The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-07-18

SuiSneu Eastern soluler. In Ireland too,
on her visit to the Exhibition, she paid her
first and only visit to the nobleman of ma
ture, that giant of industry, William Dar-
gan, and when he vas pointed out in the
crowd, on her visit to that temple which
his generous munifcence had reared, for
getful OF the mobiles of rank around her.
and of all save her honest admiration, she
rushed forward with the joyous surprise
OF girl, and almost hugged him. n II y
The Queen has warm temper, and
that which is often an accompaniment, a
warm heart. Indeed, she is often COM
PEELED to place heavy chain on that re-
bellious member, in order to repress the
woman and maintain the Queen. At the
Countess Walewski's celebrated ball of
last season, she recognised at the door of
the saloon, and ran forward with look
OF JOY to greet, lady whom she had
known, when, suddenly recollecting, with
look half sorrowful, half playful, she
checked the affection of the woman, and
resumed the dignity of the Queen.
In person, Queen Victoria is about five
feet two, but the shortness of her neck
gives to her figure look of dumpiness.-
Her head is graceful and well set on, and
lsdore, who is minister of its exterior.
speaks in rapture ofthe length and lavish
luxuriaece of her hair, beneath whose fold
the small ear is nestled like pretty she ell.
He head and hand, which latter member
was wont to inspire that half patriot, half
bondsman enthusiasm Of O'Connell, are
her best points. Her eyes have the dull
leaden look common to the Guelphs her
skin is of a cream-colored hue; and her
expression unIeined, especially when
flu he'd. Yet there is about her a con-
seriousness other position, and so little dis
play of that consciousness, and her En-
gli'h self possession is SO felicitously com
blned with certain German bon .hommie,
or in this instance bonne. fcmmie, that even
those who know her only by sight carry
oft an impression that they have seen the
face of stereotyped but highly Y respectable
steady, domestic, jolly, good-hearted, ratll-
er choleric and exciteable, but well-dis-
posed, although small-brained English
woman of the Anglo German type. In
her morning garden dress, Of loose robe,
shawl and cottage hat, she looks to far
greater advantage than in fall evening
Costume. She has all the appearance of
rude health, but is occasionally prey to
fits of depression so deep, as to occasion
apprehensions of an attack of that malady
under which her grandfather, George the
Third, suffered, end to make constant
change Of air and scene essential.
Whether qualities she has, have been
diligently cultivated, but she is not, b !,
any means, what is termed in this coun.
try, smart" This is, for many reasons,
fortunate. Were she woman of supe.
rior endowments, she would have been
obnoxious to the aristocracy, who shrink
from nothing with greater distrust than
from whatever may be calculated to wound
their amour 1oropre, and remind them of
their mental and moral inferiority. Ifshe
were less fertile she would be less popu.
lar among the masses. The poor Irish or
English woman standing before one of
the pictures in the S rand, which repre-
sent the Queen with the royal babies a.
round her, feels flattered by the reflection
that the Queen, after all, has the same
propensities, instincts, aud affections as
rule her. The only class Of women who
may be said to dislike the Queen is the
numerous one Of broken-down, higl,-bred
shalby-genteel and pseudo-poetical wo-
man. They sneer at all the Queens do.
mestic propensities as The quintessence OF
vulgarity. =
When the swelling tides Of freedom,
education and practical Christianity, rous-
ing the manhood Of England to nobler
sense of dignity and keener shame of SER
Witty, shall have swept away, as some day
they must do, the old feudal aud monar-
shical institutions Of England, and left in
their stead a noble Anglo-Saxon Repub-
liean structure, the name of Victoria viii,
by the most passionate enemy Of royalty,
still be respected for the good qualities Of
the woman; and by its most indifferen,
friends for the chaste aureole Of virtue
which she has thrown around the throne
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There are men who may be called
martyrs Of good health; not content with
being we'll, they are .AIways wishing 70 Be
better, until they doctor themselves into
being confirmed insalids, md die ultima
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