The record-union., 1891-08-11
Special 10 the REconp-uN1or.

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Special 10 the REcoRD-UNIoN
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-Yates' letter to
the Tribune from London says: The
Queen has been unusually busy during
the last ten days. what with preparations
for the visit of the French fleet, the enter
tainment Of the Prince of Naples and the
arrangement of several tiresome matters
of business and certain family affairs.
Her majesty is looking forward to Ieav-
ing Osborne, as the bracing air seaside
suits her much better at this season than
the relaxing climate of the Isle of Wight.
The Empress Eugene goes this week to
Osborne for a few days on visit to the
Queen.
The German Emperor evidently sup
poses that his recent invitation to his
grandmother's court was one of the most
important events which have occurred in
the history of England since the Norman
Conquest. l hear that his majesty ex-
pressed considerable surprise that the
Queen did not command Lord Tennyson
to compose an ode of welcome to him, as
he is the first German Emperor who has
visited England
Emperor William still finds his knee
troublesome. He has consequently re-
solved to take a fortnight's rest at Kiel
and dispense with the usual reviews AS
yet the symptoms are not unfavorable,
but he has been warned that brief cessa-
ton of activity is absolutely necessary
The illness of the Queen of the Bel
gians, which caused so much alarm at the
beginning of last week, seems to have
been nothing more serious than an attack
of indigestion of very aggravated kind,
which had at first the appearance
of apoplexy. 1t seems, moreover,
that a watermelon, and not the
dramatic interview with ex-Empress
Charlotte, which has been described so
graphically, was the primary cause of
the malady, which, however, subsidized
with such rapidity that King Leopold
was able to go back to Ostend early on
Wednesday, while the Queen proceeded
him to Spa the following afternoon.
Owing TO her majesty's constant desire
to dispense with all pomp and ceremony
when she becomes suddenly i'll, there was
scarcely q servant to be found in the royal
pavilion, and the royal dinner had been
sent in from a restaurant known as the
Mason Rogue. The Princess Clementine
became frightened, and the lady-in-wait-
ing also lost her head. Hence the gravity
of the kilograms.
The state of eX-Empress Charlotte of
Mexico is in reality by no means so mel
ancholy as has been represented and
alleged. The violent recontre with her
slSter-ln-law is absolutely apocryphal.
The castle of Bouchout, where she re-
sides, and which she never quits, is about
mile and half from Lacken, and she is
accustomed to receive visits from the
King and Queen two and three times
week. Her abode is furnished in ex-
quisite taste, and the widow of the i'll
tated MaXimillian is now quite able to
direct the domestic affairs of her house
hold.
Her one great pleasure is music, and
she habitually breakfasts and dimes with
the houShold and takes walking exercise
III the magnificent park which surrounds
the mansion. Her acute mania of former
years has given way to gentle melan-
choly. Her majesty is now -, and her
extraordinary physical health makes it
probable that she may attain to great
age.
Sir William Harcourt now fills second
place on the opposition side, and has de-
cidedly established his claim to succeed
Gladstone in the leadership, the chance
Of Morley having been utterly extin-
guished. The most notable event on the
opposition side, however, was the Radical
revolt against Lord Rosebery's intended
leadership i'll the Lords, which had been
kept wonderfully quiet.
This unexpected move has been quite
successful, and Lord Granville's place is
now filled by Lord Kimberly, with
whom the Radicals and Sir William
Harcourt will cooperate with much
more cordiality and thoroughness than
they would have done with Lord Rose
berry, whose paramount and absorbing
object in political life Is to find himself
again at the Foreign Office.
Tho naval manGuvers are over, and
the result, from an instructive point of
view, have been such neutral lessons that
they have been termed of little practical
value. 1t is hardly surprising to find
some of the best authorities openly ex-
pressing the opinion that the maneu-
vers have in no way justified the cost.
The large fleets of the North and West,
as they were called, did nothing but per-
form the most commonplace evolutions,
though whether the Admirals are to
blame for this is not quite evident The
operation of the red and blue squadrons
were little more lively. but even from
them no lesson has been derived that was
not known before. 1t is possible that if
there had been more independent OBJ
servers, more things worth observing
might have been recorded, but Seymour's
well known antipathy to the press was
so deferred to by authority that restric-
tions were imposed on correspondents
which only one journal would allow it's
to submit to. Hence the
accounts furnished to the public were not
only meagre, but one-sided. The modest
sum of SI50,000 is asked for the recently
discovered correspondence between the
poet Goethe and Frau Won Stein,