New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-15
TOPICS IN PARIS.

credulous have good deal to say about the
late John Brown, the Queens personal at'end-
ant In the Queens different sojourns at the britsn
Embassy the stalwart person OF John Brown nau
become familiar TO Paris sightseers his aIr OK
familiarity rather shocked French tasre. VINO
sitting on the rumble he often leaned ior-
ward to enter into conversation with his Royal
mistress No other person at Court would nave
dared to address her without being first spoken 10.
She appeared to enjoy hearing him speak. John
Brown was shrewd and observant, and called the
attention of the Queen to many objects worth notic'
ing which she might have passed unseen were he
not authorized to point them ont. Modesty
was not one of his virtues. Bat tho
favor which he enjoyed did not turn his head
nor make him proud. He was very obliging
and was always glad to serve coun,ryman.
Tradesmen who were in his good graces received
large orders from the Sovereign. lie was very kind
in recommending to her bounty poor and merltouous
persons A Scotch lady who is member OF the
Royal Household assures me that it was chiefly To
prevent John Brown langushing from homesick-
ness that the Court transported to the Aber'
deenshire Highlands in the month OF May as well
as at the close of August. In the Prince Consorrs
time it only went in the autumn to Scotland.
The Toltaire publishes characteristic Partisan
monograph on the deceased personal attendant.
1t was written, l am told, by French diplomat,
who had good opportunities for studying the
inner circle of Royalty. According to this
very reckless Gaul, the ascendancy wnlch inc
former gile obtained over the Queens nina
was absolute But he made discreet use OF
1t, and rather evaded giving advice on politicai
questions when urged to do The Sovereign. he
writes. regarded him medium through which
the Prince Consort had most pleasure in
communicating with her. This idea was enter
tanned by her 80 long ago as when Lord Palmerston
was her Prime Minister. She used to quit the
councils held at Windsor to interrogate through
John Brown, her lamented husband. This was
found very troublesome when the schleswlg-
Holstem war was going on. The Highlander had
no idea as to What the quarrel was about. andcould
not understand either the DANISH or the German
side of the question that was at issue. Pam " on
one occasion lost his temper and said
before the Queen 60 could never understand
what the Prince meant when he was alive, and 1t Is
too hard now that he is dead to have TO tack ac-
cordng to the views which he is supposed to take
in another world of European politics"
The ROYAL family of the Belsans unfor.
tunate as to offend the Queen by not paying, when
she last visited them sufficient attention to John
Brown. He was sent to dine IN the lower servants
hail. His Royal mistress said that he presided hab-
None but heads Of departments in the household sat
down to dinner there 1t was at the table which
correspondent to it that Mrs Schwellenberg the ras-
chile German croue who rendered Fanny Burney
so unhappy, presided over in Queen Charlottes
time. But rs HenTlette Marie has Austrian preJu-
dices she did not take the hint which was let fall
by Der Royal guest The Queen therefore has never
since in her many journeys to Coburg ana
Baden-Baden set foot in Belgium. She
has invariably taken the inconVenlent
Cherbourg route which exposes her to sea
Journey of from eight to ten hours. This Involves
in rough weather. the trying ordeal of sea-slckness,
10 which Her Majesty is subject The first time she
travelled via Cherbours and Versailles and Paris was
in 1872 " THEIRS President lie wanted very
much to wait upon her at the Versailles Rive Gauehc
Station at in the mOrning-the hour when hef
train was due there But she refused To accept the
proposed attention. The Due do Broglie. 1t after
terward turned out was uncivil TO John Brown,
and the Queen would not enter into personal rela-
tions with his chief MacMahon's representative
at the Court Of ST. james, the Marquis diarcourt.
found means to assure Mr.. Brown of his synlpa-
thetic consideration. Her Majesty was 50 gratiied
that she halted at the Vllette Station of the Gem
ture Railway TO enable the Marshal to call on her.
She received him in her salOoncar. The Highlander
stood behind her chair during the interview, when
lasted ten minutes
The Monasterio case surpasses anything imagined
by lola III writing his most unsavOry novels Such
a collection OF sharpers and unlnterestlng and in-
deed foul dupes was never seen before.
Madame Monastero, who sits on the prisoners
bench in the Sixth, or Correctional Chamber, Is 2
lady OF Spanish ancestry, born in Chilli She is dis
family related 10 " de Lesseps and is really very
ike him. Notwithstanding the bloa:ing aad
DEGRADING effects of habtual intoMcation. Her
husband was a man of very large fortune. lie lett
his widow in opulent circumstances, and splendid
heritage 70 his daughter and hers. The heiresS was
uatur.lIy wcak-mndei and has since become al
most idIotic. She is now forty years Old Her mother
WAS sadnte and gave birth in the thlrd year OF her
widowhood to a son. who goes by the name OF
Carlos Laft. This individual Is good
for.nothinp speudthrift. He is his moth
ers idol. To insure him fortune
She went deerly into Bourse and other sDecuations
and completely ruined herself. When all her sub
stance was wasted she fell back on the income of
her daughter. and when that was insutficent
a+tempted TO make her out lunatic and so obtain
fine control of her fortune. As preliminary step
she locked her up in the Charenton Madhouse, but
.ool, her ont again when she found that were tina
o,rl nroyed mad she would be handed over TO
tbs Guardianship of her fathers rela'
tixes The mother was surrounded py
swindlers and sharks. They seemed to have an
oi.nt,ye afinity for her. She lived IN tue mose
soTdid manner in the Avenue fEochGt' get Getting ing
drunk every evening and teedihS herself anu nsJ
danghfer on the vilest offal OF the green grocers
and the butchers shops. -..... ,,,,,,. ~
Nile Monastero reioices in the pretty name sn OF
, les German waiting-maid, either 10 obtain
f tpe Stewardship OF her large income, or to hand
h np over for a sum of money to her fathers re,
Intors in Chin coaxed her away from the maternal
IHtG :i -. - odCtno of her own. There she pam
d dcrnd to ~ her vile lusts The German took
Mic Monasterio TO orgies in the Quarter Breda,
% itiated her into all the mysteries OF that ultra
70 aoIion of the town. She thus afforded tue
mother and Carlos pretext for Selling upon the
heIress and taking her by force to private iuhaeo
The mad doctors of whom certificates were asked
onuearrd i'm court. Some OF them were rs uiSFeputa
me- sharpers as any OF the spectators who pundered
Madame MonasterO. IL was these shady piacuuoh