The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-22
BRITISH ROYALTY.

Kate Field, writing from Sondon to
the Courier-Journal, thus pleasantly
gossips of the queens proposed new title
of Empress of India, and of the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh: What do you
! suppose the imperial parliament ofGreat
Britain and Ireland is quarreling about :?
There isn't time enough to attend to the
wants of the kingdom, consequently
hours and hours are consumed in dis
cussing the momentous question. "Shall
the queen be called Empress of India ?"
Whether the idea of new title Origi-
mated with her majesty or with her maj
esty's prime minister, is plunged in I'M
fashionable doubt. Some declare it to
be "just like melodramatic Disraeli."
Others insist that the queen herself is
responsible. "There have been rows in
the royal family, you see, as to the
status of the Duchess of Edinburgh.
She claimed precedence of the Princess
Beatrice, as being the daughter of an
emperor, a claim that has not been al
lowed. Were the queen an empress,
this point of etiquette would be settled
at once" AS my acquaintance with
royalty is so slight as to be imPercep-
tible to the naked eye, 1 don't pretend
to know the facts; but if a Russian
woman is at the bottom of this very
pretty quarrel, it seems great waste OF
lungs and type, for the Duchess OF Ed
inburgh has gone home to her parents,
and they do say that she will not re-
turn. A little lady sitting beside me,
who has recently visited Russia, declares
that the Russians hate the Duke of Ed
inbu1gh: that the grand duchess loved
a Russian young man, and on her knees
begged her father not to bind her to her
present husband. AS nobody has good
word for Victoria's second son, fancy
there is much truth in reports of his
wife's unhappiness. l must confess,
however, that the imperial lady looks as
though she had a temper of her own.
Were she not the daughter of car l
should say that she was ugly and-cross.
Still, in spite of physiognomy, she may
be an angel of sweetness and light. For
the sake of her sex and her two little
children, who deserves to have one
amiable parent, 1 hope so.
THE RELIGION OF AN IF."-Kossuth |
dimly outlines his religious faith, or
want of it, in the letter accompanying
an offering of cypress for the tomb of
Franz Deak. He writes: Take the |
time, I beg, to place this cypress bough,
symbol of the resurrection, upon Deak's |
tomb-alone and without any ado. The
wind will perhaps blow it away, or it
will he trodden under foot. Never mind.
IF this cosmical imponderability-the in
finitesimal part of the universal soul by
which the laws of our physical relations
il placed in our bodies to make them
living, thinking beings; if this, after
the dissolution of the raw material, re-
tains its personality (Which my science
makes me hold for impossible because
the original element is inextinguishable) |
and if there exists a connection between |
the two lives Ga natural wish, but hard |
to believe), that which was once called
Franz Deak will understand what the |
cypress branch says to him from me-"
The mcwl (wrote a schOolboy) is a
larger bird than the guse or turkey. 1t |
has two legs to walk with, and two more
to kick with and it wears its wings on
the side of its head. 1t is stubbornly |
backward about going forward.