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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1901.
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HER MOST CRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN
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FRIDAY NEXT, 25th January. "THE LADY SLAVEY."
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On 24th January, 1901, from East Ballery,
STONECUTTERS' ISLAND.
All Ships, Junks, and other Vessels are cau- tioned to keep clear of the Ranges.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary,
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· Hangkong, pand January, 1901.
EOTHEN MARK LODGE, No. 164.
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Hongkong, 23rd January, 1901.
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FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"FORMOSA,"
"Captain Hodgins, will be despatched for the abova Ports, on SATURDAY, the 26th instant,
at Noon.
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This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout! with Electric Light and carries a Doctor."
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A Doctor is carried.
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wife of the third. Dake.: Until within a few weeks of her clevation to the throne, her life was spent in comparative retirement, varied by tours through different parts of the United Kingdora. Queen Victoria succeed ed her uncle, WILLIAM IV,, on June 20, 1837, as Victoria I, and her coronation was celebrated in Westminster Abbey, on June, 18, 1838. Her Majesty was married, on Feb. 10, 1840, to his late Royal Highness Prince ALBERT of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, by whom she had issue i
I..H.R.H.. Victoria ADELAIDE MARY LOUISA, Princess Royal, born Nor. a1, 1840 married Jan: 25, 1858, to H.R.H. the Crown Prince. FREDERICK WILLIAM of| Prussia; (FRIEDRIcit I. of Germany), widow June 15, 1888.
Sept. 1841, when, owing to their increasing of the year of her accession. Travelling on unpopularity, arising mainly from a want of land was accomplished in the old stage Bnancial ability, or at least of financial coach and on sex sail still held away, and success, they were obliged to give place to the wooden walls of England bad not given the late Bir. Robert Peel. Although he was place to the iron-clad. The journey to India pledged to maintain the corn-laws. he found and China was made by way of the Cape of himself compelled, in 1845, to acquiesce in Good Hope and was looked upon, as a very theit repeal, which was carried into effect. venturous undertaking, while the Atlantic This change in..Sir Robert Peel's policy was first crossed in the coronation year by caused a disruption in the Conversative a steamship, the Sirius and Great Eastern. party, and led to the accession to power of accomplishing the voyage in seventeen and Lord John Russell who was succeeded, in Jan.fifteen days respectively. The electric tele- 1052, by the Earl of Derby. In the following graph was unknown and news was semap- Dec. the Conservative party, beaten on their hored from Portsmouth to London, Wheat- budget, resigned, and gave place to Lord stone and Cook sealing their first palent ABERDEEN and the Coalition Cabinet, which for an electric selegraph in the summer of in Feb. 1855, was dismissed for having mis- the Queen's accession. Photography and the managed the Russian war. It was succeed telephone were yet undiscovered and the II. H. R. H. ALBERT EDWARD, Prince ofed by Lord PALMERSTON's first administra electric light had not been thought of. Wales, born Nov. 9, 1841, married March 10, tion, which was defeated on the Conspiracy Despilethe boasting inscription upan: "Queen 1863, the Princess ALEXANDRA of Denmark; to Murder Bill, in March, 1858, and Lord ELIZABETH's pocket pistol," ships could sail Offspring (1) George, -Duke of York, born DERBY held power for the second time up and down the English Channel unmo June 3, 1865, married July 6, 1893, to until June, 1859, when Lord PALMERSTON lested by the shore batteries, and the muzzle VICTORIA MAKY, daughter of the Duke of formed his second Cabinet. On his death, loader and flint-lock were still considered Teck,--Offspring, EDWARD ALBERT, born Nov. 1865, the ministry was remodelled, fairly serviceable weapons. In the hospitals June 23, 1894; ALBERT FREDERICK ARTHUR Earl Russell assuming the post of premier. the use of anaesthetics had not commenced, GEORGE, bom December 14, 1895 VICTORIA| His ministry having decided upon introduc and operations which are now considered to ALEXANDRA, born April 5, 1897; HENRY ing a Reform Bill, the duty of conducting it be simple ones were then unheard of. The WILLIAM FREDERICK ALBERT, born 1900. through the House of Commons devolved British Empire was small in comparison "to (a) LOUISE, born Feb. so, 1867, married to upon- Mr. GLADSTONE. Having been de its present immense extent and it is not too the Duke of Fife, July 27, 1889,-offspring,| feated on an important clause in June, 1866, much to say that the whole map of the world ALEXANDRA VICTORIA, born May 17, 1891) the ministers resigned. Lord DERBY formed has altered since 1937. Her late Majesty MAUD ALEXANDRA, born April 3, 1893; (3) his third administration, and during the saw all these changes come, about and in VICTORIA, born July 6, 1868; (4) MAUD, session of 1867 carried a Reform Hill, them she and the late Prince CoNSORT took born Nov. 26, 1869, married July 22, 1896, to thereby settling A question which
the keenest interest. Queen VICTORIA was Prince CARL of Denmark.
had long been stumbling-block, ever ready to lend a willing and interested III. H.R.H. Princess Alice MAUD MARY, impeding the progress of legisla
ear to any scheme which was to benefit her born April 15, 1843, married July 1, 1862, totion. The Conservatives. being placed in a subjects and humanity in general and many Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt "(she died;
is the hospital and charitable institution. Dec. 14th 1878);Offspring, Princess Louis of
which has good cause to remember her Battenberg, born 1863; Grand Duchess Serge
bounty. In science, art, travel, education,.. of Russia, born 1864; Princess HENRY of
philosophy, education and statesianship the Prussia, born 1866 ¦ Grand Duke of Hesse,
reign of our late. Queen has indeed been born 1868, and the Empress of Russia, born
remarkable. In what other period of history 1872.
are to be found names such 21 Darwin, MERSCHEL, FARRADY, BREWSTER, SOUTHEY, TOM MOORE, WORDSWORTH, TENNYSON, SWINBOURNE, BROWNING, CARLYLE, TIAC KERY, DICKENS, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, GEORGE ELIOT, TURNER, WATTS; MILLAJS, DEACONSFIELD, GLADSTONE, SALISBURY and CHAMURLAIN.. No reign can show so many landmarks in the struggle of "Know- ledge versus Ignorance as that of Victoria."
minority at the general election of 1868, Mr. | DISRAELI resigned office, and was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr. GLADSTONE. The chief events of Mr. GLADSTONE's adminis- tration were the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the passing of the Irish Land Act, and the Elementary Education Act, the IV. H.R.H. Prince ALFRED ERNEST AL- abolition of purchase in the army, the nego BERT, born Aug. 6, 1844, created Duke of tiation of the Treaty of Washington respect Edinburgh, May 24, 1866, married Jan. 231 ing the Alabama Claims, and the passing of 1874, the Grand Duchess MARIE ALEXAND: the Ballot Act. At the general dection of ROVNA, only daughter of the Emperor of Feb. 1874, the Conservatives again came Russia; (Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Aug, 22, into power, and a new administration was 1893) (died July 30, 1990) Offspring (1) formed by Mr. DISRAELI, afterwards Lord ALFRED, born Oct. 15, 1874; (2) MARIE, BEACONSEIELD. By virtue of the power born Oct. 19, 1875; married Jan. 10, 1893, conferred by an Act of Parliament passed to Prince FERDINAND of Hohenzollern-in the previous, session, Her Majesty was, And despite this great advance made in Sigmaringen, Crown Prince of Roumania. on Jan. 1, 1877, preclaimed Empress of arts and science the reign has seen war more Offspring-CAKOL, bom Oct. 15, 1893 India, by the Governor-General, at the
than once. The struggle in the Crimes was ELIZABETH, born October, 11, 1894(3) camp of Delhi, before an imperial assem-
long and bloody and was followed by rhs, VICTORIA, born Nov. as, 1876; married April 19, 1894, to ERNST-LUDWIG, Grand
blage of all the governors, lieutenant-gover-Indian Mutiny, the story of which forms one nors, heads of Government, princes, chiefs; of the most lurid pages in any history. And Duke of Hesse. Offspring-ELIZABETH, and nobles of India. On the defeat of the even now we have a war on hand in which the Conservatives at the general election of 1820, world has been shown the great possibilities Mr. GLADSTONE formed another Liberalforsmobilization possessed by the Empire. administration, which continued in office until June, 1885, when it was succeeded by
■ Conservative Govemment under Lord SALISBURY. After the general election of Nor. 1885, the Liberals again came into power, and the spring of 1886 was devoted by Mr. GLADSTONE to the consideration "of the Irish question. His Home Rule Bill,
born March, 11, 1895: (4) ALEXANDRA, born Sept, 1878; married, April 20, 1896 10 Prince ERNST," Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Off
E. is of superb quality spring-GOTTFRIED, born March 24, 1897 Tos and pronounced by lead-
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1901.
The sad news of the death of Her Majesty the Queen after an illness of only four days will come as a blow to her subjects through out the whole of the vast British Empire, or in other words there will be mourning the world over. And the mourning will be
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token of respect which custom demands, but each and everyone must feel that in our Queen we have lost more than a mere sover eign, for she was the friend and mother of all her subjects and by a thousand little acts of unstudied kindness and thought fulness has constantly endeared herself to everyone. As the leader of society the Queen set an example such as the world has never before seen, and which has left its in her, every doincstic virtue, was per impress upon Britain and the British
sonified and her influence upon her
been, people has
from this fact alone, immense. She was the ideal womanly woman, placing her duties to husband and children on a par with her duty to God and her country, and setting an example which all of hier subjects would benefit by following It is beyond question that under Queen Vic toria the British Court has been puter morals than any other court in-history, and fabthis-is-directly attributable-to-the womanly virtues of our lamented sovereign, who ever ret her face against all but what was upright, pure and true, and this several people have discovered to their cost.
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(5) BEATRICE, born April 20, 1884.
V. H.R.H. Princess HELENA AUGUSTA VICTORIA, born May 26, 1846, married July 5, 1866, to Prince CHRISTIAN of Schleswig- Holstein; Offspring (1) CHRISTIAN, bom April 14, 1867, died 1900. (3) ALBERT Jonis, born Feb. 26, 1869; (3) VICTORIA, born May 3, 1870, (4) LOUIE, born Aug. 12, 1872; married to Prince ARIDERT of Anhalt, July 6, 1891.
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VI. H.R.H. Princess LOUISE CARO-LINE ALBERTA, bom March 18, 1948, married to the Marquis of Lore, March 11; 1871; eldest son of the Duke of Argyll.
VIL H.R.H. Prince ARTHUR WILLIAM PATRICK ALBERT, Duke of Connaught, born May 7, 1850, married March 17, 1879, the Princess LOUISE. MARGARET ALEXANDRA VICTORIA AGNES, third daughter of Prince FREDERICK CHARLES of Prussia; Offspring (1) MARGARET VICTORIA, born Jan. 15 1882; (2) ARTHUR, boin Jan. 13, 1883 (3) VICTORIA, born March 17, 1886. -
VIII. H.R.H. Prince LEOPOLD GEORGE DUNCAN ALBERT, Duke of Albany, born April 7, 1853, married April 2, 1882, the Princess HELEN FREDERICA Augusta, daughter of the Prince of WALDECK and PYRMONT (he died March 7, 1884); left two children, ALICE, born February 15, 1883; and Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, born July 19, 1884.
IX. .R.H. Princess BEATRICE MARY VICTORIA FEODORE, born April 14, 1857, married July 24, 1885, to Prince HENRY MAURICE of Battenberg, who died 1896. Offspring; (1) ALEXANDER ALBERT, born Nov. 23, 1886 ; (2) Victoria Eugenie, bom born May 21, 1989; (4) MAURICE VICTOR Oct 24, 1887; (3) LEOPOLD ARTHUR Louis,
DONALD, born October 3, 1891,
however, met with so much opposition that the government decided to appeal to the country, and the result of the general elec-. tion of July 1886 was an immense Conser
tive majority Lord SALISBURY's second government came into power on August 3 and the Conservatives have been in office, ever since.
The Early Days of His Royal High- ness the Prince Consort," compiled under the direction of Her Majesty, by Lieut-Gen the Hon. C. GREY, was publish. ed in July, 1867, and was followed, in 1869, by "Leaves from the Journal, of our Life in the Highlands and in 1874, by the first volume of Mr. (now Sir) THEODORE MAR- TIN'S "Life of H.R.H. the Prince Consort," of which the fifth and concluding volume appeared in 1880. In 1885, Her Majesty published a second volume entitled "Mors Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands."
Her Majesty's last illness appears to have been a sudden one, for prior to Saturday we had no news of her being the least indis posed, but there have been rumours of the failing health of the Queen of late, and she has certainly had a deal of anxiety during the last year or two. At eighty years of age the death of a child or grandchild comes as severe shock, and Her Majesty is also said to have been grieving over the verdict of the physicians upon the health of the Em press Frederick, who is said to be suffering from cancer of the throat. These troubles, added to the worry of the war, undoubtedly hastened the end, but nobody expected it to be so sudden and to have been the result
of a paralytic stroke,
Soudan
As for minor wars, the reign has been full of them, as was only to be expected in an Empire of worldwide extent.. Among them we may put the China, Abyssinia, Ashantee, Afghanistan, Boer, Zulu and campaigns, to say nothing of a whole host of minor conflicts in which British arms have" been engaged. In all the campaigns under- taken during the reign, Her Majesty took the keenest interest, grieving over every casualty list and rejoicing at each victory, and every soldier of the British Army would have spent the last drop of his blood in the service of the "Widow of Windsor to have earned even one word of approbation from her.” .
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS: THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS.
HER MAJESTY SLIGHTLY RALLIED.
LONDON, January art.
A bulletin issued at 11 oc. says that Her: Majesty had rallied slightly and taken more food, and had had some refreshing sleep.
OBSTRUCTION IN THE BRAIN CIRCULATION.
The symptoms occasioning most anxiety point to a local obstruction in the brain circulation.
REPORTED STROKE OF PARALYSIS.
It is unofficially stated that a stroke of paralysis has affected the side of the face and speech. Lord Salisbury has been sum- moned.
maintained.
HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED,
The sudden prostration of Her Majesty has caused an intense shock throughout the
IMPROVEMENT MAINTAINED. The bulletin issued at soc. says that the It is difficult to realize that the Queen iiight improvement of the morning had been dead. To most of us she was an integrál portion of the Empire We have, the great majority of us, lived under no other sovereign. To us the Queen meant the Empire and the Empire meant the Queen, and we cannot yet realize that Victoria the Good has passed away and is now no more than a memory to globe. her subjects, while another, and he a King. reigns in her, stead. We have always known Her Majesty'. Ships, Her Majesty's Regiments and Her Majesty's Judges throughout our lives we have always thought of "Queen and country, and it will be difficult to take up the new order of things. The Queen's personality has been so great that it has permeated everything connected with our daily lives, and it will take a consider able time for us to accustom ourselves to the change, We have grown up in the pride of our Queen, and her death cannot but come us a real sorrow to tis. She can never be
The first domestic grief, which the Queen suffered was the loss of her mother, the Duchess of Kent, after a short illness, March 16, 1861, followed by the sudden death of the Prince Consort, to the great grief of the entire kingdom, Dec 14 in the same year. Her Majesty's intense sorrow for her irreparable loss. although it in a great degree disqualified her from appearing in public, and at court ceremonials, and imposed on her the habits of a life of comparative seclusion, was how ever, never allowed by her to interfere with the performance. of her important duties a The Queen too, held a restraining in sovereign.“Neither did it check the exer fluence over her Ministers, and it is said that cise of that anxious interest which the ever but for her the nation wouldattimes have been since her accession to the crown steadfastly plunged into costly wars which, however, her manifested for the social welfare of her peo- Majesty possessed sufficient influence to avert ple; nor cause her to relax her efforts to She has ever been averse to warfare and encourage and reward subjects distinguished would have been pleased to have seen the for their talents and merite; especially thbe Tsar's dream of universal peace become anyhom her late lamented, consort loved to accomplished fact. Even a Queen however, honour for the zealous co-operation with him cannot alter human nature, and although she in his high endeavours to promote the ad- has not been able to abolish war altogether,vancement of undertakings which hares for
He has concluded the longest reign in his-their object the moral, social, intellectual,eplaced tory without having to record an unnecessary and artistic progress of the nation; - It was a or unjust war, and that is a record of which source of great pride, to her subjects, and any sovereign might be proud. This res will doubles tend in no small degree to training and refining influence which the assuage theft abiding grief, that not only im Queen has exercised may be best illustrated er own yast dominions, but throughout the by a comparison of the manners of the peo-vilized world, her name was never.men ple in the last reign and this goes uned save in terms of sympathy, admirati
VICTORIA ALEXANDRINA, was born at atletion, and respect, as a Christian woma Kensington Palace on the 24th May, 1819, 4 and as a queen. It would occupy muc and was the only child of the fate, Duke of me space, than our limits admit Kent and of the Princess LOUISA VICTORIA & evch & brief outline of the political of Saxe-Coburg, her parents, who were stay Môf Ay Majesty's reign, and we can ing on the Continent, having hastened to fóre merely, glance at its more
featur. On succeeding to the
· England that their child might be born
a Briton." "The Duke of Kent died on Jan. 23; - Majest, found the Whig and Co 1820, and the general education of the young
was directed, undersker, mother
parties early evenly balanced in the House of "Commons:* Lard Melbaum, and his
But in mourning for the dead we must not forget the living. We people of greater Britain have lost the best and most beloved sovereign that the world has ever seen; but he who is now dur King has lost even more. With him and with our new Queen ALEX- ANDRA will be felt most sincere sympathy in their great and overpowering grief; the loss of the beat of mothers is indeed a high price to pay for a crown eren though it be that of the mighty Empire of Britain
Never before in the history of the world has a reign seen such mighty changes as have taken place in that of her late Majesty, When she came to the throne steam was but in its infancy, the railway line between Liver
Birmingham
DEATH OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Shortly after nine o'clock this morning the Royal Stand- ard was half-masted at Govern- ment · Ilouse, Headquarter
Barfleur and Tamar, announc- House and on HM. Chips
ing the sad news that Her Majesty the Queen is dead, We understand that telegrams to that effect are to hand, but up to 8,80-no official messa had arrived
THE DEATH OF HER MAJESTY.
How the News was Received, me first intimation that shrkouz received) of the death of Her Majes
Victor