THE QUEEN OF THE TORIES.
THE rough style in which the Times lately spoke of the Queen and her mother, was an error of the Leading Journal in which the Tories generally did not participate. On the contrary, the party in Opposition has not been backward in paying the usual compli• milts to Royalty. We observe that at the Levee and Drawing- room this week, there was a far more numerous attendance of the Tory than of the Whig aristocracy. This is politic. For a bril- liant court, the Queen must depend upon the Tories, who under- stand the art of pleasing Royalty much better than the old Whig Dons. The Dutchess of NORTHUMBR ND, whom her Majesty is about to visit, will quietly remind her of this sometimes; and Lord LIVERPOOL'S agreeable daughters, the companions and play- fellows of the Queen in her girlhood, will tune their sweet voices to the same strain.
Who forgets, that in the first week of the new reign, while Lord MELBOURNE thought it enough to blurt out a couple of sen- tences about his young mistress, the wily Sir ROBERT PEEL dwelt upon her Majesty's " high and generous nature," her " becoming and dignified modesty," the " something which art cannot make and lessons cannot teacb,"—in so far proving himself the more adroit candidate for courtly favour. Sir ROBERT, we recollect, was frequently at the parties at Kensington Palace; and when his time comes, we dare say lie will have no personal antipathy to overcome in the Royal mind.
The Whig candidates use her Majesty's name profusely in their election speeches and addresses; but there is little grace or gal- lantry in their invocations. TheTories will not allow them a monopoly of pretension to the Royal patronage and favour ; and they deal more delicately with the name of the Virgin Queen. Thus, in
South Lancashire, an elector is presented with the card of the Whig candidate, soliciting his vote for "C. Towneley, Esquire and—the Queen" (in pencil). There is something very ;an: pudent as well as absurd in this familiarity ; and most unhand. some and unfair to the Queen is the insinuation that electors retil refuse to support Squire Tow NELEst,or Squire EULTEEL, a re deficient in loyalty. Contrast with this course of quackery the chivalrous and courteous sentimentalism with which a Tory candidate, Lord FRANCIS EGERTON, contrives to introduce the Queen into an else. tioneering speech- " I was present at the first act of her Majesty after her accession. Perm sakes, I wish you had all been there, though your loyalty requires no stimulus. But far more do I wish that those turbid and anarchical spirits had been there who are for ever bending their glasses towards the dim and dusty horizon of the future, in the vain hope of witnessing the good ship England foundering amidst the breakers of Republicanism. I am sworn not to divulge the secrets of the Privy Council, nor shall I. But, to continue, upon the occasion alluded to, and when the folding doors that separated her Majesty from the Compel' were thrown open, she was seen sitting alone iu the halls of her sins whose spirits it might be supposed still hovered around, watching for the Rs: servation of the Constitution in which they gloried, and anxious to maintain its noblest attributes, in upholding the dignity of the being to whom they have transmitted the fairest, highest, and greatest inheritance upon earth. About her was the luxuriant foliage of the early summer—meet emblem of her dawn. ing career ; and, significant enough, the trees themselves had been planted by William the Liberator. Here was this young and innocent Sovereign—tbe youngest, I believe, that ever sat upon the throne, except it was the Sixth Ed. ward, to whom we owe our Liturgy. Her voice was attuned to resigned sorrow for the departure of one who has set her a glorious example. I heard her read the speech in which she declared her inviolable attachment to the Church; and I felt, and do still feel, most firmly assured that she never will entertain as idea of violating the oath she then took. It is for you to determine whether she shall be surrounded by those who would wish to lead her to the verge of its infringement. Long will the scene I then witnessed dwell in my memory. But there was another incident connected with it. When one knelt to kiss the Royal hand, the tresses of her fair head (for ever be it lightly pressed by the crown of her fathers!) mingled with the whitened locks of Wellington.' then bethought me, that if ever foreign or domestic foe should again attempt to dictate to the Sovereign or to curb the liberties of the subject, there was Wel- lington, the impersonation of countless battles, the genius of the victoriesof England—there was Wellington, scathed, it is true, but, thank God, less by time than by the acquirement of his deathless renown—there was the old Bri. tish warrior still strong to smite or to save. The scene I then witnessed could
never have been surpassed. Something, perhaps, like its parallel might be found in the instance of another female Sovereign, when the chivalry of Hun- gary appeared in arms in her cause. But those around our Queen were as
vassal lords—no feudal chiefs, who owed a demanded allegiance through any species of villeinage. They represented not the interests of set fs or slaves, but appeared for free-born subjects before the Monarch of our choice, ready to re- peat the cry of the Hungarian Barons, Moriamur pro rege nostra Alexia. drina Victoria.' "
The Whigs are no match for the Tories in the game they are trying to play. Their own tactics may be turned against them.
In the race of "loyalty" they will assuredly be outstripped. They wear their new livery so awkwardly as to remind us of the " hos piger" of HORACE, that longed for the "ephippis," the trappings of the fleet and graceful steed. " Your vote and interest are re- quested for Squire TOWNELEY and — the Queen!"
• The report from which we copy, here interrupts the flow of the oration with the
following parenthetical note —" It is impossible to describe the electric produced on the audience by the recital of this anecdote. The whole company rote• simultatte• ously cheered with their utmost might, and exhibited the most fervent enthusiasm. The crowd outside the building, ascertaining the cause of the umoonted shouts is ithia, caught up the cry, which was reechoed throughout tine town for several miuutis."
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