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1 6 Of all the are? Ight?, Brtilt'ain ra' -_- To _ we _ concerned tir ng " a es 's re r',?,?1tlllb'r," , I not ore was instign ted by her desire to To King Edward, by hereditary ' deepoil any other Sovereign of his law- right ascends the throne of his an- g fut rights for the purpose ot extending oestors. we offer our condolence. Our the boundaries of her own empire. More loss is great. but his is greater. He [' than this. when public opinion was in- bears an honored name and succeeds to flamed, as it had been on more than one a thousand years of sovereignty and , occasion. by the ill-advised encroach- ireedom. Long live King Edward! ment of some foreign power upon her God save the King! May his reign add rights and dignity as a Sovereign. and to the lustre of the house of Hanover, . when her Ministers were disposed to re- ) and to the security of the thronewhich' "ent such encroachment in language Parliament has declared he shall oc-l 'cnlculated to kindle into a flame the cupy. May his coming to the throne! lbasest passions ofthe human heart, her bring peace to the nation, prosperity) ivoice more than once calmed the tu- to his Canadian subjects, and a large!" mutt, and her diplomacy more than measure of freedom and religious litrer-l once averted the carnage. and horror ty to the whole world. of war. This was notably the case dur- ing the American rebellion, when sugar Her Influence for Good. ' c stQe'eiu','l, biggiuggfs Jhth,eat,t,""lthf, Mr. Whitney. in rising to second the; smallest spark might have started thel resolution, said :-For reasons whichI most terrible conttagration. And as a: "18885! themeelves to all here, it is ai result of her oft-expressed desire tor" very dimcult task t.hat any person has peace, to which the world has often to face in attempting to deal with a. ' listened as intently as the prophet to subject so great as the subdect of this the sell small voice at Horeh, her peo- motion. While there are many other F; pie were able to devote themselves to .l'easons for this conclusion ot mine. - the arts of peace; villages grew Into 'one reason perhaps more than another cities: her commerce spread from zone Will suggest Itself to the minds of hon. to Bone. until it compnssed the gentlemen, namely, that the. question is 1 whole globe: her enterprising Lin itself so vast, so wide and so far- - "ons and daughters went forth to con- ",,teachirur that it seems beyond-at any ,quer the world for civilization' irate at the present time--the power of 77 and the empire; literature took its human nature to deal at all with any- 'place as one of the great moral forces; thing more than the surface or fringe .of the age. and religion itself assumed of the question now under our consider- ,a more Christ-like aspect. What a ation. It is difficult to realize the et- I noble reign'. tre of {no lt; of the work and acts of i ' ucen - ctor a, both upon her subjects The Curtain Drttoa. and upon the nations of the world at Can the imagination supply anything large. Her influence. as we all know. to intensify the reality? A girl Queen Ens we are glad to know, proud to be at eighteen years of age takes up the able to say, her influcnce was always sceptre of royalty amid the doubts and for good. It was always for good from fears of many of her subjects. and at the time when yet a child knowledge the age of four-score yours lay» it [was brought to her that at no distant down amid the sighs and tears of 390,- day the sceptre of Great Britain and (100.000 people. A girl Queen seconds Ireland would be placed in her hands. the throne at eighteen years of age to 'and she then declared her intention in be the plaything of couriiers and lilliili- the future years to be good. Now. sir. cal intriguers. at least so it was ex- she was a constitutional Sovereign, as ported. At the close of her career it far as her public capacity was con- was found that in the presence of the cerned, she was a constitutional Sov- oblest statesman her Judgment was not ereign above everything else. By force easily shaken nor her sagucity often at f, 1e,,'iaht,,tr, and by force of her quali- fault. Worth was she tn receive the cat on or the position which she held reverence of "if people and the homage ctlt exercised indeed a far greater of the world. No arch of tiiunipii that ir??" er and influence than any absolute human hands could erect would be too, Monarch could have exercised, and by Brand as a memorial of her life. no .virtue of the same authority she mausoleum, no matter' how oorstly m. i brought the neighboring nations of peo- how adorned. would worthily retain pie under the spell of her influence, so her ashes. Witlt saddened hearts we that unconsciously, very often, it may 'drop the curtain as we exclnim: "Best be. the action of other nations besides of women and noblest of Sovereigns. her own, the action of the world it- 'hy reign is over, but the beauty of self as a community of nations, we thy womanhood and the majesty of thy may easily conclude was influenced to power will never Pas', away. The mew a greater or less degree by Queen Vic- tie of royalty may have fallen from thy ,toria. and her wisdom was brought to hand, but to the end of time thy spirit bear upon the consideration of public "mud speak to the world of the tran- Iqucstions. scen ent splendor and glory of thy , . . reign. British history is richer that . Love and Reverence. thou hast lived. and British soil more , However, sir, besides the reasons I sacred because it holds in trust. till have given, there is another. We are time shall be no more, all that is mot'- ltoo near to her reign, we are too near tal of the Queen her subjects loved so (the Victorian era to be able to give a well, and whom all the nations rcvr-r- fin" and complete description or con- l enced for the many virtues which mention. indeed. of the intluv.nce and ef- ladorned her blameless life." "ect upon humanity of the life Iand work rnd reign of Queen iVictoria. whom we all lament. Years hence, perhaps, after another genera- :tion shall have passed away, when the