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There is no doubt of it, the Wild West show has captured the Britisher. The story that one of them has also captured two of her majesty's silver spoons is not credited, but the Hon. William F. Cody has succeeded in securing the patonage of the queen and her over-grown boy and his future is now assured. The dispaches which were at first received were regarded in the nature of a joke, but it now appears that there was something more than airy persiflage in the report that the entire royal family attended the show, shook hands with and caressed the Indians, and in fact treated them more nearly as equals than the queen did the wife of Mister Phelps, who has some difficulty in securing the audience wit her because her husband did not wear the higher title of ambassador. The Indian which Victoria meant to receive so kindly was the noble red man of the story books; the Indian she really received was the one of a gang, the filithies, most profane, the coarsest and most vulgar, the most villainous thieves and iars of America to-day. On the whole, we are even with the English, who inflict upon us, as representatives, snobs insupportable. British royalty lionizes the cut-throats of the west, America worships vulgar sons of vulgar aristocracy.