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4. Ma, too, Mamma," is the cry in the nursery when
any one of its inmates has reeeived a speeial instance
of maternal care and affection. "Me, too, Mamma,"
is the appeal which is being made, by one of our
great ee•tres of population after another, when the
Qt rest, in whom they all regard themselves as
having • common right of property, confers the
faro•r of • •iait on any of them. Her MAJZSTT
inaugurated tlie Art Exhibitioe of Manehester ; and,
as a logical sequence, she has been called upon to
open the People's Hall and Gardens at Birmingham,
and the Town Hall at Leeds. " Tia pretty tho' a
" plague," as the gentle liaises says of her watching
of Bertram in "All's well that ends well." Her
MAJ V.Wf T may sometimes feel these calla

upon her good•natme rather importunate; but the
receptions, at once affectionate and deferential, which
she assets with, most more than compeasate for any
little extra trouble she is put to. Let her move
through what part of her dominion, she will, she is
sure to pus through a succession of ovations. Man-
chester's wearers of cotton and Birmingham's welders
of iron have, in turns, bowed the knees of their
hearts before her, and now it is the turn of the flax
and woolen workers of Leeds.

Assuredly there is something in the notion of a
female Sovereign peculiarly congenial to English
tutu. Mins was too fat and too lazy to avail
herself of her privileges u a woman and a
Sovereign ; and MART—the Protestant MARY we
mean—was overshadowed by the lawful authority of
a husband who was a King, and not merely a
Prises Consort. But BMA Ina the spinster,
and Vtrioatt the matron, who have both wielded
the sceptre with vigorous and untrammelled hands,
in the matter of their " progresses," cast into the
shade all other English monarchs. JAMES 1., indeed,
tried to do something in that hoe; bat there is this
differeece between him and the two popular
English Queens—that they hare been sought after
by their subjects, while he thrust himself upon his.
It is good policy in Sovereigns thus to throw
themselves upon their people. It does not merely
confirm their own hold on the Crown ; it
strengthens Monarchy as an institution. The
man or woman who has taken an active
part in any demonstration in behalf of Royalty
feels himself or herself of more consequenee than
before. To become disloyal would be to forfeit that
sense of importance which has imparted so much
pleasure. They are kingsmen and kiogswomen
for ever after, whoever may wear the crown.
They look upon themselves as part of the insti-
tution. But a genial temperament ,is required in
the Sovereign to turn this disposition to account.
If the tendered homage is not cordially and grace-
fully acknowledged, those who tender it feel their
self-love wounded. A sense of degradation fills them,
accompanied by irritation and alienation, instead of
loyal devottdoess. The gracious simplicity of our
QUERN, and her obvious though tempered enjoyment
of the people's acclamations, are links that bind their
hurts to her.

It is no trifling matter this interchange of ameni-
ties between the Sovereign and the people. Among
the reflecting portion of the English public, there is a
deep devotion to the monarchical part of our institu-
tions. This is with them not a mere sentiment, but
the result of reasoning and reflection. The great
danger to • people's liberties arises from the ten-
dency of rulers to forget that they're merely ministers
and lot masters of the people. Ia a republic, quite as
tench as in a despotism, those who exercise authority
are apt to lose sight of this distinction. But in
England, where the Sovereign reigns but does
not govern, where the executive authority is
vested in responsible ministers, the constant
presses* of the Crown forbids the actual
riders to forget their mere ministerial de-
meter, and to aspire to something more. It was a
subject of astonished remark, both with the generals
and diplomatists of the old Mosarc.hies ef Escape
and of IrtVOlLlCiloary Frame, that with all his tipper•
halite. in the Peninsula, WILLINGTOX Myer
dreamed of founding a dynasty. Tlte remota vas
that he, with all Englishmen, had, from his very
boyhood, ancuteciously imbibed the convictioe that
sovereign authority was something beyond the reach
of any one born a subject, although as much power
as area sempatible with the wail-being of society
could be attained by the able and ambitious.
One can imagine a President of the United
States •sueeiving the idea of making himself a king
Mare easily than one can imagine an English Minis-
ter pommel by t►e same ambition. But it is oily
small Minority whose information and intelligeste
enable them to see that we are indebted for this
bridle upon the ambition of statesmen too= molter-
shim' institutions. Something name is required to
keep alive the loyalty of the sasses& And that
something must be sought in the personal character
of the reizoing Monarch—in the sympathy with
which the Sovereign respond, to demonstrations of
popular affection.

A new and somewhat startling demand has been
made upon the good-humoured readiness with
which the Qcams has ever responded to invitations
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