The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

THE QUEEN IN LIVERPOOL.

IF it is the fate of Royal personages always td
be flattered, it is not less the fate of those who
speak sincerely of the virtues of a Reigning Monarch
to be charged with adulaticn. In all truth and
sincerity, however, the Press of Britain is fully
justified in the kind and loyal feeling of attachment
to the person of our Queen that may be seen icl
every page of the periodical literature of the
country. Limited as the Monarchy of England is;
it is still in the power of the Crown to impress
upon the Government of the day the personal
qualities of the Sovereign; and, surely, there
never existed. a more perfect mixture of mercy
and firmness, dignity and consideration, than what
is shown in the Court of England under Queen
Victoria. The times upon which cur Queen has
fallen are not those that will afford many subjects
of declamation to the historian, so true it is that
prosperity affords few stirring topics. With a
dominion reaching to an extent, short of which
Alexander wept for worlds to conquer, Queen
Victoria is at peace with all Christendom. And
it is not

" The peace that James the Peaceful gave,"

but a peace founded on the belief of other nations;

that our treaties, which have been made in honour,
will be maintained with courage—a peace unlikely
to be disturbed but by such savage tribes as those
of Scinde or of Kaffraria. Elizabeth bad the
mighty honour of being the champion of all
pressed for conscience sake; but her reign was not
without the reproach of overlooking, at times, the
claims of conscience. Anne was the arbitress of
the family quarrels of the Royal Houses of Europe,
and she, too, forgot that private interest and public
morality were often incompatible. It has been,
however, reserved for Victoria to offer, in the midst
of an universal political storm, a home to the
refugees of Europe, and an arbitration of the great
disputes that shake the frame of society throughout
the entire Old World. While other sovereigns are
providing against future or revenging past dis.l
loyalty, She is reigning over a people of whom it
might be said with truth, as Burke said about
Marie Antoinette, in Irish eloquence, that at an
insult to her name "a thousand swords would
spring from their scabbards." And surely, when
She who rules r,s looks round on the blood-thirsty
despotisms of Europe, from the absolute Austrian
Monarchy to the absolute French Republic, she
cannot but feel that Her mild and temperate
government has given her people and herself reason
to believe the truth of the poet's assertion, that-- ,

" The tribute most dear to a head that is Royal,
Is that from a heart that loves Liberty too."

Among all the evidences of the greatness of her
realm, her Majesty can find none to rival the town
she comes on Thursday to visit. Christendom
cannot show, and fiction never fancied, so great a
progress in the space of fourscore years. Of our
British Constitution and Government, one might
use in Liverpool the words of Johnson upon Wren,
in his own cathedral—" Si monumentum quaeris
cueumspiee !" And great municipal power has
ceased to be the encouragement of discontent. On
the contrary, in her mighty town of Liverpool, Her
Majesty is as sincerely loved as in the remotest of

rural hamlets, and she has never heard a more
sincere welcome than she will hear on Thursday,
in the cry of " God save the Queen !"
" As half in shade and half in sun
The world upon its course advances,
Oh ! may the side that's shone upon
Be all that ever meets her glances !"