The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-04

petition on behalf of the Fenian pris-
| oners. He was given twelve months
| imprisonment and a whipping.
None Of these attempts had any po-
| litical significance and were in nearly
every case the result Of q crazy desire
| for notoriety.
AFFAIRS OF STATE
AS Justin Mccarthy farily states in
his History Of Our Own Times" 1.-THE
sovereign Is always supposed to UNDER
stand the business of the state, to con-
slider its affairs. and to offer an opinion,
and enforce it by argument, on any
question submitted by the minister's.
When the ministers find that they cam
not allow their judgment to bend to that
OF their sovereign, then indeed the SOW
ereign gives way or the ministers re-
sign. In all ordinary cases the SOW
ereign gives way" Queen Victoria,
while carefully adhering to the consti-
tuition, has never allowed herself to be-
| come In any sense a mere figurehead.
One Of her first acts after the resigna-
tiOn Of Lord Melbourne as prime min
lister, when she sent for Sir Robert Peel,
was to tell him that she was sorry to
have to part with her late ministers, Of
whose conduct she entirely approved,
but that she was bound to constitu-
tional usage"
| The memorandum which she caused
Lord John Russell to convey to Lord
Palmerston in 1850 shows that she
| thoroughly understood her rights as
well as her obligations. Lord Palmer
ston had acquired a habit OF dealing
with foreign courts according to what
seemed best to him at the moment, and
his sovereign and his colleagues often
only knew OF some important dispatch
or instruction when the thing was done,
and could not be conveniently or be-
comingly undone," a habit of which the
| queen had several times complained.
Her majesty. in her memorandum, in
timated in plain terms that she wished
to know before hand what he proposed
to do in a given case that she might
know as distinctly to what she had
| given her royal sanction. She further
intimated that once given her sanction
to measure. any arbitrary alteration
or modification of it by the minister
would be considered as failure in sim
cerity towards the crown, justly to be
visited by the exercise Of her constitu-
tional right Of dismissing that minis
ter.
ANECDOTES.
Many anecdotes are told, showing
that though punctilious in matters of
ceremony and careful to exact the re-
spect due to her exalted position, she
is above all an honest loving woman
of simple but refined tastes, Prior to
her marriage the archbishop of Can
terbury asked her whether il would he
desirable to omit the word "obey" from
the Maria pe service and she answered.
"T wish IN he narr,sd .s a 1vornan not
as a oueen
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