Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . s the seat of tlie Chinese gov-ernment, with the determination of exacting by force theconcessions which he fomid himself unable to secure bydiplomacy; exhibiting throughout firmness of purpose andunswerving resolution, he ultimately negotiated the cele-brated treaty of Tien-tsin. While in the East, his lordship) visited India and India he afibrded valuable assistance at the crisis of therebellion; and in Japan he negotiated a treaty of an im-portant character, which considerably increased our influ-ence in t
Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . s the seat of tlie Chinese gov-ernment, with the determination of exacting by force theconcessions which he fomid himself unable to secure bydiplomacy; exhibiting throughout firmness of purpose andunswerving resolution, he ultimately negotiated the cele-brated treaty of Tien-tsin. While in the East, his lordship) visited India and India he afibrded valuable assistance at the crisis of therebellion; and in Japan he negotiated a treaty of an im-portant character, which considerably increased our influ-ence in that comparatively unknoA\m country, and openeda wide field of commercial enterprise to the British mer-chant. On the twenty-second of April, 1841, the noble Earlmarried Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of Charles LennoxGumming Bruce, Esq., M. P. This lady having died in1843, his lordship married secondly Lady Mary Louisa,eldest surviving daughter of the late Earl of Durham, bywhom he has a family of four sons. The eldest, VictorAlexander, Lord Bruce, was born May IG, 1849. /. t-1 n n ANNE BOLEYN AND HENRY VIH. Anne Boleyn was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn,aftenvards Earl of Wihshire. Annes mother was LadyElizabeth Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. Shewas born ui the year 1507, and in her childhood accom-joanied Mary, the sister of Henry VIH., to France; whereshe remained in the court of that queen and of her suc-cessor, the wife of Francis I., for many years. The timeof her return from France is doubtful; but Burnet j^lacesit in 1527, when her father was sent in an embassy toFrance. At that tune she became a maid of honor toQueen Katharine, the wife of Henry VIII., and was receiv-ing the addresses of Lord Percy, the eldest son of theDuke of Northumberland. She appears to have quicklyattracted the notice of the king, who in a letter to her in1528, alludes to his having been one whole year struckwith the dart of love; and her eno-aarement with LordPercy was at this time b
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