Show an ambitious order lord palmerston expected worK to be done well but of mere peccadilloes he be was tolerant some young gentlemen in the foreign office amused themselves by shining young ladies who lived on the other side of the street that Is by catching the rays raya of the sun on a mirror and flashing them over the way the father of the young ladles ladies complained to palmerston who thereupon issued this minute the secretary of state desir desires that the gentlemen in this department will not cast disagreeable reflections on OB the ladies indies opposite london chronicle |