The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-04-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE SOCIETY PAPERS. 1  (From the World.) I If the Prince and Princess of Wales have effeeted no other good to Ireland, they have already done infinite service to the extt nor of Dublin in the painting and purifying processes which have now been carried on for lio,llo weeks. Ireland ever poses as femme inecomprise to England, but she cannot afford to be in a neglige and slatternly state. If his Royal Highness had been a eumile a dile he could not have effected a happier metamorphosis. ! The King and Queen of the Netherlands have been obliged to abandon their projected visit to England, in consequence of the unsatisfactory condition of his Majesty's health. His physicians have ordered him to go te Karlsbad as soon as the season commences, and he is to arrive there on May 16h, to stay for several weeks. The Queen and her daughter will accompany the King to Karlsbad, and are to go on to Topaz for three weeks. Though the late Lord Cairns was what Mr. Smiles calls a self•made man, and the child of his own genius and steady application to business' it must not be forgotten that he was early taken by the hand by his millionaire relatives, the Brothers McCalmont, the comma, cial potentates of Belfast; and no doubt to their leverage he owed much of his success and his entry into Parliament.  The Chalet Cecil, Lord Salisbury's house at Puys, is in the market. The Chalet is a picturesque building in the style of an English country house, and stands so high that it is a landmaik fix miles around. Puys was mainly founded by Lord Salisbury, Dumas fits, M. Carvalho' and two or three others; but the place has now become too fashionable and frequented to be any longer pleasing to the lord of Hatfield, whose tastes smack somewhat of the recluse. It was always a disadvantage that the gardens of the Chalet were cut in two by the highroad; but that could be borne so long as Puys was a secluded spot. Ever since the crowd began to appreciate Puys, however, Lord Salisbury has been making up his mind to part with the Chalet, and it has now been finally placed in the market. There is a world of pathos in the story of General Grant's last days. His terrible pains seem to have been borne with a Red Indian stoicism. Incurable cancer is one of the direst and most agonising forms of disease, and was considered by Gordon— if I may credit a gentleman who met him some rare ago at Singapore—as sufficient excuse for curtailing one's own existence. The hero had been reading Mallock's essay, " Is Life Worth Living!" and remarked that he agreed with much that was advanced in it. 'Then," said my informant, "you consider it lawful to commit suicide?' "No," answered Gordon; "except under phenomenai con. ditions of buffering without remedy. Many and many a time during the past years I would have hailed death as a blessed relief, if it came as the Almighty message; but I never felt justified in anticipating His decree."  Nobody, in all probability, is more astonished than Lord Malmesbury himself at the unexprcted pecuniary success of his Memoirs. The hook was originally set up in type at his own expense, and six months since he would gladly have sold this venture outright for 4:50. As it is, the net profits already exceed £2,000; the first French edition is nearly exhausted, and even Mr. Tauchnitz has paid handsomely for the right of reproduction. The author seems to have dictated the whole work to a shorthand writer,and this accounts for the curious errors in the spelling of proper names which crept into the earlier editions. Lord Malmosbury will probably shortly issue an additional volume, bringing his narrative down to the death of Lord Beaconsfield ; and, in the interests of posterity and contemporary history-making, he still writes up his diary every day with praiseworthy diligence.