DISAGREEABLES OF ROYALTY.
WHEN Queen Aims asked her witty Minister, what it would cost to enclose the three Parks, he replied, " Only three crowns, Madam,"—the crowns, to wit, of the Three Kingdoms : so tena- cious are the English of their " rights." Of none are they more tenacious than of the right of way : yet they will not give what they take for themselves. Queen VICTORIA has not asked to en- close the Parks, but only to walk with others on Brighton Pier ; and her loyal subjects will hardly allow her : they drive her away with vulgar obtrusiveness. It has been a complaint against our Monarchs of late years, that they secluded themselves from their beloved people : but who is to wonder, if the beloved people treat them as they would the objects of a penny show, and with staring impudence convert them into a gratuitous exhibition ? The more social and considerate races of the Continent reproach us with not being able to restrain our insolent curiosity or to consult the feelings of others ; and the Brighton ladies, who hustle round the Queen, confirm the reproach. The servility involved in the rudeness, the coarse idolatry of greatness which makes the starers forget in the Queen the woman and the lady, does not render it less disgusting. Queen VICTORIA has been offered the exclusive use of the Pier for an hour each day ; but it does credit to her sense and good feeling that she refuses to let her misbehaving sub- jects be shut out on her account. Perhaps that practical rebuke may shame them into decency.
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