The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-12
VICTORIA.
Her Uapopularit5 Her Insane .DevO-
tfOn to the Dead Albert--is She Mad
The Young Rake Wales.

the lOung Rake Wales.
4 late article in the NeU York hide
pendent, referring to the many rumors
which, based upon upon Victoria eccen-
tricities, have pronounced her Majesty in
sane says:
sW hat is the exact truth of all this
The Queen is a pure good true hearted
woman-a little given to eccentrlclty at
the best of times. lately so shaken and
even SO shattered In nerves as to be oc-
sionaly not quite mistress of herself.
This John Brown, an honest, dense,
thick headed Scotchman, was afaithful SER
want of Prince Albert. His face and
name are associated with some of Nicto-
ria very happiest days. How tenderly
she loved her husband how she delight
ed in his society, nobody needs to be
told. The classic woman who swallowed
the ashes OF her dead lord did not love
more wholly absorbingly than did che
heavy featured, uninterestlng queen OF
England She ciings to the old servant
of her husband as she might to her hus-
band dog. But it is beyond all question
that certain fact OF nervous excltablll-
ty-one does not like to call it madness
is an element in the feelings Which In
spire The Queen to defy scandal i'll Eng
land. 1t is commonly said by those who
defend the Queen that she laburs under
the delusion that the soul Of Prince Al
bert has been transtusad into the honieiy
frame of John Brown. This is a wide ex-
aggeration ; but it Is quite true that the
,rhi,h { f.,aoy I ba
memory of Prince Albert with the pres
ence of John Brown has something NOR
bid, fantastic, ;ind almost nononianlacat
in it but is not mad e yet that way mad
ness lies, )she ha7 frequent fits of nervous
irritation, which would seem to those un-
accu stoned to them to border upon fren-
zy. Not long since this story Is the SIM
pie truth two Of the Cabinet Ministers
were at Osborne, conversing in a sort OF
informal counaii with her Majesty. A
page, charged with some message, tap
D ID at the do ,r--two three hit taps. The
Queen. who hal heen talking and listen
ing with great interest, became SO start
ed and excited by so nd that she scream
ed, sprang up, paced the room in the
widest alarm aud for long time was
utterly unable to settle down to calm and
rational conversation of any kind. Tn
der the inhue ICE OF morbid attacks like
these, there is sometimes little reliance
to De placed on What the Queen may say
or determine, or do. She was always
somewhat inclined to be headstrcng; now
she is apt to form sudden resolves, from
which nothing can divert her. She will
Leave London. and rti.h to 0 borne Or to
Balmo.1l at the most critical period OF
a session, at 4 moment whcD change OF
minist Y may Be IL. .ellng land when she
had resolved on any such c<r1padr, no
ren1onstrallce ora lyice can dissuaao her
In this way sh4 la, persisted in keeping
John Bro yn as her personal attendant,
and allowing him 20 ]! c con ri uoi.s in his
attentions evc.yv' ere ana ~ servant 5
hall or club scandal can induce her to
p ace him in bacjG graunl, or alter her
friendly dcno~fment toward him. I'm
questionably, this Is We; hat Queen
VI: II i not in 3 mental condition from
which wisdonl san !2r always expected.
$hc ie not mal-.ha al ANY o.io Ca.
We ltu~c 70 say.
She Is unp9p3 ar--w,d !ly and pro
fol l,iv unpopular. Not in the active
aggressive sen 3e-,iot as George chs Third
was once unpopular when brick bats and
It tnnes we're pel1ed at his carriage not a,
Adc.aitic. wifi nf William the Fourth
was unpopular, wheu "a tum!l:oaS meet
ing at Charing Gross threw I'D banker
chiefs In delight at Connell's darin2
alluSion to Whitehall and the sovereign
who lost his head there because he allow
ed himself to be guided by his foreign
wife-in no such sense is Victoria un
popular. But the mass of her people
have ceased to care about. her. the Yves,
End dislikes her. pentflitv SANDERS her
auBkvism ci, ds at her Of personal loy.
atty to her there slittle or none. A fes
high minded politicians respect her vir-
tues and pitv her great sorrows; but ar
dent loyaitu toward her is dead. A dis
tinn;S he'd Nova Sco+i,, ,latnlv in Lon.
don. and fresh with ali the fervor Of the
old fashioned colonial LOYALTY confessed
te the writer of this article the profound
tlissapointment which came over him
when he found that. 90 where he would
in the British capitaI his loyal profession.
were receiv 4d with wandering. puzzled
half contemntious incredulits.
Does any one in England desire tla,
the Queen should abdicate? The West
End tradesmen. dressm,kers. and lackeys
perhaps; but surely no one else The
Prince OF Wales is not a person whose
accession to the throne anv rational and
without anxiety He is fat heavy
ioutish young man: growing every day
tut,rtl and ,,o,,, of tho ro,r,,l,r y