The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and SATURDAY MORNING. Saturday, June 18, 1887. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 5, 18 June 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and SATURDAY MORNING.

Saturday, June 18, 1887. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Bo just and fear not; Lot all the ends thou aim’ot at be thy couutiy’s Thy God’s, and truth’s. ’

May you rule us long, And leave us rulers oi your blood Ab noble till the latest day I May children of our children say, “ She brought her people lasting good, "Her Court was pure; her life serene, God gave her peaee, her land repose, A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen." —Tennyson, On Monday [next, June 20th, the loyal subjects of Her Majesty Queen Victoria wi!' lebrate the Jubilee of her great aml.-l ious reign. There [has been a great i dof nonsense talked and done about the celebration, but the silly snobbery of interested tufthunters, and all the well meaning but stupid extravagance which has aroused the scorn of sensible people is not a sufficient reason for arguing that the Jubilee shall not be celebrated or that the Jubilee is not a fitting subject for congratulatory wishes. There has been a lot of nonsense talked. We know that, but still we believe that the hearts of the people are loyal to the core. We may laugh at the pettyfogging puerilities of men who want to get Knighthoods and other anti-demo-cratic honours, we may sneer at the town which erects a Jubilee pump or the huckster who deals forth Jubilee shoestrings or Jubilee matches, but for Heaven's sake, do not let us imagine that the 50th Anniversary of our Queen’s accession to the Throne should be passed by unnoticed and unhonoured. Faults she has many. Love of seclusion, an unwarrantable interference in public affairs, patronage of petty German princelets, and mild parsimony may all be charged against her, but look at the contra side of the account. A good and virtuous woman, a sorrowful widow herself, sorrowing for the nation’s widows whenever any great calamity occurs, fifty years of a reign unparalleled in the history of mankind for peace, plenty and progress, a nation loyal contented and happy. Surely these are mercies we should be thankful for. What a wonderful array of events and personages have passed since the all eventful morning of June 20th, 1837, when the youthful Princess Victoria was awakened by her attendants and informed that to her was to belong in future the sceptre of sway over the great and glorious British Empire. In his “ History of our own times" Mr Justin McCarthy says The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Howley and the Lord Chamberlain, the Marquis of Conyngham, left Windsor for Kensington Palace, where the Princess Victoria had been residing, to inform her of the King’s death It was two hours after midnight when they started, and they did not reach Kensington until five o'clock in the morning. They knocked, they rang, they thumped for a considerable time before they could rouse the porter at the gate ; they were again kept waiting in the courtyard, then turned into one of the lower rooms, where they seemed forgotten by everybody. They rang the bell, and desired that the attendant of the Princes s Victoria might be sent to inform her Boyai Highness that they requested an audience on business of importance. After another delay, and another ringing to inquire the cause, the attendant was summoned, who stated that the Princess was in such a sweet sleep that sue could not venture to disturb her. Then they said, " We are come on business of State to the Queen, and even her sleep must give way to that," It did; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her !■ -s, her feet in slippers, tears in her '■ d perfectly collected and dignified. 1 " '« Minister, Lord Melbourne, was pi-’v sent for, and a meeting of the Privy Coiphul summoned for 11 o'clock, when the Lord Chancellor administered the usual oaths to the Queen, and Her Majesty received in return the oaths of allegiance of the Cabinet Ministers and other privy councillors present. Married early in life to a man of singular personal merits and capacity the young Queen passed into matronhood, and all the cares of a family life were added to those which beset the wearer ofa crown. Troubles enough has she had, and bravely has she borne them—So well indeed that her conduct as loving wife and loving mother, is not among the least of the qualities which have endeared her to her subjects. Years of wars and tumults have passed away since 1837. Germany, Italy, Austria, France, nay, all the nations of Europe have been troubled by the grim spectre of revolt and anarchy, but England’s lot has been free from anything like organized and continuous disturbance. Great struggles have been participated in. The haughty Russian Nicholas was humbled in the Crimea, and the swarthy Hindoo taught to respect the British rule on the Ganges and the Indus. Gigantic tracts of territory have been added on to Her Majesty’s dominion and millions of additional subjects made to acknowledge her sway. Wars there have been many, alas too many. The South African Colony has been nearly doubled in size, Burmah added to the long list of Further Indian possessions, and Australia and New Zealand, Canada and other Colonies settled by an industrious and prosperous population. Great statesmen have worked for Queen and country. “ Men of mark ” like Peel and Russell, Aberdeen and Derby, Beaconsfield and Gladstone have poured forth their silvery eloquence in the Council Halls of the Queen’s land, whilst great authors like Thackeray, Scott, Dickens and Tennyson have contributed their quota to that long fameroll of English literature which counts so many illustrious names on its columns. Poor there are now, poor alas they always will be, but not a tithe of the poverty is there now of that which stood forth as a canker spot on Britain’s crown in 1837. Their dwellings have been improved, their food and clothing cheapened, and humanitarians have striven under Her Majesty’s special patronage to I ameliorate their sad condition,

Her Majesty will waken on Monday next, should she be permitted by the Almighty Ruler of the Universe to live so long, and find herself the Sovereign of the mightiest Empire on which 'the sun ever rose. Mistakes may have been made, unwise and even unjust things done in her name, but we question whether there exists the man who can truthfully say she is personally to blame. We shall ever be the staunch opponents of toadyism and extravagant adulations, to whom ever they may be offered j but for Her Majesty the Queen, we have nothing to say but sincere congratulations and the heartiest and most genuine loyalty, Let those who carp and sneer at Eng - lish royalty, its faults, and its cost, take facts to heart, study the Government and civic corruption of the States, the Imperial tyranny of Russia, the petty fogging paternal interference of the Conti" nental States with the liberty of the subject, let them grant that no one is unfallible, not even a Social Democrat critic, let them fairly admit that we should be grateful for the long and prosperous rule of our Queen, Listen to the words of the great hisorian, Lord Macaulay, the eloquent denouncer of slavery, the keen and unprejudiced critic—listen to what he says : "In Queen Victoria her subjects have found a wiser, gentler, happier Elizabeth. No former Monarch has so thoroughly comprehended the great truth, that the powers of the Crown are held in trust for the people, and are. the means and not the end of government. This enlightened policy has entitled Her to the glorious distinction of having been the most constitutional monarch this country has ever seen. Not less important and beneficial has been the example set by Her Majesty and the late Prince Consort in the practice of every domestic virtue. Their stainless lives, unobtrusive piety, and their careful education of their children, have borne rich fruit injthe stability of the Throne, and have obtained for the Royal Family of England the respect and admiration of the whole civilised world,” With that eloquent panegyric still echoing in our ears we say once more in conclusion, “ God save the Queen.”