New-York tribune., 1902-06-22

Vatican. has dwindled 10 innnlesSliIAi propoh-
tions. and is composed almost exclusively Of old
people who are beyond the pleasures and gay
eties of life, and engaged in preparing for the
hereafter.
Even the late Queen Victoria subjected
to a boycott during the early years of her reign
by that element of the old Tory aristocracy
which had hoped to place her uncle, Ernest,
Duke of Cumberland, and afterward ruler Of
Hanover upon the throne of Great Britain in
her stead backed and supported by the then
immensely powerful and influential Orange So
cety. of which the duke Grand Master II
was these Tory naIcontents who were RESPONSE
BILE for the continuous attacks upon the young
Queen and her court which filed the London
press during the first few years of her rule. and
likewise for the gross abuse and discOurtesy to
which her husband. Prince Albert. was subject
ed. But this. too. came 10 end. The Tory
arstocracy ere long saw the error of its ways.
and realizing that it had nothing to hope from
the wicked old King of Hanover became con-
spicuous by its devotion TO the young Queen
and her consort. striving for offices at court.
| and submitting 10 rules Of etiquette that in
volved a degree of subserviency without parallel
I in any previous reign
Emperor William has been several times
| threatened with having his court boycotted. On
/ the last occasion it was by the so-caIled Agra
rian or territorial aristocracy of Prussia. the
members of which believed that their interests
were endangered by his scheme of inland water
ways But the Emperor paid no attention what
soever their threats beyond ordering his
| Grand Master of the Household 10 abstain from
4 inviting court function those who had
been most conspicuous and offensive in their
| opposition 20 MS Caf1di hlI- ana ere long they
| were anxious TO make their peace al court and
| 10 consent To whatever their sovereign desired
| prompted thereto IN large measure by their
| wives and daughters. who did not in the least
| degree relish being excluded. not only from all
| court functions but from those entertainments
4 indirectly
/ Jc the court circle.
| That is why much stock need not he taken in
| the threat made by the Polish nobility in the
| eastern provinces of Prussia to boycott En-
peror William and his court And it may be
| added that the mobiles in question are extremely
| UnSra tetul- For there IS no court IN Europe,
| not even that of Vienna, where vney have been
| Indeed throughout the reign of King Frederick
| William III. Of his son. Emperor William and
| during the first hve or six years of the present
| kaiser's tenure of the throne the favor which
/ the Polish ariStOCraCy enjoyed at the hands OF
| the sovereign. and the influence which it there
Dy ACQUIRED. was so prePonderant as 20 eNclte
| I'll viii and Jealousy the part Of the statesmen
| Of the day, and of the arIStocTaCy halllng from
| the other provinces of Prussia. The late Prince
| Bismarck repeatedly, both in his writings and
| in his public utteranCes condemned in the most
| uHneaSured terms the f1VOrlJSn manifested hE
| his sovereign toward the Polish mobiles, and was
never tired OF denOuncinS the latter's intrigues
1 Emperor William realized some years ago t1dt
/ the favor which he was hesJowinS upon some
/ of the most agreeable and brilliant representa-
tives of the Polish aristoc-aCy at his court, was
| being used for political purposes to the detri-
| ment Of the interests Of his other subjects He
/ was brought 10 anprpciate the fact that by al
/ lowing the Nationalist movement of the Poles
| in the eastern portion of his dOminiOns 10 de
| veIOp he was promoting the growth Of a sort OF
/ fmperiun in imperiO. which at given moment
| might prefer TO give its allegiance 10 some other
! sovereign than himself. and. occupying as it
| does the principal point Of vantage in any war
I between Germany and Russia. might be disposed
TO sell its support 70 the of the belllSeTents
| which would be ready to offer the largest
amount IN the way OF autonomy ana ihoepend-
| enCe. That is why he cut adrift from his Polish
| friends. especially from the kosziOl kosziolskIs.
and why Polish court influence no longer plays
l role in German politics
/ of course. there is another form of boycott 70
| which the courts of the Old World sub
| iected II is ban of a far more serious char
acter, being imposed by the reign1ng houses
/ upon those of their number who by their tone
l and behavior seem destined to bring diScredit
upon the monarchical system. Thus for a num-
Der Of years past indeed ever since Queen Ma
taIie was forced by her husbands evil ways 70
quit Belgrade and to take up her residence
abroad the court OF Servia has been subjected
to the most severe kind Of Ostracism by Old
al. a,-oiS4,F Iisftine FaIerof4a although there.
are few of them who have not been at Bucharest
wear by. to stay with King Charles and Queen
EliZa beth. Moreover. King Alexander. like his
father before him. is ignored by his fellow SOW
ereigns when he travels abroad No official no.
tice is taken of his presence at Vienna when he
stays in the Austrian metropolis. While ms OF
fers 10 visit St Petersburg and other foreign
courts with his elderly COnSort. Queen Draga.
have been curtIy declined Nor could any Eu-
ropean prince OF the blood. no matter how i'm
poverished. he found who was base enough 70
willing give his daughter IN marriage 10
King Alexander who married his mothers dis
charged lady in waiting merely because he could
find no woman of royal rarh willing to become
his queen
. The court Of the TuiIarjes was likewise the
object of a extremely mortlfylnS species or
boycott by royal persOnages during the reign
! of Napoleon III For while numerous crowned
heads visited Paris guests OF the French
Emperor and Empress. they invariably left their
wives at home and came "en garCon-' The only
. execution 10 this rule the late Prince Con-
sort of Great Britain. who spent week iu the
French capital with Queen Victoria as the
guests of Napoleon and Eugene toward the end
/ of the Crimeau War Indeed. the court of ST.
James was the only one tNat treated the French
Emperor and Empress with due consideration
and courtesy: and Eugene in particular was
subjected to the most iutolerable afrontS by
other crowned heads. as. for instance. when
+ Gar Alexander ii in 1867 not only left ms VIE
/ in Germany rather than bring her on 10 Paris.
+ INT actually telegraphed from the French from
! the role Of Cirandduchess of Gerolstein In
! OfenhaCh's comic opera of that name. to sup
! With him after the performance in one of the
I great boulevard restaurants on the evening OF
his arrival. without the slightest regard for the
/ arrancements which had been made by the
+ F1mDress and her husband for his entertain
rnent Indeed the only two Continental ladies
/ of sovereign rank who cOndescended TO visit the
TriIeries during the reign of Napoleon III were
/ Oueen Sophia of the Netherlands. who was
/ separated from her husband. and Empress Char
/ IOtte when she came to Paris in 1867 TO entreat
/ the French Government not TO withdraw its
/ troops from Mexico to abandon her hus-
! band EX-ATTACHE.