British and Foreign News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 99, 20 August 1896, Page 4

British and Foreign News.

[Peb Ran Feaxcisco Maii .] Princess Maud, the British bride of Prince Charles of Denmark, is to have £4OOO a year out of the allowance granted by Parliament in 1889 for the family of the Prince of "Wales ; while the Crown Princess of Denmark will allow her son either £IO,OOO or £12,000 a year, and residences in both England and Denmark are provided. Mr Joseph Arch, the well-know Labor Member of Parliament, now in his seventieth year, ha? fallen upon evil times, and some of his political friends are making a national appeal for funds, with the view of purchasing a modest annuity and keeping the veteran agitator "from .penury in his old age. Many years have elapsed since the Queen has been in such good health as she has enjoyed during the last three month?, while Her Majesty has been remarkably free from rheumatism from which she constantly suffers, and which, although in no respect serious, is often troublesome and painful. For insulting Her Majesty's uniform by calling " red herring brigade " at a young Grenadier Guard, Thomas Stenning had his nose broken, and for this he summoned the soldier to Westminister Police Court on 6th July. The Magistrate, in view of the face that Stenning was the aggressor, liberated the prisoner, remarking that he left the Court blameless. Eva Brydges Barrett, said to be the daughter of a late Colonel of the 10th Royal Hussars, and the widow of a naval doctor, has been committed for trial charged with writing a series of defamatory libels concerning Col. T. L. Dowling, of the Army and Navv Club. At "Worship-street Police . Court, London, on Bth July, William Brooks, 29, was remanded, charged on his own confession with deserting from the 2nd East Surrey Regiment, stationed at Malta. It appeared that the prisoner had got away in a boat at Malta, and had bribed the boatman to say he had fallen overboard and been drowned. At Ramsgate on the 4th July, Mrs Spalding, wife of a -LieutenantColonel, was fined £25 for cruelty to her son, aged 11 years. Charles Thomas Wooldridge, trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, was executed at Reading, on 7th July, for the murder of his wife at Clewer, near "Windsor. The Judge of the East Kent Bankruptcy Court on 7th July rescinded the receiving order made against Mrs Laugworthy. It was stated that the debts had now been paid in full with interest. Beautiful summer weather continued in England when the San Francisco mail left, and there was promise of an early and abundant harvest. M. de Brouard, who made a wager that he would travel round th<* world, starting from Paris, in ten months, without sixpence in his pocket, has safely reached Saratov, in South Russia. He will pass through Persia to Merv, Samarcand, and Siberia, whence he hopes to work a passage to Japan and the United States. Among recent Civil List pensions granted in England are allowances of £ 2OO a year to the widow of Professor Huxley ; £7O a year to Lady Barnby, widow of Sir Joseph Barnby, the musician ; and £7O a year to Madame Louisa Bodda-Pyne, who was a wellknown prima donna from 1849 to the middle sixties.

The Queen sent £lO. a congratulatory letter, and a framed print of the Royal portrait to Mr* Kevc-th. who lives near r»odmin. Cornwall, in recognition of the fact that she ha? seven «'.■> - ; ~-!'- serving in Her M^r.ty-f.;,.^. I';. :-. '*■■ : -' nianopuvre?. an a:t: n_;:: - - '.- de :t obtain .-.onio t--iu«:-'.!>r- v -■ the feasibility of , r-1 'j.-".'-:- ■ ■' . king good it- i.— C:■.}••-■ 1: ' : •■ -' ■ ■ - IV the witching cruisers c-j,ii.< is.-" the hostile fleet lying at an adjacent anchorage. As regards the manning of theNavy, a Devonport correspondent =ay ; -sufficient men are available at that port for the ships to lx- specially commissioned, and that after commissioning there will still be U-ft a fair number, engine-room ratings being the Only branch, in which there is any great scarcity. From Portsmouth a similar report has come to hand. At Chatham th-- supply U not =-o «?>::<- factory, vsj...-jia.liy ;=.- n-.'-r-;- <;/->k,-r--. Thib seem-; to he a lucky yt-.ir for ihe Prince of Waks on the turf. Ac Stockbiidge Races, on the *ih -July, his colors were carried to victory by Safety Pin in the Andover Stakes ; whilst, on the 9th -felly. His Royal Highness'a colt Courtier won the Allaged Plate, W-i.tg favorite a: 0 to ~> on. "Doloud Rhodes writes to the Tiim s stating that the book which was given out to be Col. the Hon 11. White'* pocket book, and which contained state merits compromising Mr Cecil Rhodes and other leaders of his parry, is a pure fabrication. The pocketbook was, he says, obtained by 'the Transvaal authorities from a prisoner in Pretoria Gaol, who was at the time lying under a charge of fraud, and has since been convicted. Recent additions to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons include a magnificent moa, obtained through the kindness of Mr Huttou. of Canterbury, New Zealand. It possesses bones which are wanting in the specimen in the British Museum. President Fauvre conferred the Cardinal's hat on Mgr. Ferraia at the Elygee ou July 5, when it was stated that the Pope "wished to establish a religious peace marked by respect for the political institutions of France, to group the Catholics into a patriotic union, and to clear away all misunderstanding?. Mrs Kveleen Smith, wife of James Maclaren Smith, of The Boltoiis, South Kensington, has established her claim to be Baroness (Tray, in the j Peerage of Scotland, and another , came ia thus added to the small list of Udjfomeßm in their oim tight 1

Sir William Harcouri;, in a speech at Holloway on July 6, described the Salisbury majority as in danger of falling to pieces, and spoke of Ministers as Nebuchadnezzars who were preparing to turn out to grass. In reference to the suicide of Lady Mary Bligb, his fourth daughter—■ whose body was found in a pond on the bank of which her clothes were neatly folded up—the Earl of Darnley writes to the Press that, it was not a fact that his daughter was in a very depressed or despondent state of mind. On the contrary, she was uniformly cheerful and the brightest of companions, although she was battling against ill-health, and it was absolutely untrue that she had a love affair. Lord" Darnley adds that there can be no doubt that her ladyship acted as she did under some uncontrolable influence — probably pressure on the brain, which was rapidly developed and which deprived her of reason and overcame her will, which those who had most recently conversed with her knew was to live and not to die.