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^ ^ *** H-jP? ^ rr>- **' ' ? t, || ^gU *, ' *+* "^PjPr ,..'C|H . * j* ^ ? * 34 >H^?'-SK;"' * -, ^ #^'w-^'kfl|C - " ' ' - ' * $2 PER ANNUM. ^^SS^S&S'Aira. m.w,. IN ADVANCE . . _ NELTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO LTERARY, COMMERCIAL. AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. 4 VOLUME IV. LANCASTER. C. H., SOOTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 18, 1853, NUMBER % jg MiscEU.wrenns j was that in her youth anil simple ramies- j tower, that the Queen of England had been | In the GuiaK in whirfi he wm thpn an I n?u nf omntmn ?.?1 - 1 ww wwi " [From the Tribune. TITE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. i In the rear whi'cli circled If 30, the .jolly drayman at the ale-house bar, or the rosy gardner in his market field, was wont to lay down His mug, or lean upon his tpade, to look with proud anTl pleasant smiles aiter a pretty little Shetland pony which was wont to canter every morning through the green shades and shady nooks of Kensington. This little Shetland pony carried Victoria and her fortunes. The futuro Queen was then a fat, fair, and rather ordinary looking girl, with bright, tunny ringleta, large German blue eyes, ~ .v.u|>gi ?u> sponeu ns usually belong to an only child, and that child heir to a throne, and n will as obstinate and wayward as the frisky Hiiander she rode. The early history of Victoria in almost as shrouded as the early history of Rome. Poet laureates, indeed, and historians who hare dined at court, or Celtic editors who bare fancied that the Queen smiled softly on them in the Park, hflvc endeavored to surround it with a texture of romance. But we have reajon to heliere that she laughed and cried, and danced and sang, an l was good and naughty like ordinary little girls of Iter age and day. The namo she reccired at the font was Alkxaxdria, being called (what strange revolutions time brings) after Alexander, the then Etnperor of Russia. The elder sister of the Queen's mother, the Duchess of Kent, was married to Alexander's brother, Constantine, the capricious tyrant of Poland, three of the Cobnrg goddesses having been actually posted off to St. Petersburg for litis Russian Paris to examine and select from. * The cruelty With which Constantine treated hie purchase drove her into an intrigue with a voting Russian officer; but Alexander, with gentle pity, not alone pretectal jum.?.:-.! ??* ,.m ..v. viii iviviht, inn give nor an allowance, upon which she quietly and happily lived in Kpitzerland. TJhis kindness wm acknowledged at the font of the future Queen ; but on the death of A lex an?ler, tlie memory dying with the monarch, her eldeat name oxchanged place* with its younger sister Victoria, the tutelary deity of the house of Coburg. .Up to wilbiu ayearortwo of Victoria's attaining the age of eighteen?-the age at which the sovereign is considered entitled hy English lay to assume the throne? Iter mother, the Duchess of Kent, lived a life qf tranquil felicity in the enjoyment of tlie society of Kir John Conrov, an Irishman or Welshman of low hirth, whom alas bad raised to the position of equerry, treasurer, and directorGeneral of her household.' The Duohesa was and i?, one of those gross German women, whose coarsens** of featnre is unrelieved by a single line of apirituality?one of those mere machines for converting so much sataaage and tauer kmut into human nature. And though filial affection has always induced the Queen not to forgot the m/iltMi J?? 'I - ~ i? i- ! ' "' ... wuiwMn, u ik im|roMfUie i line the daughter'* lor* oould iwume that elevated tone which a higher ami more refined nature would bare inspired. Beyond a stray mention of aotne kindly visit to a neighboring cottage, or of some early total of sympathy with the suffering j?oor, England know little and thought little of tlie lady wlto was ooa day to I graea Imp Areas. At Malvern, indeed, I between wbkjit and Kensington she spent moat of Iter dime, the old woman et the springs talks with softening memory of I souse of Irer gay girl-jsaU and pranka,and I whoa occasionally some far seeing corjxv an address to liar mother | astbey passed through the town, and (fee bade sent forth a prasslsnt peal, it we* I ssgely told in tlie papers of the day thnt I "beewle the I hicliew stood a girl, wiiii her fsip hair gathered behind hsr ears, who I appeared to kewui wktanarked attention I to ovary thing which fcccurred." Hut suddenly earue?jwhisper that England's *>aailor king" wtpi ill. The whisper grew I iotooxport t^ereport into a bulletin. the interest of the world, as its wvu^ im mnwik; MtMM tl?? departing Hfc/ ami (Uw to tbvoopriag $?? * It?a?? l*nutiful i*<mwi ft in Jun<\ I 0*7 who* **u tfco *^y?l g?H pwMfcftUd Hor tf *4 ft wtndow of the gtxd old pnUeo Of *U J??5M M t|l4 ^ rtigO Of tltAt ?)? j4?rijgflfr i(1m#0t? Mtcf ku. Tbem o I ^i|| * >? * -? - ?* -I ? , ....v. nvMinii o Yiensnnss un?l the emotions of the hour, which won for the moment have softened the ster est foe of Queendom and encircled t! girl, loaded thus young with such a trw with a girdle of a million of hearts as wi a wall of fire. In the mass which svun and swayed around were Wellington at Lyndhurst, and Palmerston and limn and above all the voices which swelli the cry of "God save the Queen 1" tnig be heard the thrilling tones of IreUm burljfc champion, O'Oonnell, whose l?roj shoulders and coarse comic face made hi conspicuous amid the crowd! At the period of Victoria's accession | the throne, party spirit unfortunately ri i high in England, and the gloomy com lion of trade, and the reaction conseque on the disappointment of the oxaggerat< j popular hope which followed reform, t most balanced the contending forces, at thus lent to the wars of the rival wh and tory factions a spirit of bitter ranc and personal malignity known even in i fiery throes. Men looked darkly on ea< other in the streets, and in tho House 1 who steeped his spear in lite bitterest ga and planted his rapier with the fierce thrust, drew forth the loudest acclatn lions froin the representative circles. Vi toria, on her coming to the throne, fuui tlio whig parly in power, and there is li tie wonder that, with her girl's heart, al gave to them n contiJent trust, whk perhaps, grew into affection. She w, alone?a girl?almost an orphan. 1 Lord Melhorne, the then leader of t! whig party, she found a gentleman most distinguished accomplishment*, mo ftiMcinnting manner, and most kindly hea Whatever may have heen Lord Melborni faults as an individual, or the minuter a nation, rs the minister, adviser at friend of the Queen, he had none. II surrounded her person with the pure and noblest of England's daughters. Tl Duchess of S mtherlaiul, as mistress of tl robes, became her constant companion at confidante, And her ladies in-waiting we selected from the elevate.! region of ar'< toeracv in which lady Gainsborough, tl Duchess of Hodford and L.wly Portlni dwell. He himself, first in conjunctic with Lord l'ulmorston, and when he wei ried, with Lord John Kussell, and subs quentiy alone, undertook the oflio of pi vale aecretary. To the wise admin is tr tion, and aiinoat parental instruction Lord Melbourne, bestowed upon a natu rich and pure enough to receive the kin ly dew, England is indebted for tlio ordc ly and blameless life, that deep sense < duty, and that ready deference to puhl opinion, which are not only the safest set tinels of Victoria's crown, but will rcnd< Iter reign, hereafter, if not marked by ll masculine brilliancy of Elizalailh's, distil guished for those purer, if less showy, i dornmcnts which make her the model an English constitutional sovereign. 4 On the second of Jane, 1838, the ol Abbey of Westminster woro one of hi glorious looks, end unfoulded a new peg in her emblazoned story. In King El ward's chair a young lad at. Four knights of the garter?th Lords of Rutland, and Ruccheuh, an Eteter, and Anglesey?held abore In head a cloth of gold! The Dean J Westminster took the ampulla from tl alter. With steady hand he poured t< drops of oil into the annointing spool tho Archbishop touched therewith tti royal head and hand, and, making tl form of the cioss, Ire lifted up his voic and said:? " Re thou nnnou|^d with holy oil, i kings, priests anijflHeUi were annoin ed. And as SolunRrwas annointed kin by ?uloc the priest sod Nathan the pr phet, so be th*>u annoiutod, blessed ar I MittaAAruiik.1 Oiinnti nt'flf tliia ulm lite lord your God li ?th given you to ru and govern, in tlie name of the Fatli? and of the Son, and of the Iloly Olios Amen." " ?* ' ' * And the Archbishop, taking Uie crow from the Dean, placed it with grace! .reverence on the head of the young lad Immediately there reae from floor to ro one wild, enthusiastic about?' God ea the Queen." The p*e?* put on their cor net*, the bishope their nape, the king?-i arms their crowns, the beef oaten tin porringef halt. The trumpet aounde the drum beat, and the boom of the pa guns borne along the river called to tl old city, which answered from its anoie ' -J'- ' " :l * 4h **7 ' , ^ ^ n - +' ?. ' t?2 , * mrJhf ,th - <Jk or crowned. Iler uncles, Sussex and Ci Id bridge, toddled forward, and with adj 11- ed glasses, read their homage in tl; lio words:? ?t, "I do become your liege man of life i lb limb and of earthly worship, faith i ig truth. I will hear unto you to live i id dio against all mannur of folks. So I ie. me, God. ed Peer after peer followed, and v lit this classic peroration the procecdi l'a closed. id Plciisant were the incidents of the tl in The sun,which always smiles on Victu shone with a splendor occasionally sha to l,y a sentimental cloud. Welling! m Melbourne and Gray, were cheered 'i* they ascended the steps. Old Lord H it fell down on going up the steps, and w ?d Victoria, with sweet smiles and agile gr i'* tripped forward to aid the aged devo id the noble temple rang with cheers to 'K ward her queenly courtesy. O'Con or W;,s recognised in a hired snuff-colc t* court-suit, and was hissed for hisservil 'h Joe llumo would not don court-lac 10 livery, nn?l was cheered for h>s indej !'? dence. IJulwcr, to his great chap passed unnoticed. The Bishop of Ex? ,l in his impetuous zeal to pay liomagi c" the gorgeous Austrian, Ester hazy, trip 'd and rolled upon the floor, and somccr it- Thus fall atl bishops." i? But while lords and ladies, and prii lb played within at this majestic mumi 1* there pusscd outside the people, those < 'n whom she had been given to reign, wl 1,5 sweat was to maintain, and whoso bl to defend her sovereignty. Many of multitude wns will fed, and decent r,? decorous; but among those people* s# many, too, lolling lazily in the sur glaring with bleared, brutish gaze on masquerade; hordas from, the foul ?1 round Westminster, who had risen fi st their lairs to gape and grin, who ki ,e not God, an<l were not men, somotli 16 lower than the animal, with every h a jungle of vermin, and every face a re savins of gin?great ghastly limbs of I H* don life, most terrible to look on. ] '? the coror.etod coaches, each with its | fumed mummer, passed along, heed ,n of the coarse curse or rihalcd jest wl ft" followed them. Not so the Queen. ! c" looked and heard tlie shout nnd laiigl "* with terror, and when she reached ft~ palace she burst into tears?n* she s with fear to think she was a Queen. A r? all, human nature is the same in all; i l ^ ' it was impossible for one so young to li ir" that day the voice of S"ch a mill tit t f * a voice even more terrible than thai IC the tempest in its ruffian hour, or to th 11' that she was raised to rnle over mill! Jr ?many of them brute men?with le feeling her heart swayed and engros v h" deep emotion. She is said to h R* never forgotten that day, and to the son it has taught of nwc of the peo and defference to their will, she peril owes the secure position which her thr now holds, and has held during the str er which, in 1848, shook and swept dc I? so many. 'y As might be expected in tlie case r ' virgin Queen possessed, in addition t< many golden accomplishments, of t 6r beauty of youth which is common a! to the peasant and the monarch, goi 10 with gay garrulity had bestowed her ,n fections upon rario?f? gallent caval 1' around the court. Its luxurious fa 16 with fertile facility can ever convei '? yawn into a sigh, or gild the simplest sr ;o with sentiment. Lord Klphinstone, L Arundel, and Ix)rd Alfred Paget wen ?s Victoria's court what Leicester, and E* ? i ?- 1 1 * v- miiii were 10 rvuzaoein s. I. 3 Rlphinstone vm the lave rite com par of her childhood, end in a noblcmni id generous mien and manner. Hut m friendship of childhood Mldom ripen* i le love. That passion come* oftcner v r, the apring of a tiger than the atealth it- cat. Whether it l>e that, havinghie ni mentioned with the Queen'*, lie arc rn not soil the shadow of her fume by eo til fillip with a subject we know not; y# his harp still hangs on the wiilowHret of The next the present Earl of Arut re and Surrey, and son of Eoglands preti o peer, the Duke of Norfolk, with the b) it- of all the Howards in lite reins, an tint ir ally noble presence, end countenance d, markatde for its sweet expression, wi rk lord worthy of any qneen. lie poets* l?e too, that most useful accomplishment nt an English sovereign?a lack of bra I ' :' * % m im- officer, lie was chiefly remarkable for his ust- passion for beer, and Dr. Johnson has ex lese cathedra pronounced 2 M Men, sir, who drink beer think beer.1* The chief objectml tion to Lord Arundel was his profession of snd the Roman Catholic <#?itb ; hut as his and mother was a Protestant, and his father, lelp who has since become a Protestant, was one of that numerous corps of nominal villi Catholics wlio may he better styled ngs 'Christians unattached," his family were not without a hope that he would say, lay. like Harnadotte, when a similar difficulty ria, opposed his ascent to the throne of Swelled den, '"Ilarnadotte inav be a Catholic; hut, ton, the King of Sweden will be whatever as Sweden wills." Ilis Ronton Catholicism olio was not then, cither, of the strict and hen sincere character it now is, and even the ace Pope has been known to brush off, with tee, absolving hand, such feeble frailties. But re- the heart of youth sometimes defeats the nell head of age. At a pleasant bar, which 'red stands some distance from the Horse lity. Guards, near Whitehall, Lord Arundel key was, when on duty, wont to qualT his >en- foaming pot of favorite beer. The little rin, hand which tilled it was white and small; iter, and the woman behind it had a bright a to look and sweet smile, and fair form. The ped arrow of Cupid stole through the glitteried, ing cairaxx. She, : hough poor, was good, and my Lord Arundale had a heart, and ices was what fashionable people called a 'fool.1 uy. He projMwed marriage. The blood of all iver the Howards was horrified. He was at ioso once dispatch 3d abroad, ard at the peasood ant "Pendennis"' forgot Lite pretty gatethe keeper of the inn, Lord Arundale forgot and his little bar-tnaid,and married thedaughrere ter of Sir Edmund Lyons, the gallant ad 'f or miral now commanding tflc allied fleet in this the East. The other, Lord Alfred Paget, lens since married a Miss Wyndham, the heir rom ess, whs at the time a slashing, splcnded new hussar, the young Queen's chief equerry ; ling and if gay audacity nnd gallant daring end could hear away her heart, lie would have Ye taken the costly fort hy storm. Put in .on- England, and indeed in every country, Put there are insuperable objections to tlu per- alliance of the sovereign with a subject, less and the law which compels the king 01 itch queen consort to he of the Protestant She faith as established in England, limits iter elsewhere the royal love to one or twe the principalities, which, in extent and wealth, aid, arc eclipsed by llubokcn. The little Vanfter kee girl who can gire her affections free and play from California to the Crimea, from car Poston to Bagdad, is happy in a freedom ido, denied to queens. The star thus circum t of scribed rested over the lucky bouse ol ink Coburg. ons On the 10th of February, 1840, the out heauty and chivalry of England were sed gathered within the Chapel of St. James, nve A mild and gentlemanly-looking young les- man lead to the alter a lady simply but pie, beautifully attired. Her robe was ol aps white satin, trimmed with splendid lace, one and gracefully fringed with sprigs of or >rm ango blossom. Iler train of lace wa.iwn borne hy twelve young and lovely girls ol ikn l.Ur.,1 r.t #i.~ hi.? - rx ?..v vit/vu vi hiv j clt^o x Itllllit^VilVlP. \ 'II her head rested a light wreath of orange >f a flowers, hut no scarf concealed the neck > so and no veil threw its fragile screen over s hat face which was free for all to look on. like On her neek was a lace of little stars, and isip nn her shoulder (lie collar of the garter, nf' On the Archbishop asking, "Who giv'wT* eth this woman to be married to this manf the Duke of Sussex,with as agile a promp1 * titude as his gout and giant fatness would nile permit, struggled forward and handed the Queen to the not reluctant youth. The 9 selected son of Coburg being asked, **? "whether ho would lake Iter for his wedded wife," evi lently strove to express hit ' on willingness with becoming modesty ; but 1 there was that in hia air and voice which the gavo to the response "Yes !** a not unnat'nto ural eagerness and tost. Victoria looked ^ pale and agitate.l. The fact was, she, toe * felt happy. The law, it is true, bounded wne |,er choice; but within those bounds the ?uld people allowed her fancy rang*, and would urt* to insure her happiness, have enlarged it hat Albert waa just the man who was accom > plished enough to tnako her look up with Kiel regard to his manifold attainments, and riier who waa pliant and sweet tempered Md cnourli to nl*?M h#r Kv tUsuii I ? J "? '*"/ I8U- to licr own rather aelf-willed and cnprire CHHii temper. He ?m a young ami, too m a of f?ir presence and manly proportion*.?' ted, And when Victoria w*? anked, "\\ ilt thou t' to t*k* this man for thy wedded liuaband T in*, aba accepted with a warmth and terder ?a , \ % ; I' ' ii k iTm - / ..v?w v. V..ivvivut n IIIVII L???V IIWVIX3 UUUUI that her heart went with her hand. As we propose to devote a seperate niche in our gallery of portraits to Prince Albert, it may now suffice to say that few marriages in any circle of life have been crowned with a more unbroken happiness. In domestic virtue, in purity of taste, in healthy refinement of enjoyment, the Royal life presents an example which not alone the court but the cottage may imitate with advantage. The Queen in hei habits imitates much more the industry and activity of the New England lad) than the indolence and ease which char acterize the Old England fashionable life At an early hour she may he seen in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, or on th? slopes at Windsor, in plain cottage boni net, in brisk walk with her husband, 01 caring with tender finger, for some sickly flower. And the languid ladies who lol i listlessly about the court, often lisp theii lamentation at having the leaf of their del i icato slumber stirred by such an earl) breeze. Indeed two summers since, on i i visit to that mimic mockery of a Court a i Dublin, which, like a flunkey in his mas ter's clothes, apes the follies and frailtie; , of Royality without possessing its man i ners or its mien, the Queen threw the Lore Lieutenants and aud his lieges into con vulsions of confusion hv nrrivinnr of !.. ? b " castle at an hour when the sluggard slaves of fiishion were asleep. In hei Highland home of Balmoral, the buncli of fresh heath and glass from a sparkling spring are carried at the first blush ol morning to her bedside, and she may b? seen clambering up tho bonnie banks and down the merry braes "wi her wee bit bairns," to the delight of the good Scotcl i housewives around. Previous to her mar , riage,ridingon horseback was the fuvorit< exercise of the Queen, and under the tui I tion of Miss Qucutin, the daughter of Si ; fleorge Quentin, Colonel of the Tentl ' Hussars, she had acquired a graceful am i firm scat. Riding is that which mon i arches do best, Talleyrand says, for horse , cannot flatter. In those days her appear s anoe in tho Park, surrounded by a gai , and glittering cavalcade of cquestriaus was a brilliant feature in the summei , evenings of Rotten Row. On her entrance i to the Park "the Queen" ran along tlx ? avenue like a flash, and with loyal cour , tcsy, cavaliers and carriages ranged them selves on either side, while the Royal La ! dy rode through and received the homagt i of her admiring subjects. But thost i bright days of youth are past ller po siiion has been one of such almost unin f tcriupted interest, and the young plant have succeeded each other in the roya i nursery with such luxuriant rapidity, tha > rocking has supplanted riding and tin > bobby displaced the horse. Both tlx Queen and Prince devote several hour in the day to the society and instructor f of their children, and usually make of tlx . children's dinner a pleasant prefaco to tlx pomp and parade of royal banquets. Tlx i Queen has discovered that healihy spring r in which alone the philosopher's stone o i happiness is found?employment Tho* i hours which do not belong to the sacrci duties of the mother she devotes to tlx t enjoyment of the most refined pursuits.? Some of her sketches and drawings die I played much grace of design and cxecu tion. Under the skilful tuition of Costa . she has become a fair proficient in tlx ' science of music,and the glorious Lablachi lias taught her to play with eorno tast< on that most beautiful of all instrument* i the human voice. Ho speaks with tlx i most affectionate pride of bis nuntl. who I "I ' every night that her master sings, ma; . be seen hanging with raptmous deligh i over that huge volcano of song. Hot! L Queen and Frince aro passionately fon< i of music, and are always to be seen whet in town, at the Koyal box in the Opera | which stands within two of the stage 01 i the right hand side of the first tier.? | Though she usually screens herself Itehint , a parapet of curtain from the firo of tin | lorgnette, she is occasionally visible. Ou of the season the evenings at the palac< . are passed In a social rubber of whist, t< , which the Queen is especially partial, o | in ajp-swahle and refined conversation.? | She usually ainglca out thu moat culliva t ted and distinguished of her guests as he . particular prey, without consideration o , any rank hut that of merit. At one o . the most brilliant baaqueta of last aam , mer, at which the moat distinguish* ? statesmen and foreign ministers wer guest*, the Queen passed the whole even :-s*w jgr * * * \ J* nig on a soia in earnest and delighted conversation with Colonel Tyre, a distini guished Eastern soldier. In Ireland too, ! on her visit to the Exhibition,she paid her first and only r isit to the nobleman of nai turo, that giant of industry, William Dar. gan, and when he #as oointcd out in the i crowd, on her visit to that temple which s his generous munificence had reared, for; getful of the nobles of rank around her, . and of all save her honest admiration, she r rushed forward with the joyous surprise - of a girl, and almost hugged him. * * * r The Queen has a warm temper, and . that which is often an accompaniment, a . warm heart. Indeed, she is often comj pelted to place a heavy chain on that res hellions member, in order to repress the . woman and maintain the Queen. At the Countess Walewski's celebrated hall of last season, she recognised at the dour of | the saloon, and r<?n forward with a look r of joy to greet, a lady whom she had . known, when, suddenly recollecting, with t a look half sorrowful, half playful, she i checked the atfection of the woman, and t resumed the dignity of the Queen. In person, Queen Victoria is about five i feet two, hut the shortness of her neck . gives to her figure a look of dumpiness.? | Her head is graceful and well sc' on, and . Isidore, who is minister of its exterior, ) speaics in rapluro ol the length and lavish | luxuriaece of her hair, beneath whose fold r the small ear is nestlod like a pretty shell, i He head and hand, which latter member r was wont to inspire that half patriot, half f bondsman enthusiasm of O'Connell, are i her best point*. Her eyes have the dull | leaden look common to the Guelphs; her t skin is of a cream-colored hue ; and her i expression u inclined, especially when - flu lied. Yet there is about her a con? sciousness of her position, and so little dis. play of that consciousness, and her Enr glish self possession is so felicitously coini bined with a certain German bon hommie, 1 or in this instance bonnr fcmmic, that even . those who know her only by sight carry s off an impression that they have seen the face of stereotyped but high] / respectable r steady, domostie, jolly, good-hearted, rath, er choleric and c-xcitoable, but well-disr posed, although small-brained English j woman of the Anglo Gorman type. In 5 her morning garden dress, of loose robe, . shawl and cottage hat, she looks to far . groater advantage than in full evening . c istnme. She has all the appearance of j rude health, but is occasionally a prey tc 3 fits of depression so deep, as to occasion . apprehensions of an attack of that maladj . under which her grandfather, George the i Third, suffered, and to make a coustanl | change of air and scene essential. ? Whether qualties she has, have beef 3 diligently cultivated, but she is not, b.1 3 any means, what is termed in this eoun * try, "smart." This is, for many reasons, 3 fortunate. Were she a woman of supc3 rior endowments, she would have been 3 obnoxious to the aristocracy, who shrink 3 from nothing with greater distrust than ^ from whatever may be calculated to wound f their amnur proprey and remind them ol 3 their inontal and moral inferiority. Ifshe 1 were 'less fertilo she would b.e less popu3 lar among the masses. The poor Irish oi . English woman standing before one ol - the pictures in the S rand, which re pre. sent the Queen with the r< yul babies at rouud her, feels flattered by the reflection d that the Queen, after all, has the same 9 propensities, instincts, nnd affections n< b rule her. 'Hie only class of women whe i may bo said to dislike the Queen is th< 3 numerous one of broken-down, high-bred f shabby-genteel and pseudo-poetical wo^ inan. They sneer at all the Queen's do t inestic propensities as the quintessence ol , vulgarity. ** ? I When the swelling tides of freedom, l education and practical Christianity, rousing the manhood of England to a nobler i sense of dignity and keener shame of servility, shall have swept away, as some day I they must do, the old feudal and roonarB :hical institutions of England, and left in t their stead a noble Anglo-Saxon Kepub8 lican structure, tbe name of Victoria wilt } by the moat passionate enciny of royalty still be respected for the good qualities 01 the woman; and by its moat indifferent friends for the chaste aureole of virtue r which she has thrown around the throne 'f There are men IkT may jftM t 'martyrs of good beallK not content *itl * being w$ll, they are always wishing to be I better, until they doctor ihfjftsolvee into c being confirmed inraHttj^HK tiltima tel v, you may, a*yT of too tflueh health. Hr _ ir V , * ? : Sam Swinton's Corn Speculation. "Did I ever tell jon," said Sam Swin* ton to me ono day, of that 'ere corn spec of mine on tlie Wabash f I shook my head. "You see, ]{ol>," began Sam, "the way it came about was this?I got mighty hard up" " Which is not a very uncommon tiling with a certain individual of my acquaintance, Sam," I remarked. "Prezactly," said Sam, "Well, I war hard up, and wondering how I could make the smallest amount of capital tell to the tallest advantage, when, on taking up a newspaper, I saw a windy paragraph on the advantages of advertising. The article went on to illustrate how many fellers ' had made piles out of the meanest capitals* simply by advertising, and I determined at once, partickerly as I had raised an idea from the subject, that it waa the on4 ly way for inc ter go about it." " Which was the way ?" I asked, not 1 comnreheimm** 1.5m "Jiv advertising," returned Sam. "Yes, well; you said something about going about it. Going about what!" "liaising a pile," replied Sam. "All right?I understand?go ahead.'* "I urged the matter this way," said he; that an advertisement travelled wherever the paper traveled, and every body knows they get into all the out-'o-the-way places in the State. So, thinks I, a good advertisement will be sure to catch the eye of some of the sofest of the interior, and if it does, who knows but they will give a fe!1 ler a lift? Here goes for a trial at all | events. So 1 takes a store of a puke,who, because I talked right up, didn't want the . rent in advance, run in a lot of truck that I had on lmnd, and which was so old and unmarketable that I could neither sell nor give it away, hung up a shingle of 'Sam Swinton, Commission Merchant,' put up a springin' advertisement in the two papers published in the town, got a , couple ot lirst rate puffs from the editors, , to the effect that I was 'responsible,' as . well us some in a trade, and then I sat . down to abide the ishew of events." , "That is of the advertisement." , I "I'rezactly. Well, I hadn't boen stor* ing it long, when a planter in the interior of the State" "What State, Sam ?" " Indianny, of course?consigned me , four big loads of corn, on commission. , with instructions to sell it as soon as pos11 siblo, and then write to him, so that he ( could draw on me for the pewter. Thinks J T, as I had the stuff put in the store, there ain't nothing like advertising. It's the , only way to make customers. And I laid myself out to sell the corn." "And that did not take you long, Sam* I of course." "Yer might bet a barrel of Monongy* , liely on that, Hob, with ail the chances to win," replied Sam. "Yer see, the other' , merchants in the town, and some of them I drove a stiff business I tell you, couldn't r come within a thousand miles of me in , price. Some of them tried to back up , against me by putting their corn down to . the lowest market price, hut it wom't no p sorter use. I run mine down to half the . usual market price, and they had to knock . under. They grumbled orfully, and de, clared most angryly that I was ruinin s the business, but it didu't make no differi euce. I continued to sell so much lower , than any on 'em, that they at length gave , up all idea of competition with roe. To i bn sure." added Kum with rJ hi* Am* . pressire smiles, "I had the advantage Of . the Puke*?they expected to pay the f owners for their corn, when it was sold, i whereas I? . " Flad no such intention,1* said 1. "Not the least on it," said 8am. "It was agin my principles, and always had ; been. Well, my competitors, jealous of my success, commenced hlowin' agin' me every where, hut instead of hurting tbe, H ' did me good. In a short time t got my - name up as the cheapest and quickest ? corn dealer on the Wabash, and the plan* ten* began consigning their corn to tad so F fast that I cams to the conclusiou they I must have beet) mighty anxious to g?t rid ' of it.* ? "You never expected to pay them a j. doW*'. I suppose, 8am f "Notthe first picayune," answered Sam, M Wfsnt oo *m*g. Tber?y*1i?? ? tn?rk?i oa Mm Wabaab for ?verjrtbiog? pit it \6m \ and m I went in for tb? big mark*, ??d ?