Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-30

ing all the old familiar faces gradually
disappear, and become replaced by new
ones. in spite of all the honor, all the
glory. even all that still remains to her,
one inyOluntarily feels pity and sympathy
for her burden of lonely state. -Four
ladies survive, older than the queen hel-
self, who were present at the coronation.
one of these being Mrs. Gladstone: one
of her bridesmaids. Lady Foley. has just
twelve fair girls who attended her majesty
at her marriage February II. 1915. remains.
the Duchess of Clevelands, Lord Rose
beIy'S mother.
men has this Victorian era Seen-thc Duke
Of Wellington. Sir Robert Peel. Lord John
Russell. Lord Palmerston. the Earl of
Derby. John Bright. and last. but not least
in the diplomatic world. Benjamin d Is
raeli. Earl of Beaconstield. Among the au-
thors. artists and inventors whose names
AVE enhanced the fame and glory of En-
gland during these sixty years. let me re-
call to you Wordsworth, Thomas Moore.
TennySon. Browning, Sheridan knowles,
Thackcray. Lord Lytton. Thomas Carlyle.
Charles Dickens, Professor Huxley. Oar
win. Ruskin., George Eliot; Lord Macaulay,
SIR Frederick Leighton. ,Millais. Dore. j.
NJ. w. Turner, Sir Edwin Landseer. Sir Da-
yid Wilkie. George Stevenson. Sir Joseph
Paxton, and the great explorer. David Liv-
iHgstonc.
OF the events Of the reign. it is impos-
Slble to give even a short synopsis they are
50 manifold and varied. / Will only men
ton the chief. beginning with the repeal
of the corn laws in 1916. trough which the
cause OF free trade uiumphed, the railway
mania, lS4I: the great exhibition Ghc idea
originated by the prince COusOrO Of the
industry. of all nations. held in the build
ing designed by the genius of Sir Joscpn
Paxton. and built entirely of glass and
iron. in ISL: this eSCutCheon gave an i'm
TulSe TO every branch of art and manu-
faCtuTe. and drew brighter men of every
complexion, costume and national char
aCteT. the CrimeIn war. 1850. the Indian
mutiny. 1857: the terrible cotton famine.
1862: the laying of the Atlantic cable, IS56;
the the Fenian riots the same year. proc
lamation of the Dominion of Canada. 1867:
the first Abyssinian war under Sir Robert.
now Lord Napier, in 1865, the strike of
60.O00 Welsh coal miners, 1870. when the
price of coal went up to y ShillingS Sl1
a ton: diseStabliShment Of the Irish church
1871: Ashantee war. leader. Sir Garnet.
now Lord Wolseley, 1874: purchase of nine
%twentieths of the shares Of the Suez canal
for E4.O00.COl. in 1870; proclamation of the
queen as empress of India, 1s76: the Zulu
and African wars. 'T1-'Sl; the reign of ter
ror in ireland. 1852. and the Parnell troubles
and fight for home rule. then the golden
mbilee in 1851. In other countries how
differently has time dealt with the govern
ment,
France has been n kingdom. a republic
an empire and now Is again a republic.
small Kingdoms and petty principalities,
became. under William l., king OF Prus-
STA. an empire, and after the United King
dom. the mightieSt European nation. Spain
has had four rulers. Sweden. four: Russia.
four; Italy, three popes, and Austria two
emperors. The present emperor. Francis
Joseph. ascended to the throne in 1S4S, thus
reigninE forty-nine years.
The phenomenally long reign Of Queen