The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-21

tons, which led to the removal from
the dispatch of everything which would
irritate proud and sensitive nation,
at the same time that II offered to
them an opportunity of receding hon
orably from the position In which they
had been placed by the indlscreet act
OF a too Jealous navy captain. The
dispatch was, in fact, remodelled upon
the lines indicated by the prince, its
language being little more than his
own cast into official form. other con-
siderations no doubt had their weight
In determining the decision of the
United States government. But they
would probably have failed to sway it
into compliance with the British de-
mands, for the temperate and concilia-
tory tone to which, thanks to the
prince the views Of the government had
been conveyed. Mr.. Seward told Lord
Lyons, before the copy of the dispatch
was placed in his hands, that every
thing depended upon the wording of it,
and begged as a personal favor, to be
allowed to read it before II was COM
municated to him officially. In COM
pliance with this request, 1t was sent
to him under a cover marked Private
and CONFIDENTIAL The effect was in
Simultaneous. Almost Immediately af-
terwards,' Lord Lyons says in private
dispatch to Lord John Russell Dec.
10, 1861, he came here. He told me he
was pleased to find that the dispatch
was courteous and friendly-not die
tatorial nor menacing.'
THE rest is known. Mr.. Stewards
dispatch reached London Jan. 8, 1862,
and was communicated the same day
to the Queen, who was then at Os-
borne. In her reply Her Majesty said:
Lord Palmerston cannot but look on
this peaceful issue of the American
quarrel as greatly owing to her be-
loved prince, who wrote the observa-
tions upon the draft to Lord Lyons, in
which Lord Palmerston so entirely con-
Cured"
1t was the last thing he ever wrote.
The Prince Consort died on the night
of Saturday, the 14th of December.
OTHER INSTANCES.
Nor was this the only occasion during
the civil war on which Queen Victoria
displayed her warm feelings of friend
ship towards the United States, and 1t
was solely owing to her unseen but
potent influence that the English ma
Southern partisanship in a too often
sive manner
When Lincoln was struck down by
the assassin's hand hers was the first
message of sympathy and sorrow
which reached the country from
Europe, the coincidence being addressed
from "a widow to a widow"
Her womanly sympathy was express
nh IN eli, Ito,
Garfield was laid low, and on the oc-
casion of President Cleveland's mar
riage her congratulations were among
the first to reach the bride.
1t may also be remembered that In
writing the autograph letter in re-
sponse to President Buchanan's invit-
alton to the Prince of Wales to visit
Washington in 1860 she expressed her
pleasure at the Prince of Wales being
able to testify in person the warm
feelings of respect entertained by the
English royal family "for the chief
magistrate of a great and friendly
state and kindred nation"
AN EVENTFUL REIGN.
The following is a brief mention OF
some of the principal events of Queen
Victoria's reign: Her coronation took
place June 2S, 1888, and a few months
later the war was begun with China,
which ended with the opening up of the
Celestial Empire to foreign trade. In
1910 Rowland Hdlrs penny postage sys-
tenn was inaugurated. The same year
witnessed her marriage with Prince AL
bert of Sake -Coburg- -Gotha, her first
cousin, who was naturalized prior to
union
Majesty's life was made a few months
afterwards by William Oxford. The
Prince of Wales was born in the follow
ing year. 1S41. In 1S45 Sir Robert Peers
income tax and new commercial tariff
came into force, by which some 100 ar
ticles of merchandise were freed of i'm
port duty. In 1916 the Corn laws were
repealed and bread placed within the
reach of the poor. The first great in
ternational exhibition was opened in
1851 by Her Majesty with great pomp
and ceremony
IN 1854 war was declared against Rus
sia which ended in the fall of Sebas-
topol in 1855. Hardly had peace been
proclaimed when war was declared with
Persia and again with China, while u
year later the great Indian mutiny
'A"rNN Oue' ohS VI lHe SIedleSI CdldInl-
ties of her reign. AS soon as it had been
quelled the charter by which the East
India Trading company had held the
great Asiatic dependency for over two
centuries, was cancelled, and India then
became an integral portion of the
British Empire, under the direct rule Of
the Crown. In 1851 the difficulty about
the Trent affair was on the eve of
bringing on war between the United
States and Great Britain, but the ca
lamity was aVerted by the personal in
tervention of the Queen. In December,
1861, the Prince Consort died of typhoid
fever
In 1879 the Zulu war occupied the pub
lie mind and developed into a series of
conflicts in South Africa, in one of
which the Prince Imperial Of France
was killed in ambush by the natives.
In 1882 the Egyptian campaign was be-
gun, involving the occupation of the
Nile Delta by the British troops. The
year 1886 added Burmah to the Queens
dominions.
The Queen has outlived most of the
notable statesmen and prominent men
OF her reign. Among their number may
be mentioned Sir Robert Peel, the Duke
of Wellington, Lord Derby, Lord Pal
merston, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Aber-
deem, Lord Clarendon, Lord John Rus
sell, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Lind
hurst, Charles Dickens, Thackeray,
Faraday, Darwin, Golden and host of
OthprS