EFFECTS or GRIEF — The exhibitions of grCt - f are various in
various persons, but we do not remember to have noticed in any former case a similar effect to that produced by the loss of his patron 1111 the alarquis Cons-we-ham. Arany surmises were iloribili•ss indulged by the members
of the Muse of Commons on Saturd• during their tedious lortage in the laity; Gallery, on the causes of the Marquis's ;dist-lice; but
We riileSii0/1 Of theill lilt tile tillth, Whiell it letter from Windsor next day disclosed. It appears that 'dlr. Seeker, the l'awit- clerk of the borough, understandine- from some of the Lord Stew- ard's people, that he was still at the Castle tit one o'clock. on Saturday, determined to go and remind hint if his duty. Ile wont accordingly, and found his Lordship quietly engaged in paoking up !—To be sent Inns made many a illarquis grieve, We 1101111t 111)L ; but this is the first :Marquis that grief ever sent a-packing. 'Pie sequel shows how deeply his berearment weighed on the intble Steward. " Why, my laird !" said the clerk, astonished, and well Inc might be :It the sight of Lord Conynglunn tip to the elbows in shirts and inexpressiides, with a coil of rope over his shoulder, like a ticket-porter--" how is this ?—roii ought to have been in the House of Commons this hour -- It is your yon know, to la. present at the re-swearing of the Members?' To which his Lordship replied, " Dear Me, I never thought Of that !" NVilat a tottelting simplicity is thert• here ! Cottbl Alta Brougham himself with-
stand Si inaocent an exclamation ? " ! I acre,- thought of Worthy peer ! his mind was full of his loss and Iris linen! There is a time for every thine wider the sun. limy can a mail weep for the patron of his house. paek up his tills, and rum ztfter the House of Commorts, in one breath ?
BANE AND A NT !poi:E.—Liverpool, l'ilonday. "Sue/t. is the intensity opi,.et;ny here on the loss (It 0111' late Sove- reign, that, in Fissing dwelling-houses or shol,i threnaltant. the
we hind them closad in the Saila! 311aliller as if if,' It e,te7i
?no, was no non ; and yet. /Hahn- I/o• lti.t tIll bare :.“1.ti .1:wi is 111)10/ roNsoht qt !,,,rernc,1 i ! sEriwt ..,Th•ces.,,w, I i., who has this day been proclaimed with all the usual forms, and
with that entlinshrstie attachment that a in potpie feel on an occasion like the present."
.A.eitta IVE..kTu E R.—Tire people of Brighton were in a nost pitiful taking when the news of his late .Majesty's (loath reaelred theni. On Saturday, "all thoughts of business appeared to he absorbed in into
general feeling of grief."' Oil the state of the town was not much better. The people prayed, inifeed, for King William and Queen. Adelaide, but still, we are told, "eVery m,imnmntemntnrniun 110:10teil that George the Fourth—the royal, the munificent, tlie 1111CeaSilig, and, from youth to age, the never-leiling patron of the town—e-ould n ti it oil to reign in the hearts and live in the recollection soiling as the best feel- ing of human nature—grail:wire should. fuel a place in the miind of a singlin iallithiunit of Brighton." 'We were almost in despair for the poor Brightonians after perusing this melancludy account ; but the subse- quent pose happily relieved our fears. On Monday, " the prochimation was read. The wratfo.r being fitrourable, the crowd which acennpanied the tasocession WaS immense "—a weeping sky might have kept them svithin ;—'- indeed, the entire population of' Brighton appeared to be premed out upon the occasion. _Nothing could possiNg is n)) the en /ha. sia:nn which wa.s .manifestcd each time the prOCI(1:ll,lib,11 l!'s4,1 root." :•.;0 much for Saturday's all-absurbing grief and Sunday's never-ending gratitude.
STRENG-ru Meeionr.—A letter from Doversa ys—" It appears as on la a short lime since we saw the King in the Witt i.`,;r1* of health and strength, MI the pier-head of this town, giving tlr-. first cheer to the departure of the King of France, who was sailing down the harbour to assume tlre crown of his kingdom. His Majesty.. who NViIS titian Regent, appeared full of vigour, arid a very long life was anticipated. Alas! the grim tyrant makes no distinction, but levels all !" Considering that sixteen years have elapsed since, ;mil the number of other wicked deed that. the " grim tyrant" has perpetrated in the mean time, we think the present exclamation against his radical propensities might have been spared. * Sir in vodic c.—E in
pmz C'ornamaNct:s.—The paregreplemongers of the daily press have diseoveaed that the name of Adelaide is not mw among the
(Ia.:W.1S Em,land. " The second wife of I !eery I." We " WaS A ;Ealaide, a prinee!,:s of Louvain. The mothar of 1,:ing Step11131, dallghter of Williant the Conqueror, was Adele, irh i,.h is in filet thr some name." The conversion of Adela would be vonvenient, no doubt, hut !inform_ irately she was not a queen, site Wits only a countess ; and equelly lamentable is the fact that Ilenry's, second queen was not named Adelaide, but Ariehtis, whicln nary be the same in incening, but is net the smile ire let; cr. The above-mentioned srnall wits have discovered that the Kiny of England have a wonderful knack of dying on a Saturd:iy. " Will iron III. died on Saturday, March 8, l70:2; Queen. Anne on Sutirday, Aegust 1, 1714 ; George I. at two o'clock on Sunday morning, June II, 1727—i.e. what in common parlance is called Saturday night. George 11. (lied on Saturday, October 25, 1760 ; George III. OH Saturday, Jan.- 18-20 ; George IV. on Saturday, June 28, IMO." It strikes us that if Sunday morning- be in common parlance called Saturday night, Satur- day morning must in common parlance be called Friday night : and thus, the last instance, to suit which all the rest have been hunted out, must be taken out of the list of examples.
Intsti Monattry.—Lady William Lenox and Mr. Wood are now - playing in Dublin to empty benclies,.-- - BEST PUB ate I5STRUCTO5tS.—S0 great was the number of letters put into the General Post.office on` Saturday (nearly 30,000), that the clerks were engaged for some time after their usual hour in making therrt up. The extra number of papers was immense, and a great many were delayed leaving town that night, as it was impossible, notwithstanding the increase of hands, to assort them; great disappointment was conse- quently experienced in the country, as the mournful event of the death: of his late Majesty had created the most lively interest.
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