The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-05-23
NER BRITANNIc MAJESTY.

vanced age of seventy years. This
Is the limit beyond which the royal
singer of Israel predicated sorrow
and trouble for those whose superior
strength enabled them to pass it.
Since that day, however, the span
of human life seems to have length
ened, for in our own times we sec
influence and power, even to q de-
gree unsurpassed in history, welded
by septuagenarians and even octo-
genarians instead of their tottering
under trouble and sorrow. Some of |
them, indeed, make good deal of
sttrouble and sorrow" for their po-
litical opponents at home and dil To-
matte rivals of other countries
abroad. The late Emperor William
of Germany died at over ninety
years, having maintained his mental
powers and grip of the sceptre un-
abated to the last. w. +. Gladstone
at seventy-nine has no peer as an
orator in either House of the British
Parliament, an article in a London
paper, describing his delivery of the
tribute to Bright's memory, stating
that but for the deep lines in his
face and his frosted, scanty locks he
revealed none OF the marks of age.
Prince Bismarck, the Chancellor oil
Germany, is aged seventy-six, yet
still holds the helm of state with 3
firm hand. As an instance of his
complete grasp of affairs, it may be
recalled from the late foreign news
that, when the American Comlnls-
sioners to the Samoan Cenfere nee
were presented to him, they we're
surprised at his thorough knowledge
OF every detail of the Samoan qrles,
ton. To return to the illustr Gus
parsonage under consideration, at
last accounts there was no int Eli
gence Of an alarming nature regard
ing the health of the now venerable
Queen Victoria. She had leen
spending short season at Biargitz,
the charming seat of the late EN-
peror Napoleon Ills summer resi-
dence, and visiting en- route various
points in the south of Europe.
The prayers of the national ar
them--''Long live our noble Queen
and, "Long to reign over us''-have
been signally fulfilled. Queen Vic
toria if spared to the goth of June
will then have completed the fifty
second year of her reign over the
Empire whose morning drum. bent
rolls round the globe. No British
monarch has reigned so long, with
the exception of George H.. who
died in 1920 in the sixtieth year of
his reign. We may ON this occasion
quote from sketch of the Queen in
Chambers's Encyclopedia; d" In
Queen Victoria according to Mac
aulay, her subjects have found q
wiser, gentler, happier Elizabeth.
No former monarch has so thor
Oughly comprehended the great
truth, that the powers of the crown
are held in trust for the people, ant
are the means, and not the end o
government. This enlightened polio,
has entitled her to the glorious dis
tinction of having been the mos
constitutional monarch this countr,
has ever seen. Not less importan
and beneficial has been the exampl
set by Her Majesty and her lat
Consort in the practice of ever
domestic virtue. Their stainles
lives, their unobtrusiye piety, an,
their careful education of the roya
children, have borne rich fruit il
the stability of the throne, and hav
obtained for the royal family O
England the respect and admiration
of the civilized world. The pro
gress made by the nation in tn
various elements of civilization, cs
pecially in that of material pro;
perity, has been unparalleled; an
perhaps during no reign has
greater measure of political cor
tentpent been enjoyed" We cor
gratulate Queen Victoria represent
atiye. here, together with oil he
resident subjects, upon the eve O
this most auspicious anniversary
and join with them in heart,
"GoD SAVE THE QUEEN"
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