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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 3 October 1868, Page 3

(To the Editor of tlie Tuapeka Times.) Sir, — Do, you favor Monarchy in the person of our beloved (^ueen ? if so, you must have observed with indignation an attempt by a member of the British Parliament to introduce a measure — or by a series of questions, -which amounted to the same thing, whether it was in contemplation by the Ministry to advise her Majesty to abdicate in favor of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Presuming that your loyalty is of the purest character, unmixed with any republican ingredient, I can imagine, and can almost see, you chuckle with delight at the storm of hisses which met the-hdn. member ; and how Mr. lleardon must have winced under the thoroughly loyal British House of Commons. How futile the attempt on the part of any member to upset the reign of the best of sovereigns must prove. 1 hope lam not presuming too much when I suppose that tho colonial press ia perfectly loyal. I am, however, not a little surprised at the silence of the press as regards the late attempt. I believe the British public in this colony would have been pleased at seeing an expression of opinion by the all powerful " fourth estate ; " and without for a moment calling into question the true British feeling of the press, I confess it would do me good to see a more thorough manifestation of loyalty than I have hitherto met with in these parts, and, upon the whole, I believe such expressions would be acceptable to the great bulk of our population. Of course, there are always exceptions to every rule ; and it is possible that some of our colonists have left their loyalty on the other side of the line ; but those cases, i hope, are few and far betweeu. I know that British law has pressed rather closely on some, and they may have " left their country for their country's good ; " but by far the greater number of our colonists are sound at the core, and pray for the long life and reign of her Majesty. I will not insult your readers by a comparison of our beloved Queen with the rest of the great potentates of the earth, nor will I draw a line between her wise, good Government and the sulphurous republicans of the West, but I will give an extract, showing her private virtues as a Queen and a woman. During the Crimean war, and when Mr. Sydney Herbert was War Minister, Miss Florence Nightengale, amid her many labors and trials, which few ladies could have sustained, was spoken of thus in the following letter from her Majesty, full of womanly feeling, and addressed to Mr. Sydney Herbert : —

" Would you tell Mrs. Herbert that I beg she would let me see frequentiy the accounts she receives from Miss Nightingale or Mrs. Bracebridge, as I hear no details of tho wounded, though I see so many from offices, &c, about the battlefield, and naturally the former must interest m e more than any one. Let Mrs. Herbert also know that I wish Miss Nightingale and the ladies would tell these poor, noble wounded and sick men that no one takes a warmer interest, or feels more for their sufferings, or admires their courage and heroism more than their Queen. Day and night she thinks of her beloved troops ; so does the Prince. Beg Mrs. Herbert to communicate these my words to those ladies, as I know that our sympathy is much valued by these noble fellows."

This is one of the many thousand little womanly traits which have endeared the Queen to her British subjects in every part of the globe. Some of your readers are no doubt familiar with the above, others may not be. I trust the time is yet far distant when a change will be absolutely necessary, and that when her successor has served Ms generation, it may be said of him that he did that which was right, and his mother's name was Victoria.. — I am, &g., Silvantts Brown 1 . Cockatoo Cottage, Evans' Flat, Sept. 29, 1863.