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We feel our share of the national interest in the health, wealth, and 

 happiness of that illustrious prince and pensioner, Leopold, of Coburg. 

 We fully believe every instance of his study of the royal high Dutch 

 virtue of saving, in every possible way. His " Highness !" has been 

 publicly asked whether his gooseberries have paid as well this season as 

 the last ? Whether he can afford to lower the hire of his carts with his 

 coronet upon them ? And what is the least price at which he will be able 

 to sell a waggon-load of brick-earth, before the building season is over ? 

 We profess ourselves rather inclined to admire the industry with which 

 the illustrious pensioner makes his fifty thousands a-year meet all 

 his demands, and allow him something for cigars at the end of it. A 

 story has got into the papers a])out his refusing to continue a pension of 

 the overwhelming sum of twenty-four pounds a-year to the widow of a 

 coachman, Avho broke his neck in the Princess Charlotte's service. Sir 

 R. Gardiner, who remains behind to take caie of the illustrious pensioner's 

 gooseberries and character, gave a sort of vague contradiction to the 

 story ; but it has been re-asserted on the testimony of the party, and it 

 has so much the stamjj of probability, tliat we fully believe it to 

 be word for word true. Another little trait of character was couched in 

 the story that Sontag, the prima donna of many names, had taken com- 

 passion on his finances, and lent him half her salary. He has gone, how- 

 ever, to the land of his fellow magnates, and still fame delights to hover 

 round him. 



The plea of bad liealth being abandoned as untenable, three other causes 

 are assigned for the princely emigration — the first, that it is his High- 

 ness's intention to renew his homage in an imperial quarter, where, if 

 report speaks true, it has already been rejected, but the field is 

 supposed to be now more open by the demise of a redoubted Cham- 

 berlain ; the second, that it is preliminary to the avowal of a left-handed 

 marriage with a fascinating German vocalist ; the third, that it proceeds 

 from motives of economy, as the original Res nngiista Domi is supposed 

 to warrant a reduction of expenditure during a Continental sojourn, 

 which would not be looked upon with a favourable eye in this country. 



We hate the New IMetropolitan Police, as it is called — the Downing 

 Street Army, as it ought to be called. For its name when a j^ear or two 

 shall have fitted it f lirly on the neck of the nation, we may wait without 

 much chance of its being at all of a tenderer descrijition. But we do 

 not hesitate to pronounce the whole proceeding obnoxious to all our 

 sense of what a watch and ward, for the fair purposes of preserving 

 order and property, ought to be. It is not yet too late for the city to 

 remonstrate. All are not like Lord Mayor Thompson and his fellow- 

 gaper^ after l^aronetcies. There still are men in the city who can scorn 

 titles, that when given for trimming and tergiversation, are only the 

 surer marks for public scorn. To those manly citizens, we hold up the 

 new police as it is, and let them but do their duty, and a straw for the 

 Peels and Dawsons, and their tribe. Let them look to the official 

 announcement, and see the Horseguards' spirit of the whole affair. 



- " New Metropolitan Police. — The arrangements for the establisliment 

 of the new police are now far advanced. Westminster division will be 

 the first in which it will be introduced. The «r»w, clothing, and accou- 

 ircmcnlSj are nearly finished. This division embraces thirteen very 



