Allisceliantous.
It was mentioned some months since that a payment had been made by the Queen's commands out of her Majesty's privy purse to those creditors of the late Duke of Kent whose claims had not been satisfied out of his Royal Highness's own property, which, after his death, was administered under a decree of the Court of Chancery. We are new enabled to state that her Majesty has directed a further payment of fifty per cent. upon these debts to be immediately made. The debts amounted to a very considerable sum ; and we are assured the adoption of them by the Queen was the spontaneous act of her Majesty, and that the funds for their liquidation are provided entirely from her Majesty's privy purse.—Morning Post.
Shortly before the debate closed on Tuesday night, Lord John Rus- sell was taken very faint and unwell, and was led out of the House by Lord Morpeth and Mr. Bannerman. His Lordship, however, shortly rallied, and the next morning was quite well again.
Lord Brougham was unwell in Paris, in consequence, the newspapers say, of having swallowed a needle :" our own " exclusive " intelligence, however, informs as that his Lordship swallowed a camel.
The marriage of Major Campbell and Miss Louisa Ricketts took place on Wednesday, at St. Mary's Church, Bryanston Square. Lady Flora Hastings was one of the bridesmaids, and on leaving the church was recognized by the numerous body of spectators that the cavalcade had attracted to the spot. The cheers by which this amiable and injured lady was greeted were unanimous and enthusiastic. The British public retain their respect for female purity and excellence, although many of the men and women whom Ministers, for their own base purposes, have placed around the Throne, have evidently lost all sense of religion, morality, and virtue.-11forning Post, On the Hastings and Melbourne correspondence of the week the Glasgow urges remarks—" It would seem that neither Peel, nor Brougham, nor Wellington, nor Lyndhurst is to give Lord Melbourne his coup de grace; but that his Lordship is to be extinguished, not inappropriately, beneath a heap of petticoats."
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