The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-03
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and navy officers. all Of them, OF birth.
OIL breeding. and OF unexceptionablo
anlecedents, since upon their fidelity
fate OF nations. while the Temptations
OF untold wealth dog their every stcp
TO swerye them from the line OF duty.
number OF abuses In connection with
these Courlers de Cabinet, on the con-
.lnent. and with the English Kings
known. during the reign of Queen
Victoria. messengers to convey IN seal
ca bags supposed 70 contain dispatches
hassador at Vienna; hats and honnets
from England and from Paris. for the
sorts OF English khlck-knacks from
London, for the late IMPRESS Frederick
at Berlin; and even on one occasion
me bag. OF dispatches destined for the
embassy al Vienna contained small
tcrs.
FOR many Years. moreover. It was the
san ga every week on their way back to
England at Brussels. where they re-
csived from the court kitchen a box
OF peculiarly made biscuits. OF which
Queen Victoria was very fond. and
which she believed nobody could mako
quite SO, well es the pastry chefs at
King Leopold. This box OF Biscuits
was carefully sealed Up at the British
.es1 at Brussels With the official
mel to the London foreign ONCE and
from there TO Windsor, Osborne. or
Balmoral under the denomination of
diIm a,ora.a conhdehtial government
ono thing it IS necessary to bear In
nina: that in spite OF all that is said
10 the contrary. the privacy and sec.
a aai, Is mere myth. In this
country the post-ofiice inspectors MS
sumo the right to. open any sealed
envelope passing through the mails
that seems TO them of a Suspicious
character. The French government, in
Shpite OF Its advanced republican form.
IN. IN the national legislature that the
Biack Cabinet of former monarchicaI
times Is still In active existence in the
General re- Post|ofice Department. for
politlcal suspects to an examination.
The French Ambassador Bompard, now
at Constantinople. obtained his trans
h Ter TO STEAMBOAT. from St Petersburg
because confidential letter which he
mad written from the Russian capital.
commenting in a-somewhat unfavorable
TIES, and administrative conditions on
the banks OF the New. and which he
9ad imprudently confded to the mails
Tor transmission to an Intimate friend
at Paris. was opened by Russian Pos
tai Department clerks, appointed for
me me purpose: before II reached tbs
i.usSidn frontier and was not only
communicated without delay to the
Imperial government, but actually also
tc some of the st. Petersburg news,
papers connected with the govern
ment. and when published the main
features of the ambassadors letters, rs
expressive OF his real opinion about the
country, and demanding his recall.
FINALLY Sir Robert Anderson long NJ
the head Of tho Criminal Investigation
Bureau Of the English Department OF
the Interior. has admitted over his
Ir
and in his volumes of "reminiscences.
that in the days when the Home Rule
party was still under the able and
meyer to be forgotten leadship Of Par
nell, the letters which passed between
It's members. especially those from
America. were subjected at the general
post-omce at st. Martins-le Grand to
careful examination of their con-
tents before transmission or delivery.
Copyright, 1911, oy the Brentwood
Company