. William Ewart Gladstone and his contemporaries : fifty years of social and political progress. e Melbourne ministry was not likely to bsubjected to such vicissitudes as it had suffer©from the disaffection of the late sovereign, amas the queen had, it was believed, been taughto look upon the Whigs as her friends and haieven been educated in Whig principles, thopposition could scarcely look forward to ;return to power. Indeed the Duke of Veilington is reported to have regarded the accesaflof the young queen as a distinct disablemenof himself and his colleagues, and he is represented as saying,
. William Ewart Gladstone and his contemporaries : fifty years of social and political progress. e Melbourne ministry was not likely to bsubjected to such vicissitudes as it had suffer©from the disaffection of the late sovereign, amas the queen had, it was believed, been taughto look upon the Whigs as her friends and haieven been educated in Whig principles, thopposition could scarcely look forward to ;return to power. Indeed the Duke of Veilington is reported to have regarded the accesaflof the young queen as a distinct disablemenof himself and his colleagues, and he is represented as saying, I have no small talk, amPeel has no manners,—a remark which 9can only infer, from the gallantry of th<speaker and his admiration for Peel, was madiin a half jesting or satirical manner. But Weilington, like the rest of the world, looked witlinterested admiration on the girl sovereignto whom he afterwards became a trusteefriend: and at the coronation, which did notake place till the 28th of June, the IroiDuke was greeted with unbounded applausefor he had again become the most popula: \. QUEEN VI CTO R I A FOKMEB SE< LTJDED LIFE OF THE QUEEtf. .11 England. His known fidelity to the id tn the country had n • small share og the people to forg -t much in which ha had been obstinately mistaken, that they member those achievements in which uination and unyielding cot his great military genius had made ful as the vindicator of prowess and honour. yalty and. wtod faith, it may be remarkcession of a female to the throne si <■a between the kinI Hanover, which had been maintainedMB since George I. reigned over both coun-ly in (rreat Britain wasthe separation, for Hanover was ofintage to us. and yet enexpenses, which had beensh taxation. If any sentimental re-lingered in the minds of any, it maylare been dispersed by the reflection that bythe death of William IV., it was the Duke of||Cuinberland who became king of Han country would be well rid of the man I been accused, and
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