The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-27
LOUIS NAPOLEoN'S VISIT TO ENGLAND :
EUGENE AND VICTORIA.

EUGENE AND VICTORIA.
The cockneys of London, and even the
verdsnt jewellers in the rural districts, are
all agog at the prospect of visit from Louis
Napoleon. The London correspondent Of
New York paper, expresses much tear
lest a spirit of servile adulation should DE
exhibited, which will bring the national cha
racter into disrepute. Il am not so much
afraid for London as for the Provinces, said
conservative gentleman to the correspon.
dent, sand should be glad to hear that ID
will keep to Windsor and its festivities
Court honors, however extravagant-knight.
ings, however i'll bestowed, will do no great
harm-honi soil Qui NAL 8, peuse-they will
be taken for not more than they are worth
The unmeaning politeness of high and high
est life for man ofexpediency, but God save
US from opportunities for mayors, sheriffs
councilmen, clerks and all the official and
ofticious small fry of provincial towns to dis
play their enthusiasm for cher Maj S
guests Such demonstrations would invest
the reception of Napoleon with character
which Windsor could never give to it, and
which would go far to ipjure our reputation
as a nation of ireemen, adverse to despots
and despotisms. -.t
Notwithstanding all this, the English, &C
cording to the correspondent, understand
Louis Napoleon; Gf they do, it is more than
any one else does;) they do not forget the
coup d. etat; they regard the French En-
peror as an adventurer, an outcast, a burglar,
a parvenu, but he is the powerful ally OF Eng
land and the respected guest of Her Most
Gracious Majesty. Consequently, Napoleon
will receive all sorts of honors and ovations
from Common Councils and from House OF
Commons. If the spirits of the dead could
revisit this earth and be made visible to man
what spectacle would be the little Corporal
rising in the midst of the royal banquet to
bis nephew, WITH the death dews of st. Hele
ma on his brow! England chained the hor
to desert rock in the ocean; but, the infe
rior animal in the lions skin, she has allowed
to become her master. --
But, whilst inwardly despising her French
ally, different sentiment seems to prevail
towards the fair and high spirited French
Empress. 81 need hardly Observe" say:
the correspondent, "that the Empress Euge
ME is the great object of prospective curiosi
| ty with the whole fair sex. There will be
| rush to see her, and Napoleon is surely mos
glad to have wife, who, having risen "from
the ranks" is certain to be looked for eager
ly by all the female population of any coun-
try. Why should Mrs. Smith not think her
daughter, Miss Eugene Smith, designed for
a position like Mademoiselle Montiio's? And
then, the comparisons to be drawn between
her and the Queen! What field for femi
nine conversation. 1 am rather afraid fol
poor Victoria. She is too much criticised
| even now, without being compared to any
one else She looks sulky, ill-natured, rather
pasSe, very common, proud, and great deal
more. She drinks,-she beats her children
she is awfully jealous, SO as to have once
locked out Prince Albert, who went home s
little after 1O,-she is most tyrannical to hel
servants, and boxes their ears &C., &c.
have heard all these remarks, not once, but
thousand times, not in one rank of society
but in all ranks. What will it be, when she
will be looked at, by the side of the smiling
beautiful and young Empress, who has no
been Princess2 1t is absolutely horrifyine
to think of the remarks in store for Her Ma
jesty. Loyalty has no power over female lip
that s0iH talk scandal" 20
Only to think of the English talking in tina
way about Queen Victoria! They must b,
getting tired of hereditary rule and petticoa
| government.