The record-union., 1899-03-05
Much Indignation Among the People
Throughout England
Over ScandaIous Attacks Of Paris Journals
Upon Great Britain's Queen.
Hints Thrown Out That Her Com
ing Visit to France May Result
in Trouble-The Journey Said
to be Full of the Same Risks as
the Battleship Maine Incurred
in Entering Cuban Waters.

LONDON, March 4.-Influenza has
reached an epidemic form in London
being responsible for one in eighteen
roeaths during the past week, when the
deaths from the disease reached total
Of lib. But the increase was accom-
panied by the least number of deaths
from pulmonary affections recorded
during the present winter
The cheering announcement comes
from Berlin that Professor Wasserman
one of Professor Koch's ablest pupils
believes he has discovered serum for
the cure of pneumonia. Experiments
with animals have been successful and
he is now operating upon human beings
The weather has been bright and cold
The two drawing-rooms this week
brought the people to town.
The Duchess of Buccleugh presented
Miss Aston, who wore a white toilette,
with silver embroidery and a satin
train bordered with single pearls. She
carried a bouquet of white lilies.
The United States ambassador,
Joseph H. Choate, is still staying at
Claridge's Hotel and is busy house
hunting. He has accepted an invitation
to attend the annual dinner of the AS
ISOLATED Chambers of Commerce on
March 10Th. The other guests will in
clude the Lord High Chancellor, Earl
Halsbury; the Lord Chief Justice,
Baron Russell of Killowen; Rear Ad-
mira1 Lord Charles Beresford, and the
President OF the Board of Trade, G. T
Richie.
The arrangements for Queen Vic
toria's departure for the Riviera next
Thursday have been completed. He1
majesty will travel to the south OF
France by way of Boulogne-sur-M er
instead of via Cherbourg, being the first
time she will have visited Boulogne
since the Crimean war.
Some interest is taken in the fact that
the Queens yacht will be conveyed by
eight of the fastest torpedo boat de-
stroyers in the British navy, five Of
them being thirty-knot boats. Cruisers
have previously been employed for this
duty and the use of the destroyers, it is
limited in some of the papers, is intend
ed to set off the French papers talk
about submarine torpedo boats.
There is much Indignation in England
at the scandalous and coarse attacks
the newspapers of Paris this week. The
"Libre Parole in an insulting article
said:
Frankly, the Queen will be well adj
vised if she does not come to France
this spring The constitutional fiction
that it was Lord Salisbury and not the
Queen who inflicted the outrage of Fa-
shoda and the humiliation of Muscat on
France will not suffice. 1t is we'll known
that the Queen has directed England $
policy throughout her long reign, and
She has never missed an opportunity
OF displaying her antipathy for France.
Under the circumstances, therefore, her
visit is an additional insult and defiance
of public opinion. After this warming
it will only be her own fault if she
meets with a hostile reception in
France"
M. Cassaignacs "Autorite" says:
1.-THE Queen becomes our guest at a
moment when the British Government
has made itself more than ever our en-
emy. Her journey will be full of the
same risks as the Maine incurred in en-
tering Cuban waters, and the French
Government is committing the same
foolish act as Senior Sagasta by not pre-
venting France from being placed in
such position that the smallest acct
dent might percipitate both Powers
into a. terrible conflict.
After such insinuations as the fore
going it seems possible that the Queen S
visit to France will not pass without
some chauvinist incident. A special po-
lice staff has left Paris to watch over
her majesty at Cimiez, where her heavy
baggage is already arriving. Queen Vic
toria pays $4,000 monthly for her own
rooms, without counting the expense of
her suite, numbering sixty persons. Al
together her little trip will cost her
about 5000. Her chaise, favorite
white donkey and numbers of pet dogs
and birds have been sent ahead.
Her majesty also has curious whim
about sleeping in her own bed, which
is taken with her wherever she goes.
The Prince of Wales went to Paris
this week and visited the exposition
grounds He proceeds to Cannes on
Sunday. The Princes wonderful scheme
known as the League of Mercy, in con-
nection with a new order, has been es-
tablished for those who collect and pro-
mote the collection OF subscriptions for
the Prince of Wales hospital fund, five
years. work being required for admis-
sion to the order is severely criticised
in several quarters. The Daily News
thinks the Prince has not been fortu-
nately advised in committing himself
and in securing the sanction of the
Queen to such a scheme. The paper
calls it an Organization of snobocracy
by the aristocracy which is repugnant
to the idea of charity and not calculated
to add to the dignity of the throne"
The annual report upon recruiting for
the army shows slight increase in the
physical development of the recruits;
but 30 per cent have still been rejected
owing to unsatisfactory physique. The
surprising announcement is made that
Is per 1000 are utterly illiterate, and
that 40 per LOCO are described as we'll
There has been a revival of the SEN
sation caused few weeks ago by the
alleged disappearance of Prince Lud-
wig Won Lowenstein- Werheim, who
married Anne Seville, a daughter of the
Earl of Marlborough He moved a good
deal in English society and then dis
appeared mysteriously.. An advertise