ROYAL CHANGES IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 158, 15 March 1872, Page 6

ROYAL CHANGES IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN.

Of the persons who occupied, .thrones when Victoria's reign began, .almost all are-dead x>r in jexile." Nicholas—of Russia., Louis- Phillippe of France, Ferdinand of Prussia, Charles John of Sweden, Leopold of Belgium, William of' -Holland, Ferdinand of the two Sicillies, Louis of Bavaria, Maria of Portugal, Saltan Mahmoud, Pope Gregory arid others, all have gone beyond that river which every breathing tjbing must cross, without aid of bridge, or boat, or balloon. Don Pedro- 11. of Brazil is one of the few Sovereigns of 1837 who survive— but he was then a child of eleven years. Isabella 11, the Spanish Queen, "..still lives," but she does'not reign, being an exile, If we look at the great changes that have taken place since Victoria became Queen, we cannot butbe struck by their Dumber, for;they include the overthrow of the Papal temporal power, conversion of Italy from a number of small countrios and.foreign dependenciesinto a united, kingdom, the loss of the European: leadership by Russia;: the destruction of the Germanic confedera;ibn, the? defeat of Austria by Prussia, j' he overthrow of three branches of the i; nouse of Bourbons, the . restoration ; .of he Bonapartes in France, the creation )f two 1 French republics, the conquest »f France by the Germans, the fall of ISapleon 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 Bill, the Sepoy mutiny, the opening of China and Japan to Western = in ten ourse and influences, the iiold' discoveries of California and A ustralia, the establishment of ocean steam navigation, the creation of the electric telegraph, the conquest of Mexico by the United the secession War; and the abolition of American slavery and the overthrow, of Americn slayeojcratie 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 Arungzebe—- ' The Watchman.' .