The Portland daily press., 1868-11-06
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND
Friday Morning, November 6, 1863,
Qa.en Victoria and the Prince of w ale

Qa.en Victoria and the Prince of W aies.
In the last number OF the Independent, an
English letter-writer, after referring to the Ia
miliar "John Brown scandal" speaks as fol-
lows of the Queen OF England and her heir
What is the exact truth in all this? The
queen is good. pure, true-hearted woman
htIie given 10 eccentriclty at the best OF
times, lately SO shaken and even shattered in
nerves as 10 De occasionally not quite mis-
est, dense, thick headed Scotchman. was n
a faithful servant OF Prince Albert. His face
and name are associated with the memory of
some OF Victoria's very happiest DAYS. How
tenderly she loved her husband, how she de-
llghted in his society, nobody neeGs to be
told. The classic woman who swallowed the
ashes OF her dead lord did not love more
Whohy and absorbingy than did the heavy
featured unintelesting Queen of England.
one cIngs 10 the Old servant of her husband
az sne mlSht 10 her husbands dog. But it is
Deyond all question that a certain tant OF
nervous excitability-one does not like 10 call
it madness-is an element in the feelinos
which inspire the Queen to defy scandal In
England II is commonly said by those who
defend the Queen that she labors under The
delusion that the soul oil Prince Albert has
been transused into the homeIy frame NJ
John Brown. This is a wild exayoeration
but II is quite true that the manner in which
the Queen connects the memory OF Prince
Albert with the presence of John Brown has
something morbid, fantastic, and almost
mono-maniacal in it. Ii it is not madness
yet that way madness lies) she has frequent
nts OF nervous irritation, which would seem
10 those unaccustomed to them to border Nd
on frenzy. Not long since this story is the
simple TRUTH two OF the cabinet ministers
were at Osborne, conversing in sort of in
formal council with her Majesty. A page,
charged with some message, tapped at the
door-two or three light taps. 1he Queen,
who had been talking and listening with great
interest, became so startled and excited by
the sound that she screamed, sprang up, paced
the room in the widest alarm. and for a Ion o
time was utterly unable to settle down to
calm and rational conversation Of any kind
Under the influence of morbid attacks like
these, there is sometimes little reliance 10 be
placed on what the Queen may say, or deter
mine, or do. She was always somewhat in
cilned to be headstroDg; now she is apt to
form sudden plans, or take sudden resolves,
from which nothing can divert her. She will
leave London, and lush to Osborne or to Bal
moral, at the most critical period OF a session.
at moment when change Ot ministry NAV
be impending; and. when she has resolved ON
any such escdpdde, Do remonstrance or ad-
vice can dlssuade her. In this way she has
persisted in keeping John Brown as her per-
sonal attendant, and allowing him to be con-
spicuoas in his attentions everywhere; and
no servants hall or club scandal can induce
her to send him into the background, or to
alter her friendly department toward him.
Unquestionably, this is unwise; but Queen
Victoria is not in a mental condition from
which wisdom can be always expected. She
is not mad-that is all any one can venture
to say. Ta11- E.a
She is unpopular-widely and profoundly
unpopular. Not in the active, aggressive
sense-not as George the third was once un-
popular, when brickbats and stones were
pelted at his carriage; not as Adelaide, vile
OF William the foulth was unpopular, when
tumultuous meeting at Charing Cross
threw up handkerchiets in delight at O'Con-
nelfs daring alusiOn to Whitehall and the
sovereis who lost his head there because he
allowed himse + to be guided by his foreign
wie-in no such sense is Victoria unpopular.
But the mass OF her people have ceased to
care about her, the West End dislikes her,
gentility ISLANDERS her, funkeyism girds at her.
OF personal loyalty to her there is little or
none. A few high-minded politicians and
their followers respect her virtues and pity
her great sorrows; but ardent loyalty to her
is dead. A distinguished Nova Scotiau, late
ly in London, and fresh with all the feryor of
the old-fashioned colonial loyalty, confessed
to the writer OF this article the profound dis
appointment which came over him when he
found that, 60 where he would in the British
capital, his loyal professions were received
with wondering, puzzled, half-contemptuous
incredulity. .4-.-.----s --..s-.----~ -
Does any one in England desire that the
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