Show WARNING TO VICTORIA i t English Queen Promised a Hostile Reception In France + ATTACKED BY THE PRESS FLAY MEET THE FATE OF TEE MAINE T But Her Majesty Purposes to Visit the Enemys Country and Will Be Convoyed By Eight Torpedo Boat DestroyersCost of Hoer Trip Prince of Wales Criticised f London March iThe arrangements arrange-ments for Queen VictoriaS departure de-parture for the Rivera next Thursday Thurs-day have been completed Her majesty wlil travel to the south of France by way of Boulognesur11er instead of via Cherbourg being the first time she v111 have visited Bou losne since the Crimean war Some interest Is taken In the fact that the queens yacht wlll be convoyed by eight of the fastest tOIledo boat destroyers In the British navy five of them being thirtyknot boats Cruisers Late previously been employed for this duty and the use of destroyers tends hinted in some of the papers is intended intend-ed to set off the French pavers tall about submarine torpedo boats There is much indignation In England at the scandalous and coarse attacks made upon Queen Victoria JY some of The the newspapers or Paris this week Llbre Parole In an insulting article said Frankly the queen will be well advised if she does not come to France this spring The constitutional notti on that It uas Lord Sahsburr and not the queen who Inflicted the outrage of Pa shoda and the humiliation of 1uscat on France wIll not suffice It Is well known that the queen has directed Englands ZJollCY throughout her long rein and she has never missed an opportunity of displaying her antipathy for France Under the circumstances therefore her visit Is an additional insult in-sult and defiance of public oDinlon After this warning it will only be her oun fault If she meets with 3 hostile reception in France COMPARED TO THE MAINE 2t1 Cassalgnacs 4utorl1e says The queen becomes our uest at a moment when the British government has made Itself more than ever our enemy Her journey will be full of the same risls as the Maine incurred in enterln Cuban Cu-ban waters and the French government govern-ment Is committl the same foolish aCt as Senor Sagasta Lr not nreent lag France from being placed ln such position that the smallest accident might precipitate both powers into 3 terrible conflict After such insinuations as the fore gIng it seems possible that the queens visit to France wIll not pass without some Chauvinist incident A special police po-lice staff has left Paris to watch over her majesty at Clmiez where her heavy baggage is alreadY arriving Queen Victoria pays 12000 monthly frI her own rooms without counting the exenses of her suite numbering sixty persons Altogether her little trio ylll cost her about 75000 Her chaise favorite white donkey and numbers num-bErs ot pet dogs and birds have been sent ahead Her majesty also has a urlous whim about sleeping in her own bed which is taken with her wherever she goes PRINCE OF WALES CRITICISED The Prince of Wales went to Paris this week and visited the exposition grounds He proceeds to Cannes on Sunday TIle princes wonderfi1 scheme known as the League of Mercy In connection with which a new order has bccn established for those who eel I t and promote the collection of sub SCrltwns for the PrInce of Vales hospital hos-pital fund five years work being re urcd for admission to the order is sftrey rril1cised in several qntrtars The DaI News thinks the prince has not been fortunate advised in committing com-mitting himself and in securing the eanctin of the queen to such a scheme The paper calls it an organization cf 5nohnnc br the arIstocracy which is repugnant to the Idea of charity and not caculated to add to the dignity of the throne The annual report upon recruiting for the army shows a slight increase iu the physical deeloDment of the recruits but 35 per cent liars still been rejected owing to unsatisfactory physique The announcement ls made that 18 uer 100 are uterb illiterate and that only 43 per 1000 are described as well educated educat-ed MISSING PRINCE FOUND There has been a recital of the sen satbn caused a few weeks ago by the alleged disappearance of Prince Lud ulg yon LowensteinWortheim who married Lady Anne SailIe a daughter daugh-ter of the Earl of Mexbrough He moved a good deal in English society and thEn disappeared mysteriously Alt advertisement inquiring after his hereabouts caused considerable spec uJation in the London press and now a telegram from Manila has been pub Ushe saying the prince Is at Mantis has been there for many months was present during the destruction of the spanish Sect and was a member of the European club But it is added his behavior aroused suspicion and he was thought to be acting as the confidential agent of the German government Before Be-fore Manila surrendered it Is further alleged the prince was allowed to pass in and out of the Spanish and insurgent I lines each part apparently regarding him as favorable to themselves For a few day it is even asserted he was lL voluntary aidedecamp of General Miller though he was never connected with the AroericlUl army The English papers are wondering what is the meaning of these mysterious move ments Sir Thomas Lipton has engaged a crew for the cup challenge Shamrock numbering thirty men Half of them are picked Clyde yachtsmen have long been members of the Thistles crew and the remainder are English sailors Mr Andrea Carnegie is expected to return in May to Skibo castle which is being renovated and furnished during dur-ing his absence in AmerIca A number of relics of Sir Walter Scott were sold at auction this week Among them were eightythree letters whih brought 1125 His tvniking sue a stout piece of ash cut in the Woods oC botsford was sold for 205 and two lock of his hair went for two guineas each A guinea is 525 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC Influenza has reached au epidemla form In London being responsible for one in eighteen deaths during the past Settle when the deaths groin the disease reached a total or 113 But the increase in-crease was accompanied by the least number of deaths from pulmonary affections af-fections recorded during the present winter The cheering announcement comes from Berlin that Professor Wasserman one of ProCessor Aochs ablest pupils I believes he has discovered a serum for the cure of pneumonia Experiments with animals have been successful and he is now operating upon human be lags The to draingrooms thIs week I brought the people to town The Duchess Duch-ess of Buccelough presented Miss Astor As-tor who wore a white toilette with silver embroidery and a satin train broidered with single pearls She carried car-ried a bouquet of white lilies The United States ambassador Mr Josdph H Choate is still staying at Cluridtlts hotel aDd is busy house hunting He has accepted an Imita tlon to attend the annual dinner of the associated chambers of commerce on March 15 The other guests will include in-clude the lord high chancellor Earl Halsbury the lord chief justice Baron I Russell of Klllowen Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford and the president presi-dent af the board of trade Mr C T Ritchie |