About twenty acres extending below the Eastern Terrace towards Adelaide Lodge, have recenly been enclosed with invisible railing for the purpose of being converted into pleasure grounds, in which Her Majesty, the Prince and the royal infants invariably take their morning walk.

Her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, took up her residence at the Castle in July, 1837, on which occasion general rejoicings took place -a public dinner was given to the poorer classes in the Long Walk, the houses were illuminated, fireworks on a most magnificent scale were displayed in front of the castle, and a grand ball took place in the town-hall. An address of congratulation was also presented to

Her Majesty.

Our beloved sovereign, Queen Victoria, was united to His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Monday, the 10th of February, 1840. Long may she reign in the hearts of her affectionate and loyal subjects.

THE ROYAL MEWS.

The inadequate accommodation for the royal horses and carriages, and persons connected with the stables, by the very ill-constructed erections of the Upper and Lower Mews having been represented in parliament, a grant of £70,000. was voted for building a mews, in every way suitable for the purposes of the sovereign. The mews was completed under the directions of that eminent architect, H. Ashton, Esq.; and whilst it now affords all the accommodation so much desired by Her Majesty's royal predecessors, it at the same time presents a noble feature in connexion with that Castle which is acknowledged by all nations to stand unequalled in the world.

The stables, with the courts and stablemen's dwellings, cover a space of nearly four acres. They are divided into five courts: the upper or pony court is 100 feet wide and 130 feet long, it is surrounded by stables for thirty-eight horses, a coach-house for twelve pony carriages, with harness and saddle rooms; on the south side is the entrance to the dormitory. Between the pony court and the saddle-horse court is the noble Riding House, 165 feet long and 51 feet wide; at the east end is a gallery for the Queen, with suitable rooms for the attendants; over the Riding House is the dormitory, where twenty-eight sleeping rooms have been made between the timbers of the roof. The saddle-horse court is 100 feet wide and 110 feet long, it contains stables for thirty-nine horses and three loose boxes, with sheds, saddle room and other conveniences. The coach-house court is 200 feet long and about 70 feet wide; there

are stalls for forty-one horses, standings for twenty-four carriages, with harness rooms, a break shed, and a variety of other necessary buildings. The loose-box court is 75 feet long and 35 feet wide; there are ten boxes, with rooms for forage, &c.; this court is twentyeight feet below the pony court, the fall of the road from the castle hill to the entrance lodge in St. Alban's-street is upwards of fifty feet.

The building formerly called the Lower Lodge is now converted into a residence for those connected with the stables, and contains about seventy dwelling rooms, large mess rooms, and other conveniences for single men, on the ground floor. This building with that facing it on the north, together with the two porters' lodges, contain accommodation for about fifty families.

"THY forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,

At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats;
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to meet again.
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd:
Where order in variety we see,

And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display,
And part admit, and part exclude the day;
As some coy nymph her lover's warm address
Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
Here in full light the russet plains extend;
There wrapp'd in clouds the bluish hills ascend;
Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes,
And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise."

THIS venerable and illustrious seminary, which, for upwards of four centuries, has planted the seeds of piety and learning in the expanding mind of youth, and the record of whose favored alumni contain a host of names distinguished for their renown in the field, the cabinet, and the varied pursuits of literature, was founded by Henry VI. In September, 1440, that monarch purchased the perpetual advowson of the parish of Eton, for the purpose of founding a college, and by two charters, dated October 11, 1440, and March 11, 1441; endowed it with sufficient funds for its maintenance. The building was commenced in the following year, and when completed, contained accommodation for twenty-five poor grammar scholars, and twenty-five poor and infirm men to pray for the king; with the requisite number of tutors and ecclesiastical attendants. The new establishment was modelled upon the plan of William de Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College, his statutes being transcribed without any very material alteration. In 1464 a treaty of union and mutual defence was concluded between Eton, Winchester, and King's College, Cambridge. The first head master was William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, afterwards provost of the institution, and founder of Magdalen College, Oxford. Fostered by the hand of royalty, even during the stormy period of the Reformation, and the subsequent fluctuations in the established religion of the country, the infant establishment made rapid progress, and speedily numbered in its list of provosts the most celebrated men of the age. Among them was Sir Henry Saville, who founded professorships of astronomy and geometry at the University of