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GAME IN PERTHSHIRE.
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the pass-word of all the subjects of his Alajesty
God, our King, and Country.
16th. The political changes in Europe. 111,1 y they prov,
a salutary rebuke to tyranny, and end in the coalition an,-
strength of the great family of nations.
17th. Civil and religious Liberty throughout the uni
verse. Band —Strike the cymbals.
18th. Education--May its blessings he extended to all
ranks of society.
19th. The-Arts and S:ienees—Rail-roads and Steam
Engines. The ingenuity of man is fast acquiring the pet
feet mastery> of every element of nature. Band—Comin:

than I do—the more so, gentlemen, from a conscionsm ss
of my inability to do justice to the functions of that Pre-
sidential chair, which he invariably fills to the please',
and satisfaction of all. I rely, however, upon your indol
gence and kind forbearance upon my promise to contribute
to your enjoyment of the day all in my power. In fulfil-
ment of this promise I will commence by giving you the
first of our one and twenty Standard Toasts."
st. The day, and all who honour it—St. George and
the Dragon—Band, " Britons strike home."
Mr. Fowts►t prefaced the second to-Ist by the following
remarks :—I now rise, gentlemen, to propose a toast in
honour of a Monarch, regarding whom there can he but
one feeling in this whole assembly, and that is, that 'Wil-
liam the Fourth is a Monarch who most justly and entirely
deserves and possesses the hearts of the people over whom
he has been called to reign. Certain am I, that for every
impulse of freedom he may communicate to that people—
by the vigour of their loyalty and affection will be re-
turned; and you will all join me in the earnest hope that
he may long live a blessing, a comfort, and a protection
to his people. Gentlemen, you will be prepared new to
drink in flowing bumpers-
-21. The King, God bless him—four times four. band
and song and chorus—" God save the King," by Taylor,
Geer, Weight, and Pearson.
3d. The Presi4ent of the United States—three times
three. Band, "Jackson's march."
4th. Our Naive L nd. Remembrance wakes with all
her joyous train—" Swells at our hearts, and turns them
home again.'•' Song " Honest John Bull," by Weight.
sth. The land we live in. Enlightened, generous, great
and free. Band " Hail Columbia."
6th. The British Constitution. Like the Pyramid of
the Desert, the sand may encroach on its base, and the
tempest bowl over its summit, but it still stands in its in-
tegrity the land-mark of the world. Band " Hearts of
Oak."
7th. The members of the British Cabinet. England ex-
pects her true Patriots, to yield to the f,elings of the age
with moderation, to resist revolution with firmness, anti
to hand down the British Constitution unchanged to
posterity.
Bth. The Navy and Army. Band—" Rule Britannia"
Song and Chorus, by Taylor, Geer, Shirley, and Pearson.
9th. Our Cotemporaries in the cause of Charity. " The
St. Andrew's Society," " The Friendly Sins of St.
Patrick," " The German Society," whose Representa-
tives are cur Guests. " Charity is the fountain from
which all excellencies flow, the stream in which they
all meet "
(The Presidents of S. Andrew's and St. Patrick's
Societies returned thanks.)
Toast given by the President of St. Andrew's Society :
England, great in arts and in arms, in science and
patriotism ; may her future career be worthy of her past
renown.
Mr. PHILIP HONE arose and returned thanks as

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thro' the rye.
20th. Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures—
May they flourish at home and abroad. Band—Speed ti
plough.
21st. The Fair Sex—Why should we struggle to be
free, their charms are worth all liberty. 14and—BrifiC.
Mud chorus. Glee--Ilere's a health to all good lasses.
' VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By the PansinENT—The health of our worthy P;esi
dent, Mr. Thomas Dixon—May he in good season rejoit
our social band ; his qualities of head and heart render him
eminently fit for our Presidential chair.
Mr. Joshua DIXON returned thanks on behalf of hi.
uncle, the President of the Society. The following Orb
to St. George's Day, composed by Mr. S. Woodworth,
was then sung by the vocal corps. [The Ode is unavoid
ably left out for want of room.]
By the First VICE-PaEstoxNT—The British Empire—
May '!he-m!tailrei now in progress in the Imperial Pa:ha-
rm:net* the happy means of uniting together the Govern-
ment and the people in one bond of social affection.
By the Second VICE-PRESIDENT-The Benevolent So
ciety of St. George, instituted in 1786 for the relief of out
distressed countrymen—May it long continue its work 0
usefulness, and he a credit to its members.
Dr. BARTLETT regretted that among the many lop
and excellent toasts during the evening, the first woman in
England should have been forgotten. He therefore pro-
posed " Queen Adelaide, the virtuous wife of our Sailor
King," with three times three ; which was drank accord-
ingly.
Mr. Pantry HONE having retired, Mr. Buckland, in a
neat and appropriate speech, complimentary to the urba-
nity of manners and splendid hospitalities of the gentleman
who bad just left the room, which were experienced more
or less by all strangers—proposed his health, which was
immediately drank with signal marks of approbation.
By Dr. PENNELL, Steward--The 23d of April.
Memorable for the birth of Albion's Champion, and the
death of Albion's Bard. Though consecrated to the tri-
umphs of chivalry, let poesy bewail her favourite son.
under the classic shade of his own mulberry-tree.—Song
iy Mr. Povey, Shakspeare'a Mulberry Tree.
By Mr. SANDERSON, Steward—The memory of an
liustrious Statesman, the late Right Hon. William Hus-

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kisson.
By CHARLES H. WEBB, Steward—Britain—liPr indus-
try clothes a world ; her commerce gathers its treasures ;
her power commands its respect.
By W. W. SHIRLEY, Steward—The Societies of St.
George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and the German So-
ciety—if Charity be their motto, let not the frigid hand
stay its progress in benevolence.
By Mr. JOSHUA DllON—Reform. That Reform which
by conceding to the people their just rights will ensure to
the Aristocracy the respect and influence due to the first
nobility in Europe.
It being ascertained in the coursP of the evening that
Sir William Campbell had arrived from the south, the
President directed a deputation to wait on him and invite
him to the festive board. Sir William received the depu.
tation with great affability, hut from the fatigue be had
undergone in his journey was obligei, though reluctantly,
to decline the invitation.

Mr. President and Gentlemen,—l thank you in the
name of the German Society, for the honour which
you have conferred upon that Institution, and, person-
ally for the compliment which entitles me to address you.
I owe to my ancestors the honour of presiding over the
respectable Society which I represent on this occasion. I
rejoice in the opportunity which it affords use to unite
with you, and with the representatives of other nation&
Societies, instituted to relieve the wants, and ameliorate
the condition of their countrymen.; and I trust lam rea-
sonahly proud of the German blood which flows in my
veins. But I rejoice still more, and my pride is greater,
in being a citizen of the United States, and a native of
the city of New York ; as such, I cannot refrain from con-
gratulating this respectable company of Englishmen, on
the increase of good feeling betvi een the citizens of our
respective countries. This good feeling arises from several
causes. The political state of Europe has placed your
country in a posture deeply interesting to a people de-
scended from the same common mother—speaking the
same language—and governed by the suite laws. Our
commercial intercourse is divested of those causes of
jealousy which have sometimes disturbed its harmony.
Our shores are visited by a different description of per-
sons from those who formerly skimmed over the surface
of the land, unknown and unnoticed, and sought no in-
formation but such as tended to confirm their prejudices.
We are now honoured by the visits of your statesmen,
who do not disdain the study of our youthful and vigor-
ous institutions; your men of literature—too enlightened
to be prejudiced, too liberal to be uncandid—and your
merchants, whose sagacity leads them to discover the ad-
vantages resulting from a free and friendly intercourse
between the two nations. And we also, tempted by the
facility of communication, which overcomes in a great
degree the dangers and difficulties of a barrier so formida-
ble as the Atlantic, are sending you by weekly instal-
ments, a better sample than formerly of the intellectual
wealth and personal respectability of our population.
This is as it should be ; it will serve to make us better
acquainted, and that alone is nec-ssary to make us like
e'en other more. Further remarks would detract from
the force of this sentiment, and I beg leave to conclude by
offering a toast in accordance with it.
The Sailor King and the Soldier President—May no
contests at ise between them, but those of mutual benefits
and kind offices.
The President of St. Patrick's Society gave the follow.
ing toast:—
Lord John Russell—and a Reform in Parliament con-
sistent with the principles of the British Constitution.
10th. The memory of the Benevolent Founders of our
Society. The motto they adopted for itis characteristic
of their own worth. " Let mercy be our boast and shame
our only fear." Band—Dirge.
1 1 th. The city of New York and her worthy Chief
Magistrate, whom we regret could not be our Guest.
Band—Canal March.
12th. Scotland. Famed for honest men and bonnie
lasses. Band—Scots wha ha'.
13th. Ireland our sister country. It is not the agita-
tion of the few that can shake the patriotism and virtue
of the many. Band—St. Patrick's Day.
14th. The Colonies and Dependencies of the British
Empire. May they reap the fruits of vigorous enterprixe,
intelligence, and industry. Band and Glee—Ye Gentle-
men of England.
15th. The Right Hon. Charles R. Vaughan, and the
representatives of the British Government in this country.
On the health of Mr. Vaughan, &c., being drank, the
British Consul, Mr. Buchanan, addressed the Chair.
Mr. President and Gentlemen,—l rise to offer you
thanks on the behalf of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and
those adverted to in the toast just drank ; I wish most
ardently he was your guest on this festive day, as being
so, would convey more forcibly than any language the
warmth of your regard, not only for him as a gentleman,
but as the representative of our beloved King. Re-
peatedly has he stated how deeply he was affected by the
uniform kindness he has every where experienced, since
lie came to the United States. I cannot sit down, Mr.
President, without adverting to the manly warmth of ex-
pression with which the Worthy and Honourable Presi-
dent of the German Society spoke of the good feeling so
happily subsisting between our country and the United
Srates,—so gratifying, so valued, and cherished by every
loyal subject of his Majesty, and received with such raptur-
ous applause by this assembly, and sure I am, I need not
tell the members of this benevolent and loyal Society, that
no other citizen of the United States has contributed more
essentially to give rise to, and strengthen those sentiments
I of mutual good will, than my friend Mr. Hone.
Mr. President—l have entered on my sixtieth year ;
I remember well forty-five of these years, in which the
loyal have had many trials, but I never had such heavinc
of heart as of late, arising from the uprooting democratic
and infidel spirit, which equally assails the British Consti-
tution, as it does those governments where liberty is
neither understood nor enjoyed ; where they have not a
King identified with the people. Is the march of intellect
to sanction the casting off of all restraint, human and De
vine? to prostrate those institutions tinder which the
greatest sum of human happiness ever experienced on earth
has been found ; where justice is administered 1
eque_fy to
the King and the peasant ; where the limits of society are
so well defined ; life, liberty, and property so well secured
—to risk so much, such long tried substantial bliss, for the
theories of infidelity and irreligion—l repeat it, has sunk
my spirit to a degree of depression, which has been greatly
reduced by the good old British feeling so eminently dis
played this evening as well as the tidings I have just heard
from my native land, Ireland, so that I trust all is yet safe.
Permit me to offer the following toast—
Pure Religion, pure Laws, and pure Liberty. As
these are all assailed in the present day—l. will add, way

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Protium-a, and appeintireirts. The l';.-ittg ilea
levelled in the eastern departtnctits of France to
-encourage the peaue of aillipricess system, and to rc- ,
resent all those as enemies to France who are for
•xt ending the benefits of the. July reYoltitiore to Bei-
4ium, Italy, Poland, and Spain. So all Ow ap-
aoirements made by the King of the oflicera of the .
National Guard of Paris have been so made in favour
if a particular party, and not with reference solely
to their private worth, and the esteem.in which tiny
.sere held by their fellow-citizena, If tiny one dee
,ires, in flue, to obtain the smallest concession—
even of justice and right—from the Government,
the answer given depends on the fact of whether
the demandant belongs to the peace or the war -
party. This Ministerial influence is of vast moment
in France. Thousands and thousands of electors
depend for their daily bread upon the will of the
klin:ster; and when the timid cr the calculating are
informed that they must suppo:t the Nlinisterial
candidates or prepare for destitution, they are often-
times induced to forget the claims of their country,
and attend to those which press more daily and
elnsely—l mean the 414;ms of their families are'
homes. Nor have the various destitutions which
die Minister lois made in the civil and niilitaty ser-
vices of persons who belonged to the National As-
sociations formed in France tended to allay those
fears or diminish the number of the timid. On the
eon-nary, this system- of destitution has frightened
many a mother of a 1 rge family with small means,
and those dependent on Government, to entreat her
husband or son to pledge himself to vote for the
Ministerial candidate, although by such pledge his
private feelings should be wounded, and his prin-
ciples and wishes violated. For these reasons, then,
[ assert, that although the approaching elections .
will better explain the position of France, her wants
and wishes, than any which have taken place dur-
ing the last seventeen years, yet, that the Deputies
'elm-fled will be very far indeed from constituting a
truly national representation. And now approach
the elections !
The electors will return at least one hundred and
fifty new men to the Chambers. Perhaps more,
but at least 150. These new men will be first, in
lieu of Ultra Loyalists..—of moderate Royalists—of
men who Would vote for an hereditary Peerage—of
certain doctrinaires, and of some men of the centre
gauche. Ido not believe the extreme gauche Will
lose half a dozen of its old Members. If they do
not come in for one place, they will for another.
M. Lafitte, for example, is likely to be returned by
three or four different Colleges in different parts of
France. The electors have decided upon this mea-
sure, in order to shove the Government that they
approve of M. Lafitte, his principles, the part he
took in the revolution of July, and that they are
not forgetful, in spite of all the faults of his Admi-
nistration (and they were many), of the sacrifices
he has made for the honour and happiness of his
country. The new Chambers will he principally
returned to decide the question of the Peerage. If
M. Perier should propose an hereditary Peerage, he
would he defeated by a large majority. I feel convinced
of this, and so do the members of that admirable So-
ciety, " Aide-toi, et le Ciel Caidera," But should
an Address be proposed to the King to change his
Minister.; in the new Chamber, I do not anticipate
that the Address would be carried. I may be mis-
taken, and assuredly should be so, if Poland should
be compelled to submit to the domination of Russia
—but without some such evil as that should arrive,
I do not believe that there Would be a majority for
removing Mini•ters. If, however, any loyal and
constitutional Address should be proposed on the
subject of Poland, which, whilst it should riot inter-
fere with the prerogatives of the Crown, should yet
express the wishes of the House on that interesting
subject, I feel quite convinced there would be a large
majority for the proposition. This the Minister
might consider as tantamount to a defeat, and retire.
It appears to be generally understood that the
Ultra-Royalists and Carlists will not interfere or vole
at the approaching elections. This will be ratbtr
favourable than otherwise to the system of Casimir
Perier; because, if the Royalist electors interfered
at all, they would divide their votes between Re-
publican and Ultra-Royalist candidates,.and the vot-
ing for either would injure the Ministerial candidate.
In the departments as well as at Paris, the Minis-
ter has made great efforts to obtain from the
Royalists their support of Ministerial candidates ;
Wt as these men are only Royalists for Charles X.
and not for the new popular royalty of Louis Philip,
thay have very generally refused. They have re-
fused to put forward Royalist candidates for fear of
exhibiting the weakness (I mean numerical weak-
ness) of their party—and they refuse to vote for
Casimir Perier's system for fear of being supposed
to adhere to the present order of things in France,
or to a dynasty which is not founded on " Divine
Right !! I" The Republicans and the Patrio:s
of July have disdained to ask these Royalist electors
for their suffrages. Their systems are too opposed
to be reconciled—and they do not desire to obtain
votes which are not given from public and conscien-
tious motives. The Minister is awaiting the elec-
tions with anxiety and alarm. The paeriots of July
are awaiting them with confidence and hope. The
former knows that a majoritj against him must at
once get rid of his system. The latter know that
if they have not a majority for them at this moment
there will be one next year ! I had much else to
say toyou to-day, but I must write about Poland,Bel-
gium, and Italy to-morrow.—Your obedient serva
Q nt,
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members returned by the electors after tlie revolt
don. France perceived this, and was dissatisfied !
do not speak of the France merely which made the
revolution—but I speak of all classes and all opi-
nions. every ere cried for a new Electoral Law.
for a new Chamber, and rota diseelution. At length
the cry reached the ear of Louis Philip----the law so
often postponed was finally introduced, discussed,
altered and tressed—and 110. V all Frenchmen, who
are twenty-five years of age, seed pay 200 francs at
direct taxes, are electors-and all Frenchmen who
ire thirty years of age, and pay 300 francs of direct
taxes, are eligible as candidates to be returned to
the Chamber. The Chambet of Deputies, which
under the old law was composed of 430 Members,
is henceforth to consist of 459, being an increase of
29 Members, which was essential to a real and twill
fide representation; You know already my opinion
of the electoral law. It IS'not sufficiently large and
liberal—it is not tratiottal-seit does not accord with
the institution of the National Guards—or with the
promises of July—and some day or other it must be
altered. I think very soon; but we shall see!
However, the new law is a vast improvement on
the old one—nearly double the number of electors
will have the right to vote—and the Chamber will
be much more national than that of 1830. Then
came the Dissolution! and the calling of a new
Chamber It was convoked for the 9th of August
next, but now for-the 23d instant.
After the dissolution then came the preparations
for the elections. The electoral law requires cer-
tain formalities as to the inscribing of the electors'
names, certain days for publishing those namesar-
for appealing to the Prefects—for appealing from
the decision of that officer to the Royal Court, and
so forth. Let me add, that all this has been done
with loyalty, honour, good faith, and in very few
instances, comparatively speaking, have complaints
been made of the decisions come to, or of any par-
' tiality manifested towards electors who are Mini-
sterial and those who are known to be Napoleonist,
Republican, Patriotic, or even Carlists. This im-
partiality and justice on the part of the Prefects
cannot be too highly prized or praised, and this is
one of the vast benefits we have gained by the re-
volution of July, 1830.
But here my praise must end. If the Minister
had manifested the same impartiality as the Pre-
fects, the approaching elections would have faithfully
represented at least the unb'assed opinions of the
elector- of 1831 ; and although those opinions
would have been less liberal than the opinions of
France entire, as I shall presently show you, yet
they would have represented a great portion of the
Property, talent, and good sense of this country.
Gut the Minister his acted otherwise. He has not
merely put up Ministerial candidates—as for in•
stance, Admiral de Rigny, Minister of Marine, to
oppose the General Lafayette!! But he has di
recred the Prefects, who are the representatives of '
the King in the Departments, to use his influence
with the electors in obtaining the election of these
Ministeral Deputies. Ile has inculcated moreover
the principle, which was so popular with M. de la
Bourdonnaye, as well as with M. de Pep °rine,
that all who hold offices under a Government, from
the porter at a Sub-Prefect's to the heads of Divi-
sions in Ministerial Bureaux, are 41 bound to ap-
prove till that is done by the Minister for the time
being, and to vote for the candidates of that Mi-
nister, whatsoever tray be the private principles and
opinions of the elector. Th;s most dangerous
system is based upon the mistake that public func-
tionaries serve the Government and do not serve
France : whereas, the truth is, that the function-
-odes have a duty to perform as functionaries, and
another to discharge as citizens. As functionariese
for instance, they are bound to be honest, active,
punctual, and zealous in the discharge of their of-
ficial duties, let who will be Minister, and let what
will be the form of Government. But, as citizens,
they are bound to elect such representatives as will,
in their opinion, support the Government if they
think it deserves support—or oppose the Govern-
merit if they Think it ought to be changed or re-
formed. For instance, I hold that a Carlin may be
a most excellent clerk, and a Republican, an admi-
rable Postmaster-General, even under the Govern-
ment of Louis Philip, Citizen King. A popular
Government should avail itself of the tslents of all
vai
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as administrators and as private citizens. Indeed I
go further than this, and say that the State is
served, and that materially, by the mere fact that
persons holding public appointments being in oppo-
sition to the principle or practice of the Minister of
the day, the State will be less liable to peculation
and intrigue; and this check upon the actions of
Head Commissioners, upon Head Clerks, and upon
Chiefs of Divisions in Ministerial Bureaux must be
productive of great good. I would not then, if I
could, have any Minister surrounded entirely by dross
who think as he thinks, arid who are not disposed
even to examine into the character of his system,
but who adopt it without inquiry and without con-
cern. Yet this principle M. Perier has been labour- I
ing to destroy—and by destroying this independ-
ence of public functionaries, the Minister may in-
sure a majority, but the public must suffer.
Besides this sort of influence which the Minister
has been exerting, with the view of obtaining a ma-
jority in the new Chamber, be has been daily mis-
stating in the Illoniteur, in the Debar, and Ales-
sager des Chanthres, and by even the mouth of the
King himself, the opinions and wishes of the Op-
position. For instance, it has been often alleged
during the last two months, and enforced daily on
the electors, that the Opposition makes the mobs in
Paris, and that the mobs ruin commerce; ergo,
that those who are members of this opposition
ought not to be returned as Deputies. In the
Departments this sentiment has been enforced by
the Prefects and by their agents. So, again, the
Minister has represented the system of the oppo-
sition as one of " war at all prices;" and if the Pre-
fects, Sub-Prefects, and Mayors were to be believed,
the electors would imagine that such men as La-
marque, Salverte, Mauguin, &c. desired to involve
France in war, merely for the pleasure of gratify-
ing their thirst for blood arid anarchy. So, again,
in the Departments, the Prefects and their agents
have represented to the electors that such men as
Lafayette, Odillon Barrot, Delaborde, &c. are
enemies to the throne of Louis Philip, and that, by
a Constitutional Monurchy, surrounded by repub-
lican institutions, these honest and virtuous citizens
mean that Louis Philip should be dethroned, a
Republic established, and Lafayette proclaimed first
President. This stratagem has been resorted to
for the purpose of alarming the timid, and swelling
the votes for Ministerial candidates. In some de-
partments the trick has even succeeded, but in
others it has signally failed. M. Odillon Barrot,'
who has been invited to offer himself as a candi-
date at Strasbourg, has found it necessarf to
refer to, and confute this error, and he has de-
clared that he is a friend to the throne of Louis
Philip, but surrounded by Republican Institu-
tions. Even General Lafayette was interro-
gated by his constituents on this head : and
in his celebrated letter to the Electors of
Meaux, he has declared, that although at pre
sent we are not marching with the revolution of
July, yet that still lie thinks it possible to return to
those ways, and recommends a firm and devoted
loyalty to the throne established by the people.
Independent of these means, the Minister has re-
sorted to the old scheme of Government favours;

DUCHESS OF BERRI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
left London June 15, and arrived at Mentz on
the 22d, having travelled in a succession of steam-boats in
company with the Duchess of Berri. The persons who
accompanied her as her suite were,—a tall, thin gentle-
man, of about 50 or 55 years of age, who spoke English
with facility; a gentleman of about SO, of a dark com-
plexion, apparently Italian, who called himself the Conte
de Caussa; and a lady whose hair and complexion were
dark, features pleasing, but melancholy, stature small,
manners and conversation very lady-like, who called her-
self the Contessa de Caussa. In addition to these, who
seemed to form the family, was a young French lady, who
apparently united the offices of companion and lady's-maid.
There was also one English female servant, two men, anti
a carriage.
I have been unable to discover the real name of the
Contessa de Calms, who strikes me as being a lady of
rank travelling incognito. I have seldom seen a lady
so melancholy,—as a reason for which she named
the loss of a daughter within a few montiv, adding
at
that she bad also other sources of grief, and th
she could tell a tale respecting her husband which was
too melancholy to be mentioned. Is she the lady yf one e
of the state prisoners ? With souse inconsistency, th
Conte de Caussa occasionally spoke of her as his femme.
She is, I should suppose, his sister. I have no reason to con-
sider the Marechal Bourtnont was of the party, the elderly
gentleman being, I believe, Secretary to the Duchess.
The Duchess never attempted any concealment of list.
features, but I observed that the party took the precaution
not to enter either Cologne or Coblentz by the packet, but
travelled in a carriage in the first instance from Dussel-
dorf, and in the latter from Neuwied, the servants landing
the ordinary way. The Duchess was not recognized
till she arrived at Mentz. In every town the party looked
at the lion., and I observed the Duchess taking notes of
all that seemed most interesting. Indeed no one enjoyed
the majestic scenery of the Rhine snore than that amiable
but unfortunate Princess. She was in excellent spirits,
extremely affable, and full of conversation ; and, as a
fellow-traveller, I bad, from the first, no difficulty in
being admitted into her society. S.

THE BITER BIT.—A few weeks ago ajolly
tar of Spalding, and his comrades, arrived on the York-
shire coast, and having completed their cargo of coals,
walked in theii dirty attire intu the town, where an
auction had just commenced, and a handsome four wheel
phaeton, with head, was put up. The sailor being h.q.-
seas over, kept bidding, and as the auctioneer magin
at
ed
ih
him to be joking, he knocked the carriage down o io,
little more than 31.: the vehicle was supposed to be word'
20/. The tar produced the " neetlf,l," insisted OU his bar-
gain, and marched off with his prize, which was st.on pot
on hoard, to the astonishment of tie auctioneer and itis
friends, and highly to the ant went of the surroitiill lug
spectators. —Boston Ggzpite.