New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-10

sioning limo of remark in public speeches
ond po,vsnaners such IA would have been ini-
noseilJo a wear or two ago. The throne was,
for many causes. losing a great portion of the
! divinity which onco hcdged it in, and so far
had the infection of discourteous criticism
coma that an absurd dispatch announcing that
! the Ouoen feared personal violence and insult
on her way to the Parliament House found
readers and q sort of crcdcnce among the i'll
! informed.
II il altogether likely that these corsidera-
tions induced tho present Government TO use
cspecal urgency to persuade the Queen to
omen the session yesterday, in person, with a
! spcech from tho throne. The occasion was
well chosen for a dramatic temperance, after
so many years of soclusion. With France
trembling on the verge of ruin or rcgencra-
ton; q Conference sitting in London to de-
eide that Eastern Question which has for
lifetime troubled the dreams of English
statesmen tho gravest question ever debated
between America and England still open and
counting immediate decision and new En-
! pre just arisen on the Continent 10 destroy
that cherished tradition of the balance OF
power which the old school of British pub
| licists regarded as the highest achievement
and most sacred law of statecraft-a sltua-
ton could scarcely be imagined more skill
fully calculated TO give dignity end I'M
pressiveness to the words Of royalty, uttered
from the first throne of the world.
The address is unusually long, and is OF
course unexceptionable in tone and manner.
! It's importance is due entirely to the matters
| of which it treats, and not at all to what 1t
| SAYS The ordinary vagucness and evasion OF
| British royal addresses is rather exaggerated
| than diminished in this. The Queen expresses
n conventional regret for the war, and wish
| for n speedy and honorable peace; asserts
that she has maintained a strict neutrality be-
tween the parties, and cndeavored on several
occasions to bring them into communication
with each other; regrets that she has found
! herself unable to accrcdit a regular embas-
sador to the Government of National Defense,
but gives no hint of the reasons which rem
dcred such a nomination impossible; congratu-
lates Germany upon its new imperial rank,
and hopes that the change may be found coz
ducive to the stability of the European Sys-
tenn announces the hopeful prospect that tho
| Conference now in session will provide for The
proper observance of the Treaty Of 1856 III its
essential features and tendencies while re-
vising some Of its provisions in the interests
of justice and haimony-in this relation stating
that France, although absent from the Con-
ference, must always be regarded az prin-
4" cipal and indispensable member OF the great
commonwealth of Europe"
The Queen then passes 60 the subject of The
relations Of England to the United states, and
confirms the announcement already made in
this paper of the friendly communications
which have been exchanged between London
and Washington i'll relation to the pending
controversies The English Government pro-
poscd a Commission for settlement Of the
Fishery Question on a nciglborly and cqui;a-
Bile basis, and accepted the suggestion OF Gen.
Grant that the same Commission should be
charged with the consideration OF all claims
of either nation or its citizens against the
other, "growing out OF the circumstances OF
" the late war"
With this important announcement tie in
! tcrest of the document ends, TO Cis-Atiantic
! readers The Queen tOuc-es upon the mas
sacres of Greco and TcHTsiD, upon the
! election of Amadeus OF Savoy to the throne
Of SPAIN the agrarian OuragCs in Ireland, the
reorganization of the army, and many details
!
unusual solcmniiy in recalling to the minds OF
! Lords ard Commons that they are labor
ing for country whose laws and institutions
! have stood The test of time, and whose people,
earnestly attached to them and desiring their
cnntnuaacc, will unite with their sovereign in
| invoking uron the labOls Of Parliament the
| favor and aid Of the Most High.
OF course the speech is not to he regarded
rs in any sense the expression Of the senti-
ments Of the Queen. i is the deliberate and
we'l-pondcrcd utterance Of the Cabinet and
in that point of view is chiefly Important as indi-
eating one step further in tie gradual pro-
| eress of England to complete isolation from
the politics of the outside void. The careful
and studied avoidance Of any expression
of deciucd opinion or policy in regard
| to The aspect of European Affairs, the
corciliatOry, almost lang'iid disposition mani
! tested to settle all disputes in an amiable way,
are in striking contrast to the traditional tone
OF English diplomacy, which kept the Cont
nent in respect when Milton held the pen of
! Cromwell, and dragooned the princes of
Europe into war or peace at viii when the
| led of empire rested in the equity hand Of