the sweetness with which her offering was accepted, the exuberant delight expressed by the Princess, and her high admiration of the ponies. These pretty little animals were speedily provided with a handsome harness, the plated ornaments of which were embossed with the Princess's coronet and initials; a low, light phaeton was also immediately built, just large enough to hold the young Princess and her governess; a lilliputian postillion, in a neat livery of green and gold, with a black velvet cap, was mounted on one of the ponies, and an outrider on horseback preceded the little equipage. The Princess was quite in love with her new acquisition; and every morning during the summer months, and generally again in the afternoon, she rode round the park or into the country in her favourite vehicle. A portrait of the Princess in her pony phaeton, and an excellent representation of the whole equipage, was, some years ago, drawn on stone by Doyle, and published by Dickinson, of Bond Street.

VISIT TO WINDSOR.

EARLY this summer the Princess Victoria received an invitation, for the first time, from the King, to spend a few days, in company with her royal mother and sister, at the royal lodge in Windsor Park. With a glowing countenance and a heart bounding with anticipated delight, she entered the carriage which was to convey her to the abode of her royal uncle, and arrived there, together

with the Duchess of Gloucester and a select party of the nobility, on Wednesday morning. Nor were her expectations disappointed, the pageantry of the court equipages as they rapidly traversed the green hills of the forest dazzled the eyes and excited the imagination of the enraptured child; a train of carriages conveyed her with the King's party to the magnificent castle; led by his Majesty himself, she made the circuit of the whole range of private apartments, then receiving the last touches from the hands of gilders, burnishers, upholsterers, &c. She was now old enough to understand the noble design upon which this superb suite of rooms had been completed, and young enough too, to be enchanted with the gorgeous magnificence they already exhibited; here she beheld all the appendages of luxury in forms which, even to a child born in a palace, presented no familiar idea, except indeed the realization of the fairy feats of Eastern magicians; she looked on with an admiration which produced great enjoyment to the august owner and creator of this splendid scene. Through drawing-rooms, thronerooms, and others of equal grandeur, the party passed to the dining-room at the north-east angle of the terrace; and here the noble child's enthusiasm received a new impulse, the glorious prospect which burst at once upon her view

"Of grove, of lawn, of mead,

Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among,
Wanders the hoary Thames along

His silver winding way;"

drew forth expressions of almost wild delight, and proved that her young heart was as susceptible to the charms of nature as to the most splendid efforts of art.

Then came all the accompaniments of a royal banquet, the costly service of plate, the long train of attendants in brilliant liveries, the beautiful arrangement of the conservatory, whence issued the inspiring strains of the King's matchless band of wind instruments; and even the luxuries of the table, though her prudent mother did not permit her interesting charge to partake of them, could not fail of strongly affecting her infant mind. Seated between his Maje y and the Duchess, she felt as in a dream, but pleasure, and especially in its excess, easily fatigues; and the happy child, when the hour of retirement arrived, gladly laid her head upon the pillow, and obtained in a peaceful sleep a renovation of spirits for the new but equally exciting enjoyments of the following day.

On Thursday morning the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Duchess of Gloucester, took her two daughters to visit the Princess Augusta at Frogmore, when the little Princess had ample opportunity of running about those very pretty gardens, and pursuing the childish sports of which her amiable and light-hearted sister was always willing to be the promoter and companion. On returning to the royal lodge after this pleasant change, Princess Victoria was put into a doublebodied pony phaeton, with her aunt the Duchess of