The morning call., 1892-04-19
RELATING TO ROYALTY.
Queen VietOria's EiSit to the German
Court.
TIE KiISER'S CONTEMPLATED TRIP.
Pressure Brought against His Political Pelicy.
aatth-HakiHg in the Netherlands.
Battenberg's Difficulties.
EpeciaI TO THE MORNING CALL

New YORK. April 1S-Edmund Yates
cablegram to the Tribune from London
says: The Queens visit to Darmstadt is to
lie strictly private. Peremptory orders
have been issued prohibiting court functions
and military display. The Queen will visit
Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg at
Scbloss Heilen5erg. near Jagenheim, and
tue Count and Countess of Erbach at
Schloss Schonberg in the same neighbor-
hood. During the visit she will GO to the
mausoleum at Rosenhope. where the late
Grand Duke and Princess Alice are buried.
The Queens visit to Dlrmstadt will prob
ably lead TO 4 reconciliation between her
and Prince Alexander of Batten berg, who
has been in deep disgrace since his mor-
ganatic marriage.
The Prince has been placed in comfortable
circumstances by an arrangement which he
has concluded with the Bulgarian Govern
ment, under which he has life pen
sion of $4,000 a year. When the
Prince left Bulgaria in 1856 it was
agreed that he should receive GlO0, coo
aud that the Government should purchase
his estate. palace, furnt ure, plate and gen.
eral paraphernalia. Out of the elOO, 600, he
owed $4,000. With the remainder he has
undertaken TO provide for his youngest
brother, Francis Joseph. Prince Alexander
OF Hesse lett his second son &1J,O00, but 210-
0Q0 Will only come to him Gil the death of
his mother, the Princess of Battenberg.
Prince Alexander had been urging his
claims on the Government at Belgrade for
nearly five years.
The Kaiser's Visit.
Emperor William intends to pay a strictly
private visit to England at the end of July,
coming in his yacht Hohenzollern direct to
C0wes and staying there for the regatta
week. The Emperor Will probably arrive
at Cowes July 30 he will remain at the
Solent for a week, living on board his
yacht There Will be no festivities
or functions of any kind The En-
peror will dine at Osborne with
the Queen two or three times during her
stay, and VIII probably visit ,t the Duke of
Connaught at Portsmouth. There Is no
foundation whatever for the report that
he will visit some Of the large
centers OF commerce. He will not
even come TO London, but will
possibly proceed down the channe :as far.as
Davenport iu order to visit the Duke of
Edinburgh. The Emperor's yacht Meteor
has arrived at Gossport from Kiel. after a
rough passage, ana will be thoroughly over
nauled and rented during the next two
weeks.
1T is said that the King of Saxony. the
Grand Duke Of Baden. Duke of SAKE Coburg
Gotha and other German sovereign
princes have sent joint protest to
policy, more particularly against the
education bill. and this practically
means that there will be an end of Prus-
sian dictati0n ia the Federal Council, which,
In Prince Bismarck's days, voted precisely
as he wished. This revival Of particular
ism in Germany will be another and very
severe blow TO the EmpeTOrs fast-waning
prestige. The only German sovereign who
has supported the Emperor lately is the
King of Wurtemburg, who has private
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favor at Berlin, but his opinion carries no
weight when opposed by the King of Sax
oly and by the Grand Duke of Baden and
the Duke of Saxe-Cobnrg Gotha. The
last of these persoDages, who Is the Dean of
the German Prince. has not visited Berlin
since Bismarck's retirement
ROYAL Match Making.
1t is now definitely settled that the return
visit of the Queen Regent of the Neither
lands aud her daughter to the court Of Ber-
lin is to take place toward the end of next
month, when they Will be entertained at
PotsdaKs by the Emperor and Empress with
al imaginable spleDdOr. 1t is said at Berlin
that the great wish OF the German court is
to arrange marriage between the Queen
OF the Netherlands and Prince Frederick of
Prussia, the eldest son Of Prince Al0recht,
Regent Of Bruins wick, who WAS born in 1874
aud has Dutch blood in his veins. His
grandmother was the wealthy and cele-
brated Princess Marianne Of the Neither
IduNSs WIZ ndo aunt 10 lUo ldLe
King William. Prince Albrecht is one
OF The richest members of the Hohenzollern
family. He inherited the largest estates in
Holland, and the palace at the Hague from
his mother He aud his family usually pass
couple of months every summer at Sche-
veniDgen. The Queen regent gladly post
poned her visit TO the German court,
as Queen WilhelmiEa is deli
cate, nervous and exetable child. State
functions and cerem0nlals are not good for
her, and it is therefore desired to keep her
from them as much as possible for several
years to come. Failing the young Queen,
the throne of Holland would pass to her
aunt, the Grand Duchess Of SaXe-W aimar-
Eisenach, who is well provided with male
heirs.
The Russian Government has closed tue
factory established about year ago near
st. Petersburg for the manufacturing of
smokeless powder, which was made there by
French experts according to the latest French
system. Tie experiment turned cut COM
plete failure, as the powder was declared in
ferior 10 that previously manufactured after
an earlier receipt. The Government has
now contracted with the Schluss elsberg
Powder Company, whose factory is 20 miles
from st. Petersburg, for supply of 3O,oO0,-
coo pounds of smokeless powder, which
will cost 48,C00,000 roubles. This sum will
make a grieyous item for next years
budget.