"An Inconstant Reader."
"P.S. Her Majesty's subjects have to thank you for admission to Kew Gardens on a Sunday. It would be a capital thing if you could get the Museum opened to them likewise; particularly as the Nineveh sculptures, I understand, are regular 'sermons in stones'—to borrow the expression of—I believe—Shakspeare."
RUSSIAN REASONS.
(Being the English change for Count Nesselrode's Circular Note.)
As Prince Menschikoff's mission has caused a great rumpus,
And a notion prevails that the Czar's in the wrong,
And as England and France may be able to stump us,
These our reasons you'll state, Courts and Cabinets among.
You need scarcely point out that of truth there's no particle