3rd November.
His Imperial Majesty Mutsuhito, Mikado of Japan, representative of a that claims that it was founded by Jimmn Tenno 2,562 y ago, was born at Kioto, the asicient seat of the Mikados and still the most interesting city in the Empir:, on the 3rd of November 1852, and completes to-day his fiftieth He succeeded his father Komei Tenno on the 13th of February 1867, but only as titular sovereign, the government of the country being in the hands of the Shogun, the de facto sovereign, as it had been for seven centuries. In, the following yeu, 1868, the usurpation of the Shogun overthrown after a short war, and Mursuhito kas now been the Truter of his empire for thirty four years, and has paved hans wich the aid of a of ability uesery the Wesé, an adm rvbl sovereign. All Britons will with, his own subjee's, whose devotion to him is a part of their religion
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.