The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-06-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ENTRE NOUS."  (From Truth.) During her residence ,at Windsor Castle, the Queen will hold an Investiture of the B.th and other Orders.  Princess Louise has been rather out of health lately, and 13.8.11. will proba'uly go to Germany shortly to take the waters at 'Marienbad. The Princess suffers from neuralgic headaches, to which she has been subject ever since she was thrown out of her sleigh in Canada, about four years ago. The property left by the Duke of Albany tun • out to be by no means so large as was stated it. the papers directly after his death. A great deal of money was spent in various ways during the last few months of the Duke's life; and when everything is paid there will not be a balance of more than £lO,OOO at the outside. It is probable, however, that a portion of the liabilities will be paid by the Queen, and her Majesty is to defray a considerable proportion of the cost of the funeral. The Duchess gets all the money that her husband had to leave, and also an annuity from the country of .e 6,000 a year, which, however,vhe would lose in the event of her contracting a second marriage. under the superintendence of Sir John Cowell, the establishment at Claremont has been greatly reduced, and economical refotms of every kind have been carried out. The housekeeper and two other servants were always paid by the Queen, and her Majesty also defrayed a conviderable proporiion of the outdoor expenses; but still the keeping up of such a place in any adequate VIII" re far beyond the resources of the Dueller.. Kfbany, and her continued residence th•*!:. 'would involve a charge to the Q een of at /Last eto,ooo a year, so the present arrangements are nut likely to be permanent, but, in all probability, the rooms in Kensington Palace, which were recently vacated by dm Duke and Duchess of Teck, will ultilllete:y become the widowed Duchess's reel. dense.  There is • vacant suite of apartmenta in Hampton Court Palace, in consequence of the transfer of Miss Cuppage to the rooms recently occupied by Lady Margaret Bourke, who has been given a lsr-er and • better suite, which fell in by the dcath of M'is. Boncher. There are more than 60 names on " tile Qut-en's list," and probably as many outside applications will be reoetved.  _ In the reports of the Royal wedding at St. Petess burg it is stated by several correspondents that tar, voungest:sister of the bride (Princess Victoria-Alice of Beebe) 'vote recognised by many persons "as the future Empress 6. Russla." Thus is utter nonsense. for, apart from the fact that there would be no particular object in another alliance with the Darin stadt family, it is an open secret at St. Petersburg that it is intended, in process of time, to arrange a marriage between the Czarewitch and one of tie younger daughters of the Crown Prince of Germany. The diamonds worn by Patti in the ball scene in "La Traviata" are worth over L'60,000. No wonder, therefore, that great vigilance is exercised by the police when she, or Albani, or Sembrich, who also wear most costly jewels, sing in that opera. Frau Cosime Wagner and the other heirs of the late Richard Wagner have received an American offer of £OO,OOO for the exclusive right of performing " Parsifal." The offer has been declined, as was a preceding one of £2.5,000 from some German speculators. Herr Gross, the Bayreuth banker, who is Wagner's executor, declares that " Parallel" shall only ho played in the Bayreuth Theatre.  At the Old Bailey on Wednesday William Norris was indicted for the wilful murder of his two children in May last in Southwark. It being stated that the prisoner had been sent tothe lnatic asylum, the trial was adjourned sine die. . .  A tiro broke out in the extensive stables of Me, era. Robert Armstrong and Sons, omnibus and carriage proprietors, Belfast, at an early hour on Wednesday morning. Engines were speedily in attendance; but desejte strenuous efforts on the part of the firemen, notffinly were the buildings destroyed, but the flame, Epread to the neighbouring dwelling-houses, and coinptetely destroyed them, the inmates being resell, di with difficulty. Out of 45 horses which were in the EtaLles at the time of the outbreak it was only powiitde to save six.