The World.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2197, 7 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

The World.

[The following paragraphs are extracted from the London sooi«ty papers and other journals,] The Kirkton estate, in Linlithgowshire, whioh was purchased in 1870 for £19,000, changed hands, last week at Edinburgh for £6,100. Thkue is no such thing as never. The ! reconciliation ] between H.R.H. and the Dnke of Marlborough is complete. Latest development of academio life in Oxford. A military band played in Ballioi College quadrangle last Sunday afternoon from three to four. O vicecanerflfrrie, O mores ! The ways of the Academy are, indeed, wonderful. It turns out that, a picture rejected wifh contumely last year is now hung on the line, and the accident is said not to be singular. The House of Commons is getting accustomed to surprises, bub ifc experienced a new sensation when Mr J. F. X. OBrien asserted in the quietest possible tone that he had himself been sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. i Canon Liddon is to be elected to the | Bishopric of Edinburgh. This is really i a farcical proceeding. Dr Liddon might have been (Bishop of Salisbury last j summer had he" been disposed to accept a mitre ; aud, after refusing so desirable an English See, can any rational being believe that he would be inclined to accept what Sydney Smith would have termed so "lean and ill-fed » piece of preferment" as the Bishopric of Edinburgh — one, too, which no advantages or attractions of any sort or kind to so distinguished a man as Dr. Liddon. It is almost an impertinence to ask Canon Liddon to succeed Bishop Cotterill ; and the authorities of the Scottish Episcopal Church certainly cannot be congratulated on the the course they have adopted. It reminds one of Lord Grey's offer of the Attorney .Generalship to Brougham. It is a pity that the Princess of Wales, who has for so many years borne, and most deservedly ho, the reputation of being the best.dressed woman in London, should bestow so little attention and taste on the dressing of her daughters. Anything more sombre and out of keeping with place aud season than their costumes the other afternoon at the Greek Theatre, I have seldom seen ; and the same remark would as aptly apply to their nppoaranee at the opening of the Colonial Exhibition. It was very generally remarked at the last Drawing-room that there were more pretty faces than ever, and many more were present than were expected. The Princess of Wales received the company in place of her Majesty, and, as this was duly announced, there was none of the nervous uncertainty about the debutantes as to whether or no they must be ungloved. The dresses were most lovely, and the fashion of wearing the trains from the shoulder was very much adopted on Thursday, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales was married when he was twenty-one years and four months old. His eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, is twenty- two years and four mouths old. The Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke of Anhalt, will attain her nineteenth year next September. She is a charming girl, amiable, accomplished, and entitled to a respectable dowry — for Germany. Prince Albert Victor might do worse than to lead this fair descendant of the Brandenburgs to the hymeneal altar. Verb. sat. sap. Lawn tennis circles are considerably perplexed just now as to the introduction of a suitable attire for ladies while engaged in that delightful amusement. Corsets are to be all but abolished, the very mention of "dress improver" is to be withheld, but the reduction of the skirt is a more serious item. It is proposed that the garment in question should barely reach the knees ; but surely it is not intended that the ladies should appear ;i la Kate Vaughan or Nelly Farren, j for the sight of muslin tights, or even j Moorish trousers will drive away a large section of the at present extensive female following. The Queen has received an interesting memento of her visit to Liverpool, in the shape of a handsome parasol of satin and tatting lace, presented by Mrs Allen, of South -road, Waterloo, The lace was the work of a "poor, but loyal" Irishwoman of that place. The Queen has duly acknowledged the present; through Sii Henry Ponsonby, and has forwarded the donor a fine engraved portrait of herself. It is all explained now. Not as yet do any of us know the name of the man. As he had deliberately destroyed all traces of his identity, perhaps we shall never learn it. But the reason why the third suicide of this year hurled himself from Clifton Bridge is explained by Pol iee -constable Williams, who found the body. Said the policeman, "On deceased was a cutting from a comic paper." A mad, rash act of course, but, under the circumstances, almost justifiable. People must have gone mad at Christie's when a drawing by the late Frederick Walker, representing a street scene in Cookham, fetched the crazy price ot £903, its size being 13Mn. by fHin. ! It is proposed to place a recumbent statue of the late Bishop Moberly in the nave of Salisbury Cathedral. Upwards of £950 has been subscribed towards this memorial. The new Medical school at Oxford is hardly a success so far. At the last examination three learned " dons " were appointed to examine, at a fee of £15 I each, but one candidate presented himself. IHe was "ploughed." People are naturally asking what is the use of paying £1,000 a year to a Professor of Medicine to teach our students nothing. Lancashire is a long-headed county, and fourteen fathers in Ormskisk, one of the old country towns, have shown their natural good sense. They have made a solemn compact that no daughter of theirs shall take lessons in music until she has qualified as being able to make good bread. A scandalous case of Workhouse inhumanity was brought before the Chard Guardians. It appeared that the other day a man was admitted to the tramp ward who complained of b«ing ill, and when tha doctor saw him he pronounced it to be a case of small-pox. The unfortunate pauper had walked to Chard from Yeovil, where he had been an inmate of the Workhouse. He had been seriously ill in the Yeovil "house," and had begged to be allowed to see the doctor, but was refused ; and, when he could not do his work, the porter turned him out, and told him "he must get on the best way he could." This is very disgraceful, for, apart from the gross barbarity exhibited towards the pauper, how monstrous that a man suftering from a highly-infectious disease should be sent away to tramp through the country, with the probability of his casting contagion broadcast ! It will be interesting to learn what "explanation" will be forthcoming Irom the Yeovil Guardians.

Crying "Wolff " Once too Often. — Putting him up for Portsmouth I

Ex- Marshal Bazaine.— Ex- Marshal Bazaine is in a very impecunious position at Madrid, where he has been living for some years back. His is a familiar figure in the streets of that city, where he is seen daily leaning on his stick, and persistently smoking cigarettes. If he can get any one to listen to him, he will tell you only too garrulously how he would have saved France after Metz if the Republicans would have let him do so. His plan included the convoking of the Chamber at Rheims, ignoring meanwhile the political changes which had taken place at Paris. He promises to leave behind him details which will settle once for all what really took place at Metz before his surrender. Why does not some enterprising publisher run over to Madrid and try to induce the ex-Marshal to give hia confession to the world at once t i