THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. Nov. 15. At Lisbon, in her 35th year, her Majesty Dona Maria II. Queen of Portugal.

Maria da Gloria, daughter of the late Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro I. (IV. in the series of the Kings of Portugal) by his first consort, the Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria, was born at Rio de Janeiro, April 4, 1819. On the death of her grandfather, John VI. she was designated successor to the crown of Portugal, by virtue of the act of renunciation executed by Pedro, one of the provisions of which was that, upon coming of age, she should marry her father's brother, Dom Miguel, whom it was desired, as a dangerous competitor for the throne, to satisfy by such arrangement. Another condition was, that she and her future husband should acknowledge the new constitution. When Dom Miguel had accepted of the arrangement, had sworn to the constitution, been betrothed to the child Dona Maria, and received the regency, the young Queen left Brazil in 1828, to sail for Europe. Miguel had, meanwhile (June 30, 1828), declared himself absolute King of Portugal, and forbade the Queen to land. She was now compelled to come to England, where she was received by the court as lawful Queen of Portugal, but found no actual support, the ministry of the day secretly favouring the usurper. In 1829 she returned to Rio Janeiro, with Amelia of Leuchtenberg, her subsequent stepmother, and lived there until 1831, when her father found himself compelled to resign the crown of Brazil to his son, Pedro II. She then resided in Paris, while her father waged war for her rights in Portugal. After the taking of Lisbon, in September, 1833, she made her entry into that city. On the 29th of May, 1834, Miguel renounced his claims, and retired to Italy, where he recalled his renunciation, and was acknowledged by the Pope King of Portugal. Pedro now administered the government as regent and guardian of his daughter. His power, however, was soon exhausted; and when, on the 18th of September, 1834, he announced to the Cortes that he was no longer able to conduct the government, that assembly declared the Queen at full age, by which means the intrigues of the competitors for the Regency were defeated.

Maria now occupied herself with thoughts of marriage. Her choice fell upon Duke Charles - Augustus - Eugène-Napoleon, of

Leuchtenberg, who already had won her affections. On the 8th of Nov. 1834 she was married by proxy, at Munich, to this prince; and on January 27 of the following year in person. Dom Augustus, Prince of Portugal, as he was named, was made commander of the army, and was likely to become popular, when he died suddenly, March 28, 1835. On the 9th of April, 1836, she was married a second time to Ferdinand, son of Ferdinand Duke of Saxe-Cobourg - Cohary, who, upon the birth of a Crown Prince, was named King. In the course of the next ten years the corruptions of the government, which had fallen into the hands of the Cabrals, the suppression of the liberty of the press, and the increase of taxes, irritated a large portion of the nation. In May, 1846, civil war broke out in the Upper Minho, and in a few weeks several districts were in arms against the Cabral ministry. The Cabrals resigned, and retired from the kingdom. The Chamber of Deputies was dissolved, the Grand Cortes extraordinarily convoked, and a number of concessions were made. The Duke de Palmella was called to power, and held office with Saldanha for four months, when his cabinet was succeeded by a new ministry under Saldanha's premiership. Civil war, meanwhile, continued. Das Antas, the commander nominated by the Juntas, and supported by Bandiera, Louli, and Fournos, gained several successes; and it was feared that the Queen and King would have to leave Portugal and seek safety in England. In November, however, the popular party were in turn defeated, and lost two whole regiments by desertion. In the ensuing year the mediation of the British government was offered, and accepted by the Queen, but declined by the Junta. Das Antas now prepared to evacuate Oporto. The British fleet, under Sir Thomas Maitland, was off that city. Steamers belonging to the Junta were permitted to enter and embark Das Antas' troops. On the 31st of May, 1847, a corvette and three armed steamers, one barque, one brig, two schooners, transports, containing in all about 3000 troops, left the port. On crossing the bar they were summoned to surrender to the British; and as resistance would have been useless, they did so, without firing a shot. As soon as he was on board the British ship, the Conde das Antas presented to the commander a protest in the name of the Portuguese nation against this act of hostility, without de

claration of war, or any pretext for the same. By these means resistance to the royal authority was suppressed. The Queen, in return for services rendered by Great Britain, signed an agreement excluding the Cabrals from power; and this was all the opponents of the court gained by the insurrection. As soon, however, as quiet had been restored, the Conde de Thomar, the elder of the Cabrals, again became premier in the face of Great Britain, and continued a career of oppression and corruption until, in 1851, the Duke de Saldanha carried out a military revolution and reconstituted the government. Dona Maria yielded with a very bad grace to the necessities of her position. Her husband had been appointed commanderin-chief at the commencement of the outbreak, and actually advanced against Saldanha, but was forced to make a speedy and solitary retreat to Lisbon, his troops having deserted him on his march. The government has since been conducted under the presidency of Saldanha.

Her Majesty has left seven children; namely, Dom Pedro d'Alcantara, Duke of Braganza, who has now succeeded to the throne as Dom Pedro V. born Sept. 16, 1837; Dom Louis Philippe, Duke of Oporto, born Oct. 31, 1838; Dom Joao, Duke of Saxe and of Béja, born March 16, 1842; Dona Maria-Anne, born July 21, 1843; Dona Antonia, born Feb. 17, 1845; Dom Ferdinand, born July 23, 1846; and Dom Augusto, born 4, 1847.

From the very commencement of her late gestation, her Majesty, whose untimely end even her political adversaries deplore, felt, as she often expressed to those around her, a foreboding that its result would be fatal to her. This was no vague and groundless presentiment, for her two preceding labours, in both of which the infant perished, had been attended with great danger to herself, and her medical assistants had plainly intimated their fears that, in consequence of certain functional derangements of an irremediable nature, she could never again give birth to a living child. Fearing, however, on this last occasion, that the disquietude which agitated her mind would greatly increase the danger of the coming crisis, they advised her to divert her thoughts as much as possible from the subject of her apprehensions, which they endeavoured to persuade her were but the phantoms of a morbid imagination. But it was all in vain.

She fol

lowed their advice, indeed, and frequently visited the different theatres, but no words of comfort could lay the spectre that incessantly haunted her soul. On the night of the 13th she went to the Italian Opera. On Monday night, the 14th, at about half

past nine, the first indications of approaching labour manifested themselves, and, in accordance with the established custom on such occasions, the Councillors of State, the Ministers, and the great officers of the royal household, were summoned to the palace. The very first symptoms were so awfully alarming, that the medical men in attendance felt it their duty to advise the sufferer-with all the usual precautions of course-with assurances that there was no immediate danger-that all would soon be well got over-to fortify herself with the succours of religion. On receiving this announcement she drooped at once, and only said, "I see how it is; my last hour is at hand." The Sacraments having been administered to her hastily, the medical men began their work. There was a malpresentation of the infant at the very commencement, and after hours of fruitless endeavours to rectify it, forcible and piecemeal extraction was at last resolved upon, the baptism of the child having been previously effected in utero matris. At about ten o'clock on the following morning the extraction was completed, leaving the unfortunate lady in a state of exhaustion, under which she finally sank in less than two hours, after having bid a last and heart-rending farewell to her distracted husband and children.

Her Majesty was not distinguished for any brilliant qualities, but she possessed the quiet unobtrusive domestic virtues in a high degree. A good wife, a fond mother, and a kind mistress to her servants, she was beloved by all who knew her well; but the graces by which enthusiastic popularity is won she did not possess. She was, however, remarkable for her nice sense of propriety, and for that she was universally respected.

A Council of State was held immediately after the Queen's death, and the King Consort, Dom Fernando, sworn in as Regent. The Regent continues the Saldanha-Magalhaens Cabinet in power.

THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G.

Nov. 17. At Badminton, co. Gloucester, in his 62nd year, the Most Noble Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort (1682), Marquess of Worcester (1642), Earl of Worcester (1514), Earl of Glamorgan, Viscount Grosmont, and Baron Beaufort of Caldecot Castle (1644), Baron Bottetant (by writ 1308), Baron Herbert (by writ 1461), and Baron Herbert of Ragland, Chepstow, and Gower (1506), K.G., Lieut.-Colonel Commander of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry, and High Steward of Bristol.

This lineal descendant of "old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster," was born on the 5th Feb. 1792, the eldest son

of Henry-Charles sixth Duke of Beaufort, K.G. by Lady Charlotte Sophia LevesonGower, fifth daughter of Granville first Marquess of Stafford. He entered the army as an officer in the 10th Hussars, and served in the Peninsula on the staff of the Duke of Wellington. He was taken prisoner by Marshal Soult's army, but remained captive only a few months.

In 1813, on the attainment of his majority, the Marquess of Worcester was returned to parliament for the borough of Monmouth, for which he continued to sit until 1832. On May 24, 1816, he accepted office as one of the junior Lords of the Admiralty, and he held that post until March 15, 1819.

In 1832, at the first election after the enactment of Reform, he was opposed at Monmouth by the present Sir Benjamin Hall, and defeated by 393 votes to 355. The Marquess of Worcester was not a member of that parliament; but at the next general election in Jan. 1835 he was returned, without a poll, in conjunction with the Hon. G. C. Grantley Berkeley (a Liberal), for the Western Division of Gloucestershire, for which his uncle Lord Robert Somerset had been an unsuccessful candidate in 1832.

On the 23rd November following the Marquess succeeded his father as seventh Duke of Beaufort.

He became Lieut.-Colonel-Commandant of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry in April 1834.

Sir Robert Peel, after his accession to office in 1841, recommended his Grace for the second Garter that became vacant, and he was invested with that honour together with the Duke of Buckingham and the Marquess of Salisbury.

There was not, perhaps, amongst the aristocracy of England one whose manners and bearing were more truly noble than those of the late Duke. He looked every inch what he was-one of the most highly-born and illustriously descended members of the British peerage. He was an excellent landlord, and a great patron of the sports of the field; was universally beloved and respected, and will be deeply regretted by all to whom he was generally known. It was impossible to have the slightest communication with his Grace without being struck with his inherent courtliness, which was enhanced by a fine port, a commanding figure, and a countenance whose features were cast in a truly noble mould. He was a consistent supporter of Conservative politics. As a Master of Hounds he has been immortalised on canvass in the paintings of "The Royal Hunt," and "The Badminton Hunt;" while, upon paper, "Nimrod" GENT. MAG, VOL. XLI.

has perpetuated his character in terms no more eulogistic than it deserved. In the palmy days of Melton, when "The Old Club" flourished, a discussion arose as to who was the most popular sportsman in England, and it was at once unanimously conceded that the Marquess of Worcester was the man who held that enviable position. As a charioteer none could excel him, and when the Four-in-hand Club was started some twenty years back, his Grace's team of skewballs and well-appointed drag was always considered the crack "turn-out." As a racing man, the calendar shows that his stud, although never very extensive, was always well selected. To the professors of music and the drama he was ever a warm patron, as evidenced by the interest he took in the sons of the lamented Tyrone Power, and the strenuous exertions he used to preserve the falling fortunes of the Queen's Theatre.

The Duke of Beaufort was twice married, and his wives were sisters by their mother, Lady Anne Wellesley, daughter of Garrett first Earl of Mornington, and sister to the late Marquess Wellesley and the Duke of Wellington. His first wife, Georgiana-Frederica, who died when Marchioness of Worcester, was Lady Anne's only child by her first husband the Hon. Henry FitzRoy, a younger son of Charles first Lord Southampton. Her marriage took place on the 25th July, 1814, and her death on the 10th May, 1821. His second wife, to whom he was married on the 29th June, 1822, and who survives him, was Emily-Frances, daughter of the late Culling Charles Smith, esq. (of whom a memoir was given in the Obituary of our Magazine for July last). By his former marriage the Duke had issue two daughters 1. Lady Charlotte-AugustaFrederica, married in 1844 to the late Philip Baron Nieumann, sometime Austrian Minister in this country, and died Sept. 20, 1850 (her husband surviving her only to the 16th Jan. following); 2. Lady Georgiana-Charlotte-Anne, married in 1826 to Sir Christopher William Codrington, Bart. M.P. for Gloucestershire. By his second marriage the Duke had issue one son and six daughters, all of whom survive him 3. Henry - Charles - FitzRoy, now Duke of Beaufort; 4. Emily-BlancheCharlotte, married in 1848 to George Viscount Dupplin, son and heir apparent of the Earl of Kinnoull; 5. Lady Rose Caroline Mary, married in 1846 to Francis Frederick Lovell, esq.; 6. Lady HenriettaLouisa-Priscilla; 7. Lady Geraldine-Harriet-Anne; 8. Lady Katharine EmilyMary; and 9. Lady Edith-Frances-Wilhelmine, born in 1838. M

The present Duke is Captain in the 7th Hussars, and Aide-de-Camp to the General Commanding in Chief; and has sat for East Gloucestershire in the present parliament. He was born in 1824, and married in 1845 Lady Georgiana Charlotte Curzon, eldest daughter of Earl Howe, by whom he has issue Henry-Adelbert-Wellington-FitzRoy now Marquess of Worcester, and two other sons.

The late Duke's funeral took place at Badminton on the 24th Nov. It was attended by the present Duke and the Marquess of Worcester, by his sons-in-law Viscount Dupplin and Mr. Lovell, by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Earls Howe, Galloway, Granville, and Bathurst, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Raglan, and most of the junior members of the Somerset family.

THE COUNTESS OF NEWBURGH. Nov. 22. At her seat, Hassop, co. Derby, aged 65, the Right Hon. MaryDorothea Eyre, Countess of Newburgh, Viscountess of Kinnaird, and Baroness Livingstone of Flacraig, in the peerage of Scotland (1660).

Her Ladyship was born on the 13th July, 1788, the eldest child of Francis the sixth Earl, by Dorothy, daughter and heir of John Gladwin, esq. She was married on the 19th July, 1836, to Colonel Charles Albert Leslie, K.H. of Ballybay, co. Monaghan, who died in 1838, without children.

On the death of her brother Francis, the eighth Earl, October 15, 1852, she succeeded to the peerage, which devolves on females in the absence of male heirs.

The mortal remains of the late Countess were deposited in the mausoleum in Hassop Park, having lain in state during the two preceding days in the great hall of the mansion, where a temporary altar was arranged for the occasion. At nine o'clock, a.m. a funeral mass was performed in the chapel at the hall, and at 12 the procession was formed to proceed to the chapel in the park, in the following order :-12 mutes with hatbands, two and two; 50 of the tenants in scarfs and hatbands, two and two; 12 mutes with muffled staves; the lid of feathers; the coronet of the deceased countess, borne on a cushion by a pursuivant, bareheaded; the body, in a hearse drawn by six horses, caparisoned in black velvet and plumes, and decorated with armorial bearings; a mourning coach, drawn by four horses, containing the pall-bearers --namely, the Hon. the Master of Lovat, the Hon. George Cavendish, the Count De La Feld, and Mr. Philip Howard, of Corby; a mourning coach, containing Colonel Les

lie, as chief mourner, supported by his two nearest relatives-Lord Lovat and Mr. Charles Leslie. Four other mourningcoaches, each drawn by four horses, followed, containing members of the principal families in the neighbourhood. There was also a line of private carriages, which reached entirely from the hall to the chapel. On arriving at the chapel, the dirge was commenced with the organ from within; and, the service being completed, and a requiem performed, the mortal remains of the much-loved lady were consigned to their last home, amidst the tears and sincere regrets of the crowd who thronged the chapel, many of whom had come from a great distance to pay this mark of respect and affection. In compliance with an ancient custom, at the conclusion of the ceremonial a distribution of loaves of bread to the poor was made, according to the number of years that the deceased had lived.

LORD CLONCURRY.

Oct. 28. At his residence, Maretimo, Blackrock, near Dublin, aged 80, the Right Hon. Valentine Browne Lawless, second Baron Cloncurry, of Cloncurry, co. Kildare (1789), and a Baron of the United Kingdom by the same title (1831), a Baronet (1776), and a Privy Councillor of Ireland.

This venerable nobleman (who throughout his life was a man of some influence in respect of his political opinions,) was born in Merrion-square, Dublin, on the 19th Aug. 1773, the second but only surviving son of Nicholas Lawless, esq. who three years after, in 1776, was created a Baronet, and in 1789 was raised to the peerage in Ireland. He was originally a Roman Catholic, and in early life had settled in France, in pursuit of those immunities which were not awarded to his own community at home. The result, however, was different to his expectations: he was less satisfied with France than with Ireland; he returned in consequence to his native country, purchased large estates in the counties of Limerick, Kildare, and Dublin, and conformed to Protestantism. Lord Cloncurry's mother was Margaret, only daughter of Valentine Browne, esq. of Dublin.

Being then a younger son, he was at eight years of age sent to a public school at Portarlington, where he was treated roughly enough, and, having been pushed by another boy from a penthouse, dislocated his arm, an accident which, acting upon a constitution originally delicate, produced a weak state of health for many years. At twelve he was removed to a school at Blackrock, near his father's villa