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gritish History a Kecord From Victory to
Victory.
The name of a first great British Queen, Bodig, * Boadicea, bore the same signific: ance, we are told, as thet of the Jast. British history is therefore from victory to vict ry. In the records of the early history of the world the ages of gen are represt ynted as grewing continu- ally less. Now they seem ‘to be Jonger. The reign of the late Pope was the longest 1n the whole record, and that of the pres mn Queen of England has just hecome the longest in English history, or in almncst any histery. Louis XIV. of France, who ascended the throne at the age of five, reigned seventy-two years. George III., the Queen's grandfather, who
growing |
reigned fifty-nine years and ninety-six days. the same that Queen Victoria ha; pow accomplished, was, for a great part of the time with which he 1s credited, jncompetent to ex reise the royal func- | tion. The Queen, on the contrary, has heen eminently competent in every month |
of her reign, and has-exercised as potent a sway as any other monarch could have done in her place. Few of except in regions more recently added to her rapidly-growing realm remember any other alleg riance but hers,
era has been the saw, 01 that from which we count ys, which was marked by the one supreme divine event to which the whole creation moves.
At the beginning of the Queen’s reign the world was made up of people un- known to each other, despising and ab- porring each other. To-day they are well- known to each other, and each finds the
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other to be
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its flesh. This is the most essential char- acteristic of all the stupendous changes that have been going on during the past sixty years, and which have made, as it were, 2 new heaven and a new earth,
her subjects |
The Victorian | greatest the world ever |
and flesh of |
with the happy promise of still great and still more accelerated changes for the ' petter in the near future. The growth of the Queen’s Empire, which has few happy parallels in history, has not only kept up with the startling progress of the world, but has been the soul of that progress. In the internal enjoyment of progress and invention the United
States has kept pace with Great Britain— has, indeed, in many things outstepped her—but in the progress of the werld she has through her trade system taken a minor part, excepting always in the greatest of all progress-developing activi- ties, that of Christian missions, in which she has taken her full share. At the be- ginning of the Queen’s reign the English language was one of the minor languages of the earth in point of number of thcse who spoke it. Now of the world, and is all others. At the beginning of the Queen's reign most of the world was im- penetrable to the voice of the Gospel; now the Gospel is preached im every nation under heaven. Then it teok a month for the government to hear from Canada and three or four mogths from
India; now it takes as many seconds. The railway amd the telegraph and the
telephone and the other western marvels ere knocking ever more imperatively at the closed doors of ancient civilizatione and piercing through the wastes ef bar- barism, carrying with them everywhere wonder and comviction and submission of soul; for mo pride and no ignorance can stand up im their presence and de- clare that these de not mark a superior civilization.
Happy above all Victoria—happy in gathered around her to-day at Balmoral and in her offspring sitting on many thrones. Happy is she in the great family of nations over whom she presides, and whose hearts beat proudly and lovingly at the mention of ‘her motherly name. Not the golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid, nor the era of Augustus bors any comparison with hers. Nor glory of the present age the assurance that is itn the mind of all is not to pass away like the good that are iembered, but, inspired, only a little as yet, with a spiritnal foree then unknown, it is only the beginning of far better things. We no doubt see unnum- bered signs of sposen of flippant- ly as ‘‘fin de | ied e; but we pay no heed to the prophets of evil who see in these signs the marks of conquer- ing forces. We know that there are al ways ebbs and flows. We know that the
monarchs is Queen her great family
that
ren
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more vigorous the life in the physical organism the more effete matter is devel- oped and thrown off, and we look with sure and certain hope to a day which will look on the present as but the dusk of morning. But it will not then be the kingdom of Victoria, but the kingdom of Him who is to receive the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts
of the earth as His possession; the forces
that will bring it about will not be steam and electricity, but the divine Spirit, accorded sway in the hearts of men.— Montreal Witness.
The World’s Progress. While Victoria was on the throne, serf- dom was abo lish eC “d in Rusalia and slavery done away with in the United States and Brazil. Russia lo st some territory in
Europe but gained jr
din Asia. Turkey sank from a first rate to a me rate power. Africa was la rgely explored, and the dark places on its map nearly all cleared up The age of stear 1, only fairly begun when she ascended the throne, reached its highest estate apparently, and the age of electricity was ushered in before she died, the telegraph, the telephone, elec- tric lighting and e} rh transportation all coming into bein The advance in sc emce gt nerally Was marvelous Litera ture and the useful arts flourished as
never before. Edueati
n was more widely
diffused, and the n paper press became & factor in affairs. the cause of constitu tisnal gover ent progress everywhere in tue e¢ivilized world save perhaps ir Russi: Even in faraway Japan the ol¢ tr rms of government wire superseded. s& Short, the progress : the world ig nearly every direction during Victoria’s
relgn Was greater than ever before. : Che authorities of the Dominion of Canada a preser.ted the Hawaiian
Government with 80,000
young salmon,
*o be placed in the rivers of the Hawaiian Islands.
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BRITAIN'S ESTATES.
Sketch of the Great Extent é6f Her Terri- tories,
It is safe to say that never has a mon- arch been called wpon to realm of greater extent or wider influence than that which acknowledges Victoria as Queen and Empress.
The British isles alone consist of mot far short of a thousand distinct islands or islets, excluding isolated pinnacles or rocks, Their area is 121,115 square miles, forming the boundaries within
which some eighteen and a half millions of males and nearly nineteen and a helf million females live, move, and have their being. They are fearfully im debt
aS a@ nation, to the amount of something like 680 millions, with an ineame of
ninety-one millions.
The British Empire is a political crea- tion without parallel in the wor!d’s his- tory. It is scattered here, there, and everywhere, with an area approaching ten
LORY LI
MCESTER.
million square miles. Its 400 millions of
inhabitants represent all degrees and phases of civilization. The Queen’s Christian subjects are im ‘the minority,
there being two hundred million Hindoos, some seventy million Mohammedans, and eight million Buddhists. Something like 130 languages and dialects are spoken in this vast re in each «of which the Bible is printed.
The Union Jack now ‘floats phantly over a continent, peninsulas, five hundred a thousand lakes, deuble that number of rivers, and no less than .ten thousand islands! This stupendoms.estate enables the Britisher to. perform .a:feat-which the
native of no other nation can imitate— to circumnavigate the globe and touch a portion of the national -pessessions the whole journey. Sailing from England he makes for Halifax, N.S., dashes across Canada to Vanconver, ‘thence by the Pacific to Hong Kong. Resuming his way he halts at Singapore. Penang, Mauritius, Cape Town, St. Helena, the latter place being the last stoppage ere Britain’s white cliffs are reached. There is, however, an altermate route after .arriving at Penang; themee he can go to Ceylon, Bombay, Aden, Perim, Malta, Gibraltar, and home again.
All zones are embraced in the British i\Empire, trom the icy wilderness of Hud- sson Bay to the tropical jamgles of India. There is scarcely a preduct of commer- cial value which a British province does ‘not bring forth in its highest perfection. Notwithstanding the diversified elements comprised in this trememdouvs organiza- tien, the Government, withsvery are ex- epticns, maintains order, and there is mo apparent signs of dissolution.
Without a doubt the most splendid jewel in the Queen’s crown is the ‘Indian Empire, which is equal in :size, if we exclude Russia, to to the Continent of Hurope. Its population, border on three hundred millons, is composed of a
] m2. trium-
a hundred promontories,
ing
wariety of distinct nationalities, profess- ang a multitude of religious, practising diverse rites, and speaking different
Official reports states there are distinct languages, as spoken in India. further divided
tongues. over a hundred apart:from dialects, Many of the races are
reign over a |
by discordant prejudices, «conflicting. eocial usages, and antagonistic material interests.
The diversified elements censtituting the Indian possessions represem, accord- ing to a late Governor-General, as com- plicated a social and jeolitical .organiza- tion as has ever taxed human jingenuity to govern and administer.
After India comes Canada, Australian colonies, which are .: form a mew southern Dominion.
and the ibout to
Canada Under Queen Victoria.
The sixtieth anniversary of our Q@ueen’s noronation furnishes a few excellent op- portunities for measuring our national progress. When the Queen ascended the throne in 1837 Canada was the seat of a good deal of political disaifection, which resulted in serious outbreaks ef rebellion.
British North America wasa greup of separate and, in large degree, unsympa- thetic provinces, each with its indepen-
dent legislature, having little inter: -aurse or trade with each other. Cur cities were few and small, ii!-paved, ill-lighted, with few buildings of any architectural pre- tensiens. Rounds were few and por, and interprovincial communication was dilj- cult and, at the breaking up of the wipr- ter, almost impessible. Canada was a giant without bones.
Sinee then our magnificent railway system, from Cape Breton to Vancouver, connects the tide waters of the Atlantic with those of the Pacific, and forms one of the strongest links of the Queen’s Highway from Great Britain to her pos- sessions in the remotest East. The scat- tered provinces have beceme a great Do- minion. controlling half a continent, with the largest and best whent-produc- ing area, and offering the best oppor- tunities for eivilized settlement, in the world. Its internal navigation by means its splendid canal system, lakes and rivers, present possibilities for the vast enlargement of its commerce. Its re- sources of the mine, the forest, and the field, its deep sea and inshore fisheries, have been greatly developed and give promise of still greater expansion im the future. Its educational institutions, mag- nificently housed and equipped, have won name and fame in distant lands. Canada forms about two-fifths of the far-e xtenc led British Empire, and thoroughly de- voted to its sovereign and to British con- nection. ‘The outlook of its future is not surpassed by that of any other portion of
of
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is
the Queen’s dominions. Tin *j a2 ay Lyn tor, wey Victoria has beea contemporary to twenty-eight kings, six emperors, four
presidents, many petty
e queens, thirteen ave sultans and
czars, thre ten pri nces,
rulers of smaller states of Europe and |
Asia,
Pea Kia Pt Ns tien at A tat lt ti Be a ge
PERSONAL TRAITS.
Victoria Compietely Reformed the Moral Atmosphere of the Court, Coming to athrone tarnished by the
immoralitics of her predecessors, Queen Victoria completely reformed the moral atmophere of the court, and to a certain
extent also of the entire British people, for notwithstanding all the epithets that are hurled against it British society ia to-day infinitely superior in morals as well as in honor to what it was previous to 1837. Vice there is and always will be in a metropolis so large as London, in a society so elastic and accessible as that of England, but vice is no longer rampant, so unblushing and so public as in days of yore.
That Queen Victoria fosters the fine
so
arts is best shown by the fact that a large proportion of the former enormous im- ports of art objects from France into England have now ceased. Britain has learned to supply her own demand _ for art objects. Her Majesty’s interest in such matters as these only natural, for she one of the most accomplished | women of her dominions, being a painter of considerable merit, a musician of rare
is
is
talent, a clever writer, as shown by her “Highland Leaves,’’ and a remarkable
linguist. Not content with knowing Ger- man, French and Italian, she set herself down when past the age of 60 to study Hindoo, and is able to converse freely with her two or three Indian body ser- vants,
Moreover, her leng experience as a ruler and the profound knowledge which
she possesses of international politics are almost witheut parallel among the
European sovereigns and statesmen, and endow her with great prestige and in- fiuence. ‘The latter, exercised with much caution and foresight, proved sufficient om several occasions to avert continental wars, and it is ne secret that Emperor William of Germany and Alexander III of Russia were restrained from fighting for years by nothing but the wise inter- wention of Queen Victoria.
Early Event in the Queen’s Reign.
The trouble which has been labelled iby history, ‘T he Bed-Chamber Plot.’’ was due partly to the young Queen’s in- experience, and partly to that unfortun- ate quality which the Iron Duke hit off when, in referring to their relatiens with a female sovereign, said: ‘‘I have no small talk amd Peel has pe manners.’”’ Like most epigrams this is only half true; but there is no doubt that had Peel possessed half the tact of Mel- bourne, the difficulty would never have occurred. ‘T'o the Queen it was hard enough to pazt with her eid advisers, without asking her to dismiss all her ‘companions and the _ friends whase sympathy she had felt, and with whose characters and faces she was now-so fa- miliar. To have strange advisers was 4 constitutional necessity; but why should she have her court and hemsehoid filled also with strangers?
To Peel it was equally clear that «gev- vernment wenuld be impossible with ladies in close and constant attendance wpon ‘her Majesty, who were allied im relatien- sship and opiaion with his «strongest ‘po- litical opponents. Both in a sense were right; and the misfortune of the situa-
tion seems te have been that the Queen
thought all her ladies were to ‘be sre-
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EAR& NELSON.
mrered, while Peel would, in reality, have been satisfied with the dismissal of the chief ones.
Ad the same tinee she wrote Melbourne in terms which Elizabeth or Anne might have used. ‘‘Do not fear,’’ she said, “that I was not calm or composed. They wanted to deprive me of my ladies; and I suppose they would deprive me next
of ny dresses and housemaids; they wishad to treat me like a girl, but I will show ghem that I am Queen of Eng-
land.’’ This indicates a personal feeling whieh could only be the outcome of dis- tinct misunderstanding, had, in fact,
as
been shown in her previous statement to_ to.
Peel “‘that you must net expect me give up the society of Lerd Melbcurne.” ‘The facet of the matter ie that the voung Queen had come to regal her Premier almost ae a father, and that everything done by his opponents asswmed to her a suspicions and unpleasant eppearanee. In after days, when Wellington became her greatest friend, and Peei one of those whom she «ould regard with personal confidenee as well as respect, this passing
difficulty ne doubt seemed absurdly small. Afier the Accession. The accession of the young Queen
worked a revolution in the popular Brit- ish ideas of royalty, as well as in the duties of statesmen and the procedure of the court. Month by month publie inter-
est grew in connection with her appear- ance, her actions, her words, and every-
hing she did, untilit culminated during the svildly enthusiastic days of the Cor- onaticn. Old people wondered at her vast yesponsibilities and opportunities for good; the young dreamed of her re- puted beauty and goodness and fairy-like surroundings of greatness. She stirred the hearts of statesmen and poets and the most practical of men into a feeling of almost romantic loyalty. Veteran soldiers, like Wellington, and blaise men of the world like Lord Melbourre, were alike moved to sympathy and unselfish action. O’Connell declared that if the Duke of Cumberlan should cause trouble, as was rumored, ‘‘I can get 500,- 000 brave Irishmen to defend the life, the honor and the person of the beloved young lady, by whom England’s throne is now filled Charles Dickens thought so much of the ‘hanna and romantic nature of her position and dignity as to become almost monomaniac, and every- where, in politics and at court, a_ senti- ment of courtesy and chivairy developed to wn extent hitherto unknown.—From Mr. Castetll Hopkins’ “Life and Reign
of Queen Victoria.”’
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Time Table
Rockey Point Ferry, (897. The Steamer “Elfin” will leave Prince St. Wharf daily, Sundays ex- cepted, as follows.— At6.30am, 8am, 930am, lla
m, 1 pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6.30 pm. V3." leave Rockey Point as follows: At 7 am, 8.302 m, 10am, 11.30 am, 130pm,3pm5pm.7 p m, SUNDAYS. *rom Charlottetewn.at : At 2am, 12.45 p m, 2 p m, . com Reo ky Point: At 10am, 1,30 pm,
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