Daily Republican., 1885-07-13
QUEEN VICTORIA.
Tho Coming Celebration OF Her
Eiftieth Y ear u non tho ThrOae.


Fiftieth Fear u non tho Throae.
The Qaeen, says the London Globe,
having on Saturday entered upon the
forty ninth year of her reign, the
thou gbts ofmauy of her subjects will Il
turn to the next 2G h ofJune, when her
Majesty will commence her year of I
jubilee" To some it will seem sur
pr Using that the auspicious date is 80
near, for there appears to have been an o
upon many minds that the \
celebration would take place in 1887, .
when the half century of her reign {
will have been Completed. But the /
precedents are clearly in favor Of being
held at the beginning, and not at the
end of the fiftieth year. The most
direct is that OF 1909, upon the 25th OF
October, when rejoicings were held
throughout the Empire, because Of the
entrance of George Ill upon the jubilee
year and thus the original institution
of the jubilee itself was obviously
followed.
"Thou shalt number" says the Mo-
safe law, seven Sabbaths Of years
unto thee, seven times seven years; and
the space of the seven Sabbaths Of years
shalt be unto thee forty aud nine years |
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet Of
the Jubilee to sound through |
out sll your land. And ye shall hallow
the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout all the land unto all the in
habitapts thereof 1t shall be Jubilee
unto you" Only three sovereigns in
the whole tale Of our history have been
suffered to see the opening Of such q
year, Henry III. Edward III, and
George III. All EnRlishmen will sim
/ L. ha< ka tua
month has quite run Its course fourth
will have been added to the list.
| The occurrence, therefore, is so un
usual that 1t will be Of interest to com.
pare, in however brief = way, the cir
! cumstances under which the three
sovereigns named entered their jubiles
year, and those under which 1t Is likely
to be the lot Of our present monarch 10
Join their company in this particular.
The comparison, II 1t does nothing more,
will serve to show that the Queen, de
spite the many sorrows which have
afflicted her middle life, will see the
sun shine upon the fiftieth year OF her
reign in far more brightness than did
eth of the three to be considered.
Henry III hal assembled the throne
In October, 1915, at the age of nine,
upon the death Of his father, John, a
little more than year after the Great
Charter had been forced from his reluc
tant bands. The reign was as troubled
as it was long; the Barons had tasted
OF power, and were not inclined to
, forego IT.; and in the midst OF In
ternecine struggles, England's first
regular Parliament sprang into being
AS the King was nearing the aftiett
year the strife became more acute
simon de Montfort was in the thick o
the fight, and the national deadlock
= came to such pass that the disput,
i, between the King and Barons was re
ferred to the French monarch for arbi
tration.
At the beginning of 1865 (at the enc
of which Henry's jubilee beRan) d.
Montfort, once more in the ascendant
!. SUNNI the first real Parliament
but in the early autumn his power wa
h broken, he himself WAS slain, and tn
baronage was again placed under roya
!, sIbjection. And Henry, who had onl.
n a few months before been q prisoner II
the hands of his mobiles, commenced hi
h year of jubilee with the embers Of civi
war still wnrm around him, and wit
la speedy revival of them into q fame,
possibility steadily staring him In tn
l. face.
10 An almost equal gloom attend ed tn
entrance of Ed ward III upon the fiftiet
70 year. The greatness OF the King VIII
had won Greasy and Pottiers and VIII
had added Calais TO the English domir
lions had become sadly dimmed by th
weaknesses of his later life. Much {
es the popular hatred which had heen th
n. portion of the elder and younger De
IN spenser, hanged by the Barons at th
beginning of the reign, was showere
upon Alice Perrers at the end and IL
earlier victories in France, by whic
Il general enthusiasm had been fired ha
been almost forgotten in the nations
Of shame which followed upon the lats
humiliations in Spain.
Irs The teachings of Wicklif, directe
N 'ni though they were TO reform in rel
he gion, deepened the discomfort; an
nd whom the seven Sabbaths OF years"
af- Edwards reign had passed, the opanir
lef of the jubilee found q miserable Kin
" aud o mutinous people. Before the ye
vo was out the Black Prince, once Il
ow nations aud his fathers pride, passt
"a. to bis rect, and Edward himself u
! 1 next year went almost unwept to b
of grave.
th Not far from four centuries and
Is. half rolled away before another King
IN, Jubilee could be celebrated in Eng Ian
et' and then for the third time the circu
nv stances could not be considered 9th
it than sad. 1t was melancholy sc
ar. son for jubilee this close of the ye
1907" says historian of the perio
ia IA yet a jubilee there was. The old IN
ib himself was nearly blind and his W
os- were wavering he was al variance wi
so. his heir his favorite sor %is just di
nd gra cd and he was in disp easure wi
" others of them.
In the midst of the depressi
- abroad and the quarrels at home, in {
fanco of the gloom which was settli
down upon the world, the jubilee "
to be held and men were to be jC
q, ful and loyal on the 25th of October
- least, whatever had gone before shot
day come after. But, despite the 81
rounding gloom, the occasion was ce
81 brated with much enthusiasm and f
arx vent royalty. Through the livelo
Sc. day services were held, cannoDs roar'
onr poor and rich were feasted, and all
serters from the army and navy rece
,;n, ed pardon.
There were grand doings in the
corners of the earth, by appoi
ment, in sympathy with home me
ings in Canada, balls at Bombay a
Ca lcutta, ard some remission of I,
some fain, revival of the sensation
citizenship among the convicts
5. Botany Bay. Balls and banqu'
fireworks and feasts were soon fore
ems ton, but mementoes of the occas
n, fingered for long. In some rem
- towns are yet to be seen a "Jubi
Inn," and at the South Kensing
. Museum, not many years ago, could
A inspected, carefully covered by 81