New-York tribune., 1889-12-24
THE WORLD OF LONDON.
cuRoNIcLED AND CRITICISED BY MR.. ED.
MUND YATES.

AND SOCIAL NOTES,
rBr CABLE TO THE TRrpuxE1
copvriqhi; 1889 By The Ne,c- York Tyfbun.
london, Dec. 23-During the Queens stay at
s-ndsor the papers have almost daily reported the
-rvsl or departure of visitors at the castle 1t is
mistake to suppose that the Queens guests have
.nv opportunity for protracted confidential com
runication with Her Majesty, except such Ministers
. have audiences. The visitors arrive at the Castle
hout O'Clock retire TO their respective rooms and
assemble in the corridors in full dress at halfpast g.
The Queen presently enters from her private apart
usnts and after bowling to the company and perhaps
spealdng FEW words TO one or two friends she goes
INTO the dining room followed by the guests. After
dinner during which the conversation. as matter
Of course is 10 the last degree vapd and commonplace
,he company return 10 the corridor, and then the
oueen speaks for few minutes to each person in
sirn and then bows to the circle rctires, after
which the party proceed 10 of the drawing
,or cards or music and the ultimately find them
selves in the smoking room. which is very comfort
able apartment. Next morning the guests leave the
Castle after breakfast and they depart without having
lain seen the Queen who takes her meal alone
in her own private rooms.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS EAR TROUBLE.
The reports about the German Emperor's health
arc exaggerated. He caught very bad cold last
week. which produced sort of gathering in one car
and made him deaf for some days. The gathering
subsded and he hears perfectly, only his cold
il sn troublesome he IS advised not to any risks,
which a shooting expedition would be to entail.
THE BUSY PRINCESS OF WALES.
When the Princess of Wales is at Sandringham her
life is very busy one. She attends good deal to the
quests and great deal to the schools, which are very
remarkable both as regards their management and
results she has established all kinds Of technical
teaching and carving school and that in which brass
metalwork is taught are extremely good She SPENDS
great part of her morning looking after them and
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to those ladies of whom she is fond. She plays
great deal and reads largely and widely and is very
well informed many subjects.
Mr.. PARNELL's VISIT TO HAwARDEN
The irritation which Mr. Gladstone is said to have
felt at Mr. Parnell's cavalier treatment Of him has
been allayed through the intervention of Mr. Arnold
Morley and the visit Hawarden is fait accomph
Mr. Parnen il is said very tired but made him.
self most agreeable and fascinated every there.
The party was only family one, however, and Mr..
Gladstone had long, serious talk with him, lasting
long into the night This visit is the first Mr. Parneii
ever paid Mr. Gladstone, for though 1t was reported
that he there few years ago he never In reality
got nearer than Chester where he spent some time and
where there seems little doubt he seen by some of
Mr. Gladstone's emissaries.
THE SILENCE IN IRELAND
The most signal proof of the success OF Mr. Bal
fours policy the almost entire silence OF the Nation
alist party during the autumn and winter Not for
many years has, during the recess, Ireland been so
free from agitation from monster meetings and violent
speeches. For three months there has not been
big meeting in Ireland and the gatherings in behalf
OF the Tenants Defence Association have been small
and spiritless.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.
Lord Randolph Churchilrs manifesto on the eight
hours question and foreign immigration has fallen
fat. IT spoken of mysterously among his friends
as likely to shake society TO its foundations but has
uff and
again" 1t has been inspired very much by Lord Dun
raven who holds advanced views on these questions,
and he is one of Lord Randolpfs closest advisers
Lord Randolph does intend TO press for commission
10 inquire into the School Board scandals. and the
Government viii gladly grant it, He will have the
entire support Of the country for the disclosures
very serious.
no DANGER OF DISSOLUTION.
For several months the Separatists have been indug
ng IN what Carlyle would have defined ~ hare
Drained iargonngs7 about their resoute determination
to force dissolution Having tardy discovered that
it no more within their power TO force dissolution
than the TO fall, they are now consong
themselves by circulating prepostcrous reports that
Lord Salisbury has decided TO precipitate general
election for which there is not shadow of founda-
ton. This Parliament will. in Lord Beaconsneld's |
phrase 10 lees and shall be surprised if there
is dissolution before July, 1893.
FRENCH SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT.
The performances of the French submarine torpedo |
boat Gymnote il they are anything like good as
reported TO be- should draw the attention of our own
Admiralty to the subject. At recent trial al Toulon
she is said 70 have been under complete control and
have travelled for distance of 1000 metres under
water. If this is true she would render most valu
able service in time OF war. not so much, perhaps
against ironclads, in cleaning a minefeld and
rendering submerged tOrpedoes innocuous.
THE CZAR's GIFT TO LORD REVELsToKE.
The Russian man-ofwar which recently visited
Plymouth conveyed from ST. Petersburg magnificent
maachite vase which is gift from the Car 10 Lord
Bevelstoke. and Is massive that IL was found
necessary to convey it by road TO Mcmillan Hall in
sections. II is probably the finest malachite Orna-
the country, although there IS splendid vase
al Windsor Castle, which the Emperor Nicholas pre-
sented to the Queen.
DEMAND FOR MR. BROwNING's POEMS.
As informed my readers last week. the first edi-
ton Of Robert Brownings new poems have all been
sOld. and the book is costing a guinea a copy. |
since then the second edition has been disposed of,
the third. TO be issued Saturday. has also been
sold, and the fourth edition is now being printed.
Lord TennysOn's volume has also. l learn. been
equally successful nearly 10000 copies having already
been sold. have not in any of the notices Of
Mr.. Browning a single aluson to his great kindness
to Walter savage Landor which was that of most
devoted during that whipcordy old lions last
years In Florence.
SIR WALTER sCoTT's DIARY.
win regard 70 the diary Of Sir Walter Scott. which
VIII shortly be published a portion of il was printed
oy LocKhsrt in his famous life Of his father law,
WHICH, after the immortal work of Boswell, enjoys
sne uls'houon Of being the best biography in the
Lngnsh language Sir Walter had written his diary
WIN great freedom and had castigated literary legal
ana political friends. both Wings and Tories with
considerable severity but Of course never intended
''cse "reminiscences and criticisms to DE published
""iie any Vi MS contemporaries survived. When Mr..
Lockhart was writing Sir Walters hiogranbv onIv +.
few years after his death. he had the whole diary
privately printed and three copies were strpc of one
Of which was given to Mr.. Morritt of Rokebv and |
another to Dean Mlman, who, with Mr. Iockbsrt |
formed committee forf fhe |