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The Queen gave birth, at Buckingham Palace on the 25th of May, 1846, to her

thirg aaughter, Princess Helena, after. Wares Princess Christian. The infant Princess was christened at Buckingham Palace on the 25th of July in the names

ef “iiclena Augusta Victoria.’’

oe Year 1847 opened very gloomily.

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sce commercial depression from which tie country had been suffering had been faurthor aggravated, while the ravages of

the potato disease had reduced the people

of Irciand to a terrible condition of star- vation and disease. Consequently when her Majesty opened Parliament in person on the 19th of January, the Royal Speech Was nota cheerful document. Fortun- ately, foreign affairs were in a satisfac- tory condition, and as regards the home ciflicu lties,the Government of Lord John

Russell took prompt measures for reliev- ing the distress in Ireland. They also brought in a new Irish Poor Law mea- sur’, which was quickly passed, together

with other remedial legislation. The year 1848 was one of great up- heaval amongst the States of Europe,

France was the first to feel the force of the revolutionary movement. The policy

of Louis Philippe, and especially his in- tricu-s with a view to Bourbon aggran-

diseront, had long rendered the King very tnpopular. The public discontent now found vent in revolution, and the dynasty Was swept away, and a republic

proc! imed. ios proud monarch and his family fled

fro ‘aris, and became fugitives and wancdorers. The King succeeded in escap- ing t England, and landed at New Haven in the name of ‘John Smith.”

The effeets of the revolutionary spirit were flt in other countries—Italy, Spain, Prussia and Austria; but in Belgium the att s to incite the people against the mor hy proved abortive, and the th of her Majesty’s uncle remained secur This however, was not the case With hor brother and brother-in law, the Pri: of Leiningen and Hohenlohe, who were compelled to abdicate their seicnorial rights.

In the midst of the general solicitude

for the peace of England during this time of convulsion the Queen was deliv-

ered of her fourth daughter, the Princess Louise. The reyal infant was christened

at Buckingham Palace on the 13th of May i Nowing, receiving the names of Louise Caroline Alberta, the first being the nome of the child’s grandmother on the f:.ther’s side, and the last being the feminine form of her father’s name:

The Queen prorogued Parliament in

person 99 the 5th of September, and on the afiernoon of the same day her Ma- and the

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PRINCE CONSORT AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL. panied by the Prince of Wales, the Prin- cess Foval, and Prince Alfred, embarked in the royal yacht at Woolwich for Scot- land.

Parliament was opened by the Queen in person on the 2nd of February, and, in adaition to its reference to the con- tinued Irish distress at home, the Royal Speech lamented that a formidable rebel- lion hid broken out in the Punjab. The war proceeded with disastrous conse- quences, and although the fiercely con- tested battle of Chillianwallah left the British masters of the field, the Sikhs inflicted terrible losses upon our troops. Sir Charlies Napier was sent out, but be- fore he arrived in India Lord Gough had encountered the combined forces of the enemy at Goojerat and had totally de- feated them. The rebellion was sup- pressed, and the Punjab was annexed to the British possessions in India,

Her Majesty’s third son and seventh child was born on the Ist of May, 1880, and as this was the birthday of the Duke of Wellington, it was determined to give him tho same name, Arthur.

Several events of moment occurred be- fore the close of the year. In November the King of Hanover died. He was the fifth and last surviving son of George IIL. ard Queen Charlotte, and as Duke of Cumberland he had been anything but popular. Louis Kossuth came over to England in the autumn of 1851 and created intense interest and excitement. But the most startling incident of all this year occurred on the 2nd of Decem- ber, that fatal day which witnessed the coup d’etat of Louis Napoleon. By the aid of the army, the ambitious Bonaparte ruthlessly violated the rights of the people, laying the foundation of his power in bloodshed and despotism. A good deal of ill-feeling resulted between England and France, but all fears of French aggression ultimately died out. Lord Palmerston was compelled to resign in consequence of his too-ready accept- ance of the coup d’etat and his acquies- cence in the measures of Louis Napoleon; but he had his revenge early in the fol- lowing vear, when he was mainly instru- mental in overthrowing the Liberal Gov- ernment on its Militia Bill.

The year 1852 was one of appalling disasters. Early in January the splendid mail steam-ship Amazon destroyed by fire as she was entering the Bay of Biscay. Out of a total of 161 persons on board no fewer than 140 perished. An- other fearful catastrophe occurred in April, when her Majesty’s steam troop- ship Birkenhead went down near the Cape of Good Hope. Heart-rending ac~ counts were published of the disaster from survivors. Out of 650 persons on board, chiefiy military passengers and their wives and children, only 194 were saved. A third catastrophe, which oc- curred at home, was the bursting of the Bilberry reservoir, near Holmfirth, on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire. An immense destruction of life and property ensued.

On the 16th of Septembe= while on an excursion to the Glassalt Shiel, the

ueen received intelligence of the death

the greatest of her subjects. The illus- trious Wellington, ‘‘the great Duke,” had passed away at Walmer, after a few hours’ illness, and with no suffering, at the patriarchal age of eighty-three. Keen-

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four the Duke had ina measure held to wards her the triple capacity of father hero and friend. In the plenitude of her grief, and wich an eXaggeration of language which will be understood in consequence, she spoke of him as “*Eng- land’s, or rather Britain’s, pride, her glory, her hero, the greatest man she had ever produced,’

The eighth child of her her fourth son, was born at Buckingham Palace on the th of April. He was named Leopold George Duncan Albert the first name being after King Leopold. the second after the King of Hanover, «nd the fourth after Prince Albert. The third name was a compliment to Scot- land,

Not long after this war was declared against Russia, and ona cold March morning a painfully interesting incident Was Witnessed in front of Buckingham Palace, when the Fusiliers marched past, cheering the Queen heartily. Her - Ma- jesty was much touched over the fare- well to her gallant troops, now setting out for the East. There were many sor- rowing friends to bid good-bye to the soldiers, High and low felt the grief of parting, and amongst the former was the Duchess of Cambridge, who bade fare- well to her son, now the Commander-in- Chief. Some days later the Queen went to Spithead, to view the magnificent fleet under Sir Charles Napier, before it sailed for the Baltic.

All the interest of the country now gentered in the war news, the Queen sharing the feeling of anxiety in all its intensity. In October came the ever- memorable charge of the Light Brigade

Majesty, and

; at Balaclava, and on the 5th of Novem-

; and France. {San Jacinto, a Federal war-ship, and the

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ber the brilliant but costly victory of Inkermann. Then ensued a disastrous period of mismanagement in the Crimea. Her Majesty thus wrote to Lord Raglan:

The sad privations of the army, the bad weather, and the constant sickness, are causes of the deepest concern and anxiety

to the Queen and Prince. The braver her |

noble troops are, the more patiently and heroically they bear all their trials and sufferings, the more miserable we feel at their long continuance. that Lord Raglan will be very strict seeing that no unnecessary incurred by any whose duty it is wants.’’

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Her Majesty felt keenly the ships endured by the troops and the pro- longed siege of Sebastopol, that when Lord Cardigan returned to England visited her at Windsor, one of the children said to him: ‘‘ You must hurry back to Sebastopol and take will kill mama!’’ A motion for a Sebas- topol inquiry was brought forward in the Hvuse of Commons by Mr. Roebuck, and this led to the dissolution of the Ministry. Lord Palmersten formed a new Government, and prosecuted the war with vigor. On the 2nd of March Europe was startled by the news of the death of the Emperor Nicholas, an event due as much to the failure of his plans in the Crimea as to the chilling intiuenges gf the ‘Generals, Janucry sad Febryary,"’

The Queen and the Prince visited the wennded soldiers at Chatham on the 8rd of March,

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the Freiéh arrived at Windsor Castie on & visit to the Queen.

A second Council relating te the Cri- mean War was held at Windsor on the 20th of April. The Queen Was present, and took such a profound interest in public affairs, that she said it was one of the most interesting scenes she was ever present at, and one which she would not have missed for the world. The Emperor and Empress left.on the 2ist, and the

On the 18th of August her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, went over to France on a visit to the Emperor and Empress. Never since the infant Henry VI. was crowned at Paris in 1422, had an English Sovereign seen in the beautiful French capital.

A pleasing international incident oc- curred in December, when the Queen ac- cepted from the American people the gift of the Resolute, one of the English ships which went to the North Seas in search of Sir John Franklin. It had been abar- doned in the ice, but had been discovered by an American vessel and conveyed across the Atlantie refitted.

The Queen’s fifth daughter, and last and ninth child, was bern at Bucking- ham Palace, on the 14th of April, 1857. The infant Princess received the names of Eeatrice Mary Victoria Feodore.

Many domestic events occurred during |

the year 1859. The Prinee of Wales went out to Canada, and had a most success- ful progress through the Dominion, with a visit to the American President at Washington. It was arranged that Prince Alfred should also visit a distant Engiish colony, and land at the Cape of Good Hope. t was hoped that these visits would strengthen still further the friend- ly bonds existing between England and her dependencies. Death of the Prince Consort.

A profound and melancholy interest at- taches to all the details published by sir Theodore Martin concerning the _ illness and death of the Prince Consort. Death often strikes waywarcly; it takes tnose who desire to live; and leaves those who are ready to die. But in the case of the Prince the great enemy found him ready; he was perfectly prepared for the end. It is stated that not long before his fxtal illness he said to the Queen: ‘‘I do not cling to life. You do; but I set no store by it. If I knew that those I love were well cared for, I should be quite ready to die to-morrow.’’ It has never been ac- curately ascertained how the fever under which he sank originated; but it is strongly surmised that the first predis- posing cause was the Prince’s visit to Sandhurst on the 22nd of November.

On the 24th, which was Sunday, the Prince complained of being full of rheu- matic pains, and he wrote in his diary

that he had scarcely closed his eyes for the past fortnight. Next morning, al-

though the weather was cold and stormy, he travelled to Cambridge to visit the Prince of Wales. He still got worse, and on the 28th became greatly disturbed at the news of the American outrage on the British flag by the seizure of the Trent. Civil war had broken out in the United States, and the English steamer, Trent, Havannah to England with the English mails, had on board, among other passengers, Messrs. Slidell and Mason, who had run_ the from Charlestown to Cuba.and were pro- ceeding to Europe as envoys.sent by*the Confederates to the Courts ef England The Trent was met by the

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boarded the Trent, and demanded the surrender of Slidell and Mason, and their companions. The envoys to relieve the English captain from his embarrassment, surrendered themselves. There was great excitement in England when the facts became known, and the British Govern- ment took a high tone—too high a tone, thought the Prince, whose last public act was the writing of a draft to Lord Russell in correction of his draft to the English ambassador at Washington. The ominous cloud which had been gathering on the horizon, now happily blew over. In response to the representations made, the American President ordered the re- lease of the gentlemen who had been seized.

Though very ill, the Prince continued te go out, and on Sunday, December Ist, he walked out on the terrace,and attend- ed service in the chanel. The Prince had long resisted the entreaties of the medi- cal men that he should undress and go to bed, and when at length he was_pre- vailed upon to do this it was too late. Fever having unmistakably declared it- self, knowledge of the unfavorable change could no longer be kept from the Queen, who was almost broken down by her grief. As she expressed it in her diary, she seemed to be constantly living ‘‘in a dreadful dream.’’ The sufferer was moved on the 8th of December into a more commodious room, and as fate would have it, it was the very room in which both William IV. and George IV. had died.

The day was Sunday, and in a letter written ly a member of the Queen’s household shortly after the Prince Con-

sort’s death, the following touching pass- |

ages described the events of the day: “The last Sunday Prince Albert passed on earth was a very blessed one for the Princess Alice to look back upon. He

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and genuine mourning for the ‘blame- less Prince.”’

This is not the place in which to at- tempt an exhaustive estimate of the character of the Prince Consort. But it has keen well remarked that his influence for good, alike in the affairs of State, over public morals, and over the senti- ments and conduct of private life—his interest in the arts, in the sciences, and in those manufactures into which art and science enter as vivifying forces, were ever alive, ever present, and ever most beneficially exerted. He was wise and temperate in his judgment of public events; and he influenced the counsels of a great nation in its relations with foreign states by a love of order united with an equal love of freedom. In pri- vate life he was deservedly beloved. While the Sovereign mourned the counsellor, the wife sorrowed for the tender and affectionate husband and the children who had profited so much by his love and guidance, have since risen up to ‘call his memory blessed.’’ No man could well exchange worlds under hap- pier conditions.

Later Years of the Reign.

The earliest occasion Majesty attended any State ceremony after the death of the Princesa Consort was on the 6th of February, 1866, when she opened the firsh session of her seventh Parliament. The event attracted much attention, and gave great satisfac- tion.

In Octoher the Queen evinced her in- terest in the sanitary concerns of the people by opening the fine new water- works at Aberdeen.

The Queen again came forth from her seclusion in February, 1867, when she once more opened Parliament in person.

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and she alone with him, He begged to have his sofa drawn _ to the window, that he might see the sky and the clouds sailing past. He then asked her to play to him, and she went through several of his favorite hymns and chor- ales. After she had played some time she looked round and saw him lying back, his hands folded as if in prayer, and his He lay so long without moy- ing that she thought he hed fallen asleep. Presently, he looked up and smiled. She

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no,’ he answered, ‘only I have such sweet thoughts.’ During his illness his hands were often folded in prayer; and when he did not speak, his serene face showed that the ‘happy thoughts’ were with him to the end. * * *

‘““The Princess Alive’s fortitude has

amazed us all. She saw from the first that both her father’s and mother’s firm- ness Gepended on her firmness, and she set herself tou the duty. He loved to speak openly of his condition, and had many wishes to express.”’ * The illness obtained such hold that Dr. Watson and Sir Henry Holland were called in. While the doctors regarded the case as grave, they by no means thought it hopeless. By the 12th of December it became manifest that the fever and the shortness of breathing had increased. There was also a probability of conges- tion of the lungs, and on the 13th Dr. Jenner was compelled to make known to her Majesty that the illness was very serious.

But the last hope was at length aban- doned. Not long before the end came, the Queen bent over her husband and seid in German: ‘It is your little wife.’’ The dying man recognized the voice, and answered by bowing his head and kissing the Queen. The sands of life were now rapidly running out. The Queen retired into the next room to weep, but she was soon sent for again into the chamber of death. She knelt by her hus- band’s side, holding his hand, their chil- dren also kneeling around. Sir Charles Phipps, the Dean of Windsor, and the Prince’s favorite German valet Lobhlein, reverently watched for the end. The Prince died at a quarter to eleven o’clock, thus passing, in his forty-third year, to ‘where beyond these voices thers is peace.’’

Her Majesty was again and again urged to leave Windsor before the fun- eral, but she wept bitterly, and said har subjects were hever advised to leave their homes or the remains of those lost to them. It was only when the safety of her children was pleaded as a means of giv- ing them immunity from the fever, that she was prevailed upon to leave Windsor and repair to Osborne. Attired in her deep widow’s mourning, she set out in the strictest privacy, accompanied only by the Prince of Wales and the Prin- cesses Alice and Heiena.

The funeral took place at Windsor on the 23rd of December. The service was held in St. George’s Chapel, where had assembled the company who had received command to be present at the ceremony, including the Ministers of the Cabinet,

he foreign ambassadors, the officers. of the household, and representatives of the

nobility and the higher clergy. The Knights of the Garter were in their stalls, and representatives were present

ef allthe foreign Staies connected by blood or marriage with the late Prince. ‘the chief mourner was the Prince of Wales, who was supported by his brother Arthur, a boy of eleven.

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extension of the suffrage.

On the 2uth of May her Majesty in | person laid the first stone of the Hall of Arts and Science at Kensington Gore, This important edifice, which is now known as the Royal Albert Hall, was to be available for the following objects: Congresses, both national and interna- tional, for purposes of science and art; performances of music, distributions of prizes by public bodies, conversazioni for the promotion of science and art, agricultural, horticultural, and indus- trial exhibitions, and displays of pictures and sculpture. The ceremony at the laying of the foundation-stone was of an imposing character.

In February, 1868, her Majesty re- ceived an address of loyalty and affection from the Irish residents in London, a demonstration evoked by the Fenian

| conspiracy and the Clerkenwell outrage.

The address was signed by 22,603 _per- sons.

On the 13th of May the Queen laid the foundation stone of the new buildings for St. Thomas’s Hospital, and in her reply to the address presented her she referred to the founding of the Hospital by her royal~> predecessor Edward VL., and to the interest which her late hus- band always took in it. She also alluded to the fortunate preservation of her son, the Duke of Edinburgh, from the hand of an assassin. In Windsor Park, on the 20th of June, there was a review of 27,- 000 Volunteers by the Queen, the day being observed as a holiday by most of the public offices and large business establishments of London.

The Queen visited the City of London the 6th of November, 1869, for the pur- pose of opening the new bridge over the Thames at Blackfriars, and the new via- auct over the Fleet Valley from Holborn Hill to Newgate Street. The citizens of London gave a warm welcome to their Sovereign after her prolonged absence from their midst.

Another very interesting ceremony was witnessed in May, 1870, when the Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales, formally opened the new build- ings erected for the University of London in Burlington Gardens.

Her Majesty’s stay at Balmoral in 1869 had been diversified by a most enjoyable visit of ten days to Invertrossachs, from which point the royal party explored some of the most beautiful lake scenery

in Scotland. The visit to Balmoral in the autumn of 1870 was marked by a happy incident of another description.

On the 3rd of October the Princess Louise became engaged to the Marquis of Lorne, eldest son of the Duke of Argyll. The engagement took place during a walk from the Glassalt Shiel to the Dhu Loch.

The year 1871 was a very anxious one for the Queen, as during its course an- other daughter left the parental roof on her marriage, while before it closed the life of the Prince of Wales was in im- minent danger.

Her Majesty opened Parliament in person on the 9th of February. The royal speech, however, was read by the

Lord Chancellor, and as he proceeded the (Jueen sat with eyes cast down and per- fectly still, a slight movement of her fan being all that was at any time percepti- ble. The chief home topics of interest were the approaching marriage of the Princess Louise and the agitation for army reform, which ultimately ended in the abolition of purchase.

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( Hallon the 2th of March, in the pres- ence of the members of the Royal Fam- ily, the chief officers of State, and a large and distinguished assembly, consisting of some 8,000 persons. On _ the entrance of the Queen the whole audience rose to receive her, and remained standing while the National Anthem was performed.

A strange and chequered career came to a close in January, 1873, when the

Emperor Napoleon died after much physical suffering at Chislehurst. Mess-

ages of sympathy with the Empress ku- genie and the Prince Imperial were sent by the Queen and various European Sovereigns.

On the 2nd of April the Queen paid a visit to Victoria Park, and her appear- ance in the East End was welcomed with great enthusiasm by large crowds of her poorer subjects, who lined both sides of the thoroughfares. It seemed as though every court and alley of this densely populated portion of tae metropolis had poured forth all its occupants of both sexes, Who vied with each other in their demanstrations of loyalty,

It had been announced that the Queen would open Parliament in person in Keb- ruary, 1875, but the alarming illness of her youngest son, Prince Leopold, pre- vented her from carrying out her design. The Prince had been seized with typhoid fever during the Christzras vacation at Osborne (though the disease had been contracted at Oxford University), ant for a long time a fatal termination was feared to his illness. Happily, however. he eventually recovered.

The Queen made many public appear- ances in 1876. Early in February opened Parliament in person, and on the 25th of the same month attended a State concert given at the Albert Hail, when she was accompaznied by the Prin- cess of Wales, Princess LEeatrice, and Prince Leopold, and received by the Duke of Edinburgh. On the 7th of March her Majesty opened a new wing of the Lon- don Hospital, which had been built by the Grocers’ Company at a_ cost of £20,- 000. ‘Lhe statue of the Prince Consort in the Aibert Memorial was unveiled on the 9th, without any ceremony. This splendid recognition of a Queen’s affee tion and a nation’s gratitude was now complete.

On the 2nd of May she reviewed the troops at Aldershot; the march past took piace in the midst ef a violent hailstorm.

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On the 13th tre Queen opened a loan collection of scientific instruments at South Kensington Museum; and on the

27th her birthday was kept in London with more than crstomary public rejoic- ings in honor of the Prince of Wales’s return from India.

The Aibert memorial at Edinburgh was unveiled by the @ueen with great cere- mony on the 17th of August.

Her Majesty again opened Parliament in person on the 8th of February, 1877. The year was comparatively uneventful at home, and in September the Queen visited Loch Maree, staying at the Loch Maree Hotel for a week, and greatly en- joying the magnificent scenery which Ross-shire affords.

On the 2uih of April the Queen held an investiture of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India at Windsor Castle.

The Marquis of Lorne, who had been appointed Governor-General of Canada, sailed for the Dominion in Nevember, accompanied by the Princess Louise. The heartiest good wishes followed them in their new sphere.

A severe gap was made in the Royal Family in December by the death of the lamented Princess Alice. Some time be- fore, diphtheria had broken out in the Darmstadt household, and every member of it was attacked in suecession. Princess Marie, who was only four years old, died on the 16th of November.

The Queen opened Parliament in per- son on the 5tn of February, 1880, and on the ensuing 25th of March left England for Baden Baden and Darmstadt.

On the 18th of November the Queen reviewed in St. James’s Park about 8,- 600 troops of all arms who had recently returned from service in Egypt. Three days later the Queen distributed Egyptian war medals to the generals and repre- sqntatives of various branches of the ser- vice at Windsor; and she also delivered a brief address to those present. On the 24th she held an investiture of orders conferred for distinguished service in Egypt.

The year 1883 was an uneventful ome in the life of the Queen as regards public appearances; but #n March her subjects learnt with regret that she had sustained & somewhat severe accident. It appears that while her Majesty was at Windsor Castle she slipped upon some stairs, and, falling, sprained her kneo. ‘The accident vas at first regarded as of slight conse- quence, but it became the source of much pain and inconvenience. Eventually these ill effects passed away, but not un- til the expiration of a year from the time of the accident.

A great trial befell her Majesty in 1884 by the untoward death of her youngest son, the Duke of Albany. From_ his childhood upward the Prince had been of delicate health.

The Queen once more opened Parlia- ment in person in January, 1886. She was received with deafening shouts of welcome by the crowds assembled along the route from Buckingham Palace to Westininster.

On the 24th of March the Queen laid the fcundation-stone of thé new Medi- cal Exainination Hall of the Royal Col- leges of Physicians and Surgeons, on the Victoria Embankment. Her Majesty was accompanied by Princess Christian and Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, and appeared to be in very good health. she was evidently much ratified at the many marks of respect and loyalty paid to her by the people. The ceremony took piace in a spacious pavilion, holding about 1,000 persons.

On the 30th of June the Queen opened the Royal Holloway College for Women at Mount Lee, Egnam.

On June 20, 1887, the Queen once more made a state progress through her great capital to attend a snecial service at Westminster Abbey in honor of the semi-centennial anniversary of her acces- sion to the throne. Every reigning house in the world sent either members of their families or great dignitaries to represent them at the ceremony.

The Royal Jubilee of 1897 will recall the memorable events of a memorable period in British tory. The Queen's reien is coincident with the most sur- prising progress at home and abroad. It has been the age of railways, of trans- oceanic steaming, and of the telegraph; of free trade, parliamentary reform, and the abolition of the Corn Laws. There has been no stagnation, not even fora brief period, in the and sciences. While some peopie have risen and others have fallen Curing the last sixty years, the English race has continued to spread and multiply, and te exhibit evidences c¢ its Vitality in ali quarters of the world.

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‘“‘Her Cour: was pure, her life Serene: God gave her peace, her land repos A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as mother, wife, and queen,” The late Earl of Carlisle once happil observed that the glories of her Maj - = reign were ‘‘the glories of peace, of es dustry, of commerce, and of £cnius; of justice made more accessible; of éduca tion made more universal; of virtue more honored; of religion more he of holding forth the earliest gospel }j ht to the unawakened nations; the 1 . that arise from gratitude for benefits cor ferred; and the blessings of a loyal and chivalrous because a contented people.” Through years of revolution abroad, of shock and change, of wars and popular tumults, we have seen the § f England conspicuously manif th influence and power of virtue, and — ing # name untouched by any suspicion

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withstanding the ‘‘fierce light that beats upon @ throne,’’ the character of the Sovereign has borne the test of that light. and has enshrined itself in the hearts of her people. It is considerations like these which have made her reign as noble as it has been illustrious and they must invest her jubilee with a double interest and significance. We therefore close with an aspiration that will find an echo in the breast of every English man, be his political opinions or abstract theories of government what they may: for years to come, whether at the festive board or at public celebrations, at home or abroad, on land or on sea, may Britons be able to raise the loyal and affectionate cry of ‘‘God save the Queen!’’

EVENTS OF HER REIGN.

How History Was Made During Victoria’ Occupancy of the Throne.

Although Victoria’s reign was essenti- ally one of peace, it was in no sense an uneventful one. Here is a brief summary of the more important events directly affecting the British Government:— 1837-8—Rebellion in Canada, : 1839-42—Atghan war. ‘ 1849—War with China. 1845—Repeal of the corn laws. 1847—Famine in Ireland. ‘ 1848—Chartist agitation. Smail re bellion in Ireland. 1853-5—Crimean war. 1857-8—Great sepoy rebellion. 1859—Direct government of India taken. ; 15861—Expedition against Mexico, i 1865—Fenian troubles. 1867—Reform bill passed. 1868—Expedition to Abyssinia. 1871—Disestablishment of the Irish church. Alabama claims settled. 1873—Growth of Home Rule league in Ireland. 1875—Suez canal purchased by Eng- land. 1878—Russia checked in Russo-Turkish war. Oyprus acquired from Turkey. 1880—Beginning of the Irish agitatton of the present. 1881-2—Trouble and fighting in Zulue land. 1884—New Guinea annexed. 1887-8—Troubles in Africa. During all these yeurs Victoria’s throne stood firm, thanks probably quite as much to her own good sense as to the constitu- tional form of the HKnglish Government. But during this period the governments of tne world underwent more changes than perhaps was the case during the reign of any monarch of the modern era excepting that of George III, who was on England's throne during the French re volution, and the reign of Louis XIV, & century anda half earlier. Here is @ brief resume of the chief wars and politi- cal changes outside the British empire during Victoria’s reign:— 1848—Louis Philippe overthrown. Second French republic established, with Napoleon III at its head. a 1852—Napoleon JII, by treachery, over+ threw second French republic and estab lished the second empire. : 1859—Unification of Italy begun. War of France and Sardinia against Austria 1861-5—Civil war in America. 1566—War of Prussia against Austria. 1867— Union of Austria and Hungary. 1868—Isabella, Bourbon queen, driven from the Spanish throne, Prov government established. 1869—Spanish regency under Marshal Serrano established. 1870—Franco-Prussian war begua- Downfall of second empire of en, and re-establishment of third seat oa Temporal power of the pope wa and unification of Italy comple

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