The Baccarat Scandal

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 151, 16 June 1891, Page 2

The Baccarat Scandal

I'PER UNITED TEKSS ASSOCIATION.! London, Jaue 12. Sir W. Cumming writes to the press accusing Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of gross partiality. June 13. In commenting on the baccarat oase the Guardian adjures the Prince of Wales to seek society suited to his high station. The Church Times urges the Prince to openly renounce cards in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. • ; Sir William dimming was accorded "an enthusiastic reception on returning to his country seat at Altyre, near Forres, Scotland* The Gazette notifies that Sir William Gordon Cnuaraing has been removed from his; position in the army, the' Queen no further ooo'asion for his "services." Many sermons were preached through* out England on the baccarat scandal/ Many of the preachers appealed to the Prince of Wales to give up the practice. In the House of Commons to-day, the Eton. E. Stanhope, Secretary of State foi? the. War Department, in replying to a question asked by Mr William Summers, M.P. for Huddersfield, said that the Prince of Wales, now that his attention had been called to the regulations, and looking back at all the circumstances of the case r admitted that he had committed a,u error of judgment in not advising !3:r Win. Gordon Cnmuring to submit his case to his commanding officer. i'Ams, June 15. The Figaro jind.Gaulois bnt'« announce 9 rumour tlirit-tlie Prince of Wales m« Lends to abdicate in favour of his eldest *on in {•ojtt'»'equehci i of the baocirat scan ill, iind also to i-e-ign his position ih lYu xrmy. • '