The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-19
OREIGN NEWS BY MAIL.
Interesting Gossip About Prince
Albert Victor and His Relatives.
The New Tunnel Under the Alps-Suicide of
an Archbishop-Czar Alexander and
His Responsibilities
ALBERT VICTOR.


london Letter in Cleveland Herald
"rhe head that wears u crown" may be uneasy
enough, but a young fellow to whom the afiiie-
zion Is only prospective one can have in these
days about as free and rulliekfng time as he
pleases. Such was the experience of the Prince
OF Wales, and such, doubt, will be that Of his
eldest son, Albert Victor, who has just been en-
tered as q student at Cambridge University
This scion of royalty will not find the duties of
college life very exacting. He Is to dine, to
be sure, with the professors, and will not,
therefore, be allowed to eat his soup with
fork or blow his nose with the table napkin, but
these restraints mere trifies in comparison
with the liberty he will enjoy in other matters
In his own apartments of which he has six, he
will be monarch of all he surveys, not excepting
the Clergyman who is supposed to be his COVER
nor, and he will be more than human, and very
different from his father it he does not join the
boys once in a while in college Skinny. IL Is
10 be hoped, however, that he will not be quite
pens to be only about dozen miles from
Newmarket, and the Prince of Wales, much to
the disgust OF his pinus mother, availed himself
lOf the opportunity thus afforded to cultivate an
early love for the sports of the turf. His escap-
AIDES at the race course and on the way Unither
are talked of TO the present day, and traveller
covering the same journey can see at the wayslde
pubiics many interesting relics of his vlsits as,
for instance, the tumbler out of which he guz-
zIed his biters, AND the rustic lass, now a buxom
dame, who waited on him.
Albert Victor, contrary to expectation, missed
the Czarswitch and Cambrldgeshire, but he
win have another chance in the early spring,
and doubt the drag and four which has al
ready become a conspicuous object in the mar
row streets of the university town will be
brought into requistian then to convey lsroyal
owner to Newmarket heath. Meanwhile, he
takes an occasional squirt on the river, ana does
mot disdain to use his pedal extremites on
the football field. The local theater
has also been honored by his patron
N
young Prince is chip of the old block, with
lHevera slices added. Actresses he looks upon
AS angels, minus, of course, the wings and sew
ieral other trflng attributes, and his youthful
Rmbipien has been to cast in his lot with them.
He has had the stage fever in its most violent
form; has long regarded Henry Irving as a
bigger man than his illustriOus father, and sew
eral times, it is said, cursed the luck that pre-
vents him from following in The great actors
footsteps.
whatever he may turn to be in points of
character, the young Prince ID, in looks, the very
image of his sweet-faeed mOther-the same
large, lustrons eyes, the same even brow, on
which Guinness and geutleness sit enthrOned,
and the same expression of righteousness in the
small and eXqusltely shaped mouth. This Will
help him in no small degree into public favor,
for the Princess Alexandria is the idol of
this whole realm. 1t Is for her sake,
principally, that her husbands early
indiscretions have been so generously cOndOned,
and to her is given the credit of having nodded
the Prince into the whole-soued, unaffected
EnGlishman which all admit that he now is, She
seems to never weary in helping him out of diff
eulties and setting him right before the public,
the latest instance OF how he can put his foot
into it," and how willing she is TO extrieate the
unruly member, being the Mary Anderson affair.
An ordinary wife would have acted very differ
emily from the Princess IN case of that kind,
First, there would have been anger at the
Prince for trying, in her absence to gain
an introduction to the actress, then indignation
at the actress for her curt refusal of his patron
age. But the gentle Alexander rises superior to
such feelings this, and, for the general good,
and, doubtless, too, out of love for her spouse,
acts as mediator, not only bringing the Two to-
Qetllor but doing il in such q to fmpreRa
both with the idea that their acquaintance
-xxould give her the most unbouuded pleasure.
Everything now is lovely in that quarter for
American pluck has been vindicated. the Prince
has grasped the fair hand OF the actress, and the
gracious Princess looks on and smiles happy
''Bless We, my children!"
Albert Victor will remain at Cambridge for
OnIy one school year. He went there In obedi-
enee to the special wish of his father, bur in the
education OF prince other things than the
wishes of parents must he considered, and SO. to
prevent hard feelings between the two univers-
stiles, he will spend few months further along
at Oxford. Then, at the request of his royal
Germany. This because the lamented
Prince Consort was educated there,
for the Queen, even in the extrava-
ganee of her grief over the death of John Brown.
has not quite forgotten her late husband, and in
little sentimental ways she still testities
lneut involved, one can see an appropriateness
IN young prince, who has not q drop of pure
English blood in his veins, finishing bis educa-
tion in foreign country, and II is hardly TO be
expected that people who are willing to have
foreigners reign over them will make any OBJ
lection to this course.
How long it will be ere Prince Victor should
he live, will become King of England, is, of
course, beyond human ken TO determine. There
are two lives between him and this goal. one of
them, though DID, very tough, for L am told
that the decadenee of Victoria's physical powers
bears no propOrtiOn whatever to the rapid decay
which seems to be settling down upon her men
tai faculties The Prince of Wales, however, is
not strong, though he's getting oorpulent Since
his severe illness twelve years ago he has had to
be very careful of himself. Many predict that
he will never reach the throne, simply because
his mother will outlive him. But that the
Prince intends to cheat these prOphets-if he
oaD-is shown Ill the trouble he takes to bundle
himself up as he emerges from the theater into
che night air, and in that abstemiousness of diet
which leads him TO eontine himself at the rich
est banquets to the plainest food. AS to whether
or not, in the event of his surviving both his
grandmother and father, the young man now at
Cambridge will ever ascend the throne.
much depends upon the course OF noliti-
to spread as it has done in recent years, such an
event would be doubtful, and that the Liberal
party is falling into Radical naGds becomes
more apparent every day That party is now
committed TO universal household suffrage and
will carry it unless all signs fail, in less than
two years, and the first general election after
wards conducted under the provisions OF the
Corrupt Practices bill, which seems specially
designed for the slaughter OF Parliamentary
money bags. will witness an upheaval such as
this country has not known for gen.
erations the House OF Lords may
the people shall he heard from in this fashion,
and, of course, with the hereditary upper House
abolished, the crown Will be placed i'll jeopardy.
The growing financial burdens of royalty are
very keenly felt, and the pressure will be heav-
Ter as the children of the heir apparent come of
age. and II to this there should happen to be
addrd career of fragrant reck essneSs on the
part of the prospective Prince of Wales, such as
has rendered odious some former occupants of
that high position, public patience would GER
tanly be strained beyond endurance, and by
some means or other the yoke would be thrown
off.
A NEW ALPINE TUNNEL.