WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2838, 20 March 1878, Page 2

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

What is this I bear about Eron-Prini Rudolph and our own Princess BeatriceP But how, my worthy friends, can such a match be possible, however appropriate the ages, when there is the insurmouutable barrier of the Prince's being a Catholic to be overcome? By the way, I bear that the Prince is not allowed to hunt, because of his imperial mother having come to grief across country so often that Kaiser Joseph is persuaded that hunting is a far afore dangerous pastime that it is in reality. But then if ladies will try to show the best men in Leicestershire the way on weedy thoroughbreds, they must expect a cropper or two daring their apprenticeship. Apropos of the news of Lord Bosebery's approaching marriage, I believe I am correct in stating that Miss Hannah de Rothschild's fortune is estimated-at three millions, and that it is settled on herself. After the death of her mother, the Barone.'s Meyer, she withdrew most, if not all, of her money from' the house. Miss Hannah de Kothsehiid undertakes the entire management of Mentmore and other property, and is said to be an admirable woman of business.

Why were the military Feaiani re. leased P The Irish papers say because England is going to war with lfussia and wants recruits. But that is not the reason. Her Majesty personally expressed a desire that the sentence of two rears' imprisonment on the youth Walsh, for writing seditions letters from Aldershot, should be remitted; and the "Duke" having consented, Mr Cross took the opportunity of pointing out that, with any sort of consistency, the other military Fenians could not be detained while the latest offender was pardoned. Mr Grow has aiwaja been anxious for the release of these men, and was rery glad of the: opportunity of putting the Commanderutf Chief in a dilemma on the subject. Hi! Boyal Highness got out of it by eon* senting to the release of the three men ed ticket-of-leare. Had not Gunner Walsh been pardoned, M'Carthy, O'Brien and Chambers would still be prisoners. According to some people, Lord Car* narron was called orer the coals for his reassuring speech to the Colonial deputation which waited on him last week; and a report has been sent round that the Queen has taken him to task. The met is that the portion of his speech which related to the Busso-Tvrkisu war. was carefully written out beforehand, &nd read by him to the deputation; and it is be* yond doubt that he was "instructed" to say what lie did say. His instructions, howerer, did not come from Lord Beaconsfield, but from the Foreign Office, where the Colonial Secretary had, for some time before the arrival of the deputation, been in consultation with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The Berliner* complain of the stingi* ness of the Imperial Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, and are specially hard on the latter. They accuse her of making a pnrse for her younger children, as if that were a crime, and tell how, at the seaside last year, she was content to take half a house. Ai a matter of fact their Highnesses are compelled to exercise the strictest economy, and it is immensely to their credit that they are able to make ends meet on re* sources so limited. People who sympa* thise with the Prince of Wales by reason ot bis restricted income may be surprised to learn that the "appanage"—thai is, the allowance from the State to the Imperial Crown Prince—is just £7600 a* year. The Crown Princess has from England an income of £6000 a-year, and the interest on her dowry of £90,030, say £1500 a-year more. So the income of the couple is a bare £15,000 a-year, plus the little Schloss in Unter der Linden flsM the villa at Potsdam rent free, as i^tthe right to give a certain number of dinners annually in the " White Bcblos* " at the charges of the Emperor. That illustrious monarch has a list pt about £600,C30 per annum, and a private income from landed property of about £260,000 per annum more. He, however, makes no allowance to his son the Crown Prince. The old gentleman does not believe in allowances. He is not stingy; Fritz can hare what he wants if he likes to ask for it; only -he must ask. < Frits has a spirit of his own, and for years after his marriage the modest manage of the heir apparent was maintained without indenting on the parental funds ; but of late years the exEenses entailed by an increasing family as forced the Crown Prince to ask subsidies from his father. It is not generally known in this country that no Prince of the Prussian blcod-ioyal draws the pay of any office he may hold in the State, whether civil, military, or naval. Plura* cies in the Imperial family are only honorary pluracies. I understand that Colonel Arthur Annesly will be appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge, in place of Colonel Charles Fraser, V.C. I wonder whether there is any truth in the report which reaches me from Malta, that at a recent dinner the Duke of Edinburgh ordered up champagne to drink to Ihe ltussian triumph in the taking of Plevna, and that all the- English officers present left the room.—-Atlas,