Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-22

the part of the Palmerston ministry more
than once threatened serious complica-
tions. The expedition against Mexico
(1S61) was soon abandoned, and the pro-
tectorate over the Ionian islands was given
up (1S63).
Lord Palmerston died in October, 1865,
when the ministry was remodeled under
Earl Russell. 1t was defeated on clause
in the reform bill in June, 1866, and gave
place to conservative ministry formed
by Lord Derby, which carried a reform
bill through parliament in 1867. Lord
Derby resigned in February, 1868, and Mr..
Disraeli became prime minister. The
Abyssinian expedition. begun under Derby,
was successfully carried out. There be-
ing a majority against Disraeh in the
elections of 1868, he resigned in December
of that year. Mr.. Gladstone was called to
the premiership, and held Office till the
elections of 1874 showed the conservatives
again in the majority. The leading events
of the administration were the disestablish-
ment of the Irish church, the Irish land act,
the elementary education act, the abolition
Of the purchase of army commissions, the
negotiation of the treaty of Washington
covering the Alabama claims, the passage
of the ballot act, and the Ashantee war. He
was succeeded in 1874 by Mr.. Disraei. One
of his most striking acts of foreign policy
was the purchase of the shares of the Suez
canal stock belonging to the khedive of
Egypt (November, 1879.
From the day Of her accession to the
throne Queen Victoria has enjoyed to the
fullest extent the respect and affection of
her subjects; yet several attempts have
been made to assassinate her: one in June,
1910, By crazy lad named Oxford; an
other in May, 1912, by John Francis, who
was sentenced to be hanged for the offense,
but the sentence was commuted to trans
portation for life; and a third in July of
the same year, by one j. w. Bean, whose
only punishment was eighteen months
imprisonment. Queen Victoria travels
frequently both in her own dominions and
abroad. Her mother, the duchess of Kent,
died March 16, 1861, and the prince con-
sort Dec. II, the same year. Her grief at
his death has been so intense as in great
public and at court ceremonials, though she
has never neglected her duties as a sover-
eign. She lives in comparative seclusion,
and generally spends the summer at Bal
moral, Scotland. In February, 1876, she
opened parliament in person for the first
time since her bereavement; and in April
she was authorized by an act of parlia-
ment proposed by Mr.. Disraei to assume
the title of empress of India.
The queen has had nine children,
but one of whom, Alice, is
dead: Victoria, born in 1910,
married in 1858 to the present crown
prince of Prussia and of the German en-
pire; Albert Edward, prince of Wales, 1871,
married in 1868 to the princess Alexandra
of Denmark; Alice, 1843, married in 1852
to Prince Louis of Hesse- Darmstadt; AL
fred, 1874, created duke of Edinburgh in
1865, and married in 1874 to the grand
duchess Maria, only daughter of the en-
peror Alexander II. of Russia; Helena,
1916, married. ia 1865 to Prince Christian
of Schleswig- -Holstein- n-Sonderburg- Angus
tenburg; Louise, 184S, married in 1871 to
the marquis of Lorne; Arthur, 1850; Leo
pold, 1853; and Beatrice, 1857. Several
books have received theroyal approval and
were either written by her or compiled
under her direction. Among them are
''The Early days of His Royal Highness,
the Prince Consort," compiled under the
direction of the queen by Lieut.. Gen. C.
Grey (1S67); "Leaves from the journal of
our Life in the Highlands (1868), in
which she was assisted by Sir Arthur Helps;
and 'Life of the Prince Consort" (1974),
prepared under her direction by Theodore
Martin.