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SAD LETTERS OF EMPRESS.

UNCONGENIAL LIFE IN GERMAN COURT.

That the eminently British Apirit of the Empress Frederick (daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of the ex-Kaiser) was strengthened, rather than sup- pressed, by the uncongenial at mosphere of the German Court is demonstrated in a series of let tors contained in a book entitled, "Mary Ponsonby-a Momoir, Some Letters, and a Journal, calf ed by her daughter, Magdalen Ponsonby."

SATURDAY, MAY

SENT BACK TO AMERICA.

MADAME DE CASARES' CASE,

Certain preliminaries of an unexpected character having been de Casares whe, by direction of duly attended to, Madame Gloria the Home Office, was not allowed but was permitted to atay to land "ocially" at Liverpool, parole at the North-Western Hotel, was, in mail week, driven hurried- ly in a taxi to the landing stage in time to board the Cunard liner Caronia, which sailed later for New York,

Lady Ponsonby was the wife of Sir Henry Ponsonby, who for many years was private secretary to Queen Victoria, and the book affords interesting glimpses of a number of the prominent per sonalities of the Victoria Of the daughters of Queen Vic-a toria, the Empress Frederick is stated to have been her greatest

friend.

era.

The Princesa Royal (writes Lady Ponsonby) was bitterly, sorry to leave England and Windsor the difficulty of restraining her English feelings went on all her life. Small things got on her nerves, like German boots, the want of baths, the thin silver plate, and the terrible amount of etiquette. She wanted dreadfully to love her husband's country, and to get over her prejudices, but she always kept her love for Eng- land. It was a constant strain to the Empress, continues Lady Pon- sonby, particularly in the latter. years of her life,, to feel that a certain amount of espionage was going on round her, and that she was never quite sure that the housemaid, who was dusting the rooms, was not in reality looking for some of her letters. But this all grew better after Bismarck's day was over. ›

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A few hours before this pretty British wife of a native of the Argentine was due to depart from the hotel, a Sheriff's Officer sought audience of her and exhibited a writ authorising him to distrain on Madame's goods and chuttles to the extent of £200 on behalf of well-known London firm of as- tate agents.

cident, Madame de Casares said, Subsequently, describing the in-

"Not only do the Home Office propose to send me back to New York, where I suppose the author!-

ties will in turn send me some-

where else, but the Sheriff's Officer comes along to take my baggage from me. This gentle- man, the Sheriff's Officer, calmly tells me that he is empowered to take everything I have with me so long as he leaves me with clothes to the value of £5-enough for a hat, she added with a little laugh. "How can a woman.go about the world from one port tu, another," she continued, "on 5 worth of clothes. The whole thing is ridiculous," she declared emphatically.

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She further dramatically ap- serted:-"They shall not do these. things to me when I have com- also witted no offence. She volunteered the information that the debt forming the basis of the intervention of the Sheriff's' Officer had been finished with a year ago: Subsequently legal ad- viee was obtained to help Madame de Casares in what she described as her "terrible predicament," and

The pride in Britain's position in the world is strongly express elin a letter written by the Em-after intimating to Press inter- press Frederick (then Crown Princess) to Lady Ponsonby in 1884:

If there is a conference at Ber- lin to settle, as they say, what is to become of South Africa, ought England not to make the pro- posals, and to insist on what de- cisions are to be taken?

England is a great deal too humble to foreign Powers. They only misunderstand her. We get no thanks for our modesty and moderation. The tone of the German Press towards England, with few exceptions, is execrable, but as it is as stupid as it is in- solent, one had better pay no at tention to it.

The Germans are always re- proaching the English for having prejudices, against Germany, and forget that they have many more, und much more deeply-seated

other countries,

ones about pecially England!

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Writing a year later, when re- lations between England und Russia were none too happy, the Crown Princess in a letter from Potsdam remarks:

England cannot descend from her pedestal without doing harm to the causes of which she alone is the champion-namely, liberty and progress. 1'go even further, and say she has no right to be indifferent and wavering and weak. The balance of power is thereby upset in a dangerous way. The European Concert seems all out of time to me when England does not play the first fiddle.

A “Scupegoat."

viewers that she had requisitioned such aid, she went on as fol- lows!

Future a Maze.

"I am sure all women will sympathise with me. I am Bri tish born but Britain will not admit me, and I am Argentine by marriage but the Argentine does not attract me since my husband and I are separated. Apparently I have no nationality, now, and my future is a blank, a maze. I don't know what will happen to me."

Some little time after Madame de Casares had had a consulta- tion with a solicitor it transpired that a solution of the difficulty had been forthcoming in the action of a Liverpool man who advanced a gufficient sum to secure the relief a Madame's baggage. It

Was

de then that Madame Casares was driven to the landing stage, where she boarded the Caronia, upon the decks of which the hope of obtaining a glimpse groups of passengers waited in of her. They were however, dis- appointed in the main, as she made her way with all possible haste up the gangway and immediately sought the seclusion of the stale room which had been reserved for her. There she said to a Preas interviewer who inquired. why there should be so much my- stery about her affairs have not the slightest idea. The alfair of the General Serret, the five masted schooner of which I was an owner, was finished long ago, and I had nothing to do with the alleged whisky running. The whole affair is a scandal and the futuro is unicnown."

In 1837 the Crown Princess was in Venice with her husband. She

It may be recalled that the tells Lady Ponsonby that people General Serret was held up in the blame her for keeping the Crown Thames about eighteen montas Prince away from home. She re-ngo in connection with an allogn- marks:

tion she was carrying spirituous The Court and official world. liquor to American coastal waters.. find me a very convenient scape- The vessel, however, did not.com- gout. It is rather fluttering inplete her voyage. She was sold one way, as it shows they think and her consignment of cases of me too good-natured to be likely whisky, to the number of several to pay them out some day. Most thousand, placed in bond by of those amiable people are not charterers. Throughout the pro- worth knocking down, even if one ceedings Madame de Casares most had the power of distributing a emphatically declared she had no few coups de poing. I keep as thing whatever to do with the quiet and make myself as small whisky, as I can, but I cannot change my akin to please them, nor shall they tread me underfoot, as they "I Long to Knock Someone Down," would like to some day.

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The Empress's sympathy with GREAT BARRIER REEF. summer for the Great Barrier Reef in geological theories of coral reef.

In a letter to Lady Ponsonby Britain's cause at the time of the written by the Empress Frederick South African War is very warm- in 1889 she says-If ample ly expressed in a letter written In apologies are offered to the Prince 1899:

MARINE BIOLOGISTS' EXPEDITION.

of Australia and centre ita work origin, have not troubled much to on a small area near Cairns, in find a biological reason for the ex Queensland. It would there be in tracdinary ebullition of life which the midst of the most remarkable causes them. assemblage of coral reefs in the The Cambrige expedition, which of Wales (for late King Edward), The seed Prince Bismarck sow.

world. For more than 1,000 miles) is to be led by Mr. F. A. Potts, for the outrageous rudeness with led for years is now springing up. which my son behaved to him 1Who shall unravel the falsehoods A correspondent in the Times along the Australian coast runs a Fellow of Trinity Hall and Lectur shall be the first to rejoice. and intrigues with which Gorman points out that in the last genora shallow platform, not more than er in Zoology. In the University In a letter from Kiel, in 1898, public opinion has been worked tion our scientific knowledge of the 30 fathoms deep, having a steep will, it is hoped, include several the Empress, referring to a win upon and hoodwinked. The dia- temperate seas and their inhabi- seaward slop about 25 miles from experienced marine biologiate.

the coast. Од

It is not expected that this ex- ter which she had appat in Eer- gusting and disgraceful attitude tants has vastly increased.

Coral Reel Life.

pedition, with such personnel. Iln, remarks:

of the whole Corman Press dur- the other hand, the vast stretches

The countless coral reefs which equipment, and time as are likely My ideas and opinions are going this Transvaal crisis is the of tropical ocean and the coastal

waters which border them have are developed on this platform to be available, will do more than utterly different from what the consequence, Government, Court, and offcial I cannot tell you how hard it only been traversed by an occa- contain as varied an assemblage of make a preliminary survey of the world think that it is not without is to bear. The continual abuse sional fugitive expedition which animals as exists in any part of vast problems to be attacked, but constant sorrow and anxiety and showered on everything British has hurriedly killed and bottled the occan. But though coral reefs it is hoped that the observationa disappointment that I watch what makes me so savage that it scat-samples of the fauna in a locality and their teeming population will be exact and valuable and always attracted the help to provide socuro foundations is going on. I saw very, very ters all my tolerance, philosophy, and passed on to the next obfoc- have

attention of travellers, novelists, for much more continuous investi little of my son (the late Kaiser), and patience to the winds, and itive. The writer continues: who rarely, if ever, comes to see long to be a man sometimes and me, even when I am ill.

knock someone, down..

It is proposed that an expedition and film producers, men of science, gations into the marine richea of should set out from England this deeply interested though they are the Commonwealth."