She is beloved by all,

Queen! the Queen is coming!" and all wish to see her. With a coronal studded with diamonds upon her fair brow, and a dress not so gorgeous as appears on many ladies in Regent Street, she emerges from the door of her robing-room, in company with the Prince Consort, and three of their little ones—the Prince of Wales, aged ten, the Princess Royal, aged eleven, and Princess Alice, aged eight years - all modest and prettily behaved children. The crowd dare not pass too closely upon Majesty, and therefore, room enough is allowed for the Royal Family to move at their leisure. They have advanced to a statue against the wall, in marble, of a Shepherd Boy, who, having been lost in the woods, in a famished state had succeeded in reaching, at length, the door of a Nobleman, where he had begged in vain for food and shelter, and now was dying of starvation upon the doorstep. Nothing could look more like Death in the agony of despair. The sight is affecting, and brings tears even from the eyes of England's accomplished Queen herself. As she and her little ones stand in mute sadness before the Shepherd Boy, see her place her Queenly hand upon the flaxen head of the young Heir apparent to her Throne - the Prince of Wales and hear her "My son, say, birth I settled a fund upon you to be expended in charity to the poor. Never never suffer the cry of the destitute to be heard by you in vain." Her Majesty is a good, hearty woman, now thirty-three years old, and the mother of seven children, all of whom are living. In her manners she is dignified and pleasing, and her character is pure, and her examples always on virtue's side. She is benevolent, and does very much as a Patron of charitable Institutions.

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She is universally respected and beloved. had a purer Sovereign on the Throne.

England never Prince Albert is of the same age - her first cousin their mothers are sisters they were brought up together-loved each other in their childhood, and married, no one doubts, from real affection. He is a very good looking man— well educated at home on almost all subjects of general literature is quite ingenious in the science of mechanicsis a lover and adept of music-devotes himself to the cause of Agriculture, Literature, and Benevolence, and is very popular in England. He is a worthy companion of the Queen, though below her in rank, and wholly without political power.

The Royal party spend about half an hour in the Palace, and retire amidst the acclamations of the multitudes, and the pealings of all the great bells in the Edifice. This Great Exhibition is the child of the public spirit of Prince Albert and Victoria, who hope, by means of it, not more to promote the arts and sciences universally, than to exert, through its social effects, a power that shall be felt amongst the Nations in behalf of the Peace of the World. The time, we hope, is near by, long since predicted, when "Nation shall not lift sword against Nation, nor learn War any more.'

But we have consumed too much time in obervations from this gallery; let us descend and examine more particularly the articles of utility brought together from the different parts of the earth.

LETTER XXXI.

WALKS IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

Western Nave-Venus and Cupid-Precious Stones-A Dragon-Timber Trophy-Church Restoration-Christ on the Cross-Rogers' CutleryLight House-Slain Crusader-Russia Bridge-Liverpool Docks-Yard at the East End.

DESCENDING the Transept Gallery we commence our journey along the western avenue, starting from the great Crystal Fountain which is in the exact centre of the Palace. The whole of the western nave, and almost the whole of the eastern half of the edifice, is occupied by England and her Colonies, from East India to Canada and Van Dieman's Land.

Keeping on a line in the middle of the Avenue, the first object that we meet is a beautiful group in marble, as large as life, of Venus and Cupid — enough to make an old man fall in love. On its right, and also on its left, are cases of precious stones brought from the four quarters of the earth. Here too is a lot of English saddlesfor gentlemen, some for ladies, (English women are great riders on horse-back) trimmed with gold. A silver tablestand, weapons of war, models of pagodas, &c., surround a silk Trophy. This exhibits the silk manufacture of Spitalfields in all its variety, from furniture damask to the

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finest sewing silk. Here is a cast of Sir William Follet in his legal robes. He was as courteous as he was great, and this cast is life-like and full of character. Next is a Dragon that has seized a noble horse by the neck, and is ready to tear open his body with his murderous claws. It is in marble as large as life. West of this is the Canadian Timber Trophy, a huge pile of pine mill-logs, birch, bird'seye maple, cherry, black walnut and other plank, joists and boards, to tell the world what may be had for buildings and furniture in Canada. I wished there was a Timber Trophy for Maine also there; but this will answer us a pretty good purpose, for we have everything which Canada has in her forests, only a good deal more! New York had a specimen of her forests there. On the left are brilliant specimens of Soda Crystals-we never saw the like before. In the middle of the Avenue, we approach a model of Her Majesty's Opera House, as seen from the stage, preserving the most minute details of decoration. On its left is a large Bell, and on its right beautiful Vases in clay. Then comes an elaborately ornamented Mirror of immense size, which duplicates all the rich articles in the nave before it. By its side is a beautiful specimen of inlaying with copper, zinc and brass, used in contrast, working out figures of human faces. On the right is a collection of raw products from Ceylon. minerals, of gold, silver, copper, lead,

Near it, too, are zinc, plumbago,

coal, &c. The island of Jersey has contributed an immense gun, models of boats, &c. Next comes an interesting specimen of Church Restoration. It consists of a portion of the monuments of Philippa, Queen of Edward III., in Westminster Abbey. It was executed in 1730 in alabaster, at a cost of $10,000. There are statuettes and

angels surrounding it. Near this is a model of the orchestra of the Sacred Harmonia Society; the gallery is full of the Lilliputian performers, looking as earnest and bright as life. Beyond this is one of the best models in the Palace, viz., the Church of St. Nicholas, at Hamburg. Further to the west stands a Crucifix in Caen stone. On one side is represented Jesus in the act of dying; on the reverse, the elevation of the Serpent in the Wilderness; on the arms of the cross are the Good Shepherd, and the Prodigal Son returning; and down the standard of the cross are the four Evangelists and other Disciples. The model of Exeter Hall, supported on the sides by bronze statuettes, and brass ornaments, is in rear of Hamburg Church.

Jordan's machine for carving wood claims superiority by operating on the hardest woods, and producing figures much cheaper than by hand-work.

Next to this are immense crystals of alum, Rochelle salts, and nitrate of potash, and spermaceti, forming a chemical Trophy in the nave.

Next comes the Sheffield Trophy of cutlery, by the celebrated Rogers. Amongst other things, I notice a brilliant star on white ground, made out of two hundred thirty pairs of scissors grouped together in the star shape. Here also is a case containing twelve perfect pairs of scissors, so small that they do not weigh half a grain. There is also a sportman's knife, containing eighty blades; also a knife three-fourths of an inch long with fifty-one blades.

A bronze fountain in the middle of the Avenue, here sends forth its pure jets of spring water, that fall in sweetly murmuring sounds upon fantastic images, and that moisten a bed of tropical shrubs and flowers that surround it. A