. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. to which he hadsome months previously made a hur-ried and incidental one, for the pur-pose of taking formal possession, andof acknowledging it thenceforth as thehead-quarters of the Government, fromwhich the royal decrees would in fu-ture be issued, and where the minis-ters were left installed in their newoffices. On the occasion of a longervisit to his new capital, where he ar-rived on the 21st of November, theKing was received by Prince Hum-bert, the Ministers, the members of theMunicipality, and the Nationa
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. to which he hadsome months previously made a hur-ried and incidental one, for the pur-pose of taking formal possession, andof acknowledging it thenceforth as thehead-quarters of the Government, fromwhich the royal decrees would in fu-ture be issued, and where the minis-ters were left installed in their newoffices. On the occasion of a longervisit to his new capital, where he ar-rived on the 21st of November, theKing was received by Prince Hum-bert, the Ministers, the members of theMunicipality, and the National Guard,whilst the city was decorated withflags, and immense and enthusiasticcrowds thronged the way to the the 27th, the Italian Parliamentwas opened in Rome with a speechfrom the throne, in which, after ex-pressions of pleasure and congratula-tion, the King renewed his obligationsof faithfulness to those principles ofliberty and order which had regenera-ted Italy, and to which he looked forthe secret of strength, and a reconcilia-tion between the Church and theState,. r ■ Y/r-^^, SYDNEY, LADY MORGAN. IN tlie fragmentary AutoTDiographywhicli opens the two bulky Lon-don volumes occupied with Lady Mor-gans Memoirs, she tells us that shewas born on Christmas day, in an-cient ould Dublin. The year is notgiven : the writer, who was tender onthis subject, taking the opportunityto enter her protest against dates; but,judging from the statements of herage at the time of her death, it maybe set down at about the year 1777;though, in a note to the Noctes Am-brosianae, Mr. R. Shelton Mackenzie,a good authority in Irish, matters, saysthat she could not have been bornlater than 1770. However this mayhave been, in one sense the genial au-thoress and Queen of Society hadher own way with time, preseiving tofour-score much of her extraordinaryyouthful vivacity. Her sprightlyqualities and habits of life seem tohave been inherited from her father,Robert Owenson, the son, as we learnf
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