New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31
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CoUrTs WAS "CUT BY HER MAJESTY AT THE
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE GARDEN-PARTY-THE HOT
WAVE IN LoNDoN--AN ETERNAL CONFLICT BE-
TWEEN COMFORT AND STYLE"
IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEi
LONDON July 17.--At the garden-party at MARI
borough House ON Thursday. the Queen gave a
fresh proof of her deep sympathy with President
Garfield. Hearing that Mr. Lowell was present, she
sent for him in order to get from his own lips the
latest news about the condition of the President,
and to repeat to him in person her expressions OF
regret at the attempted assassination and her re-
oicing over the good news which for some days
past had been coming by cable. The people about
the Queen say that in these reiterated manifesta-
tons of her good will to the President of the United
States there is nothing ceremonious or formal or con-
ventional She talks and thinks of nothing else,wa
the remark of one of the Royal household At first
she was most painfully affected or if may quote
what was said as it said she completely up
set. Her own experience of such attempts has been
frequent enough make her susceptible if she had
no other for being susceptible But 1t is not
only the Queen who is concerned for the President
1t is the woman who is full of womanly sympathy
for the wounded man. More than that. The Queen
as she knows very well, holds place apart among
sovereigns. She has nevertheless the pride
of royalty and of race as strongly
as any living sovereign, and shows
it in all sorts of striking ways: almost
grotesquely at times. 1t may be doubted whether
she has not in one sense much stronger feeling of
solidarity with any of the mediatized dukes
and princes of Germany than with President Gar
field. She undoubtedly has with the Emperor of
Germany or with the Emperor of Russia, deep as is
the political gulf between them. But the Queen is
acquainted with public life, and knows that of all
rulers the face of the earth the Queen of England
and the President of the United States have the most
right to feel safe from the assassin. And it is
said that not even the attacks directed against
herself have seemed to her so purposeess and
inexplcabe, whether politically otherwise, as
this last outrage, of which an American President
came so being the victim. She could under
stand, if may use such phrase. why the Social
lists of Germany the Nihlsts of Russia should at
tempt the life of the sovereign of those countries.
Cowardly and brutal as Socialists and Nihists are,
they at least had motive, and acted on tia mo-
tive not less ineligible for being detestable But
neither in her nor in that of President Garfield
did any similar motive exist. They two alone, IN
her opinion, stand now together as having been
in peril of life from purely wanton outrage.
There is tie between them such as exists
between other two rulers in all the world.
And to considerations of tins sort the Queen is said
by those most intimate with her to be peculiarly
sensitive. 1t is not difficult to conceive of these two
meeting, they very well may some day, and
taking each others hands and looking into each
other'seyes with meaning quite unutterabe by all
the world beside. Without dwelling on it. it is
enough to say that out of all these commingled
emotions and mutual sympathies the messages
which have come from the Queen have a genuine
ness and an intense sincerity for which hardly a
parallel can be found.
An incident of very different sort occurred at
this gartlen-party. You will recolect that
when the engagement between the Baroness Bur-
dett- COutts and Mr. Ashnead Bartlett became
az Oh hot t,a
It, She had sent strong remonstrance to the Bar
Oness. Jealous friends of the Baroness denied this;
indeed. the assiduity with which the contradiction
was circulated was reason why the story was SO
generally credited. Then one heard that the
Queens displeasure had again been sgnified
at the time of the marriage, and this also
of denied no less vehemently
than the first. What occurred on Thurs
day may be considered 10 put the matter
beyond doubt. Lady Burdett-Coutts was "cut by
the Queen The expression is not suppose strictly
applicable to the withdrawal of Royal favor from
subject. Perhaps it is not even decorous But what
happened was this: The Queen stood, as usual with
vacant space in front of her. space into which no
mortal presumes to set foot without signal from
her Majesty. Lady Burdett-COutts was seen add
vancng through the crowd-for crowd there was
to the inner hem of the outer circle with intent to
place herself beneath the eyes of the Queen
and 80 secure that recognition which would
entite her to approach the sovereign. and
give, as she hoped, some visible token
to the world that she once more in her Maj
esty's good graces. Many saw the Baroness's move
ment The Queen saw it, and what her Majesty
did on seeing it to turn her royal back on the
Baroness Burdett- Coutts and walk snartly off TO an
other part of the grounds. The act was done too
publicly and In too marked way to leave any
doubt Of its meaning Indeed, it has always been
said the Queen would never forgive what she
thought the scandal of this marriage She holds
strict views on such subjects of winch she has manv
q time given proof; ana of which she has now given
one more at the Baroness Burdett-Coutts's expense
STU, with reference to the same garden party, /
Gull the following from society journal:
Her Majesty the Queen honored Nine Nilsson
with the gracious distinction of retaining her quite
ten minutes in a conversation, as am informed of
the most 1attering and condescending kndn
Who after reading this will affirm that the age of
well, let us say loyalty, has gone outY Or that the
author of Ginx's Baby is alone entitled to
bear the name which has, by his and other help,
achieved a worldwide famas
Ever since the first hot Tuesday, fortnight ago.
the weather has been more than ever the tonic OF
conversation. Londoners who lived through that
ana last Friday speak of their continued presence
On tins planet with pride. 1t certainly has been hot
i believe the thermometer-men say hotter than
within the memory of this generation One dav
950 in the shade another 9so are very respectable
hgures But the truth is that the heat has been far
more endurable than the ordinary heat of London
with the thermometer at 75o Not once
during these two torrid weeks has
1t been heavy or muggy-if there be such a word
as muggy" disable otherwise than colloquially
The air has been clear and dry and ight-a very
different atmosphere from the gutinous fluid usually
supplied to Londoners at this time of year. For
people who are not actually obliged to be at work in