Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-25
Queen Victoria and her Wavs,

will not drive through the royal gate
way of the Palace, nor has she since her
husband died She will not ride through
the royal enterance to the House of lords
but goes. in through the Peers entrance
She will not wear the Royal robes, and
when she opens Parliament in person,
the robes are thrown over the back of the
throne, which is gilded chair sqrmount-
ed with a gilt crown and sits on them.-
She comes to London when duty calls,
seldom passes night in her capital and
has passed less than dozen in fur
years She remains quiet at Windsor
or Osborne. She has no company but
what her official position imposes on her.
The state apartments at Windsor are all
dismantled and are unused-the massive
plate is not used, plain silver service is
put on the table-a small, quiet pony
and low carriage the Queen uses for
her private: rides at Windsor, and she
seldom, unless duty calls her to London,
goes beyond the private park of the Cas-
tie. The one hundred horses that fill the
Windsor news are seldom used and the
eight creams for state occasions are not
driven twice year.
The room in which the Prince Consort
breathed his last is kept with scrupulous
care, just as the Prince left it. The ladies'
say that each night the dressing gown
and slippers are put in their accustomed
place. The Queens confidential attend
ant is a Highlander by the name OF
Brown He takes all the orders from
the Queen,-and bare-legged messengers
come from the "Queens Apartments" at
Windsor when her Majesty is to be
served This Brown has been the occa-
sion of world OF talk. He is abont fif-
ty-tall and spare-with great assurance
and attends the Queen to and from Lon
don. Great attempts have been made 70
dislodge him, but all in vain. The Queen
has a will of her own. Brown was the
Prince Csnsort's Highland Servant, and
was held by him in all honor. While Vic
toria rules England, Brown will rule the
Royal household. -
The attempt to compel the Queen to
dwell in London and make show of
royalty has about been abandoned The
coming of the Princess was hailed with
rapture-so young, SO amiable, so ele-
giant, so graceful and courtlyEwithal
the daughter of king. She met with
a warm welcome, and seems to promise
revival Of the splendors Of royality.-
Her sickness is lamented-her death
would be greatly deplofed. ,
Refusing to play the Queen, Her Ma
.jesty has never forgotten to play the
woman. Her visit to Balmoral and Os-
bornis a. benediction to the poor. She
will allow no unseemly honor. She
drives her own pony wagon. Daily she
goes her rounds, with her carriage filled
with little gifts for the sick, the infrm,
the poor. These she distributes with her
own hand. By the bedside of the aged
and neglected the JQneen kneels and
prays to the Sovereign ofall. To one she
daily reads, to another she presents some
needed comfort; and she is especially
to the little ones who are in want. All
through the highlands she is regarded as
an angel Of mercy.
Her favorite room at Windsor over
looks the tombs at Frogmore, where
p rince Albert lies. He was benefactor
to the poor, and the work he began she
seems resolved to finish. The night he
died the Queen called in a young widow
who was in her household to sit with her
and when all was over the Queen said :
s'No one now lives that can call me Vic
toria." ..,.s.a., ~ -. .-2 p-rt
Neg1ecting no duty that the nation has
a right to ask at her hand, the Queen has
taken public leave of mere display and
laid aside the mere baubles of froyality.-
Her benefactions are princely, but main
ly among the poor and to institutions cal
culated to bless poor and neglected chill
dren Mr. Peabody's donation in Lon
don touched the Queens heart because it
carried out work to which Prince Al
bert devoted the closing hours of his life
the attempt to make comfortable the
homes of the industrious toilers in the
land. "a