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in London , while the Diplomatic and Geneval Circles were numerously represented . A number of ladies were presented . On Wednesday evening the Prince of Wales presided at the annual dinner of the Princess Mary ' s Village Home for
Little Girls . His Royal Highness was supported by the Duke of Cambridge , the Duke of Teck , the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , and others . The usual speeches were delivered , and in drinking- Prosperity to the Institution , the Prince announced that the sum of £ 5 , 000 , which was
required to complete tho School House and other buildings , had been promised by an anonymous friend . The chief event , however , of the week in the fashionable world has been the marriage of the Earl of Rosebory with Miss Hannah de Rothschild . This event took place on
Wednesday , and the church in which the religions ceremony was performed was crowded with the elite of fashion . The bride was given away by tho Earl of Beaconsfield , and Lord Carington , in tho absence through ill health of Captain Tyrwhitt , acted as best
man . Tho Duke of Cambridge was present , and the Prince of Wales arrived jusfc before the completion of the ceremony . Their Royal Highnesses , as well as the Earl of Beaconsfield , Lord Leconsfield , the Duke of Cleveland , and the Hon . E . Primrose signed the register , after which the
bridal party returned to the residence of tbe bride in Piccadilly , where the wedding breakfast was held , the Duke of Cambridge and the Premier being unable , owing to the pressure of official duties , to be present . After the
breakfast , the Earl and Countess left for Lord Leconsfield ' s seat at Petworfch , Sussex , where they will spend the honeymoon . The bridal presents were both numerous and valuable .
Several vacancies in tho House of Commons have been filled up lately , and others are occurring or have occurred . The contest at Hereford was sharp , resulting in the return of Colonel Arbuthnot , Conservative , by 1 , 110 votes , the Liberal candidate , Mr . Joseph Pulley , received 1066 . Mr .
Philip Miles and Mr . W . S . Gore-Langton have been returned unopposed , the former for East , and the latter for Mid Somerset . By the deatb of the Earl of Ravensworfch ,
and the consequent elevation to the House of Peers of Lord Eslington , a vacancy has occurred in the representation of South Northumberland . There is also to be a contest for the vacant seat at Worcester .
Our naval and military preparations are in no Aviso slackened by the news that the preliminary peace between Russia and Turkey has been signed . On the contrary , there is an equal , if not a greater , amount of energy shown every day that we get nearer tho time for
examining tho terras which the recent combatant powers have agreed to . At Chatham alone we have a fleet all but ready for sea—consisting of the Monarch , Penelope , Nelson , Northampton , Superb , Belleisle , and Iudependencia , all ironclads , with tho Euryalus and smaller vessels—which is
almost as strong as Admiral Hornby ' s in the sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles ; while at our other ports wo have as many more ships , which it would not take us long to put in commission . War material still goes on accumulating at tho Royal Arsenal , Woolwich , and instructions
have been issued by the general in command at Aldershot , that during the months of April and May , the troops shall be exercised in the minor operations of active warfare ; during April in the simpler work of outpost duty , & c , and in May in combined movements of the three armscavalry , infantry , and artillery .
The ill-treatment to which Dr . Armand Leslie , and two other medical men , with Mr . Bell , correspondent of the Illustrated London Neus , were subjected as prisoners by the Russians have formed the subject of a correspondence between tho Russian and English Governments . It is not
yet closed , but the Russian authorities havo expressed the profound regret of Monseigneur the Commander-in-Chief , the Grand Duke Nicholas , who has promised the matter shall be inquired into . As there is very little doubt those gentlemen received manv and great indignities , and that
they were made prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention , we trust the matter will not be allowed to rest where it is , and that these British subjects will receive compensation for their troubles . Colonel Coope , too , has
published an account of his treatment as a prisoner of war in the hands of the Russians , and his testimony convicts the Grand Duke Nicholas himself of the greatest ferocity . At present , of course , this is an ex parte statement , but there seems to be uo great reason to doubt that any British
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subjects who were unfortunate enough to fall into tho hands of the Tartars were treated most unceremoniously , if not with actual violence—at all events , in a manner not practised among civilised nations , whatever may be tho caso in Russia .
St . Patrick ' s Day happened to fall this year on a Sunday , and , consequently , the usual festivities , in tho shape of banquets , processions , and broken heads , which occur on tho anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland , were celebrated on Monday . In London , a number of Irish
members of Parliament dined together at the Westminster Palace Hotel , the chair being taken by Mr . Sullivan , in tho absence of Mr . Isaac Butt , who was too unwell to tako part in the rejoicing . In Dublin , the day was marked in tho usual military fashion , by tho trooping of the colours
at the Castle , and there was a procession of Nationalists through the leading thoroughfares of tho Irish capital . In Belfast thero were rival processions , and here , as well as at Londonderry , there was more or less serious disturbance , resulting , as usual , in not a few broken heads .
The whole of this week the Agricultural Hall has been a scene of great excitement , owing to the grand pedestrian contest for a series of prizes given by Sir John D . Astley . Tho whole of the arrangements are in the hands of the Amateur Athletic Club , the working
committee including such well-known amateurs of athleticism as Sir John D . Astley , Lord Carington , and Messrs . J . G . Chambers and Lawes . The contest was begun on Monday shortly after midnight , and will not be over till twelve o ' clock p . m . to-day . Whoever covers the
longest distance in the six days , whether running or walking , will win the first prize of £ 500 , and a champion belt of £ 100 value ; the second best will receive £ 100 , and the third £ 50 , while every one of tho remaining competitors who covers 460 miles and upwards will receive
£ 10 for his trouble . Up to 11 p . m . on Thursday O'Leary , who beat Weston some time since afc the same hall Vaughan , of Chester , Brown , and Idewere at the
head of the list , O'Leary having covered 369 miles , Vaughan 356 miles , Brown 333 miles , G . Ide 293 miles , J . Smith 284 miles , W . Corkey 276 miles , W . Lewis 240 miles , aud J . M'Leavy 23 G miles .
The Canadians have no great fancy for Fenian sedition . On the contrary , where AVO at home should leave these fellows to themselves , and not condescend to notice their trumpery manifestations of disloyalty , our good friends of Toronto havo fiercely attacked a conplo of hotels , where ifc
was supposed that O Donovan Rossa , whose lectures were the cause of all the excitement , was staying . He fortunately managed to escape the clutches of the mob , but revolvers were freely used , and it is feared that in one or tAvo cases fatal consequences will bo the result .
The preliminary peace between Turkey and Russia has been ratified by the Czar , conditions will not be officially knoAvn to ouv Government till to-day . Their terms , however , have leaked out already , and there is very little doubt that Europe will not consent to have the Avill of Czar
Alexander forced upon it . Most of them are highly objectionable , and conflict with the interests of this or that Great Power , in a manner which it is very unlikely they Avill submit to with indifference . But the anxiety of tho moment is directed chieflv to the threatening aspect of
affairs between this country and Russia . The Earl of Derby has spoken plainly enongb , and has demanded categorically of the Czar ' s Government that the whole of the treaty shall bo submitted to the Congress and that none of the questions shall be accepted by ifc except
unnauitnously . Russia has not decidedly refused these conditions , but she is moving heaven and earth to evade them ; and if she decides in persisting there is little doubt that war will breakout sooner or later between tho two countries . Of course , it is impossible to depend on the news that ia
received from hour to hour , but the general purport of the intelligence which reaches u .-i from tho different foreign capitals is decidedly gloomy . However , the country has made up its mind that ifc Avill not allow Russia to dupe her any longer , and the oue chance that remains of a peaceful
issue from the present crisis is in the chance that the Czar , afc the last moment , may recoil from insisting on his treaty , and so avoid a war , which in ail probability would
cost him the . ascendancy in Eastern affairs which he has succeeded in acquiring after sacrificing s ? o many lives aud so many millions of money . This is about the only chance , aud ifc is not a very promising one , of avoiding an appeal to arms .
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Our Weekly Budget.
in London , while the Diplomatic and Geneval Circles were numerously represented . A number of ladies were presented . On Wednesday evening the Prince of Wales presided at the annual dinner of the Princess Mary ' s Village Home for
Little Girls . His Royal Highness was supported by the Duke of Cambridge , the Duke of Teck , the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs , and others . The usual speeches were delivered , and in drinking- Prosperity to the Institution , the Prince announced that the sum of £ 5 , 000 , which was
required to complete tho School House and other buildings , had been promised by an anonymous friend . The chief event , however , of the week in the fashionable world has been the marriage of the Earl of Rosebory with Miss Hannah de Rothschild . This event took place on
Wednesday , and the church in which the religions ceremony was performed was crowded with the elite of fashion . The bride was given away by tho Earl of Beaconsfield , and Lord Carington , in tho absence through ill health of Captain Tyrwhitt , acted as best
man . Tho Duke of Cambridge was present , and the Prince of Wales arrived jusfc before the completion of the ceremony . Their Royal Highnesses , as well as the Earl of Beaconsfield , Lord Leconsfield , the Duke of Cleveland , and the Hon . E . Primrose signed the register , after which the
bridal party returned to the residence of tbe bride in Piccadilly , where the wedding breakfast was held , the Duke of Cambridge and the Premier being unable , owing to the pressure of official duties , to be present . After the
breakfast , the Earl and Countess left for Lord Leconsfield ' s seat at Petworfch , Sussex , where they will spend the honeymoon . The bridal presents were both numerous and valuable .
Several vacancies in tho House of Commons have been filled up lately , and others are occurring or have occurred . The contest at Hereford was sharp , resulting in the return of Colonel Arbuthnot , Conservative , by 1 , 110 votes , the Liberal candidate , Mr . Joseph Pulley , received 1066 . Mr .
Philip Miles and Mr . W . S . Gore-Langton have been returned unopposed , the former for East , and the latter for Mid Somerset . By the deatb of the Earl of Ravensworfch ,
and the consequent elevation to the House of Peers of Lord Eslington , a vacancy has occurred in the representation of South Northumberland . There is also to be a contest for the vacant seat at Worcester .
Our naval and military preparations are in no Aviso slackened by the news that the preliminary peace between Russia and Turkey has been signed . On the contrary , there is an equal , if not a greater , amount of energy shown every day that we get nearer tho time for
examining tho terras which the recent combatant powers have agreed to . At Chatham alone we have a fleet all but ready for sea—consisting of the Monarch , Penelope , Nelson , Northampton , Superb , Belleisle , and Iudependencia , all ironclads , with tho Euryalus and smaller vessels—which is
almost as strong as Admiral Hornby ' s in the sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles ; while at our other ports wo have as many more ships , which it would not take us long to put in commission . War material still goes on accumulating at tho Royal Arsenal , Woolwich , and instructions
have been issued by the general in command at Aldershot , that during the months of April and May , the troops shall be exercised in the minor operations of active warfare ; during April in the simpler work of outpost duty , & c , and in May in combined movements of the three armscavalry , infantry , and artillery .
The ill-treatment to which Dr . Armand Leslie , and two other medical men , with Mr . Bell , correspondent of the Illustrated London Neus , were subjected as prisoners by the Russians have formed the subject of a correspondence between tho Russian and English Governments . It is not
yet closed , but the Russian authorities havo expressed the profound regret of Monseigneur the Commander-in-Chief , the Grand Duke Nicholas , who has promised the matter shall be inquired into . As there is very little doubt those gentlemen received manv and great indignities , and that
they were made prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention , we trust the matter will not be allowed to rest where it is , and that these British subjects will receive compensation for their troubles . Colonel Coope , too , has
published an account of his treatment as a prisoner of war in the hands of the Russians , and his testimony convicts the Grand Duke Nicholas himself of the greatest ferocity . At present , of course , this is an ex parte statement , but there seems to be uo great reason to doubt that any British
Our Weekly Budget.
subjects who were unfortunate enough to fall into tho hands of the Tartars were treated most unceremoniously , if not with actual violence—at all events , in a manner not practised among civilised nations , whatever may be tho caso in Russia .
St . Patrick ' s Day happened to fall this year on a Sunday , and , consequently , the usual festivities , in tho shape of banquets , processions , and broken heads , which occur on tho anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland , were celebrated on Monday . In London , a number of Irish
members of Parliament dined together at the Westminster Palace Hotel , the chair being taken by Mr . Sullivan , in tho absence of Mr . Isaac Butt , who was too unwell to tako part in the rejoicing . In Dublin , the day was marked in tho usual military fashion , by tho trooping of the colours
at the Castle , and there was a procession of Nationalists through the leading thoroughfares of tho Irish capital . In Belfast thero were rival processions , and here , as well as at Londonderry , there was more or less serious disturbance , resulting , as usual , in not a few broken heads .
The whole of this week the Agricultural Hall has been a scene of great excitement , owing to the grand pedestrian contest for a series of prizes given by Sir John D . Astley . Tho whole of the arrangements are in the hands of the Amateur Athletic Club , the working
committee including such well-known amateurs of athleticism as Sir John D . Astley , Lord Carington , and Messrs . J . G . Chambers and Lawes . The contest was begun on Monday shortly after midnight , and will not be over till twelve o ' clock p . m . to-day . Whoever covers the
longest distance in the six days , whether running or walking , will win the first prize of £ 500 , and a champion belt of £ 100 value ; the second best will receive £ 100 , and the third £ 50 , while every one of tho remaining competitors who covers 460 miles and upwards will receive
£ 10 for his trouble . Up to 11 p . m . on Thursday O'Leary , who beat Weston some time since afc the same hall Vaughan , of Chester , Brown , and Idewere at the
head of the list , O'Leary having covered 369 miles , Vaughan 356 miles , Brown 333 miles , G . Ide 293 miles , J . Smith 284 miles , W . Corkey 276 miles , W . Lewis 240 miles , aud J . M'Leavy 23 G miles .
The Canadians have no great fancy for Fenian sedition . On the contrary , where AVO at home should leave these fellows to themselves , and not condescend to notice their trumpery manifestations of disloyalty , our good friends of Toronto havo fiercely attacked a conplo of hotels , where ifc
was supposed that O Donovan Rossa , whose lectures were the cause of all the excitement , was staying . He fortunately managed to escape the clutches of the mob , but revolvers were freely used , and it is feared that in one or tAvo cases fatal consequences will bo the result .
The preliminary peace between Turkey and Russia has been ratified by the Czar , conditions will not be officially knoAvn to ouv Government till to-day . Their terms , however , have leaked out already , and there is very little doubt that Europe will not consent to have the Avill of Czar
Alexander forced upon it . Most of them are highly objectionable , and conflict with the interests of this or that Great Power , in a manner which it is very unlikely they Avill submit to with indifference . But the anxiety of tho moment is directed chieflv to the threatening aspect of
affairs between this country and Russia . The Earl of Derby has spoken plainly enongb , and has demanded categorically of the Czar ' s Government that the whole of the treaty shall bo submitted to the Congress and that none of the questions shall be accepted by ifc except
unnauitnously . Russia has not decidedly refused these conditions , but she is moving heaven and earth to evade them ; and if she decides in persisting there is little doubt that war will breakout sooner or later between tho two countries . Of course , it is impossible to depend on the news that ia
received from hour to hour , but the general purport of the intelligence which reaches u .-i from tho different foreign capitals is decidedly gloomy . However , the country has made up its mind that ifc Avill not allow Russia to dupe her any longer , and the oue chance that remains of a peaceful
issue from the present crisis is in the chance that the Czar , afc the last moment , may recoil from insisting on his treaty , and so avoid a war , which in ail probability would
cost him the . ascendancy in Eastern affairs which he has succeeded in acquiring after sacrificing s ? o many lives aud so many millions of money . This is about the only chance , aud ifc is not a very promising one , of avoiding an appeal to arms .