ROYAL CHANGES IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2664, 31 August 1871, Page 3

ROYAL CHANGES IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN.

Of the persons who occupied thpcpcs when Victoria’s reign utmost all av dead or pi exile. Nicholas of Husain, Lpnis Phillippc of France, Ferdinand of Austria, Frederick William of Prussia, Charles John of Sweden, Leopold of Belgium, William of I fob laud, Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies, Louis of Bavaria, j\;b l W of ’Portugal, Sultan AfahWUluh Fope Gregory and pthers, all have gone beyond that river which, every breatliing thing must cross, Avithout aid of bridge, or boat, or balloon. Don Pedro 11. of Brazil is one of the'few Sovereigns of 1537 who survive—but he Avas then a child of .eleven years. Isabella; IL, ybo Bp«iush Queen, “ still li,ves,,’’ but aIA docs not Ucfng an exile, If avc look at the great changes that have taken plaetj since Victoria became Queen, we

cannot but be struck by their number, for they include the overthrow of the Papal temporal power, the conver sion of Italy from a number of smajl countries and foreign dependencies into a united kingdom, the loss of the European leadership by Russia, the destruction of the Germanic confederation, the defeat of Austria by Prussia, the overthrow of three brandies of the house of Bourbons, the restoration of the Bonapartes in France, the creation of two French republics, the conquest of France by the Germans, the fall of Napoleon 111., the recreation of the German empire under the house of Hohenzollern, the setting up of a new dynasty in Spain, the disestablishment of the Irish church,- the second British Reform, Bill, the Sepoy mutiny, the opening of; China and Japan to Western intercourse and influences, the gold discoveries of California and Australia, the establishment of oceau steam .navigation, the creation of the electric telegraph, . the conquest of Mexico by the United States, the secession war, and the abolition of American slavery and the overthrow of American slavcocratic rule, and many other strange events. Perhaps not the least remarkable of these changes is that which placed Victoria herself on the throne of Akbar and Arupgzebe.— The Watchman.