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 quently been referred to since April last as the governor of Hong Kong, and as responsible for \ he acts cf neu- ,trality which the English authori- ties there on several occasions consid- cred themselves obliged to enforce to- ward the United States warships dur ing the recent conflict wi,h Spain, yet
 the fact remains that he has been all this time in Ireland at his new coun-
 try seat Raleigh house, Youghal. fa-
 nous as the birthplace and home of Sir Walter Raleigh, the discoverer and founder of Virginia. He is only now proceeding out 70 Hong Kong with Lady Blake in order to assume his du- ties as governor of Hong Kong, the principal British stronghold in the far orient.
 Few people are aware that Sir Henry, in spite Of the fact of his being the brother-in-law of a duchess, as well as the uncle of a duke, with royal blood in his veins, and notwithstanding his extremely aristccratic appearance, in reality commenced life as an errand boy in the great dry goods store of Pins, at Dublin, where he attained the dignity of floor walker before, by some means or other, he succeeded in winning the notice and the good will of the late earl of Carlisle. who pro cured for him sub-inspectorship in the Royal Irish eonstabulary.
 It was while connected with the con- stabulary that he managed to win the affections Of an Irish land owEer, the late Bernal Osborne, NJ. T., perhaps the mos noted wit Of the Victorian reign. Miss Osborne, who has Jewish blood in her veins, insisted on marry i I O he oreArG tNC;- 710ffcn cer, and was in consequence thereof discarded by her father, and disinher- ited at his death, his entire fortune be- ing left to his only other child, who had meantime married the late duke of St. Albans.
 The duchess, devoted to her sister, insisted upon sharing with her the fortune inherited from her father, and moreover caused her husband to use his influence as duke. and as a great territorial magnate to secure for Henry Blake, first of all promotion from police inspector to a police magistrate, and then from police magistrate to CO., lOnial governor.
 Blake has been in turn governor Of the Bahamas, Of Newfoundland, and of Jamaica, and would have received the lucrative governorship of Victoria, in Australia, with its salary Of S50,000 6 year. besides pickinGs, had it not been for the fact that he has a son, the issue Of marriage which he contracted while floor walker at Pins, with shop girl, and that his son, who is much of the black sheep, has married a woman of doubtful repute, and along with her achieved unpleasant notori- ety in the Australian colony of Vic toria.
 This circumstance, together with Sir Henry's authorship ot work entitled Terence Magrath," ridiculing the Irish n2tionalists, caused such a storm of when he was gazetted gov ernor of Victoria that the nomination was canceled.
 Sir Henry's newly acquired country seat in County Cork is a beautiful place, the bourne Of many an Ameri can =eil grimage.. A certain spot in, the garden is pointed out as a place where the great Sir Walter Ralsigh planted the first potato in Europe, while the house, an exquisitely situased six teenth century building, is full of relics of Raleigh, and Of Queen Elizabeth. : It is hardly necessary to say that the house has it's own banshee in the person of the gallant Elizabethian knight, who, at stated periods, is as- serted to promenade through the house and grounds, carrying his head in his hands before him. As every one knows, he was decapitatcd c2 Tower Fill in London hy King James I.
 In connection with the death or the queen Of Denmark mysterious incl dent is recorded by the press of Copal- hagen, which is about 70 be unraveled in the courts of justice.
 A few weeks ago it was announced in the Hamburg papers that Herr Sil- berberg, a prosperous Jewish merchant of that city had received the cross and patent Of a knight oi the Danish order of DannebCrg, which had been sent to him through Madame de Montefiore. alleged to have been one of her maj esty,s ladies in waiting.
 The newspapers quoted the letter al- legged to have been written by the late Gusen of Denmark to Madame de Mon tefiore, confiding to her the duties of the order to Herr Silberherg. and iG was added that her majestys letter ended with the touching words, Yours, at the point Of daath. LouisS'
 Tic tne!chaIts deeply moved et the honor conferred upon him, haetened to and asked to ba permitted to render his personal thanks to the queen, where, however, he was inform ed by Madame de Monteflore that her najesty's condition made an audience impossible. Sc he returned tc Ham burg quite satisfied.
 The story. however, which ke told while at Copenhagen ended by reach ins the ears Of the authorities, and now judicial Investigation has been instituted in tha Danish capital.
 Madame de Montefiorc is we'll known there. Bp. she has never been lady in waiting to the dead queen, and as far as can De seen now sha is believed to have played a Pat tIeularly cruel hoax on the merchant, and while she has not yet hesn arrested. she is for