Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-04-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe-CoburgGo ha will visit the Queen at Costebelle, and it will be their first meeting with Her Majesty for many years. It is no secret that the Dake strongly disapproved of Princess Beatrice's marriage to Prince Henry of Battenberg, and he warmly protested against it, the result being that his relations with the Queen became very strained. There had been previous differences, however, in connection with Sir Theodore Martin's " Life of the Prince Consort," in which work the Duke considered that he ought to have figured more prominently. There will now be a full reconciliation. The Queen. has been much pressed to return to England from the Riviera through Germany, in order that Her Majesty may visit the Grand Duke of Hesse at Darmstadt, and have a meeting there with the Empress Frederick. It has been suggested that the Queen should hold a family council at Darmstadt, but a homeward journey through Germany would involve mach fatigue. The illness from which Prince Alfred of Edinburgh has been suffering still causes great anxiety, because H.R H. has always been delicate. Under the most favourable circumstances Prince Alfred is likely to be more or less of an invalid for several months to come. The Prince's illness excites much interest in Germany, because, in the event of a fatal issue, the Duke of Connaught would become the ultimate heir of the Duchy of Saxe-CoburgGotha. Prince Alfred is but little known in England, having been brought up in Germany as a possible future German Prince. Mr. Gladstone can hardly appear in any new capacity, for he has pretty nearly exhausted all the varied forms of human activity. However, it will be something of a novelty to see him in the character of an academical teacher. He has undertaken to deliver next term at Oxford the Roman.es Lecture, a discourse instituted by the eminent biologist to rival the Redo Lectures at Cambridge. It is not easy to conjecture what subject the ex-Premier will select for his theme; but he may be expected to astonish mankind by disclosing a hitherto unknown familiarity with the latest results of physiological research. Last quarter was the most profitable on reeerd for probate duty. The value of personal estates declared during that period was nearly twice as great as that of the corresponding period last year. Mr. W. H. Smith's was the only millionaire's estate, but several fell little short of a million. There were seven estates between helf-a-million and a million, or more than half the entire number of last year. The proportions are just about the same in the case of smaller estates. The feature so far is the extraordinary evidence of shipowning wealth, which should be sustained by the forthcoming wills of Sia J. P. Corry and Mr. Allan, head of the Allan Line. It is rather curious that both the ladies whose names have been so unhappily associated of late with the administration of the Criminal Law, should have been wooed and won at Folkestone. It was at that popular wateringplace that Captain Osborne first met his future wife; and there also Mrs. Montagu's courtship took place. Never has public curiosity been more offensively satisfied than in the case of the wretched being who is awaiting his trial at Melbourne for the most prolific array of murders probably over attributed to any one man. What he drank, what he smoked, what he said to a press "interviewer," how he plk ed " nap" with one man and draughts with another, how he sulk.e,d, petted or boasted, as the case might be, has been described in every detail .as if he had been famous instead of infamous. It is a moot point whether the London paper.; have made any profit out of the sensation, seeing that one big telegram alone, which appeared in a leading "daily," cost the proprietors thirty pounds.