New-York tribune., 1900-03-11
THE QUEENS BUSY WEEK.
HER HOLD on THE AFFECTIONS OF HER
SUBJECTS
Copyright 1900: by The New-Yori1 Tribune
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GBY TRIBUSE.l
London, March 10-At the moment when
Lord Roberts is the hero of a grateful nation
and a proud empire, a little gray haired lady
in black, peering through her spectacles. has
come TO London and with simplicity and gentle
grace has proved anew that she has rival IN
the affections of her subjects. For three days
this sombre murky capital has been in a joyous
and rollicking mood. Decorations have been
meegre and inartistic although the streets have
been frightened by CLEANS of color and the
iiiuminations at night have been unworthy of a
great capital in time of victory; but hour after
hour and far into the night men. women and
children have been waving flags, dense crowds
have sung God Save the Queenr' and Rule
Britannia" under the windows of Buckingham
Palace and in the leading thoroughfares. and
the Sovereign. she has driven by in her sira=
pie barouche, has been hailed with acclama-
tions of affection and honor. The excitement of
the Jubilee has been lacking, and holiday re-
joicing has been hastily improvised but it has
been real and earnest; there has been a homely
outpouring of good nature and joy over vic
tory, and running through 1t has been the
solemn refrain of the national anthem sung at
street corners and in Hyde Park, and echoing
long after midnight through Piccadilly and the
Strand
Never during her reign has the Queens Eng
lish instinct been more subtle than it has been
this week Her abandonment of her Italian
journey and her visit to London in the hour of
English triumph are among the most popular
acts Of her reign, and equally effective is her
Irish policy. Messrs. Redmond, OConnor and
other Nationalists are emphatic in declaring
that there must be politics in her projected
visit TO Dublin, and there will be none in the
strict sense of the word; but with the art that
conceals art there is a touch of Cancellation and
@1,x-s
summons Of the Irish bugIer boy to Windsor,
was continued with the special messages to the
Irish troops in Natal and the orders for the
wearing Of the green on st. Patrick's Day and
is leading up to the Queens journey to Dublin
as the womanly well the queenly method
of thanking the people of the island for the
bravery of its soldiers.
The Queen has been full Of tact as Lord
Roberts himself and in her own unaffected
way, with woman's wit, she is imparting reality
TO the union Of hearts after the phrase has be-
come gibe and mock of politics. While she
disarms the most suspicious Celt by her mis-
sion of gratitude and sympathy, she does not
forget Ulster for she will go from Dublin to
Belfast lay the foundation stone of the Royal
Victoria Hospital.
The Queens visit 10 London. which has ended
this afternoon, after a review of 2OOO Guards
men, with final outburst of loyal devotion
along the route to Paddington Station, has
warmed the heart of every tradesman; it has
been the promise of life to the London sea son.
which shopkeepers and house agents had given
up hopeless. 1t the sign Of reaction
against the depression which had clouded the
West End since October and was threatening
to interrupt the spring gayety. The society jour
nals had announced that Lord Roberts had
saved the situation, so far the season was
concerned and that the smart sets were already
assuming that the war virtually at an
end: that mothers with marriageabe daughters
would have chance of exhibiting them in May;
but the tradesmen needed assurance from
Court that London would be gay ever at
the appointed time of state and social functions
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