Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-21
LORNE THE FORLORN.
The MOurnfuI Trouble Of Having q
Queen for n MOtheF-in-LaW.
his cody 4thI

New York World.
The private Unlappiness Of the Marquis
of LOrne, the husband o. tie Princess
Louise, is fast becoming a public theme
in England. One of the satirical journals
| of London, the Hornet, has gone so far re-
| Gently as 10 depict the youthful heir Of the
MacCallum More standing in an attitude Of
indignant remOnstranCe behind his stately
brUthers-in- law, the Prince Of Wales and
the Duke Of Edinburgh, who pass him By
with Serene Indifference, swinging their
umbrellas and deep in disdainiul converse
upon higher topics. The disguised ex-
preston Of the MaTquis's face gives piquan-
cy to the legend Of the cartoon, Gam not
Man and a Brother ," The Hornet &C
companies its picture, too, with an amusine
article, which we transfer to our columns,
on the sorrows Of "a blighted being"
There can be no doubt that the Duke
and Duchess Of Argyll did their son and
heir very questionable kindness, we sus-
pect, when they accepted for HIM the hand,
to say nothing Of the heart, of a princess Of
the British blOOd-rOyal. In tie esrlier days
of the British monarchy alliances between
the reigning families both Of England and
of Scotland and the nobility of those
kingdoms were neither iI.frequent nor
necessarily uncomfortable. No impossible
gulf of etiquette then divided the
princes of the blood from the great aris-
tOcracy Of the realm. But the House Of
Hanover always has been, and still is an
essentially German house, possessed With ali
the German notions of the sovereign dig
nifty and Of the abyss which divides it
from all other forms Of human life. The
House Of Hanover imported into England
in the Royal Marriage Act the principal of
those MOrganatic unions so common
among the German sovereign princes.
George the Fourth was not, perhaps,
too sCTUpulOus a person 10 lie upon
occasion; but there is good reason
10 believe that when he alisnated Fox by
the deliberate falsehOOd which he told him
about lis marriage with Mrs. FitZ-Herbert,
he really thought that he was only tamper-
inc gently with the fIcts, it being, rs his
education had made him feel, quite absurd
TO suppose that any marriage could be a
marriage which united a Prince OF the
House Of Guelph TO a simple gentlewOman.
Prince Albert brought with him to England
a fresh infusion Of the prIncely TeutOnic
feeling on this subject, and it was the
cause for years Of serious difficulties be
tween himself and the British nobility,
that he could not divest himself of the
habit Of regarding al persons below the
throne as lost in one common mist Of absO-
lutte inferiOrity. The TeutOnic Princes,
indeed, know but two classes of human
beings, s0yereigns and subjects. As an
English Duke once put the case in speaking
Of Price Albert, Chat Saxon Prince can |
see no social difference between me and |
my valet"
Precisely how Her Majesty came to con- !
ceive Of such a project as she carried out in |
reverting TO the Garlic: English presidents 1
on this subject ana marrying her daughter 1
TO the heir Of a great Scottish race is not |
quite clear. nor does it matter much. Her |
Maiesty's sons evidently do not share Her /
Maiesty's feelings on this head. Perhaps |
they do not take kindly to their noble /
brOther-in-law Is 4 man. At all events, /
they have never for an instant relaxed /
in his favor the rigid rules Of TeutOnic /
princeIy life. They keep him at a dis
lance, not in private only, but in public. /
1t was notorious in London some time AGO /
that the Marquis Cf LOrne was Peremp-
torily directed by on equerry Of his broth
cI-in-law, the heir apparent, 10 leave the
royal tent which he had entered without 4
special invitation on the occasion of a gar
den party When the Marquis accOmpa-
MED his wife 10 the Court of Berlin, on a
visit TO her sister, the Crown Princess Of
Germany, he was not more civilly treated.
While the Princess entered the im-
perial family circle, the Marquis was left 10
cool his heels among the nobility outside.
In fact, the celebrate John Dean, Of New
Y ork nOtoriety, had no more trouble and
underwent no sharper tOrments in his et-
forts 10 define his matrimonial position and
% make il comfortable than this unfOrtu-
nate scion OF the illustriOus House Of
Campbell. Matters, probably, have not
Jeen beltered for him by the fact that his
younger brother, so well known IN New
York, Lord Walter Campbell, has just gone
alto partnership with firm Of brokers on the
london Stock Exchange. IL is TumOred |
low that both the Marquis and his wife
would be well pleased TO transfer their
es.dence to the new world. Here, at
east, the TeutOn is not often to be met |
With in the shape Of a prince; and where
,rincesscs and marquises are alike uncOm-
non, the distance which separates one Of
hese .litteTiug shapes from the other
would scarcely, perhaps, be discovered by
he naked eye of an admiring public.