The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10

sure hands. -It 10 curiOus.- cha romArlu.
how I. living 90 retired a tio IN my chin
ney corner. should s0mshow 10 mined
up with many Important Dncrs1a. Iaup-
poss bsoAuaa. thank Godi I kasp out 81
tracaassriea." Somstimss che had % cot
an ho~tsas Whsn thu Duks entertained
royalty. like the King and Queen of thu
Beiginns. and u appearq % have bson
sufficient for her TO meet euoh exalssd
personAgss or famous mon In the front
rank of Diplomacy 60 mako than hor
friends and assiduous cosrespondspss for
hfe.
After all this training Lord wssamor-
land. 90 he had nov hscoms. wAG SAINT
10 Bsrlin a. Mlnigesr and thsrs rp1aaiRsd
Tor nine years. In Prussia King william
~. on hin accession unsoD had promissd
. constitution 10 Tho country. bus thsFs
were many dieaculties In carrying out
this project, owing 20 the strcng Oon-
SENTATIVE instincts of the ariseocragy.
The King % Hanover writes 10 Lady
weStmorland about his 0ovsrnmontai
dinhoulttss; during her yearly Visits %
England Ghs ksops hsr husband informcd
a. 20 politics. public and private. in naas-
terry fashioa; Queen Victoria sntrsiaaa 70
her the delicate mission Of arranging q
meeting for hsr with the Princess Of
Prussia. later Tho Empress Augusta. On
the occasion of hsr flrst visie 20 Germany.
and Lady westmoriand. after consulting
King Isopold. undertakes 10 upset thu
King Of Pr,iasia's arrsngsments and
stiqustts. Baron Bun&sn. tAs PrussiAn
Minister In Londoa. inquiries q hsr On
what terms the King % Prussia and the
Prince Of Prussia. Aftsrward Emperor
William l.. were. moving hsr intimacy
with than. Hs had hsen urging ths King
In thu direction % advanced liberalism.
TO which tho Prince and most OF tho
court party were oppsssA. He thsn do
niss that he had ertRsnnf~d the idea and
inoited tho King 20 give . 001stituti0a. but
admits that the King had consultsd him
on the matter Che was great favortts)
and recounts 20 Lady Wastnorlnnd hin
decidedly slaahing reply. which sOmshSw
10 does not regard ~ sincitinG' and
upon which the lady ooE1msnta % hsr
husband: Il have no. doube he drove
thu poor King half Wild But M Ger
family did give sound advice. Judging
from his detailed stAtsment 90 Lady
Westmoriand. and shs fslt u hsr duty
10 Gin against etiqustte sufhoisntly %
inform him that he wNs entirety mistaken
In assuming that ths Princs 81 Psusxia
had bssn inflasnssd sincs his return 10
Berlin by HIS bod sntoura9s. andwas now
opposed 20 the project of xSsmssn. which he
had approved % In London: q any change
we're TO taxa place. che hsd hoard the
Prince say. thsn Bunssn's project was
far the best. whsreupon -Bunssn jumped
M. caught her hand snd-burst into
tsarsi"
Tho next year tssss) che writes % her
from London about q dsnnsr ms
Lord RrOueham's. where shs coo nsxt %
Lord ElisnborouGh and was Sa.soundsd
n hin foolish and absurd tain Aznong
OtAsr thinGs he aid he vaa sorry for the
termination % tho Oregon boundary
Question and should have bssn mnoh
more no had he continued In oGscs, for
thar al he wi1hed and hopad was 90 sssals
thse aRair not with pan and inn bue with
the gwurdl This in Q uaixsd o0mpmny
from q CAbtnss Minister hardly out %
OBJECT" n her tudicious comment.
Bmglin wna q most conMeMinl re@idMncN
70 Lord and Lady Wessmorland, Who
cared more Tor cultivaasd than Cor ~smaFS"
society. Tho King was dsvoeed % aria.
science and literature; the opera was ons
% the best IN Europe: he PrussAAm aris-
we're noe rob. 90 chat there was |
Iitsle luz,,ry. hos sasssisoezni peopiB |
Abounded. Among the insimats frisnds |
whose lsetsrs arc given were Msyerbssr !
and Mendel@sohn. Raueh the sculptor |
and Alexander Humbolds. the great |
naturalist. Anothor very dear frsend |,
snd OF her life kept Lady wessmorland |
informed - 90 evsnts and |
usntimsnts &C the Pruanimn court wa
COUNTESS Pauline NsaIe. Of Trish extraC- |
lion through her father and In her youth |
. maid Of honor 90 QUssn LSuiss of Prussia. |
With whom and the rest of the royal family |
.hs had ned % Msmel In Isos. &c tho time |
IL Napolson's invasion. when tho rsvo-
luton OF IsSs lashsd Europe tho hoetsss
lighting in Berlin was opposite the Britinh !
Embassy. The Prince Of Prussia 1aaer |
Emperor william II vas forosd 70 take |
refuge in England. starting secretly ssSs= !
Lord wsstmoFIAnd's house.
A couple OG months later Lady weue- |
mOrland had q curious cunvsrnation |
In London with BunSsn. This Amhaa- |
sadOv's extrems vtsWs were dreaded |
BY the more responsible politicians OF |
hat day. especially 20 he IVES known |
10 intrigue secretly and TO work on the |
King in . contrary sense to his public
The great difference be-
tween tho united Germany advocates /
u ists and the Dsn by whom tho Ldes |
was carried cut in 1870 was that In the |
former oass II was the extreme Demo-
cratic PARTY which wished To rule with |
! nominal constitutional head only.
In 1870. under Bismarck. the imperial
crown which Frederick William Nv.
mad refused TO accept from an extreme
Assembly was ossrsd 20
william ]. BY thu Princes Of Germany
themselves. So that tho German Empire
81 tho present day 10 totally different
hing from that contemplated by the
professors and Democrats Of isss. Lady
Wesamorland writes q description of
he fighting in Isas TO hsr sons' tutor,
dr. Hood. declaring that tho Newspaper
accounts were all wrong and that bs-
Tond doubt the whole affair was rot
ID by paid emissaries. chiefly from Franco /
md Poland. aasistsd by the ,, Nc Of Pr,ls-
ia In visw Of the questions al SAX,
throughout Europs durinR thia revoI,atie,,