New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-28
ROYALTY IN TROUBLE.

A
RfVIEw-MEN wuo PRESUMED TO DIE WITHOUT
HIS GRACE's PERMIssIoS-PRINcR CHRISTIAN IN
A HORNETS NEsT-TBE HOUSE OF COMMONS NOT
10 BE sNUBBED WITH IMPUNITY--A STARTLING
TELEGRAM-oAnNoUsG GgowIs FROM THE BRITISH
PUBLIC.
phoA THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBuxEt
LYNDON, July 81 heard good Englishman say
lately that IL ever Royalty went down in England
s coiiapsc wonld be due largely TO the subordinate
members of the family. What provoked the remark
was the recent deaths of four soldiers at Aldershot
uhuer the Duke of Cambndge's command, and tho
"'"'nisnhe performances of Prince Christian in
connection with the Windsor Review. The four
soiders died from sunstroke during re-
view at Aldershot in the middle of tina
day with the Thermometer at 90 derreeg
In the shade. Some Of those meddleson,s
people who lie in wait for official blunders taxed
the Duke with cruelty to his troops The mattee
was even mentioned in the House of Lords. which
mas the privilege of numbering this royal and mill
tary Duke among lis members Ii was not found
possible to deny that the men were dead OF that
their deaths occurred from snnstroke or that thn
sunstroke fell upon them during the reyiew The
oinclai and royal mind was therefore unusually 10
stricted in its defence, but it proved canal to tI.
occasion. Quite true, said the Duke in answering
the question put to him, these poor fellow.
are dead, but they had no business 70 die
They so far forget themselves to die without ask
ing leave-aay, the Field-Marshal Commandinejn-
Chief did not so much as know they were dead
till he read it in the newspapers. 1t is left an open
question whether the Duke thinks it a worse ofence
that his soldiers should take the liberty of having
an unauthorized sunstroke, or that they shouIf
allow the news of their deaths TO be published by
the penny press before it had been officially commu-
nicated to headquarters which / suppose il would
have been in few days without the help of those
pestllcnt papers. On another point the noble and
axrlln .1-ao f
The heat was not in his opinion great enough "a
cause sunstroke. He would hardly have been sar
prsed TO hear that these mutinous dogs had suffered
from the cold on that day. but sunstroke was n
thing he could not at all account for. My version
of the Dukes speech is, 1 admit. free one but tls
text which qnote literally viii snow whether, aud
how much, have exaggerated:
was down at Aldershot Yesterday and was rory
much surprised this morning to hear that Geaths
had been caused by the heat. When came back 10
London everybody, said: What dreadful day
you have had at Adershot p said il was warm INT
not nnpleasantly warm and my staff said the same
thing. 1t was only on approaching London that the
breeze on the hill at Aldershot, and the heat
did not seem unusual have been out at field ex-
ercises fifty times on hotter DAYS Indeed was
glad that comparatively few men had fallen sat-
Inc review was short, so that the men were not ex-
posed TO the heat for any unusual period.
There are people who find fault with this as IN
feeling, but they would find fault with anything.
Any person of wel-regulated mind will agree thst
weather which is not too hot for royal duke canros
be too hot for the private soldier. Ii the privse
soldier chooses TO 60 and have sunstroke when tbs
Duke of Cambridge finds it not unpleasantly warm.
the verdict of all loyal men will deserved him
right. There Is a dispute about the text of this
speech, should add. There often critical dis
agreements the great orations of antiquity Az
given above the Duke said ne had been out at 6eld
exercises fifty times on hotter days. Some who sat
him insist that he said he had been out at eld
exercises when il fifty times hotter. Now fifty
times ninety is $500, and no meteoroogist can be
found willing 70 that any such register of keas
in the British Isles is record. As the word of n
royal duke is beyond dispute il is clear either that
the meteorologists have conspired TO conceal this
phenomenon from the public, that the royal duke
did not really mean TO be under stood as speaking
with mathematical precision His fifty times wss
only figure of speech. People who criticise the
Of such rhetorical figures such an occasion as
ppant ought not 10 be allowed TO write in the pub
lie press.
Prince Christians stirred mp. perhaps a moro
dangerous feeling than the Dukes little indiscre-
tion. 1t painful for legislators 10 hear that
four common soldiers died during review ar Alder
shot But this pain was common TO members of
Parliament and other subjects. The arrancemants
for the review nj Windsor touched the pride and
privileges of the two honses themselves II has
been observed before that nothing ever agita.es
the House of Commons much as an attack upou
its preroCa'ive. Prince Christian did worse than
attack the House. He neglected it, He ignored lis
existence. Early in the week a disquietiug ruraor
went abroad that no place had hecn reserved for
members of the Legislature. The appalling iniell-
gence was confirmed On Thursday when Sir. Schrsi-
ber member hitherto unknown TO fame. put A
qu sion the subject to tie Secretary OF State for
War The House listened aghast and augry wbige
Mr.. Schneider went on to say that ground had
been set apart for the Royal Household Ihe Press
the students at Cooper Hill, the Eaton boys, tho
Park officials, and the Four-in-H Hand Club. When
ii dawned upon the House that the servants at the
castle carefully provided with good places and
that Parliament was provided with none. a roar
went up that might have startled Prince Christian
in his Lodge.
Mr.. Childers said he was not responsible. because
all the arrangements in the hands of the
Ranger OF Windsor Park. "Who is the Ranger ?,
cried the legislators; but no forthcOm-
ing. lou observe how royalty was screened as long
as possible. WHO is responsible TO Parliament Tor
the action of the Rangeri' queIied the irFeprossbe
Mr. Labouobere going. usual, straight ia the root
of the matter. "The First Commissioners Of Works.
answered Mr.. Chiders. AS the First Commissioner
OF Works is not member of the royal family, Mr.
Childcrs answered this question promptly. The
First Commissioner of Works is Mr. Shaw -Lefevre.
who at invited TO say what claim he
thought the Four-in- Hand Club had to be preferred
before the members of the House as spectators Of
the review. Mr. Shaw-Lefevrc mace answer that
he had nothing 10 do with Windsor Park or the
Ranger thereof upon which the House turned again
70 Mr.. Childers for an explanation and Mr. CliIders
meel<ly explained that he had made a mistake in
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