New-York tribune., 1874-09-08

Decidedly. these are parlous days for princes.
The future majesty of England has been before
Lord Penzance. The Grand Duke Nicholas OF
Russia has felt on his collar the levelng hand OF
policeman. And this morning the cable informs US
that Prince Perkins, the joy and pride OF every
aristocratic American heart, has been arrested IN
Paris for obtaining thirty-nine thousand francs
under false pretenses, and has been hailed before
the Police Correctionnelle. He and his Princess
for his wife is genuine Infanta of Spain, Dona
Isabel de Bourbon-have, it appears shared in the
financial irregularities which have attracted the
attention of the authorities, and share also in the
punishment They are accused of having obtained
money from the credulous by representing them
selves as owning a cable concession from
Spain to England, Of being empowered to
negotiate loan for their cousin Don
Carlos, and of being otherwise engaged
in large financial operations. Princes must live,
suppose, as well mere mortals; they cannot dig;
to beg they not ashamed, but Spanish parlia-
ments do not respond in the generous English
fashion SO those who have wit must live by it.
Prince Perkins has witt would be dscourteous to
add that he has nothing else. He was once Consul
to Stockholm and Secretary Of our Legation there
under Gen. Bartlett. He spoke better French, made
better dinner-speeches was fauoriS6 des danes
than any diplomatic at the Swedish Court. Then he
was made Consul somewhere on the Spanish coast,
and while on visit to Portugal attached himself,
with the title of Secretary. to our Minister Mt Lis
bon, an old gentleman of phenomenal ignorance and
innocence He speedily put himself at the head OF
the Legation and in few weeks wooed and won the
fair Princess of Bourbon, niece of the exied Queen
of Spain. He disappeared from public view in the
blaze of his royal nuptlals and now comes to light
in the Police Court. We cannot but hope the law
will be gentle to this rattlebrained and genial ad-
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to restore the moral equilibrium disturbed by for
tune-hunting princes who marry republican
heresses and it is far to presume he behaved better
to his wife than they do to theirs III they send
him to Jail perhaps no other American Will ever
marry princess.
youth has borne mid snow and ice this strange
and beautiful device, "Cold Water He is only Is
and a Chicagoan, and he has just gone to tho
summit of Mont Blanc-the youngest youth who
ever accomplished that feat. 1t is with evident
awe that Geneva newspaper mentions that he was
strictly temperance youth and took nothing
during the ascent but water and melted snow Is it
reserved to an American boy alone TO remark "Ex-
celsiorD on the mountain-top without the assistance
of Z" the rosy I"
What does Mr. Stebbins or Mr. Thomas f. Stewart
think of the present appearance of the fountain in
Madison-sauaref Isn't il pitiful that the little
pieces of work which everybody could enjoy, and
the neglect of which everybody notices, must drag
along so provokinglyi We forget how many years
IL is since this fountain begun. but II must be
three or four Is MT there some way by which funds
can be secured to finish it up say within the next
year or twof
Mario, prince of tcnors and Marquis of Candis,
has been arrested at Venice for violation of tho
press law, and taken to Turin for examination. Tho
charge is vaguely stated that we are left to the
most painful conjecture Can il be that the press
law is violated by utterIng false potes II thero
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