Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-06-17
Queen Victoria and Her children

| III queen flctorld nas not proved IN Otne
respects beneicient monarch to the people ant
Parliament of Great Britain there can be NJ
question that she would be considered as having
blessed them by atfording them, in the number
| # her children, abundant subjects of genera
,oncern. A new prince or princess every yea
is something to talk about, to go into the litur
y and afterwards very surely to into the bud
get, and as these offshoots of royalty begin t.
grow up to full stature, the question of foreigr
graft becomes pleasing matter of public discus
,ion. 1t is just as if the dog OF Alcbiades could
nave had his tail continually chopped of, year
utter year some remarkable reproduction of the
caudal extremity, to crafty the Athenian popu
lace and distract their attention from the pub
lie burthens and other nexpedient topics Of
,treet conversation. There is such q thing, in.
Iced, as rimbarras des richesses, and the chill
DIR n are beginning to jostle each other in tn.
newspapers in rather al uncomfortable manner
Thus o fresh arrival is announced at Bucking
ham Palace just as'the newspapers were begin
ming TO interest themselves with the disposition
hat is to be made of two of the larger ones BY
giving them to the Continent.
Concerning tie Prince OF Wales the principal
sources of intelligence in Great Britain have Civ
en- us very little information. There have been
some ugly reports in circulation that alread,
this Young gentleman has manifested a tenden-
cy towards the mental alteration which cloudeu
the declining years of his great grandfather
and we know that sometime during 1856 he
went off one fine day 10y the rail and was dis.
covered enjoying himself incog at a roadside
inn in the North Of England, and bargaining for
brace OF terriers that We're warranted to kill
so many rats in ten minutes. This showed q
considerable precocity for youth of seventeen
and Young America itself could hardly surpass
it. Indeed such q genius as the Prince OF
Wales displayed already for spending none!
"lke gentleman" like ''the finest gentleman in
Europe" that the Queen with proper maternal
affection, proposed some time ago to her Minis
Try to get Parliament to 7ote him Carlton House
us residence with moderate allowance Of
100000 year. But whether the memories Vi
Carlton House during the Regency were too
fresh in the minds of the people and too ira
grant of brandy. or whether the Minstr,
thouht the heir apparent might get along upon
less than FIVE thousand pounds a month, certain
it is that the matter was never mentioned to the
House of Commons, even though Mr.. Joseph
Hume, the faithful watchdog of the Treasury,
died most opportunely at the very time the sug
gestion was made by her Majesty.
The marriage of the Princess Alice to the son
of the King of Prussia which has been announ
ced for the ensuing autumn, has given rise to a
good deel of speculation rs to the political re
suits that may flow from it. If it were not that
the circle of selection tor husbands to the royal
daughters is so very circnmscrbed, they being
compelled to marry only their equals in rank and
fellow believers in religion, this Prussian marri
age might very possibly be broken off YET, like
many other more commonplace affairs of the
heart The vacilating and irresolute policy of
Prussia in the Eastern war was exceedingly dis
tasteful to the people Of England, and frequent
were the scarcaslns of the press reminding the
beery representative of the House of Branden
burg that he was very degenerate successor of
Frederick the Great, "Old Fritz" His maudin
moralzings and hiccup-y harangues to the army
were travestied in Punch with great effect, while
the Times thundered at him continually and
heavily. The recent news from Berlin that he
has been troubled about his faith and is going to
Rome to consult the Pope as a spiritual adviser,
will not be likely to increase his popularity in
Protestant Britain. Still the Prince of Prussia
is perhaps the best chance the Princess Alice
may have, and though that Kingdom is no long
er first rate power in the affairs of Europe, il
immeasurably above the Schinkenhausen and
iPnmpernickel prncipalities OF Deutschland,
which have heretofore furnished husbands to
the young ladies Of the Royal Family OF Eng
land
We are not at all surprised that the intention
of Her Majesty to make a Dutchman of the
Prince Alfred has created decided sensation at
home. That screne highness is now at the T.
University of Bonn and is not to return to Eng
land at all, being the hereditary HeFzog of his
fathers small establishment of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, where his valuable life is to be spent un-
less the contingency should arise, by the death
of the Prince of Wales, of his ascending the
British Throne. But the chance that such a
thing may happen very naturally renders the
subject of Victoria unwilling that the youth
should be brought mp wholly without the Eng
lsh tastes or atfinties, since in the line of the
Georges they had melancholy experience OF
Dutch rulers. Verify, how strange-we may
say, how ridiculous, does this bauble Of heredi-
tary authority appear to US Republicans, and
how difficult is it to comprehend that the des-
TIMES of millions of enlightened people, whose
history is frightened by the names of Shak
speare and Bacon and Milton and Chatham and
Somers, may be materially affected by the train
ing of child at home or abroad, and his nonr-
ishment on brown stout or lager beer!-Balt
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