royal mind; part of a week in the Smoking Parliament (we know not
what day they were laid on the table there, but it must have been
a grand occurrence within those walls!)--and this already (May
13th) is the result arrived at: Propositions, changed three or
four times within forty-eight hours, and definable at last as
"outrageous;" which induce Hotham to lay down the bellows, and
prepare to go his ways. Our St.-Mary-Axe discovery seems to have
no effect at all!--

One other public result there is from it, and as yet one only:
Reichenbach, "from certain causes thereto moving Us ( aus
gewissen Uns dazu bewegenden Grunden )," gets a formal
Letter of Recall. Ostensible Letter, dated Berlin, 13th May, and
signed Friedrich Wilhelm; which the English may read for their
comfort. Only that along with this, of the same date and
signature, intended for Reichenbach's comfort, the same Leather
Bag brings a Private Letter (which Dickens or another has
contrived to get sight of and copy), apprising Reichenbach, That,
unostensibly, his proceedings are approved of; that he is to
continue at his post till further orders, all the same, "and keep
watch on these Marriages, about which there is such debating in
the world ( wovon in der Welt so viel debattirt wird italic>); things being still in the same state as half a year ago.
That is to say, I am ready for my Daughter's Marriage with the
Prince of Wales: but for my Son, he is too young yet; und
hat es damit keine Eile, weil ich Gottlob noch zwei Sohne hab italic> (nor is there any haste, as I have, thank God, two other
sons,"--and a third ooming, if I knew it):--"besides one
indispensable condition will be, that the English guarantee Julich
and Berg," which perhaps they are not in the least hurry