The World.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The World.

[The following paragraphs are extracted from the London society papers and Other journals.] The Princess Beatrice's Jubilee present to the Queen is to consist of a tiny miniature of the late I Vince Consort, which will lie enclosed in the interior of a sovereign The work lias heen entrusted to Mr Psivid Mossmau, whoso portraits on ivory of the twin-daughters of Lord Sligo arc exhibited in this year's Academy. When the IVincc of Wales was leaving Manchester, a member of the Town Council pushed himself forward, and in a hurst of loyalty said, “ Bring the old woman with thee next time.” The IVincc looked surprised, not exactly understanding to whom the civic dignitary was referring. Observing this, the latter said ;“I mean your mother!" for in this familiar and local fashion had he alluded to her Majesty.

The Trinccas of Wales was looking very ill at Manchester, and people were painfully struck by her languid and worried appearance. The Princess will go into society as little as possible daring the illness of the Duchess of Cumberland. Dr. Wilson Fox scarcely survived a week the brother at whose death-bed in Devonshire he felt the first symptoms of his own fatal illness. He reached Preston on his way to his estate, near Rydal Mount, when he became too weak to continue his journey, and his old friend, Sir William Roberts, of Manchester, who was called in found him .suffering from pneumonia, with extreme prostration. Sir William Jcimer and Dr. Russell Reynolds afterwards visited him, but he never rallied, and on Tuesday morning he died. Dr. Fox was one of her Majesty's Physicians-inOrdinary, and his loss has been gracefully alluded to in the Court Circular. In former years he was in frequent attendance on the Queen in Scotland, and enjoyed her complete confidence ; he never cared much for the pleasures of society, hut his tall, spare, and erect figure will he missed greatly by his numerous friends. Ho was one of the highest living authorities on diseases of the lungs, and his patients will not easily forget his kindness and sympathy. Sir William Cull is to succeed Dr. Wilson Fox as Pliysician iu Ordinary to the Queen. The salary of this ollico is £'JOO a year. The other Physieians-in-Ordinary arc Sir William Jenner and Sir William Jenner and Sir George Harrows ; but Dr. Reid, who is permanently attached to the Court, usually attends the Queen, Sir William Jenner being only summoned if her Majesty is really unwell.

One of the papers recently announced that the Queen had sent a message to a lady who was divorced from her husband a few years ago, but who was perfectly blameless, and who.-o position excited general sympathy, that her Majesty was prepared to receive her at Court. There is no truth in this statement. Thu rule that divorced ladies cannot either attend or be presented at Court is rigorously enforced. The Queen was exceedingly anxious to relax this regulation in cases whore the lady's conduct had been unexceptionable : but after the advice of the highest legal authorities had been taken (including the late Lord Cairns and Lord Solhornc), it was decided that it would bo injudicious to make any exceptions. The Dean of Wells (Dr. Plumpt.ro) was Select Preacher at Cambridge on Sunday, and ho will also occupy the University pulpit next Sunday. During her American tour of about five months, which ends on Saturday, Madame Patti has. it is stated, earned rather over £71,000. Madame Patti is alleged to have remarked that it has been the happiest time of her life. This is not astonishing. Put in the same position, most of us would probably feel thus.

1 see that the Oxford University accounts for last year have just boon published. The total income was £04,290, against £(12,10G in ISS">. A balance of £lOOl has been carried forward, as against £333 last year. The income from the University estates continues to decrease, but there is compensation for this loss bv the increase in duos and fees.

It is probable that no man iu London than Mr Irving is more popular with cabmen, owing to the distinguished actor’s little failing of rewarding the driver with half a sovereign when more careful individuals would bo satisfied with giving a shilling. One fogey night, a few years ago, a cabman waited at the oldlirceu Ileum Club in Adelplu-terrace and took Mr Irving to his house in Bond-street, receiving the bagatelle of £3 for his trouble.

The P.rcnon ease, although the verdict was undoubtedly a just one, has proved somewhat disappointing. It was anticipated that the issues would bo widened, and that the “ Uncrowned King” would figure in the witness-box. There now appears some reason for believing that Mr Parnell remained in Ireland, beyond the jurisdiction of the court, lest he should have been subpumaed. What the I’arnellites most of all dread is the publication of the depositions of the Crown witnesses iu the Piuenix Park trials. In those documents a number of persons arc very seriously compromised.

Considerable political interest attaches to the dinner which ia to he given by the Cecil Club to Mr Goschen on Saturday. It will be a formal recognition on the part of an exceptionally representative body of Conservatives ot the service Mr Goschen baa rendered to the cause of the Union by accepting office in the present Ministry. Lord Lytton will preside. The Cecil Club numbers in its ranks the political, literary, and social leaders, as well as the ablest of the younger members of the Conservative party, and nearly the whole of the Ministry. It is asserted now that several of Mr Gladstone's more respectable supporters urged him, for the sake of the honour of tlie Liberal party, to make an effort to secure a full investigation of the charges against the Irish members. Mr Gladstone replied that ho would, and the astonishment of his friends may be imagined when they discovered that their leader limited the scope of the inquiry to the comparatively unimportant question of the truthfulness of Mr Dillon. Several Radicals are, I understand, very uneasy, and they are using all their influence to induce the Irish members to take legal action.

It is nearly thirty years since the Commons went in state to their own church of St. Margaret, and over four hundred members have promised to attend the Jubilee Thanksgiving service on Sunday week. Mr Smith will move and Mr Gladstone will second, the motion that leave bo given to “Mr Speaker " ' to have the mace borne before him ; tar olbcial visitors will assemble in the precincts of their own House ; the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of Sydney and Rupertstown arc to he present ; the line of procession will he kept by Colonel Howard Vincent and the Queen’s Own Westminster Volunteers ; Archdeacon Farrar and the clergy, in their Convocation robes, will meet the Speaihtv at the door of Westminster Hall (where tho Chaplain-General will afterwards address the soldiers); the Abbey choir will sing the coronation Anthem and the Hallelujah Chorus; special lessons and collects are to be used ; the Bishop of Ripon will preach ; ami the proceeds of the collection are to be given to the Westminster Hospital. An amusing divorce cult is reported in tho New York papers, which throws a light upon the kissing in American hoard-ing-houses. Mr I’ye sought a divorce from Mrs I’yo on the ground that all the he nlers in the house wL.rc the pair lived hail drifted into the habit of kissing Mrs Tve. Here is a Mr Dempsey’s evidence: —“ Did you ever see Tompson kiss Mrs I’yc “ Lots of times ; and when I did not see him I hoard him. Thn« was a plaintive sobbing gargle about it that reminded mo of tho exhaust of a batlv tub ; it could to heard all over the house.” “ When did Tompson kiss Mrs Tyc “ Yr benover ho had a chance, The only

time lie did nut kiss her ivm when tie was ii"i tliere.'" “ Who dill ki-s lier then?'' “ I did ; I liked her myself.” “ Did not. Mr i'ye object ?’’ “Why should he? I don't object to his kissing tier ; there was imlhinfrohjeotioiiiibltiiibimt.it; it. was a intro friendly salutation.” “ l[uw did you come to kiss Mrs Pye r” “ I pul toy arms annual her neck, and kissed her in tho usual way.” “ Did she ask you to do so “Well, I noticed that, no matter hinv many limes she and Tompson kissed before he went out, she never got enough to last until ho name back, for, its he opened the door, they were at it again ; so, when he was away, 1 kissed her more as a matter of accommodation titan anything else.” “ Where was Mr I’ye 1” “ Oil, he was nowhere in particular.'’