ROYAL PUPPETS.

CillA.S ADELAIDE is making a " progress" through the provinces: so the Tories term her I....dajeaty's journevings in the ..Vlidheal comities. It is certain that great pains are taken to give dignity end impoiaance to the Queen Dowager and. her movements. tlui is engrossed by the Tories. Imited to Chatsworth by the Puke of Diaaessulan, her Alajesty declined to visit the Whig Duke— perhaps been it did DOI suit her previously-made arrangemc uts: but Whig %%liters attribute the refusal to a resolution not to Loh; intercourse with the supporters of the present Government. Tbe el/oraiag Chronicle has put forth several artieles calculated, ie not intended, to damage "WILLIAM the Fowls's widow, by re- presenting her as eagerly seeking Tory adulation and homage, and as making bitter remarks on Queen Vseroula's conchal. Conversations at Lisbon are cited in support of flu; ellasas' ti ougb it WI:Old SCUM that our contemporary is but hoperfectly in- ibruied co the subject of those conversations : he laid the scene of them first at the Duke of Pas.auna.a's, but afterwards in "a higher quarter."

Although the evidence that Queen ADELAIDE has spoken unbe- comingly of Queen Yo.aronia is vague, and although there is no proof that she has any political object in her "1.rogress," it is mania2st that the Opposition wish to use her for their party pur- pos,s, and that they are parading her in public as Queen. At Tory dinners Queen Aom.a toa's health is rarasrouslv cheered,

while not unfrequently the Seveseign is coldly toas.ed. it care- fully noted in their journals, that Queen Va. 1011!

In in public eacites no popular enthu SAISM., \dine th.(`V boast cciv pro- claim the evidence of respect and affection which Queen Aista.atoa elicits fiaan high mid low.

In this we frce nothing extraordinary. It is the eti$:tolli in Englaial to select a great person na the object of le.neeee, and for a pofisical Opposition to VEIN '■• tIleSovereign by estelitetieus prefer-

ClICC :4,111e mcmher n..; al Family. And s!:,.ald it happcn that the Sovereigl:'s popularity has declined, a ye ;'y

of our " mest thiokieg people " are elwaya ready to trans:'er the sliced of their applause to the persousgo held up to them by the Outa fur Farty purposca. so it is Ilow. Queen

An1:1.:\ 1,1:. rhatp,:. uncoLscionsly, lends her name end counteiamee

to the Teri es. She is useful to them for the present. let Sir :Romer Pari, bee( me :Minister, and she speedily will discever how

Ml 511 Ii he attention 110W paid to her with such tre.4.111111!!: erit.v and de., c, lu. 'then. perhaps, the Whigs may take her sip, and

Chat:- worth be graced by her presence. A certain ml pit']'

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j'ol't will always at to it wealthy though a widowed Queen:

:111(1 wc it lie ye 111:11 QUeen A 1":"IiiCs reSPeetabli! Pri win a1wi1\ !st'ClIve time her a reasonable amount of personal regartl.

lleyailal that, however, thert. DOthillg solid or last big in the (itieen Doweger's popularity—nothing which will not be increased or diminished according as she may become useful or valueless as the puppet of a party.

And the actual position even of the reigning Sovereign is not wry- diiii rent. Queen Vim rc mm A is little better than a puppet of the IYhigs. The substantial power of the ('rown is applied to the support of the Whig section of the aristocracy ; hence their officious "loyalty." Place Tories at Court and in the Cabinet ; let the rays of' I loyal bounty. fall upon Cons( rvatives ; and I een, as she was flat- tered alai pampered by Whigs, so will she be flattered and pam- pered by Tories—with precisely the same amount of disinterested attachment. At present Whigs rule in the Palace; and, considering the use width they make of Royalty, we think it unreasonable in Mei» to exclaim against Tories fbr playing the same game for conipa- ratively paltry stakes. Surely, having the Queen Regnant, flaw may relinquish the Queen Dowager to their uusuccessffil rivals. At any rate, let them cease to siinulatc virtuous indignation that Tories should attempt the same arts which themselves practice upon a larger scale.