Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-06-23

and then quarrel over and with them, as
we have done with their European prede-
cessors. Our vast grain, cotton and
fruit fields, our extending system Of pub
lie works, our multiplying manufac-
lures, all need and can employ them.
But must they vote; and if 80, to what
effect2 ql
Albert Wales as a Fast Man
About Town "A Larky Young
Prince Going 10 the Bad.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazstte.1
LONDON. May 25.
The public topic is Ireland, but the
private theme is the Prince of Wales.
When the dinner is over, the ladies have
retired, and the gentlemen have resumed
their places and their wine, his Royal
Highness is sure to be very soon and
very thoroughly discussed. The old ru-
mers bearing upon his manner of life are
rehearsed, and new ones are added. And,
as persons are frequently present on such
occasions who speak that which they
know, and testify to that which they have
seen, the conversation is not untre-
quently of very piquant description.
One has it from the very best authority
that the heir apparent called upon cer-
tain very beautiful and brilliant Ameri-
can singer; but she, having recovered
from the startlement oecasioned BY the
presence of such visitor, maintained her
composure and her self-respect, empha-
sized, perhaps, by coloring of indigna-
ton. The company agree that visit by
such visitor to such person could have
no grounds for excuse, and could have
but one explanation. Another says the
Governor Of - told him be felt great
load of responsibility taken off when the
Prince had taken his departure for
while be was under his care he didn't
know what scrape his Royal Highness
might indulge in /; and third informs US
that another Esrls daughter has gone to
Paris to cover her shame and the Princes
crime, and fourth relates that the other
day one of his maid servants said to his
wife:
misses, is there anything the matter
with the Prince of Wales 2
why do you ask, Biddy p
90, because, ma am, card one man
say ia the homnibus to another that he'd
better mind or he get shot yet. )"
$50 you see," added the gentleman,
"these stories must be circulating among
the lower classes, if they are discussed in
the buses" The same speaker con-
tinues: " | recollect seeing the Prince OF
Wales and the Duke of Edinburg step up
to group of ladies in the Botanic Gar
dens, and enter into conversation with
them without removing their cigars from
their mouths. Indeed, they smoked right
in the ladies' faces. Now either the latter
were not ladies, or the former were not
gentlemen"
"Well,' says a titled gentleman of
high station and character, one thingis
certain, England will not tolerate another
George ~. A licentious court in this
country would produce revolution. We
have seen an end of the Georges as far
as their vices are concerned"
"But the Kings licentious courses
would be more covered now than in the
time of George Nv, and so, however, the
people might suspect, they could not feel
sure"
"Don't you believe it. With our free
dom of speech, liberty of the press, and
popular jealousy of the privileged classes,
there would be no keeping the court vailed
from the people. They would see through
it and 60 through it without much pro-
vocation"
Such is the outline Q dare not print
any more than the outline) of a conver-
sation which is conversation highly |
specimentary of what is talked all over |
England, iu dining hall and servants
hall, in omnibus and club room, by your
West End host as be touches glasses with |
you, and by your East End shop keeper
as he tells his tale Of woe inflicted by a
wandering count and prodigal prince
by your barber as he cuts your hair. and |
your Turkish bsthist as be rolls you over
on the marble slab.
Nor is the growing scandal confined
altogether to the places where men and
the other places where women do most |
congregate. The press of England is
ludicrously addicted to showing their
loyalty to the Queen by endlessly and
elaborately commencing her virtuous ex.
ample to-well, to all the royal folk of
the continent, but never in so many
words to her princely sons or her scarcely
less princely sons-in-law. But OCCASION
ally the strategy of silence gives place to
the tactics Of sdmonitory innuendo.
Same as to say, have care thersi We
know more than we care Tor perhaps dare)
to say now. But look you to it. Eng
land may be patient, but England is not
asleep. England is slow, bat England is
terrible when reused under q sense Of
wrong and shame. Have a care, then,
young man. Thy royal mothers purity,
and thy more than royal fathers chastity
have made this people strong in their re-
solve to see the present glory of the Eng
lish court continue at every risk and at
sll hazards.
So runs the tenor CT the occasional
rejecting the temper Of the uni
versal private talk. Only yesterday, for
example. the Echo, smart evening
paper Of enormous circulation, gave
nearly two columns to the swarm Of " iiy-
ing rumors" which, just now. swarm
around the person who is "plsced upon
the steps Of the throne" This paper
says: r
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