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Ll1yd's Weekly Lonslon NesspzFar' Nov. -. i
TIE Health of Her Majesty.

On Friday after the ceremony of cutting the
first sod Of the ground on which the Barony
Lunatic asylum, near Glasgow, is 10 be built,
the health Of the Queen was proposed and en-
Enthusiastically responded tO.-In proposing the
other members Of the royal family, the Chair
man (Air. Menzies) requested the Rev. DR.. y.
Macleod, Queens chaplain, 10 reply 10 the toast,
and % give them some information about the
state OF her Aiaiesty's heilth.-Ibe Rev. Dr.
Norman Macleod, IN responding, said ! am
very glad 70 mite with my friends here in drink
ing To the health Of the royal family though |
trus. Providence has given me such an amount
Of common sense as not - presume To return
thanks for them. But as you have alluded -
the Queens health IN connection with suIue in
formation | have given you, | beg 10 cay this
and to say it very emphaJicaily-tiat what Is
ment by her AlaJestys having been morally or
mentally incapacitated for any work, | leave it 10
Mr.. DIsraeIi to explain, for | cannot comprehend
il. | have bad the honor, in the providence OF
God. Of administering To her Majesty III public
and private for the last Ii or Ii years. | have
seen her IN every variety OF circumstances, IRON
the highest prosperity and Happiness which any
married woman, not 70 speak Of a Queen, could
enjoy, and also in the depth of her distress. |
declare most sOieInnly | have never in the greatest
privacy, and in the most intimate communion,
that a subject or a clergyman can have, heard
one word offered, or one sentiment expressed,
which did not do the highest honor to her Maj
esty, both as a Queen and as a woman; | have
never seen, not even the remOtest trace, OF any
moral or mental weakness, but l have seen IN
every instance, down to the last moment, remark
able evidence Of moral and mental strength and
capacity. am very glad to FAY that from the
severe attack Of neuralgia and rheumatic govt
(Which 80 affected the Queens hands that Tor IA
time she was unable to sign her nancy she has
entirely recovered. | have never seen her in
better spirits and stronger in mind than she is al
present. At the same tune, | am far from saying
Fsat Ela IaE r-a.raraI Ia- AfrarsFrl =, ~ IN no
able to do more than she is doing indeed, | am
certain that the Queen has done all that her
nervous energy permits her to do; for / make
bold to say that none Of us have the slightest
conception Of the Unccasing demand that Is made
upon a person in her high position Of attending
To lnnulnerable details. OF crying burdens on
her mind without the slightest possibility of one
moments rest. Our own wives find how trying
to the nervous energy are tie constant cares of Il
large family but when we think what the Queen
has to do as Il mother, with her children occupy
ing such important positions in sucicty-what
she has to do in being compelled often to think
about the affairs of the nation, to whose interest
she is profoundly devoted when we think of the
constant weight that must ever be upon her
mInd-the wonder is that she is able to perform
her duties as she has done. Any one who knows
the Queen knows that she would do all that is
possible for her to do and no one who knows
her is amazed at her extraordinary considerate-
ness for everyone-how she occupies her thoughts
upon every subject, and how she attends to such
minute details Of her duty, that 1 will take it
upon me to say that the care of the poorest
subject in her Kingdom, if made known to her,
would receive her Immediate attention (cheers)
Let Inc also say that it is a cruel and cowardly
injustice the manner in which her Majesty is
often criticised, when she cannot make any reply,
but must endure in silence. But while these
criticisms are made by the few, | feel certain
that the huge majority of this nation so revere
the monarch who occupies the throne that dates
for a thousand years, and SO admire her unblem-
ished personal character, and the manner IN
which during her reign she has discharged her
public and private duties, that could they utter
it one voice would unite with ours when we say,
- God save the Queen. May she long be pre-
served to the nation " Cloud cheers).