'418th May. Ow Thursday next Her Most Gracious Majesty completes the eighty-first year of her life and very nearly the sixty-third> year of her reign. It needs no words from us to say what a glorious rife and reign it has been and continues to be, the remarkable thing being that the longer the Queen's reign is, the more firmly and thoroughly she establishes herself in the hearts of her subjects. Mer conduct during the present war, which we may be sure she did everything possible to avoid if it could be avoided, and her noble resolve to sit Ireland this year, have made us all love and admire her more than ever. In this cosmopolitan community we cannot make the Queen's Bi birthday a public holiday, but Britishers here should treat it as such fav as they possibly can. There is, we are glad to know, to be more public recognition of the day than usual. In the morning there will be a review of the Hermione's men and a march past on the Public Recreation Ground, to which all the officials in Shanghai are invited, and which it is hoped all British subjects will attend and join in the cheers that will be given for our Queen. After the march-past a tiffin is to be given, by subscription, to the men of the Hermione, and we understand that there is to be further recognition of the day at the British Consulate-Gen Except in the two Jubilee years, 1887 and 1897, British subjects have {not been very careful to assert themselves even on the Queen's Birthday, while Englishmen have allowed St. George's' Day unrecognized that next Thursday will be an exception to the poor rule that has prevailed of late years.
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