The record-union., 1891-08-25
ENGLISH TOPICS.
THE PRINCE OF WALES SOJOURN.
ING AT HOMBURG.
The Seventy-Second Anniversary of
Prince Albert's Birthday to be
Celebrated at Balmoral.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1oN.


New YORK, Aug. 24.-Yates' letter to
the Tribune from London says: The
Prince Of Wales arrived at Homburg
Monday evening and took up his quarters,
not, as had been supposed, in one of the
villas attached to the Victoria Hotel, but
at the Villa Imperial in Kaiser Williams
promenade, where he resided last year.
The Prince who during twelve months
past has certainly not decreased in bulk,
is looking somewhat worn. He has
fallen into the regular Homburg rou-
tine. Before o'clock he mingles with
the visitors at Elizabeth Springs, takes a
prescribed number of glasses, and prom
enadeS with friends, among whom are to
be found Lord Harrington and the Earl
and Duke of AbercOrn. At ! 2. NJ. he
breakfasts in the veranda of the Park
Hotel and about dimes at a restaurant
attached to the Kaur House, in both
cases surrounded by large and jovial
party, among whom his voice and laugh
are tolerably prominent.
Tomorrow will be the seventy-second
anniversary of Prince Albert's birthday,
which the Queen makes it a rule to pass
at Balmoral, and in accordance with her
annual practice the gentlemen of the
household and several of the upper and
estate servants will assemble at the
Princes memorial Cairn and there drink
in silence a bumper of old Lochnagar to
his memory. This cairn is a pyramid
stone, which is the most prominent OBJ
ect on the hill above the castle. Many of
the stones are marked with initials which
represent all the members of the royal
family who were alive with Prince
Albert.
Prince Bismark has profited greatly by
the cure at klSsingen, ana now returns to
Vasein. Ho appears to be in a much
more hopeful frame of mind, and has
assured his intimate friends that if his
memoirs appear at all they will be
posthumous.
The late Duke Of Cleveland lived a
quiet, unostentatiops life, saving about
two-thirds Of his vast income every year.
He possessed estates in twelve counties,
and the wealth which he leaves behind
him is prodigious. The disposal of it
will excite the utmost interest. In 1854
he married the beautiful Lady Dalmeny
Lord Rosebery's mother, and the parties
at Cleveland House, st. James Square,
have always been very brilliant. The
Dukes great wish was to have every
thing absolutely at his own disposal. 1t
is said that he made his will last year
anew, giving instructions to his lawyer to
leave the names and sums of money
blank. He then filled them all up him
self, and having signed the will. locked it
away in his dispatch box, so that not
even the lawyer had any idea as to how
he had disposed of his fortune.
Many Radicals viii lament that topic
which has been found useful ten thou
sand of tunes, both in the House of Com
mons and in the country, is forever ex-
tinguished. The salary attached to the
office of Master of Hawks, which is
really a perpetual pension of e965 a year,
drawn by the Duke of st. Albans, has been
commuted for els, ,3S5, payable in ten years
annually. Lord Downshere's perpetual
pension of S216 year, which he enjoyed
as Constable OF Hillsborough Fort, has
been committed for 81 ,354-a remarkably
good bargain for the country, upon which
the treasury authorities may be congratu-
lated.
Sir Moreu Mackenzie is off to the
Italian lakes this week to enjoy a we'll
earned holiday, after heavy seasons
work. Sir Morell has been for several
weeks in constant attendance on the
Prince of Wales, and among other recent
interesting patients have been Henry
Irving and George Lewis.