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GALES BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PREBG, 7U-70 FULTON STREDT, Re Yo JUNE 25tn, 1885. NO. 130. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number; Vols. III. and IV., at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HAT a blessing it is to a nation to have a Queen, and such an eighteen carat all-wool article.as is Her Ma- jesty Queen Victoria. Here, when “ chaos had come again” in the matter of English government, her Impressive Uppish- ness, despite the fact that her presence either in or near the capital would greatly simplify matters, absolutely refused to stir from her royal retreat in Scotland until it suited her Im- perial convenience to do so. From thi is very evident that Saxe-Coburg comfort and not England's welfare is what the English people are taxed for. So long as John Brown's grave is kept green and the wages of royalty are paid, nothing can disturb the calm serenity of the Queenly mind—a mind so delicately organized as to recognize a soft thing when it sees it, however wanting in other respects. x . . . W* hear a great deal of talk from our English friends of a certain coercion bill, so-called. Now it may be a peculiarly American idea, but, why not apply a little of the superfluous coercion, of which so much has been said, to this noble Monarchess ? Refuse to pay her the £4,000,000 per annum allowed her for the purpose of keeping the emerald hue over the lamented Brown, Deny the right of her numerous off-spring and off-spring- in-law to come of age or get married more than seven or eight times a year! Cut off, in fact, all such sources of income as tend to make Her Majesty believe that she owns the earth and holds a mortgage on the moon, and she will become a much more tractable though, perhaps, less gracious sovereign. It is plain to be seen that Her Majesty has no ambition for a second term. . . . HE J/sere, which with her precious load was generally known last week as the /s-2'¢-ere, has at last arrived, and the long looked for statue will soon be placed in position. Thanks to the efforts of the New York World, Mistress Liberty will be provided with a suitable pedestal, and the fear that she would have to stand soaking her ankles in the bay for a century or two has been dispelled. We suggest that it would be a highly proper and graceful recognition of the World's efforts in this behalf, to place a suitably inscribed tablet upon the pedestal, dedicated to that paper, in honor of the fund raised through its columns. Good deeds should not go unrewarded. * * . R. BUDDENSIECK, the builder, testifying in his own behalf, last week, stated that everything used by him was of the best quality, and his testimony has been corrobo- rated by the dealers from whom his materials were purchased. This should settle the matter as far as Buddensieck is con- cerned. It is very unusual that such a candid display of truth, regardless of consequences, is brought out in trials of this nature. People tvould naturally expect Mr. Buddensieck to testify that he used loam and_all available mud regardless of quality; and that a sand dealer should have the temerity to state in court that his materials were as good as could be had, is extraordinary. We are surprised that the jury did not return a verdict of not guilty, and the finding that it was by act of Providence that these superb specimens of architectural strength hap- pened to fall. . . . WE are glad to see that they have some respect for law and order in Canada after all. The strenuous efforts of that Community to retain all grades of Criminals had given the citizens of the United States the idea that over the border was a lawless and unprincipled community. This idea is now dispelled! Mrs. Wright, an American lady, who shot herself in the head because her husband had died leaving her penniless, has been sent to a Montreal jail for three months, . . . JX concluding the fifth volume of LiFe, and in view of the recent change in the firm of our printers by their associ- ation with Mr. Arthur B, Turnure, we feel that some ac- knowledgment of our indebtedness to the Messrs. Gilliss Brothers for their hearty and artistic codperation with us in our work will not be out of place. Those cordial relations so necessary between publisher and printer in artistic work have existed from the very start be- tween the Messrs, Gilliss and ourselves. Modesty is a decent virtue, but not necessarily blinding, and we are well aware of a certain improvement in LiFe, typographically and other- wise, and we feel that much of this is due to their personal interest and excellent taste. comicbooks.com