The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-05-31

Francis Charles Augustus Albert Eihnall-
uel-sllch was the full name OF the prince
consort-wns second son of Ernest. duke OF
Sake -Coburg-Saaltcld and he was three
months and three days younger than his royal
spouse. 1t is worth noting, perhaps TINT the
same accouchcusc, Nine. Siebold, otticiated
at the birth Of both. At first the popular
feeling toward the prince was not cordial,
but he lived to be the best loved man in Eng
land
Her majesty was born May p, 1910, be-
came queen i'll 1887, though not formally
crowned till june oS, 1885, and was married
Feb. 10, 1910; but who would imagine now
that the first notable events of her career,
were tragic in tho highest degree7 Vet 50 it
was Lady Flora Hastings, Of the queens
immediate household, died Of grief and shame
over Il bnseless scandal, and II series of at
telnpts were made upon her majesty's life
On June 10, 1910, Edward Oxford fired two
shots at the queen US she and the prince were
driving up Constitution hill, narrowly missing
them The excitement was, OF course great;
but the jury finally decided that Oxford was OF
unsound mind-a fact on which medlca! men
differed widely. Then strange thing hap
pened Oxford himself said that the lenicncy
shown him was mistake-"some other man
will try it now," he said-and on May 30,
1912, ono John Francis fired once Mt the
queen OH the same spot on Constitution hill.
"Aha," said Oxford when told Of it i'll the
asylum, 'if they had hanged me there would
have been no more shooting at the queen"
Francis put on tho nirs of II nadinaI or
bravo, but when sentence was pronounced,
of death for high treason, he fell IN Il swoon
Of mortal terror.
Her majesty committed the sentence to i'm
prisonment for life, and on the very day this
Communication was published in tho papers Il
hunchbacked boy named Eean made an at
tempt to shoot the queen but as he presented
the pistol a courageous boy seized his hand
and held on till both were dragged down. 1t
was found that Beams pistol was loaded only
with paper and fragments Of pipe; the
privy council decided that it was the best
policy to treat his act as that of Il silly,
drunken boy, so he was publicly whipped and
sentenced to eighteen months labor i'll the
Miltank penitentiary.
Both the queen and the prince insisted that
vindictive punishment never had made mon
archs more secure, and the prince added that
an oifense to the feelings of the common peo-
pie would be n thousand times more danger
Gus than the lunacy of nll tho madmen at
large. A sort Of epidemic seemed to set in,
and many persons wcro suspected OF evil de-
signs as they attempted to force their way to
the 1Oy0l CstrThSe. On Luo saIic n4!i 1uAJ
10, 1s49, an Irish laborer named Hamilton
fred pistol, charged with powder only, at
the queen, for which he received seven years
| transportation. On the eth of May, 1850,
| Robert Pate, IL lieutenant who had lost his
commission, struck the queen violently ncross
the face with cane as she was entering her
carriage He also was transported for seven
| years and died IN imbecile.
Many years Of exemption passed, and on
the Goth Of February, 1872, Arthur O'Connor.
aged II, pointed at her majesty pistol
which proved to be unloaded, at the same
1 time holding up in his other hand n petition
for the release of the Fenian prisoners. He
was severely whipped and imprisoned for
| year. And thus ended this remarkable and
altogether une1plainable series Of ontrages
/ Just before midnight of Dec. "A, 1851, Lon
don was surprised by the tolling of the great
bells of st. Paul.s, and it was soon known
that the prince consort had died at ten min
ntes before u. in the presence Of the queen,