of state rooms being better adapted to the latter purpose at the old than at the new Palace.

But whilst her Majesty devoted so much care to the interior apartments of her future Metropolitan abode, the gardens and parks which surround it were not forgotten. No sooner was the royal residence established at Buckingham House, than the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, acting upon plans executed by the Queen's own hand, and remarkable for the taste and judgment in arrangement which they displayed, gave orders for the immediate employ of several hundred persons, for laying out, not only the spacious grounds immediately adjoining Buckingham Palace, but also a great portion of the Green Park; the improvements in which will, it is understood, be in suite with those of St. James's Park, executed under the tasteful and discriminating eye of George the Fourth. A full view of both parks is commanded from the window of her Majesty's private apartments; and, except from these windows, no adequate idea can be formed of the extreme beauty of the landscape below.

It was greatly to the regret of the inhabitants of Kensington, that her Majesty and her illustrious Mother took their departure from their immediate neighbourhood. Half-past one was the hour appointed for the removal; long previous to which time an immense concourse of respectable persons had thronged the avenues and every open space near the Palace, from whence a view of the departure of

the august personages could be obtained. Shortly after one, an escort of Lancers took up a position on the Palace Green; and, precisely at halfpast, an open landau, drawn by four grey horses, preceded by two out-riders, and followed by an open barouche, drawn by four bay horses, the servants in royal livery, arrived from the Queen's mews at Pimlico; and about ten minutes afterwards they drew up at the grand entrance to the Duchess of Kent's apartments. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent and the Baroness Lehzen, almost immediately entered the first carriage, amid the deafening cheers and salutations of the numerous crowd, which were acknowledged with the greatest kindness and condescension. In the second carriage were the Marchioness of Tavistock and Colonel Cavendish.

The Queen looked pale, and a shade of sorrow sat upon her countenance, which excited no surprise, since it could not be without deep and mingled emotion that our gentle-minded Sovereign quitted the residence, in which so many of the anxious as well as the happy days of her young life had been passed. The ardent features of her character were well known; and it was not to be expected that one so constituted could leave the home of infancy and youth-the scene of early, and patient, and noblyrewarded studies-the apartments wherein she had enjoyed the constant watchfulness of a mother's guardianship, and the blessings of maternal affec

tion-the school-room in which her mind had been trained the play-room in which her heart had been expanded in happy pastimes-the garden, of which she herself had been the fairest and the most fondly cherished flower-the temple in which her soul had been taught to look up to heaven, and pray that she might then live most happily for herself when she most lived for others;-it was, indeed, impossible that a nature so enthusiastic, yet so tender, as that of our Maiden Monarch, could have passed from out those well-known walls without experiencing acute emotions, and feeling that some of our loftiest and dearest pleasures are not utterly unmingled with pain-perhaps sweetened and made richer by it. Even the rapturous and affectionate greetings of assembled crowds, whom a mere momentary glimpse of the young, but thoughtful and expressive face, which every body was so eager to gaze upon, sent away to their homes amply gratified and repaid for long waiting, could not immediately startle away those emotions. Nor could the entrance into that new habitation, now become the home of her queenly years, immediately make her forget the simple charms of her early retreat, endeared to her by so many and such lasting recollections. Into such feelings, however, the anxious gazers who thronged the road could not, of course, be supposed to enter. They saw only the departure of a beloved Queen from the residence of her childhood, to take up her abode in the National