Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1887-01-15 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

SOCIETY--G-0-11-I P.  (From Truth.)  The Queen has derdb.d definitely and finally —that ehe will not open Parliini i in person on the 27th. This is a decided disappointment to Lori Salsbury, as the reason o;iginally asdgned by her Maj .ty for not attending the ceremony WM her objection ti leave Osborne FO fr.di alter her arrival there, and, of source, this cannot bolt go now that the date of opening has been postponed II the 27th.  Her Maj Est, intends to pass four dap at Buckingham Palace in March, when two Drawingroom, are to be held. The Prince of Wales will hold a oouple of levee. at St. James's Palane directly after hie return fro-n Conner. Lord Hartington was invited by Mr. Chamberlain to go into the conference with him, but resolutely declined.  -The real reason why Lord Iddesleigh has been treated in go cavalier a fashion is that Lord Salisbury prefers infinitely being Foreign Secretary to being Premier. This is the iwcret of his readiness to surrender the latter position to Lord Hartington. Lord Sai4bury has a perfect seem Until Ennis. A few months ego he would have entered into an alliance with Austria, and this was only prevented by the most strenuone opposition on the part of Lord Randolph Churchill. L rd Iddeeleigh does not share in this Russian craze, and it has, therefore, been deemed expedient to get him out of the way. There in no truth in the announcement of the Time, that the Prince of Wales has taken Lord Kilwarline'e plasm near Dublin, and that be intends to pass a considerable portion of next summer" in Ireland.  Her Majesty hari preeented to the Biblioteca Breideose at Milan a sumptuously bound copy of the works of Raphael, as represented in the Royal Library at Windeor Castle. The Raphael collection at Windeor was arranged and largely increased by the Prince Contort. The above work has recently been printed by command of the Queen, for private circulation, and a number of copies will be distributei during the present year. The municipal revenue for Liverpool for 11396 falls abort of the expenditure by £45,000 which will nereeteitate • special rate of did. in the Fount. This repreeente the price which Liverpudlians have to pay for the honour of being vieited by Royalty. The publiehers of the American " authorieed " edition of Mr. Gladetone's pamphlet on the 1ri,•12 question (Meagre. Seribner) cold nearly 40,000 wines in • month. The " offering " of gold, frankiocense, and myrrh which is made on the feast of Epiphany in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, "on behalf of the Queen," by the two Gentlemen Ushers-inWelting, who are arrayed in full lev6e dress, and who receive • handeome foe for their attendance, is a ceremony which might well be discontinued. I should vastly like to know icho gets the gold which the Queen offers Z2O, or aome ouch earn), and how mach the ceremony poet.? Formerly the practice was to send the Royal "offering" op to the altar in a box, on which a etar was painted, bat that decoration was abolishe I by Bishop Blomflel I (Dean of the Chapel), to thongit that it smeared of "Popish mummery." A cheque for £5O •as then given to the official who was charwed with the duty of providing the offering. The , Prince Cornet, on one occasion, opened the box, and found that the offering " represented an outlay of about lde." ; and then it turned out that the balance wait, by old usage, appropriated by tome official as a " perquisite." Tbe Prince at once stopped this, and substituted the present custom of offering a number of sovereigns and the myrrh and frankincense on • large gold dish.  It is stated that the Italian Government has ordered from the German firm of Schwartzeopf torpedoee to the value of 6,000,000 marks. Mr. Dillon has ooramenoed an !Legion against the inspectors who arreeted him at Looghree to recover £3,000 damage..  The last Madagascar mail brings news that Mr. Myre de Viler., the French Resident, has asked to be recalled. The widow of General Montholon, Napoleon's companion at St. Helens, has just died at Bordeaux, at the age of 85. In order to prevent the perpetration of frauds by means of forged passports, it has been decided by the Austrian anthoritiee that each of these documents libel! in future contain the photograph of the bearer. There were never in one year as many suicides in Vienna as in the past year, when 359 persons, that 15 280 men and 78 women, destroyed themselves. The oldest suicide was 83 years of ago, and the youngest 11. The number of foreign newspapers and other periodicals which were delivered in Anstria through the poet net year wan 91,861,774. The figura Is a large one, considering that every newspaper that goes by post into the country., to tuned two kreutzern  The Mark-Lane Exprese of Monde), says that the trade I r wdeat was quiet, and cool. a retail scale. English Cleat was not purehaelble under laet Iforiilsyla quotations, .1 of foreign wheats generspy the same might be sail. Flour quiet but steady.  The death iv announced of Major-Generaf Ororge Alez6ndr r liner, V.C., Ito).1 (late Bengal) Artillery. The gallant officer command.] No. 4 1314 e Battery, covering the ibreault at Delhi on the 14th September, 1651, and then with the troop turned a captured ordnance in Cashmere b.tion on the city, and krpt up flre until the ...atilt on the Magahine, on the 16th, when the troop turned the mortar. ruptured there on Fort Seilogher en 1 the Palace, and continued fire until their capture on the 20th September. He received the Victorin Ocoee for the defence, of the Magazine.