Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-02
QUEEN VICTORIA.

= WTlteT III Appltlou RlseS very piedsaul
description Of the private life of Queen Flcto-
ria. There is some curiosity among demo-
cratic Anne ricans to obtain glimpse OF royal
and noble personages in their home life. Not
that the American is tuft hunter, or one who,
like Tommy Moore, dearly loves lord, bat
the subject has on this side the Atlantic much
of the attractive strangeDeSs of a different
phase of society. That Queen Victoria was
loving wife aud is fond mother, all know; but
the press has taken occasion more than once
lately to accuse her of parsinony and self ln-
diligence; and the charges and personal gossip
have been carried to the extreme limit OF bad
taste. She has made England one Of the best
indeed the best without qualiicaton--ot her
queens; and the more through her negative
qualities than through any positive ones she
possesses. Those who have seen her of late
years have beheld very plain lady, with a
very red face, that heavy face OF the Georges,
and short, dumpy figure. Her only beauty
is very small, exquisite white hand. 1t is
popularity Of her family. Her uucles had
it eminently Her manners are very digni-
fled; they even give her height She wears her
great rank worthiy 10 this respect, knowing
to the last shadow of shade, just how much
affabiity to show Her letter to our President,
when she commended the Prince Of Wales to
him, was curious document. 1t commenced,
"My very good friend d'-and Lord Houghton,
who knows all the gossip, said that the title OF
that letter had caused the Cabinet three sleep
less nights There were no precedeuts for ad-
dressing President. They could have written
to the Imam of Muscat or the Kahn OF Tartary
with greater ease. After all, it is as ALBERT
the Good" that the Prince, her husband, is
given iu death his proudest title, and his Queen
will share it with him when death calls her to
join him.
Her speckless morality is the brightest jewel
in her crown; that and her uudoubted love for
England; her devotion to her husband, living
and dead, and her love for her children, and
her faithful devotion to her kindred and old
friends, will remain to praise Queen Victoria
when even the gories of her Indian Empire
and the splendid pageants which she summons
at Windsor when she entertains an Emperor,
or in London, when she drives to her famous old
church of ST. Paurs-Day, even when the last
grand pageant of all takes her to Westminster
Abbey to lay her beside her royal sisters, Mary
and Eizabeth--yes, when all these glorles
shall have faded from the pages of history yand
the minds of men, it will be remembered that
Queen Victoria was good woman, and that
shelpassed through the terrible ordeal oil her
court, through the depreclating Influence OF
fattery and eye service, and bore the tempta-
tlO0S OF enormous power, WlIHout lOSluS tuC
respect of herself or her subjects.
EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF LACEs.-In the u.
S. District Court, New York, on Friday, Mile.
Josephine MORN, of Havre, France, appeared,
claiming six trunks that the cnstom-houSe au-
thorities value at Sl2,9Il. She came over IN
the St. Laurent in October. Her aces were
carefully packed ip boxes in the six trunks
She had signed declaration that she had no
duiabe goods 10 her trunks, aud the customs
officers, finding this declaration to be untrue,
seized them. Her story in brief is that in COM
piance with the written representations OF
male cousin, also named MORN, she sold her
patrinooial estate 10 sister, who Invested the
proceeds for her 10 Partisan aces tor export to
America. The sister conducted the correspond
eDce with the male NORM in this country, and
arranged that he should meet his relative on
her arrival in New York, and take charge OF
her commercial venture. By an accident she
was prevented from sailing IN the. ferelre.
She took the next vossel Her cousin did not
meet her, and her ignorance of the Eoglish
language and of commercial usages caused her
all her trouble. While she was huntlng for
her cousin her trunks were seized, aud the ac-
cusation of an attempt at smuggling was made
She said that it had not been her purpose to
eyade the duties, and that if she bad done
anything wrong it was through ignorance of
the law.
EuglaDds marriage statistics have been ana.
lyzed to show the probabilities OF marriage for
women at different ages. Supposing the sum of
womans chances OF marriage to be one hun
dred, she exhausts between the ages OF fifteen
and twenty years, fourteen and ahaf chances.
II she lives unmarried from twenty to twenty
FIVE, ffty-two more of her chances have van,
ished into thin air. If she remains unmarried
for FIVE more years she will turn thirty with
only fifteen and ahalf chauces out of her hun,
dred left. After thirty five she has eleven and
ahalf chances, and at this point the statls'l'
clan gave up his calculation, except that ne as
cures us that even if woman has lived umar-
ried sixty years. she still has the tenth OF .
chance of getting married out of the hundred
with which she has supposed to have started