The Warwickshire Herald. — 1890-09-18 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

(From Truth.)  Tbe Queen will receive the Duke and Duchess of Sparta as guests at Windsor Castle about the end of November, their visit to England having been postponed, till that date. They will also be the guests of the Prince and Princess of Wales at San. dringhans, but their stay in this country will not exceed a fortnight. The Duke of Fite used, some six or seven years ago, to be devoted to Paris and the Riviera. He suddenly gave up making trips to France, for remises variously explain. But they appear to no longer bold good, the news being that be and the Duchess are going to winter somewhere in the south, but have not decided whether it is to be in his old Riviera haunts or towards the Spanish frontier  The Emperor of Austria has invited the Prince of Wales to be his guest at the flofburg Palace when B.R.H. visits Vienna on his way to Hungary.  I hear that the authorities have it under considers. tion to again reduce the establishment of the Horse Artillery. A good initance of how particular Lord Rosalyn was about his personal appearance was shewn when be went on a special misaion to Madrid. for he took with him from London a French barber, whose sole duty was to shave him, as he had no belief in the ability of Spanish barbers. There was a great deal of bother at the Foreign Office when this artist's travelling expenses and charges were found to be included in the Ambassador's account, and, so far as I remember, the items were discussed with some asperity in Parliament.  I hear that it has been practically decided that, after this season, the Indian troopships will cease to be officered and manned from the Royal Nan The reason for the change is that the officers and men thus employed (upwards of a thousand in num. bee) are urgently needed for the Regular Service.  Dr. Lidefori was a charming companion, and, when he was sure of his company, a most brilliant talker. His .ow of anecdote was endless, and he could tell a story to perfection. He had a keen sense of humour, and was himself very witty and sarcastic, as any one, indeed, could discover who had ever heard him preach. Dr. Liddon was feud of hospitality, and he gave a great number of small dinners in London, and himself went to a few, but only to the houses of his more intimate friends. He was a Jeeloea grerisrime both at Hatfield and at Ha en, and, indeed, in any house which he could be induced to visit. Ills manners to every one who approached him were exquisitely courteous, and, in fact, a more entirely fascinating man has probably never lived. One of my readers sends a very good story from South Africa, as illustrating the beat spirit in which to deal with unsuccessful attempts at suicide. A trooper in the Cape Mounted Rifles once endeavoured to blow his brains out with a revolver. He only succeeded, however, in fracturing his jaw. After being put to rights in hospital,' lie was brought up for judgment before his colonel. That intelligent officer remarked that a soldier who could not shoot himself would certainly never be able to shoot an enemy, and he condemned the prisoner to six weeks' revolver practice. This is an excellent example to us, for if we sluff treat suicide as a penal offence, the punishment should at least be made to At the crime. 

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