Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1890-05-17 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

SOCIETY GOSSIP.  I FROM THE " WORLD." I  The Queen comes back to town on Thursday, arriving at Buckingham Palace in time for luncheon, and will return to Windsor on S•iturday evening. Her Majesty goes to Balmoral on Thursday week, accompanied by Printers Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg, and will stay there for nearly five weeks. Extensive decorative repairs have been carried out at Balmoral lately, and a variety of improvements have been completed in the Royal grounds. Several of the hill-paths have been made much easier, and the ascent to the Prince Consort's eau.° is now a simple business, whereas formerly it was a severe climb. Lady Halifax has come home from Madeira for the Drawing-room, leaving Lord Halifax in charge of their 800, who is very much better for the winter be has spent there, but is not yet strong enoughlto stand the journey home to England.  The affairs of the late Mr: Wells have given some trouble to Lord Brooke as acting trustee ; but the large prima fetched at Chrislie's on Saturday for the pictures will materially help him in paying off the mortgages. The estate near Peterborough will be sold. Sir James Ramsdell is about to join his steamyacht the Aries at Flushing, and he will proceed in her to the Mediterranean, going all the way through canals and rivers. The Aries was specially designed and built for inland nuvigalion.  - -Colonel Stuart-Wortley, who died on the 80th nit., was during the France-German War a leading member of the Mansion House Committee, which raised nearly £130,000 for the relief of the starving Parisians, and he and Mr. George Moore, the well-known philanthropist went to Paris on February 3rd, 1871, with sixtyeight tons of provisions, and personally superintended their distribution by the clergy, foreign consuls, and others. They were the first per. sons admitted after the seige. They were in Pis some considerable time, including the period of the Commune, and were permitted to have an interview, on matters connected with the fund, with the Archbishop of Paris (Monsignor Darboy) in hie prison cell at La Roquette where he was afterwards murdered by the insurgents. On the settling down of affairs in , France, H. Thiers's Government recognised the services of Colonel Stuart-Wortley and Mr. George Moore by appointing them Commanders of the Legion d'Honneur. In art circles Colonel Stuart- Wortley was widely known as an amateur photographer of great talent and he was also Curator of the Patent Museum at South Kensington. The newly-invented telegram torture adds one more terror to life in the House of Commons. The teetotalers and licensed victuallers despatched six hundred messages between them last week, coojuring the Members to vote in diametrically opposite directions, and the chemical and pharmaceutical societies followed cotton a still more extensive scale over a single clans. in the Budget. As these unpleasant reminders arrived simultaneously, Mr.Gosoben's allusion to the House being involved in " a fog of yellow paper" was peculiarly appropriate. The prolonged interview which Mr. Jenne, Q.C., had with the Primate on Saturday has given rise to a supposition that it is not unlikely he may be Lord Penzance's successor. At Edinburgh a few days ago a copy of Sir Richard Burton's "Arabian Nights, ' (the "plain and literal translation ") was sold for £2B 7s. . . . .  It is announced on authority that the GilbertSullivan association is finally severed, and that the Savoy alliance is permanently concluded. This a is social loss, for another Sullivan and a second Gilbert are not to be anticipated. On 1 dit that Sir Arthur proposes to devote himself to grand opera, in which, he thinks. fame and fortune can be won. Fame perhaps ; fortune dubious. Mr. Gilbert will find it difficult, probably impossible, to find another Sullivan. Sir Arthur will not require another Gilbert, for Gilberton humour and quaint originality are not needed for the libretto of grand opera. The Fitzballs and the Bunes of the (Mare will be quite good enough for the music of the future.  From "