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which historians have mentioned as a marked feature of that unfortunate house. The only female among this formidable assemblage of crowned heads is Mary of Scotland. This her ancestral palace teems with her relics; and however questionable is the identity of some of them, they are usually examined with interest by visitants. The antique cicerone, to whom this department appertained, and whose voice had grown hoarse and hollow by painful recitations in these damp apartments, still threw herself into an oratorical attitude, and bestowed an extra emphasis, when any favorite article was to be exhibited, such as "Queen Mairy's work-box! Queen Mairy's candelabra!" The latter utensil, it seems, she brought with her from France. Probably some tender associations, known only to herself, clustered around it; for she was observed often to fix her eyes mournfully upon it, as a relic of happier days. In her apartments, we were shown the stone, on which she knelt at her coronation, the embroidered double chair, or throne, on which she and Darnley sat after their marriage, the state-bed, ready to perish, and despoiled of many a mouldering fragment by antiquarian voracity, her dressing-case, marvellously destitute of necessary materials, and the round, flat basket, in which the first suit of clothes for her only infant was laid. These articles, and many others of a similar nature, brought her palpably before us, and awakened our sympathies. There was a rudeness, an absolute want of comfort