If the press says useful things, and makes observations which merit attention, there is no doubt that sometimes, though God knows very rarely, something useful may be gleaned from them.

But when you see its present state, when the one side says black and the other white, when the opposite political characters are treated by their respective antagonists as rogues, fools, blockheads, wretches, and all the other names in which the English political dictionary is so _very rich_, one stands like the ass, between two bundles of hay, considerably embarrassed which ought to be chosen....
[Pageheading: THE PRINCESS'S ESTABLISHMENT] _The King of the Belgians to the Princess Victoria._ LAEKEN, _11th April 1837._ ...

As I believe the visit at Windsor is fixed for the 15th, I hope this letter will arrive in time.

Perhaps the King will speak to you about the necessity of forming you an establishment.[29]...

Your position, having a Mother with whom you very naturally remain, would render a _complete_ independent establishment perhaps matter of _real_ inconvenience; still something like that which Charlotte had will become desirable.