St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
TROUBLE AMONG THE TROOPS
Queen Victoria Deeply Stirred by
the GranaGierS, Action

the GrenaGierS' Action.
LONDON. July 26.-Queen Victoria is
said to be deeply stirred by the trouble
III the Second battalion of grenadiers.
which has resulted in the Punishment of
that fayorite body of the household
troops to Bermuda The very decora-
tions bestowed by her majety's hand
after the Egyptian campaign have been
eontemptnonSly discarded by veterans
driven to desperation through severe
and oppressive treatment Not salts
fed with the Judgment of the court
which passed sentence on the grena-
diers, the queen has called an extra
ordinary council to consider the whole
trouble, from its origin, and to ascertain
and recommend such reforms as seem
necessary in the army. This action Oh
the part of her majesty is generally
commended. although it comes rather
late after one of her finest battalions
has received a stigma that time will not
efface. The real cause of the incipient
mutiny was pointed out iD these dis
patches of July II, and her majesty
would have been aware of it long ago
had she been permitted by court Ell
quette to make herself acquainted with
affairs that every sovereign ought to
know. But, unlike the humblest of her
subjects, Queen Victoria is not allowed
to read the newspapers. A member OF
her household peruSes the daily press,
cuts out matter that is believed to be in
tereSting to the queen, and carefully
OmiiS from the selections anything that
might be unpleasant to her. The slips
intended for the queens informatian
are pinned OH silk, and thus placed be-
fore her majesty. Consequently. it is
only in the event of
A Most Serious Calamity.
such as might be matter of converse
ton among the noble ladies OF the con-
fdential attendants upon the queen,
that the sovereign has her attention
called to the actual condition of the
millions of her subjects engaged in the
struggle for daily bread. The compare
lively despotic emperor of Austria re-
ceives in person the petitions Of his
subjects; the emperor of China sone-
times converses with the elders OF a
village, and listens to the stories of the
poor. 1t is said that the Prince of Wales
is responsible for calling his royal
mothers attention to the need of re-
forms in the army, as indicated by the
outbreak of the grenadiers. and that up
to the moment OF the princes converse
ton with her, her majesty had been i'll
profound ignorance that there was any
difficulty whatever among her house
hold troops. The prince. with
some earneStnesS, so the story
goes = and the prince himself
probably told it-declared that the best
men were being driven out of the sery-
ice by the harsh discipline enforced by
martinez officers like Col. Maitland, that
the army was rapidly becoming an army
of recruits, and that some radical
changes were imperatiyely necessary il
the ancient standard of the army was
to be preserved. When the queen ven
tured to refer the prince to the duke of
Cambridge, commandments of the
forces, the prince is said to have al
luded to that aged fossil i'll terms that
were not as choice as the language OF
the court circular. White the rank and
file of the queens troops are
Forced Into Mutiny
to obtain even decent treatment from
their superior officers, the officers seem
to have plenty of time to figure in affairs
of gallantry that lead to the police dock
ct and the divorce court. Lieut.. De
pOuUlltus VI LliC OtUu NOipo az
cused Of completely in the death OF Mrs.
Marshall Hall, has been discharged by
the examining magistrate, whopermitted
the Earl of Northesk. a relative of
Deponthieu, to sit Oh the bench with
him, while other members of the nobil-
ity filled the court room. Lieut.. Engle-
heart, of the Welsh fuSileers, and In
spector Hill, of the royal Irish constab-
ulary, have been instrumental in break
ing up the home of Charles Arthur Dun
can, a barrSter and justice of the peace.
Mr.. Duncan got his divorce. The case
of Lord Dunlo, which has been some
thing of a sensation this week, is an
illustration of the decay OF the tilted
ar1stocracy. Dunlo, bu11 for an allowance
from his father, would be entirely help
less. One of Miss Billions former low
ers, Alden Carter Weston, is in Jail on
charge of forgery, and has served a
good many months in prison before.
Altogether it is an unwholeSome mess
for lord to be in. The Duke Of MARI
borough, on the other hand, is beeom-
ing thoroughly domestic under the
guidance Of his American duchess, for.
merly Mrs. Hammersley, of New York.
The historical residence of the Mari.
boroughs has been both beautified and
restored by the lady's ample purse.
The duchess is a marked fayorite with
the villagers. She interests herself III
their wants and difficulties, and is lib.
eral in charity. Runor has it that the
house of Marlborough will soon have al
heir