The New York herald., 1873-10-30
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The King OF saxony.

day 10th tnst supplies the following report to the
HERALD:-''rhe death OF Bis Majesty King John OF
saxony, at the royal chateau at Pinitz ak miles
from this city, is announced this morning."
John Nepumecene Marie Joseph, King OF Saxony,
was born the 18th OF December, In the year 1901
He was the youngest son OF Duke Macmillan, by
his wife Caroline Maria rherese, daughter OF Fer
dlnand, Duke OF Parma He was carefully edu-
Gated in the school OF philosophy and letters On
the 2lst November, 1922, King John espoused the
Princess Amelia Augusta OF Bavaria, lady q few
weeks older than himself The festival OF the
golden wedding was celebrated with great pomp
and rejoicing at Dresden last year. IL was
the Kings lot TO have personal share
In all the recent calamities OF his house.
He was born when the Napoleonic sceptre had
stretched itself 10 the confines OF the East The
old German Empire had crumbled beneath 1t, and
at Luneviile the last Of the Hapsburg Kaisers had
signed his death-warrant. In the year 1906 Saxony
was enormously enlarged BY the incorporation OF
the Grand Duchy Of Warsaw with several
slices OF Prussian territory. Having been
made nt sovereignty for o King, Fred
SoIe Ur y swen !as Ms @
fought side by side with the French IN the disas-
trous campaign Of 1915. His kingdom shared
the Treaty OF 1915. Reduced again to Its
old limits, 1t passed from the sway OF Napo-
leon to that OF the HapsDurgs. During g.dnns TINS
public life. In the stagnant period which sue
ceeded the advent OF the Holy Alliance there was
little TO tempt princes to trouble themselves with
politics The army offered better, II still rather
prosaic. career but Prince John had never shown
any prediction for soldering His youthful tastes
and ambitions were oil peaceful. At the early age
OF twenty he was entrusted with the admlnistra-
tion OF finance, which he retained for ten years.
With his financial duties he combined steady and
ardent devotion to archaeology. In 1924 the So
ciety OF Antlquarians OF saxony elected him its
ferred upon him by the historical and Antiquarian
prosecuted far beyond the limits Of MS
classic soil OF Italy, and Florence became as
familiar to him as Rome. SO enamored did he
he executed a German translation Of the "Di.
vine Comedy" and published it under pseudonym.
with historical notes and comments. When the
tween Austria and Prussia he attempted at nrst
to pursue an Independent policy under the guild
place between the rival guardians OF the Duchess
the King nestated to run the full risk OF Count
Beust's policy. His own preference was an armed
neutrality, similar to what the united States had
observed In 1854. But the naughty manner OF the
Prussian government CALLED him, while the blan-
dishments OF tue Austrian Court drew him by de-
grees from his impracticabe middle course. In
May he declared in the Diet that he was ready to
resist the demands OF Prussia; and. having thus
the adverse late OF his imperial ally After Sad0wa
harder terms were inflicted on Saxony than on any
Not only had 1t to merge its autonomy in the North
German Confederation, and to allow the army to
be into prassan >, but It had
and to pay heavy indemnity. But the rapid march
OF events worked out at least an external recon-
etruction. In little more than four years the
venerable King John was constrained to deliver
formal congratulation to the new Kaiser on his
assumption OF the crown Of Barbarossa.
Sir Henry Holland, Bart, M. ID.
A telegram, dated in London Goth inst, an
briefly, the occurrence OF the death Of
Sir Henry Holland NJ. D.. Baronet, the celebrated
English physician, an author and well known
traveller.
Henry holland was born at Knutsford, Cheshire,
On the 27th OF October, In the year 1888, and was
eighty-fve years OF age when he
died. He was Q son Of the late Peter Holland,
Esq. The young man was educated for the medi-
cal profession at the University OF Edinburgh,
where he graduated NJ. D. in the year 1911. He
rose to great eminence in his profession and was
appointed Physician In Ordinary to the late Prince
Albert In the year 1s4o; Physician in Ordinary to
Queen Victoria In the year 1852, and created bar
onet in the year 1853. From private school In his
native town, where he learned ''as much, perhaps,
as such schools generally teach, but this very
little,r he was placed as pupil In his eleventh
year with Mr. Turner, OF Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
There he remained four years and 1t was then more
than seventy years ago, that his love OF travel was
first excited by crossing the backbone OF England
over Blackstone Edge, "then long and hard
horse labor above ground, now accomplished by
a few minutes OF railroad tunnel underneath"
There, too, he saw some OF the wonders OF chemis-
try and electricity-two sciences then mere nurse
lings, which In these seventy years have grown to
be giants. In his pedestrian excursions round
Newcastle ne visited the factories and coal mines
on Tyne side. and saw those rude wooden railroads.
among which at that very time the genius OF George
Stephenson was employed as q common workman
at Newburn In 1903 the boy went TO Dr. Estlin's
school at Bristol, and was placed at once In the
position OF head OF the school, succeeding John Hob.
gone to Westminster School Sixty-seven years
ago Henry Holland visited London for the first
time. The boy went through the ''sights' Of the
metropolis, and to show how lew and poor they
then were it is enough to say that he "was shown
the bald frontage OF Connaught place as one OF
themn At the early age OF sixteen he quilted
school, and then came the choice Of a profession.
hts leaning at sixteen was TO mercantile Lie,
and with his fathers reluctant consent, he became
an artlclea clerk In great Liverpool house, with
the privilege reserved to him OF passing two
sessions at Glasgow University In furtherance OF
lSO5-6 decided the course Of hls future life. He
went back TO Liverpool in the interval
between them; but the suspicion that he had
the close OF the second session he obtained a re-
lease from the articles which had bound him to o
merchants desk. His new choice was the profes-
torious 1or great commercial disasters-on his
penultimate voyage TO America he found himself,
on passing through Liverpool TO embark, acci-
dentally in the same street and on the very spot
where his short mercantile career began ana came
TO an end. In the autumn OF 1871 DR.. Holland took
his degree at Edinburgh. Beginning travel with
trips to the Mediterranean and to Iceland,
It is diflcult to say what country has not been
visited by Sir Henry Holland. Thus, In less
than two years after his voyage TO Iceland, he
spent year and half In Portugal, spain. Sicily.
the lonian Islands, Greece and some parts Of
Turkey. In 1914 he published narrative OF the
Eastern portion OF those travels, relating especially
to his several Journeys In Albania and Thessaly
then more accessible under the iron yoke OF Ali
Pasha OF Yanina than 1t now il under the rule OF
the Sultan. After this journey, having still time
lor travel before beginning his London prac-
tice, he passed year, In 1sl4-l5 In attendance
on the Princess OF Wales as her physician. With
her he visited Brunswick, Cassel, strasburg
Switzerland, Rome and Naples. This was the
period OF the great NapOleon's Incarceration in
Elba. At Naples, where Murat was stnl allowed
TO reign, the festivities and excursions to which
the Princess and her suite devoted themselves
"A nv ha dfOht of