The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-21 00:00:00

DR. NORMAN SIACLEoD ON HER MAJEiTrA
HEALTH.

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On Friday afternoon, after the, otronor/ of
th le se.
the brat sot of the ground" winch lb, Barony 1,2,,:tai
Arylnin ot Lensie, near Glasgow, i, 1.„
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health of the Q teen was propo:eel, and enthusiastically
responded to. In proposing 'The ohr merub of
the Royal Family," the chairmen (hit. mein r
e.
quested the Rev. Dr. Normen Macleod, se'. b'
no
chaplain, to reply to the toast, and to
Information about the state of her
The roverned gentleman, in respondlinr, sod— 'I bid
no intention whatever of making sty reworks ab q
her Majesty. I think this Ic the first tints I le'erte
durm it in public ; but au the emblem hee ulled
upon ine ro pointedly to confirm his stetureint., I
beg, having just returned from Kvllio.ral, to say this
I am very glad to matte with my friends he
in drinking to the health of the Royal Family; brges
I trait Providence Las given ILO such an imams
of common seam am not to prattle t to return Chain
for them. As you have alluded to the ebeen's MUM
in connection with mouse information I have given soa,
I beg to lay this, awl to say it very emphatically. that
what is meant by her Majesty's Living been morello,
mentally ineepacimted lor (any work I 1t,,,, to Mr.
Disraeli to explain, for I cannot comprehend it. I
have had the honour, in the providence of tkel,
ministering to her Maj•sty, an public mid private, for
the last thirteen or fourteen year'; I have seen kris
every variety of eireumet.ne., trent the highest'''.
sperity and happiness which (.1u ruaree,d lo.n Rot
I to speak of a Q leon. c .uld enj 7. end else in Pe, depth
of her distress. I declare most bele:only I hive nem
I in the greatest privacy and in the mist intimate caw
' tnuoion that a subject Or II clergyman eon have, Lrir4
ono word offered, or one sediment expressed, whiek
(lid not do the highest honour to her Mej Sty hotb Le,
Queen and as a wutuan ; I hewer never reel, te,
motet truce of any morel or mental weaklier., lot I
have seen in every instance, down to the lot ruomat,
remarkable evidenee of MOIC end mental stiength sg
capacity. I am very glad to ray that from the sever,
attack of neuralgia and rheumatic gout (which is. se
affected her heeds that fur a time she was utterly unable
even to sign her name) she has entirely reentry& I
have never seen her in better epirita and strung.r
mind than she is at present. At the tame tine IGa
far from ',lying tl.at shim has reeov••r..l her strength m
as to be able to &more than rhe Ii doin4. Indeed, Is
certain Diet the Queen I .14. , 410, a.. ti it her nerv..ea
energy pelt:sits her to do; I, r I make boll to ray that
none of us have the elijitert ee mmtiou of 11P lure
seeming demand that is mu ide uputi a persou in her hes
position of attendiug to innumerable detail,, of carry
ing burdens on her mied witheont the shish teat mai
batty of one moment's rest. Our wn wives bed big
trying upon the nervous energy are the commit eata
of a large family, but when we thick what site 14i ii
do ae • mother, with her children occupying net
important positions In society; what she had to dog
being oompelled often to think eh .ut the off air, al tie
nation, to whose Interest she is profoimily devoid;
when we thiek of the coustant weight that nise
ever be upo n bray mind, the wonder is thlt oh,it
able to ti,rforin her (Intimal she has dn..
! Anyone who knows the Q icon knows that the
would do in that is puesible for her to do, and no obt
who knows her but is amused at her estraerdiewy
considerateness for everyone, Low she °empire her
thoughts upon every subj-ct, and hoe she attend, i.
such minute details of her duty; awl! will take items
me to say that the ease of the pooreat aubj•et in be
kingdom if made known to her wood receive her lIOMO
diate attention. (Cheers.) Let me also say that mutt
cruel and cowardly injwitioe the manner In ell;ch her
MO :sty is often criticised, when neither as a
nor as a woman csn she make any reply, but nnut
endure In eileue 3. But while these criticism, are male
by the few, I feel certain that the huge majority of thia
nation no revere Coe Mouarch who oecupies the throes
that dates for a thourand years, and AO admire bee
unblemidied personal character, and the magnet is
which during her reign dm has disc`larged her pills
and privet.) duties. that could they utter 1., uric vete
wool I nein) with 001,4 when wo ny, "God sere the
(Loud 011teril.)
latlOoll, may she long be preserved to the Salim.'

We are authorised to state Mist the words 111101t4
to Mr. Disraeli by Dr. Norman iloclood with respite
to her Majesty's "inceipacity for work." wore tem
ined by that gentleman. his eZPromions were h
dimatly contrary 1C360, viz., that her Maje4i
°opacity for business, distinguished from the first ty
method and promptness, had now by long etistriocos
booome so eminent that it greatly asaistui
facilitated the conduct of pnblio affairs.

her Majesty, on the reoommendation of Yr. Glsis
stone, has been pleased to grant from the Ito)al ?mutt
the awn of £.lOO to the oLiklren of Dr. Livinhstme.

A Citaamigu CoFrlN.—Frow a Swiss, uewspaper vi
leain that Herr Worrinanu, in Nr.ay, a wealtir
cabliet mak.sr, has received an order from Kiq
Kambuli of Iberio, on the west strut of Afrier,
°alio of a form altogether original and unique. DA
order has bet u ezeouted strictly in &condoned with tie
royal instructions, which were delivered by a negro,
and the coffin is on the point of bcing not elf to its
destination. The coffin is ten feet long, and three frit
broad and deep. It id made of b.laturacal, poli.Led
and varnished with blue bicker, whilst the nails are d
gold, and its form quito bewitching ,ind sum:what of
Chinese type. It is lined with red velvet, and at
swelling cushions of the LIMO material, are placed
where the head will lie. In thu 11l air apertures urn
as windows to admit the light of shy. arid mirrors of
rock-crystal are found in walls and en tho roof of OM
cabinet. The four handles and feet are, us also the
anti the door-hinge, of missive silver.
The order contained the espre.stlirecti,m that dale
should be palsied in the coffin ail bottles of the best
Cognac, two pipes, and a splendid chess-board. The
. . .
coffin will be immediately placed on lie I. in ths
sanctum saiscloritet of the palace of King lasinh.m.
aorirdevr.eriusinutchheedre. aussaiani
hobi t
it "to go no more out for ever."