OUR RUPTURE WITH RUSSIA.
We cannot help regretting that anything should be done by our military authorities to irritate the sore place which has been established in our relations with Russia. We, therefore, read with a degree of pain—which made us almost cry out, for we were really much hurt—that a letter dated June 27th, 1853, has gone out from the Horse Guards, prohibiting all general and staff officers from wearing Russia ducks by way of trousers. Whether this is meant as an insult to Russia we are unable to state; but we fear that Russia in the present sensitive state of affairs will regard this declaration of war against Russia ducks as an indication of a desire to provoke hostilities.
DIPLOMATIC PASTRY.—There is every probability that the dish heretofore known as Nesselrode Pudding will, in future, be denominated Humble Pie.
