The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-22
The Health Of Queen Victoria.

The Rev. Dr. Norman Mcleod was
one. OF a party who, OH the 18th ult., as
sisted in breaking ground in connection
with new lunatic asylum for the bar
ony parish ut Lenzie junction, near
Glasgow. At an entertainment which
followed, the Chairman, in giving the
toast of "The Queen" referred to the
health of Her Majesty, and asked DIR.
McLeod-as having recently returned
from Balmoral-whether he felt at lib
erty to say anything on the subject. DR..
Mcleod then said What is meant by
Her Majesty being morally and men
tally incapacitated for work +" | leave
Mr.. Disraeli to explain, for | do not
comprehend it. beg to say that have
had the honor, in the Providence of
God, to minister to Her Majesty in pub
lie and private for the last thirteen or
fourteen years, and have seen her in
every variety of circumstances-in the
highest prosperity and happiness which
any married woman, not to speak of a
Queen, could enjoy, and in the very
depth of her distress, and | declare most
solemnly, although speaking with her
in the greatest privacy, and in the most
intimate communion that subject and
clergyman can have, l have never
heard her utter one word or one senti-
ment that did not do the highest honor
to Her Majesty whether as Queen or q
woman. | have not only never seen the
remotest trace of any moral or mental
weakness, but / have seen in every in
stance remarkable evidence of moral
and mental strength and capacity. Her
Majesty has just passed through severe
attack OF rheumatic govt, which so al
fected her hands that for time she was
utterly unable to sign her name, and
from a severe neuralgia from which she
has entirely recovered, and | have never
seen her in better spirits or better
in health or stronger in mind than she
is at the present moment. AT the same
time am far from saying that she has
recovered her strength so as to be able
to do more than she is doing for |
make bold to say that none of us have
the slightest conception of the unceas-
ing demand that is made upon a person
in her high position, of attending to in
Vulnerable details and carrying burdens
upon her mind without the possibility
of one moments rest. Our own wives
find how trying upon their nervous en-
ergy is the constant care OF a large fam.
lily but when we think what the Queen
has to do as mother, with her children
occupying such an important position in
society, what she has to do in being
compelled ever TO think about the affairs
of nation to whose interests she is
profoundly devoted, when we think of
4 he hot no
upon her mind, we feel the wonder is
that she is able to perform her duties in
the way that she has done. No one
who knows the Queen but knows she
would do all that it is possible for her to
do, and no one who knows her but is
amazed at her extraordinary consider
ateness for every one how she occupies
her thoughts upon every subject. and
how she attends to such minute details
of duty. | will take it upon me To say
that the case of the poorest subject in
her kingdom, if made known to her,
would receive her immediate attention.
Let me also say the manner in'which
the Queen is often criticised is cruel
and cowardly injustice, when neither as
a woman nor as a Queen she can make
any reply, but must endure the injus-
tice. While such attacks may be made
by few, feel certain that the large
majority of this nation so revere the
monarch who occupies the throne and
so esteem her unblemi he'd character
and the manner in which, during her
reign, she has discharged her public and
private duties that, could they alter it,
they with one voice would unite with US
when we say God save the Queen and
may she be long preserved to the
nation.