Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-02-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE SOCIETY PAPERS.  (From the World.)  The memory of the Maltese is inconveniently retentive, and the approaching return of the Duke of Edinburgh to hit old resideece at St. Antonio is viewed with feelings I.kin to dismay. It is hardly possible that the favourites of 10 years since will regain their ascendency, and the natives are not likely to shew the sympathy with the duke's enlightened views on the subject of art-thearese collecting which they displayed when he first went to live amongr,t them. The recollection of a certain sale by auction wbich preceded his departure still lives, sod the bitternes4 of many disappointed hopes has to be reckoned with. The Maltese have long since come to agree with the Psalmist as to his estimate concerning the value of the promises of princes. Lord Aberdeen means to reverse all the last traditions of the Castle and Vi eregal housekeeping, for I hear he has ordered the Comptroller, Colonel Caul geld, to make pit-pal:limns for entertainment on a moat libural scale. It is to be hoped that his lordship's craze for proselytising will not be Is rsisted in during his Dublin reign ; as 311‘.11 a surplusage of zeal would be fatal to his influence at the Castle or iii the country. The tale told of his 1111VMIZ invited Lord and Lady Rosebery to a religious function, which turned out to be a meeting for the Conversion of the Jews to Christianity, is prouahly only bra trovato, though generally credited.  I hear Prince Albert Victor is likely to prove as keen in the hooting field as his father was ere welter weight overtook him, a, d as his uncle, the Duke of Connaught, wa4 and is still. Colonel Wood, his commanding officer, will certaioly not quench the nascent ardour, and some very good Irish hunters have lately come over for his Royal Highness's use. Sir Henry Allsorm will take the title of Baron Hindlip of iliudlip in the ::oulity of Worcester.  General Lord Forester will b 3 greatly missed and generally regretted. lla!f a century ago he was considered to he the han thinnest man in London, and as a young officer of did Blues he was the special darling of society.  Viscount Hint-nn, whose name is prominent just now in the police-court reports, is the son and heir of Earl Ponlett. Of father and son some succinct and cynically unvarnished biographical details are given in " Debr.tt," ptesumably furnished by the former. Earl l'oulett "married at Portsea, June 23rd, 1849, Elizabeth Lavinia, daughter of Mr. Newman, pilot ot Landport, and has issue living. William Tumour Thomas Viscount Hinton, born at Southsea, December 15th, 184'J " (six months after the marriage of his paten; s), " . . . was some time ago engaged as a clown and profes-innal pantomimist at the Surrey Theatre and elsewhere under the nom de plume of Mr. Cosrnan ; ' married December iith, 1869, Miss Lydia Ann Shippy, a ballet-dancer." The first Lady P,ulett. the pilot of Landport's daughter, died in August, 1 71, and in the following December the widower married, secondly, "Miss Emma Sophia Johnson." He is patron ot live  I understand that it was on the intercession of the Prince of Wales that Mr. Pigott has modified his original determination to refuse the licence to "Sapho," which, however, before being performed in Engiand will undergo some ton ii g down. A friend writes me that " in preparation for the Lataitie des fieurs at the Nice Cat nival, Lord Cairns has ordered 10,060 white camellias, and has hired two elephants to draw one of the boats of his yacht, to be arranged for the day of the flowery warfare." Amidst many victims of the riots in the West-end, sympathy must be extended to Mr. Leonard Courtney, who was hustled and bustled to an alarming extent, though, on recovering his breath and his equanimity, he explained to an anxious inquirer, "The truth is, they took me for a gentleman !'  _ I believe that while the Netherby murderers lay in Carlisle goal as condemned men, an attempt was discovered and frustrated to convey poison to Rudge in the inside of an orange. The vigilance of the authorities had been stimulated by reports that Rudge s brother' who was in Carlisle before the execution, had been heard to affirm his brother would not live to Eeo the gallows.