The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-11-14

Who'll of his long hoaded wealth to her,
ana nnk into peaceful slumber, from
whici he never woke in this world.
A ROYAL SCANDAL.
TheGreat Truth About Queen
VEEoria--Her Pecularities and
Tn Causes Of Her Unpopular
its
years ago, or thereabouts, a
wrets rises paper, published in Lau-
saESfk gIand. INDUCED itself in
som, -, N stories about the Queen
of yin; aud the British repre-
seutA ~ ,rne,s or o,ssespf his subor-
dina 20 tollsdi d sssdsssd ssdIs RAJ ate the libel
into sxexses,esrRrrr the jour
Ia M n AN, a v;e,alia
fo,,,, pc done at shortest ! before
ii elfI pen expression. A weekly
I fpilm - 7td the T1maholck, was started
in IN, aud it made itself famous at
onO csrtoon entitled "a Brown
SIT This artist represented heavy
los y Scotshman, of the lower class.
witEf4nt and sporran, standing on the
steps die the British throne, while the
Britt. beion gaze1 from below with won
derins puzzled eyes at the audacious
and n.- -kai0nt ntruder-somewb as
Thea .seror Alexis Comnerius, in Scotts
novel locked astounded at the Frank
Count Robert of Paxis, loungng on the
Imperial seat. The cartoon in the Tom
ahawk was admirably executed it was
the work Of man OF genius in his way
Matt Morgan one of the principal
scene painters of Convent Garden Thea
ter. The paper, which had not then and
has not had since any literary merit
whatever, became celebrated and popular
in moment. People were scandalized,
shocked, amused, aroused. Toniahawk's
cartoon had, in fact, illustrated what ev-
cry ybody had been talking about, won
dering mt and grumbling over.
This is the scandal about Queen Vie
torla In her personal service, he's most
a
groom, or gille, named John Brown. He
rides on the box of her carriage, he
hands her in, he hands her out, he eloaks
her, shawls her.. opens doors for her. is
always near her. Popular rumor, AYERS
that he sleeps on a rug outside her bed
room door and, although this certainly
is not his habit, it is beyond doubt that
he has done so occasionally, while the
Queen was travelling. He has been so
closely indeed in attendance on the
the tEen that unquestionably there
migbAe grave cause for scandal were
he o or a Potemkin, even though
she Ia Mary Stuart or a Catha.
n Hud. Add to this that the
family of Brunswick have
kgenerations been always
- a SON But. said
II lady to George
Icess and the Earl
4egier into considera-
all the West End trades
kers, milliners, cooks and
n .utely detest Queen Victoria,
becI the dulness created by her
long ement; and that it has become
an at ol Ialth Win All that CLASS thaC
the 4ression of trade and even the
fnanck collapse of England are to be
directly attributed to the Queens pro-
tracted and inconveLient seclusion.-
Think then how delighted all that class
must have been when it first became
Whispered about that the sorrow of the
royal lady was not quite heavenly, after
all. Isit wonderful that the scandal
was eagerly and delightcdly spread? In
fact, people busily spread it who did not
in their hearts believe it and before
long it became the universal talk-a
whisper of London. The Queen began
to bespken of in slang phrase as "Mrs.
Brown Punch one day published, un-
der the head of Court News the an
nouncepent that Mrs. John Brown
walked On the slopes yesterday" Great
mirth was created once by an odd tumble
of name in London daily paper, which
giving report of some popular demon
stratiou said the proceedings closed with
the singing of God Save the Queen and
ohm Brwn''-the fact meant to be con
veyed bling that the meeting sang the
national anthem, and also our famous
y Ilu ~ thC hiStt4piy VI tiO AAdi PCT
Ferry Ahrtyr. Things went so far that
the Quen in her recent book actually
insertela passage explaining the posi-
ton OF J oAn Brown in her household
1t is ne.dlesL5t3 say that those who love
scandal and ike TO believe it none the
less bec,use of this well-meant attempt
at explanation.
Whs is the exact truth in all this ?
The Qseen is a good, pure, true hearted
woman-a little given to eccentricity at
the be s.& times, lately SO shaken and
even in nerves as te~be occa-
-. u 90 - : u
This an honest, dense,
thinks Seotchman, was faithful
servs y Prince Albert. His face and
name T'e associated with the memory of
some et Victoria's very happiest days.
How tRderly she loved her husband,
how she ibigbted in his society, nobody
needs teBe told. The classic woman
who se xIowed the ashes of her dead lord
did nc S.Te mere wholly and absorbing
ly thahdid the heavy-featured uninter-
estingkueen of England. She clings
to TIL s. servant of her husband as she
might &her husbands dog. But it is
beyonssll question that certain faint
of nervous excitability-one does not
like to fIli4it madness-is an element IN
the feelings which inspire the Queen to
defy sclndal in England. tits common
l., s.;d - .Lozo ,rbo defend tho OueeD