On the very day on which my communication of the 8th of August reached him, Mr.Fleniken addressed his letters to the minister of foreign affairs and to the king, and he continued to give his attention to the subject till the object was happily effected, and the medal placed in his hands.
The event itself, however insignificant in the great world of politics and business, is one of pleasing interest to the friends of American science, and it has been thought proper that the following record of it should be preserved in a permanent form.

I have regretted the frequent recurrence of my own name in the correspondence, and have suppressed several letters of my own which could be spared, without rendering less intelligible the communications of the other parties, to whom the interest and merit of the transaction belong.
EDWARD EVERETT.
CAMBRIDGE, 1st February, 1849.
CORRESPONDENCE HON.

WILLIAM MITCHELL TO WILLIAM C.BOND, ESQ., CAMBRIDGE.
"Nantucket, 10 mo.

3d, 1847.
"MY DEAR FRIEND: I write now merely to say that Maria discovered a telescopic comet at half-past ten on the evening of the first instant, at that hour nearly vertical above Polaris five degrees.

Last evening it had advanced westwardly; this evening still further, and nearing the pole.