gladsome and open-mouthed, the upper lip shewing the teeth while speaking, but her Crown seemed to rest upon a forehead derived from her Mother and maternal Uncle Leopold.

Her Majesty, notwithstanding the fatigue she had undergone, was enabled to hold a Privy Council at four o'clock, which was attended by all the Ministers, and at which a proclamation was issued dissolving the Parliament and summoning a

new one.

ANECDOTES.

On one occasion, shortly after her Majesty's accession, she commanded her Ladies to attend upon her at Buckingham Palace at a certain hour, in order to accompany her to the exhibition of the Royal Academy. Her Majesty was, as usual, ready at the appointed time; but one Lady of the suite did not arrive until ten minutes afterwards. The Queen, taking out her watch, calmly remarked, "I have been waiting, my dear Lady nutes for your arrival: I trust such a circumstance will not occur again, as punctuality is of the utmost importance to me, and must be a ruling principle in my Palace." The Lady, somewhat confused by her unintentional negligence and its natural consequence, could not in the agitation of the moment arrange her shawl to her satisfaction, which her

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Majesty observing, she kindly placed it upon her shoulder, saying, with one of her sweetest smiles, "We shall all understand our duties better by and bye."

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About the same period, some sentences of Court Martials were presented to her Majesty for her signature. One was of death for desertion. The young Sovereign read it,-paused,-looked up at the official person who laid it before her. you nothing to say in behalf of this man?"-" Nothing, Madam, he has deserted three times." "Think again, my Lord," was her Majesty's reply, a reply deserving gratitude and love from all posterity. And," said the gallant veteran, as he related the circumstance to his friend, "I, seeing her Majesty so earnest about it, said, 'he is certainly a very bad soldier, but there was somebody spoke as to his character, and he may be a good man, for ought I know to the contrary." "Oh, thank you for that, a thousand times," exclaimed the Queen, and hastily writing, pardoned," in large letters, on the fatal paper, she put it across the table, with a hand trembling with eagerness and beautiful emotion.

A grand review in Hyde Park had been in contemplation during the month of July, at which her Majesty had intended appearing on horseback, and every precaution had been adopted to ensure the

safety of the Royal person, by the proper training of the superb charger on whieh the beautiful young Queen was to have exhibited herself, in so new and interesting a character, to her loving subjects Suddenly, however, it was discovered by the coterie surrounding the Throne, that the public appearance on horseback of a female Sovereign, on such an occasion, was altogether indecorous; and the Prime Minister represented to the Queen that, in his opinion, it would not be becoming in her Majesty to appear at the Review, except in one of the Royal Carriages. "Very well,”—her Majesty is said to have replied, "Very well, my Lord, then be it so ; but remember-no horse, no review." It was in vain that Lord Melborne remonstrated; the Queen remained firm; and although several attempts were made to alter her Majesty's determination, there was, during that summer at least, "no horse, and no review."

WINDSOR AND BRIGHTON.

On the 22nd of August, her Majesty made a triumphal progress from Buckingham House, through Kensington, Hammersmith, Turnham Green, Brentford, Hounslow, &c., to that ancient and magnificent Palace of her Fathers-Windsor Castle and never, perhaps, did a British Monarch take up his or her abode in that regal residence under circumstances more auspicious, or amidst congratulations