New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-04
ROYAL REVELS.


English royalty is having busy summer
Hardly has the Shah taken his departure AFTER
an elaborate series Of pageants and festlviues
before the Emperor of Germany appears upon
The scene to receive even more stately hospital
i,v at a court wearied and faded by the details
and excitement of the marriage in Buckingham
Palace The sovereign of the most powerful
military Empire in Europe, who at moment
notice can marshal 100000 soldiers on
the French and Russian frontiers. is welcomed
in England with magnificent display OF naval
power The royal yachts steaming from Ports
mouth Harbor to Cowes pass between triple
lines of ironclads and cruisers, and the Solent
at night CLEANS with thousands Of lights. ms
array of over hundred vessels OF war WIN
wards manned guns ahame and colors nylhe Is
a characteristic method of reminding Europe
that while the Continent is circle OF powerful
camps and barracks England IS deiehoeo ny
floating ramparts, and now as ever rules inc
waves. The Emperor in his recent VISITS 10
Petersburg Vienna and Rome was received
with military pomp by brother soyeleigns com
handing hordes of soldiery. At Spithead
naval review of unparalleled splendor was OF.
ganized as the most impressive exhibition OF
England's power on the high seas.
The ostentatious welcome which the En-
peror has received at Portsmouth ana osDorhe
is undoubtedly intended to efface unpleasant
memories Of recent arrangements and bicRef-
ipps The melancholy circumstances OF the Ill
starred reign of Frederick the Noble tended 10
create in England strong prejudice against
no nresant Emneror The Queen and her
inc
~ ess- mother in the painful controversies anu
the alienation Of feeling that arose between her
and her son. If the Emperor had ViAted ror's
mouth last year when he was making the rouhu
Of the continental courts, he would nave oeoh
coolly and formally received in consequence oi
his hostility to the English faction IN the perrin
Court. Time has greatly modihed, even II ~
has moi completely removed, these loya
est,anpements. Queen Victoria now welcomes
her grandson-who is an Emperor even II he be
NOT the most dutiful of sons-wlth eXtraOfd'ha'!
tokens of cordiality and affection Inc Prince
of Wales receives him with the strongest eVI-
dences of fraternal regard The Court exhausts
;tS stately functions in honoring the lllustrlons
pnest and entertaining him with banquets and
Ievels. If there be sincerity in royal professions
families. and everything that is unpleasant IN
remembiances Of the past has been resoiuvei1
put ont of sight.
The German official press promptly dicefns
in the splendid pageant of the Solent ne"
guarantee of the peace Of Europe and the estao-
iisbment Of a community of interests between
two powerful nations carrying the resources OF
civilization to the remotest quarters of the GLOBE
But the complete reconciliation Of the royal lam
lies will not be likely to have any appreclabie
effect ON the foreign policy of England; and the
pacific relations of the two empires depend upon
moe stable guarantees than the picturesque
effects of a naval review ard amabillY al
court banquet. Germany and England are
bound together by the strongest ties OF mutual
interests. and are destined TO remain at peace
without reference to the passing fesehtnlehVs
and elusive reconciations of royalties