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',SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL, ST my little darling, with Patty Barclay and Priscilla Bail, were introduced to her. I was present, and not a little anxious on account of my girl, who kissed the queen's hand with so much grace that I thought. the Princess Dowager would have smothered her with kisses. Such a report was made of her to the king, that Miss was sent for, and afforded him great amusement by saying, `that she loved the king, though she must not love fine things, and her grandpapa would not allow her to make a curtsey.' Her sweet face made such an im pression on the Duke of York, that I rejoiced she was only five instead of fifteen. When he first met her, he tried to persuade Miss to let him introduce her to the queen ; but she would by no means consent till I informed her he was a prince, upon which her little female heart relented, and she gave him her hand—a true copy of the sex. The king never sat down, nor did he taste anything during the whole time. Her majesty drank tea, which was brought her on a silver waiter by brother John, who delivered it to the lady in waiting, and she presented it kneeling. The leave they took of us was such as we might expect from our equals ; full of apologies for our trouble for their entertainment—which they were so anxious to have explained, that the queen came up to us, as we stood on one side of the door, and had every word inter preted. My brothers had the honour of assisting the queen into her coach. ' Some of us sat up to see them return, and the king and-queen took especial notice of us as they passed. The king ordered twenty-four oflis guard to be placed opposite bur door all night, lest any of the canopy should be pulled down by the mob, in which (the >canopy, it is to be presumed,) there were one hundred yards of silk damask. The preceding narrative is pleasing from its simplicity and interesting in its minuteness. It is a good illus tration of the kind of matter with which the book 'abounds; although, unfortunately, the minute delinea tions by which it is filled are not always, scarcely even generally, of so pure, so peaceful, and so innocent a character. As it approaches the middle and latter period of Queen Charlotte's life, the incidents become more complicated, and lose their simplicity without gaining in interest. Concerning the last Queen Con sort of the Brunswick line—the second Caroline—wife of George IV., Dr. Doran says much, and it must be admitted generally in a fair spirit. On this subject, howeVer, with its perplexing and unpleasant details, we shall not enlarge. It has been so frequently before the public, and has of late received such painful amplification in the " Malmesbury Papers," as well as through other means of communication, as to afford as little room for novelty of illustration as the topic pre sents but few features of an inviting character. In the two volumes under consideration, Dr. Doran has done no small amount of service in collecting and condensing a mighty mass of widely-diffused materials, which he has wrought up into a readable compendium. If the book lack some of the higher attributes of moral teaching, which the subject is capa ble of bearing, the fault is probably as fairly attribu table to the subject treated of, as to the author ex 'pounding it ; and the public will cheerfully acquiesce in according to that author the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. lie had previously conferred on them the privilege of spending many an hour with pleasure and with profit ; he now adds to the former obligations a work more systematic in its character than those he has hereto fore produced. To say that it is not perfect, is not to reflect on Dr. Doran ; and to wish that it had been better than it is, is to do little more than express a hope that he will yet, and that ere long, come before us with a work more fully in accordance with the vigour of his intellect and the abundance of his re sources. The Rag-Bag : a Collection of Ephemera. By N. Parker Willis. London : Triibner and Co. Few men have laboured with such remorseless assiduity in the collection of anecdotes and incidents illustrative of the weaknesses, puerilities, and pettish nesses of great minds as Mr. Willis has, from time to time, exhibited for many years past. Having ex hausted his resources in the collection of fresh material, he seems to have fallen back upon the trivialities which in his period of better luck fell acci dentally in his way, and which, although not of suffi ciently high flavour," or in connexion with parties whose names would bestow on them ready currency, were insufficient to warrant the committal of them to instant print, yet were, nevertheless, carefully bagged by the Yankee trapper, into whose net everything seemed fish that would come. In other words, having expended his " domestic gleanings" of such men as Wordsworth, Southey, Professor Wilson, Jeffrey, and other " men of might," , he appears now t o b e com pletely "used up, ' and to rely upon desperate dips into his " game-bag" for whatever may chance to turn., up. Having transferred his collection-and- his pencil to the western sea-board of the Atlantic, he presents his readers with scraps and sketches- of men, mannevsp and scenery, as these have presented themselves-to his delineative eye in different places and on different occasions. For these avocations he• has- exhibited some genius and no limited ambition; his delineative skill will be readily recognised in the annexed sketelt.of AN INCIDENT IN NEW YORK. " The lower part of Broadway—below Barnum, that is to say--is, pretty much given over to, business and the masculine gender. Ladies seen south of St. Paul's, except in,l omnibus, excite that certain indefinable curiosity, which, like , the active attention to a glimpse of a pettidoatin a monastery, . arises from our sinner's interest in things, apparently astray: The impression, consequently, from seeing alady come out of Delmonico's, contains a certain indefinable difference from,the impression of seeing the same lady come out-of the New Yak Hotel—define it at your leisure. This,or.perhaps the mag netism of a pair of boots such as usually: contain a voter, but were then occupied by one of the unconetituent sex, drew a crowd of two or three hundred persons, the other day, to , the front of the masculine hotel above mentioned—patient spec tators, all, of the very ordinary phenomenon of a lady. about mounting a horse. The horse had his- objections. A man's hat, a riding habit of cloth of our wear,_ boots of indefinable extent, and whip held with an air of unmistakeable. efficacy, seemed to fail of their ordinary control.. The stable-man drew the spirited animal again and again, to- the edge of the side walk, and, as often, the lady tried in vain to get her foot in the stirrup. After repeated failures- she re-ascended the steps of the hotel, and stood observing the groom's. eftbrts to quiet the horse, not at all disconcerted by the very large audience (?) that was assembled, and, in fact, the whole affair, with the circular bowling green, below, looking like a scene in a circus. Presently came along a plainly dressed man who bad an idea, and no objection to lend it. He knew how to produce sub mission (probably in quadrupeds only) to• female domination. The horse was coaxed up to the side walk once more, and, stepping to the other side, the man took up the off fore leg i and held it while the lady mounted, the animal having evidently no confidence in resistance on three legs. Once-in the saddle, she put on the whip, caracoled up and down in front of the hotel till the pace was disciplined to her mind, and then, quietly dropping the reins, walked her steed tran quilly toward the South Ferry. The crowd looked after her till she was out of sight, it being yery busily whispered about, that the load, thus unwillingly borne away, was no less than the indomitable will:of the celeliyated Mrs.. Fanny Kemble." • • The above is a fair illustration of Mr. Willis's skill and taste as.. a. pen-and-ink picture maker, and few will venture to say that the thing is not knowingly, indeed cleverly, treated. Yet, all must agree in pity ing at least, if they do not condemn, that wretched taste which induces a man to see only in his fellow man the subject for a picturesque sketch—to perceive in his intercourse with nature and society only the materials out of which to fabricate a racy scene—that either or both may be coined into a few miserable dollars. This is a sort of literary and social treason which has been long bitterly complained of and no offender has been more flagrant in that species of delinquency than Mr. Willis. It is, therefore, some consolation for outraged humanity to know that his " Sketches from Nature" do not now include " interior representations taken surreptitiously on the spot" in respectable mansions, but are necessarily confined to " street views," and " passing portraits," taken without the owners' consent. it is to be regretted that talent such as that indicated in the above sketch, and such as Mr. Willis has been long admitted to possess, should not have been accompanied by that delicacy of feeling—that sense of social propriety, which impresses on every gentleman the knowledge that the door which has been unfolded in hospitality, should not be left open by the guest to the gaze of vulgar and idle curiosity. A Series of Christian Biography. No. 1, Life of James Bonnell. No. 2, Life of Nicholas Ferrar. London : Masters. Price 2s. 6d. each. The enterprising publisher, in his prospectus of the above series, states that—. In no branch of devotional literature is the Church of Eng land so deficient, as in biography. Indeed, she can be said to possess but one single standard volume of the kind—and that but ill adapted to the unlearned reader : we allude, of course, to Walton's Lived. Whether we look to the Fathers of the Primitive and undivided Church ; or to those great and good men by whom the Gospel was brought into this land : to those who have toiled and suffered in its defence in every age ; or to those who in the privacy of their Own homes have lived the most saintly among us, there is no accessible record con cerning them which we can place in the hands of our people. Particular schools and parties, within or without the church, have not indeed been insensible to the benefits to be derived from this kind of literature. put the Church of je r 'jl ~D. feri til°l England in het-comprehensive his toric yet to make. ill From the sources above referred t° ; o erlTl the present undertaking top rovdlw, ~ biographical sketches for general r eal ', 1 fro" .added a few nomes ofrecent times , ta7 ii , of of the church,_ as e.g. Nikon Fdt rio founder of "The Christian Brothe'le`elia treated without 'any leaning to the fro P -4 practice which- they may exhibit'diS el o olr l° !t i s the English Church, but simplY. ,llo , e- terir k holiness and self4lenial whichiS4 ll3 _, j A r ` — •elpg ii saint in all ages and conntries i .ancl" — A L of the series toeommemorate, rather''' . 0 1 tical rank or-social station. wa d 11- Py'ff/ 1 ; Sermons and treatises en:rep-e-, pit thing like the same manner as' „ ` , - 9 ). person. Itio words can pourtrx,h'oe bly the size, and beautp,. ao o e a t 11 1 ,. 0 t Crystal Palace, as a picture. g e 4 4 1 . 1 0, / o lii i goodness, piety, devotion, in v t actual history of a real - fpersoo f e " exercise:of these virtues:. ought to do - such and' such. Ono ' ," ready tn. say, ,it is very. true,, be - ,.." 0 11 1/1 t of the-world, and - from our po_siv let lijeif, ployment, it is impossible. Die i t ' a ll t „, some, persons have, in spite o ', t Ae" actually done so, then excuse encouragement to:try is. affOrdeu,,e; The two men,.whose lives area for- their likeness. in piety ! en"by their calling of life = showing , , 1 how possible it is. to exercise f„ - c eod l ol position where men may be P,"" r„ir a d H s u o r a l i d n m i g n ali g tii t Q he ir- tr3, o i u ffi n b g e li e ° o lif f e keb N o i n c il ht°a Zt trge g r i l;#;' times of the,' e of James. 11., and the beginn'T • every ono . who knows anything• t 6 4 1 land is those times, must difficult position in which ft , ‘ Vl o ry Church, must have been in, t° , e t !„/ the duties of his place, ard . 7 cr e ,)l ;4„ his'. loyalty ,to God. and 14° g J ll 700 W4_ , S the high character, ron n- tei e d 0" , men of the most eppositc spirit -of partizanship, that and the confidence of the ge,v, a . e i e s. 4 ,ject j y , , / ; way compromising his relli'" - e ffid,4, o biography is chiefly made "Por; 1 9 AV own meditations and, prayers,' 6 0 0 , 131',J1),, of the Christian ; at the san' o bets the practice of Daniel the P l Tylle g minister of the empire of 133 ,404,Piavari, retire for prayer and meditiet e niovvenitil his own chamber, without 1 1 ,T, t v, the f to ll 7 l could be followed under six*, , T o ve, of Accountant-general of lire 1 7 f of revolution and war, cotil', 11 6' 4 , 0 10, mune with his. God, withou t r 14i cP uti r duties. The leading facts in the c oP il o`p generally pretty well knovni v of 13 , 0 0",ei t ' . ao 0 1, op- ce e; ability, and with the certai n fore , ' TIP tV, to employment he was contel t aoci• f vote himself more entirelY t° FOC chit', at Little Gidding, after th.e Lro doi i 4 , e; monastic life, before the ce 1)) as Ili,' vows and the slavish obedien_oaesslo Rome has destroyed the us, li t, is u plicity of Christian retire e . o io o , 0 0 0 4 claim the admiration of ;i s terA e cl t Ar, aged, mother, his brother, n' s : als , co o r; , 07 1 1 in number about fort T' Pe r ,. re lig l „ e r sneers and scoffs of the by 1'01) expressed suspicion of P , 0.1) , t oes 0 . pr i ta ito e tf • the, of piety more like tury. oco • • 0," A t w ily I ' 4 ort The following incident a fa t hikel'' the case, the root of piety Their meeting was such as,Ttro so n 4, though twenty-seven Y m be u tle au en y a a p ir i e o c us tio p u a a r e i . it i a : meetings ol(l, o ' l3 hea l ' 'iti v ri e tportan ce aucto #3 11 , 1 emnetmfbroermofthpaerimiaoradeeirint,of thet,..o fisilevoc I n T he groni l , d at re d 'll t J l l his mother, knelt upon ms indic 3 ‘ e 1 0° 09 1 p sec ub ut li i c o w n o n f ce th rn e s p o r f u g u r e eat an d had c oo Ad ,., blessing. Modern custoerence thel; ho c 0 0 thenpe to the rev 0 i,to tpr This she retiseul " idtsarucuffhaparec:brootil He besoughit htrjr, tshe ha d give .1' M kl kk 1 :11 \ b•• e