The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-11-27 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

IOLLA-N.D.  The King died at his Ua•tle of Leo, near Apeldoorn, at helt-1 ast six &dank on Smudgy morning. For the last four days hie Alejeity had been sinking. He was unconscious. Death was caused by an attack of in semis. Only Count Dumongterti cud two physicians were present during the last moments. The King passed away very peacefully. The Q-reee had method to her room, and was greatly agitated when she was summoned to the chamber of death. The body of the King will be brom,ht to Ihe Hague at the end oi the week, preparatory to its removal to the vault of the Or &lige faintly iii the Cathedral at Delft. Tue Queen is expected to visit The Hague again within a few days, to renew her oath as Regent. The news of the death of the King of the Netherlands his created uo great sensation in Paris. There ie no reason to suppose th-et the predietion of souls newspapers, that the King's death will be followed by Europeeu couvulsious, pulsing out of the determination of Germany to incorporate Hollaud with the Empire, will be realised. First, be huge Uerninny's interests do not lie in that direction ; and, next, because liolland's surest guarantee the sturdy sense of iudepeudenee of her hardy arid people, is rot in the slightest degree likely to be weakened by the oceupaucy of the Throne by a Queen in her eleventh year, under die Regeuey of her mother, who has wou the goodwid and affection of every class among her eubjeots. The forty-one years during which William 111. has rule I over the Netlierleude have been the most eventful in the history of Europe. The mighty transformations whioh the world has undergone during that period have boon less pereeptib e in Hollaud thsu elsewhere, and the Dutch have been able to tealitre that the people are happy whose history is not interesting. In reviewing his life, the Ikbals pays William 111. the merited tribute that throughout hie long reign he has beeu a strictly Constitutional Monarch. Liberal mud Cquser vative Cabinets (lame into office in succession to each other, without its being possible for the kr emit observer to detect any preterenee for either. The one oticiteion on whioh he used Lis personal influence was in 1.867, at the time when the Luxembourg difficulty threatened to accelerate the rupture between France and Prussia which metured „three years later ; and King William's influence powerfully aided the elfin ts of the Loudon Conference to secure peace. The news of the death of the K ug of the Netherlaiids arrived iu Berlin shortly before noon. The fang illness of the King had prepared the public mind for the intelligence. The only persons on whom the news has produced mu4h impresiion are those who remember the great hiendehip that existed thi ty to forty years ago between the Nassau and Hohenzollern id.ouses,empetially riming the lifetime of the Notheclands, who was married to a Prussian Princess.  By Yalu; William's decroaße the Duke of Neesou becomes uow the uwlisputod. Sovereigu of the Graud Duchy of Luxemberg. Under it new GretudDuko, Luxemberg will hetneforili be separated from the kingdom of the Netherlands, hut will preeerve ita neutrality preeisoly as under the rule of its late Sovereigu.  A landlord named John Ormsby, holding an ex.eusive property near BallMa, county Mayo, committed suicide on Satarday in the River Moy. He had been eutteriug from depreseion of mind for COMO days, and was narrowly watched. On Saturday morning, i.t four o'clock, he escaped horn his bedroom in the Imperial Hotel, and, rushing down to the river, divested himself of his coat and threw himself iu. His body was found a few hours afterwards. The deceased was known as a kind and indulgent landlord. On Saturday morning at Stockport, four member. of a gang of roughs—Paul Bre, etou, Mich kel Roach, Peter Roach, and Thomas Welsh—were charged with taking part in whet was dem ibed as a regular riot in I litigate. The evidence showed that several policemen were brutally ki •ked, and that had it not been for the assistance of ,c•viliaus they must have been seriously injuied. .13rereton was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, and the other three to six mouths' each. 'rho Bench allowed one man who /misted lOs., and the others 2s. Baal. _ . .  On Saturday the Mii:noliester November Haudioap was won by the Duke of Beaufort's P ,rlingtou, Mr. Milner'. Shall We Iteuptuber being second and Mr. Savill's Ringmaster third. The Australian Forlorn' Convention will assemble in Sydney in March next, to consider the scheme for establishing a Federal Cou:titution for the Au tr alatian Colonies. While hunting with the Atherstarie hounds, near Coventry, on Saturday, Lot d 13raye sustained serious injuries owing toe horse running against a tree. He was taken to Towutheru, war Rugby, the residence of Mr. Jatksou. The celebrations in honour of the " Manchester Martyrs," in the neighbourhood of Belfast and other places, were out short on Saturday, and a number of arrests were made.  According to present arrangements the Queen, with Prince and Pricoese Henry of Batteuberg and their children, will leave Windsor about the Dither 19th of December for Osborne.