Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-15
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Tho Woes Of q Prince.

Let me crave your sympathies in be-
half of Prince" whose his name it is
Christian. The said Prince Christian
married the English Princess Helena,
and the people, by sort Of instinct,
came to the conclusion that the young
lady had been forced into the marriage,
and that the whole business was a
"shame." Since that time Prince c.
has been growing more and more unpop-
ular. not on account of anything that he
has done, / think, so much as because he
is disliked. II is the DIR. Fell sort of
business. The other day the Prince
went with his wife and some others OF
the royal family to Liverpool, and the
people who waited outside Kissed him
heartily, but cheered all the rest.
The affair was hushed up, but there is
reason to believe that it caused some lit
tie sensation at Windsor. The photo
graphs Of the Prince have partly been
the cause of his unpopularity. He is a
churlish.looking man, with very bald
head, and the bald head has, ! fear, done
his business. The Princess Helena was
only nineteen when she married, and the
English people (who like the royal ladies
especially were not satisfied, and thought
her husband was not nearly good enough
for her. Then, again, the Prince of the
Bald Head was unquestionably one of
the very smallest of the very small Ger
mans who have been strapped on to the
shoulders of patient and cloudy-witted
John Bull He had, before he came over
here, as revenue from his immense es-
tates and other sources in Germany, a
total income of exactly f200 year.
This enormousi income was not enough
TO be married upon, and very glad he
must have been to catch one of the
Queens daughters, and be taken into
comfortable lodgings in the house of the
aforesaid J. B. The next thing, ofcourse,
was to moke an income for this rather
farcical Prince. Some very ugly stories
of him were in circulation, most of them
probably untrue, but they helped to make
people dislike him. Nevertheless, Par
lament voted him a grant of 100000
LAS dover to his wife, and $4,000 year.
Imagine what q change for a poor devil
to be taken from the midst of debt and
poverty to live in one of the Queens
palaces, and have large income given
him, upon no other condition than that
he should marry well-educated ard
rather pretty girl
But things do not always 20 smoothly
with Prince Christian. AS | have said,
he was soundly Kissed in the public streets
the other day, and now this week sting
ing caricature has been leveled at him in
the T0mahaiok, paper which is making
wonderful progress in consequence OF
the boldness and freedom of its cartoons.
We are shown an unpleasant little man
perched on the back of the British lion,
and Juggling away at his name. Under
meath is written, "Set Beggar on Horse.
back; or, Translated from the German"
This will not please the family circle at
Osborne or Windsor. The Tomdhdpk
goes everywhere now; il has cut Punch
out, SO far as the influence of its weekly
cartoon goes. There are no other illus
trations in the number, and the Jokes
are rather of the literary gent descrip-
ton. But the cartoon drawn by Mr..
Mathew Morgan, of whom no one scarcely
ever heard before) is first-rate, and would
make any paper.
fancy Prince Christian has rather q
bad time before him. The Queen is I'M
derstood TO insist upon his residing in
this country, and under her own eye
apparently with a due regard for the
protection of her daughter. A man
ought to behave himself properly on
10000 q year, seeing that be has done
nothing to merit farthing. There are
EHglishmen would you believe it ~ of
better and nobler descent than this very
little German, and of handsome private
means and station, who would be happy
to make good husbands to any Of the
Royal Princesses Except those who are
already married, pray understand But
no, that would not do. A seedy gentle
man, all out at elbows, from Faderland,
is the only eligible person. The inevi
table consequence of such system is
Prince Christian.
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