Royalty-nuisance In Washington

Tho London Spectator, discugiing "the usa oí Prince-Dukee," propoees among the publio employments in which the Marquis of Lome, aftcr he becomea the husbaod of a royal Prineesg, will be poouliarly gervioeable. that of Jiritish ambassador at WasbingtoD. We most earnestly hopo tho young man will stay at home. We have no doubt t'nat he is an exoellent person ; but. an event bo portentnous as the introductioo of a Royal Princesa into Washington sooiety ia not to be contemplatcd without terror. The efïïuence of titled üristocrBcy, even of tha humbler sort, has a painful effect upon the American character ; and a winter at Washington, with Qucen Victoria's dnughter presiding over the hospitaliües of the British embassy, would be to sensible and thinking pooplc almost unendurnble. Wehate to be impolite, but tho truth is, the wonien of thii noble repúblic aro not to be trusted in the eooiety of the childrcn of royalty. They are roady to got upon their knees. What ft hideous arena ot ignoble maneuvcra the nstional capítol would bccome when half the fashionable women of the United States were thero Bchetuiog for the fa vors of the Princesa Louiae. What envy would tear tho bofoms of the fair, what wrath would boot írom jealous oyes, what vulgar elation would follow evory social viotory. Going to Washington would bo somcthing liko getting preFented at oourt, and we should have here t home right under our eyea, degrading ovr daily lives and convulaing our famalios, all tbo petty intrigue, meanness, vanity, and Belf-abusement which distingiiishod a certnin section of the American colony in Parig during the palmv dayg of the Empire. We prefer a simple gentleman like Mr, Thornton to nny euch orgeous cabassy as tho Spectator ie kind enoiigh to propose for us. Tho I'rincois Louise would doubiless bo a boon to somo capitals, but not to ours. She would, so to speak, take all the starch out of the moral character of the American