The Van Buren press., 1860-03-16

n GAY 1oUNG PRINcE.-English society
in Paris just now finds nice bit Of Sos
sip in the movements of the young Prince
of Orange, who has been in France for a
month past. This young Princc-about
twenty years of age, and heir to the throne
of Holland, is destined, as you already
know, to marry the Princess Alice, second
daughter ef Queen Victoria. But the Queen
having herself made marriage of inclina-
ton, holds essentially to the doctrine that
her children should have the same right,
and thus it was arranged that after short
stay at Paris, the young Prince was to so
to Windsor, to make himself agreeable to
the Princess Alice, or in other words that
there should be a little counting prelimina-
ry to the signing of the marriage contract.
Just before the time fixed for uie visit to
London, the Queen learned from Paris, by
some means or other, that the young Prince
had found some agreeable, if not very re-
spectacle, company. in the gay French cap
ital and that, to sum up the Princes French
visit in one word, he had been going it. -
Now the Queen is a COOL mother and 4
good woman, as every one knows, and does
not approve of such peccadilloes even in a
Prince so just as his juvenile Highnoss
was on the point of leaving Paris for Lon
don, he received a telcgraphic despatch
from the Hague, pcremptorily ordering him
to foreSo his visit to London, and start in
stantly for Bordeaux The Princes as
toni>hment knew no bounds Who ever
heard of Prince being called to the staid
old vine growing, brandy making town of
Bordeaux What did it all mean? But
the order came from the King his father,
and must he obeycd. The Queen was not
willing to receive the young gentleman in
to her family fresh from his Partisan con
quests, and thought a ventilation in the di-
rccticn of Bordcaux, and a little penitence,
would do no harm before allowing him to
come t" between the wind and her Majesty"
She SO intimated to King William Of lIol-
land, who seems to have held the same
opinion.
But now comes the most amusing part OF
the history, and part which had not cross
ed the channel. The party had not gone
! far on the way TO Bordeaux, when the Off
GERS who form the suite of the young Prince
and who are charged with the safe keeping
Of his person as we'll as his morals, fonnd
to their CONSERVATION that three young la
dies, bellies of the photographic corps of the
Grand Opera, and the particular admiration
Of the Prince, were in the cars Here was
a situation for men charged with SO onerous
burden.
But we draw the veil over the mclan
choly journey to Bordeaux, and return with
the Prince to Paris.
The stay at Bordeaux was short, and th'
party FASTENED back to Paris. glad, after 81
short penltencc, to get on the way to Lon
don. But mistake had been made in no
indicating to the Prince how long he was tt
stay at Bordeaux and when it was found
at the end of four days that he was again il
Paris, an order came that he should at one,
leave the dangerous city and so to Cher
bourg-and there the Prince is to-day
What will be the termination of this singu
lar mode of schooling to the young Primes
we cannot tell, but it is 70 be hoped that Ia
will get safely through his publication, ant
that :" all's well that ends WE'LL"
Ey jenkins was noted for his courag
and his vixen of wife. He was not alrai,
of man or his wife, either. His friends ha,
often tried to scare him. but had always fail
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