New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-20

loyal Tory. Never perhaps was this more UNANIMOUSLY
evidenced than in the eagerness with which most
painful event in the circle Of royalty was seized on ~
that party to feeling against the young queen,
and fix upon her name stain Of hearess and uDgeD-
erous cruelty which, though dimmed, has not yet been
obliterated. Where the circumstance was one which
as dragged into public light with such brutal vgor to
damage the honor of lady like the Queen, it would
no sacrificing Justice to false deicacy not to speak
some facts which have not yet been spoken, because
in England il were impossible TO utter them but which,
when known, must completely relieve Victorias name
If even the faintest stain.
The court of the Guephs with the exception of that
of George the ILL., who was sober stubborn, sell
FISH, but decent and decorous BRUTE was one big broth
ell flushed with the filthy fulness of luxury, hcentious
ness and lust Through the gutter of voluptu
business in which il wallowed not even ripple of
sentiment could trckle its way. Even round the sailor
King who preceded Victoria, the seeds of his early
proAigacy had gathered in rich and most luzuriant
crop To the present Queen was left to present to the
world a royal court whose pure mirror does not wear
STAIN and which is fast reversing that order Of things
which counted modest virtue bore and hashy vice
the fashion. Eagerly watched as she was by the
keen eye of faction, it became rebly necessary to
the Queen not to let even the shadow of suspicion
cross the royal gate The relation in which her
mother, the Duchess of Kent, stood to Sir John Con-
roy, though perhaps It never gided over that very
fraiI and delicate line which where a and
woman are concerned separates platonicism from
its less ethereal neighbor, nevertheless gave
TO the lounger and the roue that molehill out
of which prurent gossip with touch of
its wand can create mountain of illfame.
IT. md
Adelaide, the relations maintained between the
Duchess and Sir john and the character of the men
by whom the future Queen in the year previous to
her accession was surrounded at Kensington, were a
subject of undisgused dispeasure. AT the evees the
King invariably turned his back on the Duchess
equerry. and exhibited all the symptoms of disgust.
Unfortunately like many parvenus, Sir John did not
even exhibit that outward reeaue always observed by
we'll bred people, however elevated by fortune which
avoids the possibility of compromise, suspicion or i'm
putaton He rather made parade of the extent OF his
influence. Nor was Baron Stockmar, or Colonel
Caradoc the young Ganymede of Kensington, OF
spotless reputation. The latter was especially re-
nowned for his har-breadth escapes not in the tented
field but in more Paphian warfare.
The consequence was that feeling which assumed in
public the form of GOODNESS and in private hate
grew up between the palaces of Buckingham and
Kensington. And when the Duchess, on the Princess
reaching the golden age of eighteen, applied for an
allowance from Parliament in addition to that she
already received of egg 900 per annum, the King
placed veto any further grant, but offered to adj
vance ten thousand year out of his own privy purse
on condition of its being administered through some
other hands than those of Sir John Conroy. The pro-
posa was deemed offensive as even to place bar
rier between Victoria and her unce's dying bed
The whisper of scandal which naturally avoided the
ear of the daughter reached that of the Sow
ereign occasionng an anxiety and uneasiness which
were not lessened by the determined refusal of the
Duchess of Kent to sacrifice what she maintained was
friendship at the shrine of gddy gossip and roue re-
port and alter the personnel of her household The
buzz and bite of the musketoes of scandal who nest
the air Of courts freed the Queen, and when the pro-
truding contour Of lady of the Duchess suite gave
to gossip before rife but perhaps unreal positive
form and shape the Queen deemed it necessary to the
character of the Court either to be satisfied that the
scandal was false, else not to permit it to stain
further her society and circle In this resolution she
was upheld by the purest and gentlest of Engand's
aristocracy who if an error was committed, were
far more culpabe than their young Queen. 1t
was happily found, however, that the appearance
which gave rise TO and justified these suspicious
was the result of disease. What had been private
and necessary inquiry, however, was converted into
public and heartless outrage. The friends of Lady
Flora Hastings rose in rash revenge Faction which
a few weeks before had mourned in melancholy whis-
per over the glaring vice of the court now rallied
against its affected virtue. The people, always on the
generous-even If mistaken-sde, saw not and thought
not of the circumstances which surrounded it, but
Rugged with their huge sympathy an innocent girl
whom they believed to be rudey wronged. She was
thus made the toy of painful notoriety the Queen
the victim of unjust anger. But what mat
tered to Faction The cry of "Our Youthful Queen
| became more subdued-that of "Our Old Censtitu-
! ton fercer. We turn TO brighter scene.
On the I'd of June, 1888, the old Abbey of West
minister wore one of her glorious looks and unolded
new page in her emblazoned story.
In King Edwards chair young lady sat- -Four
Knights of the Garer-the Lords of Rutland and Buo
cleuh and Exeter and Angesey-held above her head
cloth of gold The Dean of Westminster took the
ampuls from the altar. With steady hand he poured
ten drops of oil into the anointng-spoon The Arch
bishop touched Herewith the royal head and hand
and making the form of the Cross, he lifted up bis
voice and said:
Anoinied with holy oil kings priests and proPh
anonted And Solomon anorted king BY LsdoC
the Priest Nathan the Prophet be thou anoined blessed
and QUEEN this people whom the Lord you
God hath you rule and In the Of the ia
ther, of the Son, and Of the Holy Ghost. Amen"
And the Archbishop taking the crown from the Dean
placed it with graceful reverence the head of the
young lady. Immediately there rose from floor to
roof one wild enthusiastic shout" God save the
Queen ThePeers put their coronsts the Bishops
their caps the KingsatArms their crowns, the Beef
eaters their porringer hats. The trumpet sounded,
the drum beat and the boom Of the Park guns borne