Arizona republican., 1898-06-14
GOSSIP ABROAD.

If any success attends Spanish arms 1t will assurediy be attributable in a great measure to the prayers of old Queen Isa- bella, who in spite of her age and obesity makes her way at o'clock every morn ing at Paris on foot from her palace near the Arc d'Triomphe to the Spanish church in the Avenue F'riedland, no mat ter what the state of the weather, for the purpose of attending the Mass of Suppli- cation, which is celebrated at that early hour -t'r4 Although invariably arrayed at other times in every color of the rainbow. her dress for these matinal devotions is a plain black woolen affair, with a cloak of the same hue. She wears a black bon net and black veil, and in fact, the only bit of color about her is her crim- son-hued face and her red wig. One is tempted, in fact, to laugh at her appearance. But the inclination dsap- pears when one watches her kneeling there for an hour crossing and re-cross- ing herself, using at frequent intervals and with a loud noise her large pocket handkerchief, bordered with black, and praying with such manifest fervor and devotion for her country and for her dy- nasty. It is an odd circumstance that her palace should be situated almost right opposite the residence of the United States Ambassador. General Porter.
 Before the present parliamentary ses-
 
 High Chancellor of the Realm, the Earl of Salisbury. will have resigned, and his seat on the weolsack will be taken by Sir Richard Webster, now Attorney Gen. eral. and whose only son, Arthur Web ster, was married the other day to the daughter of Sir Francis and Lady Evans, the latter being an American girl, daughter of MT. Samuel Stephens, the former attorney general for the state of New York.
 Sir Richard wahcfar ubn ir wall known in this country as one of the Commissioners of the Columbian Expo sition and as counsel for Great Britain in the Bering Sea arbitration, is at the present moment busily engaged in clos ing up all his private practice, which has been very large. bringing him, in, indeed, an average of S150,0)0 year, and probably more. He is turning over cases in which he has been retained to fellow members of the bar, and is making all his preparations so as to be able to take his seat as Lord Chancellor without any delay.
 His elevation to the woolsack will carry with it peerage and a salry Of S50OOO per annum, in addition to which he will enjoy the use of a magnificent official residence in the Palace of Westminster As Lord Chancellor of the Realm Sir Richard Webster will likewise become entitled to precedence over every other subject of the Queen, with the except ion of the Princes of the blood and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who alone of non-royal dersonages is entitled to pass before the Lord High Chancellor of the realm.
 Sir Richard Webster will be a much more impressive and imposing looking Lord Chancellor than the present occu- pant of the woolsack, Lord Halsbury
 who is one of the queerest-looking little men that it is possible to imagine, his short and slightly bowed legs being of insufficient length to enable his feet to reach the ground when he is seated on the woolsack.
 He is renowned for his jobbery and nepotism, which are perpetually being held up to obloquy by Henry Labouchere in the pages of Truth and in the House of Commons. Under the circumstances it is natural that Lord Halsbury should be at daggers drawn with Labouchere, and on one occasion finding that MT. and Mrs. Labouchere were to be his fellow guests at dinner party given by Lady Jeune he quilted the house before dinner had been announced, declaring that noth- | ing could induce him to sit at the same | table with 'Labby."
 They tell funny story in London I about the manner in which he secured | the Lord Chancellorship from Lord Sal | isbury on the occasion of the latter forming his previous administration. Lord Salisbury had arranged to nomi-
 nate Sir Baliol Brett to the woolsack.