The morning call., 1891-08-11
THE QUEEN WEARIED
Continued Festivities Of The The
English Court.
Hef Majesty Will Shortly Seek Rest in
Scotland.
Emperor William Impressed With His En-
glISh YiSit-CauSe of The Illness of
BelgumS Queen.
EpeciaI TO The MORNING CALI

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-Edmund Yates,
special cablegram to the Tribune from Lon
don says: The Queen has been unusually
busy during the last ten days. What with
preparations for the visit Of the French
feet, the entertainment of the Prince of
Naples and the arrangement of several tire
some matters of business and certain family
affairs, her Majesty is looking forward to
leaving Osborne. as the bracing air of Dee
side suits her much better at this season
than the relaxing climate of the Isle of
Wight. Empress Eugenie goes this week to
Osborne for a few days on a visit to the
Queen.
The German Emperor evidently supposes
that his recent invasion Of his grandmother's
court was one of the most important events
which have occurred in the history of En-
gland since the Norman conquest. hear
that his Majesty expressed considerable
surprise that the Queen did not command
Lord Tennyson to compose an ode of well
come to him as the first German Emperor
who has visited England Emperor William
still finds his knee troublesome He has
consequently resolved to take fortnight's
rest at hiel and dispense with the usual re-
views. As yet the symptoms are not un-
favorable, but he has been warned that
brief cessation Of activity is absolutely
necessary.
The illness of the Queen of the Belgians,
which caused so much alarm at the begin
ming of last week, seems to have been
nothing more serious than an attack of iu-
digestion OF very aggravated kind. which
had at first the appearance of apopleXy. 1t
seems, moreover, that watermelon and not
dramatic interview with ex-Empress Char
lotte, which has been described 80 graphi-
caliy. was the primary cause of the malady,
which, however, subsidized with such rapidlty
that King Leopold was able to go back 10
oStend early on Wednesday, while the
Queen proceeded to Spa next afternoon.
Owing to her Maiesty's constant desire to
dispense with all pomp and ceremony when
she became suddenly i'll, there was scarcely
a servant TO be found in the royal pavilion
and the royal dinner had been sent in from
q restaurant known as the Maison Rouge.
Princess Clementine became frightened and
the lady-in- waiting 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 melan-
cb0ly as has been represented, and the
alleged violent rencontre with her sister-in-
law Is absolutely apOcryphal. The castle
OF Bouchout, where she resides and which
she never quits, is about mile and a half
from Lacken, and she is accustomed to re-
ceiVe visits from the King and Queen
of Belgium two and three times a week
Her abode is furnished in exquisite taste,
and the widow of the Inflated Maximilian
Is now quite able to direct the domestic
affairs of her household. Her one great
pleasure is music, and she habltually break
fasts and dimes with the household and
takes walking exercise in the magnificent
park which surrounds the mansion. The
acute mania of former years has given way
TO gentle melancholy. Her Majesty is now
81 years old, and her extraordinary physical
health makes it probable that she may at
tain to great age.
Sir William Harcourt now fills the second
place on the opposition side, and has de-
cidedly established q claim to succeed Glad
stone In the leadership, the chance of Nor
ley having been utterly eXtinguished. The
most notable event on the opposition side
however, was the Radical revolt against
Lord Rosebery'S intended leadership in the
Lords, which has been kept wonderfully
quiet This unexpected move has been
quite successful, and Lord GranVile's place
IS now filled by Lord Kimberly, with whom
Radicals and Sir William Harcourt will CO.
operate with much more cGrdiality aud
thOroughneSs than they would have done
with Lord Rosebery, whose paramount and
absorbing interest in political life is to fud
himself again at the Foreign Office.
The naval maneuverS are over, and the
results, from an instructive point of view,
have been so neutral and the lessons that
have been learned of so little practical
value that it is hardly surprising to find
some of the best authorities openly ex-
pressing the opinion that the maneuvers
have in no way justified the cost of large
fleets. The Northern ana Western, as they
were called, did nothing but perform the
most commonplace evolutiOus, though
whether the Admirals Of the Admiralty are
TO blame for this is not quite evident. The
operations 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 observers
more things worth observing might have
been recorded, but Seymour's we'll known
antipathy to the press was so deferred to
by those in authority that restrictions were
imposed on the correspondents which only
one journal would allow its representatives
TO submit TO. Hence the accounts furnished
TO the public were not only meager. but one
sided.
The modest sum Of 10000 marks is asked
for the recently discovered correspondence
between the poet Goethe and Frau Won Stein.