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Foreign Bible Society found it expedient to reduce their prices. But this, in six months, involved them in a loss of £13,000!

"Meantime, the free trade prices in the North could not remain a secret, and before the close of the year the people of England were paying for their English Bible from 150 to 200 per cent. more

than in Scotland!"

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TRUTH AND BEAUTY.

BEAUTY and Truth, in Heaven's congenial cline, Inseparate seen beside the Almighty throne, Together sprung, before the birth of time, From God's own glory, while he dwelt alone ;These, when creation made its wonders known, Were sent to mortals, that their mingling powers What did the London committee now do? Of Might lead and lure us to ethereal bowers. course they agitated the country, and petitioned But our perverse condition here below parliament to save their constituents, and the Chris-Oft sees them severed, or in conflict met; tian public at large, from such an enormous tax on Oh, sad divorce! the well-spring of our woe, the Bread of Eternal Life, of which they were When truth and beauty thus their bond forget, the official guardians; and availed themselves of And Heaven's high law is at defiance set! their extensive organization and metropolitan posi-'Tis this that good of half its force disarms, tion to do the work of reform effectively. Nothing And gives to evil all its direst charms. of the kind. The secretaries came forward, and See truth with harsh austerity allied, begged "most distinctly to say that they would not Or clad in cynic garb of sordid hue; touch the question of the monopoly at all!" Why See him with Tyranny's fell tools supplied, Did not the monopoly touch the society? The rack, the fagot, or the torturing screw, Did it not raise the price of the Scriptures 150 to Or girt with bigotry's besotted crew; 200 per cent., for the benefit of private individuals, What wonder, thus beheld, his looks should move to the great detriment of the cause of truth? Yet, Our scorn or hatred, rather than our love? strange to say, the auxiliary societies were equally apathetic. Not one in London, Dublin, or Edin-See beauty, too, in league with vice and shame, burgh moved. And lending all her light to gild a lie; The society was not to have the glory of this Crowning with laureate-wreaths an impious name, great reform. They were too many" for GOD Or lulling us with syren minstrelsy to work by. In perfect harmony with the whole To false repose when peril most is nigh; history of the English Bible, marked all along by Decking things vile or vain with colors rare, independence on official authorities or institutions, Till what is false and foul seems good and fair. the monopoly was brought down by three private Hence are our hearts bewildered in their choice, individuals! These were-Mr. Childs of Bungay, And hence our feet from virtue led astray; Dr. Thomson of Coldstream, and Dr. Campbell of Truth calls imperious with repulsive voice London. The latter gentleman threw all his char-To follow on a steep and rugged way; acteristic energy into the movement, and by his While Beauty beckons us along a gay accurate calculations, and powerful appeals through And flowery path, that leads, with treacherous the press, contributed largely to rouse the public mind. Monopoly was compelled to capitulate, To gulfs remote from happiness or hope. and the patentees suddenly reduced their prices Who will bring back the world's unblemished

to less than one half.

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Now the press sends forth of copies of the Scriptures in English," 19,000 every week, 3000 every day, 300 every hour, or five every minute of working time!" When this fact is considered in connexion with the increasing predominence of the English language throughout the civilized world, the vast extent of our empire, the rapid growth of our colonies, and the probability that many of them will yet become independent nations, it is fitted to awaken deep solicitude in the Christian mind-to produce an almost overwhelming sense of responsibility, and to call forth the most strenuous exertions, that wherever the accents of our noble language are heard, there the English Bible may be known and valued as the Rule of Faith.

"Not one hour of the twenty-four," says Richardson, "not one round of the minute hand of the dial is allowed to pass, in which, on some portion of the surface of the globe, the air is not filled with accents that are ours. They are heard in the ordinary transactions of life; or in the administration of law-in the deliberations of the senatehouse, or council chamber-in the offices of private devotion, or in the public observance of the rites and duties of a common faith."

Be ours the endeavor that the volume which contains the inspired record of this faith, shall not only be maintained in its supreme authority at home, but borne on the tide of emigration to every land, till it do for the new and rising nations of the west and south still greater things than it has done for Britain !

slope,

youth;

When these two wandered ever hand in hand ;
When truth was beauty, beauty too was truth,
So linked together with unbroken band,
That they were one; and man, at their command,
Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy,
And trod the path of duty and of joy?
Chiefly the poet's power may work the change;
His heavenly gift, impelled by holy zeal,
O'er truth's exhaustless stores may brightly range,
And all their native loveliness reveal;
Nor e'er, except where truth has set his seal,
Suffer one gleam of beauty's grace to shine,
But in resistless force their lights combine.

Blackwood.

LORD, My voice by nature is harsh and untunable, and it is in vain to lavish any art to better it. Can my singing of psalms be pleasing to thy ears, which is unpleasant to my own? yet though I cannot chant with the nightingale, or chirp with the blackbird, I had rather chatter with the swallow, yea rather croak with the raven, than be altogether silent. Hadst thou given me a better voice I would have praised thee with a better voice. Now what my music wants in sweetness, let it have in sense, singing praises with understanding. Yea, Lord, create in me a new heart (therein to make melody,) and I will be contented with my old voice, until, in thy due time, being admitted into the choir of heaven, I have another, more harmonious, bestowed upon me.-Fuller.

CHANGING CARS.

JEAMES ON THE GAUGE QUESTION.

Craddle, with rose-colored Satting & Pink lace hangings, held up by a gold tuttle-dove, &c. We had, ingluding James Hangelo's rattle & my um

MR. PUNCH has received from that eminent rail-brellow, 73 packidges in all. road authority, Mr. Jeames Plush, the following letter, which bears most pathetically upon the present Gauge dispute :

"You will scarcely praps reckonize in this little skitch the haltered linimints of 1, with woos face the reders of your valluble mislny were once fimiliar-the unfortnt Jeames de la Pluche, fomly so selabrated in the fashnabble suckles, now the pore Jeames Plush, landlord of the Wheel of Fortune public house. Yes, that is me; that is my haypun which I wear as becomes a publican those is the checkers which hornyment the pillows of my dor. I am like the Romin Genral, St. Cenatus, equal to any emudgency of Fortun. I, who have drunk Shampang in my time, aint now abov droring a pint of Small Bier. As for my wife-that Angel-I've not ventured to depigt her. Fansy her a sittn in the Bar, smilin like a sunflower-and, ho, dear Punch! happy in nussing a deer little darlint totsy wotsy of a Jeames, with my air to a curl, and my i's to a T!

"I never thought I should have been injuiceed to write anything but a Bill agin, much less to edress you on Railway Subjix-which with all my sole I abaw. Railway letters, obbligations to pay hup, ginteal inquirys as to my Salissator's name, &c., &c., I dispize and scorn artily. But as a man, an usbnd, a father, and a freebon Brittn, my jewty compels me to come forwoods, and igspress my opinion upon that nashnal newsance-THE BREAK OF GAGE.

"An interesting ewent in a noble family with which I once very nearly had the honer of being kinected, acurd a few weex sins, when the Lady Angelina S, daughter of the Earl of Bcres, presented the gallant Capting, her usband, with a Son & hair. Nothink would satasfy her Ladyship but that her old and atacht famdy-shamber, my wife Mary Han Plush, should be present upon this hospicious occasion. Capting S- was not jellus of me on account of my former attachment to his Lady. I cunsented that my Mary Hann should attend her, and me, my wife, and our dear babby acawdingly set out for our noable frend's residence, Honeymoon Lodge, near Cheltenham.

"Sick of all Railroads myself, I wisht to poast it in a Chay and 4, but Mary Hann, with the hobstenacy of her Sex, was bent upon Railroad travelling, and I yealded, like all husbinds. We set out by the Great Westn, in an eavle Hour.

We got on very well as far as Swindon, where, in the Splendid Refreshment room, there was a galaxy of lovely gals in cottn velvet spencers, who serves out the soop, and 1 of whom maid an impresshn upon this Art which I shood n't like Mary Hann to know-and here, to our infanit disgust, we changed carridges. I forgot to say that we were in the secknd class, having with us James Hangelo, and 23 other light harticles.

"Fust inconveniance; and almost as bad as break of gage. I cast my hi upon the gal in cottn velvet, and wanted some soop, of coarse; but seasing up James Hangelo (who was layin his dear little pors on an Am Sangwidg) and seeing my igspresshn of hi-James,' says Mary Hann, instead of looking at that young lady—and not so very young, neither-be pleased to look to our packidges, & place them, in the other carridge.' I did so with an evy Art. I eranged them 23 articles in the opsit carridge, only missing my umbrella & baby's rattle; and jest as I came back for my baysn of soop, the beast of a bell rings, the whizzling injians proclayms the time of our departure-& farewell soop and cottn velvet. Mary Hann was sulky. She said it was my losing the umbrella. If it had been a cotton velvet umbrella I could have understood. James Hangelo sitin on my knee was evidently unwell; without his coral: & for 20 miles that blessid babby kep up a rawring, which caused all the passingers to simpithize with him igseedingly.

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"We arrive at Gloster, and there fansy my disgust at bein ableeged to undergo another change of carriages! Fansy me holding up moughs, tippits, cloaks, and baskits, and James Hangelo rawring still like mad, and pretending to shuperintend the carrying over of our luggage from the broad gage to the narrow gage. Mary Hann,' says I, rot to desperation, I shall throttle this darling if he goes on.' Do,' says she- and go into the refreshment room,' says she-a snatchin the babby out of my arms. 'Do go,' says she, youre not fit to look after luggage,' and she began lulling James Hangelo to sleep with one hi, while she looked after the packets with the other. Now, Sir! if you please, mind that packet!-pretty darling-easy with that box, Sir, its glasspooooty poppet-where 's the deal case, marked arrowroot, No. 24?' she cried, reading out of a list she had.-And poor little James went to sleep. The porters were bundling and carting the various harticles with no more ceremony than if each package had been of cannon-ball.

"At last-bang goes a package marked Glass,' and containing the Chayny bowl and Lady Bareacres mixture, into a large white bandbox, with a crash and a smash. It's My Lady's box from Crinoline's!' cries Mary Hann; and she puts down the child on the bench, and rushes forward to inspect the dammidge. You could hear the Chayny bowls clinking inside; and Lady B.'s mixture (which had the igsack smell of cherry brandy) was dribbling out over the smashed bandbox containing a white child's cloak, trimmed with Blown lace and lined with white satting.

"We didnt take much luggitch-my wife's things in the ushal bandboxes-mine in a potmancho. Our dear little James Angelo's (called so in complament to his noble Godmamma) craddle, and a small supply of a few 100 weight of Topsanbawtems, Farinashious food, and Lady's fingers, for that dear child who is now 6 months old, with a perdidgus appatite. Likewise we were charged with a bran new Medsan chest for my lady, from Skivary & Moris, containing enough rewbub, Daffy's Alixir, Godfrey's, with a few score of parsles for Lady Hangelina's family and owsehold. About 2000 spessymins of Babby linning from Mrs. Flummary's, in Regent Street, a Chayny Cresning bowl from old lady Bareacres (big enough to im- "As James was asleep, and I was by this time mus a Halderman,) & a case marked Glass,' uncommon hungry, I thought I would go into the from her ladyship's neddicle man, which were Refreshment Room and just take a little soup; so stowed away together; had to this an ormylew I wrapped him up in his cloak and laid him by his

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"O Mussy! You should have heard her sreak! We'd left him on the ledge at Gloster.

any refreshment, if hungry from the insufficiency of their meals. Their dresses are to be such as a young lady can afford upon twenty pounds a year, finding herself in everything but her victuals, and not having, by half, as much of those as she can eat.

Thus, it may be hoped, will governesses be provided with qualifications high enough, wants few enough, and spirit humble enough, to meet the views of any lady in the land.-Punch.

MUSICAL BEDS.

THERE is a paragraph in the Nonconformist, which states, that some genius has invented a musical bed, that begins to play a tune directly you lie down, and can be wound up to play another tune when you are desirous of waking.

"It all came of the break of gage."-Punch. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. There is one advantage about a bed of this deIN furtherance of the objects of this most useful having it well aired by means of the favorite airs scription, namely, that you can always rely on charity, it is in contemplation to establish a school, of some of the most popular composers. We for the purpose of preparing young ladies destined should think, however, that there must be some to be governesses, for the situations they are in-tact required in adapting the musical compositions tended to fill. The necessity of teaching those to the required purposes. It would be very injuwho are to be teachers, and of instructing the gov-dicious, for instance, to attempt to send any one to erness how to govern, is obvious; the pupils, accordingly, will learn all the modern languages and accomplishments-geography, astronomy, the use of the globes, and so much of moral philosophy as includes the true principles of education. But as the social position of a governess is a peculiar one, being, as a novelty, rather uncomfortable, though, like a certain process to which eels are subjected, nothing when anybody is used to it, one great object of this school will be to familiarize the pupils with the life they may expect to lead. Its arrangements will therefore comprise a system of training calculated for the inculcation of an amount of practical as well as moral philosophy adequate to this purpose.

sleep with a quadrille of Musard, while to try and
wake any one up with a bit of Sebastian Bach, or
a morceau of Juvenile-England classicality, would
be equally preposterous. The invention certainly
opens quite a new field to many of those long-
haired and turn-down-collar composers, who will
now have a splendid chance of bringing their com-
posing talents to bear upon those who are solicit-
ing the sometimes-obstinate Morpheus. There
ing for the last twenty years, who are admirably
are several rising young men, who have been ris-
adapted to the task of setting four-posts and French
bedsteads to somniferous music.
that the idea has been taken from the Chamber
We presume
concerts, which have recently become popular.
Considering the awful infliction it is, to be com-
we could but will not name, the addition of their
music to a bed might turn it into a regular lit de
justice, or shocking instrument of cruelty.

To the institution will be attached a servants' hall, wherein, at stated times, will attend a num-pelled to hear the music of certain persons whom ber of footmen and other menials, to intercourse with whom the future governess may be habituated, and whose insults and impertinences she may learn betimes to put up with. A nursery will also be connected with it, in order to exercise her patience in the management of refractory children, at which probation the students will take turns. The children will be selected from the most purseproud families, and their mammas will drop in every now and then, daily, and reprimand and find fault capriciously and unjustly with their preceptress, so as to inure her to such treatment. Some charitable ladies of great style in the vicinity of Russell Square, have volunteered their services in this particular. One of these ladies will, moreover, preside regularly at dinner to teach the language of looks, that the learner may understand, from a glance, when she is to refuse wine, or to decline another helping.

The arrangement by which one is to be woke cymbal accompaniments. Such a charivari might up at any hour, comprises a march, with drum and not be always very welcome when it came; for, though one often goes to bed with a very valiant determination to get up very early, it is extremely natural to alter one's mind by the morning. If we often get angry with the person calling us, and drums and cymbals going through a regular march, disturbing our rest, what should we say to the at a most unseasonable hour? For our own parts we should muffle the drums at once with our bolster, and suffocate the cymbals with our goosefeather bed. We should recommend that, if the principle is carried out, the airs chosen should be adapted to. "Oh rest thee, babe, rest thee, babe," appropriate to the kind of beds they might be would do very well for an infant's cot, while

Rise, gentle Moon," would be suited to the purpose of waking a celebrated alderman.—Punch.

Evening parties will be given occasionally, in the schoolroom, and to them will be invited a number of agreeable men, that the "young persons" may know how to behave in society; that is, to hold their tongues and sit still. For the due enforcement of these proprieties, one of the ladies A CHEAP TRIP.-Upwards of 7,000 tons of aforesaid will also be present, accompanied by her gravel have been shipped from New York since daughters, by whom the scholars are to be studi- September last for the purpose of beautifying the ously snubbed, by way of a lesson to them in parks and gardens of London. According to this, meekness under contumely. The novices, during a Yankee domiciled in London would be able to leisure hours, are to sit in separate apartments, tread again his native soil without going any furaccessible to all the servants, who, however, will, ther than Hyde Park.—Punch.

From Chambers' Journal.
USAGES OF SOCIETY

A CORRESPONDENT, a great stickler for etiquette, hands us the following hints; a knowledge of which, however commonplace, he thinks may be useful to those not up to the mark in this weighty subject.

son to dinner, let it, if possible, be done a week or ten days in advance; because, to ask a person only a day or two days before, looks as if you had been disappointed of somebody else, and had asked him as a mere stop-gap. A short invitation is only allowable for off-hand parties, or with strangers who are passing through a town.

"When you invite a person to dinner, or any other party at your house, specify only one day. Don't say you will be glad to see him on either of two days, as Tuesday or Wednesday next. And why? Because this person may not wish to dine with or visit you at all; and so far from a choice of days being thought an act of kindness, it may be. considered one of servility, if not rudeness. Always state only one day; and let the invitation, like the answer, be unequivocal.

"Invitations for several weeks in advance are almost as bad as invitations for alternative days; because long invitations convey the impression that the inviter is desperately ill for guests, and wishes to insure a number at all risks. The person invited is also apt to feel that it is not his pleasure or convenience that is consulted; and to raise a feeling of this kind is anything but consistent with true politeness.

"I shall begin with calls. When you call at the house of an acquaintance, or indeed call anywhere, and do not happen to find the party at home, you should leave your card. Leaving your name will not do; because names left verbally are seldom correctly delivered, if delivered at all, and your call may be said to go for nothing. Your card is the enduring evidence of your visit. The card is one of the most useful things in modern society. All are supposed to carry a small stock of these pasteboard representatives about with them, and the giving of one is very handy on many occasions. For example, in visiting, instead of sending in your name by a servant, hand in one of your cards, and then you may be sure there will be no mistake. "Having either seen your acquaintance, or left your card, it is now the duty of your acquaintance (supposing it is a call of ceremonial intercourse) to return the call within a reasonable time. If he do 'The receiver of an invitation has a duty to not call, you do not repeat your visit. And why perform as well as its giver. It is incumbent on s? Because it may be his wish to drop your him to say yes or no at once-not to allow a post or acquaintance, and your continuing to call on him a day to elapse before answering. The reason is may be disagreeable. Knowing that such is the obvious: a delay on his part looks as if he were rule, a second call from you seems like forcing waiting for a better invitation before he made up yourself on his notice-a determination that he his mind. Not to send a speedy reply, therefore, shall not rid himself of you. The rule of call for is one of the worst pieces of breeding of which a call, therefore, is on the whole not a bad one. It man can be guilty. It is also not using the inviter affords every one an opportunity of dropping an well for a dinner party usually consists only of a acquaintance when his society is no longer wanted. certain number; and if you cannot accept the inviIn good society, no one ever complains that an tation, say so, in order that time may be allowed to acquaintance has not returned a call-the thing is invite another person in your place. Let the silently dropped. answer also be distinct no uncertainty is allowable: and if the invitation be accepted, let it be kept.

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"I now come to the fulfilment of the engagement. Some time ago it was fashionable to be rather late-twenty minutes after the hour being considered a fair thing. Now, prompt to the hour is the rule, which is a great improvement. In attending two or three dinners lately, I found that all had assembled within the space of ten minutes.

"Calls of ceremony, which are not usually performed till past one or two o'clock, are seldom | expected to last more than ten or fifteen minutes, "The answer to an invitation should be directed and, as everybody knows, are performed in a plain to the lady of the house. walking-dress. Gentlemen, in making forenoon calls, or attending soirées, do not lay down their hat in the lobby, but carry it in their hand into the room, and never let it go, however long they stay. This is a very odd piece of etiquette, that has often amused me. I frequently see gentlemen walking about a drawing-room for hours, each cuddling his hat below his arm, as if it were a crime to part "A drawing-room is the domain of ladies, and with it even for a moment. A man might as con- on entering, you first make your obeisances to the veniently carry about a child's drum under his arm; lady of the mansion, who is of course ready to yet he cannot well escape from the annoyance. If receive you. Leading the ladies down stairs to the left in the hall at large parties, and worth the steal-dining-room is a simple affair; yet one may be a ing, the unfortunate hat will in all probability be novice in this as well as in everything else. The never more seen by its owner; for there appears to rule is, for the lady you take down to sit on your be nothing like conscientiousness in the matter of right hand, if that can be managed conveniently. hits. How far the dread of losing the hat led to But when you take down the lady of the house, the practice of parading about with it under the you sit on her right hand-that is, you have the arm, is of little consequence. The modern custom seat of honor. It will not do for any guest to rush of keeping fast hold of it during short or extempore forward to offer his arm to the lady of the house. visits, is considered to indicate that you do not The honor of leading her down, if not assigned by intend to stay any great length of time, nor expect the host to a favored guest, is taken by the most an invitation to remain to dinner, or any other meal; elderly gentleman, or by the party of highest rank in short, that it is your design to vanish after a lit-present. To save all doubt on this point, the host tle friendly chit-chat. Thus, laughable as it seems, there is really a meaning, and not a bad meaning either, in the practice. A host who wishes you to remain, or at least not to go in a hurry, will beg to relieve you of your incumbrance.

"Next as to invitations. When you ask a per

always asks one of the party to be so good as take Mrs. So-and-so down stairs. Where the party are generally strangers to each other, it is customary for the host to make a similar request to the other gentlemen as respects the other ladies. The host selects the lady of greatest consequence, and leads

her off first. The hostess waits to go down lastsees all go down before her.

"In going down stairs, the lady should have the widest side, supposing the stair to have a narrow and a wide side, as is the case with winding-stairs. Better, however, take the wrong side, than make any fuss about correcting so small an error.

"A custom, lately come in, seems to be deservedly gaining ground: instead of sitting at the top and bottom of the table, the host and hostess sit opposite each other at the middle; by which means they are more at ease, more in the centre of their guests, and better able to communicate with each other. George IV. adopted this practice twenty years ago it is followed by the present queen. According to this arrangement, two persons can be accommodated at each end of the table—not a bad point where there is limited accommodation.

"A dinner-party usually lasts four hours. If you go at six, you may order your carriage at ten: if at seven, it may come at eleven; and so on. What dinner hours are by and by to come to, 1 cannot tell. Not many years ago, dinner at five o'clock was thought mighty genteel; then we had half-past five; next came six, and six and a half— both of which are now general; but seven is also far from uncommon. That the fashionable dinner hour will be pushed on to eight, to nine, or to ten, is what we may reasonably expect. When it comes to this pass, will dinner bound back to its ancient hours, or will it be extinguished as a formal meal?

the feelings of others, are most remiss in the answering of letters, and will allow days and weeks to elapse before despatching a reply. When letters are conceived in an impertinent or intrusive spirit, it is of course allowable and reasonable to let them remain unanswered. Persons of notoriety, for example, who are pestered with letters on all sorts of frivolous subjects, frequently for no other purpose than to get hold of their autograph, may very excusably take some latitude in regard to this rule.

"In asking after the health of a person's relations, give each his or her proper name and title, unless it be a child. Ask for Mrs. or Miss

and so on never say,' How is your wife?' I hope your daughter is well,' &c. Any such mode of address is intolerably over-familiar, and is almost certain to give offence. Calling persons My dear sir,' or ' My good fellow,' in speaking to them; also holding them by the button-an offence denounced by Chesterfield—are, for the same reason, objectionable."

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COURT CIRCULAR FOR THE FRENCH.

THE French are a polite nation; therefore we expect that they will return a compliment very largely paid them in this country. We allude to the adoption of cant terms borrowed from their language by British journalists, in order to denote the things and transactions of high-life. As, by calling the most fashionable sort of people the élite or ton, and speaking of a dancing tea-party as a thé dansant; whereas it is the party that dances, not the Hyson; and the tea is quite distinct from the caper.

"So much for dinners: now for a little about personal decoration: and here I address myself chiefly to ladies. In giving a dinner or evening Also, by describing a person of dignified departy, take care to dress somewhat less elegantly meanor as distingué instead of dignified, a rout as than any of your expected guests; because, were a soirée, and a meat-breakfast as a déjeuner à la you to dress much more elegantly, it might be sup-fourchette, just as if everybody'does not use a fork posed that you invited the party only to astonish who has a Yarmouth bloater for that meal. If we, them with your finery, or at least to show them out of admiration for the French language, employ that you could afford to dress better than they-a it when we might full as well talk plain English, thing not likely to be agreeable to their feelings. the French ought surely to reciprocate the civility, As under-dressing may be considered disrespectful particularly since we go out of our way in deferto guests, it is equally to be avoided with over-ence to them, often using a phraseology which is decoration. Good taste will suggest the proper at the same time Frenchified and nonsensical. medium. Accordingly, in their fashionable journals, we shall expect to find such announcements as the following :

"I must say a word on tokens of sympathy. 'If you wish me to weep, you must weep with me,' says the Roman poet. Quite reasonable this. If you wish to condole with a friend, you must at least employ the emblems of woe. In calling on an acquaintance who is in mourning, put on a little mourning also don't go in flashy attire, out of character with the occasion. If your correspondent seals his letters with black, seal your replies with black also. These may be trifles, but if they tend to give any one gratification, why not practise them? A thousand comforts in life depend on what are intrinsically trifles.

Hier au soir came off, à sa maison, dans la Rue St. Honoré, le grand hop de MADAME LA COMTESSE DE VANILLE. La compagnie était ornée par presque tous les swells les plus tip-top.

Aujourd'hui, M. DE FRICANDEAU donnera, à son hôtel, un spread magnifique; où plusieurs nobs de la première distinction se trouveront autour de son mahogany.

On dit qu'il y a sur le Kidderminster une alliance nuptiale entre un Marquis bien connu parmi les crack cercles, et une demoiselle de tin, heritière à un millionaire Anglais.

Au plein tog et fancy ball de MADAME DE PAPILLOTE, assistèrent une foule de first-rate gens. L'affaire était extrêmement spicy.

"The prompt answering of letters is considered an unequivocal mark of a gentleman and a man of business. Why is delay the reverse? Because not to answer a letter (supposing it deserves to be answered) is the same thing as not answering when Our neighbors must really consent to a free inyou are spoken to; and everybody knows that that terchange, amongst other commodities, of fashionis bad enough. Yet some people, who mean noth-able slang, or we shall never believe in the entente ing wrong, but are only ignorant of what is due to cordiale that they talk about.-Punch.

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