ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1856, 13 June 1888, Page 3

ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.

• « Thla haß been a year of gifts— we apeak of the twelve months ending on the 20th Inafc. Her Majesty the Queen of England received many beautiful and costly gifts on the occurrence of her jubilee, and hia Holiness Pope Leo 3^lll. 'received a still greater number amounting to a far greater valuo In celebration of the jubilse kept by him. The Pope sent a cholco and costly gift to hor Majesty, end her Majesty despatched to hlo Holiness by the premier Duke and Earl Marshal of her kingdom an offering worthy of the Queen. They Bay, nevertheless, that its noble bearer, hU Grace the Duke of Norfolk, was raa^el extremely uncomfortable m transacting Byrne other baelnosa that he had blbcl to perform on behalf of her MaJQßty'a Government, In Rome, by the Rocret knowledge he poasoeufd as to the nature of the treasuro confided to him. Hia Graoa In some way or another discovered that, Instead of a gift of massive gold supposed to be placed In the hands, an article of silver— sift was all he had to care. Ead the Duke found oat the mistake In time wo may reasonably suppose ha would hare h»d the matter mended and »t hia otvn expense would have e^oh^nged. the Bpur\ou<» for the real and said nothing to. any one of what he had done — for, to do his Grace justice, we understand he deserves no, reputation for parsimony. Bqt W matters are the Duke could do nothing, and the magulfioenoo of England's Gracious Sovereign and India's Empress Is represented la the treasury of the ValioaD, among the aplendoars of the whole world, by a specimen ag cheap and tawdry as ever Brummagem turned out to adorn a snobbish toilet table. A basin and jog of sliver gilt represents, the Empire on which th* Snn never Be t fti Zal as to the Dako of No- folk, It Is said ha thought ho never would get out ci Rome th« ueyret hV'I been fidget abroad and the whole city was langhing him to scorn. He records this among tb( trials he lias endured m serving tbeToriei and laboring to damn the Irish cause May he reap hia due reward, and may thi glories of the Victorian era be faithfnll] recorded.— ln congenial shoddy,—" Tab let, 1 !