The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-25
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

Those interested in archaeological exploration win
be sorry to hear that King Victor Emmanuel and his
government have decided to abandon all further at
tempts to the galleys of Tiberius from the
bottom of Lake Nem where they have lain submerged
for 1000 years. 1t may be ~ered that, after
rutless attempts to float these huge boats float
ing palaces in 1400 in 1886 in 1927 and 1895, scheme
submitted to the government for recovering the
galleys by temporarily draining the lake, which is
situated In the Alban hills. The immense expense of
this project, the injury to the villages the shores
of the lake. the fact that the boats buried in silt
and mud, and the certainty that If recovered they
will within the space of three four years be disn
tegrated and destroyed by atmospheric influences
the fate of the fragments and relics recovered by
divers in 1S95-have decided the king and government
to abandon the scheme and to determine that fur
Their attempts shall be made disturb the
galleys of Tiberius.
Lord Dudley has been quietly and kindly taken to
task by the king for having knighted the surgeon
who performed the successful operation for append
ctis upon the countess. 1t has been pointed out to
him that he ought previously to have obtained the
consent Of the sovereign. The viceroy of Ireland is
the only subject of the monarch who has the right to
confer knghthooHs, brerogative which the viceroy
of India does not enjoy, only Investing people with
the honor when specially and officially commissioned
to do by the sovereign. But ever since a former
duke Of Richmond in after-dinner drunken freak
knlghted the boots or an Inn at Limerick where he
had stopped for the night during a vcerega progress
through Ireland-the boots becoming thereby Sir
! Patrick Murphy and his wife, dshwasher Of the
establishment, becoming Lady Murphy-the crown has
always insisted on the yiceroys at Dublin obtaining
its sanction and consent before comforting knight
| hoods This, however viii not Interfere with the
validity of the honor bestowed by Lord Dudley upon
! the surgeon to whose skill he the life OF his
wife For the king, approaching the motives which
prompted the viceroy in the matter has notified his
! sanction of the honor,
Queen Marguerite is about to transfer her resi-
dence from Rome to Turin, tho ancient capital of
Piedmont, and where the members OF the house Of
Savoy always feel much more at home than ct Rome.
She is in negotiation for the acquisition of large
| and handsome palace at Turin, and viii from hence
forth spend the winters there making her chief rest
dence only paying occasional Visits to the Eternal
City Several things have contributed to cause her
to decide upon this step. In the first place, she
feels that at Turin she would be the leading parsonage
the number of the place. and would be able to
hold a court OF her own, instead Of being reduced
to subsidiary role at Rome. Then, too. the re-
lations between Marguerite and the king and queen
are very far from being cordial as they be-
tween the royal widow and her daughterin-law on
the subject OF the attors children friction with
the king about political matters. Marguerite is too
much devoted to Germany and to the triple alliance
OF which she is of the authorize relish her
sons leanings towards Russia she Is bitterly OPP
posed to the divorce to which the
stands committed and likewise disapproves OF the
numerous reforms which he has inauguraed at court
many of her friends and proteges having been dis
missed Finally, she Is a very religious woman, and
her pety has become still more pronounced since her
wdowhood She Is therefore anxious to make her
peace with the church, and appreciates that this will
be difficult long che continues to frequent at
Rome that quirina palace which is subject to the
papal ban whereas, II she abandoned the Eternal
City and took up her residence at Turin she would
give ofense to the vatican and become Just as
much honored and revered daughter of the church
as her widowed sisterinaw, Princess Clothilde Bona
parte whose castle OF Moncaliere is in the vicinity
| Turin.