Arizona republican., 1898-11-28
FOREIGN NOTES
 AND COMMENT

A considerable sensation has been
 created in court society at St. Peters
 burg by the suicide Of Count Zacharias
 Iotis Melikofr, major cf the magnifi-
 cent regiment of Cheyaliers Gardes.
 and onIy son of that Couns Loris Meli-
 l2off who was not merely premier, but
 actually dictator of Russia at the time
 of the assassination Of Alexander IT.
 It was Loris Melikoff who had per
 suaded Alexander II to concede con
 stitution' and a parliame entary form of
 government 70 Russia and he had the
 decree inaugurating these reforms
 ready for the czar's signature on the
 very day of the assassination.
 For few hours after '.he murder All
 exander III hesitated about carrying
 out the projects of his father, but fin
 ally he decided against i,, influenced
 by the fact that MeHkCHs policy had
 resulted in his fathers assassination
 and that Melikon was responsible for the murdered czar'S objectionable mar riage to Princess DoleorOuki, the moth CT Of his illegitimate children. Dictator MslikCff died q few years aH-e ward in obscurity. Ills sons suicide is due to financial ruin. his once vast forturc having been squandered at cards.
 There is much concern in govern mont circles in London, especially at court and at the foreign Cfice, owing to the announcement that Lady White, widow Of Sir William White, the stronges- British amDassadOr who has ever held office at Constantlnople since the departure of Lord StraffoId de Red
 cIiffe, known as the great Eltchee,' is about to publish life Of her husband
 Lady White has been subject to very high-handed treatment on the part of
 rN full O. resentment against the latter and againss the English government and court, tha- the book is likely to cCn+ain some unpleasant reading for Britons, all the more as she was initi- ated to most Of the state secrets pos scssod by her husband.
 Sir William. 1t may be remembered, died quite suddenly at q hotel at Der lin while on his way back from Con- stantinople to LCndon with his wife on leave Of absence.
 I.oru Salisbury, who was in office al- the time as foreign minister immedi- ately gave directions for the seizure of all Sir Williams papers, especially of his private correspondence, diaries, etc.
 Ot course there was 10 difficulty in doing this as far as these papers were concerned which Sir William had let behind him at ConstantinOple. But d. Berlin '-he intervention Of the German poAce had to be invoked, and there is no doubt that the widow was subjected to q most gross affront in having all her papers and her effects ransacked by officials Of the English embassy at Berlin, and by those of the Berlin po- lice at moment when her husbands body was lying still urburied and she was hear.-broken by his sudden death.
 The reason for this extra ordinary ac- tion on thc part Of Lord Salisbury was that Lady White is ] foreigner by birth, being the daughter of Russian moth CT and of a German father, the latter a merchant at DanZig, where Sir Will liam married her while stationed there as consul. Lord Salisbury evidently was afraid tkat she might be tempted to dispose Of her husbands papers con- taining so many state secrets to either the German or the Russian govern ment.
 If the Berlin authorities lent them selves to this seizure of the papers of tae dead anl DassadOr it was because OF analogous occasions in London the English police nave rendered similar services to the German government, 1 and l could cite half dozen instances where on the sudden death in London of Germans who happened to have in their possession correspondence affect | ing either the German government or the court of Berlin the Scotland Yard ! in conjunction with an ofTi- | ciaI of the German embassy, have tax en part in an altogether illegal seizure of the dead mans papers, turning i them ever to the German embassy.
 Lord Salisbury subsequently endeav- ored to atone for this species of out rage to which the widowed Lady White had been subjected by causing pay ment to be made to her out Of the se- ere. service fund at his disposal. But this money has long since been spent, and was any way altogether inadequate to wipe out the effects Of the ahront that Lady White had undergone.
 The book, therefore, which she is now about to publish On the subjca- of her husbands life will assuredly give little CT no consideration to the feel ings which Lord Salisbury or the Eng fish government might entertain with regard to the publication Of sta,e se- crets
 It is to be feared that Lord Duffer- ln's young cousin, Miss Blackwood, who has just become engaged to be married to the early Of Darnley, has been influenced rather by q sense cf It his rank and of his wealth thar. by any personal attractions which he may pos l sess, for the earl has achieved most lnenviabie notOriety for eccentriclty, and is 2 crank Of the worst descrip- |; jon. {
 When. some years ago, he wrote Of 1 ering his support to the Irish nation ( dist leaders, they declined on the , ground tha. the adhesion of such per I son to their platform would tend to f larm rather than to advance the cause t 1f Ireland. He has been mixed up III l several unsavory scandals, and U IS { iifficult to understand how any parents { ,an dream of giving their daughter ln I marriage 70 such man.-Marquise de I Fontenoy in Washington Post. i