Show VICTORIAS REIGN but few monarch have lave occupied mccu pied the tile british throne longer than queen victoria and no king or queen were ever more lio honored nored and beloved by their subjects or respected by the neighboring or remote nations whether they bo be empires kingdoms or republics than is the queen of england today to day she lias has richly merited the affection of the tho people of her empire and the elie enjoys it tomorrow to morrow queen victoria will have worn english crown forty fort Y five years A writer who to lave made the study of the history of kings and q queens a specialty says only three inon archs aichs hive reigned longer 0 than the present queen of great t britain tho tile reign of henry III lasted laste d 56 years that of I 1 edward dward E III CO 50 ye years arsand and that of george III CO 60 years victoria in age hag his been surpassed by eleven sovereigns since the norman conquest they a are re henry I 1 L who lived to bo be 67 years heary III who died at 65 edward 1 L 67 E edward dward III 65 elizabeth 69 james II 11 63 george I 1 L 67 george 11 II 77 george III 82 george IV 68 and william IV 72 victorias general ia is now quite vigorous a and it is net not imps impassible sible that in length of rei reign b n she may inay conio conic out ahead of even george III queen victoria was born may yay alth 1819 and has lav cheref therefore ore entered on oil tho the sixty fourth year of her ago age her reign lias has been ae generally 11 prosperous and happy and her subjects will mim nisa her when elio she 1 haa I as gone the tile way of former kings and queens A washington dispatch to the CO coast ast papers gives a few biographical I 1 1 items on oil the members of the utah ut ill commission sion in ill addition to what the published last saturday thus it says G F godfrey of iowa iown a and a lawyer lie ile entered the army as a lieutenant in ill tl the c twentieth regiment of iowa inic illic infantry fantry and rose to bo be colon colonel el of tl the eighth alabama cavalry at the tile close of the war lie engaged in the practice of law at des moines la in where for several years lie held tile position of receiver af public moneys Ao and subsequently served for several terms aa as assistant district attorney lie ile is about forty two years of age and is regarded as a man of marked ability TO th the e appointment of the tile utah commission by pre president i arthur a washington tele gr gram tin states the pacific coast people here liere were somewhat surprised at not seeing the name ime 0 of f ex governor irwin of california among the nominees inces for the utah commission it had been vcr very generally ene rally understood that the pres president I 1 bent had requested senator parley to name a democrat and that lie had bad named allied irwin HAS been a great deal of loud complaining for some time past concerning the vast acreage of lands which the government lias hns donated to soulless corporations of one kind and another in the last twenty years congress arl as lias has given away acres of the public domain to private corporations |