The record-union., 1891-05-19
Special to the REcorD-UxroS.


New YORK, May 1S.-Yates' letter to
the Tribune from London says: The En-
peror OF Germany, in the midst of his
wanderings, finds leisure to follow with
the keenest interest number of petty
political prosecutions. A club at Erfurt
has been indicted for attending an
atheistic lecture, to the scandal of true
believers, and one of their head priests
has been solemnly indicted for advising
the friends of sick man to remove sun
dry Imperial portraits from his room.
The defendant solemnly pleaded that he
considered the dresses worn by the EN-
press Frederick and her daughter-in-law
unduly decollete, and insisted upon
speaking in support of his contention.
Dom Pedro who has returned to his
residence at Versailles, after sojourn of
several months at Cannes, is coming to
England in the middle of June for two
months, accompanied by the Comte and
Comtesse Deu. He will reside during
his stay at Bussey Park, which the Due
de NemOurS has placed at his disposition.
Nothing has been done half so much to
allay the existing labor agitation and
general political uneasness in Brussels
as the throwing open of the Laeken Win
King and Queen moved about unattended
among the guests, and entered into con-
versation with several of the astonished
and much-gratitied visitors.
The abdication of King Charles of
Portugal may, hear, be expected at any
moment. Although not yet 80, he has
grown so unwieldly as to be almost UNI
able TO move, and he wholly lacks both
energy and peculiar tact which made Don
Luis, his father, SO popular. King Charles
deeply offended the Portuguese by what
they describe as his unseemly levity dur
ing the pompous funeral ceremonies of
his father, and they entertain the rooted
belief that the present sovereign is en-
tlrely under the influence and sway of his
relative, Queen Victoria.
Julian Story and Miss Eames are to be
married in New York in autumn. Story
proposes to take studies in New York
and paint portraits, while Miss Games is
fulfilling her operate engagement.
The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough
has shown such vitality that her recoV-
cry now seems certain. For three or four
days she was at deaths door, and nothing
but the tender care with which her four
daughters nursed her pulled her through.
For nights they sat up and divided the
nursing.
Lord Randolph Churchill arrived at
the Cape on Friday last, when the news of
his mothers illness and the daughter
IneU MIN. one was extremely ANXIOUS at
the beginning of her illness to catch him
at Madeira, and penned a telegram her
self asking him to come back, but it
reached Madeira four hours after his
steamer sailed for the Cape.
The trials of the Sims-Edison torpedo
at Havre, which have attracted so much
attention, and have indeed, been the sub
ject question in the House, have caused
that excellent authority, NJ. Weyl,
in the columns of lie Yacht, to eX-
press exactly the same opinions as have
been held by all English naval men as to
the value of the torpedoes driven and
controlled by wires or cables. They may
be of great service for defense of estuaries
or narrow channels, but are next to use
less on board ships. A point missed by
NJ. Weyl is that the the trossary move
ments of the ship i'll action would almost
certainly cause the wires to be entangled
in the screw propeller. We paid hand
some price for the Brennan torpedo; we
know all about its advantages and de-
fects, and we do not at present see any
reason to be alarmed at the Sims Edison
weapon.