{"character_count": 4282, "word_count": 746, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9448999762535095], "ccnet_perplexity": [1390.4000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
and gladden. her devoted subjects beyond
the Tweed, with Scottish tour; it is
twenty years this very month since her
uncle George w visited Scotland. There
are some circumstances connected with
the two progresses Of nature to remind
us Of the lapse Of time Where are the
Leading Ministers who surrounded the
throne in 1929? Whore are Liverpool,
CastIereagh, Eldon, and Canning? The
baby in arms Of that day is now a crown
ed Queen, and the promising young Tory.
who carried the Cash Payment Resump.
tion Bill. as regardless Of the patheic Oh
iurations Of his own father as he has
carried his Corn Bill deaf to the muttered
dislike Of the landowners, is now Pre-
mier. The Irish Catholics have been
emancipated since 8e2, and so have the
WestIndi negroes; Old Sarum and many
another borough have been annihilated;
the General Government has taken the
management Of our intercourse with Chi
ma out Of the hands Of the East India
Company, (and much made Of it!) and Sir
Robert Peel has dealt blow to the sys.
tenn OF protected" commerce which it
can scarce recover. Twenty years have
not passed without leaving their hand
writing in legible characters in the book
Of British history. Even in the mere
domestic arrangements Of royalty, and
the preparations Tor the monarch's recep.
tion, there will be striking contrasts be /
tween the two visits. Instead Of prince
who had succeeded to the crown in the
decline of his days, in whom the vague
hopes Of youth had died without being
succeeded by more homcly but more solid
occupants oi the mind and affections, we
have princess who ascended tho throne
AT an age scarce escaped from girlhood.-
Inste ID Of the lonely widower, emanci-
pated too late from tantalising mar
riage, real only in its disrepu.able strife.
we have the wife Of husband lin the
flush Of youth and the mother Of heal. ].
thy children. Nay, more, though the
Queen is surrounded by the- pupils and
hereditary successors Of the Same polia
cal party which then possessed the con.
fidence Of the Sovere.gn-though her
progress, like that Of her predecessor, is
over the waves. with state whiclfn no
other sovereign can or ever could equal
and though she will take up her resi-
dence in Edinburg under the same roof
as lie did-there will be no "Minstsel Of
the North to dictate tksAsolemn lestivi-
ties Of her reception, no gathering of the
Clans, no. Glengarry, no 'sRoyal.Vi
number Of Black,cooa's Mngazin eover-
flnwing with the humors Of O'Doher,y
and the quaintncss Of Gait and no Sir
Willism Curtis in Highland trews and
goat-skin purse dangling in front Of them.
Yet, after all, the change is more in the
personality Of individuals and in tho ex-
tcrnais than in the constitution Of socie-
~. The aristocracy OF England -ahe
hereditary nobility, receiving continual
accessions OF strength from the peui ho-
mines Of the professions ald the rich ira
ders-is still, as formerly, the dominant
power in England. The minority 0f that
body, who, unable to persuade their bro
thsr aris,ocra,s t6 follow their lead, have
been for century coquetting with the
populace, have, after successful insur-
rectnn OF ten years, subsidized into their
natural character Of an Opposition. The
linsurrections in the manufacturing dis
lrcts, which mad. taken place only two or
three years before the visit OF George
w to Scotland in 1899, are re enacting,
with marvellous little novelty, IN the sa,ne
districts, at the present moment. Thea
as now, il was hunger that rendered tho
masses apt for insurrec,ion; thsas as now,
. political character was given to q move


nent for sbetler wages. Amid all our
changes, there has been no amelioration
Of the condition d the great body Of the
people; they still run claiming after.
vague distractions, as If these could re.
medy their distress. The gseat locomo-
tive in which, we are embarked has been
ltriaked out with new colors and devices,
but il is still moving on in the old wheel
ruts. 1t is not meant thu no change has
Taken place in social relations and OPT
Mons, but merely that they are too mi
auto TO promise (oI threaten) material
alterations in thp form and working Of
the State for long years 10 come.-Lon.
don Spectator.


Taking things . they 80, Ind receiv-
ing things as they come, may be set dow q
las ! very right philosophy.