Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-05-22 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, TRUBADAY EVENING.  Although the Queen enjoyed her late visit to town, .and appeared in the best of health and spirits when she appeared in public, she is somewhat afraid of over fatigue. There is still some talk of a Royal visit to the North of England in the autumn, but it is stated in usually well-informed circles that her Majesty will not add to the number of engagements up to the end of October. I hear, from one who has reason to know, that her Majesty's recent stay of one month in Grasso cost upwards of nine thusand pounds. Say the month possessed thirty days, and with a diminutive amount of calculation, you will arrive at the fact that the cost of the visit came o hundred pounds a day, which seems to pfitr.  to th  INC r  The  lir coincidence has just hal:Flied. ipres,.; (.111atte, wife of the murdered Emperor of Mexico, bas just recovered her fsculties, and on the same day as this occurred General Miguel Lopez, the betrayer of her husband, was bitten by a mad dog. He is under the ,Pastenr treatment, but snaps awl snarls and foams at the mouth like a rabid bound. His recovery is said to be next to impossible. The betrayal of Maximilian is ancient history now—it occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago—but the Empress Charlotte is only forty-five. Up to now she has not the remotest idea how her husband (lied.  Lord James Douglas, who lately committed suicide at the Easton Hotel, is one of an ecceotric family. Lady Florexce Dixie is well known for her intrepidity and dislike of conventionality, while another sister preferred to marry the man she sincerely loved and to pass the remainder of her days selling loaves of bread over the counter of his little baker's shop. The blind, of course, cannot see a joke, and it seems that other people have not charity en 'ugh to point out to them this branch of their misfortune. A poor fellow with an accordian. who peranibulatos the streets of Windsor, thus indicates by a placard that he has received help from Royalty: "Blind from inflammation, assisted by.her Majesty the Queen." This beats the beggar on the North Bridge at Edinburgh, who appealed to public sympathy with these words: "Blind from niy birth; I have seen better days." Baron Hirsch', big scheme for exporting the Jews of Europe to South America and dumping them down on a vacant piece of ground sounds very well in theory, but in practice the "Modern Moses," as some of the newspapers call the millionaire, may find many difficulties in the way of accomplishing the scheme. First and foremost what will the South Americans say to the idea? The question is best answered by asking another—What should we say were it proposed to deposit the great unwashed IllaSsthl of Europe's human FCIIII in this country ? Another point, too, is that the Jews are not likely to remain in one spot for any length of time. They would soon drift out of the new Palestine into other countries, and as we should, a course, get our share of the wanderers, -curses lou,l and deep would be Baron Hirsch's reward for expending two or three millions of his colossal fortune.  It appears somewhat strange to ordinary mortals why it should be thought necessary to present royal personages who visit exhibitions with elaborate catalogues printed on satin, betted in vellum, and profusely ornamented with gold. The catalogue presented to the Prince of Wales by the Officials of the Naval Exhibition cost £lOO, that presented to her 310j,sty mast have cost about three tiles that am 'ant, the mountings being of pure gold. To Inc this sort of thing seems a perfeci. waste of rummy. It is scarcely likely that either her Majesly or the Prince of Wales will ever look . . . . .  inside the book again. What then is the use of twin ? It strikes me as being a very snobbish proceeding altcgether, and a totally unnecessary waste of money—a waste too, that both her Majesty and the Prince of Wales would jibe the first to deprecate were they consulted . ' before tho gilded baubles were put in their hands. Now that that eccentric gen leman Mr. Cnnuinghame Graham, M.P., has been nueerentonimrsly kicked out of France, it is probable that he will entertain a greater respect for the freedom of his own country, and will in future confine his Socialistic seeeches to the Metropolis. France enjoys a Republic, but in spite of that fact fteedoln of speech is somewhat of a dead letter. Louise Michel and her friends rant and rave to their hearts' content in Hyde Park, and no one cares one single jot for their nonsense; but in l'rance, as both Louise Michel and Mr. Canninghame Graham lave found to their cost, the police are not so tolerant. Placards are being largely posted throughout the most democratic districts of Belgium, headed " Workmen! " and then going on to say : " Where are the working claases most happy? —ln England! where universal suffrage does not exist. Where are the working classes most miserable? In France and Germany! where uniyers:.l suffrage does exist." These bills, it is said, are being circulated in the interest of the clerical party in Belgium, which is opposing tooth and nail, the proposed granting of univets:d suffrage to Belgian people. Sir Henry Parkes is the happy possessor of a lucky sixpence. It was tho first money be earned when he stepped ashore at Sydney half a century ago, a friendless and penniless immigrant. It was the reward for holding a horse outside a public-house whilst the rider was inside indalging in a refresher--not a bad subject for an historic picture this incident in the life of the Anstralasian Dominion, The Melbourne .4ge is the sort of paper in which ono would like to have an interest. The third share has just been sold for £llO,