The World.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The World.

[Thk following aio extiacted from tho London society other journals ] - s s The Pall Mill Ga/otto copies* from a Vienna jourufil an account of how the Prince of Wiles played at the Budi .Ciwb, daring-bis vibit to lluugaiy, eigLt*een' months ago, arid won "nearly a quarter of a million gulden ," in oue night, and " eighty thousand florins" on a .Buba®q,u.Qnt.flC.caaiau:j:hia ataiyu3.a my.th,and .there is absolutely no iounda,tipn i ■whatever for it. ' Tbe Prince of Wales did not play' at any : "games of chance" during his stay in Htmgnry, nor did he everhavejrt card in his hand either at or any other place in that couiiw/y. The story is a , flagrant example of "thejlieoircurasUiniali" A marriage is in process of arrangement between tho Grasd Duke Paul, youngest brother of ! the Czar, and the Princess Alexandra; eldest daughter of King George of Greece. The eccentric proceedings of the proposed bridegroom during his recent visit to Athens nearly led to the breakingoff of ; thomatch, : arid tho marriage w;ill certainly not be one "of affection," The youngi Princess, who is in her seventeenth year, might tako warning from tho fate of: the Princess Elizabeth of ; Hesse, who married tho Grand Duke Serge, from■whoml she would long ago have been separated but for the interferetico of the Emperor and Empress. The'two 1 younger brothers of''£Ke"Cziir"afe"b"ar'Sarian.o of the puro Russian, type of, the last century. Here is something liko' a windfall. Prince Montloart, whb"died the other day, ha-i left the wjhole : of hjs fortune t estimated! at two-and-a-uali»million9 : sterling, to the Queenof, Italy.;,; - n ■■■ -it £«'.••.■■■■■'.■ : Theniost.noblethe]Master of the.Sfcaa-j i hounds was out with his, :.pack the -.other day, and the bind sought roEugo in a pond.-- " I;am going: home," said the moat nobld the master;"! oarae out hunting, not fishing^'' : ;,; :; :• , ; ;.,[-, -'*.•.. ..; ■..-•-,. / ; .- German papers report the death, •, at his Tillage inrFranconia,; of Albrecht«Stahl, ■who-,drove, the sledge, in which: the Emperor. Napoleon returned westward.on? his retreat from Moscow. Stahl. died in his ninety-fifth year. ' >■■■■• Is London a safer city to dwell in than Berlin ? Three grains of gunpowder are not delivered at the house of the Secretary for Ireland, and all London is, in an uproar. A far. deadlier instrument fora man aged seventy-two, namely, a hundFed plovers' eggs, are presented to Prince Bismark on his birthday, and Berlin,is delighted.. 'Are ,we losing our national : stolidity f]■'..:■ , ■ . ' lamisorry to hear that the Duke of Devonshire,ia far from well, and that his condition excites serious anxiety. The duke,,who. is afcjHolker, has never, really recovered from his last bronchial attack, and although not absolutely ill, heiain.a precarious .state. The Duke of Deyon-; ehire'slife.is of inestimable value to. the Ministry,/ as the removal ,of Lord; HarticigtQn,to:the ; Houe|e of Lords would canse a political convulsion.; ,■ ,;,:•. The;. Imperial : ; Federation dinner on: Saturday evening: at the Freemasons' Tavern was, as successful as , the best friends , of./the Empire could possibly desire. Tho phrase '' Unity of the Empire" was.always the signal for applause, and the,spectacle was a, welcome change to many, members of Parliament who, during the whole week, had suffered severely from the shrieks and screams of the Separatists. If there were any.. old-fashioned Protestants at St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon' they must have been a little shocked to see a bare-headed monk in gaberdine and girdle entering by the west door. It seemed as if the clock had been put back some hundreds of years; but it was . only Father Ignatius, who had been preaching a Lenten sermon to a Large, congregation at St. George's, Botolphlane ; and when the service was over, the nineteenth-century monk paused a while at St. Paul's. '

If ever ladies nre admitted to Parliament there will certainly be no more assiduous member than Miss Meresia Nevill. On' Tuesday .she ran.'Mr. Marriott very close in the matter of Primrose oratory at Lord Abergavehny'a house in Dover-street, and on tho following evening, she delivered another stirring speech at Worth, where Sir Francis and Mrs. Montefioro turned the great servant' ballroom into a temporary temple of Toryism. The eloquence of Mr. George Curzon, the patriotism of Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and the tuneful einging of Lady Folkestone and Lady Arthnr Hill were all duly appreciated; but nothing pleased the Sussex dames and knights so much us the political discourse of Miss Meresia Nevill. .

Nobody would imagine that Sir Henry Hoare was himself born well back in the '(twenties," and the death of his mother on Wednesday at the ago of a hundred and : one came upon all his friends; as a surprise.' '-Mrs.Jane Penelope• Hoare absolutely outlived all her contemporaries. Stie ". was tho daughter of General Sir George Aihs»lie ; was born in the year of ■Warren* Hastings'.impeachment, seven years before the French RevoluHorij and twelve before the battle of the Nile. . She was already ;a, widow, and thiity-fivo years old when-, in the first year of George IV. , she married Mr. Henry Charles Hoare, of Fleet-street, who never succeeded toi the baronetcy;; She was nine-and-twentywhen Waterloo was fought, and already " out" when Nelson fell at Trafalgar. Mrs. Hoare was, of course, the oldest inhabitant of St. James'-square, and probably the oldest woman in the whole metropolis. Few who witnessod it are likely to forget the scene at Westminster in the small hours of Saturday morning. Some time previously to the first division, Mr, Gladstone was observed to be indulging in gesticulations, which were apparently incomprehensible. They gradually increased in violence, and it ultimately transpired that Admiral Commerell had excited his righteous indignation hy sitting sailor-fashion on one foot, and that he desired to rebukehiin for a breach of decorum, Tho ; wild war-whoop with which;; the. , Irish -left the House, the threatening words/and gestures of Dr. Tanneruiri front of the Treasury Bench,: the fierce yell.-) of privilege; the Upsetting of poor Sir Charles Forster, and his rescue by Mi , . Akera-Douglas and Mr. Walrorid, whVjslacedtiira' breathless jn one of tlia doorkeeper's chairs, were all memorable sights in their way ; but none of them will live so long*in history as the manner in which Mr. Gladstone dashed out his hands', asif inviting divine intervention, when the Spealcer decided to put the Closure, and then, raising his eye 3 to heaven, marched out of the House, precisely in the same manner as Mr. Pecksniff shook off the dust of his feet when he quitted in pious wrath the abode of the Chuzzlewits.

Amidst all the ton-table clamour for statues of the Prinoo Consort, freo libraries, new pumps, and model washhouses, there ia really an old-world flavour about the Marquess of Ailesbury's intended way of celebrating tho Jubilee, which would have commended itself to the Jubilee mongers of Gcorgo 111. He proposes to give the inhabitants of Mariborough an ox to be. roasted whole. There is about this suggestion a whiff as from an oldworld novel.

It ia curious to observe'how , "trifles liijlit; as air" will often suddenly arrest the public attention at solemn or social gatherings, and to note, too, the different eiject which they may produce,upon.different! ininda. A wasp in church has sometimes sent a;whole congregation half mad With terror ; a meaner.and even more unp6pular insect, when perceived: upoii a lady's bonnet; inspired Scotland's immortal bard to a deathless -'lay ; whilst; the othec evening; at ,a grand political function 1 ] 1 the eight of | a lad,y's bustle, aa "iniprover," had Accidentally, become deposited 1 on; the fl9Oiysent'a ; ]tbril];' pf amusement tlirougli assembly ,of guests, in'the. mi4st,iof Lwhich,;;;no, r doubt,, the, fair owner :was smilingu her. iiappiest emile, with ofi"diaarmingiisuspibioril MiA.triri'cidenfc of , an almost similar character, it may be remembered, je J fe-

corded in Lframmonl, which was made the occasion of much ribald and unbecoming banter Jay and the witty and prorogate Rochester. In the present the' 1 little-stranger," as it lay h||pleas.iipon the floor, came in for tquite a ## arJ"deyuriosite. n Its ultimate fate is; iii mystery, but I will wagir that no fair applicant mustered the Requisite courage. tp,,,u)qiiire, ou the ,mor>. row, after her lost treasure ! I am told that one of the bystanders (a confirmed bachelor, I should think), after eyeing it . ~mktoisMM.Uy»...inquired ./whether it. .was ;not, i l aji infernal machine." ! There may-consider that I the term was not inappropriate.