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February 9, 1867
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FASHIONS FOR 1867.
“ HABITS ARE STILL WORN SHORT”-WHICH IS JUST AS WELL THE DAY AFTER A THAW !
AN IMAGINARY QUEEN'S SPEECH.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1867.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I Call you together again, more curious, perhaps, than usual,
to know what I intend to say, particularly on one “well-considered”
subject.
I am on friendly terms with all my foreign brothers and sisters, some
of whom have lost their crowns and thrones since last we met, an event
chiefly of importance to themselves, the Editor of the Almanack de
Gotha, and gentlemen in the diplomatic service apprehensive of an
insufficient supply of foreign embassies. Should this fatal disease
spread amongst Sovereigns, I have no fear that it will ever react these
sliores.
Certain claims that “ Our American Cousin” believes he has against
us I am confident will _ be promptly and satisfactorily settled by
one of the most distinguished members of my Government, to whom
it is only necessary to say, “ On, Stanley, on! ”
You will, doubtlessly, desire a few days’ extra vacation to enable you
to be present at the opening of the Paris Universal Exhibition. I will
speak to the Earl of Derby on the subject the next time he dines at
the Castle. Sanguine spirits are anticipating the happiest results from
this coming Congress of Art and Industry, and expect that it will ter-
minate in a Grand Transformation Scene, with Peace and Progress
triumphant in the centre, and all the woes of War vanishing away in
the background. The same splendid visions have been indulged in
before, but they all ended in cannon-smoke. I shall indeed rejoice, if
the decay of the manufacture of gunpowder and explosive weapons is
the result of the Exhibition.
I am confident that no Member of either House would ever think of
smuggling anything, except perhaps, occasionally, a Bill through
Parliament, but the great portmanteau grievance demands a searching
investigation. I have, therefore, arranged with his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of the French that a joint Commission shall sit on
the band-boxes of two great nations.
The Confederation of the North American Provinces will, 1 trust, be
shortly accomplished. As United States I believe they will be strong
and powerful, and never forget the old mother.
I rejoiced to read of the disappearance of the Cattle Plague, and of
the liberality shown by you, Marquis of Conyngham, and others, in
.making a handsome deduction from the rents of your bucolic tenantry.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I have directed the Estimates for the ensuing year to be laid
before you, and I shall feel better satisfied if they are discussed by
rather more than forty Members.
They have been prepared, &c. (the usual prescription).
Although we are at peace with all the world, you will find a percep-
tible increase in the voles to be taken for the Naval and Military
Establishments. So long as Governments engage in competitive trials
of instruments of warfare, so long must Peoples pay the shot.
It may be your fate to experience “Short Commons.”
If you could approach my presence with rather less Disorder, it
would be more seemly.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Apprehensions were felt lest the Eenian plague should again
break out in Ireland, but—I say this under the rose—with Lord
Strathnairn in Dublin I had no alarm for that portion of my domi-
nions. The deluded followers of an individual known as The Head
Centre must now feel that they were (Stephens’) Green. Scotland
gives me no trouble, but then I am so often there, and we know
that frequent appearances of the Sovereign tend to raise the tempe-
rature of a nation’s loyalty. I have, therefore, determined to reside
a part of every year in Ireland, or when unable to visit that country in
person, to request the Prince of Wales to act as my Vicereine.
I have not been much in my Capital of late years, but I understand
that the condition of its streets ana Parks is not satisfactory, being ill
kept, ill lighted, and ill watched. You will, I am sure, devise some
measure by which the Metropolis may be placed on a level at least with
second-rate Provincial towns.
I congratulate you and Sir Edwin Landseer on the addition to the
Lions of London in Trafalgar Square. It will not be necessary to put any
more cross questions about Sir Edwin’s studies. The National
“ HABITS ARE STILL WORN SHORT”-WHICH IS JUST AS WELL THE DAY AFTER A THAW !
AN IMAGINARY QUEEN'S SPEECH.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1867.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I Call you together again, more curious, perhaps, than usual,
to know what I intend to say, particularly on one “well-considered”
subject.
I am on friendly terms with all my foreign brothers and sisters, some
of whom have lost their crowns and thrones since last we met, an event
chiefly of importance to themselves, the Editor of the Almanack de
Gotha, and gentlemen in the diplomatic service apprehensive of an
insufficient supply of foreign embassies. Should this fatal disease
spread amongst Sovereigns, I have no fear that it will ever react these
sliores.
Certain claims that “ Our American Cousin” believes he has against
us I am confident will _ be promptly and satisfactorily settled by
one of the most distinguished members of my Government, to whom
it is only necessary to say, “ On, Stanley, on! ”
You will, doubtlessly, desire a few days’ extra vacation to enable you
to be present at the opening of the Paris Universal Exhibition. I will
speak to the Earl of Derby on the subject the next time he dines at
the Castle. Sanguine spirits are anticipating the happiest results from
this coming Congress of Art and Industry, and expect that it will ter-
minate in a Grand Transformation Scene, with Peace and Progress
triumphant in the centre, and all the woes of War vanishing away in
the background. The same splendid visions have been indulged in
before, but they all ended in cannon-smoke. I shall indeed rejoice, if
the decay of the manufacture of gunpowder and explosive weapons is
the result of the Exhibition.
I am confident that no Member of either House would ever think of
smuggling anything, except perhaps, occasionally, a Bill through
Parliament, but the great portmanteau grievance demands a searching
investigation. I have, therefore, arranged with his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of the French that a joint Commission shall sit on
the band-boxes of two great nations.
The Confederation of the North American Provinces will, 1 trust, be
shortly accomplished. As United States I believe they will be strong
and powerful, and never forget the old mother.
I rejoiced to read of the disappearance of the Cattle Plague, and of
the liberality shown by you, Marquis of Conyngham, and others, in
.making a handsome deduction from the rents of your bucolic tenantry.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I have directed the Estimates for the ensuing year to be laid
before you, and I shall feel better satisfied if they are discussed by
rather more than forty Members.
They have been prepared, &c. (the usual prescription).
Although we are at peace with all the world, you will find a percep-
tible increase in the voles to be taken for the Naval and Military
Establishments. So long as Governments engage in competitive trials
of instruments of warfare, so long must Peoples pay the shot.
It may be your fate to experience “Short Commons.”
If you could approach my presence with rather less Disorder, it
would be more seemly.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Apprehensions were felt lest the Eenian plague should again
break out in Ireland, but—I say this under the rose—with Lord
Strathnairn in Dublin I had no alarm for that portion of my domi-
nions. The deluded followers of an individual known as The Head
Centre must now feel that they were (Stephens’) Green. Scotland
gives me no trouble, but then I am so often there, and we know
that frequent appearances of the Sovereign tend to raise the tempe-
rature of a nation’s loyalty. I have, therefore, determined to reside
a part of every year in Ireland, or when unable to visit that country in
person, to request the Prince of Wales to act as my Vicereine.
I have not been much in my Capital of late years, but I understand
that the condition of its streets ana Parks is not satisfactory, being ill
kept, ill lighted, and ill watched. You will, I am sure, devise some
measure by which the Metropolis may be placed on a level at least with
second-rate Provincial towns.
I congratulate you and Sir Edwin Landseer on the addition to the
Lions of London in Trafalgar Square. It will not be necessary to put any
more cross questions about Sir Edwin’s studies. The National