THIRTY YEARS OF THE REIGN VICTORIA. Personal Recollections by John Times.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 128, 1 March 1873, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS OF THE REIG N VICTORIA. Personal Recollections by John Times .

discouraged by her defeat u to prevent b«r playing again theevening after this* Who played for the Queen Ido sot know i but her Majesty raniUp to me laughing, and aayieif ■he had won. She asked me how she oame to loseyasUniaj. I replied, ' Becaiwe your Majeaj had ntoh bad adTWWt ; *' on. which the laugh ea heartily, and to did the Queen of tit©. Belgians, who by the wny, upoke Enzliuh well." In the Edi'iburgh Mwieio (of Aprif, lS7l),Uan adtoinbk ■lutoh of the head o£ tha adrainisitratioa. afe ti» p«»od.of th«acceuion: "Lord Melbourne hadi not the iwdlrftkiin, at that time (1834) of a, great atstosinan. KinpecoW. juntamanner, aod his-, utt<«. iudiflVrenc* to dUpkt , led men \\o. think lest highly of him* than, he deserrod. But the trndh is, that no minister eror showed more consummate tact,, temper, and unselfishness than he displayed throughout thia difficult peroid. Hu had difficulties with the court (undiir King William) , with his colleagues, and with parliament. He surmounted them with admirable dexterity, and he wiw. rewarded for his loyal porcoveranoe in the later years of hlla administration by the fullest oon&denoe and regard wbicili » youthful and ingenuou* norereign, who appwcUUd; hu wor^b as it deterred, could bestow. (Jo be continued.)