Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-28
THE ROYAL RACKET.
The Cause of the Quarrel Between
the Queen and the Prince.
IT WAS SOON AMICABLY SETTLED
They Unite in Sending Message of Warn
ing to the Ex-Empress.
A STRANGE COLLEGE ANACHR0NISM

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PREss.i
LONDON, Feb. ga social sensation
has been caused by reports of verbal
fracas between the Queen and Prince of
Wales at Portsmouth yesterday. Before
going to the launch the Prince of Wales
heard through the Foreign Office alarm
ing accounts of the position of
ex Empress Frederick IN Paris.
He decided TO 60 to bring
her away. believing his personal popularity
would prevent the threatened demonstra-
ton, and he wired the Queen his intention.
On arriving at the dockyard and joining the
Queens circle, grouped round the bows OF,
the Royal Arthur, the Queen was heard ac-
costing him with:
The Queen Grows Excited.
"What do you say? Turn my daughter
out of Paris? Nonsense! 1t is nonseuse!"
The Prince, in an undertone, replied that
he was so impressed with the gravity OF the
situation reported by the Minister that he
had wired his sister to leave Immediately if
she could not await him. The Queen,
visibly enraged, repeated that 1t was
impossible to believe that any insult could be
offered to her daughter in Paris. She then sat
down and excitedly played her fingers on an
electric battery to the alarm of Prof. Edgar
and the dockyard officials, who dreaded
premature launching OF the ship.
In further conversation she blamed the
Prince for the injudicious course he had taken.
and threatened to countermand his kilograms
by wiring herself. The Prince in moderate
tones protested that countermand would be
unwise, and urged his mother to send atele-
gram enforcing his advice.
The controversy ended in harmony. The
Queen. appeased talked over the matter with
the Prince, and the latter, before leaving Ports
mouth sent ciDher telegram to ex-Empress
Frederick, backing his own wishes with the
Queens.
High-Handed University Outrages.
The case of girl of II, who escaped from
the Cambridge spinning house, where she had
been sentenced to a weeks i'm prisonment, has
drawn attention to the monstrous anachron-
ism of the Cambridge and Oxford University
authorities privilege of trying and imprisonlng
women suspected of intrigues with students
The girl in question escaped from the spinning
house and raised clamor, when she was ar
rested again.
The local Liberals took up the grievance, and
proved that in a number of instances women OF
unstained character had been arrested at Will
by proctors, tried privately, no jury, no sworn
evidence and no defense being allowed, con-
victed and sent to the spinning house.
notable instance is that of woman who dlsap-
peared while out marketing. having been
hauled before the proctors and committed to
the spinning house.
Messrs. Labouchere and Fitzgerald, members
of the House of Commons have determined to
agitate the matter in Parliament The univer-
sity authorities not daring to face disclosures,
are willing to abandon the privilege, which
dates from the charter of James l.
A Justice Unfit for Duty.
As Justice Stephens persists IN his refusal to
resign, Mr.. Cobb NJ. P, is preparing state
ment tor the Lord Chancellor to show reason
u
taken is that he is unable to do
his duty. An instance occurred at tho
Guildford Assizes yesterday. On counsel
telling the witness to go slowly and await the
Judges pleasure. the Justice threatened to
commit the counsel to Jail for contempt saying
that it was the grossest insult that had been
offered him, and he began summing up the
case until he was reminded that the jury had
not heard the defense.
The persons who are moving for the release
of Mrs. Maybrick urge that the summing up of
Justice Stephens To the prejudice OF the ac-
cused was owing to his unstable mental con-
dition.