According to time Sun, Mr. Harvey has declined the offer
of a Consulship iii the United States. No doubt the Whigs would gladly remove the Member for Southwark from the House of Commons; but he will beat his post when their sham Pension report is produced.
Mr. 'Macaulay has arrived in London, from Calcutta. The Whigs talk of " getting him in" for one of the seats to be vacated by the Coronation Peerages. We suspect "lucky Tom " is too astute to have any thing to do with the Whig concern in its present precarious state.
It will be recollected that Lord Winchilsea quoted from the Standard some evidence said to have been given by Mr. O'Connell before the Lords' Committee on Catholic Emancipation in 182.5, relat ye to the securities Mr. O'Connell was anxious to provide for the Established Church in Ireland. On reference to the published evideuce. the ex- pressions attributed to Mr. O'Connell were not to be found, and Lord Winebilsea apologized for the misrepresentation. The Dublin Evening Mail, however, has produced the original evidence, before revision by the witnesses, as printed for the use of the Committee; and therein the expressions attributed to 51r. O'Connell do appear.
Tbe Duke of Wellington thought fit to sneer at the notion of a free press ill Malta: the Maltese have given his Grace the best answer, in the publication of a newspaper, The 3Iaitese latger di- mensions, and more respectable in point of original articles and general matter, than any Colonial journal we have Iteppened to meet with. In a " leader" ott the debate in the Lords on the .Maltese Commission, it is sensibly observed, that if a powerful nation requires newspapers for instruction and the defence of its rights, to a sinall community such aid is more necesssary ; and that itiasintwIt as the Maltese are more ignorant than the English, every kind of useful information is more needed by the former than the latter. The paper is written entirely in Italian.
On Thursday, it deputation, consisting of Mr. Wyse, M. P., Mr. Aston Yates, .1. P., Mr. Hutt, M. I'., and Messrs. Hyde,Clarke, and Foggo, waited our Lord Joins Russell at the Home Otliee, with ad- dresses to the Queen, signed by two hundred artists and the committee and students of the new School of Design, Leicester Square, praying her Majesty to command the removal of the RaphatI Cartoons front Hampton Court to London. His Lordship received the deputation courteously, and entered into the question nil!' considerable interest and apparent knowledge of the merits of the ease. [Why " artisis" only? and but two hundred of them ? The addresses ought to have received thousands of signatures instead of hundreds, and would, had the purpose been nuide public. This is a matter that concerns the people. The painters, we fear, are lukewarm : they Live nothing to pain.]
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