Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-11-28 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MEN AND MANNERS.  THE Conite de Paris has sent twenty thousand franca to the Pope an Peter'. Pence, in acknowledgement of his Holiness having granted an interview to Princess 11Clene of Orleans when she wan in Rome, and (if his great kindness to her. After the audience Leo XIII, whose breakfast was about to be served, invited the young Princess to join him, and together with the friends who accompanied her, she breakfasted at the Pope's own table, a very rarely conferred honour.  PRINCT and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar have now taken up their residence in London at their house in Portland Place. Their departure from London was the cause of universal regret. Prince Edward was a most popular commander-in-chief, and the Princess was very much beloved by all classes, especially among the poor, for whom she was always performing some act of kindness.  A DUKEDOM will probably be conferred on Prince George of Wales in the course of the present seasion. h is intended, it is Paid, to revive in his person the Dukedom of York. The Dukedom of Kent would have been preferred, but Her Majesty has an easily understood objection to reviving the title in her own lifetime.  IT is, perhaps, not generally known that the Queen possesses the finest collection of gold plate of any reigning monarch. It stands unrivalled, not only in the West, but in the gorgeous East, whenoz, indeed, many of its most valuable trophies have come. One of the most superb specimens is the lyre-bird, which fell into the hands of the British at the storming of Seringapatam, where the original owner, Tippoo Sahib, met his death. The bird's body and tail are of solid gold, thickly studded with diamonds and precious stones. As it stands, a blaze of jewels, its intrinsic value represents an income of about £1.5,000 a year!  LADY Henry Somerset has been elected a vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance. IT is singular to note how very apt bachelors are to take up any' women's rights" questions. For a long time Mr. Courtney, then a bachelor, led the forlorn hope of woman suffrege in Parliament. To him succeeded Mr. Woodhall, also a bachelor. When the split in the female suffrage camp took place, Mr. Haldane, another bachelor, WWI confided in as leader of the advanced section. And now it is announced that Mr. Haldane is to distinguish himself still further in the cause of woman by introducing a Bill to equalize the law of divorce. On the other hand in Sir Henry James, also a bachelor, the woman suffrage advocates have their bitterest opponent, and the Marquis of i Hartington, another bachelor, s not in favour of the movement.  Ws are glad to hear somewhat better accounts of Mr. Ruskin's health than have lately been forthcoming. Mr. Ruskin is, howeNer, still unable to resume any literary work.  SIR Edward Ebenezer Bay, the new Lord Justice of Appeal, has a severe face and a sharp tongue Its is the "bogie man" of the fraudulent, pettifogging, or blood.sucking solicitor, and of all that class who live in a shady way by the exploitation of public justice. No judge ever sat who looked at the vital question of "wets" more from the point of view of the suitor and lees from that of the legal practicioner.  FRANZ von Lenbach has been commissioned to paint a life.sized portrait of the German Emperor for the Empress. A further picture will form the subject-inchief of a I :erman coin.  Tits present topic in St. Petersburg society is the extraordinary suicide of Madame benderoff, wife of Captain Benderoff, of Bulgarian renown. The unfortunate lady, on finding herself the victim of an incurable disease was anxious that her husband, whom she adored, should not he burdened with an invalid wife. Whilst he was on duty, she attired herself completely in the costume worn by her on her wedding-day, and shot herself through the heart. She left a letter addressed to her husband, which said :—"You deliverered Bulgaria from a usurper. I now deliver you from a burden which might prevent you from saving it again. You have known me without stain, and as innocent as an angel, and I leave you no. Pardon the grief I occasion you."  Os I of the daintiest and richest women in New York has given an order to a London bootmaker for a number of pairs of boots to be studdel with precious stones. I fancy I know that New Yorker. The last time I heard of her she was having brilliants fixed in her front teeth, or the armorial bearings of her family tatooed on her back. A most enterprising young person, and so useful to American journalists.  Low DON tradesmen are now busy devising Christmas gifts to be Rent down to Marlborough House for the Princess of Wales's inspection. Her Royal Highness takes the brightest interest in selecting the gifts she intends to make to her relatives and friends, and her daughters chocse theirs at the same time. A large room is set apart for the reception of the articles sent in by tradesmen. It is well known that the Princess would go about among the shops and enjoy making her own selection as others do, and as the Empress of Austria and Queen of Italy do, as well as the Queen-Regent of Spain. only that the Queen of England's strict notions of etiquette forbid this to her eldest son's wife. In Norfolk she and her daughters go about quite freely, which iq one reason that they so love their rural life at Sand ugham.  How,