Show WHAT GOETH C + ON IN OLD LONDON j Shopkeepers Are Grumbling at the Actions of the Queen ROYAL ACADEMY TO OPEN Queen of Holland Visits Queen Victoria Sale of the Jewels and Racing Cups of the Red Duchess Alleged Retirement of the Duke of Cambridge Cam-bridge The Way the Americans Are Running Their Horses Arouses Arous-es Adverse Criticism From the Sporting Times An American mlrenn Honored London May 4Special London cable letter copyrighted 1S93 by the Associated PressIdeal spring weather has prevailed pre-vailed during the past week and London is looking its best The season begins auspiciously though there is the usual stock of complaints from tradesmen who grumble because the members of the royal family intend to spend but little time In town Then again the shopkeepers are grumbling because the queen is going to crowd two drawing I rooms into a fortnight for In their opinion opin-ion there cannot be too many public displays dis-plays and they have particular sympathy with such events as queens drawing rooms because naturally they are the I occasion for a grand display of finery and a consequent expenditure of much money The Royal Academy On Monday the Royal Academy will open its doors and the world of art will once more be in full swing The Royal View on Thursday last was well attended attend-ed among those present being the Duke i I of SaxeCoburgGotha the Queen Regent of Holland and her daughter the little Queen Williclmina whose future accord ihcmina accor ins to reports is to be linked with that I of the eldest son ol the Duke of Saxe I CoburgGotha Then there was the Grand 1 Duchess of MecklenborsStrelitz and a host of other nobilities I i The exhibition of pictures at the Royal AcadEmy fully sustains the level reached I by its predecessors Sir Frederick Leigh I ton with a flaming June and a I Lachrymae Sir John Millais with a St Stephen and a five vision subject entitled Speak to Me Alma Tadema With a feast of flowers entitled Spring and all the leading artists are well represented repre-sented Sargents examples are confined to portraits of which there is the usual multitude on the walls The sculptures j are good and include busts of Air Chaun 1 cey AL Dcpew by Albert BruceJoy and I the Princess of Wales by Countess Yon te Prncess of rGleschen Waterhouse will probably be I the successor or William Charles Thomas academician I Dobson the retiring The Xevr Gallery I The new gallery Private View almost rh led the Royal Academy display in I aristocratic fashion There is no sensational sensa-tional picture but there are a number of tonal examples by Sir John M Millais Hunt BurneJones Collier Shannon etc Sargents striking portrait of Ada Rehan i ltr f nf is the center of attraction The exhibition of portraits of fair children child-ren at the Grafton galleries is similar to I I the exhibition of pictures of fair women held last year The queen the Princess i of Wales and other members of the royal family contributed mary pictures by old I faml modern masters pictures by Sir I Joshua Reynolds the great English I painter being the most prominent i 1 The Princess of Wales Is sending two I sketches to the coming amateur art exhibition ex-hibition I Queen Meets Queen The queen of Holland accompanied by the queen regent her mother visited I Queen Victoria at Windsor castle today hey were met at the railroad station by the Duke of SaxeCoburgGotha and were entertained with much ceremony at the castle There has been much comment however on the fact that the little queen and her mother have been in London for a week past and have bad to stay at Browns hotel no palace being offered them although no members of the royal family = are at present stopping in London Buckingham palace having been previ Bucdngham of ously engaged the son of the Ameer Afghanistan who is on his way here with his suite of seventy persons is to be I housed at Dorchester house Captain Hol fords magnificent Park Lane palace which by the way he is anxious to be rid of to any millionaire desiring a palace pal-ace It is an immense limestone mansion most beautifully situated The sale of the jewels and racing cups of the late Duchess of Montrose known in sporting circles as the Red Duchess who raced horses under the name of Mr rced realized over 125000 A pearl necklace was sold according to the terms of her will wa the benefit of the poor of wi East London It brought 57000 There was an important conference at the war office Wednesday last between the Duke of Cambridge the Duke of Con naught Lord Wolseley Lord Roberts and LieutenantGeneral Sir RedversBul ler and It revived the rumors of the approaching ap-proaching retirement of the Duke of Cambridge as commanderinchlef This would be most welcome news as his continued con-tinued retention of the office which the Hartington commission advised the total abolition of means an immense pecuniary loss to the country Arouses Criticism The way the Americans are running their horses here has begun to arouse criticism which promises to increase critcism I is impossible to ascertain in advance what event horses they intend to run in any The Sporting Times today says The I Americans played a bold game in entering enter-ing a horse like Banquet to be sold for 200 Four thousand pounds went on him and the pood thing came fa In fine style Wlg r1ssl He was bought In for 760 and it Is said l would not have been sold for twice that amount Sims was again seen to great advantage There is no doubt that he Is really a fine horseman The plunge on Banquet was the talk of the day as we have become unaccustomed unaccus-tomed to such heavy betting We cannot say we welcome this return to a sport of racing which has always been held to be vicious The object of selling races is defeated de-feated when for a gambling purpose a hQrse is entered for sale at a tenth of his value with the intention t rebuy him at whatever cost From all we cn hear the Americans have not played their great cards Some day we shall see their favorite in the still unfit Stonen We hear the Americans are overdoing the trial ground at Newmarket occupying it morning noon and night to the exclusion of other trainers Notes Mr Pultney Bigelow has been elected a member of the Council of the Royal Society So-ciety of Literature He is the first American Amer-ican to be so honored The date of the Oxford University athletic ath-letic meeting has been fixed for June 5 letc metng The sport will conclude on June 7 Ox spr ford has submite to Cambridge for consideration con-sideration the correspondence relating to the proposed OxfordCambridge vs the American universities team meeting |