Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-14
LULU N BEATRICE.
WiCtoria's Constitutional Consent TO
Their Marriage---Why Lulu
Went to Zululand.

Chicago Times letter.
OF course the discussion veers and
shifts upon the motive, responsibility
and unwisdom of his adventure into
Hululand. 1t seems that it was on the
lads own motion that he went, greatly
against the earnest protests Of his
party, and to the great joy of his enc
mics. Rouher, the Vice Emperor, y
gave a reluctant consent after an iu-
terview with the prince. That reluc
tant consent, it now seems, was drawn
from this wary old fox, not by the
youths strong desire to take part in a.
military expedition which, for the
larger part Of the continent, had but
little glory, and for the rest positive
discredit, since the right of England
to invade African territory is by no.
means universally conceded. To those
who hold that doctrine the war is little
less than a piracy-a doctrine which,
by the way, has its advocates in Eng
land itself. The French press were not
topointoutth einoonsistencyofthe
chief of imperial universal suffrage
taking part in a war against an limo
cent people who were simply battling
for their territories against the en-
croachments of an unauthorized Eng
fish busybody-a statement which
found its strongest support in the de-
bates in Parliament itself, in which
the ministry was charged, and charged
again, with shameless despolia-
tion Of peaceful peighbors, simply
because some hOt-h6ad6d FFere had
taken it into his head to go to war
without orders. Aside from these re-
proaches, the motive leading to Rouh-
er's consent turns out, on trustworthy
evidence, 70 have been a conditional
promise ON the part Of the English
queen that if the prince showed him
! self worthy-and by that | suppose she
meant relieve himself from the posi-
ton OF balf-gidiculous contempt aud
halfdoubtof his niaGl,Ecss N whichthe
world held him, she would not refuse
to give him in marriage the hand Of the
Princess Beatrice, her youngest born.
RumoFs az this alliance appeared in
the English press q yeaf or moro agay
but were summarily suppressed, and
it turned out afterward by the explicit
command of the lord chamberlain.
But those in the narrow circle OF
stateog2tt, which controls the
diplomacy of marriage and given in
marriage Of the house Of Great
Britain, are responsible for a nEmbei
Of sayings, all Of which lead to the
same conclusion. You may remember
that when the young prince had made
up his mind to go to the cape he was
summoned to Windsor, where the
qiussa treated him like a son, kissed
him as she kissed her own boys, and
gave him a ring from het sAg finger
which is said to have been a hyoFitS
Jewel of her husband, the prince con.
sort, Ia confirmation Of what may
have been the engagement OF the
Young pair. 1t is known that younl
lNapoleon and the princess Beatrice
saw a good deal of each other durins
the last few years that it was the
mission Of this princess to carry thu
queens compliments and pon4olelpeI
/. to Chiselburst, where she treqqebt !!
stopped some days With TIE e&-emI
press, aBd that the young couple yer,
more than usually lntqfat9 as init
macy goes among royal persanages
To still further confirm the supposi
: ton, yesterday morning, when th,
news was brought to the British court
? the Princess Beatrice tainted, anC
2 remained in q state of stupor for hour
IA fact which pEQyes at least tn,
r sensibility and kindness Of q yodni
9 lady who gets credit fer being one Q
the most amiable of the British
q4esp's family, 1t is true that tn,
d English law, sigse the revolution 0
1868, oonstructiyely II not explioitl.
prohibits the marriage Of a member 0
i the reigning family with a Catholic
but the same law, or a still older one
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