POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.
SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two o'CLocit THE PEACE WILL 11E KEPT !--We are now satisfied, from information that has just reached us through a peculiar channel, that there is not the least likelihood of Great Britain being involved in war on at. count of the present political movements in other countries.
REPRESENTATION OF LIvERPOOL.—We have just been informed that Mr. CHARLES GRANT has positively declined the overtures made to him to stand for Liverpool ; he is determined on no account to relinquish his connexion with the County of Inverness, to which the recent most honourable conduct of the freeholders has bound him more closely than ever. This was precisely the conduct which, reasoning on general principles, in another place, we had concluded Mr. GRANT would pursue.
SECOND SIGHT.—We extract from the India Gazette, published at Calcutta on the 3rd of March last, which has just been put into our hands by an esteemed friend of the Spectator, the following very curious paragraph.
"Reports are in town of a very important nature, but we have not been able to trace them to any certain authority. It is said that the King of England is dead, and that a revolution has taken place in France. We shall look with anxiety for farther particulars."
The fatal illness of his late Majesty was not publicly announced in London until the 15th of April ; and when the mail which arrived in India on the 3rd of March left England it was not even whispered that his health was affected. The news of the Revolution in France cannot reach Calcutta for two or three months to come. We can easily iota. gine the surprise of the Calcutta editor to find the rumour which reached him so long ago, so surprisingly confirmed in both its particulars. CAMPBELL speaks of coming events casting their shadows before them, but a shadow of four or five months is an extraordinary one—to be sure it had to travel from Paris to Bengal. What will Sir WALTER SCOTY say to the Calcutta rumour? Will he lapse into his old belief ?
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