The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-18
QUEEN VICTORIA.
Diseased More in Mind Than in Body
The Truth Concesled-Grave Apprehen-
sions.

NEW YORK, July ia London letter 10
the sun, dated July 3, says "The state
ment long expressed In hypocritical signs,
up'ifted, mournful eyes, suppressed inter-
Iections, inuen loes whispered with bated
breath, yelled in metaphor or clad In wary
disguise, is now coldly, calmly, openly,
dispaSsionatey discussed by partisans AZ
we'll as foes, by fiitterers aud scoffers. The
mind OF the Queen, not her body, Is az.
fected. Her eccentrcties have taken unto
themselves a name which is only q
synonym for insanity. Tha lurking faint in
the Hanoyerian blood, the dementia trace
able in the line OF Georges, bursting out
ever and airesh in some wild or wicked
break, now seems to have Enthusiastically
oyertaEen the Queen. The more or less
harmless manias In which, during q long
reign, Queen Victoria has allowed herself
TO indulge unchalienged aud Unbalanced
the errstic fancies, sudden caprices, I'M
reasoning dislikes, unconquerable obstinacy
OF which so many testimonies exist, seem
10 have eliminated at last In q sudden,
serious, protracted, undisguisable attack Of
melancholy, monomania Of seclusi0n,
sadness aud fear. which it is idle now to
color with any other motive. 1t is not In
disrespect or with coarse insinuation that
one is justified in attributing this last and
painful outburst TO the death OF the favorite
Gillie. To one so selfish, the smallest al
leration In daily habits at onoe becomes
important, Small causes have at times
great effects, and a subordinate incident
tor LII a..
serious casualties have left unchanged.
Still when woman, a widow and queen,
has been known TO advocate the doctrine Of
the transmigration Of souls In support Of
her sympathies when she Is credited with
the belief that
THE SOUL OF THE PRINCE OOHeoRT
had elected its domcile in the body Of John
Brown, 1t is not ungenerous or unnatural
to conclude that her mind had already TO
some extent lost its equilibrium. History
has already registered in its pages the aa-
thenticated fact that Queen Victoria gazed
with favor upon the face Of her servant In
the fond delusion that she could trace upon
his Scotch, square, broad linesments some
resemblance to the outlines OF Prince AL
bert's features. The disruption Of this
oSNOhN az bHs "iitly WAS
cruel shock, and the consequences of Il
we're so alarming that the effects Of . very
slight, almost illusory accident, were mag
nihed into serious and dangerous sprain,
so as to account TO the public for the com
plete withdrawal Of the sovereign from all
intercourse, and her absolute seclusion from
any eyes, save those OF her immediate en-
tourage, and abstention from public duties,
except the compulsory and mechanical
wholesale signing Of state papers. The
Queen has been conveyed from Windsor to
Osborne, thence TO Balmorsl aud back again
10 Windsor, in profound and mysterious
isolation. Her movements are shrouded in
impervous secrecy, all precautions against
intrusion OF any kind are strictly aud
jealousy taken, and the stringent necessity
OF a perfect change Of scene, air and sur.
roundings are urgently impressed upon the
nation,