The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-01-16
From the London News.
The Royal Ladies of Europe.

OF the three reigning Queens one (our
own) has fulfilled every rational anticipa-
ton of twenty years ago, both as to her
conduct and her experience. There is
one happy Queen, though not exactly in
the sense of always parading in her crown
and playing all day long, as children i'm
agine. Another, the Queen of Portugal,
has died early, after having suffered many
anxieties from the troubles always occur
ring in her retrogade little kingdom and
among her factious people. The lot of
the Queen of Spain no one would envy.
Civil war and personal danger through
out her childhood, and more than ordina-
ry royal misfortune in the deepest Of per-
sonal interest," were dreary beginning;
and it is needless to point out how little
enjoyment she has Of repose Of mind, Of
respect and attachment from her subjects,
or OF satisfaction from the world in gen
eral and her own people in particular
Turning from the reigning Queens 10 the
Consorts, what melancholy scene it is |!
Some have died young-as the Queen of
Sardinia-snatched away before her hus-
bands greatness could be even dimly for
seen; the young Queen Of Portugal, al
most before she had taken her scat in her
husbands kingdom and home; and the
Queen of the Belgians, grieving to leave
her husband to second widowhood, in
a situation of political difficulty, the more
anxious for being uncertain and obscure.
We can not bnt give thought here to
her sister-in-law, for, if banked Of her
supposed destiny, the late Duchess of Or
leans was regarded as first the wife and
then the mother Of sovereign of France.
There is no need to describe her disap-
pontments and sorrows any more than
her abilities and virtues. Not permitted
10 be regal, she was truly noble roya
lady in her day, showing herself equally
able to suffer and to act. The late EN-
press of Russia lived long after the world
expected her TO die worn out. Needing 9
life of tranquility and repose, she sacri
feed her health to the requisitions of court
life in Russia, and never knew peace o
mind from the day of the accession o
the Emperor Nicholas. The Queen o
Prussia is surviving her husband in an
other way, and is suffering more, perhaps
than her late sister-in-law in differen
way. She sees the King dead in min(
while alive in body, and she is under
stood to watch with angry grief the over
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resistance 10 liberalism in Prussia. TIL
Queens of Sweden and of Greece are q
opposite in their condition and their aim
as their respective countries are in aspec
and in prospect. The thoughtful an
quiet Scandinavian Queen studied th
means of popular reforms from the frs
moment when it was likely that the Kin
, would be able TO carry them through
and if on some points the King is NOR
liberal than his people, il is believed tha
he has sympathy at least from his wife
The romantic little German girl, who ha
: fond dream fulfilled in becoming Quee
Of Greece, cannot get the rest Of he
dream fulfilled. She might do mucl
! and win some glory, by devoting her er
> ergies 10 the welfare Of Greece in rs
tional way; but she rests her hopes o
Russia; and since the Crimean war sh
: has suffered from something more tha
! being disappointed of glory. Her life
clouded by humiliation and European di.
grace. Her origin and lot remind US {
4 the melancholy group of three young si'
I, ters from Bavaria, who have implicate
! ! their lives with the fortunes of despotisr
a at the moment when despotism can n
longer hold its ground. The Empress {
! Austria, having shed lapfuls Of tears oy,
: ! the prospects Of the empire and dome
tic griefs Of the keenest sort, is settin