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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 347, 23 June 1894, Page 3

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fPKB PBEB.- ArtSliblATTOj:. The Prince of Wales, the Duke o: York, and other male members of th< Royal Family who supped with Baroi Alfred de Rothschild on Sunday night May 20th, have given a shock to decor ous old-fashioned English men anc ■women, .by converting the occasion int( au orgie. Mdclle. Patti and her husbant ■were there. Singing and dancing wen indulged in during the evening. Six Radical members of the Senate oi the Cambridge University voted "no ' on May the 26th to the proposal to con fer the honorary degree of Doctor oi Law upon the Duke of York. There were 137 that voted "yes." The Princess of Wales is understood to be much an noyed by the opposition, and the six are doomed to social ostracism. The bankruptcy state of Gaskate and Son, Liverpool, commission brokers, whe filed recently, shows the liabilities to be £44,995 sterling. The assets are £'1044. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to Manager Favabuline, who published " Voce Delia Verita," in Rome, says in reference to the Irish question : " They (the Irish) undoubtedly show a great example oi obedience to law, but while they are irreproachable in that respect the Nationalists are divided among themselves. I believe the fault lies with the same group of Parnellitcs, The result is deplorable, for discord is the chief obstacle in the progress of tho Irish cause. Happy would be the men who could make it cease." Arthur Wellesley Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons, is soon to retire. He will be elevated to the Peerage with the title of Viscount Sandy.