and one year and one month as captain of the Magicienne. The case, therefore, stands thus : — It is proposed to confer the Oommand-in-Chief at the Nore on an officer who has never served as senior officer or commanded a station, squadron, or division ; who has never been superintendent of a dockyard or steam reserve ; who has never served in, much less commanded, an iron-clad or reserve ship ; who has never been in a squadron of exercise or e volution ; and who, in fact, has never held any command or served in any position of importance in the Navy, and whose total sea-service as a commissioned officer only amounts to two years and seven months. Now, if an officer with this amount of inexperience is fit to be Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, it is clear [that the office is so utterly unimportant that it might, without detriment to the Servioe, be abolished, and the country saved about £5,000 a year. If, on the other hand, the appointment is one which in the inte¬ rests of the country should be maintained, it is equally clear that Prince Leiningen cannot possibly have the professional knowledge and experience to fit him to fill it. Lord Northbrook is credited with having long stood out against perpetrating this job, and only lately is he said to have felt dis¬ posed to yield to high influence. Let him stand firm, and the country and the Service will appre¬ ciate his honesty and straightforwardness ; and their good opinion will, I trust, go far to compensate for the loss of a little Courtly favour. R.N. It is probable that the Channel Squadron will again go to the Mediterranean next month. The Duke of Edin¬ burgh’s term of command will come to an end in December, to the great regret of the Squadron, as he is very popular with those now serving under him. The Duke made an excursion to Galway in the Seahorse during the stay of the Squadron in Bantry Bay, and had two days’ excellent fishing. His best capture was a salmon of 22 lb. A concert was given on board the Minotaur the other day, at which the Duke played among the first violins. There was also a capital nigger minstrel entertainment on board the Agincourt. 