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each one to make his own selection. We
close by saying that it will not pay farmer
to keep inferior stock.
Queen Victoria.
A few years ago nothing that could be
said or done SO objectionable in the eyes Of
an Englishman as to speak lightly or disre-
spectfully ofQueen Victoria. But something
of a change has come over them in this re.
spect. A very candid aud impartial writer
thus fixes up the opinion now entertained
there of their idOlized sovereign:
"Under the influence of morbid attacks
like these, there is some little reliance to be
placed on what the Queen may say, or deter
mine, or do. She was always somewhat in-
clioed to be headstrong; now she is apt to
form sudden plans, or take sudden resolves
from which nothing can divert her. She
will leave London and rush to Osborn, or
Balmoral, at the most critical period of a
season, at a moment when change of min
istry may be impending, and when she has
resolved on any such eScGpade, no remou-
STRANGE or advice can dissuade her. In this
way she has persisted in keeping John Brown
as her personal attendant, and allowed him
to be conspicuous in his attentions every
where aud no servants hall or club scandal
can induce her to send him in the back
ground, or to alter her friendly department
toward him. Unquestionably This is unwise !;
but Queen Victoria is not in a mental con-
ditlon from which wisdom can always be ex
pected. She is not mad that is all any one
can venture to say. She is unpopular
widely and profoundly unpopular Not in
the active, aggressive sense-not as George
the Third Was once unpopular, when brick
bats and stones were pelted at his carriage ;
not as Adelaide, wife of William the Fourth,
was unpopular, when tumultuous meeting
at Charing Cross threw up handkerchiefs in
delight at O'ConnelPs daring alinsion to
Whitehall and the sovereign who lost his
head there because be allowed himself to be
guided by his foreign wife-in no such sense
is Victoria unpopular. But the mass of peol
pie have ceased to care about her the West
End dislikes her, gentility ISLANDERS her,
Aunkeysm girds at her. OF personal loyalty
to her there is little or none. A few highs
minded politicians and their followers respect
her virtues and pity her great sorrows but
ardent loyalty to her is dead. A dstin-
guished Nova Scolian, lately in London, and
fresh with all the tervOr Of the old-fashioned
colonial loyalty, confessed to the writer of
this article the profound disappointment that
came over him when he found that, 20 where
he would in the British capital, his loyal
professions we're received with wondering,
puzzled, half contemptuous incredulity.
Does any one in England desire that the
Queen should abdicate? The West End
tradesmeu, dressmakers and lackeys, perhaps;
but surely no one else. The Prince of Wales
is not person whose accession to the throne
any rational and disinterested being can look
forward to without anxiety. He is a fat,
heavy sloulish young man, growing more and
more of the regular Brunswick mould and
feature He is deeply 10 debt. He is not
over attentive to his wife-the only member
of the family who is really popular; he has
low and vulgar tastes he has tainted rep
utation. Scandal pursued him from London
to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, back again.
He delights in low, comic actors, and still
lower comic singers. When he goes to the
opera be soon falls asleep; unless, indeed,
when Pauline Lucca is singing, and then be
is all ears and eyes. Nobody worthy think.
ing Of, wants him for King. He is a
Prince Napoleon, without eloquence, without
genius, without democratic principles, with,
out love of letters and arts, without grand
imperial face; and just think what Prince
Napoleon would be without all these redeem
ing 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 fail>
ings, seldom comes better; and the better
is certainly not in sight just now"