WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1053, 14 February 1880, Page 4

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

{atlas.] Lord Suffield Is to be congratualated on an equally brilliant match for another o£hia daughters as her sister made in marrying Lord Carington. Lord Hastings is the happy man. I understand that much surprise is felt at Madrid at the want of tact of the British Government in sending the Governor of Gibraltar to represent the Queen. It will be Interesting to see what will be done with the vacancy in the representation at Sheffield created by the death of Mr Roebuck. Had that event happened on the eve of a general election it might ' nave assisted the operations of Mr Waddy who wishes to leave his seat at Barnstaple for Lord Lyminton. As it is, it will be impossible to affect the exchange which the situation suggests ; and when Parliament is dissolved Mr Waddy may find that some one else has taken the place at Sheffield which seemed specially created for him. I see the famous “ Newman’s in Regentstreet is about to be converted into the “ Army and Navy Provision Stores,” It reminds me that the original Newman rode the wheelers that took Nelson from London when he left previous to the ' battle of Trafalgar, and the same postboy officiated in a similar capacity when WeUington left town before the battle of Waterloo. If Newman bad turned a post-chaise into a ditch, or thrown down a horse, where would England have been now ? I think Lord Beaconsfield should look Into this matter, and ennoble the descendants of Newman. The appointment of H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh to an important command was, in many ways, gratifying to the service. It would have been more so but for .these -two] things: H.R.H., when made a flag-officer, was so in excess of the established list; the appointment recently conferred upon him is one of the very few that officers, who have with difficulty •goVup'on that list are entitled to hold. The latter have consequently lost an appointment, whilst their numbers are effectually increased. , Astonishment, rather than disappointment, would accurately express the feeling experienced by the navy generally at the absence of Commander Brackenbury’s name from the late “Bath” gazette for the Zulu campaign. As no less than three officers, of equivalent rank of the Royal Artillery alone—-not one of whom was in independent command—were made C.B.s, even in addition to brevet promotion in soma oases, this neglect of the admittedly excelllht services of the gallant commander is the more extraordinary. There is once more a coolness between the Czar and the Czarewitch. Returning to St. Petersburg, after enjoying the sense of liberty experienced whilst travelling in Europe, the Czarewitch found the constraint of bis position particularly irksome. He was specially annoyed by the presence of the Cossack escort, which, since Soloriefi’a crime, attends by the Emperor’s orders,all the principal members of the Imperialfamily. The Czarewitch rather affects the popular prince; and writing to his father, requesting to be relieved of the attendance of his escort, he imprudently observed that for him at all events there was no danger. This thoughtless insinuation naturallyioused the Emperor’s wrath, and his said not to have been too amiable. has retired in dudgeon to Tsarskoe Selo, and was too ill to go to Moscow to meet his father. The command of the fleet in the Mediterranean will become vacant a few weeks hence. It will be conferred upon Sir Beauchamp Seymour, whose brilliant services in every part of the world are well known, and who still experiences the unpleasant effects of a wound received in action In New Zealand. Lord Walter Kerr will be Sir Beauchamp’s “flag captain.” [from truth.] The statement respecting the Princess Louise which appeared last week in a contemporary is untrue. According to present arrangements, the Princess will return- to Canada next month by the saine steamer that brought her over. There is no foundation whatever for the widely circulated report that the Prince of Wales has bought or hired a hunting box in West Somerset, nor has he any intention of doing so. For the last five years an unauthorised announcement has appeared every few months that Prinqe Leopold is about to to be created Duke of Kent. No doubt he will be placed in the House of Lords before long, but. at present nothing is settled on the subject, either as to when or ,by what title. A part'of the land which Her Majesty has just added to the Balmoral estate nsbd tb.be'covered with fine trees. Some years ago Colonel Parquharaon, of Invercanld, had.the timber cut down and sold and.the ground has since been quite a blot on the landscape. The Queen has ordered the space to be at once planted with a variety of hardy quick-growing trees to fill the void. The Queen is supposed to have got chilled'Yon' ithe day she attended the funeral of Grant, her late head-keeper; and as she continued to go out as usual, and made the trying journey from Scotland whilst suffering from cold, it is no wonder that she found herself with a severe and somewhat obstinate cold, with the usual unpleasant accompaniment of a relaxed- throat, which was the more trying and depressing from her being altogether; tmaccustomed to anything of the sort. Lord Hastings is to be put up for the Jockey Club at the spring meetings, unless, indeed, his marriage leads him v temporarily to abandon the turf.