_Miscellaneous.
We have reason to believe that his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias will arrive in this country on a visit to her Majesty in the course of a few weeks. The Emperor is expected about the second week in May.— Times.
The Queen Dowager has sent donations to thirteen charitable insti- tutions at Brighton, the several sums amounting in the aggregate
to 1251.
The Earl of Haddington, on being brought acquainted with the de- cease of Sir J. Brenton, and the consequent reversion of the good- service pension of 300/. per annum, immediately marked the approba- tion of the Admiralty and the country generally of the eminent services in China of the gallant Commander-in-chicf, Vice-Admiral Sir W. Par- ker, G.C.B., by conferring it on that distinguished officer.—Standard.
Speaking of Mr. Benjamin Wood, M.P., the Times says—" We have heard, with much regret, that this gentleman, who has been for some time in indifferent health, has been lately attacked by paralysis, of so serious a character as to occasion much anxiety to his friends. Mr. Wood has sat since 1840 for the borouAh of Southwark."
In allusion to Mr. IIogg's assurance that he had never in any way sought place, the City article of the Times says- " Not a doubt is attempted to be thrown on the truth of Mr. Hogg's decla- ration • but it has nevertheless been found difficult to reconcile with it the fact, perfectly notorious here, that in May last, after the death of Lord Fitzgerald, the report was so general of Mr. Hogg's approaching appointment to the vacant post at the Board of Trade that a canvass oat commenced for that seat in the India direction which would have been left vacant upon the recent election of Directors if that report had proved true."
The authorship of the verses cited by Mr. O'Connell, beginning " 0 Erin, shall it e'er be mine," which he disclaimed, is still thrust upon him. In a letter to the London papers, the Viscount d'Arlincourt s3ys-
" I read with extreme surprise in your number of the 15th instant, that Mr. Daniel O'Connell denies having ever written the verses which he himself pre- sented to me at the Tara meeting, and which commence thus= 0 Erin ! shall it e'er be mine.'
" I declare in my turn, and on my honour, that I have those verses in my possession, written by Mr. O'Connell himself, not in an album, but on a sheet
„taper taken front his desk, and with these words at the-head—• Written for . uscount d'Arlincourt.'
"I moreover declare, that be offered them to me himself at Tara-hill in the most gracious manner and the most tlatteving terms; and that every word of the conversation 1 bad with him, as published in my book, is strictly correct. "1 should sever have presumed to attribute to so distinguished a man as Mr. O'Counell language which was not his."
The goodnatured Viscount does not seem to perceive that a man may write out verses which he does not and cannot compose ; and that appears to be Mr. O'Connell's case. Let M. d'Arlincourt be assured that all the verses which people " write" are not original.
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