, 1877-07-01

tof ne was well aware LuAL puChlAE uAeA
| Palace is merely wing added to the Tower by
| the late Prince Consort. WHAT made him un
! easy WIS the recollection that the Queen hat q
| country seat at Balmoral, in Scotland, where
she retires when Buckingham Palace is under
going Its annual cleaning. 1t, thought he, ut
scrubbed and whftewashed, and the Queen IS at
Balmoral, that telegram may never rraeh Gen.
Grant What is worse, that box OF cigars that
was forwarded last Monday, directed precisely
as was the telegram, may lal1 into the hands OF
the local coIored minister who whitewasles the
palace, and may be smoked BY tnat undiscTlni-
mating artist and his personal friends. The
more Gov. Hartranft thought over the affair the
worse his head achea, and the more clearly he
saw that he had been too hasty. Had he direct
ed that telegram to 60 Beaconsticfd, ESQ.,
and requested him to forward it to Gen. Grant
without delay, there would have been no doubt
that Gen. Grant would have received it. AS it
was' tue Telegram, might t., never aa., reach Tet
she, being u woman, might put it on
her ulantcl-piecc at Batmorai ana entirely forget
to mention it to Gen. Grant for three or four
days. Gov. Hartrlnft groaned aloud as this
last contingency occurred to him: That telc,
gram which SO chastely and beautifully informed
Gen. Grant that s'your comrades :, dc
sire, through, YOU to England's Queen, to THANK
England for Grants receptions" should miscar~
ry, simply BECAUSE Of 4 mistake in the andress,
was bitter thought, anu as Gov. Hartrau1t
rang Tor more soda-wntcr le inwartlly resolved
never to send another telegram after dinner.
It is pleasure Us well Us duty to relieve so
excellent man as Gov. Hartranft from bis pres
cnt state of painful uncertainty. Fortunately,
there Is no difficulty in SO doing. From sources
rs exclusive and as authentic IS those from
which the U<ratd obtains its war teleerams, the
Times has received full account Of the reeep-
tion Of the GoycrnUr's telegram In England,
and can assure him that it is already ~ the e1-
Presidents hands. At the same time 1t is proper
to say .hat had it not been for lucky acciuent
that telegram would never have reached It's des-
tinatiOu.
Ate o'clock on Wednesday morning the Prime
Minister, VINO during his term Of otfi1e always
occupies the second-story front bed-.oum i'll
Buckingham Palace in order to be handy II tue
Queen wakes up in the night aud thinks she
would like new title, was aroused by tre-
Inendous knocking at the trout door. Hastily
springing out Of bed and opening the window,
lie saw boy iu the uniform OF the Atlantic
Cable Company standing Oh the front step aud
wtistlins ''Rule Britannia" 10 the premicF's
excited demand to know where the ii7e was, the
hoy coldly replied, tfelcgram forrour missus,"
wtereupun Lord Beaconstelt, ansrl}y ex.1ai1n-
ing - Holy Moses ~ closed the window, put on
his trousers, anu, descending to the door, told
the boy to hand it ovcr.'
Now, cable telegram costs good deal.
There was IS IS Sd due on Gov. Hartra.t's
telegram, aud the buy refused to deliver it
without the money. Hence it became neces-
sary to wake tile Queen. The uuble Earl had
to take this delicate duty upon himself, since
the servants remained invisible, ana it was With
many uaisyivngs that he knocked at her Maj
csty's door, and after informing her that boy
was waiting with telegram for Gcn. Grant,
aud that be wanted IS Is Sd, mcckiy suggested
that she should hand him the money through
the crack OF the door The Queen may not be
a particularly irritable woman, but it was hard
" to be expected that she would get out Of
bed, strike light, and hunt up her purse with
out hetraying some little annoyance. In fact,
she was extremely angry, aud not only peremD-
torily refused to receive Cen Grants telegram,
but informed Lord Bcaconsticld that II nc ever
woke her up again in the middle Of the night to
ask her to Gay s9 lor somebody else's kilograms,
she would dismiss him without a character.
''Wh., even Gladstone" added the irate
Queen: hasn't htmperunce enough to conie
md 'anlmer at my door, and ask 1or ELS or go
at thistin.e OF nieht-h