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served to change these conditions, was 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. . 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 . 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, . 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. nition and price It was the crisis j of the subjects re- protective tariff maintained the was also in year nation. That part. aggrandizement of her Kingdom. She rare judgment, and, although she ac- but of British in whatever this that the act of ceremonv and the most striking prob- mote colony they may reside. The of corn almost beyond the purchasing transmitting the mails by rail was crown touched had been confronted with serious cepted the advice of her ministers, was up workingman. The very moment the lems upon her ascension to the throne. coun- change cannot be summed in the reach of the When his passed, a locomotive attained a speed off. the trum- not wholly dependent upon their poor-hou- se her head the guns went There had been political and social un- presentation of columns of figures. days of usefulness were over the of 37 miles an hour during this year, pets betran and the shouts. She was sel. This trait has characterized her or else he was sup- rest. Educational and religious fac- . 1842, awaited him, voyages perfectly Immovable like a statue. whole reign. Her deen interests in the Early in the Queen's reign, in and transatlantic were made tears tions had been at variance with each welfare of her subjects, her strong re- began the legislation for the ameliora- ported by his children, who, like him- by steamboats. In the same year Pro- The Duchess of Kent burst into Many of her subjects were al- were brought up scarcely no lady had to put on her coronet other. ligious nature had an immediate effect tion of the condition of the working self, with fessor Morse went to England to obtain and her very beau- most without representation, the con- upon the court, and the influence of her were education, were thrust at a tender age a patent for her. The anointing was of laboring classes was piti- class. Previous to that time there for his invention of conveying of gold: the hom- dition the example Ji? been felt (Turing her whole United into the fields or the mines and as- messages a short distance by tele- tiful from the cloth England was just recovering from per-- nearlv a million nauDers in the ful. . reign. Under the constitution, ! j which never them. age, also, from the magnificent cluster of "personal" ruling, and Kingdom and fully 60,000 inmates of sumed the cares left graph. Today there is not a quarter of the effect haps, it has been her gracious exam-- j one of rebel was al- in theverv center." some of the statesmen of the time of prisons. The public at large was aware Should them there the globe that cannot be reached by Already she had endeared herself in pie more than an absolute dictation ways the force of arms to silence the steam navigation, by were fearful of the result of having an I of these facts, but there seemed no railway or by of her subjects. Constitu- policy that has influenced the change demands for lightening the burdens. hearts Queen" deal with these i were telegraph. England is in easy commu- the slow to per-v.o-ir "almost infant in the condition of not only the Eng-- i help for the condition. Wages tional England was not great problems. special act of Parliament, which nication with all be- ruler was not a whim lish-bor- n inhabitants of Great Britain, at almost starvation rates and a high The her colonies, and - only From the first the Queen displayed sical Queen, that she sought the