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The Queen's Visit to Birmingham - Reading of the Birmingham Corporation Address to Her Majesty in the Townhalll, 1858. The Town Clerk reads: 'Most Gracious Sovereign, We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, humbly offer to your Majesty and your Royal Consort our cordial welcome. From the day of your Majesty's accession to the Throne we have regarded your Royal person with sincere and devoted affection, and we have long looked forward to an opportunity of emulating, with generous zeal, the ardent loyalty of our fellow-subjects in other great cities of your empire...In the name of the vast community we represent, wo humbly beg to convey to your Majesty our cordial thanks for the signal honour which your Majesty has deigned to confer upon the borough of Birmingham...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.