New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
QUIET ROYAL CHRISTMAS
Only a Family Gathering This
Year at Sandringham.
MANY GREAT HOUSE PARTIES
Ambassadors to Great Britain
and Leading Statesmen Leave
London, for the Holidays.
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London. Dec. 24.-it Will be the quiet
es. Christmas ever known at Sandring-
ham. There will be a family party
without guests at Queen Alexandra's s
table. but with a tree for the grand
children and the usual gifts Of coal. beef
and clothing for the tenants and SER
wants
The n,lkc and Duchess Of Connaught
and their daughter, Princess Patricia,
are at sea, and the princess royal is
~intering in Egypt. There will be no
entertaining at the other royal house
holds
There will he family parties at Chats
worth. welbeck Abbey, Dalkeith,
Knowsley, Rufford Abbey, Chichel,
Maiden Bradley House, Combe Abbey,
Floors and Gordon Castle.
At other great country houses the
hunt and county balls have already be-
gun. and pheasant shooting and fox
hunting VIII continue until the time
comes for the renewal Of the politicai
eport at Westminster, where the black
thorn sh.llslah is In arm.
The Prime Minister is in Scotland, but
has not abandoned his plan for holi-
day in Switzerland before facing the sec
lions Of the composite coalition major
itv. Mr. Balfour is also likely to follow
him to Southern Europe Mr.. Lloyd
George. Mr.. Birrell. Mr.. Mckenna and
arr. Buxton are already there
Lord Lansdowne is resting at Bowood
Park, and Mr.. Austen Chamberlain is
with his father at Highbury. Winston
Churchill is spending Christmas with the
Duke of Marlborough. and Lewis Har-
court IS convalescing at Nuneham-
The restful pause has come after the
s.ress Of an embittered partisan can
rsss. Even Mr. Garvin. 'the preaching
--isr" os Unfonist politics, is under
bonds to keep peace Tomorrow
The club gossips have deserted the
corners where they have been whisper
ing that Mr.. Redmond viii hold up the
budget and upset the plans OF the minis
Try unless he he allowed to move an
amendment substituting one year for
three wears is the limit of suspension OF
The veto Of the House Of Lords. or that a
Rosebery business Cabinet recruited
from both sides is the only method OF
escape from deadlock
Ambassadors Leave London.
The German, Austrian, Spanish and
other ambassadors have gone home foI
The Christmas holidays
The American lAynba asssdor, with Mrs
Reid and Ogden Reid, is spending the
week end at Chiffon, Hungerford, with
his daughter, Mrs. Ward.
Professor Frank Granger, of the Uni
,crsitv College at Nottingham, reports
5bat tbe, ambassadors lecture has al
ready stimulated public interest in th'
Byron memorial fund. and brought II
= considerable number Of subscriptions
Among the subscribers is Lucy, Lady
Byron.
Ambassador and Mrs Bryce received
2 hearty send-off from small group o
friends at Euston to-day, on their de
r.arturc for Washington 1t is reported
that Mr. Rrye Will icsue new edition o
--The American commonwealth afte
finishing his term i'm Washington. AM
that there will be additional chapters ol
the expansion problems, the Panam
Canal, the island dependencies and tn
Monroe Doctrine. If this be true, HI
cruise around Spanish America wa
something more than a vacation journey
W. Glynne Charles Gladstone, grand
son of ". Z. Gladstone, who Joined tn
Pryces on the ship at Liverpool. wa
president of the oxford Union thre
wears ago. post invariably held by on
Of the coolest debaters at the university
The master of Hawarden is an uncom
,ro-ntsing Liberal. and after gratifying
ht. taste for diplomacy by a short teri
of service as honorary attache at tn
washington embassy he is likely TO sci
,l- down for a parliamentary career.
To Revive Oidtin1e Carols.
The revival of the oldtime carols j
,he r,rincipal feature Of the Christina
,n,,sic. Medieval Breton and Frenc
carols will be heard at st. Paufs cathe
dral nearly every day for the Christina
season of eight days, and old Ensils
HYMNS will be sung at Westminster Al
hoy Sermons may be In a minor kea
so profound is the impression produce
hv the Lancashire coliiery catastroph
and the London police murders
There was a revel Of 5ollity on IN
Stock Exchange to-day, and there Wer
children's parties, Christmas trees an
fsnernatorrapf shows at the prlncipa