Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-21
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng, May 8. 1879.

I
has now returned to hear the loyal shouts
of her adoring people (who, not being
allowed to approach nearer than quarter
of n mile, have all, l am glad to say,
provided themselves with speaking
trumpets and field telescopes for the
emergency, still continues the bad habit
of encouraging the over-increase of popu.
lation by sending check for three pounds
TO lady who, after having twins, has
made matters worse by bestowing triplets
to fend for themselves in this well.stocked
country. AT time like this people cannot
be too often told that the remedy for all
this misery lies in their own hands. 1t is
really Incredible that nation which
might be happy and contcnted with
twenty-five millions of population should
deliberately prefer TO be universally mis-
cradle and underpaid with thirty millions.
10 double population in fifty. Years nee
essarily involves the throwing out of gear
OF the whole producing powers of the
Kingdom. But how can we expect people
who are not well-to-do to look TO the future
when the queen sets the example of hay
ing her culver full of them? True, the
responsibility for her children does not
fall upon herself. 1t is a nice thing to be
sovereign ruler when your subjects love
you and don't strew your fowery path of
life with bombs.
The season for the stage coaching has
commenced under distinguished patron
age. Many amateur whips " supply the
horses, purely for the love of the road, and
llatchetts hotel, Piccadilly, is the London
starting point. A coach to Dorking and
Boxhll is horsed by Lord Arthur Somerset
and Sir Henry de Bake. The horses of
the Cambridge, Oxford and London are
found and driven by Colonel Tyrwhitt and
Captain Blythe. Mr.. Shoolbred has put
the Guildford coach on the road, and Mr..
John Peter Robinson of Oxford street has
started coach, magniIicently horscd,
which plies from the "Swan" at Thames
Ditton to Hatchetts. This is delightful
drive through Richmond, Kew, Twicken-
ham. Bushby Park and Moulsey. Mr..
Robinson is an expert whip" and during
June, if the weather is creditable to the
almanac, the famous Oxford street mer-
chant will be able to CRAFTY hosts of his
friends and indulge his we'll known love
of horsellesh. What sensible way of
spending Il handsome income in healthful
recreation, and how much superior is it to
the turf, with its feverish excitement and
questionable morality.
"And the people said, nay, but we will
have king over us, that we also may be
like all the nations" Grant and Tilden
arc no longer in the race, for on Tuesday,
at noon, Prince Battenberg was elected
Alexander, first prince of Bulgaria. The
interesting proceedings commenced as
early as 10 o'clock in the morning, when
n re Deune was celebrated in the presence
of all the European deputies. After the
names Of the candidates had been intro
duced by the archbishop, Prince Batten-
berg was elected unanimously, and the
result was communicated to the population
amid the greatest enthusiasm. A process
sion of the deputies was then formed, and
with bands of music at their head, they
marched with the official document to the
residence Of Prince Rorsakotf, who, on
his appearance in front of his house, was
greeted with storms of cheers. A deputa-
ton of six deputies set out from Tirnova
without delay to officially communicate
the fact of his election to Prince Aexan-
der. Tirnova was brilliantly illuminated
in honor Of the occasion, and intense en-
thusiasm prevailed. The newly elected
prince, upon whom will devolve the re-
sponsble task of organizing the many
discordant elements at present existing in
Bulgaria, is only twenty years of age, but
is credited with possessing intelligence far
beyond his years. lie is the son of Prince
Alexander of Hesse, brother of the en-
press of Russia, His mother was the
daughter of Polish minister of war, and
was raised to the rank of princess on her
marriage with the prince of Hesse. The
young prince of Bulgaria is second son
of this union, his elder brother being now
in the British navy. 1t is rumored that the
prince has made it condition of his
acceptance of the position that all Russians
holding administrative officers in the prin-
cipaity shall remain for five years with
their present salaries, after which they
shall receive gratuity in land or money,
and be naturalized Bulgarian citizens.
The finish of the six days trot at the
agricultural hall was comparatively tame
after the amount of interest which had
been worked up during the week. These
contests as rule soon become quite too |
awfully monotonous, and except for one
or two peculiarilies the last affair formed
no exception to the rule Prominent
among these were the wholesale upseuing
of existing records, and the unexpected |
gameness and determination of IIazael. |
1t is now generally admitted that at the
go-as-you-please game runners have u lot
the best of the contract, and there is little
doubt that but for his illness in the e,rlv |
part of the week the Whlechapeller
would have pushed the winner hard.
Hazaers one hundred miles in fifteen
hours and thirty-fve minutes was u won
derful performance, and had he but kept
well there is no telling what might have
In the one hundred and forty
hours and odd minutes during which the
contest lasted, Brown covered five hun.
dred and forty-two and one fourth miles,
against Corkeys five hundred and twenty
one miles five hundred and three yards in
one hundred and thirty-nine hours. Thus
we have the long-distance championships