[Illustration: H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. (_From a Photograph by Mr. A. Bassano, London._)] THE LIFE AND TIMES OF QUEEN VICTORIA. BY ROBERT WILSON. Illustrated. VOL. II. [Illustration] CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: _LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE_. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXI. COLONIAL HOME RULE AND FINANCIAL REFORM. PAGE Mr. Roebuck and Emigration--Self-Government and the Colonies--Unsympathetic Whig Policy--Radicals and the Colonial Office--The Peelites and Hudson’s Bay Company--Financial Reform--Mr. Cobden at Variance with Mr. Bright--Combined Agitators--The Demand for Retrenchment--Trade and the Flag--Tories and Taxes--A _reductio ad absurdum_--A Raid on a Surplus--International Arbitration--Parliamentary Reform--Parliament and the Jews--The Tories oppose the Alteration of the Parliamentary Oath--Episcopal Prejudice--Tory Obstructionists--An Ordnance Department Scandal--Mr. Delane’s Attacks on Lord Palmerston in the _Times_--The Queen Remonstrates against Lord Palmerston’s Recklessness--An Anti-Palmerstonian Cabal--Lady Palmerston’s Intrigues--Lord Brougham Betrays the Cabal--Palmerston’s Victory--Rome and France--The Second War--The Disaster of Chillianwalla--Indignation of the Country--Lord Gough’s Recall--Napier to the Rescue--The East India Directors Oppose Napier’s Appointment--The Convict War at the Cape--Boycotting the Governor 385 CHAPTER XXII. FAMILY CARES AND ROYAL DUTIES. Education of the Prince of Wales--Selection of Mr. Birch as Tutor--The Queen’s Jealousy of her Parental Authority--Her Letter to Melbourne on the Management of her Nursery--Her Ideas on Education--Prince Albert’s Plans for the Education of the Prince of Wales--Stockmar’s Advice--The Visit to Ireland--The Queen at Waterford--“Rebel Cork” _en fête_--The Visit to Dublin--Viceregal Festivities--The Visit to the National Model Schools--Shiel’s Speech--The Queen and the Duke of Leinster--Farewell at Kingstown--The Queen Dips the Royal Ensign--Loyal Ulster--The Visit to the Linen Hall--Lord Clarendon on the Queen’s Visit--A Cruise on the Clyde--Home in Balmoral--The Queen’s “Bothie”--The Queen’s University of Ireland--First Plans for the Great Exhibition--Opening of the London Coal Exchange--The Queen’s Barge--Death of Queen Adelaide 403 CHAPTER XXIII. CLOUDS IN THE EAST AND ELSEWHERE.