Year: 1874

| LONDON, August IL, 1914.
Just at this time OF year the passion OF envy, at
other times unknown to me, gets possession OF my
SOUL and the object Of that OF human frailties
is my conJrere of the HERALD in Paris. For though
his city and mine are equally deserted although all
| Parisians are edur. while all L0ndoners are at
| the seaside something Is always turning up In the
shape Of journalistic straws to aid him In the man.
ufacture OF his hebdomadal brick. With us no fat
marshal of sixty years OF age lightly swings him.
| self down knotted rope and escapes over fright
full rocks into the raging sea; no people are per-
petuay fighting against other people. and intend
Ing some speedy way to cnminate In q grand
| 6yneute no pretender to the throne is waiting
few hundred miles OF. Every Of these move
| ments must be watched ana recorded. All here Is
dead and hat, stale and Improbable. save to the
| hotel keepers and logging letters, who must be
| doing very well with the provincial visitors and
| excursionists who seem to have taken London by
| storm. They are to be met with at every corner;
some, stalwart, burly fellows, drowned by the sun
| and tanned by exposure to weather, in thick.
coarse clothes and heavy clodhopptng boots. These
are from the agricultural nelgnborhoods, farm
! laborers and such like. who seem stunned with
the novelty of what they looking at as never to
be able to thoroughly comprehend 1t, but walk
| about with mouths agape and hands buried deep
| in their pockets, staring hard at everything and
| quite unable to steer themselves through the
| crowded streets very different cass is that
| whicn comes up from the manufacturing districts
pale. earnest men, whom nothing astonishes, who
| look about them at the usual ''show" sights
| with perfect calmness and some contempt but
VINO spend their holidays at the Industrial Ext
biion among the new looms and carding ma
chimes and other ingenious Inventions there dis
played, and who never seem able to shake of the
hold that their monOtonous existence has upon
them or to Ego in' for u genuine holiday. Well
known faces are now scarcely ever TO be met with
in the streets, but If you come across one you
sure to find 1t under "pOt hat and at the rop OF
a suit OF travelling seaside clothes, the owner
being only "passing through town" on his way
from one watering place, or one country house, to
another


FLIGHT OF THE MINISTRY.


The Ministry fed so the doors OF the House
Of Lords creaked on their hinges. Mr.. Disraeli
rusac,i down to Longhurst the seat OF the Marquis
of Bath; the Lord Chancellor Cairns of after the
grouse to Scotland; Lord Salisbury, with his wife
and those pretty children she used to race up and
down Rotten Row. has taken a chateau for the
bathing at Dieppe: Lord Derby is at his
principal seat of Knowsley and Mr.. Cross Is in his
Lancashire home of Ecces Rigg The leaders of
the opposition are likewise scattered to the ends
of the civilized EARTH Mr.. Gladstone being at his
favorite Welsh watering place. Pen-maen-maur, a
little village with a few lodging houses nesting ut
the foot OF some high mountains and just facing
the Isle of Angesey. He Is close in the neighbor-
hood OF what Is now Mr. Giadstone's own pro-
erty-Hawarden Castle


MOVEMENTS OF THE COURT.


The Queen is still at Osborue her stay at her
marine residence being longer than usual this
year on account OF the presence In the Isle OF
Wight Of her eldest daughter, the Crown Princess
OF Prussia. But she goes, next week, to her be-
loved Bamoral, ana then the British public, with
the exception OF the Secretaries OF State
zone of whom has constantly to be IN
attendance) and few Highland ges
VIII lose all sight OF Her Majesty until
November next Those poor Secretaries of
State what wretchej time they must have OF 1T
Compelled to give up their other amusements IN
the snort period Of relaxation. leave their fam
lilies and to take it in turn to go un for month to
a castle in the remote Highlands, where there is no
sign Of amusement; where the stiffest and most
formal etiquette prevails, ana where the Whole
air is impregnated with the 5rO0ding memory OF
"A dead man The Prince of Wales, when he goes
to scotland, sees as little OF Bamoral as possible
but carefully holds revel IN his own little castle
OF Abergeldie, which Is some lew miles away from
the maternal residence. The Prince Is not going
north just yet though. He has been into the west
TO open the new Gulldhall at Plymouth, a building
which has cost between $50, 600 and E7O0OO. He
intended to arrive there his yacht, but the
weather was very boisterous, so he came by land,
and had a splendid reception. The whole town
was en- Jete, the whole population in the streets
There were banquets and fireworks, illumnatons
ana general ieasting. and, OF course, plenty OF
speechmaking, In which the Prince seems to have
borne his part Iar better than usual. He is Lord
High Steward OF the town, and when he stood up
to make his formal address he bore in his hand
the state wand of his Office, and he seems have





The Princess would have ACCOMPANIED him, but
she is gone north to see her father,


THE KING or DENMARK,
who is expected In Scotland flying visit. The
Prince will not leave Devonshre for some days;
he has TO visit Colonel Luttrell who has promised
His Royal Highness some sport among the wild
red deer on EXmoor and he has some other shoot
ing appointments to keep. The Duke of Con-
naught is with hts regiment at Norwich, and mas
been greatly feted by the inhabitants.


BY the way, IL is rumOred that the question OF a


ROYAL RESIDENCE IN IRELAND
Is again under consideration, and that the prnci-
ppal object OF MI. Disraei, in visit which he is
about to pay to the Duke OF Abercorn, Dublin Is
to look around him and discuss the matter with the
Lord Lieutenant This visit Will not be very
agreeable to the Premier WHO has always spoken
dsdanuly OF Ireland and the Irish, nor can one
see what good Will come Of 1t. VINO Will inhabit
the royal residence Not the queen, you may be
sure. The Prince of wales would fnd IL good
shooting and hunting quarters during some por-
tion OF the year. But my idea Is, tnat If such a
residence is procured the Duke OF Connanght
VIII be its chief resident That such mea-
sure VIII have effect the bulk of the
Irish people II Is impossible to believe. Ten years
ago visit from the queen, coupled with the know
edge that she TOOK an interest in the Green Isle
and was going to have house there, would have
had more effect IN creating loyalty ana crushing
FeDlanism and making the people contented than
all the dlsestabllshment acts Or land acts or any
other Parliamentary proceedings. But Paddy Is /
not so soit-hearted as he used to be; he Is not so
easily gotten over by Establishments ana allure