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No 4800-NOVEMBER 21, 1878.]

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the "China MAIL.”

Hongkong, Nov. 21, 1878. SI-I copy from an official document

as follows: ..

"FIRST MEETING of the Commissionera to enquire into the Working of the 'CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDIN ANOB, hold on the 24th November, 1677, at 2.30 p.m., in the Office of T. C. HAYLLAR, Esq., Q 0. Present T. C. HAYLLAR, Esq. (Chairman),

mission of Enquiry?

ured?

PUNISHED.

PARISIAN GOSSIP, (Pioneer)

brass cauldrona the roof

THE CHINA MAIL.

CELEBRITIES AT HOME. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AT LIVADIA.

BY A BARE FATIENT.

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**this is a good hat, and I wish to bave it p

face very much out of harmony with his blood zun colder; the story makes me made as fresh as possible." "This a good

comparatively youthful and, except when shrink in the telling, and almost regret that bat "ezalaimed the man. **Ah! Sir, you

A steamer from Odessa and Sebastopol considered by these peasants as an ample

boat with asthma, still upright igure, la I havo undertaken to tell it. ) should never go to second rate houses for

But the evil wante cautery to the very your hate. If such article, was sold by touches at Yalta, now overcrowded with compensation for a walk of several milesy core, and I believe that every story of the one of my shopmould put him oncmperial couriers, place-bunters, and tou and the loss of a day's work spent in kind should be told me personally

fiats. A few Circassions in their brilliant hovering about the estate. side my doors?”.

Unlike his death was very near indeed in that house

A NAIL GUN-Respecting an implement uniforms peraiobulate the streets with the I could give you a really comical illustra consequential air which the members of the uncle of Germany, the Czar, who is a good more than once, from the most complete and on view at the Wellington Industrial Ex- tion of the unwillingness of Turke to learn Imperial body guard assume, much better repen omspapers; and his rare smilies are the time as I have known it since. Death of the most simple, and at the same time linguist, carefully studies the principal Eu- absolute exhaustion of brain. I felt it at hibition, the New Zealand Times says:~One from Englishmen even what they would not satisfied, apparently, than their brothers on bo unwilling to know. It is commonly said the opposite side of the Black Sea, whom usually caused by seeing himself described in utter solitude, save for the warders by most ingenious, implements on view at the that soldiers never object to any severity of we left at Trebizond disposing of their as a Sardanapalus, an int terato drunkard, my side, whose duty it was or they in exhibition is an invention of a young man. training which they recognize at materially Ronmelian and Bulgarian plunder for or an abject coward hiding himself from terpreted it as such, some of them to hold in this city, a Mir F. Faalkaer. It in called the publle gaze for fear of assarsiuation, as, me down and jump upon me, or kneel on my | e “nail gun,” and is used for nailing down terasing their military oficion y ; but this brand; Behind Yalta the high hills rias although Barrouz, he is in truth by no breastbons if I turned round or uttered any fooring boards. Wo have seen the imple- The Honourable WM. KESWICK,

dogma will not bear application to the round a wooded plateau, like the sides of means too careful of his life; and any one wandering words in bed. The Rev. E. J. EUTEL, M. A., Ph.D.

When I was ment in use, and as far as we are able to judge Turkish army, or at any rate if it be true of an amphitheatre, the centre covered with who takes a walk at 8 a.m. In St. Peters really dying, happily, I was too weak for it is quicker in its work, and insures greater Mr. CHUN AVI, (Secretary)."

the Turkish rank and file it is not so of the garders and palaces nestling among the burg when the Emperor is at tag Winter movement or for word. And there is no cleanliness than hand nailing could do. The Turkish ofcorn. The Turkish Infantry trees. What has been the result of this Com- possess in the Peabody Martini one of the means the grandest, of these country houses taking exercise it the Summer Garden, of the great and common mystery than the is about the same length It is kept ho One of the most tasteful, but by no Palace may see him, entirely unattended, stranger comment on the strange nature apparatus is not unlike a gun in shape, and In it to be prejudged, as has apparently they, being themselves about the steadiest the Emperor and Empress of All the tus trifle to an old soldier.

finest weapons in the world, and with it is Livadia, the Balmoral or Babelsberg of sometimes receiving a petition or giving a fact that in those supreme moments; un- position with the foot and knee, and the been the report of the medical men, who soldiers in the world, often inflicted tremen-sias, a very unpretending but picturesque

conscious of all else, I felt consciously and hail to be driven is placed (point down) in were solicited by His Excellency the Gov. dous lorses on the Russians. This was al-residence three miles from the port, and somewhat sombre, yet the absence of felt, perhaps, in all my life. But I had to slides down to the bottom, and then the Though the air of Livadia may be intensely, happy, happier than I have ever an aperture at the top of the concern. It ernor to enquire into and report on the ways, however, at comparatively short farther off, Oriando, where the Emperor's still etiquette and the good-nature of the live, and I did. And as sound was the sperator draws up or is cleanly driven question of the flogging of criminale on the ranges, and where the distance was pre-suite and the minister in attendance are sovereign, who wishes everybody round brain in all its wonkness that I have hardly ward stroke of this the nail is cleanly hand, back with cat or on the breech with rattan, vlously ascertained. So deficient were they generally lodged while their sovereign is him to be comfortable and happy, make it forgotten a single detail of my life in that into the boards boneath. A practised hand, by the intimation in your columns that Dr.in musketry instruction, and ignorant of taking his holiday. Yet it is not much of Ayres has directed a lighter rattan to be the power of the weapon in their hands, holiday after all, and the thin, gaunt, certainly have an essay tings of it, for he is wandering that, had I told one fourth of work of half a dozen men. We believe that A very pleasant abode. His attendants place, scarcely even any of the vague and by this simple contrivance, could do the that in some cases--as for instanca at Teli- soxions-eyed owner of Livadia hardly looks Le such is the one, it is a pity that so che-they allowed themselves to be pounded as if he were enjoying it. The telegraph considerate to them to excras, but has them to the doctor, to whom I told (on the Mr. Faulkner, is now improving upon his much valuable time, which the persons on for hours by horas artillery, from

distance there Committees can ill afford to spare, of less than 800 yards, without themselves and Raadia; and thirty miles of lie the many of the ministers and court-officials mad than I. What I call fancies, they call doubt that when the implement comes to he connects the house with all parts of Europe entourage; so that the length of time which all Bedlam itself had not been held more which will be self-foeding. We have no a great objection to any change in his principle of Mr. Sala's friend) far too many, invention, and is making a nail gun"

should be wasted.

My opinion is that in this, as in all at that distance their rifle was useless, and memories for the present Russian sovereign, popular grievance in Russia, where for a they are written in the Book of the Chronicles general use.

returning a shot, under the persuasion that ruine of Sebastopol, filled with bitter have remained in their posts is a favourite delusions. And as such I believe that generally known it will be brought into other British dominions, crime should, in that they might as well have fired at the with its graves contalbing a hundred thou man to have been a playfellow or fellow of the Commissioners of Lunacy. For we * accordance with the manners and customo moon. Yet at that distance an English batsand soldiers, who felf while keeping the student of the Emperor in their boyhood to know with what parental care these shame-

of the “allens," be suitably

talion would soon have put every horse and French, English, and Sardialan armies aurer claim to promotion than conspicuous ful things are done. every gunnor in the hostlle battery hors de waiting so long in the cold. The Emperor talent. He will obstinately refuse to be- combat. As a matter of fact the Turkish occasionally makes an excursion there from leve anything to their discredit; bat, par- their best of late to stir the public mind Mr Dillwyn and others have been doing soldier is an astoundingly bad shot, or Livadia to inspect a war-vessel, to receive hapa, incredulity is not a bad fanit with a upon this matter, and setne recent reports in rather he is curiously incapable of judging a portion of his army arriving from Tarkey, Russian sovereign, considering the ground the newspapers may have materially helped distance. Faad Mushir, the new Turkish or to attend a service for the repose of the less sandals which are floated in St. Peters- them. But the Home Secretary, I see, has field marshal, has somehow come to recog brave in the appropriate memorial chapel barg, often for the mere purpose of putting gracefully deferred inquiry to the more The "it" at the Trocadero is this week nize this truth, and he applied to Baker which has been erected at Babastopol near the inventor of them into the defamed convenient season which from the time of la full working order, and is taking Pasha lately to recommend him some com to their remains. The very appearance of man's place. If the Emperor is once oun Felix-downwards, has been found diloult numerous visitors to the top of the tower patent English officer as musketry instruo this city, which is like another Pompeli, vinced of a moral delinquency on the part to securs again. It is easier, probably, to The cost is a frate, and thus a cheaper Lor. Baker Pasha accordingly did zecom and the wild dreary muste of the Russian of a courtier or public servant, he hardly make a great flourish of reworks in the bird's-eye view of Paris can be bad than mend an officer who had been a musketry priests in the ghant of the Everlasting ever reatores him to favour. The names of way of foreign politics, and with much from the big ballson whose charge is twenty instructor at Bythe, and was beyond doubt Remembrance," must send back the pale several noted military men might be cited blowing of the trumpet to restore Great francs. Beneath the tower of the Trocadero consummately competent. Thle officer and moody Emperor to Livadia in in proof of this fact. It is hardly necessary Britain to her former post among the nations, in the Grande Salle des Conférence, which waited on Fuad Musbir and explained to a still more gloomy frame of mind than to observe that Livadia is provided with which some of us never could see how or should better be named the concert-hall, him the course he proposed to paraus. when he left it; for he has a vivid recol its chapel, priest, and choir, by whom a when she had forfeited; and the very the event of this week has been the musle Fuad Mushir was charmed, and told his lection of the closing scenes of that service is conducted every day, and duly deference paid her in this Cyprian business of the new grand organ. This is open to chief of the staff, Chakir Fanha, to write at celebrated siege, and from the northern payment, and since Wednesday a queue of corps d'armés covering Constantinople to southern half of the fortress shortly after is called in Russia deacon in the falls so fatally within the province of our the visitors of the Exhibition without extra once orders to the commandants of the three shore of the harbour he inspected the attended by the Court, for the Emperor is seems to show that she had not, than to la virtue of his goronation-consecration as deal with a home-problem like this, which half a kilometre in length is found about comply with the requisition of the bearer, its capture in 1856. On these occasions he Russo-Greek Church. Couriers with der old friend the Circumlocation Ofties, and noon. This blocks the passages, and is the officer in question. These requisitions retires into his private spartments directly patches are liable to arrive at all times of involves so great a variety of British in- disagreeable. En revanche, at the opposite were not extravagant. He asked simply he returns, and is seen no more that day, the day and night; and the chapel is the terests of a peculiar and individual kind. side of the bridge in the grand vestibule of first of all for a ritte-range; next that an not even at the whist table, to which Count only place where they are not conveyed at Interests, did I say? Indeed, it does, for it the Ohamp de Mars building, the late great officer and sergeant should be detached from Adlerberg frequently tries to draw him, the once to the Emperor, who has been known involves the liberties and lives of every one Interest in the French State jowole is dying each battalion for instruction in the Hythe game being often termed the statesman's to remark that, if his country goes on of us. It is all very well to plume ourselves away, and people can now see them without course, in order that, when themselves com Barootio, from its power of banishing un increasing, he cannot conceive how one upon our charters and our immunities, and pressure. Long since the crowds around petunt, they might subsequently act as pleasant memories, and producing a good man will have time or strength to conduct to bless those northern stars of ours that we the Prince of Wales's collection have musketry instructors, under his inspection, night's sleep. At other times ministers and the government. Possibly this obvious are not as other men are. But the case of dwindled into small daily groups. People in their respective battalions; and lastly aides-de-camp come for audiences, and the dificulty affords the best guarantee of Tara Vasilovitol (if that was her nume), begin to think the grand vestibule is spoiled he acked for tents to shelter the squade work of governing the Empire goes on Russia's ultimate adoption of a Constitu- over which we jubilated so much at the by the ugly red colour and the inverted under bis preliminary training. He went much as if its Imperial head was at Tzarco- tlon, or disruption into small states, which, expense of the benighted Russians, implies the Indian first to Baker Pasha, commanding the 1st Selo or the Winter Palace; for a ton load taken separately, will never be strong no greater danger than those evil hinasy pavillion. Some interest is taken in the Corpa d'Armée, who received bima with the of bezen brought the necessary papers by enough to be a formidable menace to law

Once in their grasp it, is a hacf statue of the Republic by Clésinger recently utmost cordiality and entered heartily into the same train which carried the Emperor, Europe,World. erected at the exterior front of tuis façade, the sabeme. General Baker ordered his who is more than usually equal to his work

matter, indeed, to get out of it. Cowards ut the best, all of us, we are all of us afraid It is the figure of a helmetted female, seated, or chief of the staff and brigadiers to do at Livadia, as the estate is akaded from the

of the very name of madness' more than holding a long sword upright in the right all that was wanted, and the officer sap-north wind, and therefore suits his asthma

MY EXPERIENCES IN A LUNATIC of anything else; and in that fear hos the hand. It looks as if France still meant to posed, naturally enough, that everything batter than any place but the Four Towers be a soldier. I have heard this statue much would now go on wheels. Not a bit of it. in the steamy valley of Ems, where for

ASYLUM.

security of the present system against any attack that may be made upon it. praised. in my humble opinion, the body The brigadiers would not detach the officers three years past he has been prevented from is coarse and the arme thoroughly mas and sergeants without written orders; the sojourning by the Eastern war.

The especial experience which I have to There was a story the other day in an online, while the face is correctly dull and chief of the staff would not write the

tell has nothing especially painful, and is, American newspaper of a lady who was without an atom of expression. In fact, it orders, rudely saying "he was not scribe Timo was when any Englishman who perhaps, none the worse for that. I have spirited away by two scoundrels under the is a lady of rude health and heavy, tranquil for all the world. Colonel might write could obtain an introduction, which was not nothing to write of dark rooms or strait eyes of a whole party of travellers, not one mind. I am not quite sure that this exactly the order bimself (but in Turkish), and if difficult, was always welcome at the Court waistcoats or whippings, or to reveal such of whom raised a finger to protect her when represents the French Repubile just now. in suitable form he would algu it." No of St. Petersburg, and the every-day life of scorets of the prison-house as will make the fellows had whispered it about that she The political parties are preparing for a

tonts were forthcoming; they could only be the Czar Nicholas has been described by At each particular hair to ataud on end by the was mad. This story may not have been Borious campaign when Parliament ze procured by regular indent on the least a dozen who were either entertained telling. My lines were cast in pleasant true; but it was so singularly ben trovato assembles. And it is a strange fast and Seraatiorate, and nobody would make the by him, or met him at various Russian places. The private asylum in which I was that it very well may have been; and the one undoubtedly greatly due to dread of indent. In short up to the present time noblemen's houses, for he almost lived in confined for many months, which in the macre possibility of its truth argues the ne. internal complications, that the French the Geld marshal's and lieutenant-general's publis. But that has never been the case retrospect seem like one droary dream, is, I cessity of keeping our eyes well open to the Government stocka have fallen two per cent orders bave been powerless against the since Alexander I began to reign, for his believe, highly recommended by her Ma- dangore in which we live. I suppose that since the Congress first met at Berlin, and jealousy and ill-will of high but subordinate palace-dour has been rigidly closed against jesty's commissioners as a delightful sanitary we most of us rather laughed at Charles from the price they attained when the officers.

all foreigners but diplomatists.; by ill-health resort, quite a place to sponda happy life. Reads's attack upon private asylums, and peace of Europe was still hold in the balance While there was yet a prospect of this needing quiet wherever it could be obtained, Daring those months I had the advantage quietly comforted ourselves with the rotter- by a single hair. But during the Exhibi- schema being carried out the officer whose family cares, stid by the political troubles of living in a castellated mansion, in one of tion that in the nineteenth century (an (Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, tion, there will be a sort of truce of party. experience I am relating went to Colonel times during the last twenty-five years, hate to my dying day, with a constant man, apparently, like the Briton of Pal- which have involved the Empire several the prettiest parts of England, which I shall expression which is used as a sort of talis.

Queen's Road) Portion of the work of another soulptor was Daond Bey, of the Turkish Marines, form He never partakes of the hospitality of his variety of attendants, who bonoured me by merston's day) such things are impossible. last month reared in the gardens of the erly Major David of the (English) Royal subjects, and in his visits to Berlin always steeping in my room, sometimes as many as it requires a personal experience of their

9 AM.... Boxeroxa, Wycomber 21, 1878, Champ de Mars. It is the head and neck Marine Artillery, to ask the loan of some lodges at the Russian Embassy, for his re-three at a time. I was dying in delirium and amenities, such as fell to my lot, seriously of the colossal bronze status of Liberty marine sergeants whom he had put through creation has been solitude rather than the prostration, simply, and wasted to a shadow; to believe that the adventures of a novel enlightening the World," made by M. the course to act as equad instructors. plezenres of society. The rooms at Livadia sousequently voted violent, as the best may be transferred to the pages of an Bartholdi It is to be erected on the This Colonel David readily promised, pro- harbour of New York. From the flambeau vided the consent of Hassan Pasha the minently fitted for the quiet puranit of ont for drives, closed upon wet days, open nous conspiracies, for personal motives, to are not large enough, to entertain, but are way out of it. With carriages to take me article, and be yet not mere true. Villa- to the feet this statue, when erected, will commandant of the dock yard, was pre business. On the walls are family pictures, on fine; with cricket and bowls and archery set the lansey law in motion, are rare en- be over 130 feet in height. The pedestal | viously obtained. The officer went there- will be about 90 feet. So you may judge fore to Hassan Pasha, a bluff, burly old with, among them, our Queen and the Eu- for the summer, and a pack of karriere to ough, I do not doubt. But the law favours that the work will be after the Americans' fellow, who received him pleasantly, but peror of Germany; but nothing very new follow across country in the winter with them. What is not rare, I doubt even last, own heart in its gigantic proportions. laughed when told that his visitor's final or expensive; for since the beginning of the bead of the establishment, who lived in is the imprisonment in these fearful places Interfer stops lead visitors into the upper object was to teach the Turkish army to the late war all palace expensen have been a sweet little cottage with his family, to of people who are perfectly sane, but suffer- part of this immense head. It forms a shoot. "Nonsense," he said in English, curtailed, and the Emperor let the attachés give me five-o'clock tea on the Sundays; ing from some temporary disorder of brain, little office at the base, in which sit one or which he speaks excellently, the Turkish ally that their participation in balls and with my fellow-lunatics if so disposed, in the mechanism, and the least understood; at the Russian Embassies know inform with five refentions a day whereof to partake, the most delicate and intricate part of all two American gentlemen who declare the army can shoot very well; or if the aring entrance and ascent to be free of charge; can't, the pavy can. Here!" (calling to an galety would not be seemly while their my private sitting-room when I could not and if asylams are a sad necessity for the only those curious to go up must purchase orderly) "Send for Mustafa Bey, and tell countrymen were bleeding in Bulgaria stand it, with a private chapel for morning really mad,—and even that I cannot help a photograph for five pence of the whole him to bring a rifle. In a few minutes at eight o'clock in the morning after a cup panions and attendants for a congregation, lieve that they require a much more loving Alexander II, rises early, and walks out prayers or Sunday service, the same com- doubting; for from what I have seen I be statne. The gentleman who shows it is Mustafa Bey, a staff commander whose of coffee and a bioonit. He used to drink and some visitors who would come to look at and more direct personel supervision than voluble in description. But, on such special business it was to teach the sailors tes, but now takes coffee instead, onus; with little evening parties for whist or they can get, poor people,--for the nervous occasions, I listen laconically as Alex masketry, made his appearance. A cushion account of his nerves, which are shattered, music amongst ourselves, and a casual sufferers who are not mad they are terrible. andre Dumas says.

was then laid on the railing of the verandali, neither by drinking nor dissipation, but conjuror or entertainer from town to distract The mad folk seemed to me happy enough There are many things one would like to and the Pashe said, turning to the English by long hours in the Council Chamber, in as sometimes for an evening with an oo on the whole, perhaps. But the suffering handle in the long gallerton, especially the officer-There, set him something to do.

Mar. ice-blocks on burning days, but everywhere The officer accordingly pointed to a pontoon which the business of a sovereign and prime me not to get excited, and depart as soon as but very sick in body, yet treated as sound terrupted nights, and other real hard work casional relative to come and see me, beg of those conscions of being sound of mind,

28, Oracle, the words on ne peut pas toucher moet the at some distance painted red, all except minister combined-as is the caas with a possible, what more could man desire? As of body and sick in mind,the life of the

30, Bristollan (6); longing eyes of visitors. A saddler of Parls one panel which was unfinished. Mustafa despot-necessarily entails. Few can wish look at this inst sentence of mine, it reads sane ataong the mad baffles description. le, however, likely to make his fortune by Bey was told to align his rifle on that panel more that a House of Parliament and res like an advertisement. Stay-I had for- They must be driven mad there by the 16, Invincible,

Αρτ. the simple idea of putting upon his exhibit with the proper sight adjusted, Oh," ed wares the unique notification of on peut and the Pasha, "but you must tell him the ponsible Ministry could be safely implanted gotten the medicine. They did not give me score. I know what it is for men what Juns toucher. Every one goes to see the excop-distance. That is just what I want him cannot see his way to it without running be alive. Indeed, it seemed to me that the not believe I could have borne another week July

In Russia than her weary autocrat ; but he very much of it, I suppose, or I should not must it be for women? Personally, I do 26, Underwriter, tional placard and yet the exhibitor loses to tell me," replied the officer, Well the risk of a revolution like that of France general principle was to give it when one of it, for heart and brain were strained al- nothing by contact his saddles and bridles said Mustafa Bey, looking very nervously in 1789. After his oarly morning walk he asked for it, and pretty much what one most to bursting. What would have hap 16, Lorimer,

16, Annie Bow, are within a glazed care. Of course, it at the Pasha and very angrily at the med-works till twelve with his secretary, and asked. When I got unusually weals and pened to me I do not know, for I had lost 18, Sydenham, people are idiots enough to buy saddles or dling English, belly then comes the déjeuner d la fourchette or delitious, a good strong dose on the violent all care for anything. Nor did the kindly 21, Stant, bridles, or anything else in Paris this year, hundred metres." especially exhibited articles, one cannot dred," said the officer. An orderly was eating and drinking i so that a former cook point of view was enough, literally, to spite of fortune,' ay, and in spite of myself, "More like four hun luncheon. Be is extremely moderate in theory homeopathy, I suppose, from a new doctor under whose advice I was saved, in

27, Pilgrima help them. The charge is double for all sent down into the dock-yard to step the to the Winter Falate, now settled in Paris, reduce me to reason. For then I became too pretend to know either. But he believes 30, Sumarlide,

28, Abbey Cooper, things, from the hotels down. My friend distance, and it was found to be $10 paces; declares it was most disheartening to cater weak to speak, and the matter ended for a that I must have broken down utterly, pro- 81, Charmar, Cham even has caught the key-note, and or perhaps 880 metres. Hassan Pasha Was for him as he was indifferent to the choicest time. one of his last sketches represents a brave so eavage st the failure of his crack me viands. The truth is, his health obligen

bably from softening of the brain. bourgeois lifting his eyes to heaven at the that It looked at first as if he would have him to live very strictly, and in all things estos difficult to quarrel with it Yet the with the comforting pipe and jug of beer All this bears so fair an outside that it Bitting at my desk as I am sitting now, sight of the purse who brings him twins a struck him. As it was, however, he merely by rule. After luncheon he walks or rides life that it concealed was inconceivably by my side (deadly poison to me both af fruitful wife has just given him. "How sent him contemptuously about his bual with one of his two youngest sons, Sorgius terrible. My head was full of the weakest, then, I have been often assured) and with unfortunate," he exclaimed, my wife neas. After this the officer explained to and Paul, who are with him at Livadis, or the most varying, the most wandering a profound and grateful sense of extreme should have been so placed in Exhibition Elaman Pasba that good shooting was not drives out with the Empress if she is well fancies the fannies of sheer and long-don-phycloal well-being, it is difficult for me to time Everything double!" They make no simple a thing fan might be supposed, good hats in Paris, especially when they that the British Government spent large five be retires again into his study, when entertainments, meals, without a friend's nounced to be suffering at different times enough for the exercise. From three till dined exhaustion. These parties, games, believe that not so long ago I was pro- borrow their shapes from London. But sums sunnally in teaching musketry, and the Exhibition is not prodigal in hat shows, that it took a long time, adding that most be possibly takes the siesta which most fase near me, without hope, wish, or volition or all of a heap from epilepsy, partial Russians indulge in to enable them to With the shouts and cries of the really paralysis, its, delusious, suicidal and Bome one, however, took the prospectures of the common soldiers to the Brlish arw extend the day at both ends. At Livadia violent to wake me sometimes at night with fromicidal manis, voices (a very profes- of two renowned hatters from their respec. would bave judged, the distance of that the Court dines at five or balf-past. It is every form of personal affliction to haunt rional and dangerous piece of huming, of tive cases, and fading they lived opposite pontoon better than be himself had done, the last meal which the Emperor takes in and mook and fet companion me by day which I shall have more to say presently) each other in town, he bad the spcentricity and that many would have hit a man at to go to both eatabilahments and buy a hat that distazoe in any part of the body the the day, and is seldom prolonged boyand with poor fellowe playing all sorts of strange visions (Anglice, dreams), and the Lord in each. He could not see much difference Pasha might have named "Wah ex-medical rules, he often goes to work nohow, with or without private rooms of prostrate from weakness it reads like n an hour. At 8t, retersburg, in defiance of anties round me, norded together unghow or knows what beside. As I was utterly himself in other shape or quality so he claimed the Fasha, Wonderfull Way directly afterwarde till nine o'clock Here, their own-more, I am afraid; in proportion dangerous complications and I feel with thought he would consult better judges, if they come to fight for us they will sweep however, he generally sits or walks in these their friends could or would pay for them, pride that I may safely challenge Merie Be therefore changed the lining, including the Russian of the face of the earth." the makers' names, of each hat isto the "God is great, devoutly returned the garden, or remains with the Empress, till or not, on the festing of first-class patients Jolly herself to the proof. It is something other, and then went to the shops of the Englishman May He give them the tight clock. He then returns to die work than on any other intelligible principles with to have lived through all these maladies, to vendors on pretence of getting a toup chance After this conversation Besan till midnight, and sometimes finishes up Death in the house every now and then and to be engaged in replenishing the de fer for the bat.

falling suddenly and terribly on one of these welcote beur-glass. But it is not too much What do you think Pasha made no further difficulties but told with one round of whist, of this hat said he to the maker thereof. an aide-de-camp to order the Lieutenant-Livadia, like the German Babelsberg, in tnhappy outcasts from some unsuspected to say i and I spealt again the wise words 'Ah1 Biry" remarked the first hatter, "1 Colonel of Marines to send his six best surrounded by the mansions of other mem- slady within, which they could not oz of my good friend and doctor, not my own, Cannot understand how a well-dressed gen sergeable without fail the next morning to bers of the imperial family and in spite plain, spoken of in whispers, and hushed up that there are at this present moment lan- tleman like you can wear such a bat it in Daond Boy, But they never came, of the Tartar emigration to Turkey after and forgotten as soon as might be with the guishing in these places many men who A second-hand article they have sold you aa

the Crimean war, there are many Mahome warders-attendants, if you like it better might well have been resoned-maybe even new," "Very good,” said the gentleman

tan vinegrowers and shepherds in the neigh-playing their rough horse-play all over now (and a mob attack, Bastille fashion, going home and mounting the other bat, LITERARY EUPHEMIEM."I merely turn-borhood, who are remarkable for their the great house, the Philistines making upon the whole body of them would, to my which he brought, bearing the rival's name, ed over the page, Sir," said the Butler, loyalty. To catch a night of a tall apare sport of the poor helpless Samsons, and mind, do as much good as harm)-men to its veritable maker, Put the iron on when rebuked for knocking down the But man, in a white hat and light cummer suit, varying their amusements by coarse end who might well have been spared and seved *My hot, if you plent," said the gentleman; i touneed'un

| with seauty gray hair, and a worm haggard gross language which made the chilled to do good work in the world, but who now

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