Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-02
FOREIGN NOTES.
European soelety and Politics.

Society has taken advantage of the no.
litical lull to discuss with even greater
eagerness than usual the troubled house
hold OF the Queen and of the distinguished
personages who have been dragged into
| the law courts. The recent visit of the
| Duke Of Argyll to the Queen is universal
ly associated with the strained relations
between the Marquis OF Lorne and the
/ Princess Louise. The scandal of the os-
/ tentatiOus keeping apart of the two young
| people has grown too public. When
Louise is in London the Marquis is in the
! Highlands, and when he returns
/ to the metropolis Louise flies
/ to Germany. Thus there was al
ways a minimum Of couple of hundred
/ miles between them. The Queen has
ordered the Princess to report herself at
I Windsor, and some arrangement is con-
templated under which the ill-mated pair
I will make some concession to appear
! ances by occasionally stopping under the
same roof. The Queen is meantime IN
meTcifully dashed by means Of the savage
I pen Of LabOuchere. KarOline Bauer's
memoirs continue to supply terrible ma
terials by the description they afford of
/ the family of the Queens sainted hus-
band, and Labby dOles out weekly eX-
I tracts, each worse than the other, from
/ the unedifying pictures of brutal royal
/ ties.
/ The discussion Of the Coleridge case
/ was first entirely directed to the strange
I conduct cf the presiding Judge, and at
I lacks upon him appeared to be so popular
4 that the sensational newspapers gave
I columns Of correspondence. The second
} item Of interest was the amount of money
/ which the Lord Chief Justice allowed to
I his devoted daughter, and the vulgar con-
/ trOYeFsy is still proceeding as to whether
+ her allowance was regularly paid or not
/ a good deal Of the malignant interest
with which the case is regarded is due to
tee somewhat Pecksnifiian reputation
which his unctuOus piety has given to
I Lord COleridge.
The Indignation at Justice Manisty's
action in the Lord COleridge case is in
. tense, and III general all the sympathy
that was felt during the past week for the
brother has been OveTthrOwn by the
Judges clumsy display Of partisanship.
Mr.. Adams AYERS privately that the worst
side of the case has not even been guessed
at by the public, and explains that there
was method and reason in the Justices
refusal to let him speak Of Lord Cole
ridge, and in the anxiety Of the defense to
keep Miss COlcTidge off the stand. He
says her real reasons for leaving her
fathers house were extremely discredita-
I bic TO Lord COleTidge, and he even goes
so far as 10 say that these reasons were
based On scandal of which the public
has as Yet heard nothing.
The depreciation OF land in England con-
tinues. An estate in Dev0nShire, one O.
/ tie most beautiful and fertile counties
ia ENGLAND, has been sold for GS,O0C, for
watch Els 900 was refused a few years
ago. The general average for wheat has
now fallen 10 the once unImaeinable point
of 3ls. a quarter, and IN some places it
/ has gone Gown as low as 2Ss. Cd. These
figures give great announcement to those
. who wish 10 entirely overthrow the feudal
system Of land tenure, and the alarm OF
the territOrIalists themselves is signih.
5 cantly proved by the joke in the Globe, q
- strong Tory organ. that If this depression
continues the Land Restoration League
2 which is an organization after the heart
Of Henry George. may have the land fOl
nothing IN a little while.
The Standard publishes Vienna dis
patch alleging that Mr.. James Russell
lowell has written to a friend in Vienna
, that he IS resolved to return TO America
; whether mis- resignation is accepted Oh
not. No such letter exists, and the story
T like others lately set atloGt, has no fOun
] datiOn.
I FHlisting in the army rs q privat,
l soldier has now become quite a fashion
4 able resource of impecuniOus gentility
, and in one cavalry regiment there ar,
j row no less than 20 gentlemen serving "a
troopers.