THINK AGAIN I PRAY YOU.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3218, 12 June 1879, Page 3

THINK AGAIN I PRAY YOU.

I «iy^Et&>fc)TE CarQtrEEN'VICTORIA 1

The Queen was not twenty years of age! when she ascended the throne, corning •into^ possession of "power with a heartj fresh, tender, and pure, and with all hor! instirictf mclibed; tojmei'cj, we may! be iSurb' i't|ii*t^trie'd\her'str<Sngth ] of resolu-i tion 1 uttermost* \ On a bright.j beautiful morning, the young Queen was> waited upon at her palace at Wiudsor,, by! the Duke of Wellington,.who had.broughtj from London yariouspa'pers requiringherj signature to fender! the pi operative. One j of them was a sentence of court-martial,! pronounced against a soldier of the liuerri the ; sent.pnce, l itbat;...he,; be shot, de^ad.j The""'Queen looked upon the paper,; and then looked upon the .wondrous beauties that vf nature, l^ad, spread* to,/her; Tiew. " Wjha^hftSi^is mandbne ? 'v ; Bhe! asked. The duke lbolced at the paper,j| and replied, "Ah, my royal inistrefs.jj jthat man Jjfear ,is jncorrigiblo. : ,-He has i three times." "And^caa you: not say anything in his behalf, ray lord ?" j Wellington shook his head. "Oh I think j agam,,,|, (i pr^.,jou."4!,Seemg .that.Her' MajestyjjWafl^deeply-moved, apd feeling j sure W^,,wi9uldv, not,ha.?c(i : the man ishot in any event, ho finally confessed that' the man was brave, and gallant; arid a reali^goc-d sjojdier,.,']:,V(B,utj!> hotadded, " thinlifjihe t inftueiice.!| 'tlnfiyonceil " the "Queen""cried,"" her eyes flashing, and her bosom heaving with strong emotion. "Let . A ifc,,b,e.-iours) toi-vrield influence. I wilftry mercy in this man's casl, and I charge you, your gracerto> let me knowjhe;result. , ( ,^ r ,gooti sjaid.' >li»'O.h;j 'I'tliauk ..youufor that. - you may tell him that yourvpood; word sa,Te^ ( , hint."■. t Then/jshe,;took ,the s pajier, and7w,i;ote, frith^ »' bold«!firni- hand 1," hcrpss the dark page, thb .bright faring" • 'wbifa— " Pardoned !"! Th"©>!j>uke was fond? of telling the story ; and he was willing also to confess that tho giving of that' paper to thepardoUe'd soldier'gaVehim farm Ore joy than lie could haye 1 experienced from thotaking.of a city. 7 ;i „A . J^\'^\\

Jtjpaß Bathgate,>spealcing.afc the Moore Centenary celebration ; in Dunedin on the commercial, agricultural, and pastoral interests of New Zealand, said :—-In regard^,,to. o^t imports,; the /act.was well known tiiat our foreign trade at this time amounted to the. enormousnstim of £13,000,009 i sterling. Thatw.as .a grtiat sum for.&jjiandfal of- .pedpjß-rnofc -so many as those of a big town in England, and not thirty years established as *a 1 country.,K^jhe kingdom of )<yr,eedg,jritb a population of one and a half millions, more than three times our population} had a,, foreign trade amounting- to: only ; £7,000,000,',, barely f ! .the, jhalf: .of otttfs. Portugal, with a population .of four millions, had only a foreign trade of £7,000,000, not half that of New Zealand. 5 DurinifVVthe -last? twenty^^ears we had actually; »exportedK£3s,:C!Do,d')0 1 •sferlibg in gdW alone. [Referring to'the necessity of an influx of capital, he said'^.CpOjCOO tteriin&liad built ' ; quoted figures' "jglibwing 1 cbnciusiVely; that; New Zealand stands at the.top.of the list of the ;%rp;wliQW f?^*^?■• •*<?rld' Keferrin«ftb uthe pastoral interest, he said there were now thirteen millions ofsheepl in theXqlony, and we,nowf ( expp?ted.wppl i>'Me'ralue bt sterUn^<yj Sir jrame,s a E < i ergnsp,n shad, : sajd,.,tovithe colonists thro^|^Cyottßiproßperityl" : 0 , ((.' •■• V I am told that the^i|h'es^a'iid' loftiest onefbftVHißli'# 6M# "ssfo l .#lSm R-in^e I^ld; fia^.tJ«OiPp>rty ; ,i>nd declare that he affected illness m order that be might not desecrate the season of. Lent, ,by, i Jßar|icipating : itt![hfß .brother's wedding" Festivities. The ]Eridce,>. m reality, ia honest, aud his indisposition ' Was genuine; but those silly people' would makje..., t hiip v ,(lrsfe fals^ ( and;xthea ' Pharisaical."' |[gw§TeVi. ) it,:mi;Bl) )bere- smrmbered that they wish also to make him their own.- ■-y:±v«i\-*m '>«» - The illness and;alis'ence,froHit<Eriglaiid of Prince Leopold hare-Ino£ r caused!any suspension of his,intferest'in iFreemas6n^y. At His Eoyal Highness's command there,, was presented last week-to "Cbronet Oreaton, who wa'B#eißeßtly seleicteclcQifand Treasurer of England, and who is a.Past, Master of-t»fe^dge 5 ' VW^iauifs 'of the presenfc'ifaßtflpiii the Prince, ti admirably-executed painting by IV|r. s Stephen Pearce, a member of ""the" lodge. Thevfsttbject of^thee pieturVfis; eblbitel Creaton hiin^eiPan^fth6 (lporfcrjiH u«/of lifelike truth. The presentation was made by Mr Charles A. Swinburnei'W for^f^M^s^r of thejodge, who reminded his nea^rsli^^^^ iUuatßpuißi predecessor,.in, Ms n Masonic ofEce -had-beeninojleasa.jjersonage?than the architect of St. Paul's, Sir Christoplier Wren. '-'■■"^':^A';"]\r-^w^