. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . which he hadsome months previously made a hur-Iied and incidental one, for the pur-pose of taking formal possession, andof acknowledo-inof it thenceforth as thehead-quarters of the Government, fromAvhich 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
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . which he hadsome months previously made a hur-Iied and incidental one, for the pur-pose of taking formal possession, andof acknowledo-inof it thenceforth as thehead-quarters of the Government, fromAvhich 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 princij^les ofliberty and order which had regentra-ted Italy, and to which he looked forthe secret of strength, and a reconcilia-tion between the Church and y SYDNEY, LADY MORGAN. IN the fragmentary Autobiographywhich opens the tAvo l)ulky Lon-don volumes occupied with Lady Mor-gans Memoirs, she tells us that she?\\ as born on Christmas day, in an-cient ould Dublin. The year is notgiven: the writer, who was tender ontil is subject, taking the ojjportunityto 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-brosianse, 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, preserving tofour-score much of her extraordinaryyouthful vivacity. Her sprightlyqual
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