Year: 1862

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English Tribute to the Yankees,


A correspondent of the London Tele-
graph, writing at Washington on March
the 11th, of the combat between the
Monitor and the Merrimac, says: But
one hope it will at least not be premature
to express. 1t is that the English Go
vernment will at once see the wisdom OF
attaching the best military or naval engi-
neer in the country, and also the best
Royal artilleryman, to the British Lega-
tion at Washington, with a view to OBJ
serving and taking cOgnizance of all the
many experiments of this highly ingeni-
Gus people in ordnance and ship building.
1t is high time that our ignorant super
ciliousness and contemputous indifference
of America should cease More is to be
learned here than anywhere in the world;
and if we are such madmen as to shut our
eyes to this fact, in the face Of the grave
eyentualities which loom so palpably
through the future, and to which it is
hardly possible to allude in definite Ian.
guage, the blame be upon our own
hands |"


The same writer, describing the for
ward movement of General McClellan's
army, says Such an imposing display
of strength, so much of the pomp, pride
and circumstance of glorious war, has
rarely been witnessed in any nation as
was yesterday visible in Washington
From dawn to dewy eve, infantry, cayal
ry and artillery continued to pour in an
unbroken stream across the Potomac and
if should say that old military men, who
have seen camps and armies the world
over, and have watched French troops
filing by in Paris for two hours together,
confessed that they had never witnessed
such manifestation of power, l should
convey a very imperfect and inadequate
idea of the impression conveyed all
beholders''


"By far the most imposing arm in the
service is the artillery. 1t is said that
General Mcclellan ordered twenty bat
teries, in all QUE hundred and twenty
guns, to cross the river. l am confident
from what l saw that this is the lowest
estimate of the field guns which yesterday
moved to the front. On the field of Sol
ferino, Louis Napoleon had one hundred
and eighty guns in position but here, in
connection with only single army, one
hundred and twenty guns, of calibre far
superior to the French, were in motion
together, exclusive of those which had
crossed long before and it cannot be pre-
tended that any nation on earth is so
strong in artillery at this moment as the
Federal States of America. Brass how
itzers, Parrott guns, eaissons, tumbrils,
ammunition wagons, forges, moved for
ward in long and endless line.


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DINING WITH THE BRITISH QUEEN
If you should receive card from the
Lord Chamberlain of the Queens house
hold, commanding you to dine with her
Majesty, it might be interesting to know
how to conduct yourself. One who has
been through the ceremony thus describes
it:


First of all, the guest must put him
self into Court dress. which makes him
look like a footman in private life, with
knee breeches and silk stockings, lace
cravat and rufles, amplest of waistcoasts
and shad-bellyist of coats Then, if he
does not keep his own coach he must hire
one, looking like private vehicle for it
is doubtful whether, since creation COM
menced any one walked to royal dinner
and the idea of going thither in a cab
would probably have a moral effect on the
enormous porter, in scarlet and gold tog
gerry, who receives your card of invita-
ton when he admits you. Nor, suppos-
ing all the preliminary trouble ended
supposing that you have found your way
into the drawing-room, and bowed to the
Queen, and stealthily looked round at
the pictures, and counted over (all this
time in solemn sience) the spots or iiow-
ers ON the carpet, for the tenth time, and
marched in file into the sale de nanger-
supposing all this, do not imagine that
you are going to enjoy yourself. No, in
deed. None but Mark Tapley could be
"iolly - at such a feast. Royalty has al
ready dined, about 8 O'Clock, probably off
the hereditary leg of mutton and turnips,
and has added the usual quantum of rice
pudding, and the bit of old Cheshire, or
rich Stilton, or double Glo'ster cheese,
and imbibed the accustomed mug or two
of Guinness OF Meux This repast call
ed lunch, is really good, homely filling
dinner, and at the solemn repast, five
hours later, people are expected to mere
ly sip and taste through several courses,
so that one is reminded of the famous
feast of the Barmeeide. The viands are
of the best, the cuisine perfect, the vim
tage superb-but one can merely taste.
Royalty's appetite was blunted on the leg
of mutton and pudding, the cheese and
the bottled porter, and the guests should
have taken the edge off theirs by SINH
lar process.


" At these sadly solemn reunions dull
silence grimly reigns. There is not even
u whisper to your neighbor-if you knew
him. The etiquette is do not open your
mouth unless Royalty expressly conde-
scends to speak to you. Do not expect
such a compliment, That is reserved for
few favored guests in the immediate
vicinity of the regal hostess. The dinner
occupies from sixty to ninety minutes,
and when ended, the Queen rises, all
other ladies rising and retiring with her
The male guests remain some ten minutes
longer, silently slipping their wine, or
Whispering in small knots with bated
breath At last, the senior officer of the
household present rises on his hind legs
and majestically gives the Queen as u
toast, which every one drinks. If any
member of the royal family be present
he bows an acknowledgment, Coffee