I too am grateful that the Spring is born!’

Fanny Forrester.


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FOOTNOTES:

[1] We not unfrequently hear persons speaking of the House of Commons as though that assembly alone constituted the parliament of these realms. It should be borne in mind that parliament consists of the sovereign and both Houses of legislature.

[2] The union of the crowns of England and Scotland by the accession of James VI. of that country to the English throne as James I. in 1603, must not be confounded with the union of the two kingdoms themselves, one hundred and four years afterwards.