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


so startled by the sound THAI she scream
ed, sprang up, paced the room in the
widest alarm, and for long time was
utterly unable to settle down to calm and
rational conversation of any kind. I'm
der the influence of morbid attacks like
these, there is sometimes little reliance
TO be placed on what the Queen may say,
or determine, or do. She was always
somewhat inclined to be head strong
now she is apt to form sudden plans, or
take sudden resolves, from which moth
ing can divert her. She will leave LSh
don, rush to Osborne or to Balmoral, at
the most critical period of a session, at
a moment when a change of ministry
may be impending and, when she has
resolved on any such escapade, no re-
monstrance or advice can dissuaae her.
In this way she has persisted in = eeping
John Brown as her personal attendant,
and allowing him to be conspicuous in
his attentions everywhere; and no SER
wants hall or club scandal can induce
.sAs. to send him iuta.the back9rss ,s-,,,,,,i;s.
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but Queen NsctSrla Is not ma mental
condition from which wisdom can be al
ways expected. She is not mad-that is
all any one can venture TO say.
She is unpopular-widely aud pro-
fouudly unpopular. Not in the active,
aggressive sense-not as Geoage the
Third was once unpopular, wheH brick
bats and stones were pelted at his carri-
age; not as Adelaide, wife of William
the Fourth, was unpopular, when tu-
multuous meeting at Charing Cross threw
up handkerchiels in delight at O'Con-
nell's daring allusion to Whitehall aud
the sovereign who lost his head there be-
cause ne allowed himself to be guided
by his foreign wife-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 Sian
ders her, funkeyism girds at her Of
personal loyalty to her there is little or
none. A few high minded politicians
aud their followers respect her virtues
and pity her great SORROWS; but ardent
loyalty to her is dead. a distinguished
Nova Scotian, lately in London, and
fresh with all the fervor of the old fash
Toned colonial loyalty, confessed to the
writer of this article the profound disap-
pointnient which came over him when he
found that, to go where he would in the
British capital, his loyal professions
were received with wondering, puzzled.
half alf-contemptuous incredulity.
Does any one in England desire that
the Queen should abdicate? The West
End tradesmen, milliners, aud lackeys,
perhaps but surely no one else The
Prince of Wales is not a person whose
accession to the throne any rational and
disiuterested being can look forward to
without anxiety. He is a fat, heavy,
loutish young man growing every day
more and more of the regular Brunswick
mould and feature. He is not over at
tentive to his wife-the one member of
the family who is really popular; he has
low and vulgar tastes; he has a tainted
reputation. Scandal pursued him from
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actors and still lower comic singers.
When he goes to the opera he soon falls
asleep; unless, indeed, when Pauline
Lucca Is singing-and then be is all cars
and eyes. Nobody worth thinking Of
wants him for a King. He is a Prince
Napoleon, without elOquence, without
genius, without democratic sentiments,
without love of letters and art, without
grand imperial face; and just think
what Prince Nepoleon would be without
all these redeemiDg merits No if the
English people must have sovereign,
let them hope that God may save the
Queen as long as possible. Whatever
her unhappy difficulties and failings, sell
dom comes better; and the better is
certainly not in sight just now-Neuo
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