The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-27


"Let me crave your sympathies in beh al Of Q
PRINCE" which his name 1t 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
business was q "shams.n Since that time Prince
G. has been growing more and more unpopular,
not en- account OF anything that he has done,
think, so much as because be Is disliked. Il IL
the DR.. 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 hisssd him heartily, but cheered
all the rest.
The affair was hushed up. but there is reason to
believe that 1t caused some little sensation ct
Windsor. The Photographic of the prince have
partly been the cause Of hi. appropriately. He Is
churish looking man, with q very bald head,
and the bald head has, | fsar, done his business.
The Princess Helena was only nineteen when she
royal ladies' especially were not satisfied, and
thonebt her husband was not nearly good enough
for her. Then, again. the Prince Of the Bald
Head was unquessionaby one Of the very smallest
: OF the very small Germans who have been strapped
on to the shoulders OF patient and cloud witted
John Bull. He had before he came over here Is
revenue from his immense estates and other
sources in Germany, total income OF exactly
eco year.. ,
This enormous income was not enough 10 be
married upon, aud 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, Of course,
was to make 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. Never.
theless, parliament voted him grant OF 600
las dover to his wife), and 10000 year. Imagine
what change for poor devil to be taken from
the midst OF debt and poverty to live In one Of the
queens palaces, and have q large income given
him upon no other condition than that he should
marry awell educated and rather pretty girl. ".
But things do not always 60 smoothly with
Prince Christian. AS have said, he was soundly
hissed In the public streets the other day, and
now this week stiDging caricature has been
leveled at him In the Tomahawk, paper which
is making wonderful progress 10 consequence of
the holiness and freedom of its cartoons We
are shown an unpleasant little man perched on
the back OF the British lion, and tugging away at
he name. Underneath is written, q Set q beg
gar on horseback, or-translation from the Ger
man." This will not please the family circle at
Osborne or Windsor. fhe TomaLswk goes every.
where now; 1t has cut Punch out, 30 far as the
ha fence Of its weekly cartoon goes There are
Jokes are rather of the literary gent descrip-
ton. But the cartoon drawn by Mr. Mathew
Morgan, OF whom no one scarcely ever heard be-
FORE is trst-rate, and would make any paper.
, fancy Prince Christian has rather . bad time
before him. The queen Is understood TO insist
upon his residing il this country. and under her
own eye-apparently with due regard for the
protection Of her daughter. man ought to be-
have himself properly on 10000 q year, seeing
that be has done nothing to merit q fsrthine.
There are EngIishmen would you believe 1t y of
better and nobler descent than this very little
German, and Of handsome private means and
station. who would be happy to make good hus-
bands 10 any OF the royal Processes Except
those who are already married, pray understand).
But no, that would not do. A seedy gentleman,
al out at elbows, from fstherland, is the only
eligible person: The inevitable consequence Of
such system is-Prince Christian.