A resolution has been passed by the Irish party in Parliament, declaring
that it is impossible for them to take part in the Jubilee.

The Irish party declares that these rejoicings are not to celebrate the
many private and public good deeds of Her Majesty the Queen, but the
triumph and prosperity of her government, and that, as Ireland has not
shared in the prosperity, Irishmen do not feel called upon to rejoice.

They say that for the sixty years of the Queen's reign, while liberty of
thought, speech, and action has been given to all the other nations
under the English rule, Ireland has been governed against her will and
deprived of her freedom.

They declare that Ireland's population has been reduced one-half, while
Great Britain's has been doubled, and that their country has been loaded
down with taxes heavier than it could bear.

[**Transcriber's Note: heaver changed to heavier]

Under these circumstances they find it impossible to take part in the
rejoicings.

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There has been another disappointment in connection with the Jubilee.

One of the great princes of Hindustan, the Nizam of Hyderabad, possessed
a very wonderful diamond, called the "great white diamond," which it was
his intention to present to the Queen during the celebrations.