Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-17
SLY Willie GLADSTONE
Accused of Being in Love Scrapss
With a Lovely Woman
Even a French Blue Stocking Mem
toned In This Connection.
Awful Scandals BY a Frenchman
About the English Court.

are greatly excited over the attacks on the
private character of Mr.. Gladstone. Sir
Charles Dixie, Colonial Secretary, and
Marquis of Harrington, Secretary OF War,
made in letters sent to the Paris Novelle
Revue by Count Paul Vasai. Advance
sheets of these letters have been supplied
to a number of English papers and the
Counts letters give number of scandals
against the three gentlemen named, some
of these scandals are old, but many
of them are new. 1t Will,
perhaps, be new to most American readers
that Mr.. Gladstone is vulnerable to gossip,
especially gossip concerning women. But
Count Paul Vasali refers circumstantially
to the Premier as having been engaged IN
a not very creditable intrigue with loving
woman described as
"Laura B."
who is known to many and who IS described
in the Counts letter as woman who mas
contracted some very respectable debts In
Paris society, the only thing about her,
SAYS Vasali, which can be called respecta'
BILE
The count in that part Of his literature in
which he associates the name OF the premier
with that of Laura B declares that the
beauty named had occasion to send her por-
trait to her old admirer, and Mrs. Gladstone
who zealously watches over the whims and
fancies of her husband sent the portrait
back.
Concerning the same subject Count Paul
says, among other things: II cannot tell
YOU whether the relations of the grand old
man with Mrs. Langtry have ever really
| s,epped beyond the bounds of certain SEN
| timentalism, but | can tell you that he has
not ceased to pay his court to women de
| has
| A Passion for Billet Dom
and even from his seat in Parliament he
sends notes to one of his beautiful assist
ants which after handed to discreet messen-
gers under the eyes Of Mrs. Gladstone are
suppressed" Commenting upon rumors
about Mr.. Glsdstone's alleged relations with
| Nine NovidoH, the editor of the Novelle
Revue, which is publishing Count Vasali's
letters, declares as a friend of this lady that
the reports are false. He adds, how
ever, that he cannot affirm that
woman of such intelligence as
that possessed by Nine. Novedof is not
battered by the sentiments with which she
| inspires Mr.. Gladstone, but she denies that
she has never responded even with a shadow
of Irritation. The Count refers to Lord
Hartington's alleged long connection with
a celebrated Duchess The Count says the
Marquis does not attempt to please any
other woman. She governs him entirely
and is discreet enough to respect the. pro-
prieties Of society, which. thankful for this
concession, closes its eyes.
| Equally unscrupulous is Nasai reference
to Sir Charles Dix. An advocate for Gre
nation the court SAYS, he had his young
wife cremsted and another woman alive
makes him glow with a gentle flame. A
fair intelligent and distinguished friend Of
Sir Charles still is not as grand lady as
| the friend Of the Marquis of Harrington, but
she still keeps him away from vulgar life.
Being married she will break the ties,
which enchain her to share
a life which has conquered.
Count Vasali's style is bright and entertain
ing. He convinces his readers that he
knows what he is writing about, and he ex-
ercises remarkable talent for telling by
suggesting more than he appears to want
known. Concerning
The Court Itself,
Count Yasali says: The very air about the
royal residences is filed with envy, hatred
and malice; 93l persons attached to the
Court are in terrestrial purgatory, Those
Immediately attached to the Queen are the
greatest sufferers. Nothing can be
compared to the bondage of the
chief lady,in.waiting She must sscri:
fee her habits, her personal tastes
and even her opinions. Alas for her if she
happens to be better musician or more
skilful drsughtswoman than the Queen -
After many more observations OF this kind,
Count Paul has this to say of Her Majesty
The Queens favorite topics of conversation
are sombre lugubrious things, fearful
mala6ies, shocking deaths funerals, every.
hing belonging to the dominion OF the
horrible. Her Majesty sdores and she
dotes on blood stirring stories of murders,
executions and suicides. One of the ladies'
who at dinner one day graphically de-
scribed the sutferings and death of President
| Garfield, became at once fAvorite with
The Queep, who made the young lady her
guest for three weeks.