The morning call., 1891-06-02
A ROYAL VISIT.
Queen Victoria to Entertain the
Kaiser.
The Youthful Queen Of Holland In State
Ceremonies.
4 New Art Museum on the Thames En-
bankment Land Donated by the
City Of London.
Epecial to THE MoRNINe Calf.

NEW YORK, June Edmund Yates
special cablegram to the Tribune from Lon
don says: 1t is no secret that the Court
would gladly dispense with the visit of the
German Emperor, which, for many reasons,
both public and private, will take place at
an exceedingly inconvenient time. The
EmperOr's tardy intimaton that the En-
press is to accompany him is particularly
unwelcome, as her presence at the royal
wedding will increase the 'tracasseries' or
annoyances which already exist The state
or official visit of the Emperor and
his wife will be limited to ten
days, during which they are to be
the guests of the Queen at Windsor
Castle and Buckingham Palace. and during
the remainder of their stay in England they
are to be incognito The Emperor has not
yet recOncled himself to his sisters con-
version to the orthodox Greek Church He
derives much consolation for his disappont-
ment over his mothers mission to Paris by
the absolute fasco of the French exhibition
in Moscow as a means Of promoting the
Franco Russian entente cordi8le. The Mos
cow papers are loud in the dsnunciation of
the undertaking and everybody concerned
in it.
Queen Wihelmina of Holland made her
first appearance in public life last week by
going through a number of functions in
Amsterdam, whcn. to thirteen-year-ol
sovereign. must be perfectly bewildering.
In the simplest white frock, with broad
oh oh ho oh all "
that one would have imagined she had hePn
doing nothing else but take part in court
ceremOnials from her cradle. The deXtrous
manner in which she found something pretty
to say to all tile nOtabiites at the State
banquet aStOnished everybody present, and
her general demeanOr bore strong RESENT
blance to that of Queen Victoria in the days
of her girhood. The Dutch Ministers were
delighted for they regarded the festivities
now over as a sort OF dress rehearsal for the
somewhat dreaded German visit, three
weeks hence.
Gladstone will probably come back in
time tn participate IN the Menipur debate.
He takes little interest in the free educa-
tion question, and it is not expected that he
will give more than a few days 10 attend
ance at the House for the rest Of the seS-
sion. The Manipur incident will not be
dealt with until next week. From careful
study of the official version Of the whole
business l fear that the case is distinctly a
bad one for the Indian Government. It
seems clear that the authorities in
Calcutta, and not QuintOn, are ultimately
responsible for the attempted seizure OF the
Senaputty, and the latter would certainly
!, 20 able to construct a very fair brief Tor his
counsel out of the Blue Book. Lord Lans-
downe could hardly be surprised if he is
sharply admonlShed for the way Iii which
the affair was conducted. There is no
ground, however, for the revived rumor that
he cohtemplates reSignng.
If the Free Education Bill contains the
provisions which are intended to secure
the church schools from the future attacks
of the Radicals, the measure will be vigOr-
ously and strenuously opposed OH the Lib
eral side. The Radicals will, | hear, accept
simple Free Education Bill. but they will
fight against anything which is intended to
tie the hands of any future Parliament The
Government wants to hedge rcund to vOlun-
tary schools, with provisions which cannot be
repealed without the concurrence of the
Lords II the corporation of London con-
scnts TO give sufficient land on the
embankment near the temple on which
to erect National Gallery for
British art which Henry Tate cCuntem-
plates founding, they will be making a
present to the nation worth at least 9100 900,
and they are not only rich enough but patr-
otic enough to do 1T and with grace. The
site is the most desirable Que which could
well be imagined. and if selected will be
one practical step in the direction Of pro-
test against transporting everything of
national and metropolitan inEcrest to the
SOuth KenSin utOn.