New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-28
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
HAS HE ANY DEBTSf


LONDON, Sept 17.--In The Daily Telegraph OF this
morning appears the following remarkable para
graph:
Various reports have lately appeared In print To the
effect that debts have been contracted by the Prince OF
Wales 1t has been stated that Mr.. Gladstone was to
auesed 10 bring the matter before Parliament Du' oc
cned that Mr. Disraeh to be asked TO DO 30; anu
finally that Her Majesty had paid of these amounts MI
p A. Taylor the member for leicester has even ad'
dressed his constituents the subject We are enapeo
to that there is not single word OF truth III any
| OF the above statements.
This ia invested with all the solemnty that can De
given to it by editorial type and occupies whae IS
perhaps the most conspicuous place in an Engiish
paper Immediately following the leaders or leader
paraoraphs-a place consecrated by custom TO I'M
| portant announcements or brief statements based
on special intelligence. And it is, so far az know,
the first declaration of any kind on this matter Oh
the Princes debts which has appeared In any iead
ing London paper any daily paper whatever eH-
| cept paragraph copied from The World last weeA
| into The Daily Ners, and paragraph in Ihe Ecno
commenting upon the other 1t is therefore, OF great
significance but it seems to me that 1t says either
| too much or too litte-too much unless every WORD
of il can resist criticism and if it cam too little 10
| satisfy public inturest
IL NAV in any case, think be assumed that TINS
statement cannot be final one; not final although
it is also to be taken for granted that it put lot
ward by The Daily Telegraph in perfect good faitn-
| in faith not less perfect than that IN whch INC
same journal proclaimed in 1872 the imminent OUT
| break of fresh war between France and Germany
| In which it published the letters of Mr. DAVID her,
| or in which it prematurey announced the Fall OF
| Khiva- Nobody suspected The DAILY Telegraph
| of being consciously party to the deception OF
which in those cases it was made the instrument
| III Al. L. nxvtn4 finn
| fact, however. that it was duped in those cases
| suggests 1.-THE possibility that it might IN other
cases also be sufferer from imposition, or in put
| ting imposition aside-as most unlikely here
| lend too ready an ear to q story which squares
with it's own wishes and the wishes Of all loyal
Engshmen. For my part, 1 am as willing as any
body to believe what The Daily Telegraph alleges
have never fathered any reports about the Princes
debts and am free from any paternal sentiments I'D
respect to them. When L first mentioned Tue
reports said expressly that they were reports only
and that | could not vouch for them, and have
taken pains since to free myself from any response
bility for what might, after all, be only gossip,
though it circulated pretty much everywhere anu
was apparently believed by very serious persons
The only thing that concerns me is to know what Is
true and what is not and in reading this paragraph
it is impossible not to make some reflections
The Telegraph denies everything; denies that Mr..
Gladstone was requested to bring the matter OF the
debts before Parliament, denies that Mr.. Disraei
was TO be asked to do So denies that the queen has
paid the debts; denies finally that debts have been
contracted by the Prince of Wales. 1t makes these
denials as of its own knowledge, saying we are en-
abled to assert that there is not single WORD OF
truth in any of the above statements" IL gives no
authority, does not say it understands, or has
reason to believe or "has been requested TO say,
but plumpy asserts" the falsehood of all the stories
on information which enables" it to pledge its own
word. Yet if this contradiction be IN TACT well
founded it must be supposed that at least one OF the
royal personages concerned desired 1T to be made.
If that be So why should it have been communicated
10 The Dag Telegraph and not to The Hmes f-unless
we are to suppose that The Times refused to publish IT.
Taking the paragraph as it now stands in The Daay
Telearaph there can be but sufficient authority
for the whole of it, viz, the Prince of Wales. No
body but him can assert positively all four Of the
propositions contained in it, But the Prince OF
Wales has been for some weeks on the Continent,
was at Berlin on the I'd inst. later at Baden, and
Yesterday at Kiol whence he departed at o'clock
in the evening for Copenhagen. Are we to suppose
that the editor of The Daily Telegraph has been i'll
correspondence with the Prince of Wales, and
has been assured by his Royal High
ness that he has contracted no debts III
So it might then be open to The DAILY Ieeardph 10
assume that all the statements based on the sup
posed existence of the debts were false. If the
Prince is not the authority then Mr. Gladstone, Nh
Disraeli, and the Queen must have separately
authorized the statements affecting separately each
one of them-neither in such case being able TO
speak of his OF her own knowledge for the other
stil less to affirm that the Prince has contracted no
debts Mr.. Gladstone happens to be paying visit
TO Dr. D0llinger at Munich, Mr. Dsrae is in the
North and the Queen is at Balm0ral. Has CORE
spondence been going on between them too and The
| Daily Telegraph!
We must take some account also of The World.
That paper first published account of the debe,
| and the proposed means Of paying them. 1t Is
weekly paper and devoted two articles TO the sub
ect in two successive weeks. The third week 1t de-
clared itself able TO state that the Princes debts
had been paid by the Queen, adding the information
respecting the application 20 Mr.. Gladstone about
| them This was in contradiction of its general in
formation that the debts still existed, and 10 be
Maid lv an application TO Parliament through Mr..
| DisraeE. From what source, then, did The World
accent its contradiction journal is not in the
habit of retractng its statements unless upon salts
factory authority Which are we To suppose has
| been misled. The FORD or Tie Telegraph And are
we further to suppose that all London, which has
discussed the Princes debts for some months. not
to say years past, had no foundation what
ever for it's almost universal belief know of my
| own knowledge of one eminent merchant who de-
clined to supply Marlborough House on the ground
that he could not afford TO wait for his money Was
he likely to refuse lucrative custom, leading to
mueb other custom, without knowing something
| about the matter1 Would Mr.. Z. A. Taylor Mem
Der of Parliament and liable TO be questioned IN the
/ 4 ia ifTtpu n. on H.
;ect in reliance on mere gossipf III The Day Iete-
| ;4eoIf with DENYING