Show THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY the thoroughbred briton whether at home or abroad respects the good queen victoria and recognizes her birthday in ne way or another as a matter of loyalty if his bis allegiance to the land of his hie nativity has not been thrown off but if it has he does much the same wing tiling as a matter of respect which no degree of alienation can ever eradicate there is nothing wrong in thle this but on the contrary a good deal that to is right the queens queen Is subjects have every reason to be respectful if not thankful for of all modern rulers she has ruled rulea the and hence the best while her personal virtues and her domestic simplicity have placed her in the foremost station among the good women of the earth this is the eve of queen Victor victorias laPa birthday tomorrow she will have lived three quarters of a century and it to Is proposed abroad to celebrate the event with more than cus customary honors her recent appearance in london in a grand public function was waa the brat for some time and it wax was intimated would be the last that fact has brought more sharply to mind the age and length of reign of the queen and stirred the loyalty of her people with one exception victoria is in the oldest of the reigning monarchs mona rohs of the world and no one of them has bas bad equal length of reign heronry senior in point of age is christian IX of denmark who was seventy five years old on the ath of april but he has baa reigned less than thirty years while V etoria will on june 20 have completed fifty six years the only other european reigning monarch who comes near her in age and length of reign to is francis joseph of austria who is about eleven years her junior both in age and rule the shah of persia is ten years younger than the queen of england and came to the throne a little more than eleven years after her accession it to is also a matter of history that in the long line of english rulers the age of the present queen has been exceeded but twice her grandfather george III dying at the age of eighty two and her great grand grandfather father george II 11 at the age of seventy seven her uncle and immediate predecessor william IV died at seventy two elizabeth the most moot famous of her female wore reached the age of seventy and henry III in the thirteenth century sixty five years this last laet sovereign elgo equaled her length of reign fifty six years and it was exceeded by only one english monarch george III whose total nominal reign was fifty nine years but about eleven years of that time there was a regency the king being insane it to is a matter of pleasure to all well meaning right minded people and this may even include the prince of wales the one most interested personally that victoria is in very good health and gives fair promise of seeing many more birthdays those who hut long liong live the queen do so with excellent reason england as a monarchy is not likely to do as well again while the chance of doing worse to is always imminent |