The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-09
SINGING FOR ROYALTY.
Brilliant Opera Performance
for German Emperor.
HE HEARD A BULLET At EToN.
His Speech at the Guild Hall Banquet
to Be Carefully Revised.
Stronghold of Carlow-The Fallen
Statesman DisheArtened by the Blow
Progress of English Education Bill.

LONDON, July S.-The emperor and en-
press of Germany, after having breakfast
ed with Queen Victoria this morning.
drove to Frogmore and visited the royal
mausoleum. The imperial party after
wards lunched at Windsor and was driven
TO Cumberland lodge, where the silver
wedding of the Prince and Princess Chris
tian of Schleswig- -Ho!stein was being cele-
brated. After leaving Cumberland lodge,
the emperor witnessed cricket match at
Windsor. Later in the afternoon ne took
leave of the queen and went TO London.
The gala operate performance this even
ing was the nnest spectacle ever witnessed
IN London, surprising IN every way any
previous affair of the kind. The interior
OF the opera-house was iavishly decorated,
several thousand pounds being spent for
flowers alone. The audience was COM
posed Of the best-known aristocrats. The
Prince of Wales conducted the empress
and the emperor conducted the Princess of
Wales to the royal box. The Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke and
Duchess of Connaught. the Duke and
Duchess of Fife. the Marquis and March
ioness of Lorae and twenty others of the
royal family composed the rest of the
party. The programme was splendidly
carried out. Miss Eames and Nine. Al
bani received unstinted plaudIts from the
occupants of the royal boxes. 1t was after
midnight before THE Huguenots" was
begun
The lives of the German emperor and
other royalties were endangered by an in
cident which occurred at the review of the
Eton volunteers Monday, and which was
kept secret. A reporter learned the facts
tonight from persons of undoubted author
ity. The emperor at the time referred to
was watching the evolutions of the boys
with great interest, and stood chatting with
the Prince of Wales and others. directly in
front of the line. Finally, the command
of lire was given, which was followed by
an explosion from a solitary gun, while
the hammers of all the other guns simply
clicked, as was intended. 1t was ex-
planned that one boy had put in a blank
cartridge by mistake. but il is also asserted
that it was ball cartridge which the lad
had careiessly left in his gun week be-
fore. After range firing, all the officers
present FASTENED to assure the emperor
that it was only blank cartridge. The
emperor, smiling, was apparently un-
uAOtIAs O0t 0lfOAt ACtU&1Ss@S-- AoAtE ~ ID Ic-
ported that he said he was certain it was
no blank cartridge, because he heard the
whiz of the bullet distinctly.
The -Teat event for London during the
emperor's visit will be the passage to and
from buckingham palace, on Friday next,
OF the queen and party on the way to the
Guild hall. Business along the route of
the procession will be practically sus
pended, and windows overlooking the
route are letting at very high prices. The
most elaborate preparations have been
made TO decorate the streets, and it is ex-
pected that the pageant of Friday next will
excel in pomp and military and civic dis
play anything seen in this city since the
Thanksgiving ceremony in ST. Paul's over
the recovery of the Prince of Wales from
typhoid fever many years ago.
Truth says: 1t has been stipulated that
Emperor William shall write ont the
speech which he is 10 make at Guild hall
on Friday next, in reply to the address of
welcome which will be made there by the
recorder on the part of the corporation
After having written out his sppech. ac-
cording to Truth, the emperor must sub
nit it to the queen for approval. The en-
peror is only 10 use those portions of his
written speech which may have met with
the queens approval.