Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1898-10-07 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

COW., tion with the recent accident met with by Ilia Royal Highnese the Prune of Wales. Lord Kitchener wil premed to England as soon as he poomblY can leave Egypt, as Lord Salisbury Is most an.mous to oonsult with him personally as to the situation in the Soudan. its will be here the End wees in November. He will probably return to Khartoum as Governor. General of the Soudan, but, if he does, it is doubtful whether he will ocupy that position for any length of tintd. In any circumiesenoes. Major-General Hunter will be appointed Slider of the Egyptian Army; while for any future 'vacancy in the Governorship of the Soudan, Cal. Wingate would doubtlees be ueld to have •claim. It is seven years since General Boulanger cola. iflitted suicide St Brussels, and a writer in she giVillg ilia reminiscences of Boulangism, records a rtory of a dinner party which haw a • pathetic interest. It was in the days when Pare was mad with Boulanger fever, when H. Rochefort introduced the general to the editor a the "Figaro," at a small dinner party. The writer records the fate of some members of the parly. Three committed suicide--the General, M. NMtor Cremieux, arid a banker—one went marl t Victor RoniniA. mut 'throe weoc emled—rhe General, M. Rochefort, and Count Dillon. Lieutenant Colonel Sloggett, or the Royal Army Medical Corp., who received a gunshot wound 111 the cheat in ;he famous charge of the 2lst Lancer' at Omdurman, had a very narrow escape of lot' life. The bullet entered the cheat on the lett side, just above the heart, piesed straight through and emerged at the back. The limited degree of injury which it caused images., that the missrle probably mute from a ontali-bl,re French or Hellen rifle. The bullet of a Remiesson. the common weapon of the Dervish troops must. in the opinion of the doctor, have been *fatal. ft r. being of large size, it seldom tails to mint oerious injuries.  Prince Henry of Proses, is the idol of all classes of the German people, and his ,popularisy is very distasteful to 6is brother. \althorn Prince Henry has his tatter's mashing blue eyes and bright smile, and most of the qualms: which make his mother so loveable. To both parents he has been passionately devoted, and his father on his deathbed paid a tcuelialg ire bute to his filial love. The sailor-Priam is an especial favourite with German seamen. who irk never forget that on more than one occasion he Las risked has life to save one of them. He w an admirable linguist, a clever paint, and violinist.  We take the following from a character ,heteh of the Bishop of London in the "Outle-There io a wicked legend that while at ?rtes. borough Mrs. Creighton once wrote up a hk..g.Y. man regretting that the Bishop could not come for a confirmation, but promising that she woild come instead! More authentic is the atom lust after addressing a meeting of working-de,tt mother in their borne duties, Mrs. Cret;litoti overheard one of theni thus commenting 10 her fcrsiP. -Yes. 'twos all very hoe. she's .1 nice lady and a fir,t-class speaker. But I like to ask her this: What does she do whhu okl Creighton comes home drunk?" It is .1160 authentic that this he wtail told to a very serious clergyman of the London diocese. MI, face grew very long, and he asked in repulchrt: tones, "But does the Bishop over come home—l.  The sudden death of Madame Carnet or Presks, in Belgium, will recall the tragic narrow that befell her more than four VOl.ll, ago, when ht, husband, the late presidvia of the rr'="eh llelolblte. was cruelly assassinated at Lyons by l'esario, the Italian Anon.tnst, who, pretending to present a petition to the President, as be was driving to the theatre. stabbed him to the heart. Madame Carnot, who was at the Elysee when her husband was murdered, bravely undertook tan long journey to Lyons alone, and during tlis trying days between her arrival and the funeral of the President, she exhibited a resignation rind a courage that won the. admiration of the whole of Prance. The Gevernment of the .10, proposed to grant a Penmen to the Press widow., in acknow`.edgment of his services to the Republic, hut Maclaine raroot, who wa, 0 daughter of Charles Crook White, the eminent economist, declined to accent the offer. urging that Prance, having accorded her husband a magnificent State fuacral, hail done everythav that could be expected of it to show its appreciation of hint.  Protted aml pnbliehed at 9. New-etreet, mei 37. Chareh-etroet, Lancaster, by the Lanertet Priutiog and Publooking Company, linat.d.