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NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

THE QUEEN..

We have this month the pleasure of placing before our readers a portrait of Her MAJESTY, the QUEEN. It is of course entirely superfluous to say more of Her Majesty biographically, than that Her Majesty, the daughter of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, was born May 24th, 1819.

From the education which Her Majesty has received under the direction of the Duchess of Northumberland and the Dean of Chester-from which, according to the testimony of three of our most eminent prelates, who were appointed some time since to report upon the progress which Her Royal Highness had made, Her Majesty has derived the greatest possible advantage-the people may confidently hope to find their young Sovereign successfully emulating the qualities of Her female predecessors on the throne of these realms.

It would be equally foolish and presumptuous to speak of the public character of a youthful monarch within a fortnight of Her accession, and still more foolish, although not presumptuous, to judge Her personal feelings on opinions by acts which are entirely those of the Ministers by whom She found Herself surrounded on the death of Her illustrious uncle. In private life we have heard that Her Majesty's benevolence is remarkable, and that frankness and sincerity are the leading features of August-VOL. L. NO. CC.

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Her character. It is devoutly to be hoped that these qualities will equally distinguish Her public conduct. The destinies of a vast empire are placed in Her hands, at a period when the greatest difficulties surround, and the greatest dangers threaten them.

Several anecdotes have been circulated tending to illustrate the firmness of Her Majesty's youthful mind, which are highly characteristic of that integrity of purpose which was so conspicuous in the conduct of Her Majesty's good and pious ancestor King George the Third; and the people look to Her Majesty's future career with a hope and confidence naturally warmed and strengthened by the reports to which we allude.

During the short period which has elapsed since Her accession, the young Queen has excited universal admiration by the manner in which, under the most trying circumstances, She has gone through the various ceremonies connected with Her exalted station. Her Majesty's manner at the council-table-a Queen then but of one day old-and Her delivery of the Ministerial Speech in the House of Lords, are spoken of in the highest terms. Certain it is that no Monarch ever came to the throne more popular than Her Majesty. Long may She continue justly so!-the Pride of Her own country and the envy of others.

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It is one of the many remarkable facts connected with the reigning family in Great Britain, that Her Majesty attained Her majority-fixed by the Regency Bill of 1830 at eighteen-a few days only before the death of our late gracious Sovereign.

THE GURNEY PAPERS.-NO. VIII.

THE astonishment which for a moment overwhelmed me at the sight of Daly, vanished in the next, when I recollected who the performer was, and what his character; indeed, it only served to assure me that his original and genuine spirit of enterprise, tolerably well exemplified by his public buffoonery of the preceding evening, had been in no degree weakened or debased by his "foreign travel," but had rather come, from the purification of African heat, even stronger and brighter than it was when first submitted to that test.

"Capital player, Mr. Delaville," said Sniggs, who had put on his glasses to execute the delicate touches in which he excelled.

"I need not introduce you to my son-in-law," said Wells to Daly. "I flatter myself not," said Daly, continuing his play with an earnestness which convinced me he was not playing for love, which, in a sporting phraseology, means, nothing. "A cannon and red hazard-five -score me five, Domine-how much is that-nineteen to eleven-and a hard game-what are the odds? Chalk, Domine, if you please—I am going to give you the regular Phillimore screw.”

"Domine!" said I to myself; "has he already got upon such familiar terms with my reverend and revered Socer as to call him Domine ?"

"There's a stroke, Mr. Sniggs," exclaimed Daly, after having, by dint of chalk and confidence, twisted the ball half round the table; "take your change. out of that-now for the cannon, just so-two and three are five, and five and nineteen are twenty-four-at least in my country-game-thirteen and sixpence, Sniggy.'

I stood amazed, wondering whether the "Domine "would order my facetious friend out of the house, or " Sniggy" knock him down with the cue; but neither of these by me expected events occurred. Sniggs, who was certainly out of play, and seemed to me equally out of spirits, surrendered the implement of his art to Wells, who was to take up the

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"I am extremely glad you are come," said Sniggs to me; "I am beginning to get rather fidgetty about Tom. He has contrived not only to shirk taking any of the medicine which I made up for him, but has managed to make himself master of two bottles of cherry-bounce of Mrs. S.'s own manufacture, which were inadvertently left in a cupboard in his bed-room. The contents of one of these, and more than half of those of the other, he has swallowed. The result has been a terrible accession of fever, and occasional delirium, and his appearance is, I assure you, extremely alarming. I should have been at Ashmead now, if I had not heard that you were expected here at dinner."

"And is there any eventual danger to be anticipated ?" asked I. "It is impossible to say," replied Sniggs; "I have left him in the care of my young man, and I hope he may get a little rest; but there's no knowing what may happen if we are not able to overcome the inflammation."

"If anything fatal were to occur," said I, "it would kill my poor brother; and then his being left here—and▬▬”