The record-union., 1891-07-07
LONDON GOSSIP.
DISSATISFACTION CAUSED OVER
FERDINAND'S LOVE AFFAIR.
The Idea of His Marriage to Mile. Va
careSco Extremely Distaste-
full to Roumanians.
Special to the REcoRp-UNroN.

special TO the RECORD-UNI0N.
NEW YORK, July 6-Yates' letter to
the Tribune from London says: Some
absurd mistakes have been made about
the identity of Mile. Vacaresco, whom
Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, the
King of Roumania's nephew and heir, is
anxious to marry coute que co1tte. Mile
Helen Vacaresco is the daughter of the
Roumanian Minister to Rome, and has
been for three or four years the Queen of
Roumania's amanuensis, maid of honor,
literary assistant and inseparable COM
panion.
She is lively brunette, fve-and-
twenty, with strongly developed taste
for poetry and romance. She has trans
lated many of the Queens productions,
and her 'Chansons d'Amour' were
solemnly crowned by the French i'm
mortals. Though she belongs to an old
Boyard family, the idea of such a mar
riage is extremely distasteful to the
Romanians, and the heads of both parties
plainly told the King that it portends the
downfall of the dynasty.
Meanwhile Ferdinand has been dis
patched with his brother, Prince Leo
pold, to Vienna. Mile. Vacaresco has
been sent away to Rome, and Carmen
Silva" who promoted the romantic
match in consequence of a dream, it is re-
ported, is seriously i'll.
The German Empress is not going to
Isle of Wight next Monday after ALL as it
is now thought that the more bracing air
of Felix Stow will suit her better, SO she
is to reside there privately with her chill
dren until after the CoweS regatta. The
Emperor meantime is to cruise in his
yacht until the end of the month. He
will go down the channel on leaving
Portsmouth, then probably to the west
coast of Scotland, not in the Meteor, as
has been stated, but in the Hohenzollern.
The Emperor intends to visit the Firth of
Forth before he returns to Germany, in
order to make a careful inspection of the
Forth bridge.
Every influence that France can COM
mand has been brought to bear on the
Car of Russia to induce him to honor
Paris with an Imperial visit in the
autumn. 1t is believed that the Czarina
and CZarowitz will go, and that the Car
will announce his intention to Admiral
Gervais during the receptions given in
honor of the French fleet.
Mr.. Balfour had an exceedingly grace
full welcome at Windsor, Saturday. There
is no person in the country to whom the
pacification of Ireland has given more
qualification than the Queen. In COM
mon with others, and during the early
part of Balfour's government she feared
that the problem of Irish disorder would
prove too much for him, and his COM
plete success, therefore, has been all the
more gratifying. 1t is no secret that her
majesty complimented the Chief Secre-
tary on the success of his administration.
Among the new exhibits in the Kings
library in the British Museum are sew
eral specimens of early printing of the
utmost interest, but case No. 8. contains
an example of American and Austrian
printing. 1t seems that in British
North America the first printing press
was set up by stephen Daye of Cam
bridge, Mass, in 1639 and the first book
issued was a meteorological version of
psalms called the bay Psalm Book"
and later on, known as 1.-THE New Eng
land Psalm Book" printed in 1910. The
earliest stAnglo-American publication now
exhibited is the first edition of Eliot's
Indian Bible, Cambridge, l661-63. which
was also the first Bible printed in Amer
lea.
Some serious-minded members of the
House of Commons are beginning to
complain of the numberless tea and after
noon parties which are taking place
daily on the terrace. The whole place is,
they aver, abandoned to women, and the
House is, in consequence, becoming
rendezvous, which distorts and alters its
whole character. The party given on
Friday by Colonel Sandersons Burdette
Coutts to the Duchess of Teck was the
last straw, and the sight of Joseph Cham
berlain pouring out tea and giving straw
berries to three or four Ducheeses has
been more than the republican simplicity
of his former followers could bear, and
their forbearance has entirely disap-
peared. The question is to be brought
formally before the Kitchen Committee,
on whose decision the upholding of the
dignity and seriousness of the House will
depend.