THE LATEST NEW YORK SENSATION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 168, 24 May 1872, Page 6

THE LATEST NEW YORK SENSATION.

Letters received here from England put tke extraordinary question seriously whether a marriage between the son of President Grant and the Princess Beatrice of England might not be so arranged as to secure the entente cordiale between the two countries. The Queen has originated the proposition, just as she did that for the marriage of her daughter Louise to the Marquis of Lorn. The young Princess is only fourteen years of age, and the Queen's idea is that. upon the re-election of President Grant, and the beginning of his second term in office, the nuptials will be solemnised. Young Mr. Grant would then be adopted as a British subject, and immediately appointed Viceroy of the Dominion of Canada. It is her Majesty's belief that in this way the feeling of the three countries of America, Canada, and Great Britain could be harmonised .as closely as their interests. The letters which communicate this surprising proposition are written in perfect good faith, and by persons in the highest position in Great Britain. One of them asserts that the idea really came from Mr. Seward, by whom it was suggested fco the Earl of Mayo in India, and by the Earl then taken up and communicated to the Queen through one of his lordship's friends, Lady Waterpark, a lady in waiting upon her Majesty. It is also stated that the matter was entrusted to the London correspondent of a leading Radical journal in New York, who left London suddenly for New York about a month ago, commissioned to sound the President upon the s abject. This correspondent assured the Queen's Ministers that the re-election of President Grant was absolutely certain, and thus contributed mainly to giye them confidence in the scheme. The agitation now going on in favor of Mr. Greely may disturb hisplans.'r. But it may be considered that he has opened negotiations on the subject with the Dent family and Mrs Grant.—New York 'World.'