lst August.
Tue Queen of the Netherlands, one of the youngest sovereigns in Europe and the only reigning queen, twenty-three-years old to-day. Her career, since she took the reins of power into her own hands, has been followed with deep attention in England, ruler as she is of a country to which we are bound by so many historical and commercial ties. Her career recalls to us the circumstances under which our late beloved Queen Victoria came to the throne nearly seventy years ago, and we cannot but be specially interested in the fortunes of one, who, we are told, has been anxious to make Queen Victoria her model. We shall all us join most heartily with Queen Wilhelmina's subjects here to-day in wishing their young sovereign many happy returns of the day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.