Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-20
LORD LORNE'S EXILE.
The Noble Youth Ostracised for Marry
ing into the Royal Family.
London World Oct. 9.

What may be promotion in some
cases may be exile in others. The ap-
pontment of the Marquis of Lorne to
to the Governor-Generalship of Canada,
and his departure to the seat of his new
authority can only be regarded as the
GROWING symbol ofthat ostrocism from
his order and his adopted kindred to
which he has long submitted at home,
but Of which there were signs that he
was beginning to grow somewhat FESTIVE.
Born to immense power and to high
hereditary honors, the Queens son-in-
law underwent deliberate process of
self-effacem ent by taking position
within the glare of that fierce light by
which only Kings and Princes are
visible. Establishing himself on the
dangerous interspace which separates
subjects from sovereigns, he found that
he could not become a parsonage
among the former, and that he was a
cipher IN the company of the latter. By
nature courteous, not devoid Of ambi-
ton, and endowed with feeble order
of mental talents, he found himself i'm
prisoned on bleak lakeland of exist
ence, with no career on which to feed
MS hopes, no encouragement for the
exercise Of his intellectual powers,
nothing to crafty or stimulate the
klndller instincts of his disposition. He
has eclipsed the ancestral honors of his
house by perilous proximity to house
IN which he never was, nor could be, at
home: lie was an anomaly in society
and with his political party. He was an
intruder among Princes and a mock
Prince among peers. On the one
hand, his presence was resented; on the
other, 1t was suspected. Had he been
OF resolute and independent character,
he would have taken up his own line,
and have shown that the heir to Duke
dom could be political success, even
though he had married the daughter of
the Queen. But Lord Lorne was not
the man to withstand the numbling,
paralyzed influence within whose shpere
he had come. lie was nOnentity in
| the House Of commons, as he was q
nOnentlty out Of it. He exercised his III
tellect upon the production of fifth-rate
literary composition in prose and verse,
and in the delivery of little lectures in
Highland towns. But all this time, as
the event proved, there slumbered q
strong ambition beneath feeble will.
Recognizing the fact that his connection
with the court was a fatal obstacle to
his achievements as a politician, he
resolved at last to see what could be
done by embracing the destiny and
adopting the arts of cou tier. The
family of his wife had tacitly enacted a
decree of partial Punishment against
their new relative. Their new relative
now proceeded to Danish himself from
the party of which he was nominally
member in the House of Commons,
and of which his father is a diffident
oracle III the House of Lords. The I'M
perial-Titles bill was brought forward,
and the Marquis of Lorne voted with
the Government that had won the
peculiar confidence of the Queen, his
mother-in-law. The policy of that Gov
| eminent on the eastern question was
discussed, and here again the Marquis
of Lorne babe the same bold defiance
topafental and political ties. ...y....
In accepting the succession of Lord
Dufferin, Lord Lorne pursues the fate
of Punishment yet further. Courtier-
ship has at last secured him an avenir,
but that he should have to go out from
his own home and his own kindred to
find it is crucial proofo of the reality of
that sentence of exile which he pro-
nounced upon himself seven years ago.
Yet he sallies forth with light heart,
and even with the elation of ignorance
and bumptiousness. ..t.. ...I.