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Slaughter - Stained Glass, 7-Flixton- | Pona Roniface Vr This demand was, in view at once of the gravity of the king's necessities and of the enormous and rapidly increasing wealth of the Church, a moderate "The Comtesse de Paris, who spent Christmas last year with the Royal Family, has been in Madrid for some time, and intends to remain here until the New Year, Little, however, is heard or seen of her. On Sunday she went with a small suite to the Escurial to hear Mass, returning to the capital early in the afternoon, and the train which had taken her to the Escurial brought her back again. Preparations for Christmas entail an enormous amount of work on the Royal kitchen, which is controlled by a Frenchman. He has at his orders more than thirty individuals, who are divided into cooks, butlers, ice confectioners, pastry cooks, assistant cooks, and scullions. Several of the pastry cooks and ice makers are Italians. The style of cooking is French, with a considerable admixture of Spanish and German dishes. "This section of the Royal servants has an easy time on the whole. The Queen-Regent is the most considerate of mistresses, and her children are trained to follow her example. She breakfasts alone, punctually at eight o'clock; and at five o'clock in the afternoon she takes tea with Alfonso XIII. and his sisters. Luncheon at half-past twelve and dinner at seven o'clock in the evening are partaken of according to the old-fashioned rules of etiquette observed in the Palace. The young King sits down to table with one of his professors, whereas the Princess of the Asturias and her Bisters eat with the ladies in attendance upon them. "The Queen-Regent dines and lunches with the Infanta Isabella, the grandee's wife in attendance upon her, the lady in attendance upon the Infanta, the commander of the Royal Halberdiers and several other members of the sterner sex. The Queen and the Infanta sit facing each other. Breakfast nearly always consists of chocolate, prepared in the Spanish style, bread and butter and biscuits. Tea is served with pastry and bread and buter. Luncheon consists of soup, eggs, fish, meat, vegetables, game, or poultry, sweets, fruit, cheese, &c.; coffee being afterward served in an adjoining room. On the evening bill of fare are two soups, an entrée, two kinds of fish, roasted meat and game, vegetables, sweets, ices, fruit, &c. The wines usually served up are sherry, Rioja-Riscal, and champagne. Dinner is taken in the magni- ficent Red Hall, and a bill of fare, written in what is occa- sionally doubtful French, is placed beside each diner. "Except on grand occasions, the dinner plate is of silver, according to traditional custom. When the evening meal is over the labours of the French head cook and his thirty involved both at home and f the meeting at Salisbury The writ doubtless summoned the Parliament |