informed), her
Grace was informed by the Earl of Uxbridge, that she could not be
admitted to an audience, as none but Peers and Peeresses in their own
right could demand that privilege. Her Grace then insisted upon Lord
Uxbridge taking down in writing what she had to say, and promising
her that the communication should immediately be laid before Her
Majesty. In this state, we believe, the matter remains,
substantially, at the present moment, although it has taken a new
form, the Duke of Montrose having, we understand, thought it
necessary to open a correspondence upon the subject with Lord
Melbourne."

There was only a partial denial given to the above, which appeared in the
_Times_ of 5 July. "We are authorised to give the most positive denial
to a report which has been inserted in most of the public papers, that
the Countess of Lichfield informed the Queen that the Duchess of Montrose
and Lady Sarah Ingestre hissed Her Majesty on the racecourse at Ascot.
Lady Lichfield never insinuated, or countenanced any such report, and
there could have been no foundation for so unjust an accusation."

Melbourne, in Australia (named, of course, after the Premier), was
founded 1 June, 1837, and I mention the fact to shew the prosperity of
the infant city--for in two years' time, on this its second anniversary,
certain lots of land had advanced in price from 7 to 600 pounds, and from
27 to 930 pounds.

I cannot help chronicling an amusing story anent Sunday trading. For
some time the parish authorities of Islington had been rigidly
prosecuting shopkeepers for keeping open their shops on Sunday, for the
sale of their goods, such not being "a work of necessity, or mercy," and
numerous convictions were recorded. Most of the persons convicted were
poor, and with large families, who sold tobacco, fruit, cakes and sweets,
in a very humble way of business, and considerable discontent and
indignation was manifested in the parish in consequence of such
prosecutions; the outcry was raised that there was one law for the rich
and another for the poor, and a party that strongly opposed the
proceedings on the part of the parish, resolved to try the legality and
justice of the question, by instituting proceedings against the vicar's
coachman, for "exercising his worldly calling on the Sabbath day," by
driving his reverend master to church, that not being a work of
necessity, or mercy, as the reverend