New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-26
PERSONAL.

The Duke of Norfolk has returned to England
from his pilgrimage to LOurdes with his unfortunate
baby boy There is no improvement visible in the
condition Of the child
NJ Gounod ntenls to conduct personally bis new
oratoriO "The Redemption" at the Musical Fest
val at Birmingham next year.
Mrs Garfield will soon receive from the Women's
Silk Culture Association the first silk dress every
part of which from egg to finished fabric has been
produced in this country. The silk has Just been
reeled by the members of the association, anG is
said to be equal to the best Italian silk.
Mr. Henry Irving in his recent speech at Edn-
burgh related this story to the glory of two religious
journals: Talking to very eminent bishop one
day, said to him, Now, my lord, why is it, with
your love and knowledge of the drama, with your
deep interest in the stage and all It's belongings,
and your de sympathy with all that ennoDles and
retncs our natures-why Is 1t that yOu never go 70
the theatreT why, my dear Irving said he, 'pll
tell you. am AFRAID of The Rock and The Record"
Sir C. Wyville Thomson will resign almost imme-
dately his chair of Natural History in the Uni
yerslty Of Edinburgh.
The ex-EmDress Eugene intends to build MAUI
solemn in the grounds of her new English home,
and will transfer to it from Chiselhurst the remains
OF her husband and son.
-Four autograph letters from Mrs. Garfield havo
been received at the American Legation in London.
One was addressed to Queen Victoria, and was inl-
Lowell. MT. Gladstone and Mr.. Tom Hughes.
This most romantic account of the courtship Of VI.
Wilson and Mile. Greyy is given by The queen:
Mime. Wilson Pelouze placed her legal affairs in
the hands of NJ. Grevy. THIS seems to have been
the origin of the friendship between the two fami-
lies. VI. Wilson, the brother of Nine. PelOuze, was
then eighteen years old, and NJ. GTeyy's daughter
Alice ten. For twO-and-twenty years they renamed
on the kind of terms which first cousins of equal
fortune stand in England NJ. Greyy was TO Daniel
Wilson a sage adviser and reliable friend. 1t was
he who. when the young man was going wrong,
persuaded him to turn over new Leaf. However,
NJ. Wilson disappeared from his Partisan haunts,
and Mile. Grevy, who was in the habit of seeing
HIM at dinner felt lonely aud miserable, and sought
consolation in music and her pencil, becoming in
the course of time an accomplished artist. NJ Will
son, after having amended his ways in Touraine,
returned as a legislator. 1t now appears that Mile.
Greyy and VI. Wilson at that time often thought
of marriage; but he felt he unworthy to ask
her and she did not dare to show her preference
for him. At last however. Mile, Alice got tired of
p aging the game of patience and resolved on
coup de tee Paris was astoDished 20 hear that she
had ogniied her intention TO her parents OF giving
her hand to a tenor who was the rage at the end Ot
the last decade. He wa, the cousin Of cousin OF
Nine. GIevy, and, as such, had been made welcome
by her Wilson's Britannia diilidence, and feeling
that be Ola deserve the bright original, Slnsome
Nile NrcEy, Stlll htlu MN Al luS CIlllCdl
iuucture the deus mdchRd stepped IN ii was
through the Dreyfuses that VI. Wilson learned what
Mile. Alice wished him TO do The Under-Secere-
tlry for Finances was enchautc 10 he this but he
had not the courage to make formal declaration
10 the young lady until he went IN September To
Mont-sOus-Y audrey with NJ jules Ferry. Here the
very long lane came at last 10 q turning. VI.
Wilson proposed, and was accepted. The interval
between the episode OF prOposlng-n country
lane oil cOurse--and the marriage passed as II
the lovers were English. NJ Wilson each day be-
came more absorbed in the Presidents daughter,
more expansive more ysiDly enchanted. No doubt
he thought her the most Incompatible Of Ewes
daughters In respect she was-in her SIM
plIclty"