Volume Ii. Washington City, D. C., April 28, 1872. Number 8
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VOLUME II. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., APRIL 28, 1872. NUMBER 8. For THI CAPITIEI fore starve ? We cannot build ships—why, then, owners of land," as by implication Gladstone's UNAVAILING. not let vs buy them? No, stupids, you won't. Englishmen of imagination, in the humbler not gentle, of the attending genii of the place. measures have done. Dealing with the favorite rank, as | Radical, and has got drifted in his BY FANNY I) OWN IN Q. You will talk of " protection " while you-are I remembered once, years before, to have Liberal suggestion to reform the Housed Lords mature years partly by interest, partly by his thus carefully protecting foreigners. You will looked down Into the engine-room of an ocean A prince rode forth from a lordly town, by creating peers for life, he sets Manchester aesthetic sense, over among the English Tories, legislate for the everlasting nigger so long as steamer from above, into what seemed to me A lordly town In a fair coiintrle; roaring with the witticism that " every peer is a whose only perceptible function is taking care there is anything to be made out of him.. But the bottomless pit, with demons dancing about Black Care on the crnpper sat him dowB, peer for life, as a peer cannot be a peer when he of the aristocracy and acquiring objects of for the great commercial Interests of your whole in the lurid light, black and smutty, and the And the prince's faee was sad to see. is dead." Refuting Sir Charles Dilke's notion vertu to decorate their parlors. Mr. Disraeli is For man's will Is a god's will, country apart from the special wants of your clash and quiver of the machinery came up like of the expenslveness of royal government the an object of vertu. And woman's love Is woman's life. constituencies you care not one straw. For great Conservative had sent all the way to the the clamors, the groans, and anguish of lost SOCIAL GOSSIP. spirits. I never forgot it; and here I was over The prince was goodly, the prince was grand, sailors, for the men you have driven high and United States to get in detail the cost of sup- The fast of thS winter receptions at the Amer- Thabest of this earth's best gifts had he; dry upon the, beach, but whom you will want porting all the American State legislatures, the just such a place—trying to sleep in the top In all the length of that lordly land, to fight your battles when yon blunder into President, Cabinet, and Congress, and convinced ican minister's was given a week ago. They story of pandemonium—and when I realized it A man more gifted might never be. some foreigh-or domestic war again, you have the whole of the Lancashire population with this have been of the most social and interesting I went nearly wild. I heard one poor belated And man's will Is a god's will. no sympathy, no "protection." Why? Well, total exhibit, framed with a half dozen clever sort, and have collected the resident Americans man cross the hall outside, pass to his room, And woman's love Is woman's life. because we sire generally poor and have not sentences, that the cost of supporting the -Eng- in London as they have been rarely collected kick off his boots with a resounding thump just But all his blessings were less than none, many votes! lish royal establishment is just one-fifth of that before. Americans abroad are notably ungre- over my head, and all was quiet there. I vron- garious and unsocial, but for once here the For want of one that he conld not claim— Let me close this chapter with something for maintaining a '.'model" republic. Over dered did he sleep, or was he used to it, or was friendly offices of General Schenck and his A rose that grew in a golden sun— more satisfactory than the stupidity of an Ameri- that stroke Manchester conservatism howled he laying awake cursing the steam engine? or family have changed all that. Those receptions And so he saddened as on he came. „ can Congresl. Let me tell you how at early itself mad. Then the ex-premler touches the was he dreaming of crossing the sea ? Then 1 For man's will is a god's will, have also attracted many of the most distin- sunrise we passed under the shadow of Ailsa. ministerial policy on the Alabama negotiation thought of that wretched little clerk; was he And woman's love is woman's life. guished of the English social and political lions Craig, and asfthe day drew on there arose before with a delicate caustic, saying, satirically, that laying awake too, and chuckling to himself in and lionnes. The receptions of American minis- A bird flew out of an azure cloud, us the Isle of Bute, the mull of Cantyre, the "the Americans have a right to any interpreta- his bunk behind the bar, or wherever such ters in London have usually been of the formal And perched on the prince's bridle-rein, bold shores Of Arran, dotted with its summer tion they please of the treaty," and intimating people do sleep? And glinted its scarlet wings, and proud. English order. General Schenck being American, cottages, and all the beautiful scenery that bor- that Gladstone is a coward and a sinner in not All at once the noise ceased. I started up. Poured out of Its bosom a thrilling strain. having sooner acquainted the English public if anything, and a soldier, has had the temerity Blessed relief! I could turn over and go to And man's will Is a god's will. ders on the ehtrance to the Clyde. Then as we with the dead lock. But beyond the one fling to open his doors a little less after the English sleep ; but I had so tossed and tumbled that all And woman's love is woman's life. touched the wharf at Greenock, the pleasantest against the Untyed States even the premier fashion. There has been no creaking of the sight of all was the cheerful countenance of our the clothes had come off the bed, and while I The prince rode onward, and ever on, Tory does not venture, American hater as he Is h}nges, and some soclableness and freedom kind friend the provost, ready there first to wel- was making it up the horrid thing commenced And the bird sat by him, and soothed and sang; in his genteel way. Inside. All at once the Saturday evenings of come us to his country, and then to his delight- again with renewed vigor, filling nie with fresh At starry midnight and dewy mom, the minister were found very much in favor alarm. I gave up and layed down in misery, Its mystical music rose and rang. ful home, F ,T. c. Last year he denounced the republic as impu- with even the English guests, who were sur-' until it was seven o'clock. The far-off street And man's -will is a god's will, dent and audacious in its attitude towards Eng- prised to find that they had the capacity under But woman's love is woman's life. For THE CAPITAL. land, saying that ho did not know what the noises were audible, but not a ray of light in certain circumstances of enjoying themselves THE REFUSAL. Americans had done to entitle them to take on my room. I groped to the windows and looked Within the swell of its silvery scope. when in company of their fellows—a thing very out; within two or three feet was a brick wall Were all delights that man may know; Turn away your eyes so earnest, grand airs, " unless they had improved upon unusual in England. English society appears interspersed with windows, and running up so The light of love, and the gleam of hope, Let that pleading voice be still; the language perhaps." Just now the relations to be an organization for keeping people apart. And passion—bliss with its fiery glow. .. Dearest Fred, can't I persuade you between the countries he deems a little too far that no sky could be seen; so I lighted my Lovo is not the growth of will? When an Englishman wishes to be solitary he And man's will Is a god's will, sensitive to be trifled with, and lias the adroit- gas and made my toilet, and at eight o'clock associates. „,SAXON. And woman's love is woman's life. If I conld control affection, ness to leave to Mr. Gladstone's impulsive opened my door and went into the hall, quite determined to get some breakfast. A waiter Its very soul leapt out In the lay; [THE WATERING-PLACES OF GREAT BRI- Love just whom, and when I chose; tongue-slips the odium of widening the breach. TAIN AND GERMANY. Then you'd be my first selection AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE AT THE stood just outside, braced up against the wall It gazed at the prince with wistful smile, While the public is digesting his orations and "HUB," And strove to banish his care away, When my maiden reign I'd close. as though doing duty as sentinel. I ordered trying to find whether there is any substance Correspondence of THE CAPITAL, Or make him forget for a little while. | Hints for Passing a Summer Pleasantly and For you're all I'd wish a lover, or seriousness in it, or whether the Tory cause him to show me to the breakfast-room.