The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-17

tassWT hF~,sshf fs.ss e-tessrsss eb~ssiv
f~sssss sf~@s - ~ p.ss whssh tsa
isssf . rst~y ~sues Nv pNst ~ arssvssss~sss
f~sssstis. s~f y gw~ssss~ n ass sssxr~
'ire 49, snss~n .s~tusrss fsss @vrfr 81
psssh ~ iu~e~sssss~ ss~sef N~ssss y A~n
no F~,s,ss ftNse ~ sstpr,ss-st 80 ~
stNfrvsf fkss aNslwu-1v ws~ . ssyeea
staw ~ $40 stsifssss r-nsissstnsst aptriew
fee esssy rsss ~ w rssss ~ Oses"s
~ sS" ga lneg,.sss ~ shtSs 49, No
%ss 80 sssss
shsls th~ s,,i~r a rnsl-rsi se pier'e'
y Vsns~sg fseyS go s,e~s lsp~sfies sfisr
Nv 40 s~-rtfss~ - rsrs~Nst lvssTrss
Nv ~ = vaflw~rtsi s,tstssts~ hFs Fsstst
nss-'v ~ Or~ss ayssssr ~ avrsss
r~tssl~~ ssh 80 O~yussr ssrst~ss sss
i~Fewssst~s W. ~ asle lss stsn .
s-aNsr s~ers~t ~ Rg,,l.N fNrrr~
ne es~tslv tr~Nsl~~a h~~rveF - fN~
h,s,.~ n Rrvu~w~t ssgviSrf no gr~
i-st fsy lhrm s~d usy~en Vtrtnefss
sthe.1rr ~ th-m ihswteh she az ~ col
sr~ssh sHh a~fer~~',sl N'r'ssers HA~
tnri WVtar' vs. s-st t~rs f1Nawt
her,sk' h-r lr,o sharp crll,s'-r ~Hh ne
a~vr~'ssv fof gr.~swn Nsses shsw No
latter haut~r~d tn No . man ~ s'usdv
snd ints,~nt-n' rhsrsrter " vii No
80 wils-i. f~r ,ns,snc~ that ~,ho'f' cur-
s,,',ns NO Vp~~n ioed rsLssRsfos
in-,rrrt~i tho british ,mhes@at-r "
rnri. w r~,osn,ss tho t.ov~vnmer' ~
iOtis Nsro,soN snor after n cosp
sS'si ~ ihs -rni,er > issi, Tor ~h,-h
at 10 was .ic,t~i summsriiv frrm tho
RtI..ril Ministry 10 hrr dt-~umhtur~.
however. P,LssRsruN made h,marlf
insii- ~n.abl- ~ tho Wings and Liberals
~ the Ho,.@~ ~ Commona. and ~hen,
during tho Crinesn var. the Aberdeen
Jsbinet was upset. h- returned and h~i
u be understood distinctly st Windsor
that the Queen. ar rather her consort. of
whom she was believed ~ be tho mouth
piece. must leave the management ~
fnglands foreign Affairs to the Minister
RESPONSIBLE for the national welfare To
Parliament, and the electorate. That
was a crisis in the life ~ the Husband
Of n Queen, and ,hrnceforward for the
most part Primo. At.sERr withdrew into
the background.
II was hard, however. for Queen VIC.
ToRIA Ia outgrow the tendency con-
tracted partly from her grandfather
example and partly from her ~Consorts
iniunctions, and on more than n sub
sequent occasion the effect Of her per-
sonal interposition can be traced. Nor
can il be denied that twice her influence
was exerted in a laudable way. II was,
a. we all know. in compliance with her
peremptory order that at the time Of the
Trent affair Earl RUSSELL toned down
the despatch in which he exacted Of Sec
Rotary SEWARD the immediate release OF
the Confederate Commissioners. MASON
and SLlDELL. Had that despatch
reached u State Department in the
form which il originally bore a just sense
Of our national dignity would have on
strained the Secretary to resent it, and
the result would have been a war which
would have had incslculable conse-
auences. Certain il il that had England
at that juncture thrown her feet and her
financial u into the scale on be-
half of the Confederacy the Union could
not have been restored. nor could slav-
cry have been abolished. IL is there
fore undeniable that Queen VICTORIA
played a decisive. though for a while UNI
recognized, part in American history.
Both before and after the Crimeap wal
Queen VICTORIA showed her liking for
France, and the hour was to COM when
she would prove her sympathy for the
French people by an unforgetable SER
vice. In 1875 the military party in Prussia,
Of which Won MoLTKE was the head,
dismayed by the buOyancy with which
France recovered from the disasters Of
1901, and convinced that by the Peace
Of Frankfort they had only scotched the
snake, not killed it, seemed on the point
of displacing BISMARCK in the confidence
OF his master and Of persuading the
old Emperor WILLIAM to c%ountenance a
second invasion of France. Had such a
crime been perpetrated when the reor-
ganization of the French military system
was but. begun the victim would have
been fatally dismembered and despoiled.
That France still retains an honored
place in the circle of great Powers is due
largely, il not mainly, to the fact that
while Emperor WILLIAM was wavering
he received from Queen VICTORIA
whose daughter, it will be remembered,
was married to his SOM the Crown Prince
FREDERICK letter in which she adj
jured him not to consign his name to
infamy as the dealer Of death blow to
a country which had done so much for
civilization.
That memorable letter exists, but it
does not figure in the collection pub
lished yesterday in London.