THE QUEEN'S TITLE.
[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPROTATOR.1
Sin,—Your correspondent, "A Peer," has, I think, nearly hit the point. Lord Macaulay used to say that, at the time of the Union, a great opportunity was lost by taking the cumbrous title of King of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," instead of " The British Isles," which exactly translates the old Latin " Britannim." Another such opportunity has now arisen, and " Queen of the British Isles and India" would be accepted throughout the world as expressing the actual position in a correct and graceful manner. It is not necessary that the British Colonies should be separately named, for they are all included with the mother-country, whose new honours they will share. " Queen" would, I believe, be a more popular title, even in India, than "Empress," and it would clear the question of many embarrass- ments. Her Majesty is already generally known to the people of India as " Queen of England," and the difference to them would be that she would be also " Queen of India."—I am, Sir, &c.,
C. E. TREVELYAS.
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