Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-08
MAX O'RELL'S LETTER.

Especial Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CouR-
 All Rights Reservedl To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 LONDON, July 24.
 The last addition to our German band q say our because I have the honor to be 8 British taxpayer) was married to Princess Beatrice yesterday at Whippjngham church, Osborne. The princess and her bridegroom will not be left to each others society long enough to feel bored. Their honeymoon is not to last more than forty eight hours, which the late Prince Consort, in his dogma- tic way, asserted was long enough for such young couples to be left alone. Considering how small part love plays in most royal matings, no doubt the Prince Consort was right. At the end of forty eight hours the Queen is to lunch with the newly-married couple and from that time forth Prince Henry of Battenberg will be blessed by the pretty constant company of his royal moth er-in-law.
 The Crown Prince and Princess of Germa- ny refused to come to the wedding for two reasons. The first was that they are simply disgusted at the daughter of the Queen of England and Empress of India being mar ried to poor sub-ieutenant, the child of 8 morganatic marriage. Their other reason for not coming was that the Emperor Will liam objected to his son meeting the Grand Duke of Hesse, who is in such bad odor at the Court of Berlin.
 The gowns that have been made for the royal bride are neither very numerous nor very elaborate, but her selection is marked
 
 her Royal Highness has ordered good provi- sion of stout-soled, sensible boots and shoes, and her walking gowns are more numerous than her toilets for ceremonious occasions, one firm alone having made her eight of those tailor-made dresses which have been so much patronized of late. The most beau tiful of her evening dresses is an inspiration in mignonette, green silk of the softest and most lustrous kind, pale pink satin and opalescent beads. A dinner dress that IS sure to attract great deal of attention when it makes its appearance IS ot ruby, al | most magenta velvet, trimmed only with em- 1 broideries of red beads. There is pale | blue satin and printed silk muslin, but the | most gorgeous, though by no means the most tasteful, is royal Stuart plaid made 1T velvet to the Queens order. This may b. good for trade, but fear will be bad for the complexion No doubt this is for wearing l in Scotland to please the royal Highlanders Such a experimentation of crude reds, blues greens and yellows would look horrible among the artistic tints worn in what ii called sssociety" If ever Oscar Wilde see: that Royal Stuart plaid of the Princess o1 Battenberg he will certainly scream or faint Abject hunkeyism is already on the alert read in Bristol paper: "1t may be ac cepted as a pleasing testimonial to Brlsto | tradesmen that His Serene Hlghness Frlnc' l Henry of Battenberg has had sent direct te l the works of Messrs Fuller & Co.,, of Bris tol, from the Grand Duca1 News, Darmstadt a mail phaton, which in a few days, aftel being renovated and put together ready fol use, will be forwarded to the Royal News. | Now this is what call an interesting tit bit We shall soon hear of the bootmaker tt whom his Serene Highness has forwarded { pair of German boots to be renovated.
 The best ball of the London season wal given last Monday by the Duke and Duchess of Westminster at Grosvenor House. Th 1 host and hostess were honored by the pres | ence of the Prince and Princess of Wales l Prince and Prince Christian, Princess Louis 1 and the Marquis of Lorne, her poor for-Lorn | husband.
 1 have hitherto refrained from making an, l comment on the recent revelations of tn 1 Pall Mall Gazette, which have produced il | London the effect of 6 terrible dynamite ex ! plosion, and have sent thrill of horro 1 through the civilized world. Poor Mrs | Grundy! what bitter pills she has had t. | swallow! How she escaped choking is | mystery to me! I had almost made up m. | mind not to speak of this revolting subjec to my American readers, but now that it ha | come to be an amusing source of abuse be l tween French and English journalists
 should like to pay my little contribution t. | this controversy. The Pall Mall Gazette ha l knocked down the whole scatfold1ng wh1cl
 propped up the much boasted English moral ity. To the majority of Frenchmen an Eng lishman was pretentious and selfish crea
 ture, it is true, distributing salutary tract
 abroad, carving magnificent slices of roas
 beef and ham, singing Home, Swee
 Home," but above all a man of proverbis
 morality Alas, that it should come to this
 The reproach of immortality was heavily fel
 in France when certain plays from th
 French dramatic repertoire were excommun
 cated by the English lord-chamberlair
 Everything from Kate Greenaway's picture
 downward was jdyllic and indeed to tn
 French mind not Italy, but Eng
 land was the paradise where th
 orange blossoms bloomed. And ths
 this blue, smiling sky should be all at ono
 overcast by clouds of monstrosities an
 shameless horrors was most unexpected, Tn 1 French are astounded. The English, wh
 take delight in calling Paris the New Baby lon, know net which way to turn. "Ah! W
 are bad" they say to the French, "but nt , I
 that are exchanged between the journals c
 each side of the channel are highly amusing
 I can assure you. No doubt, there is vit enough in Paris, everybody knows; whi
 great capital is not infested by its But ) vice exists in Paris, it has at all events r
 tained a sort of cleanliness and gaiety whie [ prevents it's being repulsive. Parisian vii is not excusable for all that but it cannot } compared with London vice, dull, filthy, hi
 eous, criminal What seems to be organize l in London on huge scale under the vel , eyes of the police is in France only exec 3 tions dealt with in our Courts of Assize l Paris as bad as Londonl No, thank yo Certainly we have to complain of vice l | which we see too much in our streets, br thank God, we have not reached that pit 8 of degradation brought to light by the P |. | Mall Gazette.
 Personally, am of opinion that MT.
 l Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette,
 to be highly commended for the fearlt
 character of his writings, and I firmly e lieve that, through his palpably intense cal Il estness, some good will come out of the { l. plosion. The language used was no dou # very crude but no euphemism could ha |. l expressed such details. Besides it was I d meant for squeamish and prudish people; , was meant to strike home to the very he' le of the legislators. And 1t IS sad to reflect Is the truth of this that no greatly needed F. form was ever obtained without violeI "a | either of speech or of deed. For few ds Is there was a well founded rumor that d editor of the Pall Mall Gazette would be pr of ecuted But he boldly wrote in his pal si that if he were prosecuted, he would have, 1t order to prove the truth of all his assertio Il to divulge the names of the big persons is plicated in the affair. That the idea of pr ,e ecuting him has been abandoned, it is ne ,n less to add. So deep-rooted, however, is ,n English feeling against such disclosures t le it will be long time before the Pall N ,d Gazette recovers the high position it held " the journalistic world. That such thi is should exist is bad enough, but to exp V, them to light is still worse.
 re The recent private performances at d: Munich Court Theater, which were witnes in by nobody except the King Ludwig of Bs Is, ria, cost $150, ,00O, and it has been deci IT. that steps must be at once taken to put he end to the kings extravaganza. Indeed, ne is said to be in debt to the public treasur, ss the extent of $2, 800, GOO. This eocen ce monarch shows no disposition to leave h. building castles. Out of the seven on WI h. he has been engaged only one is 6nisl u- He patronized Wagner in the most extr I gant manner. Whenever King Ludwi n- demonstrated with for squandering no es, he invariably answers that his love for e nd building or Wagnerian operas is not ne esi so costly as queen-consort would be. ak Bavarian king is such woman -hater | I-~x1,1 INr 1a@o