the nations of the world are
sending representatives.

There will be kings and princes by the dozen, and great men of all races
and shades of color.

With the city filling with strangers, come from all parts of the earth
to do honor to the Queen, it has caused a good deal of surprise and pain
that Ireland should come to the front as the one nation that will not
join in the general festivities.

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.

This diamond was the largest known brilliant in the world.

It is said that it was stolen from the Kimberley Mines in South Africa,
and taken to Europe. It was such a big and costly stone that no one
could be found who wanted it; and so it was taken to India, because the
Hindu princes are very fond of fine stones and are willing to pay a
great price for them.

This great white diamond is said to have cost the Nizam of Hyderabad
about a million and a half dollars, which he was quite willing to pay to
become the possessor of the finest diamond in the world.

A short time ago it is said that he wanted to have the jewel reset
before he presented it to the Queen; and on the stone being fetched from
his cabinet he made the dreadful discover