detestation. The tyrant not succeeding with the husband, took tbe

wife apart, not doubting, from her situation at the time, that the threat of torture would malte her divulge tbe secret ; bat she in- stantly bit off her tongue, and spat it in the tyrant's &ce, to shoir him that no pain could make her violate her pledge of secrecr.

Is a native of Lame, In the Valley of Montmorenci, near Paris, the date of her birth being 1829 ; her tkther De Beauce, is, or was, a music seller, and her mother was the daughter of De Porro, & musical composer and teacher. She first came into notice in 184o at one of the sacred concerts got up by a distingaished amateur, the Prince of Moscow, son of Marshal Ney. Her voice at that time was a pure contralto, and she sung the compositions of Mareello and Handel with great effect. In 1846, she married Senor Uvalde, and went to Madrid, where she sung in the court concerts with great success. Assured by practice that her voice possessed every qnalitr that could be desired for the execution of the most complex Jtoritun, she accepted in 1848 an engagement to perform at the Opera Comtqw in Paris, where ?he made her dSbut in Auber*s "Domino Noir." In this, as in several other characters subsequently performed, she enchanted the Parisians, and created a prodigious furore. In 1851, she was in England as prima donna of Her Majesty's Theatre, and obtained an unanimous verdict of our musical critics in her favour. She is described as "rather under the middle height, easy arid graceful in her deportment, and intelligent and energetic in her acting, with a face fUU of varied expression."

Second daughter of Charles the Eleventh of Sweden, was bom in 1688, and governed the kingdom during the absence of ber brother, Charles the Twelfth; after his death she was proclaimed queen in 1719. The following year she resigned the crown to her husband, Frederic of Hesse-Cassel, with whom she shared the honours of royalty; but such was the ascendancy of the nobles, that they obliged their sovereigns to acknowledge their right to the throne as the unbiassed election of the people. Ulrica, by a wise administration, contributed to restore peace and prosperity to the nation, and was greatly beloved and respected. She died in 1741. Her mother, the wife of Charles the Eleventh, also bore the name of Ulrica, and died in consequence of the chagrin which her husband's brutal treatment had occasioned.

Of Milan, daughter of John Galeas, Duke of Milan, and of Isabclle, the youngest of the ten children of John the Second of France, married, in 1389, Louis, Duke of Orleans, brother of Charles the Sixth of France. She was a beautiful and accomplished woman, and appears, in the midst of that disastrous epoch in French history, like an angel of goodness and beauty. The first few years that