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QUtEN VICTORIA AND HER FAM
FLY.
They Tniis German, and Have German
Ways-eHc Nueen's Isolation and
Queer Ways.

Wa,s-aIic Vueen's Isolation and
queer Ways.
The following letter from an English
correspondent Of the New York Tribune
give view Of the royal family Of Eng
land, 80 different from the one commonly
received, that it will probably be received
with somc incredulity by many readers.
Yet it is au Englishman who writes it,
aud he prntesses TO have especial means
of knowledge Of what he writes about
His letter il certainly interesting, and if
but half truc. is instructive:
LoNpoS, April
All the time that can be spared from
the discussion OF dynamite is devoted to
that lofty subject, the loneliness of the
Quoen. Society stands, or processes to
stand, aghust at tho isola ticn in which
our Sovereign Lady is left by the death
of her personal attendant, John Brown,
Esq His position was incomparably
greater than that Of either Bloomfield or
Knighton, the pages Of his sainted Ma
iesty King George the Fourth. Enough,
however. has been said and written con-
cerning John Brown, who was good SER
want and handsomely rewarded. A far
more interesting question is that of the
Queens future. Her utter loneliness is
n condition which she owes entirely to
herself, or rather to the advisers III whom
she trusted. She has outlived everybody
she could look up to, the Duchess of
Kent, her dumineering mother, Leopold
of Belgium, Lord Melbourne, Stockmar,
the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Con-
sort, and, must it be added, John Brown.
She has not Il friend in the world, and
much sentmcntalism is talked Just now
on this subject. 1 confess that l i'll
common with few others who know the
ins and outs Of the Royal existence am
yery unsympathetic upon this point.
Poetic lwaddlers talk of the throne being
like a lonely Alpine peak, high above the
world, cold and solitary To me it seems
that it il much the same with sovereign
as with IN enormously rich man. If ht
choose to consider every mans hand
against him, or eager to find its way into
his pocket, he will be solitary indeed
And why not? Ii the parsonage doe
nothing to make you love him, and doe
not give YOU anything, why i'll the NAM
of common sense should you love hin
and waste your time upon Linn?
1t shcrld be distinctly kept i'll vie'
that the Royal family, including tn
Queen, is not English at all, but entirel
German in ideas, sympnthies, and Who'll
mass ui childish tradition and prejudic
concerning etiquette and routine folly o
NIL kinds. Readers Of the Tribune al
already aware that the home language {
the Royal family is German, and that nc
one Of the Princes and Princesses ca
speak English without a German accen
very strong in the Prince OF Wales an
the Duke OF Edinburgh. This, to Eng
lshmen, is ridiculous shortcoming, e.
cept toa few fashionable imbeciles vii
actually employ the cultural German 81
in imitation OF Royalty. A foreign AZ
cent in a man who will one day be Kin
of England is absurd enough; but is NJ
half SO much to he regretted rs the il
tensely German mode of thinking whit
affects the Queen quite as powerfully
her children. 1t is not difficult to see he
Her Majesty has become separated by
great gulf from her subjects, and h
fallen into that well known habit OF d
spotic soyereigns of loving servants bt
ter than lloyni advisers, adherents al
friends. II is vice Of rulers to love,
far rs they loro anybody, their person
BARRIERS, and such like.
When sovereign shuts herself
wear after year Mt the Isle Of Wight
in the Highlands with confidential 81
want nm ordinary gillie, the "Veneti
oligarchy,' as Disraeli called the Engli
nobility, naturally take umbrase, a
complain, not without reason, that
Queen who finds levee or drawing-roo
State concert or ball, II tremendous ell
can travel many miles overthe Highlar
to be present at the wedding of some
significant Scotch serving man or
man.
Tho Cierman idea of sovereignty ,
early in. planted in the queen. Her ia
er was kind of idiot with n special t
dency toward military drill and unifoI
Her mother Of the house of LeninG
had been first married to the prince
e-Laugenburg and hadgchi
ren, which explains how Prince Victol
Hobenlohe, better known as Count G.
chen, is her nephew This amiable g
tleman, by the way, is an admiral in
royal navy, and clever draughtsn
aqd sculptor. The queens mother VIZ
decidedly clever woman, very master
and aggressive. She easily outlived b
her husbands, and was very fully