The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-10-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE SOCIETY PAPERS.  (From the World. )  All the arrangements of the Prince and Princess of Wales for entertaining at Sandringham diu-irg the shooting season have been upset by the alarming news from Russia, which will entirely alter their winter plans; and there is not to be a county ball at the Hall on the Prince's birthday. All their plans, and, indeed, all Court arrangements, depend upon the course of events in Russia.  The Princess of Wales had. Intended to stay at Nest Mar Lodge until Tuesday, but for pnvate relsoopa (partly connected with the fusel news from Rums) S.R.H decided to hasten her return to Sandringham, and she travelled there direct from Ballater, proceeding by the East Coast night express to Peterborough, and thence to Wolf erton by special train. The Princess and her daughters stopped foe an hour at Perth, where they dined. The Princess of Wales has arranged to proceed to Russia if the Empress sends her a summons. It is well known that these two sisters have always been devoted to each other.  The moribund condition of the unhappy Czar recalls an incident which occurred at the coronation of this ill-fated monarch. When the grand ceremonial was completed a Cabinet Council was held in an inner chamber, while the notables of the Empire and the representatives from foreign Courts remained in the general assembly-room. The deepest anxiety prevailed as to the policy that would be adopted in the new reign, and when at length the Council broke up, and its decision was made known, something like a shudder went through the throng. It was announced that the new Czar was resolutely determined to make no concessions ; he insisted upon pursuing a policy of repression, government more autocratic, more retrograde than that of his predecessors. In this bold decision he was, no doubt, giving effect to his outraged feelings at the murder of his father, but he was, in good Booth, signing his own death-warrant. From that time forth he was marked down as the target of his implacable, foes; whether it was bomb, bullet, or Bright, it is their doing, and he is now paying the penalty of a losing game.  - The accident which has cut Lord Drumlaarig's I.fe short, at the outset of what might have been a vary promising career, is all the more sad because the lives of so many of his family have came to a sudden end. Lord Drumlanrig had been for a time private secretary to Lord Rosebery, and it will not be forgotten how angry with the latter his father was when Lord Drtunlanrig was made a Peer of Parliament by the title of Baron Kelhead, while Lord Queensberry himself was left out in the cold. Lord Queensberry followed Lord Rosebe,ry to Homburg, and, but for the intc-vention of the Prince of Wales, there would have been an altercation which might have amused the gallery, but would not have teen very edifying. The young man who has just come to so melancholy an end had not inherited the peculiarities of his father's family, and his death will be much regretted, both at Court, where he had made himself a persona !rata as Lord-in-Waiting, and in his regiment, where he had become very popular. What makes the tragedy all the more lamentable is that he was engaged to a daughter of General Arthur Ellis, the popular Equerry to the Prince of Wales. Mr. George Curzon's friends are not unnaturally rather anxious about him, in view of the latest news from Afghanistan. It will be remembered that at first he intended to take direct letters of introduction from Lord Elgin to the Ameer, and to go with a kind of official escort under the command of Colonel Neville Chamberlain. But the Viceroy decided that this was inadvisable. Accordingly Mr. Curzon went on as a private traveller, though Colonel Chamberlain was with him at Gilgit not so long ago. From there it is understood that he pushed on North alone, and in the ordinary way should now be not far from Cabul. He is anxious to see the country, not only for the purposes of the book which he means to write, but also because he has a commission for a series of newspaper articles on the subject. Mr. Curzon is, of course,an experienced traveller in the East, but till definite news is received his friends have some reason to be apprehensive on his account.