Chapter XXX: The Jubilee

The Fiftieth Year of the Queen’s Reign--Mr. W. H. Smith Leader of the Commons--Sudden Death of Lord Iddesleigh--Opening of Parliament--The Queen’s Speech--The Debate on the Address--New Rules for Procedure--Closure Proposed by the Tories--Irish Landlords and Evictions--“Pressure Within the Law”--Prosecution of Mr. Dillon--The Round Table Conference--“Parnellism and Crime”--Resignation of Sir M. Hicks-Beach--Appointment of Mr. Balfour--The Coercion Bill--Resolute Government for Twenty Years--Scenes in the House--Irish Land Bill--The Bankruptcy Clauses--The National League Proclaimed--The Allotments Act--The Margarine Act--Hamburg Spirit--Mr. Goschen’s Budget--The Jubilee in India--The Modes of Celebration in England--Congratulatory Addresses--The Queen’s Visit to Birmingham--The Laureate’s Jubilee Ode--The Queen at Cannes and Aix--Her Visit to the Grande Chartreuse--Colonial Addresses--Opening of the People’s Palace--Jubilee Day--The Scene in the Streets--Preceding Jubilees--The Royal Procession--The German Crown Prince--The Decorations and the Onlookers--The Spectacle in Westminster Abbey--The Procession--The Ceremony--The Illuminations--Royal Banquet in Buckingham Palace--The Shower of Honours--Jubilee Observances in the British Empire and the United States--The Children’s Celebration in Hyde Park--The Queen’s Garden Party--Her Majesty’s Letter to her People--The Imperial Institute--The Victorian Age 733

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales and their Family _Frontispiece._

Osborne, from the Solent 385

The Princess Louise (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 388

The Marquis of Lorne (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 389

Inverary Castle (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 393

Mr. W. E. Forster (_From a Photograph by Russell and Sons_) 396

Balmoral Castle, from the North-west (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co., Aberdeen_) 400

After Sedan: Discussing the Capitulation (_From the Picture by Georg Bleibtreu_) 401

Metz 405

Marriage of the Princess Louise _To face_ 408

Opening of the Royal Albert Hall 409

The Prince of Wales’s Illness: Crowd at the Mansion House Reading the Bulletins 412

Thanksgiving Day: the Procession at Ludgate Hill (_From the Picture by N. Chevalier_) 413

Thanksgiving Day: St. Paul’s Illuminated 416

The Thanksgiving Service in St. Paul’s Cathedral 417

Geneva 421

Dr. Norman Macleod (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 425

The Queen receiving the Burmese Embassy 428

Queen’s College, Cork (_From a Photograph by W. Lawrence, Dublin_) 432

Professor Fawcett (_From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company_) 433

Queen’s College, Galway 436

Views in Windsor: Old Market Street, and the Town Hall, from High Street 440

Sandringham House 441

The Queen’s Visit to Victoria Park 445

Blue-coat Boys at Buckingham Palace 448

The Shah of Persia Presenting his Suite to the Queen at Windsor _To face_ 449

The Duke of Edinburgh 452

The Duchess of Edinburgh (_From a Photograph by W. and D. Downey_) 453

Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh (_From the Picture by N. Chevalier_) 456

Coomassie 460

King Koffee’s Palace, Coomassie 461

Lord Salisbury (_From a Photograph by Bassano, Old Bond Street, W._) 465

Review in Windsor Great Park of the Troops from the Ashanti War: the March Past before the Queen 469

The Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Magee) addressing the House of Lords 473

Alexander II., Czar of Russia 477

The Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 480

Mr. Plimsoll Addressing the House of Commons 484

The Marquis of Hartington (_From a Photograph by Russell and Sons_) 485

Abergeldie Castle (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 488

View on the Suez Canal 492

Count Ferdinand De Lesseps 493

The Mosque at San Sophia, Constantinople 496

Heralds at the Mansion House, Proclaiming the Queen as “Empress of India” 497

The Queen Visiting the Wards of the London Hospital 500

The Albert Memorial, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh 501

Holyrood Palace, from the South-east 504

Sir James Falshaw (_From a Photograph by J. Moffat, Edinburgh_) 505

Lord Beaconsfield at the Banquet in the Guildhall 508

General View of Constantinople 509

Trooping the Colours in St. James’s Park on the Queen’s Birthday _To face_ 513

Lord Cairns (_From a Photograph by Russell and Sons_) 513

Horseshoe Cloisters, Windsor Castle 517

Lord Derby (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 521

The Tower of Galata, Constantinople 525

Russian Wounded Leaving Plevna 528

Hughenden Manor (_From a Photograph by Taunt and Co._) 529

The Queen’s Visit to Hughenden: at High Wycombe Railway Station 533

Prince Gortschakoff 537

Russo-Turkish War: Map showing Position of Russian and Turkish Lines outside of Constantinople, and of the British Fleet 540

The Marina, Larnaca, Cyprus 544

Salonica 545

Prince Bismarck (_From the Photograph by Loescher and Petsch, Berlin_) 548

Shere Ali, Ameer of Cabul 553

The Queen Reviewing the Fleet at Spithead 557

The Albert Memorial, Kensington 561

Isandhlwana: the Dash with the Colours 565

Baveno, on Lago Maggiore 568

The Villa Clara, Baveno 569

The Duchess of Connaught 572

The Duke of Connaught 573

Marriage of the Duke of Connaught (_From the Picture by S. P. Hall_) 576

Queen Victoria (1887) _To face_ 577

The Mausoleum, Frogmore 577

Osborne House, from the Gardens (_From a Photograph by J. Valentine and Sons_) 581

The First Tay Bridge, from the South 584

Windsor Castle: a Peep from the Dean’s Garden 585

After the Midlothian Victory: Mr. Gladstone Addressing the Crowd from the Balcony of Lord Rosebery’s House, George Street, Edinburgh (_From the Picture in “The Graphic”_) 589

Mr. Chamberlain (_From a Photograph by Russell and Sons_) 593

Old Palace of the Prince of Montenegro, Cettigne 597

Windsor Castle: Queen Elizabeth’s Library, from the Quadrangle 600

The Queen Presenting the Albert Medal to George Oatley, of the Coastguard 604

Review in Windsor Park: Charge of the 5th and 7th Dragoon Guards 605

Ballater 609

Mr. Parnell (_From a Photograph by William Lawrence, Dublin_) 613

Grafton Street, Dublin 616

Lord Beaconsfield’s Last Appearance in the Peers’ Gallery of the House of Commons (_From a Drawing by Harry Furniss_) 617

Lord Beaconsfield’s House, 19, Curzon Street, Mayfair 621

The Prince of Wales in his Robes as a Bencher of the Middle Temple (_From a Photograph by W. and D. Downey_) 624

The Princess of Wales (_From a Photograph by W. and D. Downey_) 625

The Royal Family in the Highlands: Tug of War--Balmoral _v._ Abergeldie 629

Lord Frederick Cavendish (_From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company_) 633

The Karmous Suburb, Alexandria, and Pompey’s Pillar 637

Ahmed Arabi Pasha (_From the Portrait by Frederick Villiers in A. M. Broadley’s “How we Defended Arabi and his Friends”_) 640

Lord Wolseley (_From a Photograph by Fradelle and Young_) 641

The Duchess of Albany 644

The Duke of Albany 645

Marriage of the Duke of Albany _To face_ 648

Mentone (_From a Photograph by Frith and Co., Reigate_) 649

Lambeth Palace 652

Charles Darwin (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 653

The Round Tower, Windsor Castle 657

The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington 661

John Brown (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co., Aberdeen_) 665

The Parish Church, Crathie 669

Braemar Castle 669

General Gordon (_From a Photograph by Adams and Scanlan, Southampton_) 673

Khartoum 677

Sir Stafford Northcote, afterwards Lord Iddesleigh (_From a Photograph by Barraud, Oxford Street_) 680

The Citadel, Cairo 681

Balmoral Castle, from Craig Nordie (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 685

Funeral of the Duke of Albany: the Procession Entering Windsor Castle 688

View in Claremont Park 689

The Linn of Dee (_From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co._) 693

The Queen Receiving the Abyssinian Envoys at Osborne 696

Prince Henry of Battenberg (_From a Photograph by Theodor Prümm, Berlin_) 700

Princess Beatrice (_From a Photograph by Hughes and Mullins, Ryde_) 701

The Queen in her State Robes _To face_ 705

Mr. Gladstone (_From a Photograph by Elliott and Fry_) 705

Drawing-Room in Buckingham Palace 709

Map of the War in the Soudan 716

Marriage of the Princess Beatrice 721

Opening of Parliament in 1886: the Royal Procession in Westminster Palace on the way to the House of Peers 725

Lord Tennyson (_From a Photograph by H. H. H. Cameron, Mortimer Street, W._) 729

Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition: The Queen’s Tour 733

The Queen’s Visit to Edinburgh (1886): Her Majesty Leaving Holyrood Palace 737

The Crown Prince, afterwards the Emperor Frederick III. of Germany (_From a Photograph by Reichard and Lindner, Berlin_) 745

The Crown Princess, afterwards the Empress Victoria of Germany (_From a Photograph by Reichard and Lindner, Berlin_) 745

The Jubilee Garden Party at Buckingham Palace: The Royal Tent 749