Curiously enough, neither the birth, bap tism, nor continuation of Queen Victoria is a matter of official public record. One might suppose Hint, filed away in its appointed placo among the State archives, there could he found a document formally sating forth the birth of llio child who, though not heir-prcsumptivo to the throne at the time of the birth, was removed from it by only three degree?. But such is not the case. With regard to her birth, all that was deemed necessary was its announcement by the State officials, whose duty it was to be personally cognisant of the fact. In the huge public records building in Chancery lanc.whcrein are jealously guarded the muniments of ancient landed titles and the records of Royal treaties, one may see the marvellously well-preserved Doomsday Hook, which is the beginning of all things to the English conveyancer; the solemn com pacts of cardinals, envoys, ambassadors, and ministers; the priceless records of Royal prerogatives side by side with the grants wrung from unwilling monarchs to the growing power of the people. There, also, are preserved, and with equal care, a multi tude of writings which have no other interest, (lespitcthcirantiquily,than that which conies from the fact that they hai-c to do with'the trivial details of the most common incidents in the lives of the kings and queens of Eng land. But among them all there can be found no official or other record of the com ing into existence of a certain child, one Alexandria Victoria, who was destined to become greater than all those whose merest doings aro so faithfully recorded.
WENT TO BED FOR TEN YEARS.
