I mentioned--didn't I ?--that I had heard something on my road to this house." "Yes." "Well, I met an old friend at my own gate, who walked with me a part of the way here.

Last night my friend dined with the admiral at Portsmouth.
Among the guests there was a member of the Ministry who had brought the news about the Expedition with him from London.

This gentleman told the company there was very little doubt that the Admiralty would immediately send out a steam-vessel, to meet the rescued men on the shores of America, and bring them home.

Wait a little, Mrs.Crayford! Nobody knows, as yet, under what rules and regulations the vessel will sail.
Under somewhat similar circumstances, privileged people have been received as passengers, or rather as guests, in her majesty's ships--and what has been conceded on former occasions may, by bare possibility, be conceded now.

I can say no more.