The record-union., 1891-03-17
The Queen Preparing for a Trip
Across the Channel.
PARNELLS COURSE CRITICISED BY
HEALEY. +e
One Hundred Dervishes Killed by an
Explosion at an Arsenal in Egypt
The Canadian Government Greatly
Alarmed Over the Feeling Among
the People Regarding Annexation.

Special to the REcoRD-DNIoHs
New YORK, March Is. "a Yates Lon
don cable to the Tifb,tae says: The
Queen is to leave Windsor Monday after
noon for the Portsmouth dock yard,
where she will embark on board the Vic
toria and Albert to cross the channel, on
her way to Grasse. The Queens retinue
at Grasse will consist of about forty per-
sons, and it will require dexterous man.
agement to find accommodation for the
whole royal party at the Grand Hotel.
Although it is very large building,
special arrangements have been made for
the pampered Indian domestics the Queen
insists on carrying about with her. The
Queens own apartments are to be on the
first floor, and bedroom and dining
room which face the north are being fres-
coed. Her Majesty's sitting room is
very spacious, and the windows COM
mand grand view. 1t is being filled
with furniture sent from Windsor, and
the Queens bed comes also from the
CASTLE
There is work-room for Sir Henry
Ponsonby on the same floor, and bed
rooms and sitting-rooms for ladies in
waiting.
Ine queen lnree carriages, nef pony
chaise and her bath-chair have already
arrived at Grasse from England as well
as about two hundred trunks of various
sizes.
The public has heard great deal too
much of the clerical and political dis
putes which have gone on for a week in
poor Prince Napoleon's sick-room. As a
matter of fact, it is not of the smallest i'm
portance whether the dying Prince does
or does not become reconciled to his elder
son. 1t is quite certain that he has
formally made q younger brother, Prince
Louis, his political heir, placing him un-
der the friendly tutelage of Prince Roland
Bonaparte, who unites much practical
wisdom to scientific attainments of re-
cluse OF Westborne Park. Prince Roland
Is. in addition, enormously rich.
1t is curious coincident that the ulti-
mate fate of the Bonapartes will greatly
depend on the sagacity shown by the
husband of Mime. Marie Blanc and the son
of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who killed
Victor Nouire, and was long regarded as
the black sheep in the family.
The statement is true that by an ar
rangement between the respective law
yers in the case of William Gordon Cum
mings against Taylor and others. is to be
tried before Whitesuntide. 1t is possible
that the suit may be adjudicated on with
out any decision on the intrinsic merits
of the case. The defense fakes its stand
on two pleas, the absence of publica-
ton of slander on the part of defendants
and justification.
1t will devolve on counsel for plaintiff
to prove the publication before the ques-
ton of the merits of the case can be gone
into. The preliminary issue will be a
question rather of law than of fact, and as
such the decision on it will be with the
Judge and not with a jury. If the
plaintiff does not prove the publication
to the satisfaction of the Judge the suit
will fail ia tineiae, to the extreme detri-
ment of Sir VIM. Gordon Cummings,
and to the warm satisfaction of the par
ties who, if the justification stage be
reached, will have to go into the Witness
box.