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The Priuce et Wa.s3 sf ter f our weeks' wanrtering. returnea home trom Russia iooking. for him very i eau bat withai ha!e and fit. a is his customary appearanee There had been some prehminary talk of givmg hm; á great popular wei come sneu a rhar aeconied te Lord Beacon-iieid mui SüJisbury when fhey retunieii fron; the Bern:: ronfereaos bringin'g w.th them. aí trie dramática'. lv declared. "Peaoe with honor ' Jt wai -y.ggested thac the pnp.ee performed a service to the country equally great ry 'jvnicring abouC a goocl uuderstanding betvveen England and Russia. Strange to &ay, the Tory newspapers, frorr. the graat Times downward, applauded this sUly idea, and clubland set abont organizmg a demonstratioa. The prince heard nothing of this uati', he reached Paris on the way home. Then he telegraphed to Londou expressing his auuoyance at tho scheme, whioh was not only indecorous in view of the sad duties from whioh he was returning, but imputed to him an ínterterence with the ordinary course of riiplomacy that w:s at variance with lita inclinations and destructive of that -isition of neutrality asheir tothe tbr ie which he has always sought to maiutain, like the tactful man of the world which he undonbtedly is. Word was therefore ?ent round, with the result that his wishes were respected as far as a demonstration withiu the railway station bv the aristocracy was concerned. Thero v.'cro plenty of notables present, but not more than a dozen persons were allowed (m the reserved platform, and all conteiited themselves with bowing profwuiilly as tlie rjrinee entered his closed oarriage, A pretty big crowd, mainly bourgeoisie, had colleoted outside the station, and there was a good deal of cheering, but as a demonstration it was a failme, as it deserved to be. The Prince of Wales is too sensible a niau to desire that sort of thing, f or he knows it is calculated to provoko counter displays and inake him an object of contention amorig rival parties and