SIR,—You have not yet exhausted the Jubilee reminiscences.. I was
listening, the other day, to a cottager's account of her share in the rejoicings of June 22nd, and as her ideas as to the cause of the rejoicings appeared vague, I made a remark which drew from her the expression of her opinion that we had indeed reason for thankfulness, "for we should have' found some difference if it had been a King ! " My endeavour to show her that she had missed the point, and that there• might even be a bad Queen or a good King. met with indifferent success. "That may be all right enough; but 'tie hopee we
shall never have one of they in our time" ! It may with safety be affirmed that my poor friend knows nothing of such burning questions as "Women's Rights," &c., so that her remarks were rather more quenching than they would other- wise have been.—I am, Sir, &c., B.
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