The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-19
GOSSIP ABOUT ROYALTY.

to apologize for the protracted absence OF her
Majesty, who had been spending several
months at Balmoral, her palace IN the high
lands of Scotland. Indeed for many years
past she has remained at that retreat most OF
her time, and has apparently taken little lnte-
rest in her English subjects. At Baimoral
she lives more like highland lady than like
a queen. She is tree with her tenants. She
gives them little entertainments for their en-
ioyment She often chats with them familiar
ly, and rumor hath it that she can drive as
hard bargain as a spinster. But she likes
retirement and when she buries herselfin the
stately groves of her Scotland home she asks
with the Duke in the play, "hath not old
custom made this lite more sweet than that OF
painted pomp?" Here repose, exempt from
public haunt, finds the metaphorical tongues
in trees, books in running brooks, and good
in everything"
In the meantime the English, who are ex-
ceedingly jealous and somewhat narrow in
their national pride, do not relish the pro-
tracted absence of their sovereign, nor are
they flattered at the indifference she shows to
English affairs. The old plea that it is her
grief over the late lamented that causes this
Indifference has grown. stale. They recall the
stories of how she used to bully her husband;
how she used to make it warm for him at times,
and they are ever ready to apply to her the
recipe Of that wicked cynic, Henry Fielding,
for restoring the love Of a wife, "Let the
husband die" says he, "and the love re-
turns" The shopkeers in London say, too,
that she is uncommonly close with her money.
She does not scatter enough of it around;
she will sickle ON a ''ha' penny" she will
| wear old bonnets that are out of style; she
even has old dresses ''fixed up" She is "a
mean old thing reparked young shop girl
to friend of ours.
There is much, however, to be said in her
favor. She has reformed the moral atmos-
phere of the British court; she used to lee
ture the Prince of Wales almost daily for his
liquor parties and his illicit loves; the purity
Of her own life is unsullied-whica is saying
a great zeal when we reflect how long she has
been in this woodland though she has not
made her reign as brilliant and glorious as
that of Elizabeth, it is at least free from the
stains and sorrows which detracted SO much
from the sp,endor of that remarkable period.
Yet, while the English people are devoted to
monarchy, they are devoted to but few Of
their monarchs. The Georges were unpopu-
lar. Queen Victoria is unpopular. The
Prince Of Wales is not even now as popular
as he might be, and the Duke of Edinburgh,
it is said, inherits much of the family stupid
ity and more of its niggardly parsimony.
The only member of the royal family who
has genuine hold upon the affections of
Englishmen is the Princess of Wales. Her
beauty, her grace, her liberality. her tender
sympathy for suffering and her assiduous
efforts to relieve it.; her freedom from that
frilled stiffness and ostentatious hauteur
which characterize the Duchess of Edin-
burgh, render her universal fayorite. The
latter has made herself about as unpopular as
she we'll can. When the crowd try to get up
little cheer for her at musical concerts, or
in the park, she refuses to recognize it, and
turns up her nose, rs if the air were filled
with unpleasant odors. There is always O
look of cold aud affected dignity on her face;
and, whenever any demonstration is made by
the crowd who want to give her a fair show
and enable her to popularize herself little,
she assumes the expression of a spinster who
has been "crossed in love or soured by soil
tary confinement"
Whether a recent event of some interest to
her has had the effect OF soft =ning her temper
a little we know not. On the occasion of the
Queens visit to Buckingham palace the little
fellow was baptized and weighed down with
the name of Alfred Alexander William Ernest
Albert AS the Duchess is now the mother Of
an Englishman she may have more respect
for the country of her adoption than before.
We are afraid, however, that the youth was
born under many disadvantages. If there is
anything in physiological laws it is more
tnau likely ne, TOO, mas OlSSuSt IOT England,
and that his nose is turned up at the end; for
we doubt if there has been any time since the |
Duchess landed in England when she did not |
feel that disgust, and, feeling it, did not turn
up her nose.
If the mere ticking of clock exercised |
such powerful influence over Tristram |
Shandy, we can't see why such deep-seated |
feelings in the mother of young Albert should |
not operate also to his disadvantage. Though |
it is hardly possible that there has been even |
q temporary abatement Of them, yet we are
willing to give the young stranger the benefit
Of the doubt and we express the hope that
even should he not ''sway the rod OF empire,
as his ancestors have done, he may ut least
live happy lite, and in due course of time
have wife too. We trust he will neither be
and stupid as his father, nor
proud and disagreeable like his mother; that
he may adorn the annals of his country, and
not dim them, and show to the world that the
of his infancy will only be po-
tent in stimulating the genius and inspiring
the ambition of his manhood. -LouisriNe Cou-
rier-JOuindl.
AN USLUcKY W1GHT. Emerson Wight,
who was elected Mayor of Springfield, Mass,
on Tuesday, has lost both his legs. He began
ov,1 hal |