Great Politeness to Nicholas.
Our own ships have waited, whilst the Russian frigate Aurora has occupied a Portsmouth dock. We have supplied Nicholas with the work of shipwrights and the stores of our Dockyard. This is Christianlike, and according to the Aberdeen policy expressed by the Premier at the Mansion House. It is said the Noble Earl, in the excess of his benevolence, would—if he might—even go further: not only furnishing the Emperor's frigate with English stores, but with English sailors.
The City Corporation.—If this Corporation is compared to Plato's Republic, it can only be as "a Knife, Fork, and Plat(e)o" one.