NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE eightieth birthday of the Queen, which is to be cele- brated in London on June 3rd, actuallyfell on Wednesday last, and was celebrated on that day at Windsor, throughout the provinces and the Empire, and in many parts of the United States, with the greatest enthusiasm, and without a touch of anything that was formal or perfunctory. No one was under orders to celebrate the event, but yet it is not too much to say that there was hardly a British subject who did not do reverence to the Queen either in thought, word, or deed, for the grandeur, and yet simplicity, of the Queen's nature has sunk very deep into the hearts of her people. There has probably never before in the history of the world been a Monarch who was loved so entirely for her own sake, and out of admiration for her high character. Though there is no touch of what Coleridge called "servile jure-divino Royalism" in the hearts of those who are proud to be subjects of the Queen, the love and loyalty felt for her is without measure or reserve.
