The Poole Telegram. — 1883-06-08 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OP A COUNTESS.  Par ticulars reached Milan on Saturday of a sensational suicide wliith has just taken place at Intra, a small town on Lake M tegiore. It appears that the Countess Eliz ide Roioff, wife of a Rusaian nobleman, exiled for complicity in secret politic .1 agitat on, hoe for the last month been occupying 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 WM killed instantaneously. The unfortunate lady was 44 years of age, and very wealthy.  Lord Randolph Churchill is a man of indomitable spirit and some tact. This Session he has three times been laid aside by illness; but he returns to work the first moment he can with the same feverish and often misdirecte I activity as over. 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 Parriellites with such bitterness ; yet the Parnellites rather like him than otherwise. He has done nothing to forfeit his chance of apiece in the next Conservative Government. He has been independent and even insubordinate, but the same was true of Mr. Chamberlain. His health is much store 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 iudecor ma 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 Duke wished very much to 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's sons were not very clever men, but one or two of them filled public positions in the colonies with cnneiderable 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's feeling 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 scol ling; they always require to be kept "well in hand." But the Queen's son could not very well be scolded, and it would be a delicate matter t 'keep him in hand. Possibly the balance ef advantage is in favour of drawing the line at sons-in-law of royalty for such appointments. Mr. Gladstone is ageiug fast, and it is mere blindness to palpable facts to pretend not to sae it. When the Comer who ruled France as le Grand Ihronarque grew bald and put on a periwig, monstrous perriquee became all the fashion, and so the wig has come dowu to our day. Much in the same way, Mr. Gladstone covers his declining energy with occasi •nal outbursts of passionate epaech-making. Ha flames out with his .41 eloquence, and the world says that, like another Moses, his eye is not dim nor his natural force abated. But it is only Louis IV.'s wig instead of his natural locks. False hair cannot long pass for real. Mr. S. Smith, the Liberal memb3r 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 Liverpool, in which he summed up lucidly the three causes which produce the present block of public business. They are these: The multiplication ot 1 mal 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, de-ire to keep back Liberal measutes. The result of the Liberal party meeting has not been pronounc 3d enough to raise any false hop3s of improvement. It is generally believed that things will soon go on in the old groove as before. The arrogance of the Drect vs of the Undercr nind Railway has receive I a signal illustration, and it is to be hoped a signal check, ie the course of the proceedings before the Select Committee on the Inner Circle Completion Bill. The instruction of the House to the committee was to make the removal or modification of the Embankment ventilators, a condition precedent to the granting of the powens required for the completion of the remaining portion of the Circle. The company threw down the gauntlet by declaring that either the instructions to the committee must be Practically disregarded or they would withdraw their Bill. Their object was plain, they wish to make the public boon involved in the fulfilment of their great work dependent upon their being allowed t) have their own way about the ventilators. In other words, they wished to bully the public into compliance, or to pfinish them for non-compliance with their behests. Fortunately, the Select Committee have done their beet to thwart them in one part of the programme. They ha re recommended the granting of extraordinary facilities for the Corporation and the Metropolitan Board of Works to obt sin Parliamentary powers for the removal of the ventilators, or, in other words, for the revocation of the authority und4r 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 ,t always to have their own way, powerful as they are.  glut pude g. , !ram.  POOLE, JUNE Bth, 1883.