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AND NORTH ONTARIO AD EE, SESS « Extremes are generally errors ; the Truth usually lies between." VERTISER. a | Go [$1.50 Per Axyom, iv ADVANCE, PORT SEPTEMBER 26, 1867. N [WHOLE No. 59, Put Perey Shonord NORTH ONTARIO ADVERTISER ( y Bony Morning X NEW BUILDING, QUEEN , PORT PERRY, 0. W., ©o! Notices of "the Political, So- and Moral Yuastions af the day; Ag- 1" and Commercial extracts; an of the General 8nd Local News of ok, togathier with earetally selocted 1.50 a year; but 11f paid in Ne - TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 'Ten lines and under--3 Jager tions, +1. 00 ) ten lines, 1st insertion per line, ,.08 : Bach subsequent insertion. .02 | KF Professional and business Cards, six limes and under, 5 per annum, 3 for six _ months. From six to ten lines, 8 per an- num. I" Merchants and others can contract | ~ for a certain space, with the privilige of having new matter insertéd at the end of i very three mapths, on favorable terms, 3 Displayed Advertisements are meas- - ured by a scale of solid Brevier, and charg- ~ 8d accordingly. _ EI Advertisements sent without written * anstruetions will be inserted until forhidden ~ and eharged for full time. 3 J No casual Advertisements inserted ules paid for in advance. Merchants will oe expected to pay quarterly. _ X3 Orders for discontinuing advertise- Metts must be in writing, otherwise the 'publisher will not be responsible. DEPARTMENT. Basause 'four increased facilities Pamph- 43, Hand Bills, Posters, Programmes, Bill leads, Blank Forms, Circulars, Check ,o0ks, Business Cards, Receipt Books, Ball Jurds, &o., &o., of every style and color, "an be executed more prom d at low- or prices than at any 'im the county. E. MUNDY, Editor and Publisher. Business Directory. OiEn DURNHAN, Judge of the iL; te te. Office s ot the Court. ee ue NG. REYNOLDS, Sheriff. -- the Court House. 3 Court ouse, 3 PERRY, Registrar. Office on ok St. 1 - J: Engineer. Office, at the use. 1 AS. OLDEN, Official Assignee. Office uo MoMillau's Block, Brock St. 1 J. MACDONELL, C lerk of the Peace » and Oouaty Solici 1 tor. HAM, Deputy Clerk of the Crown aud Pleas; Clerk of County Court d Registrar of the Surrogate Court. Office at the Court House. 1 OCHRANE & COCHRANE, Barristers, - Attornies, Conveyancers and Notaries Public, &c. Office over Mr, Bigelow's store, Part Perry. W. M. Ooenrang, Port Peyry. © HAMER GREENWOOD, Attorney-at- 'o Law, Solicitor in Obaneery, Notary 'ablic, Conyayancer, &e., Whitby, Rooms Xt to the Registry office, Brock st 1 4» J. WILSON, Barrister, Attornoy-at- LVs Law, Solicitor in Chancery, &o.-- ge. next to Registry office, Brock street, hitby. © 1 . Ooonnaxa, Oo. Orown Atty. LBERT SPRING, Lionxseo AvorioNen . for ownships of Reach, Brock, Uxbridge a tt. Orders taken at this fice, and dayd of sale appointed. [J BURNHAM, Clerk of Third Division LLs Oourt, County of Ontario. Orrion--Over J. Biglow's store, Port BY AUTHORITY, sued at Port Perry. ; the Scugog House. HENRY OHARLES. T PERRY | Stables. Proprietor. The pub- with first-class Horses te rates, usi- il ad it thei nt above Company, as the rates are very now -| and security perfect: the travelling public will find it to bea with Liquors of the choicest brands. always be accommodated with good boats and Fishing Tackle. Scugog will find at this house guns, and tackle. been built in connection with this House, 22 x 80 feet, called Port Perry Hall, and i certs, or Shows. plied with choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. years, and that he has now renovated and re-furnished the building throughout. t{ premises are pleasantly situated, opposite and the Stages for Uxbridge and Beaverton piUror. Offs; T on hand a large quantity of Bricks and Drain Tiles, at his And is prepared to increase his operations to meet the increasing demand. Contracts for the furnishing, and laying up of Bricks in houses, &c. NOT OFF THE TRACK! $2 a doz. for Photographs, 25¢, Each for Lettergraphs ! Jewelry and Accordeons PROCLAMATION of the undersigned that there are certain individuals resident in and about Port Perry who contemplate erecting Dwellings, &c., in the aforesaid Town of Port Perry, aforesaid residents of Port Perry, and its vicinity that T am and tory manner, all such whether of Wood, Brick or Stone. Sash and Door Factory, I am prepared to farnish Sask, Doors, Mouldings, Scroll- Sawing, Wood-Turning Flooring on the SHORTEST NQTIOE AND AT REASONABLE RATES. Flooring for sale. VICTORIA Mutual Fire Insurance ment, to offer insireres perfact security and low rates of premium. Brick or Stone for $1,000........... $10 Wood and Out-buildings for $1,000... 15 W.M. COCHRANE, April 18th; 1867, ONTARIO BOYTEL! BROCK ST. WHITBY. Oy C. DAWES, Proprietor. THE RAILROAD HOUSE PORT PERRY. N.SINCLAIR, - - - PROPRIETOR. Tez Subseriber begs to state that having 4 re-furnished the above establishment, most comfortable home. "Good Stabling, attentive Ostlers, and the best of accommodation are always at the service of our customers. KF" The Bar is kept constantly supplied Parties wishing to enjoy a day or two of Fishing or hunting on Lake Scugog can N. SINCLAIR. Port Perry, August 8, 1866, 1-tf. Royal Canadian Hotel, PORT PERRY, OC. W. J. J. SHAW - - - PROPRIETOR, Fishing or shooting parties for Lake good boats, .A new and commodious Hall has lately 8 open for Political Meetings, Balls, Cou- The Bar has been refitted, and is well sup- Good Stabling and Altentive Ostlers. Port Perry, August. 8, 1866. 1-tf THE ROBSON HOUSE! (LATE SCRIPTURE'S HOTEL,) DUNDAS STREET WHITBY, C. W. GEORGE ROBSON - . - Proprietor, HE subscriber begs to announce that he has leased the building formerly known as Scripture's Hotel, for a term of The the Post Office, and in the centro of the Town. The Railway Omnibus calls at the Hotel, cave the door every morning. ¥3 Careful ostlers always in attendance. EO. ROBSON, 1-tf, August 10, 1866. DR . JONES, ASSOCIATE CORONER FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO, Prince ALBERT. Sia J ssldonse--Souya, Brock, Bricks & Drain Tiles E subscriber wishes to acquaint the Public with the fact that Le las now Yard, in Port Penry, The subscriber is, also prepared to take JAMES GOOD Port Perry, Aug. 17, 1866, 3m BUT RUNNING AT THE RATE OF AND =--~ALSO~-- WATCHES and CLOCKS, AND #3" Repaired at J. A. OLARK'S Photograph Car, Brock St., Uxbridge. Uxbridge, Oct. 20, 1866. 14-tf rr re ad To All Whom it May Concern !! NOW ALL MEN by these Presents : That it having come to the knowledge Now Tms 13 Tugrerore 10 NoTipy the prepared to Build, Erect, Complete,'in a substantial and satisfac. BUILDINGS, ' AND WHEREAS having leased the y Face-Planing and Given under my hand at Port Perry, in the Do sali of Reach, and County of Ontario, this 4th day of April, 1867, (Signed) GEO. ROBINSON, y wilder, Nors.--4 few Thousand Feet of Seasoned 34 COMPANY. HE aim of the Directors of this Com hin ul and ui Beare BATH OF INSUBANOR FOR THREE YEARS : ARMERS interest to insure in the 'W. L. BOOKE! Secretary Treas. Hamilton, _dgent for North Ontario, {on from Chicago, his for Gnas with ---- {and then obeyed. .|from the window pane and looked Angry Words, BY JAMES MIDDLETON. Angry words are lightly spoken. In a rash and thoughtless hour, Brightest links of life are broken By their deep insidious power ; Hearts inspired by warmest feeling, Ne'er before by anger stirred, Oft are rent past human healing By a single angry word. Poison-drops of care and sorrow, Bitter poison drops are they, Weaving for the coming morrow .. Saddest memories of 3 Angry words, 0, let them never ¥rom the tongue unbridled slip ; May the heart's best impulse ever Chock them, ere they soil the lip, Love is much too pure and holy, Friendship is too sacred far, For a moment's reckless folly Thus to desolate and mar. Angry words are lightly spoken, . Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirred, Brightest links of life are broken By a single angry word. Escaped from Justice. It was a bitter night in Jannary --a night when homeless wanderers on the moors might Lave sank down frozen to death, and the very marrow seemed to congeal in ones bones, ' There's one advantage in steam,' growled a fat old man in the corner seat ; wind and weather don't affect it. No flesh und blood horse could stand a night like this, but the iron horse keeps straight ahead, whether the thermometer is al zero or at boiling water heat. Just then the conductor entered, ' Tickets, gentlemen, if you please." * IVs a dreadful night, Conductor.' I said, feeling with stiffened fingers for my ticket, in'the breast pocket of coat. . ' Dreadful, sir,' feelingly responded the conductor. ' Why, the brakemen can't live outside, and so I Jook the other way when they creep in, poor fellows, to get 4 breath of warm air at the stove, We have not had such a bight since a year ago the second of Feburary, when Tom Blakeslee, the baggage master, froze both his feet, and a woman who was coming got off 'at Blinn's 'her baby in ber * Ayo, frozen to death ; and she never thonght, poor thing, but that it was asleep. 'My baby's cold? says she, but we'll soon warm it whee we get home." It was just such a night at this.' : And the conductor opened the door,und plunged across the coupling into the next car, crying out. ' Hardwick |" It was quite a considerable city with a handsome iron depot, flaring gs lamps, and the usual crowd around the platform, with hands: in its pockets and its cigar ends flaming through the night. Our car was nearly the last of the long train, and but one passenger cutered it--a slender young girl, wrapped in a grey blanket shawl, and wearing a dear little travelling hat of grey straw, trimmed with sione colored velvet flowers, She seemed to hesitate, like one unused to travelling, and finally sat down near the door, ' Pardon me, young lady,' said I, but you had better come nearer the stove. She started, hesitated an instant, 'Does this train go to Bayswater 7' she asked in a voice so deliciously soft and sweet that it seemed to thrill throngh me. ' Yes ; can I be of any service to you? 'Oh, mo--at least not until we reach Bayswater. I would like a carriage then." _' We shall not be there yet these three hours." 'Do we stop again 2 ' Only at Exmouth.' She drew a deep sigh, seemingly of relief, and settled back in a cor- ner, By the light of the lamp that bung in its brass fixture opposite, I could see her face, that of a lovely child. Apparently she was no more than sixteen, with large blue eyes, golden hair, brushed smoothly back from her face, and a little rosy mouth like that of a baby. * "Do you expect you atin swater, asked incidentally. ' No, sir--I am going to school there." : <It will be an awkward hour for you to arrive by yourself--onein the morning.' ¢ Oh, I am not afraid,' she said with an artless little laugh. "I shall go straight to the seminary.' . So the express train thundered or, with steady, ceaseless pulsing at its iron heart and constant roar. Suddenly the signal whistle sound- od, and the train began to slacken ts speed. pel ' Surely we're not at Exmouth,' I thought ' unless 1 have fallen uncon- sciously asleep and allowed the pro- gress of time to escape me.' I glanced at my watch ; it was barely half-past eleven, and I knew we were not due at Exmouth,' until after twelve. I rubbed the frost iends to meet , my child I out, . We had stopped at a lonely little way station in the midst of dense Port Perry. ' 1s this Exmouth Tt was the soft voice of tho pretty traveller opposite. 'No--1 don't know what place it is {'some way station. .~. Docs this train stop at way sta tions ' Not generally ; they must have been specially signalled here. You are cold, my child--your voice trem- bles. ¢ It is cold,' she said jn a scarcely audible voice, drawing her shawl around her, 'OhI wish they would hurry on J' ' We are moving once more,' I said. * Couductor,'--for the man of tickets was passing throngh the cars --' why did we stop at that back- woods place ? be hurriedly passed by. Now I knew perfectly well that this answer was not the true solution of the matter, Onr delay did not exceed half a minute, altogether, too short a time for replenishing the boilers ; and where ou carth was the water to come from in that desolate stretch of barren pine woods. Five minutes after, the conductor re-entered the car ; I made room for him at my side. ' 'Sit down conductor--you have nothing to do this minute. He obeyed. ' What did you mean by telling me such a lie just now 2 I spoke under my breath ; he re- plied in the same tone. ' About what ' About the reason we stopped just now.' He smiled 'To tell you the truth, I, stop- ped to take on a single passenger--- a gentleman who has come down to Bayswater. 'For the pleasure of travelling once more over the same routo ¥' ' Exactly so---for the purpose of travelling it in a certain society. Don't Le alarnied for your own safety --jit's a detective policeman.' I was about to repeat the words in astonishment; when he motioned me to silence. ' Where is door yonder, with a ragged for ca pulled over his eyes. Did yon ever gee a more perfect specimen<of the dilapidated countryman # _ I smiled ; I could bardly belp it. * What is the case * A muyrder--a man and his wife and two little children-- their throats cut last night, and the house set on fire afterwards. 3 ' Great heavens! what a monster |» We had continued the conversation throughout in a whisper, scarcely above our breath, and now the con- ductor rose and left me to study the faces of my fellow passengers with curious dread and horror. Somchow, often as I revolved the matter in my mind, my fancy would settle on a coarse, gross-looking man opposite with a bushy beard and a shaggy coat, with the eollar turned up around his ears. I felt convinced that this man, with the heavy hang- ing jaw, was the Cain ; and Jas I looked furtively across I caught the wide open blue orbs of the fair little girl. Obeying the instantancous impulse of my heart, I rose and went over to her. ' You heard what we were saying, my child ? f Yes--a murder--oh, how horible!' 'Do not be frightened--no one shall hurt you J' She smiled vp in' my face. with sweet confiding innocence. Our stay in. Exmouth 'was very brief; but during the de- lay I could see that the watchful detective had changed his seat for one nearer the brutish man in the shaggy coat. 'See,' faltered the young girl, * they locked the car doors at Exmouth ; they are unlock- ing them now,' She was right. ' Probably they were fearful that the criminal would escape,' I remark: ed in an undertone. ~~ * ¢ Will you--may I trouble you to "3 a glass of water." I ro¥e and made my way towards the ice-cooler by the door, but with difficulty, for the train was again under rapid motion. To my disap- pointment the tin goblet was chained to the shelf. Z No mater.' said she ; with a win- ning smile, 'I will come myself.' I drew the water, and held up 'the cap ; but instead of taking it as she approached, she brushed suddenly past me, opened the door, and rush- ed out upon the platform. in ¢ Stop her | Stop her J' shouted the detective, springing to his feet, she will be killed ; conductor, brakesmen ~=~hold up J 3 'There was a rash, a tomult, a'bus- tle. 1 was first upon the platform, bat it was.empty and deserted, save by a half frozen looking brakeman, who Jooked horror stricken. ' She went past me like a shadow and jumped off as we crossed Cairn turnpike road,' he stammered. ' Jumped off the express train. Well, said the conductor, shagging his shoulders, ' she must have been killed instantly.-- What mad folly." ' It's five hundred dollars ont of pine woods, * Out of water, was the reply, as |' swater, but I was a A waman concern- ed will doanythin elieve.! "What ? 1 ejaculated, * you surely do not mean that ¢hild-- 'I med,' said the detective calmly, * that that child, as you call her, is Attila Barton, a married woman of twenty=8ix years of age, who last night murdered four persons in cold blood, all was trying to escape to Canada. > That's what I mean.' The-4#in Waa stopped and a part of us, headed by the Pd adap pi. detective went back to search for any trace of the beautiful young creature, whose lovelirjess and apparent inno- cence had appealed so strongly to my sympathies. Nor was it long before we found her, lying quite dead by the(side of the fall, and mu- tilated almgst beyond recognition. * Well, she's escaped justice in this world it tn the next,' said the de- tective gloomily, as he stood looking down on hey remains, * Do you suppose she expected to be able to [spring off the morning train without injury 2 I asked. ' Without/much injury ;----women pable creatures. But I 2d of such insane foliy, or I should Have taken prompt mea- sures to preyent it.' They lifted up the dead fair thing, and carried |t to the nearest place of refuge--a lanely farmhouse among the frozen bils, and we retarned to the train, reathing Bayswater only a few minutes behind our regular time. And when {n the next morning's papers I read an account of the mur- dress I thought of the slender crea- ture's blue eyes aid rose-bud mouth, with a strange pitying thrill at my heart. | A Graphic D orig tion of Ne Tip W. Hepworth Dixo the early dwelling Saviour : \ Four miles south &f the strong Greek city of Seplioris, hidden uway among the geutle hills, \hen covered rom the base to the [crown with vineyard and fig trees, lay a natural nest or basin of rich red and white earth, sta [like in shape, but a mile i fertile, nthus describes place of "our rillage, which, in a ery stone scemed.to emarkable as having lig history and no distin- No great roads lead sunny nook. No traffic came it, no legions marched through ity Trade, war, adventure, pomp, pased through it, flowing from West to Kast, from Fast to West, al the Romani road, But the meaddws were aglow witli wheat and barley. Near the low grounds ran a bel of gardens, funced with stones, ir which myriads of green figs, red' pomegranates and golden citrons ripened in the summer sun, High upithe slopes, which were lined and planted like the Rhine and Bink gen, hang vintages of purple grapes, In the plain beneath the mulberry trees and figs, shone daisies, poppies, tulips, lillies, and anemonies, endless in their profusion, brilliant in their dyes. Low down on the hillside sprang a well of tvater, bubbling, plentiful, and sweet, and above this fountain of life, in along street, straggling from the fountain'to the synagogue, rose the homestead of many shepherds, craftsmen and vine dressers. It was a lovely and humble place, of which no ruler, no historian of Israel has ever yet: taken notice. No Rachel has been met and kissed into love at this well; no Ruth had gathered up the sheaves of barley in cornfields; no tower had been built for observation on this height; no camp had been pitched or battle fought in this vale. That one who would become dearer to the fancies of men than either Rath or Rachel, then walked through those fields, drew water at this spring, passed up and down the fanes of this hamlet, no seer could then have surmised. "Tle place was more than obscure; the Arb may have pitched his black tent by the wall, the magis- trate of Sephorus must have known the village, bat the hanilet was never mentioned by the Jewish Scribes. In the Bible, inthe Talmud, in the wri- tings of Josephus, we search in vain for amy record of this sacred place. Like its happy neighbors, Nain and Endar, it was the abode of husband- men and old dressers, whose lives were spent in the synagogue and the olive grove, away from the bright Greek cities ahd- the busy Roman roads. doubt it had once been ged of either an Arab or a He- y but we do not know the tits Hellenic form. The the town Nazaref or pretty lady likea loeo ine? Don't give it up-- plenty of reasons. She sparks, t ports the 8), bas a train following sess over the plain, : man and his wife were ar- rested the other week in the Paris ion, the former charged with bankruptey.--Thy were +» 'Noeflects," was the reply sarcher, when the size of the n caught his attention, i It wasa nest Woll, my boy, do you know what syntax? means ? said. a schoolmas- my pocket, said the detective ruc- fully. 'I didn't want a row before ter to the child of a teetotaler. Yes, Bir; duty upon spirits, harried any one else. Queen Victoris's Book. THE ROYAL COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE, (From the London Times, July 27th.) * * Long before this time the project of a marriage was afloat in the minds of macy of the Prince's family. 'Indeed when only a little child he had been told that such a union was destined for him, Noth- ing, however, passed between the Queen and Prince on the su un- til after the second visit of the latter in 1830. But the King of the Bels gians had openly broached the sub- ject before that time ;--** It was pro- bebly in the early part of the' year that the King, in writing to the Queen, first mentioned the idea of such a marriage ; and the proposal must have been favorably received, for in March, 1838, the King writes to Baron Stockmar, and gives an ac- count of the manner in which Pripce Albert had received the communica- ction which [of course with the Queen's sanction] he made to him. The King writes :--* I have had a long conversation with Albert, and have put the whole case honestly and kindly befire Him. He looks at the question from its most elevated and honorable point of view. He con- siders that troubles are inseparable from all human positions, and that therefore, if one must be subjected to plagues and annoyances, it is bet- ter to be so for some great or worthy object than for trifles and miseries, 1 have told him that his great youth would make it necessary to postpone the marriage for a few years. I found him very. sensible on all these points. But one thing he ob- served with truth. I am ready, he said, to submit to this delay, if I have some: certain assurance to go upon. But if, after waiting perhaps for three years, I should find that the Queen no longer desired the marriage, it would place me in a very ridicu- lous position, and would, to a certain cxtent, ruin all the prospects of my future life." The Queen, it would seem, wished for delay. She * did not wish to marry for some tice yet." Her Ma- jesty says, writing for herself, '¢ she thought herself still too young, and also wished the Prince to be older when he made his appearance in Eugland. In after years she often quent delay of her marriage, Had she been engaged to the Prince a year sooner than sho was, and bad she married him at least six months earlier she would have escaped many wials and sufferings of different kinds." The Prince and his father seemed to have objected from the first to the proposal for delay. In a letter to Baron Stockmar, dated the 12th of September, [just after the return from the tour] the King of the Belgians writes ; : 'The young gentlemen sirived here yesterday. Albert is much im- proved. He looks so much more manly, and from his. tournure one might easily take him to be twenty- two or twenty-three, [At this time he was not nineteen.] I have spoken to Albert, he adds. * * * What his father says upon the sybject of the marriage is true. Albert is now passed eighteen. If he waits till he is in his twenty-first, twenty-second, or {wenty-third year, it will be im- possible for him to begin any new career, and his whole life would be marred if the Queen should change her mind. A delay, however, was fixed upon, and it was during this delay that Prince Albert paid his visit to Italy, of which we have just spoken. The Prince returned to Cobourg in June, 1839, and in October of that year paid his second and decisive visit to England. He seems to have feared that the Queen was likely to change her mind, and that when she asked for delay she perhaps pleaded for re- lease from the engagement gltogeth- er. Let the Queen's own words, emphatic, and not to be read without deep interest, speak on this subject : The Queen says she never enter- tained any idea of this, and she af- terwards repeatedly informed the Prince that she would never have She express- es, however, great regret that she had not, after her accession, kept up her correspondence with her cousin, as she had done before it. Nor can the "Queen. now [she adds] think, without indignation against herself, of her wish to keep the Prince wait ing for three or four years, at the risk of ruining all his prospects for life until she might feel inclined to marry |. And the Prince has since told her that he came over in 1839 with the intention of telling her that if she could not then make up. her mind, she must understand that he could not now wait for a decision, as he had dope at a former period when his marviage was at first talked about, The only excuse the Queen could make for herself is in the fact that the sudden change from the se- cluded life in Kensington to the in- depend of her position as Queen Regnant, at the age of eighteen, put all ideas'of marriage out of her mind, which she now most bitterly repents. A worse school for a young: girl, or oné more detrimental to all natural feelings and affections cannot well be imagined than the position of a Queen at eighteen; without experi ence and without a husband to guide and support ber. This the can state from painful experience, and she thanks God that none of her daughters are exposed to such danger. : On the 10th of October, the Prince, accompanied by his brother, arrived Sr ag erdfpomnnn at Windsor, at half-past seven in the evening. They here met with the most cordial and affectionate recep- tion by the Queen, who received them herself at the top of the staircase, and conduct em at once to the Duchess of Kent. The three years that had passed since they were last in England had greatly improved their personal appearance, Tall and manly as both the Princes were in figure and depor t, Rrince Albert was indeed ently handeome.-- But there was also in his' counten-- ance a gentleness of expression, and a peculiar sweetness in his smile, with a look of deep thought and high intelligence in his clear, blue eye and expansive forehead that adds a charm to the impression he produced in those who saw him far beyond that derived from mere regularity or beaa- ty of features. The way of life at Windsor during the stay of the Prin- ces is thus described :--* The Queen breakfasting at the time in her 'own. 'room, they afterwards paid her a visit there ; and at two o'clock had luncheon with her and the Duchess of Kent. in the afternoon they all rode--the Queen and Duchess and the two Princes, with Lord Melborne and most of the ladies and gentle-- men in attendance, forming a large cavalcade. There was a great din. ner every evening, with a dance af- ter it three times a week." Qn the 15th there was an important inter- ruption to the ordinary routine of the day. The Queen had told Lord Melborne the day before that she had made up her mind to the marriage, at which he expressed great satisfac- tion, and he said to her, as her Ma- jesty states in her journal, ¢ I think it will be very well received, for I bear that there is an anxicty now that it should be, and I am very glad of it," adding in a quite paternal tone, ' You 'will be much more comfort. able ; for a woman cannot stand alone for any time, in whatever posi- tion she may be." Can we wonder that the Queen, recalling these cir- cumstances, should exclaim, * Alas | alas |" The poor Queen now stands in that painful position | An inti- mation was also given to the Prince through Baron Alvensleben, Master of the Horse to the Duke of Cobourg, and long attached to his family who bad accompanied the Prince to Eng- land, that th ucet wished fo8p / hunting early with fis" brother, returned at twelve, and half an hodr afterwards obeyed the Queen's sum= mons to her room where he found her alone, After a few minute's con- yersation on other subjects the Queen told him why she had sent for bim, and we can well pnderstand any little hesitation and delicacy she may have felt ia doing so ; for the Queen's position, making it impera- tive that any proposal of marriage should come first from her, must ne- cessarily appear a painful one to those who, deriving tlieir ideas on this subject from the practice of pri- vate life, are wont to look upon it as the privilege and happiness of a wo- man to have her hand sought in mar- riage instead of having to offer it herself. The same day the Queen thus wrote to the King of the Belgians ¢ Windsor Castle, Oct. 15, 1839. My Dearest Unscig,--This letter will, I am sure, give you pleasure ; for you have always shown and ta- ken so warm an interest in all that concerns me. My mind is quite made up, and I told Albert this morning of it. The warm affection he showed me on learning this gave me a great pleasure. Ie Seems per- fection, and I think that I have the prospect of a very great happiness before me. I Jove him more than I can say, and shall do everything in my power fo render this sacrifice [for such in my opinion it is] as light as I can. He seems to have great tact--a very necessary thing in his position. These last few days have passed like a dream to me, and I am so much bewildered by it all that I know hardly how to write ; but I do feel very happy, It is abso- lutely necessary that this determin- ation of mine should be known to no one but yourself and to Uncle Ernest until after the meeting of Parliament, as it would .be consider- ed otherwise neglectful on my part not to have assembled Parliament at ounce to inform them of it. : Lord Melborne," whom I have of course gonsulted about the whole af- fair, quite approves of my choice, and expresses great satisfaction at this event, which he thinks every way highly desirable. y word Melborne has acted in this business as he has always 'dove to- ward me, with the greatest kinducss and affection. Wesalso think it bet- ter, and Albert quite approves of it, that we should be married very soon after the Parliament meets, about the 'beginning of February. ray, dearest uncle, forward these two letters to uncle Ernest, to whom 1. beg you will enjoin strict secresy, and explain these details, which 1 have not time to do, and to faithful Stockmar. I think 'you might tell Louise of it, but none of her family. I wish to keep the dear young gentlemen Tere till the end of next month. . Ernest's sincere pleasure gives me great delight. 'He does so adore dearest Albert. : Ever dearest uncle, Your devo! ted nicce, The King, in his reply, #ays that the Queen's choice had been ** for these last years" his conviction of what would be best for her happi- ness : fo V. R.|took place on the 1Qth "In your position, which may and will rhaps become in future even more ifficult in a political point of view, u could not exist without having a appy agreeable snterteur., And 1 am much deceived fish I thiok I am not,] or you will find in Albert just the very qualities and disposi- tion which are indispensible for your happiness, and which will suit your own character, temper and mode of life. You say most amiably that you consider. it a sacrifice onthe part" of... Albert. This is trae in many points, because his position will be a difficult one ; but much, I may say all, will depend upon your affection for him. If you love him ard are kind to him . he will easily bear the bothers of his position, and there is a steadiness, and at the same time a cheerfulness jo his character which will facilitate thin? What Prince Albert Limself felt on the subject we can learn from his own letters. He thus wrote to his grandmother : "The subject which has occupied us 80 much of late is at last settled. The Queen sent for me alone to her room a few days ago and declared to me in a genuine outburst of love and affection ( Ergusse von Herzlichkeit und Libe) that I had gained her whole heart, and would make hér intensely happy (uherglucklich) if I would make her the sacrifice of sharing her life with her ; for ghe said she looked on it as a sacrifice ; the only thing that troubled her was that she did not that think she was worthy.of me. The joyous openness of manner in which she told me this quite enchanted me, and I was quite carried away by it, She is really most good and amiable, and Iam quite sure Heaven has not given me into evil bands, and that wo shal! be happy together. " Since that moment Victoria does whatever she fancies 1 should wish or like, and we talk together a great deal about our future life, which she promises me to make as happy as possible { Oh, the fature | does it not bring with it the moment when I shall have to take lenve of my dear, dear home and of you! I cannot think of that without deep melane choly taking possession of me. Tt was on the 15th of October that Vic- toria made this declaration, and I have hitherto shrunk from telling ou ;-but how does delay make it PR "Yes 1 rule lly Sridegrodin, es, [am actually a and about the 4th of Petraes hope to see myself united to her I love, "You know how matters stood when I last saw you here. After that the * sky was darkened more and moré.-- The Queen deglared to my uncle of Belgium that she wished the affair to be considered as broken off, and that for fcur years she could think of no marriage, I went, therefore, with the quiet but firm resolution to declare on my part that I also was tired of the delay, and withdraw entirely from the affair, It was not, how- ever, thys ordained by Providence, for on the second day after our arri- val the most friendly demonstrations were directo ! towards me, and two days later I was secretly called into a private audience in which the Queen offered me her hand and heart." On tho 15th January, 1840; the Queen opened Parliament in person, and announced her intention to marry Prince Albert. On the 10th of Feb= ruary the marriage took place. BIRTH OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. Ou the 13th November, 1840, the court' returned to Buckingham Palace, where. on th##31st, the Prin- cess Royal was born. The Prince, writing to his father, on the 23:4, says : ' Victoria is as well as if no- thing bad happened. She sleeps well, has a good appetite, and is ex- tremely quiet and cheerful. The little one is very well avd very merry. »* ¥ 1 should certainly have liked it better if she had been a son, as would Victoria also; but at the same time we must be equally satis- fied and thankful as it is. x The rejoicing is universal." * For a moment only," the Queen says, ¢* was he disappointed at its being a daugh- ter aud not a son." His first care was fur the safety of the Queen, and ' we cannot be thankful enough to God' he writes to the Duchess of Gotha on tie 24th, "that everything has passed so prosperously." During the time the Queen was laid up, © hig care and devotion," the Queen re- cords, #* were quite beyond express- ion." He refuses to go the play or anywhere else, generally dining alone with the Duchess ot Kent, till the Queen was able to join them, and was always at hand to do anything in his power for her comfort. = He was content to sit by her in a dark- ened room, to read to her or write for her. ' No one but himself ever lift- ed her from her bed to her sofa, and he always hel to wheel her from her bed or sofa into the mext room, For this purpose he would 'come in- stantly when sent for from any part of the house. As years went by he became overwhelmed with work? (for his attentions were the same in aj]l the 'Queen's subsequent confine- ments,) "this was often done at much inconvenience to himself, but he ever came with a sweet smile on his face. "In short," the 'queen adds, his care for her was like that of a mother, nor could there be a kinder, wiser,or more judicious nur: The Princess. Royal's christening e ing of February, 1841, the first anni 32 she Queen's happy marriage ; but the account of this, as well as the other events of that year must be reserveg for another volume,