New-York tribune., 1878-12-03

The Marquis and the Princess have found n
Dominion poet laureate who breaks out IN an
Ottawa newspaper in the following frank and
friendly manner:
French. sa1ons, Scotch and irish Canadians.are we,
D"' We "f' MI '''''"' =" ''' Princess Louisei
From ocean TO ocean, from lake 10 Northern sea.
Our people waiting To say welcome In llhe.
Marquis Of Lorne!
There is something IN this which will remind
the reader of Tennyson's thundrous Alexandria
Again:
When the Marquis, and Princess arrive shore.
Then will salute with the cannon's lOud
From the ship 10 the carriage we'll carpet the street,
And with cheers their Excellences Wen greet.
The effect of all this upon the Princess is thus
hopefully set forth:
And the Princess back 10 her mothers side
She viii speak about our great Dominion with pride.
She would be n very ungrateful Princess If she
didn't. Nor is the Marquis put under any unequal
obligations:
Tho Marquis Is not like some Governors of yore.
lie IS tnofoughly yersed m political lore
Yet hc viii govern wisely our gr, at Domnon
There is charming and primitive simplicity about
this which reminds of Homer, and equally, perhaps
of the bard who sang 80 swectly of The Groves of
Blarney.r But the man who would have enjoyed
this most thoroughly is gone. Thaekeray is dead.
Perhaps the finest, certainly the briefest, piece of
writing which has come of the Canadian reception
Castle December /. which was follows: De-
lighted at reception. Say so.-THE QUfEN." The
Uauoyerian house. as il is embalmed IN history, has
not been remarkable for maternal tlia affection.
First or last, we believe that old Charlotte quar-
relied with all her children. As for the dis
putes of the kings aud hers-appareDt have they
Z rot been endless The Queen regnant Of England
has not received OF late years. many manifesto
tons of affection from her subjects at home and it
may well have touched her heart often lacerated
by cruel gossip, to find her daughter, the wife of
her representative in far of colony received with
an out burst of popular enthusiasm significant to
some extent of the stability of the British Empire.
Now that the returns oil figured up and the
bets paid the country will have leisure to give
some attention to the State of Maine, where
the campaign for the Governorship IL still raging,
notwithstanding the fact that the people of that
Common onwealth began TO vote for Governor a couple
of months before almost every body else. But
down in Maine election doesn't elect.
At least an election there doesn't elect Governor
who gets the most votes and just what the Legisla
ture will do with the candidates who this
| time polled the fewest votes is still un-
certain, because nobody feels sure which
| two of the parties at this three-handed game
will play partners against the third. though the
| Grcenbackers and Democrats do show sinful dis
| position to unite. Meanwhile the men who want
| the State offices which depend on the Governors
| appointment are growing more haggard and wan
| as things keep tangling themselves up
| i'm the supplementary canvass, and great many
other people begin to feel that the Maine plan OF
| putting the wrong man in the Governors char is
| too crcuitous and protracted.