Show QUEEN VICTORIA THE announcement comes that queen victoria on the occasion of her jubilee will formally proclaim the liberation of all prisoners of the army and navy who have been convicted of minor offenses off anses this is an indication of that political generosity which has ever characterized her britannic majesty though that she can be stern and unyielding if necessary has been evinced on too many occasions to need comment at this time she has been an undisturbed occupant of the british throne tor for fifty years and during that time has witnessed such transformations in the national affairs of mankind as have made the nineteenth the most eventful of ef the centuries save only the first receiving the crown ss than a generation after the second attempt of her government to coerce its american offspring into subjection to the royal swa so and knowing all of the history of I 1 both struggles LM lea for liberty she has VT profited b felted by tile the past and recognized as one of the foremost powers of the earth separate and independent the former colonies of her empire on this side of the atlantic that she has been over swayed at times and induced to give her consent to measures which her counselors were determined upon is a mpa matter ater of history but it is at least a fair presumption that her heart and her J judgment ud ament were both in conflict with her action and that not only herself but her family entertain the warmest of feelings for the offspring beyond the sea I 1 it t is customary among these who are uniformed to attribute all the abuses of power the fostering of ariato aristocracy to cracy the condition of the toiling masses and the wretched manner in which ireland has been beba systematically dealt with to the head of the british government nothing could be further farther from the possible and the probable facts she is only the head of the nation by hereditary lighther right her presence and her title being merely the cement which binds the governmental fabric together the term aher her majesty is more a symbol denoting the survival of ef a traditional and deeply rooted system than a term implying power for while her assent is necessary to t all measures which become operative the act is nearly always ll 11 the registered decree of her ministry this must be of necessity from the fact that an infant or a lunatic might be the king or queen and the burdens of 0 state would fall then exactly where they fall now so that abuses at home or abroad need not be charged to victorias account the example which she sets as a mother her deportment as a woman her dignity as a public pub lie ligure figure and her amiability as a sovereign being the features of her clife which most command attention and concerning which alone criticism can properly be used in all these respects ape arenas has been if not beyond reproach as nearly so as any one surrounded by such voluminous circumstances and confronted with such vast consequences could be and remain human that is why the civilized world do hr her personal homage and why many who abhor the system of which she is the english representative unite in payi paying proper respect to herself on the ly fiftieth anni anniversary verry of f her reign |