Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-22

enemy it found in Prince Albert a friend, and in this friendship the queen acuuiesced. Abraham Lincoln was giving up Mason and Slidell at the savage demand of England, when De- cember 14. 1861, on the midnight air of London the great bell of St Paufs tolled the passing away of the good prince consort, who had counseled peace and tomorrow against the irate demands of Palmerston on Amer ica. the last advice of the good prince to his queens subjects. He died lov- ingly looking at his sovereign.
 Four attempts have been made on the life of Queen Victoria. and al- though the would-be assassins were caught. no one of them suffered death
 During Victoria s reign England has made war upon q surprisingly large number of puny governments and has barely avoided war twice with Amer ica and once with Russia. As the queen grew old she was prudent counsellor for peace with great nal tions Her extraordinary value to the nation as an exemplary daughter mother and wife gave to her an au- thority which the English with felicity and justice bestow only on the good. Democrat and aristocrat alike consider such results to be of greater 1mpor- lance than mere written forms of gov ernment. She will rank with Isabella and Maria Theresa as q chaSte anu pure minded monarch and she relgned nearly as long as both of them.
 Notwithstanding the fact that during the reign of Queen Victoria the power of the .sclasses'' has been slowly shp- ping away and the rule of the mass est increasing by insensible degrees. when she celebrated her diamond Ju- bi1ee was the best seated o1 all the monarchs. She reigned in the British heart.
 In admiring Victoria We must pass hy the fact that she was no friend Of dp1nocratic rule and as the most llh- nnrraut canonS of our government. afrar all. operate within the walls or our own homes, We have i'll the pow erful Victoria moral mentor, eNeih- plar. uplifter such as must eXalt tlle world. At the capital of manklhu' where wealth has made it's largest pursa. where temptation to waste ana dissipation has whispered Its sol'esa words there for the greater portion "l 100 years. only rhe moral man ana woman have received the royal appro patton. People are. less savage anu more Just DeCiuSc iNtoti@i --~-''
 Queen Nictoria's prime ministers were ten in number, as follows:
 Lord Melbourn. 1S3I-lS4l.
 Sir Robert Peel. lS41-1S4G
 Iord John Russell (twicey lS4G-lSo2, lS65
 Earl of Derby Chree times) 1852, 1858, lS66-1S6S.
 
 Lord Palmerston (twice lSoo-lSoS, lS59-lSGJ.
 Benjamin Disraeii. Lord Beacons- field twice. lSG3-l SGG. 1Sl4-1SSo.
 William Ewart Gladstone -four times) 1S6S-1ST4, 1SSU-lSSo, 1SoG, 1S92- 1SJ4.
 Marquis of Salisbury (three times) 1885. 1SSG-lS92, 1S9o-l9Ol.
 Earl of Rosebery. lS94-lS9o.
 It need scarcely be said that among these some were marked out for more special favor by the queen than others. When Sir Robert Peel came into office the .bedcha mber incident threatened q serious difference. as the young mon arch strongly resisted the attempt to remove from her household the ladies whom she had become attached from tlelF peISDuil uljCil liei Her journals. however, show that she fully recognized the commanding abll- ity of the statesman WHO subsequent ly carried the repeal of the corn laws Again, with Lord PalInerston, there were frequent collisions, as on his di- rection of foreign affairs she found it necessary to insist that he should sub-
 init his dispatches to her consideration
 Mir Gladstone's policy may have ire quently diverged from the line which seemed conSOnant With the interests of the corn. Queen Victoria. however, always accepted the verdict of the gen. erai elections, and her personal prefer enceS were never allowed to intrude in- to the domain of her responsible du- | ties. Mr Disracli made her Empress of India and Lord Salisbury, premier through eleven years Of the last period of her reign ill the court of which two jubilee celebrations crowned the achievements of the Victorian regime. stood toward her much in the position ! or Lord Burlaigh to Elizabeth Yet the public marks of gratitude did not go beyond private visits to Highlander Manor and Hatfield house, and sig | nitjcant sentences in the otherwise strictly formal court circular. It is the custom of the leader oT the l house of coInmons each night to dis patch an autograph account of the | proceedings to the sovereign. These. | if ever they see the light. must be of l great interest as showing the relations l between the leaders of political parties | and Queen Victoria. But. indeed, the | queens private correspondence Will 1 disclose the inner history of the age, I particularly at the courts of Europe, as | can no other sources of information. Some conception of the growth of the British empire nader Queen Vic | toria may be formed from the follow | ing. In addition. it must be remem- l bered that in 1857 the Indian territory, even Indirectly under British sway