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Title: V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914
Subjects: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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set of people, soi disant fashionablesand the most violent protectionists, spread are silenced. Lord Pahnerston wrote to Lord Normanby: Yester-day is a topic of thought and of words with everybody inLondon. It was indeed a glorious day for England, andthe way in which the royal ceremony went off was calculat-ed to inspire humility in the minds of the representativesof foreign governments, and to strike despair into thebreasts of those, if any such there be, who may desire toexcite confusion in this country. There must have been nearer a million than any othernumber of people who turned out to post themselves as theycould to see some parts of the show, and Mayne, the headof the police, said he thought there were about thirty-fourthousand in the glass building. The Queen, her husband, her eldest son and daughtergave themselves in full confidence to this multitude, with noother guard than one of honor and the accustomed supplyof stick-handed constables to assist the crowd in keeping 208
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THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PRINCE ALFRED IN 1S49 STIRRING TIMES OF PEACE AND WAR order among themselves. Of course there were in re-serve, at proper stations, ample means of repressing anydisorder if any had been attempted; but nothing wasbrought out and shown beyond what I have mentioned,and it was impossible for the invited guests of a ladysDrawing-room to have conducted themselves with moreperfect propriety than did this sea of human beings. The royal party were received with continued acclama-tion as they passed through the Park and round the Ex-hibition house, and it was also very interesting to witnessthe cordial greeting given to the Duke of Wellington. Iwas just behind him and Anglesey, during the processionround the building, and he was accompanied by an in-cessant running fire of applause from the men, and wavingof handkerchiefs and kissing of hands from the women,who lined the pathway of the march during the three-quar-ters of an hour that it took us to march round. The build-

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