Movements among the warships have not been important. On the 15th inst. the chartered Italian transport San Gottardo arrived here from Naples with details and supplies forthe Italian squadron, gradually gathering in these waters. The Japanese torpedo-bent destroyer Jkadsuchi arrived on the 16th inst, from England, en rowe for Japan.. She is a new vessel' built in the Thames to the order of the Japanese Government. The torpedo-boat destroyers Fame and Whiting left here on the 15th inst. for Weihsiwel, after dropping some troops at Taipohu. On the same date the Austrian cruiser Saida left here for Shanghai. The British cruiser Hermione leaves here to-day for Shanghai. statecraft, fashion, law, literature, art and science among the wedding guests. The consequence was that all Palace Yard, all the precincts of Westminster Abbey, were packed with a crowd as the police rarely have to cope with even at a royal ceremonial, and only a fraction of the surging mob which collected round the north-door could find places in the nave and there wasn't very much to be seen there after all, for the best places were, of course, appropriated to the invited guests, among whom were the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge. Lord Crewe, the son of Monckton Mimes, Lord Houghton, is an amiable nobleman': but it was, of course, not on his account that people interested themselves so deeply in the wedding. It was all a wonderful tribute to the personal popularity of the Earl of Rosebery. Sir William Harcourt was not present, but wherever he was he must have felt that the man who could inspire such enthusiasm was the destined leader of the political party to which they both belong. The bride and_ bridegroom: are spending the first part of their honeymoon at Wel-beck Albey, the famous seat of the Duke of Portland, the wonders of which have recently had a new interest for the public owing to Mrs. Druce's mad claim to the estates on behalf of her son.
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