The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


LORD RIPON, the new Viceroy of In
dia, is the wealthiest man who ever held
that Office, it being generally regarded
as poor peers prize.
THE Right Hon. Edward Knatchbull-
Hugessen, just raised to the peerage, is
ffty-one years old, educated at J1ton
and Oxford, and has been in Parliament
since 1857. He is a magistrate, and has
held several important offices under the
Liberal Government. He is a scholar,
and noted as a writer of children's
books.
ONE of the most popular political
cartoons in London represents Queen
Victoria reluctantly giving her hand to
be kissed by Gladstone, who is on his
knee, while Lord Beaconsfield appears
in the background with a very hurt
look on his face. The ikenesses are
good, and the situation is further eluci
dated by the poets words:
Oh, its ard TO give the and
Wnere the art can n1vVah DeP'
THE Go50s says that from April 2S to
Sept. Of last year there were sent from
the Moscow Central Prison to Siberia
over eleven thousand prisoners. All of
them went by the Nijny-Novgorod over
land route. Over ten thousand were eX-
lied for various terms, and one hundred
and five condemned to hard labor in the
Siberian mines. These prisoners were
transported from Moscow by rail, the
prisoners train, carrying from three
hundred to eight hundred persons, leay-
ING the CITY every MOndaV
TEwFIK, the new Khedive, is as eco
nomical as his sire was extravaganza. He
is correcting that sire's tendencies as
much as possible. He discovered not
long ago that the venerable gentleman
had carried off q certain collection of
coins valued at $4,000, which had been
purchased with State money, and which
should rightly have been left in Egypt.
1t is asserted that the Khedive intends
to rebuke this want of ceremony by
placidly subtracting the item from his
fathers allowance during the next
twelve months.
CANON DUCKwoRTH, who was for
merly in love with one of the English
princesses, and who was subsequently
appointed by the Queen to church-liv-
ing in St. Johns Wood, at a salary of
$4,000, also to deaconship in West
minister, has just thrown up his rich
situations :" and gone off, nobody
knows where. 1t is limited that the
Princess Louise, before her marriage,
though the handsome Duckworth worth
two of Lorne; but her mamma inter-
fered and spoiled the romance.
THE other day there died in Paris
iourneyman bookbinder who many may
have been surprised to hear had been
almost exclusively engaged during the
last years OF his life in working for Baron
Rothschild. He was an artist like those
of five hundred years ago, and he
worked little, but what little he did was
done superlatively well. He not only
designed the most original patterns for
book covers, but the simpler work of
merely binding the pages of book to-
gether with string and glue was per-
formed with skill that commended
itself to the Judgment even of superficial
observers.
ALTHOUGH Queen Victoria confines
her actual residence to Buckingham
Palace, Windsor, Osborne and Balmo-
raj, she could, if she pleased, occupy St.
James's, Hampton Court, Bushy Park,
Kew, the White Lodge, Richmond Park,
the Stud House, Hampton Court, Clare
mont, the Rangers Home, Greenwich,
Holyrood and Frogmore. 1t is strange
that none of the radical reformers have
attacked this multiplicity of palaces,
which are maintained at the public ex-
pense. They are, however, nothing in
number to those of Charles 1. Charles
II. began a splendid structure at Win
chester, which is still standing, and also
had house at New Market. 1t is re-
markable that the Kings of England
always have had their residences quite
in the south of England. During the
early years of her reign Victoria had
the Pavilion at Brighton in addition to
the palaces enumerated.