New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-22
TOPICS IN PARIS.
VARIOUS PHASES OF ROYAL LIFE.

VISIT OF THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA TO PARIs-HER
INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT GREvY-HABITs
OF ROYAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF BIS
MARCK AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AS A
FACTOR IN DIPLoMACY-THE FIRST CoNsULs
EMBASSY TO THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.
tFRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
PARIS, April 1.-The Empress of Austria came
here much disposed to receive official visit. She
is great very great lady in reality, and in her
eyes; very capricioUs and strong-willed IN car
rying out her fancies and whim-whams. In the Ger
man fashion she can leave rank aside and be very
charming with people of no rank to speak Of if suchis
her good pleasure Captain Middleton who is her es-
qure on the hunting fields of England and Ireland,
had never to know that she is the proudest OF
the proud. With the circus girl Elise, who was
last year the idol of the Partisan GOmmeux her
Majesty is almost mothery, and is very compan-
ionablc They smoke cigarettes together and talk
gayly OH equest rian suLects-the only subjects
which interest the Kaiscrin. But Elizabeth holds
in foul scorn riches and self-made great
ladies. All her prejudiCes and what she deems her
principles are OH the side of fcudalism and right
divine monarchy which, 10y the way, never lived on
good terms with the barons of the fcudal
period. She loOks-alth0ugh Austria is now
under free gOvernment-upon the English
constitutional monarch with pity mingled
with contempt, and calls her poor, poul-
try-vari fowl, who has no wingpower to take n
high and independent flight. When the French
Republic was represented at Vienna by parvenu
ambassadors the Empress scarcely civil TO their
exccllcncics on the occasions which they had
opportunities to approach her She roughly tested
about the name of NJ Teisscrcnc de- Bort. The Teis-
serene she Invested OF it's first syllable and pro-
nounced The last as Coquelin does the medical IN
strumcnt Cs6rinqaG, so much used by Dr. Purgon III
lie malade imaginairc."
EMPRESS AND PRESIDENT.
Her Majesty came here resolved not 10 exchange
ciyilticS with NJ. Grcvv. However vest rday after
noon she changed her mind. Count Won Bcust en-
treated the Duchess dAlencon, one of her three
sisters now in Paris TO talk her round into more
civil frame of mind. The Duchess il no a'lmiTr of
the President of the Republic or OF Rrpubliclnisn,
but shc is less madcap than her Imperial sister, and
felt the inconvenience % the Ennr SIS attitude.
CONT Won Bcust was therefore. able " thout fear
of being cOntradctcd Ia give "a message winch,
| am told. was from beginning to end aporryrhal-
to the chief of the Frnch Executive, who y'Sier
dav called ON her Majesty at the Hotel Bristol
and was received 10y her. Tho crowned Clo-
rinda was surrounded by her household.
Part OF her hair. which is still OF FURNISHED hazel
brown shade and splenddy luxGrant, was coiled
round her head and Tho rest was allowed to fall
down behind her She was dressed in plain black
velvet costume with linen collar and an cnain-
melted brooch Elizabeth speaks French well, hut
with "A German acccnt. She sad she heard that
Grevy was lover of sylvan sports, aud congratu-
lated him upon il. The cast of France, whence ms
family came. she said was in some degree the
cradle of her own family. inaSInuch as the Duchy OF
Deux Ponta, a title belonging to her father. was
portion of la Franche COmte. Grevy had the
politeness 10 tell the Empress that II she had
a fancy 10 hunt in the State domains
they would be at her disposal There
were beautiful alleys in tho forests of Com
piegno and Hambouillet, and woods in the depart
ment of the Seinc-ct-Ose in which the Condos
formerly INDUCED in the pleasures of the chase
Her Majesty in reply said she did not like the formal
avenues with which the French forests were inter
sectcd and she greatly missed in Normandy the
brooks and rills of some parts of Germany, OF Eng
| land. and of Ireland, which gave such ANNA
ton to stag fox, or hare hunts III was
dolicbtfpl 20 ride across country in England and
! Ireland and hunts more amusing there thail
they could possibly be in France. Every one took
| an interest in them. The Empress could imagine no
| more democratic institution than the British hunt
| When NJ Cirevy, whose visit did not last over half
an hour left, NJ. Bartheleny st. lilare came to pay
his respects His call n mere fornality, and
tasted but five minutes. The Empress Elizabeth re-
fused to be screnaded by her musical subjects rcsd
| ing in Paris Count won Bcust, who is almost mu
sc-mad conceived the idea of treating her 10 ser
cnade concert.
| 4 sPORT-LOvING sIsTFRHOOD.
Her Majesty has seen good deal OF her three SIS
ters the cx- Queen OF Naples the Duchess dAlcncon
and COuLtes, de TTar. These ladc, are all horscy
womcr, ard love the fields and forests. They are
also women OF high spirit. Of 1.-the frames and Of san
| guine Compartments. No more beautiful specimens
| could there be OF thoroughbred human animals
! Their intellccts are below par. yet they are not
sturid or mediocre. Inc Empress has the eyes Of a
SPANIEL dog and tie cXirc, i've nostIls of horse
Daudet. in his "Kinga in Exile" skctchcd faithful
portrait of the Queen of Naples and Of the Countess
| de Trani who resemble each other rs closely n
! meas in O pod Tie Empress and her sisters have
smoked together an infinite number Of cigarettes at
| the Hotel Bristol whence her Majesty starts tins
! evening for Vienna by way Of Munich. When
| Elizabeth is not hunting practising gymnastics
She is smoking She goes 10 bed at and u MP AT
10 sec her fayoric hOrs take their morning feed
Morning is her fayorltc time for cant"rng along
BLADES and Forest with few attendants OF
ten she goes out with attendants and couple OF
! fleet. power 'ni dogs as her bod guards She has
ana fortunately for the States ruled by Francis
Josepl-w ashod her hands Of politics. Since thc
death OF the Emperor who abdicatod in his favor,
| TIE imperial Golfers have been well filled, and the
| Empress has had her share Of the money Her
hunting triJ this year to Great Britain has cost it
| appears, 100000.
MEMORIES OF THE GERMAN CONQUEST.
| Retrospective revelations the order Of the
! day in literature. We have had the interesting
resp0ndcnce Of Prosper Merimee and Panizzi " hich
throw a food Of light OH the Imperial Court and
robbed the Empress Eugene OF much Of the
| interest which her astOundingy great
| f,r,ure and then her great downfall i'm the world