The herald., 1898-02-06

declare they will nominate a straight
Liberal.
THE POPE BUSY
The Pope is pronounced to be in excel
lent health and to be busying himself
with document to be addressed to the
| Catholics of Christendom, thanking
them for their affection as expressed up
on the occasion of his jubilee. The doc
ument invokes political and religious
peace throughout the whole human race.
His Holiness will preside at the func-
ton at St. Peters and will afterwards
| receive body of pilgrims. including a
numerous delegation from the United
States.
THE QUEENS VISIT
On Thursday Queen Victoria will visit
at Netley the wounded Indian campaign
ers and will start for Nice on March
9th, going there by her usual route, but
by easier stages than hitherto. She will
spend two nights on board the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert-presumably
one night in English waters after en-
barking and one night in French waters
after arriving at Cherbourg, where she
will take the train for the south of
France.
MINOR MATTERS
The first drawing-room of the sea-
son will be held the latter part of the
present month by the Princess of Wales
in behalf of her Majesty.
The second drawing-room will be held
on March I'd and there will be two draw
ing rooms in May. The number of pre-
sentations at each drawing-room is linn
tied to POO.
There will four levees this season, two
before and two after Easter
The Prince of Wales will hold two of
them and the other two will be held by
the Duke of York.
The Duke and Duchess of Fife, fort
night ago, agreed to open the new Hack
ney town hall, and the vestry by large
majority, voted to eXpend 5000 to en-
tertain them but the minority of the
vestry protested against the expenditure
and an angry discussion followed. The
local newspaper cuttings on the sub
ject We're sent to the Duke and Ouch
ess of Fife, who then declined to open
the town hall. At a meeting of the YES
try, at which their refusal was read.
tllGIt W dS q cat lON, Sclllt VI tic lIltill-
bers complaining that royalty had been
insulted, etc.
The chairman resigned. and the major
ity, amid the liveliest kind of scenes,
sang God Save the Queen. The Duke of
Fife is a son-in-law of the Prince of
Wales
King Leopold of Belgium, the purchas-
er of the late Mr.. Ogden Goelet's steam
yacht Mayflower, will rechr1sten her
Clementine. possibly after his third
daughter, the Princess Clementine, who
was born in 1872. The crew of the royal
yacht will be composed of Belgians and
English, in equal numbers, with Eng
lish officers. She will be refitted at
Southampton and from there will go to
the Mediterranean.
The weather has been colder and
stormy and the first snow fell in London
on Friday.
Influenza and measles are epidemic.
The former is so severe in Cornwall that
business is seriously interrupted and
many of the schools are closed.
The death of Lord Clonmell, which
was announced on Wednesday last, was
caused by his dropping little hot seal
ing-wax on his hand, whereupon blood
poisoning rapidly developed. He only
succeeded to the title in 1896
The Independent Parliamentary party.
at a meeting held in Dublin last evening.
decided upon amendments to the ad-
dress in reply to the speech from the
throne. They will move that reform in
the existing system of local govern
ment in Ireland will not meet the de-
mand for home rule; they will demand
amnesty for the political prisoners, and
will denounce the alleged Stephen
GREEN'S election frauds; will demand
attention for the distress existing in
Ireland and will ask for protection to
Irish industries.
The Statist says that the wheat crop
of India promises splendidly. The cut
ting will begin during the present month
and it will be shipped at the end of
March or early in April, thus i'm
mensely benefiting Europe at the time
American supplies are low" The Sta
tist further remarks that it is expected
Australia will be in position to export
great deal more wheat than expected
Lady Violet Greville, whose tips on the
fashions are always accepted as gospel
writes from Paris, saying that velvet
will reign supreme in the fashionable
world this spring. She says: "Velvet
in every style, shape and color, black.
cornflower, blue, sapphire, silver gray
sholt with gold and a host of other
startling shades" Continuing, Lady
Greville describes a number of velvet
costumes which are being made for the
princess of Wales and the queen regent
of Spain.
The Standard today says it was the
wife of Count Felipe Folchi, whom he
deserted when he eloped with Donna Ell
vira, daughter of Don Carlos, who OBJ
tanned a judicial separation from the