New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

| ceedingy merry house party at Sandringham.
They were enjoying themselves 10 their hearts
content and some OF their particular friends
had been invited by the Prince and Princess OF
Wales to meet them Suddenly brief and
rather peremptory summons to Osborne arrived
by wire from the Queen. They both Of them
were sincerely as sorry TO leave az the
Prince and Princess Of Wales were to let them
go. Yet they departed at once, without dream
ing for one moment OF disobeying or even de-
laying compliance with the summons OF Her
Majesty. The Queen. kind hearted and devoted
mother that she is. insists upon this unquestion-
Ing and immediate obedience from her grown
up children in England. and receives it. too, from
all the members OF her family. save perhaps
from those who still in the nursery and
whose bumps Of reverence have not yet had
time to develop.
DISOBEDIENCE PUNISHED
In the memoirs OF Bismarck published by DR..
Busch there Is reproduced letter OF the present
Kaiser, written prior to his accession to the
throne. in the course Of which he asks the great
Chancellor whether he approves of his com
manding" his brother Prince Henry, to make
certain inquiries of the late Prince Alexander Of
Battenberg William does not talk Of request
ing" his brother. but ofs"ordering'' him TO do
this-uses. in fact, the German verb "befehlen"
IT, as Crown Prince he already took upon him.
self the right of ordering his brother and his SIS
ters to do this and to do that. II may readily be
imagined that he has not become less despotic in
his dealings with them since he has become their
Emperor and King. Indeed. it is well known
that he first Of all ordered his brother Henry off
to China and then compelled the latters con-
sort-that is to say, his own sister-in-law-to I'M
Lt~-I L. Irr
young and delicate children. who have been sick
unto death since her departure. He has on at
least two occasions subjected both his brother
in-law. Prince Frederick Leopold and the lat
ter's wife to arrest for having disobeyed his
commands with regard to the management OF
their household, has repeatedly subjected TO dis
c:plnary punshments Of the same kind his
wife's brother. Duke Ernest Gunther of schles-
wig-Holstein. and not only broke on all inter
course with his sister Sophia, Crown Princess Of
the Hellenes. but actually carried his luminosity
toward her so far as to encourage and even as
sist the Sultan in his invasion Of Greece, solely
because she had abandoned the Lutheran
Church and become a convert to the Greek rite,
to which her husband and children belonged,
without having previously asked and obtained
his sanction 1t must be thoroughly understood
for he had approved of an analogous step on the
part of the German Princess who is now En-
press Of Russia But it was because she had
neglected to ask for his permission
Monerchical tyranny of this kind even ex-
tends to clothes, and every one remembers how
the widowed Duchess of Aosta was subjected by
her brother in law. King Humbert, to arrest in
her palace at Turin and to temporary forfeiture
OF the use OF the royal livery and Of other royal
prerogatives solely because she had appeared
in public on her wheel in pair Of boomers.
DIFFERENCE TO THE AUTOCRAT.
There is no royal parsonage who Is more mod
est and unassuming than the present Emperor
OF Russia And yet. nothing is more character
istic than the manner in which he treats his
relatives. and is treated in return by them. In
the ballroom at the Winter Palace or in the
foyer Of the opera he will stand alone in the
centre OF the room while his relatives, old and
young. form a circle around him. One by one
he will beckop them toward him They will ap-
proach with a low bow. He will talk to them
kindly and affectionately will perhaps lay his
hand even lovingly on their shoulders. And then,
when the conversation Is finished, he will with
a slight nod indicate that they may retire: If
they are women they will make a low courtesy.
and II men a low bow, no matter whether he
be their nephew even granddaughter, before
they resume their place in the circle. For they
never forget that, in spite of his youth and OF
the fact that they may have known him from
his cradle. he is the head of their family and
their Autocrat EX-ATTACHE
TIE KAISER AND THE CORRESPONDENTS.