together, and so prompt is death to fill the vacant places. _Can we build our hopes on ruins such as these?_’ From beyond sea there did come echoes something like these, and fitting homage to the virtues of the deceased lady was rendered from many a church pulpit among a foreign people. In another hemisphere, at the Cape of Good Hope, a funeral sermon was preached in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, on the 24th February, 1850, by the Rev. W. A. Newman, at that time Senior Colonial Chaplain and Rural Dean, in which that learned and eloquent divine rendered a graceful tribute to the memory of the deceased Queen, of which the following paragraph is a portion:--‘Of this excellent lady’s large charities I can speak from evidence, and can, therefore, speak with a full heart. I have lived near to the neighbourhood where her less public bounty diffused itself. I know that the sick-room of the poor has been visited by her in person; I know that from her own table a portion has been sent, to call forth the coy appetite of disease; and I know that wherever she went many a heartfelt _God bless her_ would follow.’ Such was Queen Adelaide, some seven years Queen Consort of Great Britain; a lady who will be remembered, if not as a great Queen, yet as one of the truly good women who have shared with a King regnant the throne of these islands--one who lived down calumny, and who, being dead, is remembered with respect and affection. FOOTNOTES [1] Lord Holland’s ‘Memoirs of the Whig Party.’ [2] Miss Burney’s Diary. [3] Miss Burney’s Diary. [4] Miss Burney’s Diary. [5] Miss Burney’s Diary. [6] ‘Memoirs,’ &c., by the Duke of Buckingham. [7] Lord Malmesbury’s Diary. [8] ‘Brief Memoir of the Princes Charlotte of Wales.’ [9] Lord Holland. [10] ‘Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert.’ [11] ‘Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV.’ [12] ‘Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV.’ [13] ‘Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV.’ [14] ‘Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV.’ [15] ‘Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV.’ [16] Letter in ‘Diary illustrative of the Court, &c., of George IV.’ [17] ‘Diary,’ &c. [18] The ‘Diary,’ &c. [19] ‘Diary of Court, &c., of George IV.’ THE END. _Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square, London._ Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of the pages that referenced them, have been collected, sequentially renumbered, and placed at the end of the book.