Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-10
ENGLAND's QUEEN AND PRINCE.
UnpOpularity of the One and Popularity
of the Other.
)naody'S Letter to the Oh
HercjdL Gazette.

of the Other.
N. D. Conaoay'S Letter to the Ciaoinnat com
merciGL Gazette.
1t is about time that Americans should
be given hint that they are in danger of
making themselves a little ridiculous in
the way they sometimes indulge their
sentimental side in speaking of Queen
Victoria. Not long ago | was present at
the annual dinner given by the Novima-
gians, a club fantiquarians, a good many
| gentlemen and ladies being there, when
Ex-Governor Holiday, of Virginia, made
speech, in which he fairly decorated
"that noble woman" with rhetorical
Kohinoors, and lett her framed in a con-
stellatiOn of admiration points. The En-
glish people smiled and winked at each
other, there were whispers about distance
lending enchantment, and about the GU
rious notions prevailing in the American
provinces.
The Queen is certainly not liked by the
English people. ! have formed a pretty
large acquaintance in the course of TWEEN
ty years residence there, and ] do not
know one English man or woman who
personally likes or admires the Queen.
She is variously objected to as morose,
morbid, stingy, grasping, ugly, sullen, i'll
humored, and torpid if not stupid. / do
not say that these opinions of her are cor
rect, but they are generally held, though.
are number of English Radicals Of the
Bright school who set high value on
the Queen really because she has
brought large degree of unpOpularity on
the throne. They would like her to live a
long time, because every year the people
! learn more and more how unimportant
| the throne is to them, and are gradually
| forgetting the traditions of court splendor
and gayety. Their appreciation of the
Victorian reign is as little complimentary
to the Queen personally as the
dislike of the average people. The
| Queen has offended the most in
| fluential women Of England by her hos
Utility to all movements for enlarging the
! sphere of occupation and influence Of her
sex. The thinking and literary people
are ashamed that her only ELUSIVE pat
rOnage should be accorded to military
men whose glOries have been won by
attacks on small tribes. The great con-
servative middle classes upper and lower)
| sneer at her heaping up idle millions of
| money and giving none of it to the Prince
of Wales, while he performs most of her
public ceremonial duties for her.
The Queens growing unpopularity
measures the growth of the Prince of
Wales popularity. This has been steadi-
ly increasing, until it is fast amounting
up to enthusiasm. The Prince has end
less good humOr and marvellous tact an
luSJdUce Ol G0e ldbteT D6lDg MS prompt
consent to 90 off to EastbOurne and open
an asylum there BECAUSE it was named
after his deceased sister Alice. He is
clever, too. Not long ago the Savage
Club invited him to attend a banquet at
their rooms; the whole thing was slightly
snobbish, and there was a good deal Of
satisfaction when the Prince, after din
ner, suggested that so large and fine a
club (it consists chiefly of actors
and musicians) should found a scholar
ship in the new Royal College of
Music. The affluence of the club was
chiefly on the table, but they could not
excuse themselves to the Prince, and are
now learning that dancers who indulge In
a royal piper must expect to pay him row.
ally. The Prince always makes fauItless
speeches now he has lived a long time
since he spoke OF Queen Elizabeth as his
ancestor and never puts on any airs.
He has Outlived good deal of gossip,
arising from his liking for pretty girls { in
which was always more of the merry Ger
m than the dangerous English s'fiirta-
tiOusness") }, and his love for the Princess
is shown not only in his constant atten-
tiOn to her, but in the bloom and beaming
happiness of her face. It is probable that
there is not happier pair in Europe.