New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-09
PdRIS GOSSIP.
.nvIRAL MAXSE-THE PRINCE OF WALES
THE ORLEANlSTS.


THE ORLEANlSTS.
-,r rrouIAR coRREsroNDTNr OF Tus TRIBUNE. J
pho" PARIS, March 10.
Admiral T. Maxse of England, who has been
.ars for the past few days, and is about to make
.rr Of three months in the United States, whittier
he will sail on the 10Th, is a man OF the noblest
;deas and truer than steel, since he is too active In
mind and body ever to rust. Although he belongs
nv birth and breeding to the uppermost stratum OF
English society. and belongs TO profession IN
which anstocratic ideas prevail, he is a thorough
Radical was an intimate friend OF John Stuart
Mill aud Louis Blanc. and stands in that relation 10
Matthew Arnold, George Meredit and Clemenceau.
His sympathies however. are rs broad as ms INTEL
lectua perceptions are keen. His late brother, SIT
Henry Maxse. was as much Tory as the Admiral
is a Radical. But their brothcrly affection was
never chilled by their divergence OF political
opinion and when one died about a year and
half ago the survivor was SO deeply affected that
without indulging in metaphor l NAV say the
heavens seemed TO him to be hung in plaok'
He is now suffering from the effect on MN OF 'n0
recent illness and death of his mother, Lazy Ei'1a
beth Maxse to whom he was always deVoteu SUD-
and of whom he was the asslduous attehuah' "no"
.bo was making a long and final struggle
AGAINST the infrmities OF old age. AL nrs'
sight the dislike which Admiral Maxse e&-
presses for so many English institutions ana LOT the
.nobb,sh element in the English disposition might
lead one to suppose he held his nation in small
esteem. But he does not He believes that there
,s no country in the world in which public opinion,
when once reused, is so honest. generous and
healthy "a in England There are points in the
fox-huntlne country Squire that command his ad-
niration He is a cheerful genial fellow he
saws. "hght-hearted, frank, and honestly tries to
discharge his public and private duties"
The Prince of Wales has been great deal in the
society of his Braganza cousin and the Comte de
Paris They and the engaged Princess have been
much houized by the aristOcratic and wealthy
English folk at Cannes, as well as by the great
ladies If the Faubourg st. German who are stay
ing at Cannes The foundatian stone OF an Angli-
can church of the high y sort has been LAID by
His Royal Highness. The fund for its erection was
raised by subscription. l see that the Blshop
of Gibraltar was to the fore at the laying OF the
foundation stone This churchman used TO winter
nj Hyeres until the landlords of most OF the notes
combined to drive him thence because he drew GUS
tom from them by starting an Episcopal church OF
chanel in the one in which he boarded and lodged.
In return for this service the landlord gave him
free quarters Cannes was not at all badly of when
I was last there for places of Anglican worship.
The Prince of Wales Miss Chamberain-the pretty
American whom he so much admlred-and the Glad
stone family used 10 go TO ST. Pauls, which was
in an ancient grove of olives at some distance from
the port. -, N A.,
Neapohtan ones save the ex-King aud Queen OF
Naples the Parmesan and the Paris and Char
tresfamies. High society, OF course, is encDanted
and no member of it more than Earl Cairns, whose
great-uncle on he paternal side not only but
Ter himsel; but buffers son. his nobeman has
been cutting a dash at flower tournaments mas
Queiades and so on His ball was attended by the
Prince of Wales and the other Royal, Imperial an"
illustrlous personages now at Cannes.
The Marquis de Beauvoir and the Due de Decazes
chief henchmen TO the Comte de Paris. are married
TO cranddaughters of an itinerant dealer II spec
tacles and opera glasses who made some lucky
speculations at the Vienna Bourse The Baroness
de LGventha. daughter of this Hebrew, IS a
"Jackalr for Baron HIrsch of Ottoman railway
celebrity. Both noblemcn as we'll as a Prince
de Broge arch promoters OF the Union
General bubble and one may assume from the
grand gathering of Orleans princes, arisocrats and
putocTats at the wedding of Mile Decazes that her
father at least got out of the affair with we'll
inf