The New York herald., 1871-09-28

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On the Goth Of June in the year 1887,
Queen victoria's mother-the late Duchess
OF Kent--introduced the present ruler of
Great Britain, then a simple-minded, confid-
ing girl, to her subjects, with the words, 81
have educated my daughter" This motherly
expression touched the public heart immedi-
ately. 1t found an abiding place in the breasts
OF the British people, and the fine sentiment
which it conveyed has been warmly cherished
around millions of happy firesides ever since
Her Highness the Duchess cut loose, uncon-
sciously, perhaps, from the royal traditions
Of the House of Guelph by the
utterance She pleaded the claim Of
the throne 10 the recognition of the
people, and by so doing atoned in q
moment for most Of the brutalities and for all
the expressions of the Georges. The Duchess
of Kent was already warned by adversely.
In an unbroken retirement from court life
during the later years of the reign of William
the Fourth, so that at the moment of the
decease of that monarch the girl who was
called, by the rule of divine right, TO WELD
the sceptre of England, was almost completely
artless of the immense power which it SYM
boiled and entirely unacqrainted with the
growing dangers which encompassed it. It
was moment of peril for the thrones of
female monarchs. Don Carlos Of Spain
and Don Miguel of Portugal had already
declared in caucus, if not openly.
against the claims Of their respective
nieces to rule in those countries. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland,
uncle of Queen Victoria, was not at all un-
willing to follow the example of his acquaint-
ances on the Continent. By means of the
agency of formidable secret organization,
which had been industriously extended over
the British empire, he sought to revolutionize
the United Kingdom, seize the succession by a
coup, change the policy of the Executive and
Parliament, and endeavor to turn back the
onward and loudly murmuring tide of popular
reform and democratic enlightenment in
England. The Duke of Cumberland and
his contreres failed signally, and the shouts
of scOrn with which he was hailed in the streets
of London at the very moment of his departure
for Hanover proclaimed, very rudely and
roughly, to be sure, to the world that the day
of toryism was at an end in Britain, that the
people had estimated their power, and were
resolved on the complete enjoyment of their
constitutional rights-cheap government, the
abolition of class privileges, and the final
attainment of system of self-rule.
The youthful Queen was placed in the
hands of the British reform party. The late
Lord Melbourne became her counsellor. This
statesman advised her, manfully and in direct
opposition to many of her earliest prejudices,
that England had entered on course of con-
stitutional revolution, and that the throne
must in future accept the situation as it pre-
sented, and not by any means attempt to con-
troll political events. Melbourne was a pru-
dent and honest statesman. He pre-
faced ''new departure" in the gov
ernment. Queen Victoria has lived to see
most of his Cabinet anticipations fulfilled
She may survive to realize the wonderful
consequences-in abdication, it may be, or
dethronement by the voice of the people.
The battle Of freedom, though s'bafled
oft, is always won. Since the death of Lord
Melbourne British statesmen have been daily
found to bid for place aud power by Offering
to lead the popular march toward complete
liberty. The consequences have been the
gradual shortening of the props on which the
throne is elevated, with silent reduction
of the royal seat to the level Of Presidential
chair. The privileges Of the British oligarchy,
of the Church, of the second class aristocracy,
# commerce, Of capital and Of the feudal ter
ritorialists have been curtaied or abolished
one by one so that to-day the crown of Vic
toria is placed directly before the masses, on
trial as to the question Of its utility.
The prosecution is conducted by Mr. Ben
jamin Disraeli on the part of the people. This
learned gentleman, himself descended from
line of the most magnificent monarchs, has
just declared that the bauble ia worthless as a
type or token of power. The traditions of his
race and family tell of thrones which
have passed away-of Solomon, of David,
and the rest. lie thinks of the royalties
aud splendors of the days which were. He
values the gems in the British Crown with
a practised eye, and regards them as
mere paste when compared with the pre-
cious stones which sparkled 10 the Temple.
In the universally of his genius he wishes
to right the wrongs Of the land which
adopted bis father He despses class
rights and establishments-a fact which
he has himself set forth in his remark
able work, "Lothair." Circumstances over
which he had no control FIRST gave Disraeli to
the tory aristocracy of England. The sons
Of the Barons were unwilling, however, to be
handed over to the great and powerful
Israelite. Since the moment of the failure of
his brief attempt at Cabinet rule in Downing
street Disraeli has been rather at loss as to