The morning call., 1891-08-25
Wales at a German Watering
Place.
Queen Victoria TO Commemorate the Prince
COnSOr'S Birthday.
A Scottish Memorial BSmarCk'S
Health Improved Festivities for the
French Sailors at Portsmouth.
Specialize THE MORNING CALI

New YORK, Aug. 24-Edmund Yates
special cablegram to the Tribune from
London says: The Prince Of Wales ar
rived at Homburg on Monday evening,
and took Iup his quarters not, az has
been supposed, at one of the villas attached
TO Victoria Hotel. but at Villa Imperial in
Kaiser Friedrichs promenade, where he re-
sided last year. The Prince, who, during
tie twelve months past, has certainly not
decreased in bulk, is looking somewhat
worn, and has fallen into tine regular HON.
burg routine Before o'clock he mingles
with the visitors at Elizabeth Spring. takes
the prescribed number of glasses of the
water, and promcnades with friends. among
whom are to be found Lord Harrington
and the Duke of Abercorn. At l o'clock
in the afternoon he breakfasts in the
veranda of the Park Hotel, and about Z
o'clock in the evening he dimes at the res
taurant attached to the Kurhaus, in both
cases surrounded by a large and jovial
party, among whom his voice and laugh are
tolerably prominent.
Tomorrow will be the seyenty-second
anniversary OF Prince Albert's birthday,
which the Queen makes it a rule TO pass at
Balmoral, and in accordance with her an
nual practice the gentlemen of her house
hold and several of the upper and estate
servants will assemble at the Princes me-
mortal cairn and there drink in silence
bumpers of old "Lochnagar" to his memory.
This cirn is a pyramid of stone, which is
the most prominent object on the hill above
the castle, and all persons who pass along
- y Il Il q rOaR caal Nla ipl MaynN
OF the stones are marked with initials which
represent all the members of the royal
family who were alive with Prince Albert.
Prince Bismarck has prOfited greatly by
his sol0urn at kissingen and now returns
TO Narzln. He appears to be in n much
more hopeful frame of mind, aud has as
sured intimate friends that if his memoirs
appear at all they will be posthUmous.
rhe late Duke of Cleveland lived a quiet,
unostentatious life saving about two-thirds
of his vast income every year. He pos
seSsed estates in twelve counties. and the
wealth which he leaves behind him is pro-
digious The disposal of it will excite the
utmost interest. In 1854 he married the
beautiful Lady Dalmeny. Lord Rosebery's
mother, and the parties at the Cleveland
House, st. James square, always have
been very brilliant Indeed. The Dukes
great wish was to have everything
absolutely at his own disposal and some
years ago paid an enormous sum to Sir
Frederick Milbank and others, who were
in entail OF one of his estates, to get rid of
their contingent rights. 1t is said that he
maie his Will last year anew, giving instruc-
tons to his lawyer to leave the names and
sums OF money blank. lie then filled them
all up himself, and having signed the will,
locked II away in his dISpatch-boX, so that
not even his lawyer had any idea as to
how he had disposed of his fortune.
Many Radicals will lament that topic
which has been found useful by them ten
thousand times, both in the House of Com
mons and in the country, is forever extin-
guished. The salary attached to the Office
of the Master of the Hawks, which is really
a perpetual pension of 1865 year, drawn
by the Duke of St. Adams, has been COM
muted for elS,335 payable in annual in
Stallments for ten years. Lord Down.
shire's perpetual pension of 9216 a year,
which he enjoyed as Constable of Hills
borough Fort, has been commuted for
el354 A remarkably good bargain for the
country, upon which the Treasury author
tiles may be congratulated.
Sir Morell Mackenzie is off to the Italian
lakes this week to enjoy a well-earned holi-
day after heavy seasons work. Sir Nor
ell has been for several weeks in constant
attendance on the Prince of Wales, and
among other recent interesting patients
have been Henry Irving and George Lewis.
The Times Paris correspondent sends the
following story under reserve: Admiral
Geryais took the proposed agreement to
Cronstadt binding France and Russia mu-
tually to assist each other in event of CHI
nese rising against foreigners, each nation
further agreeing not to obstruct the others
missionaries. Admiral Gervais brought the
agreement back in modified form. 1t is
presumed that Foreign Minister Ribot de-
sired to find subject for agreement that
would not give umbrage TO the powers"