EXCLUSIVE INTELLIGENCE.

(_From_ OUR _West-end and "The Observer's" Correspondent._)

We have every reason to believe, unless a very respectable authority, on

whom we are in the habit of relying, has grievously imposed upon us, that a

very illustrious personage has consulted a certain exalted individual as to

whether a certain other person, no less exalted than the latter, but not so

illustrious as the former, shall be employed in a certain approaching

event, which at present is involved in the greatest uncertainty. Another

individual, who is more dignified than the third personage above alluded

to, but not nearly so illustrious as the first, and not half so exalted as

the second, has nothing whatever to do with the matter above hinted at, and

it is not at all probable that he will be ever in the smallest way mixed up

with it. For this purpose we have cautiously abstained from giving his

name, and indeed only allude to him that there may be no misapprehension on

this very delicate subject.

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