THE QUEEN'S TITLE.
[TO rim EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—" Colonies" has I know not what of an unheraldic sound, but it is impossible to feel that Canada and Australia are included in "the British Isles ;" and surely still more impossible, while recognising India, with its majestic past, to leave Canada and Australia unrecognised, with their more majestic future. Might not Sir Charles Trevelyan's formulary be amplified into,—" Vic- toria, by the grace of God, of the British Isles and Colonies, and of India, Queen, Defender of the Faith?" The legend on the coins would, I suppose, be "Britt., Coll., et Ind., Regina, F.D."
Of Mr. Disraeli's pinchbeck pendant to the British Crown it is difficult to write with due decorum. His infelicities, he will him- self admit, should have been those of a man of genius.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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