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Ft QUEEN VICTORIA and HER CHILDREN O I)! r. .3 irj p J i i ,w tel M ill tj h v Im vIt 1 8 i ! M H 1 r T a mnr Established July , I85tt. VOL. XXV.. NO. 4C41. HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1897. l'KICE FIVE CENTS. served to change these conditions, was QUEEN VICTORIA an act which prohibited the employ- ment of women and girls in mines and SA , - collieries. It was owing to the efforts of Lord Ashley, later known as the Earl of Shaftesbury, that the attention 0 of Parliament was first called to the for Sixty Years She Has RnM subject, and a commission appointed to investigate. During his whole life- time the Earl of Shaftesbury devoted Over tie British Empire. ft his energies to benefiting the working class. He secured the passage of an 0 act reducing the hours of work for chil- 0 dren in the factories and extending the 0 0 number of hours during which they 0 0 should be under Instruction. CIVILIZATIOH HAS ADVANCED 0 0 Legislation favoring the working 0 0 0 class has continued during the Queen's 0 0 0 reign. Compulsory education met with, 0 0 0 opposition, because it was considered 0 0 0 that it interfered with individual 0 0 rights. The workingman possessed Beneficial Effect of Her In- 0 0 0 few rights, and he clung to the few PRINCESS HELENA, PRINCE ARTHUR, PRINCESS VICTORIA (Royal). PRINCE ALFRED, with stubborn persistency. The results fluence Upon England. Schleswig-Holstei- n. Born May 23, 184G. Duke of Connaught. Born May 1, 1S30. Dowager Empress of Germany. Duke of Edinburgh. Born Aug. 6, 1844. have fully justified the interference. Born Nov. 21, 1840. The nearly ten million of British sub- jects who have embarked from their native land during the last 60 years have been fully equipped to compete Progress a Distinguishing Fea- with the representatives of whatever nationalities with whom tbey have ture Development of since been associated. the Nation. One of the most radical changes which was made in England's policy was the abolition of the corn duties. 1837 As early as 1842 the measure was over- whelmingly defeated in the House of For 60 year's Queen Victoria has Commons by a Vote of over four to one. reigned over the British Empire. At 20 Yet It was scarcely four years later minutes after 2 o'clock on the morning that the Government declared Itself In of June 20, 1837, William IV. died at favor of the abolition of the duties. Windsor 11 The Queen opened Parliament in per- Castle. At o'clock the same son, morning the young Queen met the in 1846, and in the speech from the throne Parliament was recommended members of the Privy Council at Ken- to sington consider whether the principle of Palace, and, after subscribing the repeal of prohibitive and the re- to the customary oaths, received from laxation of protective duties, which them their oaths of allegiance. The had been presented from time to time, death of the King was not wholly un- might not be more extensively applied. expected. His short illness developed This was the result of years of agi- dangerous phases, and it was soon tation on the part of men who, because thought that he could not survive, yet of their benevolent dispositions and it was almost without warning that their researches Into the economic con- dition of the country, were convinced the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, that the 'social problem being an unexperienced girl, could never be from solved until the price of food was re- whose 18 years of life had been passed duced to meet the purchasing power of in almost obscurity, came to occupy the wages. Mr. Richard Cobden was the throne of England, and to assume at if 5 real leader of the movement, and his once the responsibilities of the head of chief companion was Mr. Bright. With a nation, with simplicity and dignity. them were associated many of ' the The manner in - which she received leading orators of the day, who de- the news of the death of her uncle, voted themselves to the work of se- curing the repeal of the corn laws. A William IV., and in which, a few hours league meeting was formed, and the whole later, she conducted the first country entered into the agitation. In of her Council won for her instant re- 1845 the "potato rot" affected the spect and admiration. She was almost chief article of food in Ireland, and, unknown personnlly to the members confronted by famine, even of the Cabinet and Privy Council. She the Prime EDWARD, Minister urged the abolition - of the had rarely been seen by the populace. ALBERT corn duties. The unsettled condition of the society Prince of Wales. Born Nov. 9, 1841. of the court had. perhaps, justified her At the time of the death of William mother, the Duchess of Kent, in allow- IV. there was strife between the two ing her to pass her life hitherto in se- factions in Canada. The million odd clusion. Certainl, England has never inhabitants threatened the disruption had occasion to regret that her life had of the Government. Lower Canada was been so passed. formed almost entirely of French, and The coronation of the Queen took any legislation that appeared to favor place a year later. It is graphically de- either one a published life of Dean of the divisions was regard- scribed in ed with jealousy by the other. One Stanley as follows: 1897 man "At 10:30 o'clock a gun announced after another had tried to recon- that she was at the abbey door, and in struct the Canadian governmental about a quarter of an hour the proces- scheme, and had failed. It was even sion appeared from under the 'organ, proposed suspending the constitution advancing up the purple approach to of Lower Canada Misrule had destroy- the chancel every one leaning over ed authority until Lord Durham was and in they came. First, the great sent out, and assumed enormous control. His Dukes, struggling with their policy in Canada subjected him to se- trains; then - etc., and the vere criticism, vast crimson train, and he was shortly re- Queen, with her called. But he had thoroughly Investi- outspread by eight ladies, all in white, gated followed by the great ladies of the the condition of affairs in pan- court in enormous crimson trains, and QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER CHILDREN ada, and immediately upon his return the smaller ladies with delicate sky-bl- ue to England he recommended that the trains trailing along the dark colonists should themselves possess as floor. When she came within the full much as possible of the government view of the gorgeous abbey she paused, of the colony, that autonomy should be as if for breath, and clasped her hands. allowed the judiciary as well as in the The orchestra broke out into the most execution of law, of music I ever V'P and that the home tremendous crash government should interfere only in heard. I was glad when they said go house of 0 0 0 the relations of the colony with the unto me: "Let us into the 0 country. the Lord." ' 0 'fa mother Lord Durham's rec- "Every one literally gasped for 0 0 0 ommendations were gradually adopted, breath from the intense interest and 0 0 0 and the Dominion of Canada of today, the rails of the gallery visibly trem- 0 0 , Km 0 with its population of six millions, and bled in one's hand from the trembling 0 .n.t .. ':tr ) 0 Its loyalty to the home government is of the spectators. I never saw any- 0 0" 0 the result. The same policy of auton thing like it. Tears would have been 0 omy has been pursued in Australia as a relief. One felt that the Queen must 0 0 the trem- 0 0 0 well. The population of Canada and sink into the earth under Australia 1837 scarce- bling awe. Put at last she moved on to 0 0 0 combined In was and (as I heard 0 ly a million and a quarter. Today it is her place bv the altar, 0 0 nearly from mv cousins, who had a place close 0 0 0 eleven millions. Since Queen bv) threw herself on her knees, buried 0 0 0 Victoria ascended the throne 80,000 face in her hands and evidently hn Km 0 square miles of territory have been ad- her first part the 0 0 1 fervently. For the ; ; ; ded to the possessions of the British nraved my ex- 0 0 silence was so great that at Ik 0 Empire in India, and in Africa 1,000,-00- 0 I could hear quite distinct-l- v 0 0 0 treme point - square miles. articulate voice 0- 0 the tremulous but 0 ALICE, During the reign science has made o'f theArchbishop: afterward it was LOUISE, PRINCESS BEATRICE, PRINCE LEOPOLD. PRINCESS PRINCESS Hesse-Darmsta- dt. 25, 1843. wonderful advances. The The great drawbacks 14, Duke of Albany. Born April 7, 1853. Born April industrial quite inaudible. serv- Marchioness of Lome. Born Battenburg. Born April 1S5' and developed. feeble responses to the 18, 1S4S. arts literature have were the March navigation suc- ice and the feebleness of the acclama- Steam had already been tions hardlv any at all at the recog- cessfully tried. Many lines of railway only tolerable at the coro- were opened during the year 1838.
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