New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16
A HEADSTRONG EMPEROR.
WILLIAM WANTS BOTH TO REIGN AND GOV.
ERN-THE DUKE OF AOSTA'S WEDDING.


fynoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUNE
Paris August 81.
The German Emperor has clearly inherited,
through his mother, the novel sense OF power
which Queen Victoria manifested between her ac-
cesson and the birth Of the Emperor Frederick
Her Majesty was then fussy and headlonS, ana
clearly thought that the British Nation could
not get on without her. She had 1aVorltc
Mnistcr-Lord Mcbournc-and fought with Sir
Robert Peel, who. as the Premier imposed on her
by Parliament, insisted on removing from her
household those ladies who passed for being devoted
to his rival Her sense of egotlsm suddenly De-
came gigantic under the intoxicating eject OF her
UNIQUE position Of young girl Queen. While IT
skipped her eldest daughter, who was born while
it was still strong, it was handed down TO that
daughters eldest He wants TO be person
ally in the forefront OF European politics, and
20 be in the eyes and minds of all the Emperor
who reigns and governs After visiting the
Emperor of Russia the Kings of Sweden, Den
mark and Germany he is going TO see Otho OF
Bavaria being a lunatic) the Regent, his uncle,
and then the Emperor of Austria, the King OF
Italy and the Pope. The united sQuadrons OF
Germany, England. and Spain are TO salute Hum
bert and his Imperial guest in the Bay of Naples
those of Greece, France and Russia standing
sloof
II is remarked that the German Emperor has
not vet asked his mother TO figure at the christ
ening OF his infant The godmother Is TO
be the Queen Of SaXony, and the godfather the
King Of Sweden. One Is TO hold the babe WHO
the baptismal prayers are being gone through
by the chaplain, and the other while the water
is being sprinkled on its face The Queen OF
Saxony was born a Princess Of Vasa and grand
daughter Of the Swedish Prince whom Berna-
H. 4l,- fsnp
the Coup d'Etat" made her offer Of mar
rage. She was then living at Carlsruhe with
her aunt, the Grand Duchess of Baden, and was
recommended TO the French Emperor by the Grand
Duchess Stephanie when he went to see her in
1852 at Mannheim. The Princess Caroline Vasa,
who was Lutheran, went TO Roman Cathol-
icism TO qualify for the post Of Empress of the
French But the Gar Nicholas, then all power
full in Germany, got her to change her mind, and
70 compensate her for the loss of an Imperial
crown, made up match between her and Prince
George Of Saxony-now King After Sadows,
Emperor William, then King Of Prussia only,
wanted TO do with him as he did with the King
Of Hanover and the Duke of Nassau.
The Crown Prince Frederick Of Prussia,
however, pleaded for him earnestly and
heartily and so preserved TO him his crown, which
was shorn, nevertheless, of two Of its greatest
prerogatives-its military supremacy and diplo-
matte independence King Oscar is father-in-law
of Baden Princess, whose paternal grandfather
was Vasa and at one time Crown Prince of
Sweden. 1 should imagine lady would under
stand better than an elderly gentleman how to
manage a baby when cold water is being cast on
is face-an operation to make it cry. The
baptism is to take place in the library of Freder
lick the Great.
Stoccker, the ant-Semitic Court chaplain, has
been at Oberhof, in the Duchy Of SAKE Coburg,
70 see the four elder sons of the German Emperor
They were there as guests of their great-great-
uncle, the brother Of the Prince COnsort of Eng
land. Stoecker is in high favor with the new
Emperor, who, however. has been induced by
Prince Bismarck 10 moderate his anti-JewiSh
transports.
A member Of the German Embassy here has
just told me that the reason of the quarrel be
tween the Empress Frederick and her son is that
the and her husband wanted. when the utter
break down of his health became imminent to
have the Regency vested in her. A more capable
person never lived for so high a post But
Germany is the cradle Of the Sale
law, and the Countess Waldersee set
on Prince William nov Emperor TO protest against
tic arrangement. He fought his mother with eX-
tracts hom Queen Vctoria's own utterances in
:" The Llfc Of the Prince ConSor," She glOried in
lea ing as she fancied all political work to her
husband, and hoped that tasks of the kind he
vicariOuSlv performed for her should never devOlve
on her dear daughters. Prince Bismarck usage
and public opinion with Prince William
Whenever the Chancellor went to transact business
with the Emperor Frederick he respectfully asked
20 be left alone with him. if he found the Empress
in the room. She frequently appeared On horse
back At reviews with her dau ghters after she came
throne n tr1yt IN brlr h. ri ma
the idea OF Empress-Regent. But all was in
vain And yet the greatest Prussian sovereign,
after the Great Frederick, the beautiful Queen
Louise, mother OF William She married to
kind but feeble prince and so had TO take upon
herself to govern. Russia never made such progress
as under the Czarinas. The best ruler Spain ever
had was Isabella l. And vicious as Isabella
IT, was. she was better than any of her male pre-
6ecessors since the Emperor Charles " The
Spaniards are now more quiet and well governed
than they have been within the century, and the
Queen Regent is model woman in her public
private life
believe that Italy will soon send an army corps
10 Tripoli, and that, if France resists, Germany
will join in defending her Italian ally.
The Bonapartists here take much pride in the
engagement of Prince Napoleon's only daughter to
Oh <Av>t~, tN-INih- VI Ntiih JIG .!n'to>
Mathilde alone judges the unholv pact rightly.
she being of opinion that it must end in hidden or
open kicking over the traces by the bride
She shrugs her shoulders at the sentimental cOun-
tenance and encouragement given by the Empress
Eugene to the unnatural alliance, which should
be regarded as a shame 10 the older Of the high
contracting parties and to the parents Of the
bride, who in few days viii be siSter-in-law Of
her own mother and of her uncle, the King Of Italy
She will also be the stepmother Of one set of her
first cousins and the aunt of three other SETS
namely, the Prince of Naples lhcir TO the Italian
throne, the Duke Of Braganza heir to the Portu
guesc throne, and the Duke Of Oporto, his brother
She is TO be thus auntin-law 10 the eldest daugh-
ter Of the Comte de Paris and first cousin 10 her
own children, should she have any The betrothed