New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-04

regning family unless possessed OF noble lineage
and rank He transformed those peers and peer.
esses who had objected to his precedence into
something much akin to funkeys. compelling
them to perfo rm services which many would oe-
scribe Us mental. When he went with Her MAI
esty in state semi-state to the opera or 10 the
theatre, duchcsses marQuses and earls WOULD
be compelled, not to sit in the royal box, Dut
stand behind the chairs Of the Queen and OF the
Prince throughout the entire performance and II
is hardly necessary to recall here the well-known
story of the action OF the Queen while on vise
to King Louis Philippe at the Chateau dEu'
when, although thirsty, she refused glass OK
water handed to her by a servant at the Kings
orders, and declined to receive it until rendered
to her by one Of the Kings own sons, the late
Duke Of Nemours
Prince Alberts plan, although II would not
commend itself to democratic ideas was most
polite one to Judge by the results. For in spite
Of its being subject to constitutional form or
government, there is country in the world
where royalty is treated with more profound re-
gard and receives more unstinted homage than
Great Britain-a land where the greatest mobiles
now vie with one another In their eagerness to
obtain at court offices entailng discomfort and
fatigue, well as the performance Of services
that in establishments Of lesser rank would DO
performed by mental There is no longer any
Of that 'laisser aller" which formerly prevailed.
and which is now conspicuous feature at
many Of the Continental courts. Nor are there
to be witnessed at Buckingham Palace such ex-
traordinary scenes as those which characterize
State balls at Madrid. and at the Qurinal. where.
as soon as the supper-room is open, the buffet Is
taken by storm, just as If it were the refresh
ment-bar of some railroad restaurant, and tho
| royal guests a horde Of famishad travellers.
STRICT ENGLISH ETIQUETTE.
| Indeed, thu etiquette to-day at the English
Court rivals, if it does not surpass. that Of tho
courts of Vienna and st. Petersburg and it is to
be regretted under the circumstances that when
the Emperor Of Japan resolved to organize the
Court Of Toxic on European basis he should
have applied to Emperor William for Baron Won
Mohl instead of seeking the assistance Of Queen
Victoria or the Prince Of Wales in the matter.
asking them to place some one Of their court dig
nitaries at his disposal Baron Mohl was not alto
gether successful In weaving the retainers and
dignitaries Of the Mkado Of their old habits and
manners and few who witnessed it will ever for
get the break" made by young Japanese
nobleman attached to the court, who was at the
same time an officer Of the Imperial Guard, one
day when the latter was being reviewed in the
| presence Of the Diplomatic Corps by the En-
| peror. Everything had gone well, and the troops
had marched by the saluting point in fine shape
until tho battalion commanded by the young
officer in question appeared upon the scene. he
was marching proudly past in most approved
European style arrayed in his alderman, half
French uniform, when suddenly all new-fangled
IDEAS vanished as if by enchantment from his
| brain lie remembered only that he was in the
presence of his dvnely descended ruler, to whom
! the most abject tokens Of homage were due and
dropping from his erect position into crouching
attitude his body bent and his hands resting
upon his knees, he marched or rather crawled, IN
! old japanese fashion past the saluting point
every soldier and officer behind him following
suit to the modification Of the Emperor and his
staff and to the intense and ill-conccaled amuse-
mcnt Of the Diplomatic Corps.
EX-ATTACIIE.