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 influence. The union was one of mutual affection, and has been remarkably happy and fortunate. The royal pair have already nine children—Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess Royal, born November 21st, 1840; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born November 9th., 1841; Alice Maud Mary, born April 26th., 1843; Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6th., 1844; Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25th., 1846; Louisa Carolina Alberta, born March 18th., 1848; Arthur William Patrick Albert, born May 1st., 1850; Leopold George Duncan Albert, born April 7th., 1853; and Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, born April 14th., 1867. All these children are carefully trained under the supervision of their royal parents, and the family of the Queen is one of the best governed and guided in England.

We might record royal journeys by sea and land more extensive than any made since the Revolution; these are only of importance to our purpose as showing the activity of Victoria's mind, and the wise economy with which all her private affairs are managed. She finds time for all she wishes to do, and the means from her allowed income. She is never in debt. She is liberal in her charities, and, ft-om her private purse, has pensioned many deserving persons, including a number of the literary ladies of England. Compare Victoria's character and conduct since she came to the throne with the best sovereign of her royal line.

He who has been vaunted the good king, George the Third. He was narrow-minded, cruel, and selfish. It is notorious that be delighted in signing death-warrants, and never would grant a pardon to the condemned unless driven by the greatest importunities. Victoria pardons even against the remonstrances of her advisers; and so painful to her is the signature of her name to the death-penalty that she has been relieved from the duty, though the delight of the pardoning power she holds firmly. Of the manner in which their respective sentiments of honour and honesty contrast, the following, from the pen of an English gentleman, will testify. "Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of George the Third, died considerably in debt, of which his son, rich as he was, never paid a single farthing. So much for George the Third as a son; let us look at him as a Father. No sooner was George, Prince of Wales, (afterwards George the Fourth,) born, than his father laid hands on the Duchy of Cornwall and all other property to which the son was entitled, appropriated the rents and profits thereof to his own use, and never accounted to the latter for any part of them whatever, (as he was bound to do on the son's coming of age,) but sent the son to Parliament for the payment of his debts!

How different the conduct of !

With an income of not much more than half the amount of that possessed by her grandfather, George the Third, her almost first act on coming to the throne, was to pay her father's (the Duke of Kent's) debts out of her own privy purse; and on the birth of her son, (the Prince of Wales,) she had his Duchy and other property put into the hands of responsible commissioners to be protected and made the most of for him till he was of age."

It is impossible to study carefully the manifestations of character in the sexes, without seeing on every side proofs of the superior moral endowments of the female. Woman is the conservator of truth and purity; the first teacher and best exemplar of the Christian