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Title: Young people's history of England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shephard New York, C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a vote of the House, and the king was forced to reluc-tantly call the Vrhigs back to power. Lord ^^lelbourneagain became prime minister. Lord Melbournes secondcabinet extended for several years into the succeedingreign. Lord Melbourne and his colleagues were, how-ever, on the eve of resisfnins:, when the kins^ William theFourth, suddenly fell ill and died, after a reign of sevenyears (1837). William the Fourth was succeeded by his niece, Victoria, the only child of the Dlike of Kent, who was the fourth son of Geor2;e the Third. At the tim.e of her ac- Accession ^ _ ^ of victo- cession Victoria was eighteen years old. Shehad been brought up in much retirement andsimplicity; but she soon showed excellent sense, andan intelligent comprehension of her regal duties. TheEnglish felt a deep sympathy for their girl-queen, and herbearing in her new and grave position speedily inspiredthe love and confidence of her subjects. Hitherto theEnglish sovereign had also reigned over the little kingdom
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VICTORIA. 353 of Hanover, in Germany. But there was a law in Han-over which excluded females from the throne. The crownof Hanover, therefore, passed to the queens ^ ■ The crown uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, who was the of Hano-next male heir. The English were greatly re-joiced at this, because the connection with Hanover hadmore than once entangled England in European troubles,and might have done so again. The leading events of the early years of Victorias reignwere the suppression of a revolt in Canada; the adoptionof the penny postage, by which letters could be sent toany part of the three kingdoms for a penny (two cents) ; themarriage of the queen to the wise and public-spiritedPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840); the suppres-sion of the revolt of the Eo^yptians as^ainst the Marriage rule of the sultan by English arms ; a successful of thewar with the Chinese ; the war with Afghanistan, *^®®during which the British envoy and sixteen thousandother English people were mass

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