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The Morning Post tells an anecdote of Queen Victoria's accoucheutent— " Her Majesty signed the commission for giving the Royal assent to various bills on Tuesday morning, about five o'clock, scarcely three hours before her accouchement. The commission was despatched by the Lord Chancellor to her Majesty by a special messenger, who went by the nine o'clock train from Paddington on Monday evening. It was mentioned to the Queen, that a commission requiring her signature had arrived, but that she need not sign it till the following morning. About five o'clock, however, feeling that her accouchement was fast approaching, and with that presence of mind so characteristic of her, recollecting that an important public document was in the Castle awaiting her signature, she immediately directed it to be brought ; and although not free from pain and anxiety, affixed her signature, with the same freedom of hand as usual, to the commission and the sheets of parchment upon which the names of the bills were inscribed. As there were seven sheets of parchment, the Bigmature of the Queen was required to be as often repeated."
A marble statue of Prince Albert, executed by the celebrated sculptor Wolff, was landed at the St. Katherine's Docks on Wednesday afternoon, out of the ship Mary Ridgway, from Leghorn.
The King of Saxony, after a lengthened tour through England and Scotland,—during which he visited many places celebrated for their natural beauty or for their manufacturing or commercial importance,—has returned to his own dominions. In the course of last week, he visited Taymouth Castle, Perth, Stirling, Falkirk, and Linlithgow ; and on Thursday he arrived at Dalmahoy Castle, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Morton. On Friday he viewed the various public buildings and establishments at Edinburgh ; and ascended the Castle Hill, the Calton, and Arthur's Seat. On Saturday, he sailed in Lord Milton's yacht in the Frith ; and on Sunday at two o'clock, after hearing mass, he embarked at Granton, in the war-steamer Lightning, for Ostend.
Another of the Bonaparte family has departed. Joseph Count De Survilliers, once the intrusive King of Spain, died at Florence, on the 28th of last month. He was attended in his last moments by his surviving brothers, Louis, ex-King of Holland, and Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia.
Dr. Wolff, who arrived without difficulty at Bokhara, does not appear to be able to leave it. The Khan will not allow him to go away, under pretext that the Emir of Mersched (the capital of Persian Khorassan) retains one of his envoys. Is this intrepid traveller destined to partake in the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, whose graves only he was enabled to find ? The courage and zeal which he has shown in this enterprise merit a better fate.—Revue de Paris.
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