Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-06-11
HOW Queen Victoria Travels.

The Queen of England, writes an Ameil'
can in London, has so far yleloeu 10 lne
public pressure as 10 return somewhat 10
public life. She announced series oil draw
ing rooms and levees greatly 10 the satlslac-
ton Of London and the people On iuesuay
she came in from WINDSOR Oastle 70 hola
her drawing.room. The whole pathway
about three mlles-from the station TO Buck
ingham Palace, was lined WIN pe0pie
anxious 10 catch sight of the Queen. NOT
withstanding the talk of the papers, she is
immensely popular with the people aer
coming is hailed with great delight, ana II
she would put on the trapplngs oil royally
and appear In public as of old, she Wouid ne
received with demonstrations oil enthusiasm
such as never before marked her reign.
She is thoroughly good woman. one IS
exceedingly liberal in her notions. Many
of her personal attendants are dissenters
and she encourages their attendance at dis
senling chapels, to the great disgust oil ultra
churchmen At Balmoral and Osborn,
where the chapels are far away, she furnishes
her domestics with coaches. The little time
she spends in London she deyotes TO visiting
hospitals and institutions for the lnhfm, SICK
and poor under her special charge. Then
she has so much pluck that, while the En-
glish people regret her withdrawal from
public lite, they respect her spirit in doing
as she pleases.
She came in from Windsor the other
morning in fine style. About n dozen coaches
moved out Of Buckingham Palace, would
up Hyde Park, and met the Queen at the
station. The Seventeenth Lancers, the
finest corps in England, and the iavorite,
performed escort duty. The magnificent
Horse Guards, with their scarlet uniform
and brass helmets and fountain plumes, on
black horses, selected with great care from
all parts of the world, were stationed at in
tervals on the roads as sentinels. Her
Majesty alone rides under the marble arch
into Hyde Park, and through the royal
highway, over which none hut royal wheels
roll. The Trinmphal Arch, on which is the
colossal statue of Wellington, has gateway
through which no carriage passes but the
Queen.
1t was quite royal sight to see the cor
tege move along. First came the oulrlders,
one before the other, in the scarlet uniform
of the Queen-whitc breeehes and topped
boots, black stove-pipe hat with cockade,
and riding at an angle OF ioity.five degrees
as all Englishmen ride; then detachment
| of Lancers; then the Queens carriage drawn
by four horses, ridden by two posillions
The Lancers brought up the rear, the Horst
Guards being on the right and left; the inev
liable Brown sitting on the box The roya
carriage was an open baroGche. The Queen
| Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince
, Arthur were inside. Her Majesty looked
uneommonly well; her face rather pale, THAI
/ forid as usual; her hair light, and in a con.
dtion of neglect, as is common to the Queen
} She was dressed completely in black, bu
! with more dress and less widowy than form
a erly. She has u court suit, which, Will
she maintains her mourning, and while the
suit is perfectly black in material, the white
ermne trimming, and the ornaments il
which the Queen INDUCES, make her lool
: even more regal than when in the tawdr
robes Of State. The ceremonial robes ar
/ very costly, but they are old fashioned, d
4 not fit, and give bunchy and uncomiortabl
y and untidy appearance TO the wearer, nm
!. are really outshone in richness and heav
c embroidery oil the robes worn by the coacl
n men, lootmen, and lackeys of foreign En-
- bassadors. But tie new court dress OF III
y Queen is very rich and tasteful, and become
& her Majesty well. Wlnterhaller has painte
portrait of the Queen in her new cou
y robes. 1t is not quite completed, and is
II the Queens private apartments at Windst
ST Castle. saw il the other day, and it is OIL
c. OF the finest productions oil that eminel
ID artist. Princess Louise was dressed in fiji
i taste in black. She is very talented your
lady, and has just executed marble bu
of her mother, which is on exhibition at Il
I'd Royal Academy. Beatrice has more tale
W than any other member of the family. q
is an exceedingly smart girl.