Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-06-13

lFron, the" Lendsn Gay World" Of May.l

This month ,ciH be the most cventful of Queen
victorias whole neres sting le il she live the
allotted life of humanity 'thrce years and ten ~
This month has already been the most eventful of
the Queens life. The month Of May, 1899, will
long be remembered IN the annals OF British history
and OF all those countries Of the earth whose inter
ests connected directly, indirectly, with those
Of the British Empire. How little thought little We
tora when we saw her at Malvern, some six seven
years SINCE Just entering her teens, riding donkey
over those magnificent hills, her mother walking on
one side OF her. and her uncle Leopold the other,
that before she had Of yearsjust before
her twentieth birthday many spirit stirring events
should be crowded by her into the space Of short
week; that she shosld hold in her hand and decide
with her tongue in short sentence the destiRes
Of this great natonl that she should be rapidly PEE
titioned, and entreaed, and commanded and censur-
ed and praised and abused, and sought for and sued
by the most potent men and women OF the most po.
tent empire upon the globe, within the short space
Of forty-eght consecutive hours. The whole affair,
connected with the receHt ministerial and parliament
tary events, has scena complete Drama IN winch the
Queen has been bona fide the principal actor; al
though many have chosen 20 consider her puppet,
moving only as the wires are pulled by others All
the incidents connected with this matter are of a
dra natic character; and none OF our cotem-
poraries have been at the pains to throw them into
connected and interesting FORM we have taken the
trouble to do So and have been favored from anthem
tic and even official sources with most OF the m,nu-
fsG and details connected with the recent events
around the atmosphere Of royalty, which we here
subjoia in the correct order Of their occurrence.
Towards the end Of April, various events had cc-
curredto render the Queens situation peculiarly crit
ical. She had suffered considerable mental anxiety
from the injustice done to Lady Flora Hastings, aud
had taken unusual pains To make that lady amends for
her hasty and iniudicous ccnsure On the afternoon
of the 3Oth Of April, Lady Flora. being invited 10
Buckingham Palace, the Queen met he al the head
Of the grand staircase, and greeted her thus Dear
Lady Flora. / am delighted to you; am deter
mined to enjoy myself tonight, and sent for you to
partake of a round Of pleasure with me / have
been reading Chevely' and more than half like
the spirit and satire and should wholly like the
matter. were | not partial to Sir Edward Bulwer;
cannot think him bad Lady b. has depicted
him. am tired Of reading; we will walk the long
gallery dine, and 20 TO the Opera" 81 am pleased
10 find your majesty has pleasure in anticipation
said Lady Flora. have pain in aBtic patton dear
Lady Flora, and why should not have pleasure
Nv Lord Melbourne left me but now, and he tells
me of trouble upon trouble; Of rebels 40 Canada, and
slaves in Jansica-.horribe- land quarrelling in
Maine, and OF the malice Of the tories and the
spiefnl things they talk and write about and of
the Irish Question: and the Indian question, and the
Maine question: and the Jamaica question, and the
Chartsts and the Corn Laws, I'LL almost wish there