The record-union., 1891-05-12
LONDON GOSSIP.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ENIPER-
OR'S STAY IN ENGLAND.
William and the Grand Duke Luxem-
bourg Bury Their PoIiti-
cal Hatchet.
Special to the REcoRp.uN1oS.

NEW YORK, May H.-Yates' letter to
the Tribune from London says: The
Princess of Wales, in consequence of the
illness of the Duchess of Fife, will not
leave town for Whitesuntide.
The Belgium rooms in Buckingham
palace are to be to a considerable extent
decorated and refurnished during the
next month, in anticipation of the visit
OF the German Emperor, who is to
occupy this suite during his stay in
London. Emperor William appears to
be desirous of acting in accordance with
the tales told on an eastern despot.
a life-size portrait Of the Emperor
Frederick was recently painted by Carl
Keinke of Berlin for the Empress Fred
erick, who intended to present it to the
Lichtenfelde school of cadets. The late
Emperor is represented in the uniform of
his dragOOn regiment, and the likeness is
most admirable. The Empress inspected
the picture before she left Berlin for Eng
land in February, and ordered that it
should be sent forthwith to the school
The command. however, was received
from Schloss that the picture must not
leave Berlin until it had been submitted
to the Emperor for approval. Several
weeks elapsed before his Majesty found
leisure to inspect ii, but when at last he
did see it he announced that the portrait
was so much TO his mind that he intended
TO keep it himself, and that the cadets
must content themselves with a replica
which he had ordered Keinke to paint for
them. The Empress Frederick is the
very last person TO appreciate this high
| handed manner of dealing with her
property.
An interview between William II. and
the Grand DF1l-a Tn<a,,,
place Thursday morning at the villa of
Loschick, where the Emperor stayed
during his visit to Bonn. Their meeting
was most cordial, and the Prince Of
Schaunborg, Liphe and his wife, assisted
at the burial of the political hatchet The
Emperor overwhelmed his guest with
attention, took him after breakfast for a
sail on the Rhine as far as Remagen. and
I then personally conducted him to the
station, discarding on this occasion his
habitual military uniform of character
lstlc cap OF the Bonn student and the
| familiar ribbon of Burschen.
1t is generally believed that he has at
last succeeded in arranging a match be-
tween his only unmarried sister, the
! Princes Margaret, and that inveterate
! bachelor hereditary, the Grand Duke of
Luxembourg, one of the richest royal par
ties in Europe.
There never was any ground for the
appeal to the country has disappeared
The result of the elections though not
constituting a serious disaster, are not
encouraging, and the younger men of the
Tory party who favored an immediate
dissolution now take more sober view.
Unless something very unexpected oc-
ours, the present Parliament will not be
prematurely sent about its business. The
spring of next year is the earliest period
that a general election need be looked
for, and the autumn of 1892 is more a
probable date
No fewer than seven portraits of the
German Emperor are now being painted
/ by three artists in Berlin.
There is great annoyance at the court of
Vienna in consequence of the failure of
the attempt TO arrange a marriage be-
tween Archduke Francis Ferdinand and
Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, grand
daughter of Emperor Francis Joseph
The Archduke declared that he found it
impossible to fall in love with the
Princess, and unless he can make mar
riage of affection he will remain single,
The Archduke is a nephew ofthe Emperor
and eldest son of Archduke Charles
Louis, and therefore ultimate heir to the
throne. He is enormously rich, having
inherited the vast fortune of the Duke of
MAIDEN.