Show IUCIX Htroitu 51cr utUItJublleeuu Shl CIIIIO lo llcnr Her Nuiuc Nothing lmteoi his M jet boon ft11 > MttUd M to time stnto eerelno nial which I fs to Inks plnco nno 20th next in honor of Her ini fi Mjcsly Jublloc A BlelUn tlmkpbiv 11I1t btrUco iiul MR nllliproces i sion hire contemplated but 10110 of ills lecemry details Inuu bicm iirruifCl as yet 1t Ii quito IIlIcertain whLthor time I im lion In question will take plucu ill St I mil 8 Cithcdril or ut Westminster Ab bey ConsidelllI tho strained rclntlons with i Kussii which have marked tho whole courso of tho Queens reign it Is run irkublo that her first n uno Alexan urhia should lmo bun conferred upon Her in honor ot tho then reiLiiliiir Cz ir of whom her futher tho Duko of Kent was a warm admirer and who was our faithful and closo ally during tho whole of tho Cnstltreagh poriol of out foreign policy Ueorgo IV sons to lmo contributed another an-other imint Georgmmi but Geor iuna Aioxandriim would havo deprived tho emperor of his precedence and on tho other hand Aloxandrma Georgiana would havo derogated from tho claims of tho name homo by tho actual king of 1 ngUnd and by all his Hanoverian pro decesaors Tho nimo of tho Queens mother was therefore substituted for that of her uncle At tho cliustomngof tho now born princess showas named Alex andrma Victorio i but I tho second namo was speedily Anglicized or atimzod into Victoria A Httlo beforu William IVs deaLt thero was some flutter among ofTl clal people as to tlio designation under which tho Queen expectant should boO bo-O u ftn and reign lord Campbell at that timo Sir John Campbell and holding tho offlco of Attorney General represents himself as having decided this mattei m conjunction with Mr Charles Grovillo against Lord Ijndhurst who represented tho opposition in favor of the baptismal names for tho proclamation leaving it to the Queen herself to chooso afterward the name un der which which she should reign Among other absurd suggestions was ono that she should bo styled Elizabeth The assumption apparently was that Her JInjesty w is always to remain a maiden Queen with perhaps Lord Melbourne for her Leicester Lord John Russell for her Lssex and Sir John Campbell for her Sir Francis Bacon Tho fates happily decided otherwise but it is curious to think that but for u mere chance or caprice or good sense wo might now bo prepnnng for the jubilee not ot Queen ictona but of Queen Alexandria or Queen Goortiana I put Queen Elizabeth II entirely out of tho question Aimtmil I ales in New 2 York llorW |