E-REGAL LODGE, PHOENIX PARK, _26th August 1861_.

MY BELOVED UNCLE,--_Not_ to miss your messenger I write a few hurried
lines to thank you for your two dear letters of the 16th and the 22nd,
the last of which I received yesterday morning here.... Would to God
that affairs in Hungary took a favourable turn--_mais j'en ai bien
peur_. We had a very good passage on Wednesday night, since which it
has blown very hard. We left Osborne on Wednesday morning (21st) at
quarter to nine, and anchored in Kingstown Bay at half-past eleven
that night. The next day (22nd) we landed at eleven and came here,
and it rained the whole day. On Saturday we all went over to the camp,
where there was a field-day. It is a fine _emplacement_ with beautiful
turf. We had two cooling showers. Bertie marched past with his
company, and did not look at all so very small.

Yesterday was again a very bad day. I have felt weak and very nervous,
and so low at times; I think _so_ much of dearest mamma, and miss her
love and interest and solicitude _dreadfully_; I feel as if we were no
longer cared for, and miss writing to her and telling her everything,
dreadfully. At the Review they played one of her marches, which
entirely upset me.

Good Lord Carlisle[32] is most kind and amiable, and so much beloved.
We start for Killarney at half-past twelve. This is the _dearest of
days_, and one which fills my heart with love, gratitude, and emotion.
God bless and protect for ever my beloved Albert--the purest and best
of human beings! We miss our four little ones and baby sadly, but have
our four eldest (except poor Vicky) with us.

Now good-bye, dearest Uncle. Ever your devoted Niece,

VICTORIA R.

[Footnote 32: Lord Carlisle was Viceroy in both the
administrations of Lord Palmerston; as Lord Morpeth he had
been Chief Secretary in the Melbourne Government.]

_Queen Victoria to Earl Canning._

BALMORAL, _9th September 1861_.

The Queen has not heard of Lord Canning for some time, but is happy to
hear indirectly that he is well, and that everything is going on well
under his admirable administration.

It is most gratifying to the Queen to see how peaceful her Indian
Dominions are, and considering the very alarming state of affairs
during the years 1857, '58, and even '59, it must be a source of
unbounded satisfaction and pride to Lord Canning to witness this state
of prosperity at the end of his Government.

As Lord Canning will now so