The Duke and Duchess of Edin b '"g are described by the Trieste people as be vo the most parsimonious Royalties that ha u ever visited that port, and tho Austria i , papers are filled with anecdotes of thei meanness. At the Exhibition, the lioyal pair, after being conducted round by the officials, expended three florins. Contrary to tho invariable custom under such circumstances, tho Duke went awny withoutleaving a florin for the poor of tho town, nor did ho eontribute a shilling towards the English Seaman's Home. The Trieste people are the more disgusted because they spent upwards of £(JOO on the reception of the squadron. GfiN'TLEMKN, there has been seen no instancoand England is likely to give the unexampled spectacle, of a country succcessful in the noble arts, yet in which the youths werefrivolons, the maidens falsely religious, the men slaves of money, and the matrons of vanity. Not from all tho marble of the hills of Luni will such people ever shape one statue that may stand uobly against the sky ; not from all the treasures bequeathed to them by the great dead will they gather for their own decendants, any inheritance but shame.— John Buskin*
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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