New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-12
BRITISH TOPICS.
THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SPAIN.

IRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE'I
LONDON. hpril 2G-The Prince of Wales has
done a thoroughly popular thing. He has refused
to attend the bull-ight that was arranged Tor MN
in Madrid 1t is by no means in Madrid that his
refusal will be popular where bull-hghts and the
Pope are the two principal objects of worship, and
where the Spaniard is wholly unable to understand
much less sympathZe with-the repughahce
which his favorite pastime excites III civzed coui
tries. Nor need it be supposed that the frhce
himself, more than other travellers IN search
of fresh sensation, would object to being present
at this peculiarly Spanish festvity He is however,
alive to the scandal which some of his Indian per-
formances caused at home. He desires to obIit-
crate the memory of his pg-stickinS exploits
and his presence at the Bar0da elephant
duels. Sports of this kind have ceased
to be popular in England. Neither Mr..
Dsrae nor Mr.. Gladstone would now be likely
to attend prize-fght, as Lord Pamerston once did
without shocking body or to practice cock-fght-
ing as the late Lord Derby did. i may say III
parenthcsis that mean hclato Lord Derby, andnot
his father grandfather with one or both OF whom
q critic some time ago supposed had coniounded
him. 1t was not they who had the gates OF Knows
ley guarded by police while main of cocks was
fought i'll the park. 1t was the late Prime Minister
of England the father of the present Secretary OF
State for Foreign Affairs Those days are quite
past-had passed before the cock-ighting Earl be-
came Prime Minister-werc well nigh gone before he
became Earl. Ii does not much matter whether-as
the report is-the Prince was advised from London
not TO 20 to a bu-Gght, or whether his own good
sense (he il by no means without share OF good
sense dictated his refusal. Nor need he lose the
spectacle by this sacrifice to the propreties-to
what a spaniard woud call English prudcry. He
can go-as certain Indiana Senator desired to
travel in Europe-incOgnito.
Mr. Gladstone's latest outbreak is OF those Oddi-
ties ol which me alone has the secret. 1t relates to
the Royal Titles BILL and so adds another to the long
list of strange incidents which that royal freak has
been the cause of. Mr. Lowe made speech last
week. in which he mentioned report that the Queen
had applied to two previous ministers to make her
an Empress and that both lad refused. This is gos
sip which has been current everywhere for weeks
past, which everybody believed, and which Mr.
loves statement sufficiently confirms. Gossip no
doubt, come, ted Mr.. GlaIs0ncs name with tine re-
fusal. Ar.Lowe. who was IN Mr.. Gladsion"s Cab
met, could la.dy refer IN direct terms to LIE former
chief and did not. But Mir Gladstone has seized the
occasion h. say that he not one Of the ministers
who refrs.d--or rather that it was not to him that
the application was made. He scnds letter to that
eject to a SUNDAY paper-not Very shrcwd thing to
do The result IL 10 set everybody discussing the
matter once moro, and to RgHHvate, rather than
afutliorlte the tone Of club talk. People say now
that Mr. Cadstone Is the only Primo Minister who
has not been appealed to; that the late Lord Derby
himself refused: that Earl Russell refused; that
Paimer-ton refused; and 10 ON.
Earl Russell is alive and speak foG himself If
lie il so minded; and members "i the Cabinets oi the
other two are a.0 alive; should they or any OF inem
leoI inclined 10 follow Ar. Gadsioucs example. so
Of other Cabinets; not one has been found during
Ouccn Victories reign which hts not think, sur
yiying representatives,. Mr. Gladstone haa led the
way 10 an investigation 10y the familiar process of
exclusion II ever, body cise vino wall favor MS
with similar denial We -ha!l fistcn the credit sal
isiaciorily on those who do not And II Is credit
10 have declined a ROYAL TcqUts. 80 prcp0stcrous, 50
uuconpcuial t. the spilt Of the English peopic-so
uu- English, in Short. All sorry Mr. Gladstone did
not have an opportunity TO earn H. EughShineh
who fret under the rulc Of an Asiatic Prime Minister
may well sigh Tor the days Of L'rd Melbourne IL
is related of Lord Melbourne that the Queen be-
sought him to give her husband the title OF King
Consort instead Of PIince-Consort. and that tie
bluG old statesman replied. II won't touch ii,
ma'an."
The death il announced of the wife Of ous Blanc,
and I may perhaps be permitted, in writing from
the city Of hich she was long resident 10 express
nv regret az his loss. Madame Louis Blanc was
German by birth-a Wurtcmburg lady, if | remcm-
her rightly Her husband met her while living in
exile at Brighton, and married Lcr there some 10
wears AGO, She was a woman OF many kindly and
simple traits 10 whom her husband was sincerely
devoted. and who repaid his affection. Her illness
has been long and painful one lie quittoi her
bedside last week to deliver ia company with Victor
Hugo a speech for amnesty to the Communists; Tor
whom he had perhaps, all the more charity because
he i'm no degree sympathizcd with their political io-
lies II is related By the Paris correspondent, that
q floral crown was thrown on the stage at Che
Chateau dEau nj the feet of the two great orator,
neither Of whom would accept 1t 10 the exclusion OF
the other. Finally, with all a Frenchnan's gal
lantry NJ Victor Hugo took it to present to Madame
Louis Blanc The dying wife received With sinl'e
this last tribute, to her husbands splendid pubic
services, SAYING This will adorn my tomb" she
was buried yesterday. NJ Lodis blanc, himself IA
invalid. worn with incessant tell, with long watch
inc by his wife, and with haraasing malady, en-
deayored to follow her to the tomb but bad to yield
TO the complete exhaustion which cane upon him.
and was taken home, while She was borne to the
cc,octery a long cortGgo of friends and admirers
following.
The comments on Lord Lytteitons death have
drawn out a letter from his physician, DR.. Andrew
Clark. His suicide created a belief that ms wboIo
life had been ruined by insanity in ore form OF an
other. and this was put forward rs an apology for
his failure to achieve all that was expected ol NM
Bat the truth il, first, that Lord Lyttleton did
achieve a great deal secondly that ms abstinence
from certain forms of political activity was rom
choice not from stress of physical or mental disease
The attacks of depression from which he suffered
oro s,vs DR. CLARK. few in number aud of short du-
ration; they were infrequent, and he was as well as