The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1865.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone, Dull Care,"
every evening at 8. A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, is.

PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. —World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

VREDERIC MA.CCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
ozo., in his original entertaiument, "Begone, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s ;
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, as. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's-hall, 2S, Piccadilly.
A. NIMIIO, Acting Manager.

WESTBOURNE HALL, Westbourne-grove,
Bayswater, W.

THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE DAY.

THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), TO-MORROW (WED-
NESDAY). and THURSDAY. August 22, 23, and 24, the
BABY ACTRESS, age, Two Years and Ten Days, will
Recite and Act a whole scene from Shakspere's Play of
KING JOHN. She will also give some amusing COMIC
SKETCHES. In the course of the evening a SEA SONG
and DANCE (in character), by the Baby Actress. This
Little Wonder, although but Two Years old, recites and acts
three whole scenes from Shakspere. She also dances and
sings. As pretty as talented. She excels by far any juvenile
prodigy that.has yet appeared in public.
In addition to the above performances, Mr. ALFRED
HOWARD'S DRAMATIC RECITALS and COMIC
SKETCHES, interspersed with Music. _ _ _

From the Era, July 22, 1865.—" A genuine and remarkable
novelty is now betag exhibited. She is literally a baby, not
having reached -the age of two years ; and is gifted with in-
telligence and powers of memory to a marvellous extent.
She recites whole scenes from Bing John,' A Midsummer
Night's Dream,' &e., with appropriate action and astonishing
earnestness. A more wonderful instance of precocious in-
telligence cannot well be imagined. She maybe truly classed
among the wonders of the present day."
Programmes, Id. ; words of the performance, 3d. ; and
likenesses. is. each, may be had in the hall during the enter-
tainment.

Doors open at 7.30. Commence at 9. Admission, is.; first
seats, 25.; reserved seats, 3s. Tickets may be had from Mr.
Whirley, Westbourne Hail, or of any book or music seller.
Carriages may be ordered at ten minutes to Ten.

T " 0 X F 0 It D.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Waimealey, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St.
Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Belle'', Comedy, Burlesque, Ac., by the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA GUNNISS.
NOTICE.—The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable
EVERY EVBNING pla
at ce
Eight o'clock. s of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
- - -

• ---- •
The Classical Ballet. entitled THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear-
ance THIS EVENING.
Admission—Area, 61; stalls and balcony, is, ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
KO KO RI KO.
This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest
hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad-
dition to the Operatic Selections, supported by the whole
talent of the estab'ishment.
Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Durtah and Davies, the D'Aubang, and Arthur
Lloyd.
Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to
the above establishment

MADAAIE TUSSAITD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—In aocordance a ith the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London.
and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.
Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

GLASS, CHINA, EARTHENWARE, and
CHANDELIER SHOW ROOMS.
Notice of Removal in consequence of the late Fire.

T DEFRIES and SONS' Temporary SHOW
• ROOMS.
16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITECITAPEL
Five Minutes' walk from their
DITCH. Late Establishment,
147. lIOUNDS

CRYSTAL and BRONZED CHANDELIERS, New Designs,
for the Dining and Drawinz-room, either for
Gas or Candle.
DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17,
• COMIERCIAL-STREET.

PETROLEUM LAMPS and WAIL LIGHTS, MIRRORS
(for India).
T DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17,
V • COMMERCIAL-STREET.

TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS.
Newest Patterns, Correct Measure.
DEF RIES and SONS,
tl • 113 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES,
For 12 Persons, XL 18s. 6d.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
ti• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-bTREET.

TABLE GLASS, CHINA, and EARTHENWARE,
CLUB, MESS, and FURNISHING ORDERS for the above
GOODS promptly executed.
T DEFRIES and SONS supply Designs and
• Pattern Books Free.
Works—LOINIDON and BIRMINGHASI.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip-
tion of ARTIFICIAL TEET H, fixed without springs, wires,
or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth
as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest
observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will
be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This
method does not require the extraction of roots, or any pain-
ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are
loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica-
tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful
in mastication.
052, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.
ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and e,egant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, ceautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0.. in Italian,
AlabaFt3r, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire SPar,
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS.
51 IN I,: RALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology:; they will greatly f ioilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 590 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
R PLLOG Y is given by Mr.TENNANT,F.G.S., at 149. Strand.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the da6, AGIJA AMAR L L
A.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and C ~ 12, Three Kinr-001111,
Lombard-street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respeot-
fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which
gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Ague Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ' - it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 81 Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
0) TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the
the breath. Price Is. 6d.-12, Three King-court, Lombard-
street. London.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
'WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERT TED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Nloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
Ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 81s. 6d. Postage, ls.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 101

Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Plooadilly.
NEW PATENT
ELAST IC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all oases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are
p >roue, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16e.
eadh. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228. Piccadilly.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now In operation. Last year no fewer
*han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected irom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. P., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged r 3, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
11. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
31. IL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. IL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents (lead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, uho
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen•street Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and co Lombard-street.

ETINAHAN'S
LL WHISKY V. COGNAC
Tuts oele ,rated Old IRIS; WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It Pare, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Bold in Bottles, Bs. Bd., at the Retail Rouses in London ; by
the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale
at

8, GREAT WINDMILL.STRICET, LONDON, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
"Kinahan'e LL Whisky."

CONTRACT FOR PRQVISIONS

Royal Hospital, Chelsev, 18th August, 1865.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the LORDS
and OTHERS. COMMISSIONERS of this 110
PITA!, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE. That they- are
ready to receive TENDERS from. srici to treat with, such
persons as may be willing to Contract for Victualling the
IN-PENSIONERS of the said Hospital, from the Ist Octo-
ber, 18e5, to the 30th September followin-, both days inclu-
sive, with the following Articles of PRO V ISIONS,
viz. :—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes.
Salt, Oa. meal, Barley or Rim, Pepper, Flour. Suet, Cocos.
Black Tea, Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery,
Thyme, Marjoram, Winter savory, and Pa sley. daily, at
per head per diem for the whole ration, according to
the established allowances of the House, as specified in the
Form of Tender, which may be obtained at the Office of the
Secretary any day bet Teen tne hours of Ten and hree
o'clock, which Tenders must be filled up and delivered sealed
at the Board-room of the said hospital by the Party or
Parties tend ring, or by an Agent appointed on his or their
behalf, on TUESDAY, the sth September, atrrwelve o'clock,
at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the
came into consideration.
It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required
to find Security to the Crown for the due performance of the
Contract, and that no Tender will be received after the day
and hour above mentioned.
The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the
lowest Tender.

GEORGE HUTT, Secretary and Registrar.

HAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ends
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine,
Is. 6d., or 20 stamps.

GREYHAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.--
ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma-
nently—Ladies' Hair from 78. ed. ; Gentlemen's from ss.
The Dye is sold at
.3s. 6d or sent free for 54 stamps. It Is
most easy of use.

HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX.'ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. 35.8 d.; sent the same day.as ordered by post
for 54 stamps.

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 33. 6d.; sent free fors4
stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218 ,High Holborn, London. Essay
on Hair, Id.

PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
Sze. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 sumps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High
Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, Is. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 60 stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 staraps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248,
High Holborn. London.

SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
HOSIE, Hampstead. Ofilee3, 77, CornhilL
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
. _

Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon ( hampneys
R.N. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of expense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
Tue Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss f life at sea, and t o enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs
Barclay. Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cernhill.
R. SIVETTNG, Hon. Sea
CHAILLE'S NASII. See.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.

Vice-Patron—llis Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, E.G

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K.G.

This Hospital, foundel in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It aff,rds relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
Addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con Aderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
co..ta!niug several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite muds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward Has-
serman, E'sq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom
and Cu,; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend. Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Earned and
Liverpool 1, and at the Hospital. from 10 till 6.

LTANroitI) sMITIT, Secretary.

Holiday Makers.

A writer from Homburg, Aug. 18, states there is a poem
by Parini entitled "Il Giorno," one of the most laborious
efforts in Italian literature, which professes to teach a
young Lombard nobleman " How to do nothing from morn-
ing to night." The art of killing time is not to be learnt
without pains, oven in that Southern land, where dolce far
niente is said to be a normal state of existence. What shall
it bo in England, where the hurry and scurry of the Derby
Day makes up for Carnival, harvest home, vintage, and all
the 365 festivals enlivening a Roman calendar? John Bull
has killed pleasure at home ; he must needs go abroad and
show how he can amuse himself, " tristement h l'usage de son
pays.

John Bull is not an unamusable follow, nevertheless,
though he has his own peculiar ways of enjoying himself.
His fondness for violent, perilous exercise is the result of
sanguine temperament, of exuberant animal spirits. There
is nothing like running the chance of breaking one's neck,
to give existence a fresher start, a more intense relish;
and next to the delight of venturing one's life comes that
of staking one's purse. Hence the Englishman when out
on niwmai
himself,
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neighbours. Every place becomes Cockneyfied as soon as
known. Every man in England wastes his breath in an
anxious race after his "betters," while these show as great
an alacrityin cutting their " equals." These centrifugal
and centripetal forces aro at work abroad as well as at horhe.
Everywhere you see a stream of the English running after
and running away from the English. What was charm-
ingly " select" ton years ago runs a chance of becoming a
solitude the moment the "quality" voted it common-
place. Mont Blanc is almost as Cockney a mountain now-
, a-days as the Rigi.
Anxious, with the majority of my acquaintance, to be
r e
en
is u
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out of London and England in these glorious summer days,
and bent upon following English pleasure-seekers wherever
they may be found, in what direction, I asked myself, shall
I wend my way ? The English, I repeat, exercise upon
ono another a certain force both of attraction and repul-
sion. They crowd upon each other oven while they strive
with all their might
thoe
jekiihnasevse
annodt come
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needed to leave Middlesex." But, for all
ta"hbianarnots,eadsJd'iotfl oln hardlyßseoenulinlyl feels lost in a foreign crowd, and clings to
his own. Only he would rather fall in with the "right set."
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meet
asunder.
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and the wayside inn. We no longer
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of yore, postslong
ha
al
of the first-class carriage in the German
that is gradually spreading
v
may be found in the fact that French
and Germans, and oven Italians and Spaniards, fill the
hotels which were first built for the accommodation
railwayso tpnot
greate rre o beingofContinentf reservede h well-being
for "Princes and the English." A
of Britons and Russians. The English are no longer more
than a unit in the mass of pent-up travellers jostling against
ono another on a Leman steamer, or flattening their noses
behind the closed glass doors of a waiting-room at a French
railway. Hero at Homburg, at Ems,
at Wiesbaden, all
s, you have barely an English or a Yankee
nrosumnodstghseinTausttnenu
un-English.
I only came in here last evening, and had barely time to
look about me. There is not much to be seen at Homburg,
as every one is aware, as to the place itself, but much to
attract attention and set a man thinking with respect to its
summer visitors. A walk up and down the platform before
the Kursaal and a look at the groups sitting round or loung-
ing about satisfy you of the enormous difficulty the majo-
rity have to contend with in their endeavour to get rid of
the " enemy." The air is fresh and breezy, and the sun
tempered by white fleecy clouds ; the gardens aro bloom-
ing ; the plants in the orange-boxes taper up slender and
graceful, rearing their round crests almost on a level with
the roof of the handsome Kursaal building ; and the woody
slopes of the Taunus invite enterprising strollers up to the
top of that Grosse Feldberg, down the cliffs of which no
man ever broke his neck ; but on the countenances of most
men there is a listlessness which no prospect of a 5 o'clock
table d'hote dinner has power to dispel; and the ladies sit
yawning, seemingly lost to the very sense of admiration

for their own dress, and of envy and uncharitableness
towards their neighbours' apparel. The cigar has no
soothing effect on a man who has no other solace against
ennui, and flirting is very hard work for couples who have
fourteen hours of a summer day to do it in.
Indeed, who would ever think of coming to Homburg (I
speak of persons in good health, and having no faith in Dr.
Granville), if it were not for the gambling tables? There
are no less than ten of them at work all day here, from 11
o'clock in the morning till 11 in the evening, and you have
to strive hard both for sitting and standing room at any of
them. Silence and awful solemnity reign among all those
.groups ; and you see here and there very deep furrows on
the brow of this or of that votary of fortune. Most of the
sitters seemed nailed to their seats, and unable to quit the
tempting hazard. It is not pleasant to see so many women
here, at least not the young ones so many peach-cheeked
English lasses, too. There may be no harm in the mere
venture of a florin or a Napoleon ; but who is there who
can bear to see his wife or daughter at a place of this kind
in England ? Exactly so ; that is the very reason why
one travels abroad, because what is called "a hell " in
London becomes, if not quite a Paradise, at least aKursaa],
a place mentionable to ears polite at Homburg.
WIESBADEN, Aug. 19.

What is there in an Englishman that makes him so well
known at a first glance, and sets him apart from all the
other members of the human family ? When the Emperor
Napoleon 111. -Wished to requite the hospitality he had re-
ceived at the hands of perfide Albion by granting all British
subjects a privilege which is still denied to his own French
citizens—that of travelling about in France without being
bound to exhibit a passport:—that astute monarch was
well aware that the sagacity of his police agents and
gendarmes could never be at fault about .that _indefinable
something which nature has stamped on the countenance,
in the bearing and garb of an Englishman,and which sends
him forth into the world as the civis Ronzanus of the present
day—something in the look of an Englishman, and of an
Englishwoman too. I was years ago on my way hack from
Italy, and had reached the French frontier, then at Culoz,
when we were, agreeably to custom, marched through ropes
into the police-office at the station, a whole train-full of
passengers, and asked to show our credentials. We had
been posting all night across Mont Cords, we had gone
through a hurried toilet at St. jean de Maurienne, and the
dust of the road and railroad had made our travel-stained
clothes all of one colour. There was not much to choose
among us as to outward apparel. We filed one by one be-
fore M. le Commissaire ; the poor foreigners put down their
greasy papers with fear and trembling ; the English part of
the company proclaimed their nationality and claimed their
exemption. The turn came for a tall, and rather good-
looking, middle-aged lady, an Englishwoman born and
bred, but marriedto an Italian, long since a Briton by right
of naturalisation. Her turn came to stand before the table,
and the contrast between the sharp weasel-features of the
arrogant little official and the innate dignity of the fair tra-
veller was sufficiently striking. "Vot' pass'port Madame?"
" English," was the answer. The lady understands and
speaks most languages, but she claimed in this instance the
right of using her own. "English," she said. " Anglaise?"
translated the little man ; " Vot' nom, s'il vous plait ?"
" Centurione," uttered the traveller with great distinction.
The Commissaire, snappishly—" Ce n'est pas un nom An-
glais." The lady gave a slight toss of the head and said
nothing. "Ce n'est pas un nom Anglais," repeated the
irascible functionary ; " Vous dites— " " Centurione,"
again spoke the lady, and then, spelling, "C enturion e."
"Ce n'est pas un nom Anglais," still more snappishly.
He then cast a glance round the company, who began
to be amused at the dialogue, and then muttered,
somewhat crestfallen, " Passe; Madame," and tho
lady passed on. The rogue knew very well all the time
that he had to deal with an Englishwoman, and that
there was nothing to gain in the contest ; but he thought
he could tracasser her about her name and worry her with
impertinent questions. The demureness of the lady shut
him up.
No doubt any one who has eyes in his head can tell an
English person as soon as ho has one before him, and it is
thus that by casting a hasty glance on this vast., motley
crowd before the Kursaal, at Wiesbaden, I can settle it to
my own satisfaction that the Britons do not this year
muster very strong at this cosmopolite meeting. It is true
that a word or two caught here and there in the midst of
the hubbub of voices has something of the smack of Anglo-
Saxon accent ; but, upon turning on the group whence it
proceeds, you hare no doubt as to their Transatlantic
nationality.

Wiesbaden has not much to delight as to site, and all
the beauty of the place is purely artificial. It lies in a
hollow among imperceptibly sloping heights, and is as
close and hot in the summer as a teakettle. It has not
oven the high platform and the cooling breeze of Homburg,
and is not so conveniently placed as Soden for excursions
to the fine ruins of Koenigstein and Falkenstein, or for an
ascent of the Grosse Feldberg, that only mountain in
Europe the summit of which can be reached in a carriage.
Yet the garden walks, the ponds, and fountains are laid
out with taste, and the temple of the rouge et noir god is
fitted up with a splendour second only to that of tho rival
establishments of Homburg. Tho look of the company,
so far as I can see, is as much, or even more, listless.
The people may be acquainted, but do not seem to care
much for one another. The great business of the day is
for every one to stare at his neighbour. They move about
at a snail's pace in dreary rounds, along the walks or in
front of the terrace, pretending to listen to the strains of
the band, or sit down in the verandah, yawning—yawning
wofully. The fact is, bathing, eating ices, or champagne-
drinking, newspaper-reading, shopping at the bazaar,
flirting and gossip-picking—all amusements but one—pall,
when pursued the whole livelong day, even on the most
inveterate idler.

All amusements but one, and that one is apt to produce
the thirst that no water can quench ; to create that craving
which no indulgence can sate. In these gambling places
happy is the man who can gamble ! The rouge et noir and
roulette tables are as densely beset hero as they are at Hom-
burg. In no previous year, they say, has so much money
changed hands at all these German establishments. No
amount of good or bad luck seems to have power to break
the spell for those who have once given in to it. Men who
have staked their last florin still linger round the fascinat-
ing green cloth, cursing in their heart the hard law, which
hangs in placards on every wall round the rooms, by which
it is signified that " the bank grants no credit." Pity one
cannot gamble away lands and houses, air and freedom,
and ono's very share of paradise on parole ! Stand on no
ceremony ; nobody does here ; elbow your way through
the throng. Listen to the whispering of those women,
who are watching the proceedings with a kind of awe,
which will, however, soon wear off ; they will let you
know how that darling, dark-browed Milanese count has
already pocketed his 5,500 florins at one sitting ; or they
will sneer at that rubicund Esthonian baron, who has just
got up leaving 80,000 francs in the croupier's clutches, and
who goes away rubbing his hands in apparent groat glee,
as if glad to be rid of the burden. The rooms, owing to
their mysterious demi-jour, are deliciously cool, in spite of
the crowd and the stifling season ; yet there is something
unwholesome in the air, and no one feels at home here till
acclimatised to the spot by long habit.
To stop at Wiesbaden for more than one day except for
the sake of its baths at molten-lead temperature, or for the
pleasure of earning money otherwise than by the sweat of
one's brow, seems to me, in short, hardly possible ; but for
one day, or half a day, running up by an afternoon train
from Frankfort or Mayenco, the scene is sufficiently enter-
taining, if it were only for the pleasure of seeing how people
can ennuyer themselves or each other. No one dresses here,
you would say, as he is wont to do at home. There are men
in
the finest broadcloths, with most unexceptionably shining,
close napped " tiles ;" and there are others with loose jackets
and trousers, low-crowned, broad-brimmed, or turned-up
wide-awakes, slouching hats, pork-pie hats, brimless hats ;
some of them all in white linen from head to foot, like
Pierrot at a masked ball. Yonder goes an unmistakable
Shylock, with a long beard and trailing gaberdine ; close
to him follows a sturdy fellow, with feathered cap, vel-
veteen coat, and top boots—a huntsman, as you would
fancy, fresh from the Black Forest. There are stu-
dents with little saucer-like brimless caps tied with
strings beneath their long hair, wearing the colours of
the 'University they belong to. The green Nassau uni-
form and the white Austrian tunic are conspicuous in the
crowd, and great is the rattle and clatter of their ponderous
sabres on the ground. As to the fair Kurgaste, what
pencil could do justice to the perfect parterre of the flowers
in their garments ? There they go, mountains of muslin,
clouds of tarlatan, white, pink, and blue, with here and
there a flaming Garibaldi tunic, with their back hair in
nets of gold, with plumes and whole birds in their hats,
with long, dangling earrings, with crosses of diamonds or
jet heaving on their breasts. I cannot say that in all cases
fine feathers make fine birds.

THE WIFE MURDER AT ISLEWORTH.-DEATH OF
THE MURDERER.---The man Daniel. Dorsett, who has been
lying in the Isleworth Union since the 14th of June last,
for the murder of his wife and attempted suicide of
himself, died yesterday morning at a quarter past two
o'clock.

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