The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-25
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| liOll mas DctI ODScrNcu. "A lew months al
ter Prince Albcrt's arrival in this country it
would have cost the queen but word to
induce parliament to raise his income by
ego, 900 year; but that word was never
spoken sT'he princess royals dowry was
pitiful compared with the splendid fortune
bestowed on the Grand Duchess Mary Of
Russia as a marriage portion. Last session
when Mr. Gladstone proposed the addition
of $1,000 year to the duke of Edinburgh's
annuity, Claiborne Hardy only spoke the
sense of the country when he expressed his
opinion that larger sum would have been
cheerfuly voted.
TO the queens dgniied frugaity the
highest praise is due it would have been
easy for her majesty to have won a cheap
popularity with certain classes by SNOWY
expenditure, while there is very little glitter
about that generosity which consists in ask
ing for nothing when much could be OBJ
tanned. The Queen has also shown her
perfect readiness to sacrifice much of her
patronage, which, in plain English, is
moneys worth in the interests of the pub
lie service. The recent army reforms could
not have been carried out without n serious
constitutional crisis, ii her majesty had not
cheerfully consented to part with one of the
few remnants Of irresponsible power left to
the crown.
Other sovercgns have practiced econo-
my Frederick William L., of Prussia,
made his wife and children cat mouldy po-
tatoes that he might keep regiment of use
less giants, and George III, rendered his
court the meanest rs well as the dullest in
Christendom, that he might have more
money with which to corrupt his own sub
jects. Her majesty has been thrifty only
in order to be, when need was. splendidly
yet quietly munificent
The Prince owes some return to the Queen
| for her bounty, and, with all respect be it
said the best return he could make won d
be to represent her majesty more exactly.
A father once endeavored to dissuade his
son from life of extravaganza b. saying
that he had seen the folly Of it. eyes, and
should like to see the folly Of It too" OBJ
served the youth. The Prince of Wales
has no longer this excuse. With every
manner Of wasting time eXpenslvely, rs it
is known in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
ST. Petersburgh, he must be familiar; he
may be said to have been splendidly bored
in all the capitals OF Christendom. The
time has at length arrived when he should
cease to lead, not so much life Of leisure
as a life Of mere inanity. Art,
science, philosophy, literature are ali
within the legitimate domain of a constitu
tional king. More than the fame Of Cos
mo deMedici or a Duke of Wcimar is to he
won by the head of English society in this
| teeming age of new poetries, new crecds.
and newly discovered worlds. If, rs the
| Prince Indignantly asserts, and, as we fully
| believe, the vices of Carlton house are not
reproduced ut Marlborough house, neither
one regrets to see, are resembances of Fox
and Sheridan to be found there. Let the
prince make a point of assembling in his
drawing-room once n week the Tennysons,
the Brownings, the Carlyles, the Darwns,
and the Huxleys Of the metropolis of intel
lectual energy; he might possibly find their
conversation as interesting as that Of young
Understanding lords, who, let us hope,
now they have been paid, will be permit
ted to return to the ledgers and lofty stools
among which is their true sphere of humble
activity. and where there is no fear of their
being ever mistaken for the councillors of
! princes.
The heir apparent must not allow himself
to be deceived by the error of pol ticians
who would assure him that his
duty is never TO be heard of
The successor and the kinsman of the Ed
wards, of Elizabeth, and of William of Or
ange, will always be in the mouths of men,
and his name will be repeated with enthu-
siastic praise or with contemptuous indiffer-
ence, according to the policy he chooses to
follow. He has seen in this very year how
great might be his influence. a single re-
mark of his on a picture created a reputa-
ton. Will he condescend in another sem
tence to regulate pigeon shooting to the
limbo of unmanly vanities? His royal high.
ness is good landlord; let him be more
the patron Of those wretched laborers
throughout the island WHO are now aban-
doned to the injudcus friendship of liberal
newspapers and radical bishops He might
one day find himself king of England in Il
fashion of which he has never dreamed.
Moreover, the World having now found out
and published the truth respecting an cpl
.sode in our current history which has given
rise to some painful comment, the hest wish
we can form both for the prince of Wales
and ourselves is that we may never hear of
another at all like it. We are upon the
whole loyal people, and we earnestly de-
sire that nothing may henceforth occur to
diminish the credit or to lessen the popular
ity of our future sovereign.