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OUR LONDON LETTER. (From Our London Correspondent.) The Alexandraj the King's new turbine yacht, which is being built on the Clyde, ds making such good progress that she will in all probability be launched next month. By August she should be, ready for a visit from the Queen, to whom ail details or furnishing and decorating in the apart- ments of the Royal family and their suite will be submitted. But it is scarcely likely <that the Alexandra will be used before next spring, although she will be ready if needed. The vessel is not intended to sup- plant the Victoria and Albert altogether. The old yacht will continue to serve on the long Mediterranean cruises, for which, indeed, she da comfortable enough. It was;, the short trips across Channel or to Copenhagen .that the Victoria and Albert- was found so lmhandy, while her great beam and mast height put her at a disadvantage in the Kiel Ca-nal, and to some extent in Aberdeen har- hour. It is for what may be termed the home service that the Alexandra has been specially designed, and one particular point in the vessel will be the various quick and .easy means of embarking and disembarking motor-cars, for times when the Royal pip-ty want to take a little drive.- The Dowager Empress of Russia-is said to be greatly enjoying her visit to London—find for one particular reason, that she can move. without the trouble of police protection., Ever since her Majesty came to our capital she has been free to go and come just as she pleased, and on several occasions she is said to have driven out" from Buckingham Palace, accom- panied only by a lady-in-waiting, in an ordinary. ihansom cab, and to have gone shopping in the West-end without any police vigilance, and without the public and the shopkeepers knowing who she was. When the Empress arrived in England no fewer than fifty mem- bers of the Russian Secret Police were in her train, but the majority of these have already gene back to Russia, while several of the London police-officers who were in attendance on her Majesty have now been dispensed with at her express desire. It is stated that the Empress has been victimised by many begging-letter writers during her visit, and she has received some 1,200 letters appealing for help in the course of a single week. It is a well-known fact that the Empress, though she is not at ail wealthy, never refuses an appeal for help. In Russia her charities are very extensive, and in Denmark there are many aged people, whom she knew when she was a Danish Prin- cess, to whom she has continued to act as a good fairy. The begging letters in London, however, became such a nuisance that the Empress has been obliged to put an end to iher -giving, and two members of her suite lhave been inquiring into the cases of the applicants. The Empress had been widely distributing gifts, and had parted with notes and other gifts to a total of nearly £ 1,000. It has now been discovered that. a. large num- ber of the recipients were professional-mendi- cants, and steps have been taken to prevent her Majesty being further victimised. A magnifice-nt, reception awaits the Colonial Premiers on their visit to the metropolis. A ilong list of festivities has been arranged--a list which includes entertainments by the King and the. Prince of Wales—and not since the King's Coronation festivities have so many engagements been crowded into so small a spa-ce of time indeed, so many have been the invitations that it. has been difficult to fit in even the chief ceremonies. The Ministers will be lodged as the guests of the country at the Hotel Cecil during their stay in Lon- don, each Minister with his own suite of rooms and a motor-car. This standard of hospitality was set at the Diamond Jubilee and Coronation. As on those occasions, Royal carriages and ser-vants in scarlet; livery will be at their beck and call night and day, and, as a speoial mark of honour, soldiers will be oil sentry at the approaches to the hotel. From the picturenquo point of view the grandest of the receptions given to the Pre- miers will be. the luncheon in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, April 24, at which the Prime Minister will preside., Twelve hun- dred members of both Houses of Parliament with their friends will be present, and the affair will be among 'the most noteworthy public functions of the last few years. Another entertainment that will be magnifi- cent in its way will be tie 1900 Club ban- quet at the Albert Hall, over which Mr. Bal- four will preside. On April 16, the freedom of the City of London will be conferred on the Premiers, they will be entertained by the Lord Mayor and City Corporation at the Guildhall, and golden caskets are now being made to hold the parchments for each Pre- mier. The Premiers will be the guests of the Eighty Club, at dinner, when between seven hundred and eight hundred guests are expected. Some difficulty is.being experienced in finding a. hall large enough to accommodate so many persons, and it is likely that Drury-lane Theatre will be chosen, and that after the dinner a reception will be held a.t the Foreign Office. The British Empire League is arranging a banquet for Thursday, May 2, and the Imperial Institute,' the Im- perial Industries; Club, and other bodies are anxious to entertain the Premiers as well. Beside the public banquets and luncheons, partie6, balls, and receptions will be given for the Premiers at many of the London ■Blouses. On April 15 the visitors will be the guests of Lady Beauchamp, and two days later they will be entertained by the Prince iand Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. The ball-room at Stafford House will be the venue of an evening party given by the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and Lord and Lady Derby will entertain our visitors at Derby House, in St. James's-squ'are, so sel- dom 01 opened for any but Royal entertain- ments. Lady Lansdowne has arranged a jgroafc reception at the mansion -in Berkeley- square, and Lady Wimborne-, Lady Crewe, Lady Portsmouth, and Lady Haversham are among the Government host-esses who are or- ganising functions in honour of the Ministers. Lord Strathcona is to entertain the visitors for a week-end at Knebworth, and other 6at urday-to-Monday parties are under con- sideration at Mont-more, Canford, Nuneham, and many other country houses. London's latest in the musio-hall- world is the Tvrol-ese giantess, Mariedl Fiss- ftiaiier, eight feet highland broad in propor- tion, who appeal's at the Hippodrome. London, she thinks, is very beautiful, more jbeautiful than, Berlin, than Munich, than the Tyrol. She likes it because it is so big. At her home, up on the top of the mountainsr the houses are tiny, and she hits the roof. But here there are plenty of places in which sho can stand upright. She was surprised that iin London they can make her a dress in a few hours, whereas at her home it takes more than a week—two peop:2 working all the time. One man, who would be facetious, called out to her, Is it cold up there?" Mariedl did not- know what he meant, and thought. it very curious. The giantess is only 27, and does not pretend to be beautiful, but she claims to stand higher than anyone else of her sex. Her voice is a deep baas, sound- ing like a man's- S. J.

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