The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-25
LONDON GOSSIP.


Memoirs. Her Indignation has been
freely expressed and unmeasured in it's
terms. When Thackeray published his
lectures on the -Four Georges, he for
feited the invitation, which it had been
resolved upon to proffer him, to the
palace His picture of the last George
was such a whitening bit of sarcasm,
not only on George in particular, but
upon brunswick royalty in general, that
its latest representative was naturally
averse from extending hospitality to
the artist. But as Thackeray was
''only an author" a sort of upper class,
but IN measure irresponsible Bohs-
milan, royalty could regard his lucubra-
tions with something like contempt.
He had no access to the secret history
of the sovereigns he described he
never saw or knew of them neither
could he speak with more authority
as to their vices and failings than any
scribbler who chose to rake up and
boil down the gossipping memoirs OF
the last century. A very different per-
SOD, in the eyes of royalty, was Charles
@. f. Grev1lle, Esq, clerk to his mai
esty's right honorable privy council.
This gentleman was patrician, every
inch. The bluest blood ran in his
veins; for he was not only a
relative of the Earl of Warwick
but the grandson of his grace, the
Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer of Eng
land. Moreover, he occupied for a
long period a position which gave him
necessarily the greatest intimacy with
sovereigns and statesmen, which in
volved trusts OF the most sacred i'm.
Portance, and brought him into daily
contact with the utmost famiIiaritv
with royal, noble and right honorable
personages. The clerk of the privv
council has apartments in the palace
and is indispensable to royal business,
Greville used to sit at the council board
Just at his mtjesty's elbow. It is
an office which is provided with a
salary of G1, 700 ($S, 5OO) a wear
and perquisites, and is at this
moment occupied by one of the
most elegant writers and polished
scholars in England, Sir Arthur Helms
MIR. Charles O. +. Greville was TINS
creme dc Ia creme, not only of arigtoc.
racy, but of circles of royal and poIiti.
cal society. A keen observer. a con-
hrmed cynic, utterly wanting in the
bump of veneration, regarding and list.
ening to the horse twaddle of the fourtE
George with as much superciIious cop.
tempt as he would a garrulous Jockey
he used his power and position IN
draw up, in the form of "Ne-
moirs," an indictment against the
House of Brunswick" compared
with which that of Mr.. Charles
Bradlaugh is weak and wisbv-wasbv
The sting of the offense to her maiesfv
the queen consists in its having baen
written by patrician and a clerk of
the council. She sees, just as every
BODY else here does, that the book is !
more serious blow at English ROYALTY
than all Dilke's demonstrations and
Bradlsugh's harangues combined. Peo.
pie say Here is a man who had
every interest to uphold aristooratic in.
situations, who was furtherest from in.
dulging IN democratic dreams or sinh.
versive schemes, who cared not a rar
for popular rights, and yet who. in tbt
privacy of his study, lots down tina,
George ~. was n contemplate. COW
ardly, selfish, unfeeling dog; that IN,
Duchess of Kent (the queens owr
mother) was ill-humored and wropo
headed; that the duke of York MO,
coarse and indicate; that the rova
family were in a perpetual souabble
and who, in the very last page of hi,
Journal, characterized William ". as
Dlackguard and buffoon. "Indeed
never were the private affairs of orea
personages so plainly, infinitely anf
even brutally laid bare. No one oar
rise from reading the Grevils Memoirs
without complete disgust at the Who'll,
set OF selfish, registering, flippan
princes who ruled England during TN,
first thirty years OF the century. The,
are published here in one of Murray,
traditional heavy three-volume editions
yet their sale has been enormous. ant
they are the almost exclusive talk. no
only OF the clubs and West End society
but among classes of people usually TOO
busy to hnger over royal gossip. Sucb
book from a recognized afyitatoror ever
from radical statesman of the time
would be read with interest for a time
and then thrown aside and forgotten.
It's strength and danger is in the source
from which it has come. Mr.. Henry
Reeve, the " Register of the Council. ;
who has had the courage TO edit the
memoirs, will be fortunate if he so fan
escapes the royal wrath as to retain his
cosy office and salary of 81, 700 a year
His expurgations have avowedIy been
very few and far between; it is difficult
to imagine anything that he could have
left out worse than many passages that
ne has left IN. In one respect, however,
the book viii tell in favor of and not
against the present royal family. II
exhibits very marked contrast bet ween
royalty as it was and royalty as it is in
England. The life of the Prince Con-
sort, of which the first volume has ap-
peared, will do much as a counteracling
agent to Greville's Memoirs" as ex.
hibiting the home-like simplicity, puri-
~ and grace of the palace during Vic
toria's benefcent reign. There is no
longer the bIilhancy and extravaganza,
but virtue, which has never been a
household goddess Of the Brunswick
before, has always presided at Victoria's
hreside. London Letter.
OwINa to the great extent of the
anow-sheds along its route, and their
danger from fire, the Central Pacific
railroad company have found it neces.
sary to employ no less than four FIRE
trains, for the purpose of protecting
their lines from serious CONGREGATIONS.
Each train consists of an engine and
four water cars. The former is arranged