New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-17


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uneasy seems "a have been the Dukes conscience
that he wrote Mr. Spencer a second letter TO eN-
pain the motives which had made it imperative
upon him TO do this painful thing. whether MS
atteupt to reassure himself succeeded is hoI
known It is known that it did not reassure
other people, nor convince them that the Duho
had made anything but great mistake
The Queen takes sides in these disputes ih d
| ,rov of hcr own. Nothing to do with party
nolitcs is the constitutional maxim; or rather 10
take no open part in political controversies is
| snnnosed TO have been Her Majesty's practice our
ing her long reign. Nor does she now appear as au
yocate or partisan one side or the olnc'' ~
may none the less be said, If you are an hnsnSnF
man whose social or political position Warr'hVs
YOU in expecting an invitation TO WINDSOR anu
| If Won care about an invitation to Windsor, you
had better be Unonist than Home Ruler As
YOU are not an Englishman, but good hepuoii-
can Won read of course, your Court Circular moi
! n ncwspapcr O. my composing friends, ana day
hv day enlarge your mind with knowledge Oh
what goes on in the charmed circle illumlnea oy
direct rays fro1a the throne Look down, then' ING
let of cuosts ut Windsor Castle during the last
few weeks It is Unionist rollcall LORD low
ton ALWAYS a persona grata with the Queen
the Duke of Westminster, the Earl OF fl1e Wis.
count Cranbrook, Viscount Cross the Marquis "a
| Londonderry the Earl of Lathom, MI. W. H.
Smith, the Bishop of Peterborough the Marquis
of Salisbury-all these and many more, have dlheo
| -, slor+ at the Castle. or both. Her Majesty has
in fact entertained rather more freely than usual
| pu4 with the execution Of Lord Rosebery, WHO
| is sncb n favorite with the Queen that his per
sonel Qualities atone for his politics, you Will
find. think, not one Home Ruler Her MAJESTY
&c entitled to choose her own guests, ana there Is
nothing to be said. Nothing IS SAID, or hoC hiuoi
is said Nobody complains. But the 1act Is
known and noted.
| Nor have the Prince and Princess OF wales
| done much to soften the Queens hard-hear'edhcsS
| toward Home Rulers, or to make up ior her GNU
ness IA them. They went, it is true, to lhperai
bouse in Scotland when they opened the Glasgow
| Exhibition and they were, as have before IT,
lated. boycotted by the Scottish mobiles 1or gong
Irndcterred by what befel them there, they are 60
| ing next Sunday TO spend the day 40 Duru'i''
Lord Rosebery's place near EPSON 1hey an.
carly in the afternoon dine and return by special
train the same evening to London. But TO accepV
the hospitality of good Gladstonians Ike Loru
| Hamilton Of Dalzell and Lord Rosebery is one
thing: to return it, or to open their own mouse 10
| GOOD Gladstonian guests, is another. What Honic
| Rulcrs or what Gladstonian Liberals were lnVl'cu
| n Sandrincham when the Prince and Princess were
Hast staviug at their Norfolk home? Ii mighO
| not be easy to say who were. III is certain 'H"O
Lord and Lady Spencer were not WhaV in"h''
the omission marked one in their case is Une i"0'
that voung Prince Edward had not long before
boon their guest at Althorp More still; 1t was
during Lord Spenoer's Viceroyslty that the Prlhcc
and Princess of Wales visited Ireland. Loiu
Snencer received them with a magniiicencc thae
would have been thought creditable to the richest
nobleman who ever held that great ana luAufiou'
office All this seems to be forgotteh' IorsVo0.,,
also are other claims of theirs upon the goou-"i'
| Of the Heir to the Throne. LORD spencer 10 .No
last man in England to complain OF such eNs,'',
or 70 allow his friends to complain Of it. But
whether nv friends or foes. it talked OF, ana
imagine the Prince might have been astonlsheo
had no heard what was thought Of his treatment
| ~ tbose 10 whom his obligations were so heaFy'
There are cases where political antlpatmes give
wav IN a sense of what is BETTING and honorable,
| Noblesse oblige; so much the more may IL DC s'iu
royaute oblige.
Tho orest brushes at the Embassies, which tins
wear are by no means frequent, are OF course Or
canized without distinction of party. one at
Rusfem Pacha's in Bryanston Square, one at inc
Russian Embassy in Gresham Place, are all thae
can be reclSoned Madame Waddington has had
parties at the French Embassy in Albert Gate DuV
orr accomplished countrywOman steadily refuses 10
osl- moro neonle than the reception rooms OF the
Embassy will hold in comfort. That may De one
reason why no parties are more deIighUiul til"ii
hers and why her invitations are coveted Inc
German Embassy has remained closed. Inc aus
trian has been opened once for large assembly
and eundrv times TO small parties The last of them
has now been given Count ana Countess h'iloiyi
are leaving London, and NJ. WaddlnSton becomes
the senior of the diplomatic body.
There have been, Of course great many parties
: and balls but few of them have been gwen III
circumstances which call for comment. halt
} dozen in one evening is no unusual number; nor
does this include the outlying districts OF Days
water and Kensington. With some striking eA-
5 centions the social geography Of London extends
but little beyond Mayfair and Bclgravia ana 81
James's. once heard man whose social expert
ences are numerous and varied declare that he had
never dined west Of the Marble Arch lie is sixty
vca,s old and knows London from end to end, ana
is a personage in society. Perhaps on cross-eX-
onoination he would have recollected exceptions;
Init cross-cxamination is not here the custom. III
IS reserved for the law courts. There have been
certein number of small gatherings of the entirely
| one-sided kind Gladstonian or Liberal ChlohlsU
Mrs Gladstone entertdins. but not much. lherc
have been dinners at the little house IN BncKlhg
ham Gate and sometimes some Of those scahty
collections of friends after dinner which the Lon
doner, more expressive sometimes than elegant
calls tails The faithful and the faithful only
are invited on these occasions They seem 10 as
sumo a religious or semi-religious character; acts
of alteration are frequent; words OF alteration
more frequent still they poured out in streams;
clouds of incense rising with them. And this, say
his opponents or some of his opponents, is the
atmosphere in which Mr.. Gladstone lives and which
he delights to breathe. No doubt he has syco-
phants about him, and tolerates them, as great
men must, or think they must.
From Buckingham Gate to Arlington-st IS not
three minutes drive vet he who accomplishes it
mioht we'll tbinl, he had traversed half the island.