Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — VICTORIA TO RETIRE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VICTORIA TO RETIRE.

BRITAIN’S QUEEN DESIRES TO END HER DAYS IN QUIET. Rumora of a Transfer of the Crown Again Revived-Feels the Weight of Condition of Her Majesty’s Health Is Precarious. Throne Will Go to Wales. 7“Tire rumor that Queen Victoria intends to favor-of the Prince of Wales is again current in London ( and it is added that court Circles are greatly troubled regarding tile condition of the queen’s health. Such reports have frequently appeared in recent years, only to be semiofficially contradicted later. ' But it now seems that thfire .may be some actual foundation for the statements njade. It is ridded- that her majesty has decided to spend her time in future at Balmoral or at Osborne, and that she .will give the prince and princess of Wales the" use of Buckingham palace gnd Windsbr Castle. There is nd doubt that the queen seems to Tee! greatly the weight of her years and bereavements, and her majesty is quoted, as having repeatedly remarked dqr.ing her last stay ip London at Buckingham .palace, upon the occasion of the recent

marriage of Princess Maud of Wales to. Prince Charles-of« Denmark: “This is my last visit to London.” . Reigned Nearly Sixty Years. Queen Victoria first saw the light in Kensington palace May 24, 1819, and ascended the throne June 20; 1537. She is the only child of Edlvard, Duke, of Kent, fourth son of-George 111., and of the Princess Louisa Vietoriti of Saxc-Co.burg. Abraham Lincpln was then a TO-yc%r-old boy./Gladstone ran about in pantalettes yvith frills to them and probably trundled a hoop, while Lord Salisbury had not as ■jat (.rime inla e'X !St Qlice, TliC Dllke Wellington was frosh from his triumphs at Waterloo, and Daniel Webster was in thO zenith of his fame. Feb. 10, 1840, Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, with whom .she had long, been deeply in-love. It proved, as every one knows, a most hap’fty union. During their twenty-one years of married life they were blessed with nine children —four sons and five daughters. George 111. is the only English sovereign who has occupied the throne, for a longer period than Queen Victoria. During the fifty-nine 3*ears-of Queen- \'iet-oi'i:i'.s-.rule Ahe_.pppu-. lation of the mother country has increased from something under twenty-six millions to close on forty-live minions, and that of the colonics has steadily grown from four millions to seventeen iTiillions. As Emyfcss of India he,r rule extends over nearly one and a half million square miles with a population of 275,090,,000. Albert Edward Is 55. Albcrt Ed wa rd, I ’ rin ee of Wa lbs and heir apparent to'the .throne of Great Britain and Ireland and the Empire of India, ’Wirs born at Bnekingbaiu-}>aiace A,ov.. l),. ■1841.' He studied under private tutors for several years, passed one session of the University of Edinburgh, spent a year at Oxford, where be attended lectures, and for .four years pursued his course at Cambridge. In 186(X he paid a visit to the United States and Canada, where be was

received with the distinction due to his rank. Albert Edward’s titles are multi-, tildiiidus. He is aK. a genetal of the army, eolopel of hussars, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay. Baron of Renfrew arid Lord of the Isles of Scotland, Earl of RuMift—and Carrick in Ireland, and. enjoys the patronage of twenty-nine livings in the church as Duke of Oornwal|, His marriage with Princess Alexandria of Denmark took place March II), LSfili. He was choseif president of- St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 18(57. At the close of the year 1871 he was.seriously ill with typhoid fever, which was about yie only dangerous sickness he ever experienced. The dignity which he esteems mbst highly Was conferred upon hint in 187 f by bis election as grandmaster of Freemasons of England.

QUEEN VICTORIA.

PRINCE OF WALES.