Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-10
Queen Xfcfarla.

writer in the New York Tribune, who displavs
an intimate acquaintance with court gossip, gives
me following description of the domestic life of the
queen OF England
AS wife, the Queen is said to be jealous and ex-
achng. But she must indeed be desperate in her de-
manos, she s not satisfied with the severe strict
ness and decorous demeanor of the Prince She has
warm temper and that which is often it's accom-.
panment, a VAIN heart. Indeed, she is often com
pence to place heavy chain that rebelIious mem.
oer In order TO repress the woman and maintain the
queen AT the Countess Walewski's celebrated ball
OF last season, she recognized at the door of the sa
,ooh' ana ran forward with look of JOY to greet
iaoy whom she had known, when suddenly recollect-
ln1g' 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,
ont the shortness of her neck gives to her figure
LOOK OF dumplness Her head is graceful and we'll
set on and lsdore, who is minister of its exterior
speaks in rapture of the length and lavish luxuri.
ance OF her hair beneath whose fold the small ear is
nestled like pretty she'll. Her head and hand
"hlch latter member was went 10 inspire that half
patriot, half bondsman enthusiasm of OConnell are
her best points. Her ewes have the dull leadeu look
common 10 the Guelphs; her skin is OF cream-col.
oreo nue. and her expression unrefned, especially
when flushed. Yet there is about her a conscious
ness, OF her position, and little display of that
consciousness, and her English selfpossession is
tehcltously combined with certain German bon
nommle, or IN this instance bonnie femme that even
those who know her only by sight carry off an i'm
preston that they have seen the face of q stereo-
typed but hi ghly respectable, steady domestic, jolly
good rathsr cholerc and excitabIe but we'll
disposed, although small Drained English woman of
the AngIo.German type. In her morning garden
dress OF loose robe shawl and cottagehat she looks
10 TOR greater advantage than in full evening cos
tune. 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, and TO make constant change of
air and scene essential.
Whatever qualities she has have been diligently
cultivated, but she is not by any means what is
termed in this country smart This is, for many
reasons, fortunate Were she woman of superior
endowment she would have been obnoxious 10 the
arlstocracy, who shrink from nothing with greater
distrust than from whatever may be calculated to
wound their amour proprc and remind them of their
mental and moral inferiority. If she were less fer
tile she would be less popular among the masses
The poor Irish English woman standing before
one of the pictures in the Strand which represent
the Queen with the royal babies around her. feels
fattered by the reflection that the Queen after all
has the same propensities, instincts and affections
rule her. The only class of women who may be
said to dislike the Queen is the numerous one of
broken down, high. bred, shabby geneel and pseudo
Poetical women. They sheer at the Queens domes-
tic propensities the quntessence of vuIgarity -
They say she is only vrtuous because accident pa-
ces her in position which allows her to CRAFTY lux
uriousy every desire.