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The political power of the Crown and its wearer is proven to exist in the dismissal of Lord Palmerston for his rash recognition of the French _coup d'état_; in the occasional exercise of the right of excluding certain individuals from the Government--notably the case of Mr. Labouchere a decade ago; in such direct exercise of influence as the Queen's intervention in the matter of the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill as related by the late Archbishop Tait. The Imperial influence of the Sovereign has been shown in more than merely indirect ways. The Queen's refusal to approve the first draft of the Royal Proclamation for India in 1858 and her changes in the text were declared by Lord Canning to have averted another insurrection. Her personal determination to send the Prince of Wales to Canada in 1860 and her own visit to Ireland in one of the last years of her reign were cases of actual initiative and active policy. South Africa owed to the late Queen the several visits of the Duke of Edinburgh and the exhibition of her well-known sympathy with the views of Sir George Grey--who, had he been allowed a free hand, would have consolidated and united those regions many years ago and averted the recent disastrous struggle.