And shall they scorn Meg, Math, and "Ben," &c.
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.
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE CLOCK.
It is a common saying in the City and elsewhere that "Time is money," and we cannot wonder at the existence of the maxim, when we look at the cost, of the representative of time at the Royal Exchange—no less than £2605 0s. 8d. having been paid for the Exchange Clock. This sum is at the rate of about £217 per hour, taking the clock to consist of the usual number of hours, or nearly £40 per minute, if we make a calculation rather more minute.
The cost of the Clock is made up of a variety of items, which, for the enlightenment of the public, we subjoin.