The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-14

has been assigned to Count Woronzow,,
naobSkoff fine minister of the Imperial
household for the purpose of detray-
ing the preliminary expenses, anu II 40
anticipated that at least $S,OOO,oOO more
will be needed to cover the outlay III lhe
entire affair. ,.,, 20
Meanwhile house rent in Moscow Is
assuming altogether phenomcnal rates,
The English embassy has win Hlucn
difficulty secured a mansion for one
month, covering the period OF the corona1
ton festivities, at the enormous [eh.ni
of $4,000 a week, and the French am
While the German ambassador has faxed
until now to find suitable acCOnmoua-
tiOns. -
The French embassy's quarters at
Moscow are expected to outstrlp those
of all other countries in spl"nd0r anu
magnificence, the government naVihs
placed at the disposal of the ambassador
the stores of the Charlottesville at Parls,
which is filled with priceless Gobeiln Ia
pestries, Seyres, porcelain, art furniture
and gold and silver plate. Some OF the
finest pictures from the National collec,
tion in the Louvre, the Luxembourg ana
at Versailles are likewise to be sent 10
Moscow to adorn the walls of the EN-
bassy, the object, presumably, being 10
afford fitting residence for the presl-
dent of the French republic in case the
constitutional difficulties which now
stand in the way of his acceptance OF tne
cars invitation can be overcome.
Eight days after the coronation iestivl-
ties the emperor and empress VIII make
n solemn entry into st. Petersburg, and
after that will undertake an Imperial
progress through the various parts OF
their dominions, visiting Nijni-Noygorod,
Kharkof and Kieff, returning to st. re
tersburg via Warsaw, this apparently
precluding any foreign tour on the part
of the car and czarina next year.
In Russia the coronation is OF 1af
greater Importance to the sovereign 1IIan
in any other European country; for,
whereas in Germany, Austria, Italy, ana
even England, it is nothing but sort OF
costly and useless survival of medlaeVal
times; in Russia the population is so SUI
perstitious and still stepped in such
depths of old-time ignorance that theg
do not regard their emperor as imbueo
with the full quota of sacred attributes
divine right and spiritual superiority un
til he has solemnly sworn the great cor
onation oath of the Muscovite czars, beer
anointed with the holy oils and invested
with the scepter, the orb, the SWORD alu
the uueer-shaped crown of Russia,s pa
iron saint and greatest car, st. Nladi'
mir.
Queen Victoria has inaugurated a new
departure in the court etiquette OF Eu
rope by giving orders for the assumptlol
of official mourning by the court OF 81
James. for Princess Julia of BattenDerg
Trivial as this may appear to American
readers, her commands have caused
regular storm throughout the various
mOnarchial countries of the old world
and have given rise to vast amount OF
acrimonious diplomatic correspondence
which Lord Salisbury, overwhelmed al
he is at the foreign office with work II
connection with the weightiest matters
regarding China, Turkey, the Balkans
etc, could well have dispensed with JUS
now.
The jist of the matter is this: Whel
the sovereign of any Nation gives Orders
for court mourning the diplomatic corp
accredited to his or her government i
compelled to go into mourning too, ever
to the extent of attiring their servant
in black liveries with black aiguillette
and mourning bands around their hats
Now, up to the present time court mourn
ing has been restricted exclusively to tn
death of royal personages. No matte
how near or how dear any nOn-royal reia
tive of sovereign may be, the latter ha
been debarred from giving public mani
festations of grief in the customary man
ner. Kings and princes married morgan
ically have never been allowed to deere
mourning-or even to don it themselves
when death has robbed them of eithe
wife or children; whereas they are com
PEELED to order mourning and wear
| themselves for the death of royal person
ages in nowise related to them, and whOr
| they had neither loved nor even known.
The official mourning ordered by Quee
| Victoria for Princess Julia of Battenber
| is the first instance of court mOurnln
| having ever been ordained for a morgan
| ic parsonage, and is all the more eXtraO
binary when it is taken into consider;
| ton that by reason of her plebian brit
she was not even considered as "hoff;
| hig''-that is, qualified for presentatio
at court on the continent.
Such people as Emperor William, tn
minor sovereigns of Germany, the king
of Denmark and Italy, are all certain
resent the notion of their ambassador
and ENJOYS in London donning offici;
| mourning for one so utterly unknow
| and of such humble origin as the morgan
| ic wife of the late Prince Alexander c
Hesse himself no more than mere Isl
rene highness," while if the diplomat
| in question abstain from complying wit
the request of Queen Victoria they rel
der themselves guilty of a fragrant piec
of discourtesy toward the court for whic
| they are accredited.
| Had the prince consort been alive, {
had the Prince of Wales been by h
mothers side at the time of Princess il
| las death, it is safe to say that til
queen, who is great stickler for OLE
| fashioned etiquette and precedent, woul
never have been guilty of so fragrant an
| disconcerting a violation of olden trad
items, especially when the fact is take
| into consideration that she scarcely kne
Princess Julia of Battenberg, having onl
seen her two or three times in her life.
She presumably acted under the inst
CATION of her son-in-law, Prince Hem
| of Battenberg, whose influence at cou
| is now paramount, and so great that eve
the ministers are compelled to take it I'M
consideration in their dealings with tt
sovereign. 1t is calculated to still furth'
irritate against him not only the peop
in England, but the various reigning fan
| lilies on the continent where he is regar
ed in the light of an upstart and parry
nu.-Marquise de Fontenoy.
TRIAL DATES SET.