Queen Victual/es fourth child is born. Cannon thunder, bells ring,
and people rejoice as in loyalty bound ; not perhaps without some genuine satisfaction that an illustrious lady, with whom all the world is proud to claim a sort of bowing acquaintance, is out of trouble. As the race of GEORGE the Third's family is gradually disappearing from the scene which it has prominently occupied for the larger half of a century, a new generation is growing up to occupy the vacant stage. The prospect for them has improved, both politically and socially. The bigoted love of war, which was the mania of 'an Kings, is declining in England, and a GEORGE the Third's morbid obstinacy is not likely again to be the means of betraying the country to destructive contests. Public opinion is soberer, and it less idolizes and less persecutes Kings and Princes; who are promised a better regimen as members of the state, much to their own advantage and safety, while as men and women they enter a more rational condition of royal society—less peculiar, less pampered, less open to vicious indulgences, less restrained in all that is the refined but genuine enjoyment of human existenCe,
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