The World.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2262, 8 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The World.

[This .following paragraphs are extracted from the London society papers and other jouruala.j One way in which her Majesty intends to eolebrute her Jubilee is by filling tin album with specially-taken photographic views of all the more notable and interesting spots in the gardens and grounds of her various Royal residences. Tho works in Truro Cathedral aro making suoh pi'ogres that it is hoped the consecration may take place in August, when the presence of the Prince of Wales, who laid the first stone, and the Archbishop of confidently anticipated. The Cornish people, however, are anxious to secure a yet more illustrious visitor, and propose, through Lord MountEdgcuinbe, the chairman of the Building Committee, who is in tho Household, to invite her Maj-sty to signalise her Jubilee year by a visit to Cornwall. I hear from Berlin that the health of Prince William of Prussia, the eldest son of the Crown Prince, is again in a very unsatisfactory state, and that the benefit which he derived srom his 'ong stay at Reichenhall has been only temporary. Prince William is residing at his residence near Potsdam, and the physicians who attend him are of opinion that he ought to pass the winter in Italy. The Kmperor William is beginning; to display in rather eccentric ways those tendencies which have brought so. much ridicule' upon many members of the Hohenzollern family. The Emperor has taken of late to using a second time the envelopes of the letters and documents which reach him in shoals, and he audited the accounts of his trip to Ems and Gastein with unwonted rigour. The mountain castles of the late King of Bavaria were closed for the season on Friday week. The entrance fees during ten weeks that they been open to the public amounted to upwards of £10,003.

The clan of the Scotts is just now exceptionally well represented at Oxford. The three sons of tho Duke of Buocleuch fire all at Chiist Church, while Mfssrw. John and Robert Scott-Montagu aro both at New College. Cambridge can boast this year of an unprecedented nuinber of Freshmen. Tho books ahow 937, against 597 at Oxford, where Keble heads the list with 56, and Christ Church follows with 52. The liviusr of Alvechurch, to which the Bishop of Worcestor has nominated Dr. Jex-BlaUe, is a pleasant shelf, as it is worth £1,200 a year, and the population of the parish is under 1,500. Dr. JexBlake will leave Rugby at Easter. Tho fortune of the late Baron Meypr Rothschild, of Frankfort, is estimated at fifteen millions sterling , . The art collection, which is ono of the largest and finest in the world, is left the Louisa for her life, after which it is to pasH to Lord Rothschild, so it will find its ultinate home in England. A divorce which has recently interested " lo hiy-lifo" of Paris is that just decreed between M. le Marquess Tallyrand-Ptki-g-ord and his Marquise. When I add that tho Marquise's maiden name was "Beers-Curtis" the statement will tend to recall to many of my readers the interesting circumstances under which her uiHrririge with the Marquess originally tnok place. Lord Londonderry, for whom Fred Archer, on Cambusiuore, wou easily the Lord-Lieuteuaut's Plate at the Curragh, on Thursday last, never did a more gracious act than when he presented the stakes to Mrs Kuox, who ran second for it with the Kildare filly. Mrs Knox ie the widow of a g'ood sportsman and fine rider, " who had hi.-* losses."

At Stonehouse County Court on Friday, a defendant was allowed 133 years to pay o£E a debt. The amount due was t>24l 19s, and he is to pay this at the rate ■if firee shillings per month. Tho ciroumsrance.s were rather equivocal, a pornon of the claim being for goods supplied, '•ut most of it for interest. Th<} defendant is a baker in poor circumstances. The next big thing in engineering enterprise is a submarine railway beeween Denmark and Sweden. It is to be carried under the Sound, starting at Ameger, a well-known s iburb of Copeuiiagen, and proceeding nnder the sea for ive miles to the Island of Saltnorm, .vhich will be a sort of half-way house. From Salthorm the line will be extended or about three miles under the sea, to he Swedish coast at Lenhamm. Somebody, who evidently pretends to iave access to other people's banking icoourits, has put in the foreign papers hat Madame Patti brought her husband >ri her marriage a capital sum of 0175.617 17s lid. (I wonder where she darned the odd elevenpence), and that Mr fortune wa3 £4i,2ii7 17a 4d Madame Patti's savings will increase, as hiring her forthcoming American tour she will receive rather over £23,000 and til expenses paid. Mr M. A. Wolff, of St. Louis, who recently found Mr Parnell so inaccessible mtil he notified him that he had a cheque if neven thousand fiye hundred dollars for iim from the Knights of St. Patrick of -it. Louis, has returned to America. One .fthe last things Mr Wolff did before leaving was to send Mr Parnell a very harp letter, in which he, among other thing, said, " Your friends in St. Louis ■ rid mine are justly indignant at your treatment of their ambassador. The Knights of St. Patrick in St. Louis have •abled me to bring , back the cheque, and, if you have not used it, please mail it to me at Liverpool." The cheque was not mailed back to Mr Wolff at Liverpool or elsewhere.

For the first time, probably, in the history of tho peerage, four livingpeeresses enjoy the same rank and title, first amongst the Marchionesses of Ailesmiry is, or course, tho evergreen Maria •'Lady A," a Tollemache, who married rhe first Marquess in the early dayn >f the reign of William IV." Next iomes Marchioness Mary Caroline, a Herbert, who married the second Marquess in 1837; and then Marchioness Louisa Elizabeth, a Beresford, who -named the third Marquese in 1854. Finally, we have Marchioness Dorothy, •iee Tester (late of the refreshment department of the Theatre Royil, Brighton, and more recently of the chorus it the Empire and elsewhere), who now shares with the above-named illustrious Indies the honour of belonging , to the -fcond degree iu the peerage of England. The retirement of Sir Edward Guinness from tb<? position of being sole proprif tor of the renowned brewery of Irish is an event which proved the rule of "co'nintr events cast their shadows bfii'oi'o'' by tho exception. Only to the most intimate and disoreefc friends was the secret known until it ■was mado iiublie. From falhei' to sou threo generations of Gniimessea have worked tho business since its first foundation. The tradition of the origin of XX is almost equal to tho tradition—according , to Charles Lamb—of the origin of roast pork. A certain butler, when enjoying one day in his pantry the otium ciim dignitate so denr to his profession,

pensively fell to mixing various liquors in a ju<J, and testitig—with true scientific insight—the different experiments by taste. One of these experiments resulted in Guiuucss' stout, though how its receipt eaine.into the possession of the. Guinness' family .history fails to relate The new Marques 3 of Ailesbury has done ample justice to his social sponsors. He is chiefly known for hia singularly robust vocabulary, hia intimate acquaintance with all sorts and conditions of men, including policemen, police magistrates, eosterrnongers, and cab drivers ; and the exciseman from Ludgershall has scarcely recovered from the vehemence of the language applied to him in a very recent encounter, which will now, iu all probability, be forgotten and condoned. With the Wiltshire farmers he iss unquestionably popular. His kennels at Durley, his harriers, his tame stag hunting, his canary-plush livery, his "darkblue aud silver buttons," and the qhampagne midday breakfasts, which Lady Savernake generally graces with her presence, have gained him the affection of his grandfather's tenants. He has a fair share of the ability of his race, and now that he may be believed to have settled down, he will probably make hie mark as a hereditary legislator arid eminent Wiltshire worthy. .. -