Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-06-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A COUNTESS.  Particulars reached Milan on Saturday of a sensational suicide which hal just taken place at Intra. a small town on Lake Maggiore, It appears that the Countess Eliza de Roiol, wife of a Russian nobleman, exiled for complicity in secret political agitation, has for the last month been ocoupying apartments in the Grand Hotel de Pallanza, in that town. On Thursday she threw herself from the fourth storey of the hotel on to the pavement below, and was killed instantaneously. The unfortunate lady was 41 years of age, and very wealthy.  Lord Randolph Churchill is a man of indomitable spirit and some tact, This Session be has three times been laid ~side by illness; but he returns to work the first moment he can with the same feverish and often misdirected activity as ever. The Conservatives snubbed him, and repudiated him a few weeks ago, but he is on perfectly good terms with them again as well as with himself. No man in the House has attacked the Parnellites with such bitterness ; yet the Parnellites rather like him than otherwise. He has done nothing to forfeit his chance of a'place in the next Conservative Government. He has been independent and even insubordinate, but the same was true of Mr. Chamberlain. His health is much more likely than his character to hinder his political advancement. Baron Henry de Worms is not an over-wise man ; his Parliamentary reputation is not based upon either prudence or good taste. But even from him one could scarcely have anticipated so foolish or impudent or indecor ms a question to the Government as that relating to the supposed refusal to appoint the Duke of Albany to the Governor-Generalship of Canada. No doubt the Dare wished very much t go. He has an honourable ambition to engage himself in real work. He is a thinking man and capable of affairs. Although weak in constitution, he has been stronger of late, and it was the opinion of some of his medical advisers that the bracing climate of Canada would upon the whole benefit his health. There were not wanting some precedents for the appointment. George the Third' sons were not very clever men, but one or two of them filled public positions in the colonies with considerable credit. But the Queen was against the scheme. She did not wish to part from her youngest and favourite son. She was apprehensive on the score of his health. Her Majesty'e feeliag on the subject no doubt relieved the Premier from a difficulty. Estimable and trustworthy as Prince Leopold is. his Viceroyalty might be a serious difficulty to a Government. Even Viceroys occasionally require scolding; they always require lobe kept "well in hand." Dot the Queen's son could not very well be scolded, and it would be a delicate matter t a keep him in hand. Possibly the balance of advantage is in favour of drawing the line at arms-in-law of royalty for such appointments. Mr. Gladstone is ageing fast, and it is mere blindnets to palpable facts to pretend not to see it. When the Ccesar who ruled France as le Grand Monarque grew bald and put on a periwig, monstrous perriques became all the fashion, and so the wig has come down to our day. Mud in the same way, Mr. Gladstone covers his declining energy with occast inst outbursts of passionate speech-making. He flames out with his rd." eloquence, and the world says that, like another Moses, his eye is not dim nor his natural force abated. But it is only- L vale XlV.'s wig instead of his natural locks. False hair cannot long pass for reel. Mr. S. Smith, the Liberal member for Liverpool, gains ground in public opinion, not among his constituents only, but in the country at large. He made a speech the other day in Licerpeol. in which be summed up lucidly the three causes which produce the present block of public business. They are these : The multiplication ot local business, which ought to be thrown on local bodies; the loquacity of members; and, above all, the definite wish to obstruct on the part of those who, naturally enough from a party point of view, de4re to keep back Liberal measures. The result of the Liberal party meeting has not been pronounced enough to raise any false hopes of improvement. It is generally believed that things will soon go on in the old groove as before. The arrogance of the D:rect irs of the Underground Railway has receive' a signal illustratioe, and it is to be hoped a signal cheek, in the course of the proceedings before the Select Committee on the Inner Circle Completion Bill. Toe instruction of the House to the committee was to make the rem oval or modification of the Embankment ventilators, a condition precedent to the granting of the power were required for the completion of the remaining portion of , the Circle. The company threw down the gauntlet by declaring that practicallyptwhne,'cork public odependent vb ewndisregardedinvolved nvb no l vunept either the instructions to the committee must be dotnhineor they would withdraw their Bill. Their object was plain, they wish to make the vht eleenei their eon fulfilment e no of etthdbeerti jrw greatnhrdvse they wished to bully the public into compliance, or to punish them for non-compliance with their behests. Fortunately, the Select Committee have done their beat to thwart them in one part of the programme. They have recommended the granting of extraordinary facilities for the Corporation and the Metropolitan Board of Works to obt tin Parliamentary powers for the removal of the ventilators, or, in other words, for the revocation of the authority under which the company erected them. The company may, no doubt, continue to sulk and decline to re-introduce their Inner Circle Bill. But it will only be " cutting off their nose to spite their face." The great thing is to show them they are n 4 always to have their own way, p we Mc they rare.