New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-29
TOPICS IN PARIS.
THE Ex-QUEEN OF NAPLES IN BLACk-RUS
SIAN GRAND DUKES AND RUS
SIAN LOANS.
Paris. November 10.


dark blue tailor made suit for black one trimmed
with Grape The Baroness was simply her sister
in-law, the wife Of her eldest brother Prince Louis.
Of Deux Points in Bavaria, who renounced his
ducal birthright 10 marry this lady. who capti-
waited him as she was playing on the boards OF the
Munich Theatre. Her name young girl WAS
Mendel She n Jewess. The marriage took
place when Prince Louis wss twenty-four and the
bride thirty She made baroness by King
Max the lover Of Lola Montez, who was ipdeced
TO 90 10 Munich as danseuse ny Prince Louiss
wife Henrietta Mendel had the respect OF her
race She it was who first opened the mind OF
the Empress Elizabeth TO see and feel the beauties
Of IIeine's poetic works. Her Imperial Majesty was
then a romantic young girl brought up IN
free romantic way in castle on the shore OF a
lake in the Bavarisn Highlands, learning English
from the stablelnen, and placed by her father
iovial and eccentric. but artistic. and In many
respects highly endowed person, under the guar
dianshp Of Newfoundland dog whenever she wens
out The Empress has remaThed true 10 her early
cult of Heine. 20 whom she has Just erected monu-
ment on the top OF hill in Corfu, and planted
climbing roses round il. Prince Louis had some pri-
vate property, but not much His wife had means 81
her own. They were fairly off, but far from
wealthy.
The divorce suit brought by Madame Melbas
husband against her and the Due dOreans has
been a Of deep 20 the family of that
Prince. Not that anything brought against him
is morally than the indiscretions Of some Of
his uncles, ~ his grandfather, who bore the
same title that he 1oes. The late Duchesse dor
leans had often too good reason Ia lie jealous.
know Madame Melba She has fine voice
and histriOnc talent the stage In private
Life she is hardly '5nte-estinG. lie? features
"A ~ he wi
triangular One often eyes like them at
Glasgow. Her maiden name is Mitchell, and il
one often found on rolls of Jewish congregations.
She has talent for pushing and for getting her
self advanced, with the want of severity and
hardness of head which one often finds in Scotch
women Her father was David Mitchell
an architect. who built the Town Hall Of Mel
bourne Her mother is a Scotch woman. and she
herself was brought up at a Scotch Presbyterian
school
The Russian Grand Dukes have greatly pro-
onged their stay here their hOmeward jour
ney from san Sebastian They have been TO call
at the Elysee, and received a call in return from
VI. Carnot. Both visits were long. VI. de Freycinet
and the Finance Minister have also hcc1 the
Grand Duke Vladimir, who particularly represents
the Gar. II is no secret that the Russian Govern
ment has hoped 10 find money al a low rate OF
been realized. Russia is financially in bad way.
though she never repudisted her state debts. This
generally is felt 10 be the case People may he
tempted TO risk their money when high interest -
offered 1t was imagined that the enthusiasm
which the CrOnstadt fetes called out in France
would the small capitalists 10 run and invest
their savings in the new Russian loan. But there
are no people in the world less likely in money
matters 10 he influenced By sentiment than the
I French The new Russian loan will ruin
the syndicate which took il up unless
the Russian treasury revise the terms OF issue.
Attempts have been made to throw upon the Roth
schilds the blame Of failure. They brought ont
the previous Russian loans but did not lake up this
one for two reasons. The advantages held out
were too small, and then the Gar has been dis
tinguishing himself as a Jew-baiter. NOtwth-
standing, however, his persecution of the Roth
schilds co-religiOnists, the great banking firm has
been strictly neutral. 1t has given sort of
active opposition 10 the loan. but has declined to
accept any more Russian stock four mlaIds Of
francs of which are already held in France.
The cry against the Rothschilds was cleverly got
up. Baron Alphonse, the senior member OF the
firm thought il worth his while TO call on the Min
lister Of Finance and the Foreign Minister 10 estsb
lish his innocence. This cry found an echo In
the course Of the week in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, when NJ. Laur. Boulangist, attacked VI.
Rouvier charging him with subservience 10 tie
Rothschds, and with letting him drain French
gold out of the country Though VI. Laur is a
wild and Insignificant person who had in no degree
the ear Of the Chamber the Minister thought iit
10 answer him. In doing he felt that he would
cause scales TO fall from the eyes Of the Russian
allies OF France. The sO-caed gold drainage was
a chimera. The money in the Bank OF France on
the day on which the Minister answered VI. Laur
amounted 10 two miliards, j66 millions Of francs,
Of which one mard. 81 millions. were IN gold
There were of this metal 90 millions in ingots
more than lay in the banks cellars last May.
The illness Of two Indies who have moved in
widely different spheres--the Duchesse de Mont
pensicr and Nine. Grevy-are said 10y be grave.
One suffers from n sharp bronchial attack with
fever, and the other from Inflammation OF the
lungs. The Duchess was recently with her
daughter the Comtesse dc Paris. Stowe. and is
now at Madrid. She is the younger sister OF Queen
Isabella, bnt has looked for years what she always
wanted to be-the elder. or at any rate TO have the
advantages OF prnlogeniture. Her life most
prosperous but full of disappointment OF her
seven children only two remain. One was the in
teresting Queen Mercedes, the JOY of Der heart.
Her son, Don Antonio. is not a source To her Of
either pride or pleasure The Queen Of Portugal
her granddaughter is in shaky situation, and
the Due d'Orleans is a scamp.
Madame Grcvy on the whole led dare say, hap
pier life, if happiness is 10 be gagged by the
sum total Of satisfactions of various kind which
one has experienced. Nine. Grevy WINS richer
and in a much better position as NJ. Crews wife
than she could have expected 10 be in girlhoOd.
She found much happpiness in the constant saw
ing OF money, in a round of simple housewifely
occupations, in caring for husband and
laughter and lastly ia her grandchildren. The
one cloud Oh her happiness, until the Wilson
affair drove her husband from TIE Elysee
Palace, was the idea that he and she were too old
10 see their grandchildren grow up Alice tber
daughter married too late in lfe,T she often