. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . the seat of the Chmese gov-ernment, viith the determination of exacting by force theconcessions -which he found himself luiable to secuie bydiplomacy; exhibiting throughout firmness of purpose andunswerving resolution, he ultimately negotiated the cele-brated treaty of Tien-tsiu. WliUe in the East, his lordship visited India and India he afforded valuable assistance at the crisis of therebellion
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . the seat of the Chmese gov-ernment, viith the determination of exacting by force theconcessions -which he found himself luiable to secuie bydiplomacy; exhibiting throughout firmness of purpose andunswerving resolution, he ultimately negotiated the cele-brated treaty of Tien-tsiu. WliUe in the East, his lordship visited India and India he afforded 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 uukno^vn coimtry, 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 havmg died in1843, liis lordship married secondly Lady Mary Louisa,eldest surviving daughter of the late Earl of Durham, byAvhom he has a fiimily of four sons. The eldest, VictorAlexander, Lord Bruce, was born May 16, M^ ANNE BOLEYN AND IIEXKY VIU. Anne Boleyn was the daughter of Sir Thomas Bole^-n,afterwards Earl of Wiltshu-e. Annes mother was LudyElizabeth Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. Shewas born m the year 1507, and in her childhood accom-l^anied Mary, the sister of Henry VIII., to France; whereshe remained in the couit 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 placesit in 1527, when her father was sent m an embassy toFrance. At that time she became a maid of honor toQueen Katharine, the wife of Henry VIH., and was receiv-ing the addresses of Lord Perc}^, 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
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