El Perú ilustrado: semanario ilustrado para las familias familias

EL PERU ILUSTRADO. officials carne rousing up the inmates of Majesty says of the ]atter occasion: "Pre- Kensington Palace, to tell Princess Victo- cisely at two o'clock I went in. The room ria that she was now Queen of Eng1and. was full, but I hardly knew who was there. IIer first words on hearing the tidings Lord Melbourne I saw looking at me with were addressed to the Archbishop, "l beg tears in his eyes, but he was not near me. your Grace to prn.y fnr me.!" They knelt l then read my short declaration. I felt down together, and so the new reign that that my hands shook, but I did not make has since been so manífostly blessed of one mistake. I felt most thankful and Heaven was begun with prayer. happy when it >vas over. Lord Lansdow, In the course of their con versation with then rose , and in the name of the her mother she remai ked, "l can scarcely Privy Oouncil asked that this most gra- believe that I am Queen of Engl11nd, Lut cious and most welcorne cornmunication I !!iUppose I am really sn, and in time I might be printed. I then left the room, shall become accustoined t<> the change." the whole thin,g; not taking more than two At her own request she was .ldt for two or three minutes. The Duke of Cambridge hours quite alo11c, and then, strengthened carne into the small lihrary where I was nnd calm from her retirement, she carne sta11ding, and wished me joy ." to her first council, whkh had been speed- The l~oyal wedding took place on the ily summoned. EYery one has henrd how 1 F b 1 '40 N · l she charme;l tlrnt assembh of the fore- Oth ~e ruary, tJ ' · uptia ceremony, most men in the land w-hith her simple wedding bren.kfast, and magnificent wed- dingcake, &c., were all very splendid, and graceful dignity. N ext day shc was pro- then through twenty-two miles of specta- clnimed as usual from the willdow of St. tors ancl innumerable V's and A's and J ames's Palace. Surrounded by the cus- other dccorations, the young couple drove tornary pagc>nntry, Garter, King-at-_t\..rms to Windsor. "Our reception,' ' says the proclaimcd the throne of these renlms- ·Queen, "was rnost enthusinstic, hearty and "To whom we acknowlcdge all faith and 1 ¡ l d . · 1 11 1 bl 1 gratifying in every way, t ie peop e quite constant o ie 1cnce, w1t l a um e anc d f . ' · · l · l h h ff t . b 1 - G d b 1 ca ·emng us w1tn t ieu· <: 1eers; orsemen, earty a ce ion eseec una o y w om . · ,, W · d . ' • 0 ' &c., gorng along w1th us. rn sor was kmg::; aud q uP.ens <lo r e1gn, to bless the 1 kl' 'th 1. ht th a h 1 th P · Al d · i:!· . . 1 spar rng w1 . 1g s as ey rece ec e royal r111cess exan nna victoria w1t 1 t 'a tl Et b " · a ]cmo- and httJ 1 rea rs to reio-n. God saYe uwn, au. 18 on oys accn:npnme t"> l ~Y ) 0 the carnaae to the cnstle cheermg and the Queen!" The11 bancls playcrl, and guns l f 0 1 h lb ' ,, fired, and acdamations íillecl the air; at !!> lOU rng as on _Y se 0 ~ oys can. this moment the calm self-possession of There was h1gh fe~t~val ~hroughout the the young Queen brnke d'lWn, and she fell lnnd as the people _JOrncd. 111 a ch_orns of upon her._ rnother's neck anrl wept. appr0val of the cho1l:e their sovere1gn had It .was at this time thc monnrch's person- made. al duty tu sign ali death warrants. The As years passed 011, and one by one the DukP of Wellington once brought the children who are now men and women Queen a court martial dcath watTallt to madc their appearanee in the Royal nur- sign. .Miss Greenwo0d tells u~ that "she sery, the Engli::;h people rejoiced to see a shnmk from the dreadful task, and with H.oyal household so diffcrent from any- tears in her eyes, askcd, "[]a ye you nothing thing that the nation had been accustorned to say m behalf of this man?" to. Un and around the English thrune all "N othi11g; he has cleserted three times,' ' the domestic virtues were conspicuous, and replied tlw frun Duke. the i1ational loyalty, no lunger a mere pol- " 'Oh, your Grace, think ag:iin !' itical principie, grew into a feeling of ""N ell, your l'vinjesty, he ('Crtainly is warm personal regard for Victoria and a bad soldier, but there was somcbody Albert. whu spoke as to his good charatter. He Of the Hoyal children just now alluded may be a goCJd fellow in prirnte lifo.' to, the first born was Vietoria Adelaide "'Oh, thank yt1u!' exclnimed the Queen, .Mary Louisa, the Princess Royal. Very as she dashed off the wt>rd 'Pardonecl' on touchingly has the Queen told her people the awful parchrrwut, aud wrote beneath of Pri11ce Albert's care and assiduity in her beautiful signature." her time of weakness. "During the time l was htid up," she says, "his en.re and devotion were quite beyond ex press ion." No onc but himself ever lifted her from her bed to the sofa; and always helpecl to whéel her to her bed or sofa or into the next room. The Queen tells us that not only on this tirst occasinn, but also in all her subscqueut confinements, there could not have been "a kinder, wiser, or more j udicious nurse. " 7 moved with happiness and gratitude to God." Of the royal progresses and tours of Victoria and Albert, and the popular en- thusiasm that attended them, it does not suit our present purpose to give a detailed description, though sorne incidents mayas well be. briefly alluded to. There was the memorable first visit to Scotland in 1842, then a yachting expedition along the south coast in 1843, in the course of which the Southampton Corporation immortalized themsel ves by pulling off their red gowns and spreading them on the pier to make a dry footway for their Queen. After visits to Franc" and Belgium there was a second visit to Scotland in 1844. On this occnsion the royal party w~nt into rural retirement at Blair Athol, and for a time tricd to forget all State and ceremony. Thc Queen one rnorning left the grounds, lost her way, and only regained her tem- porary home by asking direetions from sorne reapers in an oat-field aucl climbing ov~r sorne palings. During the same year, on returning from a Yisit to Scotland, the Queen visited Liverpool and Manchester. At the latter eity shc was delighted with the long rows of mill-workers "dressed in their best, ranged alo11g the streets with white ros- ettes in their buttonboles.' ' But in Peel Park the crowning incide11t of the day took place. In this broad space were collected eighty-two thousand Sunday-school chil- dren of ali denominations. An address was presented to the Quecn, and then the whole of that vast crowd raised their youthful voices in uuison and sang "God Save the Queenl" Altogether the (jueen must have seen that day more than a million of her subjects. With these few rniscellaneous anecdotes of the Queen we will bring our brief sketch to a close. Her Mnjesty has alwnys let her woman's heart fi0w forth in sympathy to those sufferieg frorn distress and be- reavernent, and sorrowing ones have often been cheered with her kindly messages. When Pn'sident Garfield was shot, Her Majesty united in the anxious solicitude that was felt all over the world for the noble soul that was struggling so long be- tween life and dc; ¡i.th . When all was over she at once teleg rap hed to Mrs. Garfield: "Words cannot express the deep sym- pathy I feel with you in this terrible mo- ment. May God comfort and supµiort you as He alone can." She al so wrote, not through a secretary, but in her own hand- writing, a sympathising letter to Mrs. Garfield, as she had done twenty years before when that great man-Abraham Lincoln-was assassinated. The old Dnchess of Coburg wns highly clelighted w hen her daughter, the Duchess of Kent, becarne the mothcr of au English princcss and equally dehghted when a young prince was horn to her son the Duke of Coburg, at H.osenan, three rnonths after- wards. «YVhen thcse two cousins grow up they must be husband and wife,i> was the old lady's dream from their chil<lhood. That dream, in spite of many obstacles carne true. On 9th Novembcr, 1841, tho Prince of 1 p t . B . l . & Oº Wales carne to share his sister's nursery. e 1 ~ 1 aciga upi. · present Whilst confined to her room (we read in com~ iments on th1s occas10n to the Queen's "Journal"), "Albert brought Enghsh patrnns. their their Dnring a visit of the y1ltmg Pri11ce Al- . bert to England in 183ü, and mure espec- ially at hi::; second visit in 1839, a mutual affection grew up between her royal cousin and himself. In accordance with her hi<rh ~. position the Queen ha.d to "pop the t1u~s­ ·, tion/' and aftcrwards had tu tell her Cuuueil ~ wlmt she. intended to do. This wa.s a ~r trying ordeal for a maiden of twenty. Her in dearest little 1>u ssy ( the Princess Royal), ----+ - in such a smart white merino frock, trim- Máximas de Mr. Garfield. rned with blue, whích marnma ( the Duchess of Kent) had given her, and pla- ced her on her bed, seating hirnseJf next to her, and she was very dear ancl good. "And as my precious invaluaule Albert sat there, and our little love between us, I fclt quite "Mejor quiero morir por la justicia que vencer por la injusticia.!' ' 'Las almas no podrán vivir sin lu- char.' ' "Reina entre las virtudes una dichosa