Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-14
ROYALTY AND LOYALTY.
AS THEY ARR FOUND ON HISTORIC
ENGLISH SOIL.
Humanitarian Reasons Opposed to the
Queen Opening PsrIismsnt-Ihe sharp
Shoulder Blades of the Ladies' At Court
The Knees of Nictoria's Bony scots.

4 Shoulder Blades of the Ladies' at Court
The Knees of Victoria's Bony Scots.
Especial Correspondencel
I LONDON, Fsb 3-In these unsettled and
uneasy times when the relations between
rulers and people are becoming, 10 say the
least, little strained, that monarch is wise
Dr well advised, who relaxes habits and Gus
toms of sublime isolation and regal dignity
and takes the first steps toward diminishing
( the awful distance between sovereign and
subjects u distance which nature never sane
toned and humanity is bound TO rebel
against and greatly lessen, if not utterly an
nihilate sooner or later. The ancient awe
some glory of English royalty fell into de
cline and departed this life soon after the
divine right of kings" died violent death
before Whitehall The constitutional mon
archy of Great Britain, hampered and re-
stricted more and more by the will of an in
teligent people, is really the most magnificent
sham in the world: and vet conservative
England, more than any other Protestant and
progressive nation. is bent OH keeping up and
jealousy guarding certain ancient regal forms,
ceremonies and pageants, while beginning to
admit that they have lost their old time use
and signticance-are even becoming irkSome,
Cumbrous and absurd anachroniSms. SOmo
expect little more of them than that they will
last out the queens time. About that viz
tuous and august lady still fingers something
of the romantic interest and tender respect
which embodied her and enhaloed her i'll the
days when she was young, fair and joyous
keeping alive a chivalric loyalty; at least, in
such of her subjects as can remember that
ruseate period of the Victorian era, but there
are signs that young England is getting lit
tie restive under the dull rule of the old lady
of Balmoral" as boys of to-day would be dis
contented in the Danes school" of ther
fathers They cry out b4re and there for
gayer or gamer" times: for live monarchy
and lively court, or a republic in full blast
Perhaps from an instructive perception
rather than actual knowledge Of this mild
hut increasing diSaffection, there are indica-
tions Of relenting from Windsor-of break
ing up Of the long winter Of the queens
''diScOntent" in the cold, gray
clouds of her obstinate seclusion. 1t is an
nounced that she is actually resolved 10 wit
ness in hall called after her Albert pub
lie musical entertainment-nothing gay and
worldly-somethng about death, believe
the "MorS ct Ittd" of Gounod, and also in
tends to see a tragedy at the LyCeum theatre
WI man III Va
sion of Faust
II Il pleasant TO think that her ma i.Sty has
at last forgiven the Lord" to Use the words
of a good old Quaker Such profound, pro
longed excessive and OhsesSive mourning has
seldom been known in lofty or .lowly con
itions, II certainly, at the first had an ele
ment of mild madness in it. For long time
for instance, the queen never went for a drive
,.l. L.
carriage by her side Every day she had his
dinner dr,ss regularly laid out in his dressing
room. and his place kept, and his plate laid
at the table. Doubtless the opera frequenters
and tirst-class theatre audiences will go wild
with joy at sight of her ma jestv in the royal
box, but her gracious act will not profoundly
move the mighty outside world of London.
The populace no longer enthuse over her in the
old way. which made her every drive through
her capital triumphal progress-every visit
TO the opera or play an ovation. The London
correspondent of The Manchester Guardian
described very vividly the latest royal
pageant-her ma lesty going to W Westminster, 10
open parliament, through snow, sleet and un-
imaginable dreariness and appalling uglinesS
of mud, slush, fog, and crowds of hulking.
slouching, unsavOry rOughs, bedragglei and
gripping dratN, ana ulrtN, ragged ana shlVer-
ing children, with here and there group of
well dressed loyal men and women, mostly
from the country, who had waited standing In
the miry streets Tor many miserable hours for
o sight of the grand procession, frank show.
which English taxpayers at least have a right
10 behold once every year, but which was there
to be seen for the first time for SIX long years
Yet, As RUE IL Is not the hardworklng
British taxpayers, but the street ldler and the
foreign tourist VINO eagerly lie III wait for
such sumptu"us imperial SHOWS
remeinter waiting Tor an hour or SO.
near the entrance TO the grounds OF Chlswlck
house, "here the rrlhceSs OF wales WAS l"
hold garden party "atchliig Tor the coming
Of her majesty ana the rest OF the royal
family IL was houctu that the driver ami
proprietor ot our landau seemed very lndlf
terent, ana some one feillafklhg on II, he
growled out: IL enough Tor me 10 Jss9 roy
dFg III tne shsle OF IAkes' WITHOUT looking
al II
w ont you even look at your queenF
Nay, uoh1 care 10. why mum, IT.
awful 10 lnlhh ho" nhuch tnht OH woman
costs us every year OF her NE
shuddereh al the nat olaSpheIny."
lhe correspondent nave referred TO de
scrloes the queen as looking very serious and
as lowing when DOW she dld, quite gravely
and unSympathetlcauy TO her subjects along
her way lie adds That there was little III
the people greeting ot their sovereign to call
for the becks and mods and wreathed
smiles But small proportion OF the
crowd cheered at all and they not heartily,
giving, In TACT a very different reception
from those witnessed N Tunes long past, when
the sight OF Nlctorias pleasant face was al
ways the sigma Tor glad shouts, and at time
for an outbreak OF the very madness OF 10y
sty.
ihe absence or nvely enthusiasm on this
scCaslon wRs ascrlbed TO the weather. We