The morning call., 1891-09-22
Victoria Improving in the High
lands.
Future Movements Of the English Royal
Family.
Matrimonial Engagements Denied - The
Queen Of Spain In SBitzeTland-The
German EmperOT'S New Castle.
Special TO THE MORNING CALI

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Edmund Yates
The Queen is just now in excellent health,
her Majesty having derived very great
benefit from the bracing Scotch air. o.
borne does not really su the Queen at any
period of the year, and the air of the Solent
is far too relaxing in middle summer for
pleasure. She always becomes somewhat
out of health by the time she has been in
the Isle of Wight for month. but the in
yigorating Highland air acts like a powerful
tonic and invariably sets her no again. 1t
is settled that the Queen Will not leave Bal
moral for Windsor Castle till the Goth of
November and she will as usual pass the
Christmas holidays at Osborne. II the
Queen goes to Germany next year the visit
Will take place during April, aud it Is tolera-
bly, certain that she viii go only Coblentz
and Kronberg in Darmstadt.
1t is announced that Prince George Of
Wales is about TO be- betrothei to a Russian
Grand Duchess OF marriageable age, except
ing only the Emperor's eldest daughter,
who is engaged to Grand Duke Alexander
MichalOvitch. Equally untrue is the report
Of the pending betrOthal OF Princess Vic
tOrla of Wales to Prince Christian Of Den
mark, the eldest son of the Crown Prince,
who is not vet 81.
The German Emperor's Norwegian j0gd-
schloss at ThieTbudean. in East Prussia, is
now finished and his Majesty and the Em-
press are expected there shortly for a
weeks stay, when there Will be a series of
battues in the extensive forests on the royal
domain. The house, which is of three
stories, each containing four rooms, was de-
signed by an architect Of Christianla, and
has been butt Of Norwegian material by
Norwegian workmen. 1t has high gables
and an immense YeTanda behind the house,
but concealed by shrubs There is 4 reser-
vOiT from which any or all OF the rooms can
be flooded In a moment If fire broke ont.
Prince Christian Victoria of SchleswiG-
H0lsteln, now en- route to Indil, Will on his
arrival Teiojn the First Battalion of the
,REing,s Royal Rifles as duty subaltern. He
was lately offered an appointment on the
staff Of Sir Frederick Roberts, but preferred,
as he said, to remain with his regiment
holding. as he does, that nothing is ike
sound regmeHtal training for those who,
ike himself, are desirOuS Of making soldier
ing profession.
Queen Isabella of Spain. travelling in
c0gnltO as the Countess of Toledo, spent
most of last week at Interlaken, where she
was indefatigabls in many excursions in
the neiEhborhOod in all kinds of weather.
At GIindelwald her Majesty was carried by
a regiment of porters to the upper glacier
and back, task Of no little difficulty and
burden. 1t was a tremendously hot day.
and the arrival and departure were wit
messed by the whole village, who turned out
10 see the amiable sovereign. On the next
day the Queen was taken to gorge de Laare,
Rt Aeiningen, an excursion necessarily on
foot, which seemed much to tire her. From
Interlaken shs proceeded to Geneva.
l have heard that minute of very re-
maTkable conversation which took place be-
tween the Queen, Prince Albert and Sir
Robert Peele, when that statesman resigned
in 1846, IS preserved in the private library of
Buckingham Palace, which contains
unique collection of political papers, con-
sisting Of every letter and memorandum
which has been written to or for the Queen
during her reign, and all correspondence
connected with the Ministerial changes.
1t has now been ascertained beyond the
possibility of doubt that the only survivor
among the British officers who served at
Waterloo Is LIeutenant-COlOnel William
Hewitt OF the Rife Brigade, who was born
July 2, 1875. Colonel Hewitt was already
Captain in June, 1915 aud the late Lord
He also took part in Sir James Saumaerze's
Baltic expedition, and was with the
British army, which suffered so severely
in retreat through the Netherlands
across the frozen Scheld. Until very lately
Colonel Hewitts memory was perfect, and
he entertained a vivid recollection Of mo-
mentous events in which he took art. But
during the last month his strength has sud-
denly given away. lie retired very young
from active service, and for some time past
has resided in Southampton, where his de-
cliniDg years have been aIectioDately
watched by his devoted daughter.
l wonder whether MI Lowell left any
papers to explain his sudden and mysteri-
Gus resignation of the Lord RectOrshp Of
St. Andrews University, to which he was
elected in 1888 to succeed Sir Theodore Mar
tin. The reasons which induced him to re-
sign after his election to the office were
particularly appropriate, inasmuch as he
was descended from an ancient Fifeshire
family, the Trails of Blebo, who were
ardent Jaeobitas LowelPs mother was
daughter of William Trails of Westness,
Orkney, and his great-grandmoth be-
longed TO an ancient Morse family.