## CALAIS PIER, AND CUSTOM HOUSE.

A safe arrival in smooth water, the loud exclamations, chattering, and hoot-too of crowds of soldiers, and others, on the pier,—and, in fine, “chaos come again”—rouse the draggl’d dramatis personæ from their temporary annihilation:—they seem “blest in the change,”—and, even, in the prospect of being most unceremoniously besieged by, and *chevaux-de-frised* with the cards of,—a score or two, “*Commissioners*,” representatives from the different Hotels and Diligences;—who, first, bewilder with importunities, and, by a little *ruse de guerre*, follow up the attack, by clutching some little article of property, by way of *earnest*.

Behind is seen, a stone column, to commemorate the landing of Louis XVIII. in the year 1814:—to the right, is the Custom house.