The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-08

British Court Morals.
Considerable excitement has been occa-
stoned in fashionable circles in England, by
the official announcement of the Lord Cham.
berlain, that certain Mrs. DUNCAN STEW
ART was presented by "inadvertence" to the
Queen. In the foreign gossip by the last
arrival, we find the following:
The plain English of this is, that discovery
had subsequently been made of some by
gone scandal in which Mrs. Duncan Stewart
was implicated, and which the austerly vir.
tuous Victoria regarded as sufficient to ban.
ish the unfortunate lady from her Court.
So the brand is stamped upon Mrs. Duncan
Stewart in a most offensive and public
manner. a'
All the Duncan Stewards, of whom Scot.
land alone can turn out host in every
quarter of the Queens dominions, are wri-
ting to the Times denials, on the part of in
dignant spouses, of their being the particular
lady doomed, and everybody is asking every
body who Mrs. Duncan Stewart is. Two
years since, a Mrs. Mcdowell, wife of the
Colonel of the I'd Life Guards, was made
the subject of similar notice of " inadver>
tence." For some few years of early love,
she had forgotten to obtain the usual mar
riage certificate, but had subsequently been
legally welded, and hoped that many years
of irreproachable excellence in private life
had atoned for this early error but the
stern morality of Queen Victorias Court
sterner even than that of the good Queen
Charlotte-would not even permit such
palliation.
A similar affair happened a few years
since, and the branded lady grieved herself
into the grave. The case of Lady Flora
Hastings is not forgotten by the public, and
probably while many exclaim with rever-
ence, " See what strictly virtuous Court
is the Court of our Sovereign lady, Queen
Victoria" Others may entertain the suspi-
cion-just the bare suspicion true
virtue, conscious of its own purity, and in
its innocence unsuspicious of guilt in others,
would scarcely deem such rigorous discipline
needed to make its own good qualities ap-
parent.
While Queen Victoria is thus rigorous
with her own sex, the same foreign gossip
from which the above is taken contains an
allusion to the bastards of her own blood,
the children of her cousin, the Duke of Cam
bridge and Commander-in,C Chief of the Brit
ish Army: ~
1t is known that, like his uncle, the late
King William w., who lived for so many
years with the fascinating Mrs. Jordan, the
Duke has now, for some twelve years, lived
with another actress, Miss Fairbrother, cell
ebrated under the Vestris regime at the Ly-
ceum Theatre for the magnifcence of her 10.
comotion, by whom be has had fse children,
and to whom he is devotedy attached. When
the fruit of such Legitimate joys, as in the
case of Fitzclances, come to be pensioned
from the public purse, &c.
A sensitive SUI bject OF Victoria was recently
much annoyed by an allusion in the New
York Times to the amount of money which
the Duke received as pensioner of royal
connections, and replied in communication
urging very coolly that his income is only
about 100000 or 100000 per annum, adj
ding,
And, having Of late purchased much land
he is not able to be as charitable as his
heart dictates. He is very transformations
in his bounty, and know of many instances
in which he has been remarkably generous
He has five children to educate and put forth
in the world, as they, being aAegitimate &c.
Here is another item of gossip illustrating
the morals of British society
Lord Cardigan with his latest victim, the
last Lady Cardigan, leaning on his arm,
may be seen every Sunday afternoon on the
Serpentine walk. Thoug h now approach~
ing sixty, he carries his age with the most
elastic buoyancy. And with his 1.-THE,
vigorous figure and dashing air, is still the
beau idea of light dragon. The present
Lady Cardigan, who, before her marriage,
was considered one of the lovliest flowers in
the garden of aristocratic English beauty, is
the third plucked from that conservatory
by the same sensual hand, not to mention
numerous ravages in more lovely quarters.
his first wife be eloped with from her hus-
band, Major Johnstonn, of the 9th Regi-
ment of the line his next victim was Lady
Lesson, the wife of Sir VIM. Lesson, Cham>
berlain of Dublin Castle, who died shortly
after her guilty fight, on board of his yacht
off the coast of Scotland and the third, his
present wife, who is daughter of one of the
Oldest houses in England, be also carried off
in his yacht during the lifetime of his late
wife. The poor girl seems to cling to her
brazen, defant-looking lord for protection,
and shrinks from the gaze of the passers-by
with that look of settled sorrow, which, to
sensitive nature, the consciousness of her
false position brings. 9-.-