On did—That Lord Palmerston's trip to Paris has a higher
aim than Easter holyday-making contemplating the speedy return of the Whigs to Whitehall and Downing Street, including his own to the Foreign Office, he is anxious to smooth down difficulties that lie in the way from the hostile feelings of some eminent men in France. He is understood to have new lights on the events and policy of 1840; and with his old foeman, M. Thiers, he is already quite "hand and glove." But a still greater power than M. Thiers remains to be propitiated—King Louis Philippe himself: and the hardly credible story runs, that in this case Lord Brougham has undertaken to negotiate the peace!
On die—That there is more than punctilio in Peel's obstinate adherence to usage in regard to the first reading of the Irish "Assassination" Bill; namely, a pledge, the forfeiture of which would greatly diminish the chances of success for his Corn Bill in the House of Lords.
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