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want. His sole obligation is to return
such a quantity of fine gold and silver, respec-
tively, as the metal delivered to him may be computed
to contain, according to the assay previously made of
it; and it hence becomes impossible to ascertain that
the property confided to him on the public account is
not mu in some measure available as capital for
carrying on his print* business." This is less a ver-
dict of acquittal than a challenge to the party accused
to prove himself innocent. Aid after all, the commis-
sion were not under any necessity of leaving the ques-
tion in this unsatisfactory state ; by calhng for an
official return they could have disoovered whether
public silver delivered for refinement had been de-
tained some months while private twines. was
going on.
The commission have decided against the exist-
ence of the refinery, and other private works,
as inimical to the public service, and inoon-
eistent with other and more important duties; and
they do not hesitate to state—what has been noto-
rious for many years—that private and pecuniary
motives have been obstacles in the way of good go-
vernment, and have clogged the wheels of the
machine. _ _

So far, all the opinions we bare expressed with re-
ference to-the Mint have been confirmed, all the
charge. substantiated, and the abuses proved; here-
after, when we have had leisure to study the report
and the various documents appended to it more tho-
roughly, we may resume the subject.

BERLIN. FEB, 25.

Deputise of the First and Second Chambers throng
daily in by all the rails, converging for the great bum•
nese which begins to-morrow. Chance committees
form in Snit and second!class carriages,and some of the
extreme leftflnd their way into the waggons, either to
enjoy there complete liberty to smoke their pipes at
ease or to demonstrate the fraternal simplicity of re-
publican manners. These are heard to protest much
against the invaded majesty of representatives of
the people, who are summoned to the Weitsets Saat, or
White Hall, of the palace, to hear the King's speech,
and think the King ought to come, as indeed British,
French, Spanish, and other Kings do, and say what
he has to say at their house; and such say flatly that
they will not go. This, however, was left an open
question at the meeting of the Left, which took place
the night before last, at Melente's Tavern, and where
old acquaintances returned for new districts shook
hands, and welcomed the adherents they have gained
among the new deputies. Waldeck, Unruh, d'Ester,
Temme, Rodbertus, and Von Berg were there, and
soon came in fresh from the train Schneider, Pax,

Kirchmann, Otto, and others. They will pro.
Unruh for Presidett of the Second
posei Chamber. The last meeting of the Right, held at
the London Hof, counted about 150 members.
Sharp disputes prevailed among them : but it was
understood that Orabow united the greatest number
of votes as candidate for the presidentship of the
people's chamber.
The inaugural sitting of both assemblies will be
held in the " White hail" of the palace : the succeed-
ing ones in the separate buildings prepared in the
Leipsiger-Strasse. The King arrived yesterday from
Charlottenberg.
They. say that Brandenburg has ventured to hint to
his Majesty the advantage of brevity in a speech
from the throne, but the prudent counsels of the mi-
nister will hardly prevail any more than the King's
own painful personal experience to curb his passion
for oratorical display, and to suppress the indulgence
of his fatal gift for speechifying. As a seasoning for
the reception of the royal lecture, the minister of
public worship has ordered divine service to be per-
formed in the cathedral for the edification of the evan-
gelical members who are said in the official notice to
have begged for this solemnity. A corresponding
mass wit lbe celebrated for the catholic members in
the church of St. Hedwig.
The greenness of some of the new members and
their ignorance of the capital and its ways are a sub-
ject of mirthful anecdote. A bevy of Rhine-crnser-
vatives coming from Cologne got out at Potsdam, and
bid one another "Schlafin ale wohl" with all possible
solemnity, thinking they were at Berlin, and calling
for droehkies; but presently, to their great astonish-
ment, the whistle shiill'd for departure, and all rushed
to regain their meats as well as they could.
The King reviewed before his departure from
Charlottenberg the two battalions of musketeers of
the 24th regiment of infantry, which have been in
garrison at Berlin during the last year, and suffered
much in the street fighting. They are now gone to
Stettin. The compliments of the King on their smart
appearanoe and loyal conduct have been clenched by
a panegyric from Wrangel, in his order sf the dey.
The murmurs grow more and more audible among
the constitutional royalists against the prolongation of
the state of siege. The -appointments of Von Arnim
to the ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that of Von
Rabe to Finance, appear in the Gazette of yesterday.
The King's uncle came last night by the train
from Munster, with Bodelschwingh, where they have
been assisting at the funeral of Prince Waldemar.
The Spanish minister, Donoeo Cortes, has arrived.
The envoy of the United States, Major Donaldson, is
on the eve of setting out for Frankfort. An English
cabinet courier arrived yesterday from St. Petersburg,
and returns with despatches at the end of this week.

BRAZILEL—PALMOIITH, FEL 28, 10 A.m.—Her
Majesty's Packet Petrel, Lieut. Career, has arrived
from Rio Janeiro in 44 days. She has a small freight
of about 12,0001. Although no particular news
appeal, to have been extant, the rate of exchange
had fallen to 22;d.

HOLLAND.—Tae HAGUE, FEE. 27. Second
Chamber of the States General.—ln reply to a qoestion put
by Von Ryckevorsel, the Minister for Foreign Affairs in-
formed the chambers that the government had received from
the government of Great Britain, communication of a treaty
of pesos and commerce concluded on the 29th May, 1848,
between the Sultan of Borneo Proper and the Queen of
England, wherein it is stipulated that the Sultan of Borneo
Proper engages to make no concession of territory to any
other nation whatever, without the free will and consent of
her Britannic Majesty. The minister stated that the
government domed it expedient to confine it-
self, in the present instance, to making this com-
munication, but added that he, the minister, should
give the treaty in question the most serious considera-
tion, as he conceived it to be a question of the very highest
importance to commerce, to the colonies, and to the mother
country. His Excellency added that the communication of
the conclusion of the treaty had been made by the British
government without any reference to what had taken place
anteriorly on this subjec*, for the Netherlands note of the
27th of April, 1847, communicated to England, had remained
unanswered to this day. A treaty has just been concluded
between the Netherland' and Austria, by which the Ne-
therlands government is to place a considerable portion
of the Netherlands fleet under the command of a Dutch
admiral at the service of the Austrian government for a given
period.

Zbe Court.

THE LEVEE.

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The Queen held a levee (the second this season)
yesterday afternoon in St. James's Mace. Her Majesty
and Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace shortly
before two o'clock, attended by the Duchess of Norfolk and
Lady Portman, Ladies in Waiting, Lord Camoys, Lord in
Watling, Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to Prince
Albert, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Wilds's, Colonel
Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince, Colonel the Hen.
Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Seymour,
Equerry in Waiting to His Royal Highness, Messrs. Crofton
and Gordon,
_Pages of Honour in Waiting. At St. James's
Palace Her Majesty and His Royal Highness were received
by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Groom
of the SW* to the Prince.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was present
at the levee, attended by Major Baron Knesebeck, Equerry
in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of
Parma also attended the levee.

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The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne-room,
accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of
Parma' and attended by the ladies and gentlemen 'awaiting.
The levee commenced by the introduction of the foreign
diplomatic circle, when the following presentations to her
Majesty the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Prince Al-
bert, took place:—By the Neapolitan minister, Prince Pe-
'bulls, a Sicilian nobleman, from Palermo; by the Danish
minister, M. de Tresohow, Coneeiller de Conference, Plenipo-
tentiary of his Danish Majesty, and M. Hopfner, Cooseiller
et Attache ; by the Peruvian minister, Le Colonel Beltran,
Secretary of the Peruvian Legation, and M. Henry Cars-
veto, Attaché to the Legation.
The foreign diplomatic circle was attended by Mehmed
Pacha, Turkish ambassador; Mons. Zobrab, Consul. Gene-
ral for Turks and first Attaché to the Ottoman Embassy,
and Yam Effendi, Private Secretary of the Turkish Am-
bassador• Le Vioe-Amiral Cecilia, Ambassador of France ;
Mons. Bailie (aide-de-camp de Famiral), Attachi i
FAmbassade, and M. Sten% secmd Secretary, of
the Embassy ; M. Van de Weyer, Belgian minis-
ter,!, and 2d. Eugene de Gerlache, Attaché to the Le-
gation; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister; Viscount
de Moscone, Portuguese minister, and Baron de Monoorvo,
second Attache of the Legation ; Baron de Brannow, Bo-