The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

And drink and pray for goOdald'a-4ueen,
Victoria!"
It is to visit this well and memorial so fraught with
mammy of the past that tier Majesty hu paid the
recant vibit.

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH AND THE QUEEN OF
SPAIN.— Let me give your fair readers the last news
Irons Biarritz, where the Empress has been sororising
(I suppose that is the proper word when ladies are
concerned, and not fraternising) with the Queen of
Spain. In the first place (sAys the correspondent whom
I quote, the style will betray the sex of the writer),
the bathing apartment of the Emnrese was not smashed;
it was all a dam. At the meeting of the royal holies
the Empress wore a drere of black silk, trimmed with
jet, and a bonnet of black tulle; her hair onde. (What.
ever does that mean—is it wary?) She also wore two
curls en reperdirs (what's that f— creepersl, bt,sides boucles
MillUiletalS on her forehead. (I hope that is quite
intelligible. I presume this hairdresser's slang means
that she disfigured her face with a row of curls such as
we see on some of the portraits of Queen Henrietta
as if a mischievous boy had been drawing circles with
his compaares on her forehead.) The Queen of Spain
wore a low dress a Otte Marie Antoinette (a handker-
chief tied over the shoulders as in the painting repre-
senting that unhappy Queen listening to the warrant
for her executien.) It was faste ed with eplendid
bouquets of fliamonds on her shoulders and in front of
her dress, and she wore a necklace and diadem all one
blase of jewels. " But then," wide the writer, as if
with a sigh, "but then she is so fat !"—London
Correspondent.

PICTORIAL IMPRRTINISNOE.—A self-taught artist, a
baker at Tunbridge Wells, has sent to the indnstrial
exhibition in that town an oil painting, insignificant
enough as a work of art, but strongly indicative of the
feeling which prevades all clawes as to the attitude of
mourning which Her Majesty still maintains. The
picture represents the Queen of England in widow's
weeds, seated by a table, over which is suspended a full-
length likeness of the late Prince Consort. Her
children stand around her. • At her feet the aged
Premier is kneeling, holding in one hand the crown,
which he is attempting to replace on her head, and
with the ether pointing to a deputation of her subjects
who have come to implore her to cheer up. The
deputation is headed by the Duke of Otiobridge, the
Lord Chancellor. the Archbishop of Canterbury, and
the speaker of the House of Commons. Behind them
are grouped several officers of the army, navy, and
volunteers, Mr. Davis, the Queen's huntsman, and
• crowd of artisans and peasanta in their working
dresses. In the background is the empty throne, to
which the Premier is seeking to CORI his reluctant
Sovereign. Thia affecting inscription, in large gold
I.ttere, la attached to the picture : —Her Majesty's
loyal subjects implore their Most Granious Queen to lay
wide her griefs and resume her Royal duties." The
ilace of honour in the exhibition has been conceded to
this remarkable production—Pall Mall Gazette. [The
"artist" ignoring the real °than of the paragraph writes
to the Ti,s denying that he is a baker, and claiming
to be a carver and gilder—very Hcely he would
have ultimately "baked" his picture, however, to make
it after the old mastera—" a long way after," as
Thackeray bag it.]