The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-15

| was seized upon by Mrs, Browning for one of her most beautiful poems, She | Wept to Wear Crown" and her maj esty has ever since been a warm ad- mirer of the writings of this poet. Six ty years later, at the jubilee last year, the queen sobbed before thousands of her subjects. Another notable occasion was at the funeral of Prince Henry of Battenberg. As the burial service was | being recited Britain's monarch was seen to be crying piteously.
 | One will never forget the universal lamentation aroused by the ath of the Duke of Clarence. When the end came the Princess of Wales, who had throughout her sons illness watched him with the greatest devotion, utterly collapsed, and cried for some time as though her heart would break. A few days later, as the funeral procession | left Sandringham for the railway sta- l ton, followed on foot by the Prince of Wales, it was impossible to hide his | grief, and the heir apparent was forced | to find relief in copious tears. The Duke of Saxe~ Coburg Gotha has also been seen to cry in public. In April, | 1896, while the marriage ceremony of 1 his daughter was in progress his royal highness was observed to be weeping
 MT. Gladstone during the delivery of | one of his great orations concerning | the Bulgarian atrocities was so carried away by his feeling that tears coursed down his cheeks, and the flow of his | eloquence was arrested for a few min- | utes, so that he migh recover his con- posture. The Grand Old Mans great rival, Lord Salisbury too has been known to play the woman" The tragic death of the Earls of Iddesleigh will not easily fade from one's memory. When Lord Salisbury knew that his old friend the earl had expired, after ascending the stairs of the foreign of flee, he was so overcome that for Q time he sobbed bitterly.
 Thirty years ago the Earl of Hals- bury (then plain Hardinge Gaffard) was defending ex-Governor Eyre con- corning the massacres that had occur ed in Jamaica. Having depicted Eyre protecting the people from outrages, MT. Gaffard asked passionately wheth- CT for so doing his client was to be done to death by persecution. Good God" he exclaimed, Ifs this justice?" and wound up his apostrophe by bursting into tears Then the court adjourned for luncheon
 When the present lord chief justice was known to fame as Sir Charles Rus sell he on many occasions by the stir ring force of his eloquence made judges weep and bathed iuries in salt tears He has himself, too, more than once, been so enthusiastic in his clients be- half that the fioodgates of his eyes have been opened. At the historic trial known as the Parnell commission so moved was he during the delivery of his speech in defense of MT. Parnell that he wept for some moments, while many of the onlookers had damp eye lids.
 Professor Herkomer, R. A., tells in one of his lectures that his well known picture, "Chelsea Pensioners in Church." was painted against the ad- vice of all his friends, but he complet- ed it and sent it to the Royal Academy What expectation, what anxiety and fears were in that act, How he wait l Gu! lWO lGtLGt5, IGSpttllully ny iStIS IT. ton and Richmond R. A, brought news that the judges on seeing the work clapped their hands. Herkomer at the time was at a sick bed and as he read he fell on his knees and wept.
 When that brave man Dr. Jameson realized at the battle which put the climax to his famous raid that he had failed in his mission and was compell- ed to surrender he burst into tears and cried for some time like a child. But it was not through fear for his own safety, but owing to the thought that his failure might place his coun- trymen in jeopardy.
 Rossini on being asked how he liked Paganinis playing, said he had only wept three times in his life: First, on the failure of his earliest opera; second ly, when in a boat with some friends a turkey stuffed with trufI1es, which had been provided for their dinner, fell overheard and was lost; thirdly, on hearing for the first time Paganinfs divine performance on his beloved vio- lin.
 Lord Eldon when attorney general was in the habit of closing his speeches with some remarks justifying his own character. At the trial of Horne Tooke speaking of his own reputation, he said: ''It is the little inheritance have to leave my children, and, by Gods S help, I will leave it unimpaired" Here he shed tears, and to the astonishment