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The lower rates having been done away with, the visitor does not realize that in mounting the hill from the steamboat land- ing he has passed within the walls, and when, not long after. he comes to the gates rebuilt by Lord Dufl'erin, he imagines that at length he is entering the stronghold, but on looking back at the view finds that ii the embrasures were filled with cannon they would be pointing at him, and that he has already passed through and be and the for- ‘ tiflcations. The rea esteem n which the‘ present inhabitant regards these fortifica- tions is betokened by the doing away with the lower gates and the buildln oi the new Houses oi Parliament just outsi e the walls. The site chosen for this building is acom- mending oneâ€"almost or quite the highest spot in the city ; but the buildin suffers for “ant of space about itâ€"space w lch could not be easily obtained, for just here are three roads of equal importance passing out of the city by three gates, not more than two hundred yards apart, and advancing into the country in nearly parallel lines. Between two or these roads lies the Par- liament House with a side facade abutting upon each. The ground in trout is approxi- mately a square, with sides of the length of the main front of the buildingâ€"obs ously too small an area to furnish pro setting for so large a building. 80 exoe lent a de- ‘ sign was worthy of all the embellish-ant 1 not. THE [rm-:3 ABSURDH‘Y 0F \VARS and conquests is very auggestively present- ed, and the audacious claim of the handful of men that could be gathered there in pro. tending to hold the vast outer territory in subjection, while there were a thousand other points which other group; of mm could occupy in the same way without in- terfering with the actual living rights of any other group. finde a perfect parallel in the practice of pugiliete and oarsmen who give them-elve out an " champions ” of this or that, and feel that they are so simply be- came a etronger or better man does not take the trouble to convince them that they are _-L St. Augustine and Quebec are the only fortified towns in this country where the help of the reel military engineer was bought into play, and in both places the fortifica- tions are amongst- the most attractive psinie of interest, yet, as onelooks st Quebec, with its natural advantages re-inforced by the works :of the engineer, and reflects how small a spot this is compared with all the vest country around, WANT 0F PREVIOUS PERUSAL of guide-books the gentleman could not be historically placed. Evidently, the painters who had been decorating the interior of the church with some $50,000 worth of their handiworkâ€"and very creditable work it was tooâ€"conceived that this military personage would winter more comfortably if he were furnished with a thicker coat and had acted accordingly. The statue was not half a bad one, but being placed a plein pied, without a pedestal, and seemingly bursting his way through the ta}l and tangled grass in his eagerness to get at the priest. perhaps. the effect was somewhat provocative of laughter. But all the same, one does not encounter such memorials as thin in non-historic towns. who, In all the 310 of freshly-painted coat of grey with white acings, cocked hat and plume, curling black whiskers, polished boots and waving sword, is advancing with vigor- one step upon the main door of the Church of Notre Dame just across the footpath. The driver celled him Colonel Selliereâ€"or some each name, but for No, it does not do to visit Quebec without first reireshing the memory as to some of the events in its history and the particulars of the histories of the men whose thread of life has been several at one point or another of America's most famous battlefield. If one would be spared the humiliation of won- dering who 'Montgomery wasâ€"when the house where that really illustrious American general breathed his last is pointed out, he must have skimmed through a. guide-book It least. and not trust to inspiration and the long forgotten studies of his a :hool days. A proper course of investigation might pos- sibly mitigate th3 surprise with which he would encounter in the charming little vil- lage of B_enupo_rt, near by! th_e_ life-size end Inge of Beauport, near by, the life-size and animated wooden statue of 3 French colonel; THE EMBODINBNT OI" SOLEMNITY. It: brevity tella a longer tale than would many and high-rounding words. In lack of title or particular: of any kind is the moat flattering tribute that neat achievement could reek at the ban a of poaterity. It quietly aet- aaide the poaeibillty that any one in any a e might ask “ Who was Wolfe, and what di he do I" It is a noble and a fitting record, and perhaps helps to keep his memory greenâ€"fresher than that of any soldier that ever died on American soil. The inhabitants have a way of apeahing of him an of a man they had themselves known, in whose exploit. they had a personal share, whose fame ahede a refleoted “glory on all. Hm: DIED “’OLFE VICTORIODS saw. 13, 1759. strike- the reader ae he stands beside the lonely column on the verge of the Plains oi Abrslmn es the most impressive epitaph chisel ever greved. Its very simplicity is ery: lndien legend, French romenoe end Englieh hietory, hietory Umedien end, ehove ell, Americen history. {or one oi the hemeet pleeeuree the plece eiforde ie the eeneetion thet this I t in Americen; thet the lendeoepe. with to eutnmnel glorieein their height, ie Inch ee cen be seen only on the Amerioen continent ; end. while gezing et the veried viewe, ier~etretching end die- Iimiler on one eide end the other, with hroed reeohee of water end hill-idol both rugged end thou which lure the climber through promiee of much rewerd for little toil, oneiorgete iitioel dietinctione bitween Cenedien end enkee, end ieeie et once et home, end yet, when the eye leevee the work of netnre end eeeke thet which men’e hende heve produced, the feeling of being e etrenger in e foreign country in overpower- 2.... The pluceil rich in sensation: und im- preuionu. Nova- wu than ugmur mistake (bun asking this trip to Quoboo uo hurrlodl And without wmlug; It would mm a my hull‘oducoud person would know better; would be more oonlolouu of the uterus! pro- prlodo- thou, without rope: study tad pro- tlou, to thrust lu lguonnt outloult Into the mldnt cl nunoundingu who» umul - on putt 29'“? of llht'ory, {ul tad logoud; A DAY IN QIIEIIEC. BY "Autumn.” are rum cum or musnr ee he pence their honeee ; end ee the beet relief the cimcnrnetencee efl'ord end the beet protection they on give their own welle, they are iron conductors with holee ehont e qnerter of en inch in diemeter drilled in the ripe eve? three or {our incheenp the whole ength o the pipe. The eyetem bee in tone oeeee been carried further, end eome ‘ pipee ere nled which have e elot running the full length of eech joint, the cylinder bein comp ete only et each huh. Little buil ing seemed to he going on, Do that nothing could be noted ee to iocel methode of building practice. The directory. how- ever, oonteine the nemee of thirteen archi- tecte. all but two of which were French, eo thet there in probably e good deal of work in; on, endâ€"judging b the Perhement goon end the Church oi t. John the Bep- tilt, just rebuiltâ€"work of extremely [good -L -__ 4-- Till-1 BOLD EFFRON'IERY of the gilded saints and crosses that crown- ed some of the buildings. Attention being called in this way to the tin roofs, it coul not escape notice that the local method of laying a tin roof was peculiar ; the plates were laid with a simple locked joint with- out soldcr, and were laid in inclined courses, the angle of inclination seeming to approx imate the pitch of the root, though on some steep roofs the inclination was certainly less than the pitch. However tight a roof this manner of laying the plates may give, it certainly produces a very ugly effect, as the whole roof covering has the air of sliding with more or less rapidity into the street. From the terraces and the Place d’Armes there is an admirable chance to study the roofs in the lower town, which lie just below and wisely have no glued sky- lights to irresistibly tempt the small boy to deep missiles upon them. Whether he ab. stain from throw Lug things down the yawn- ing and un rotected chimney lines may be doubted. rom this point could also be discovered another local custom which may be enforced by law or advocated only by experience; against almost every chimney was reared a Wooden ladder, while another led from it to the scuttle or to the saves for l the use of the home fire-brigade. The on! other local peculiarity noticed, for naturaK iy a lookout was kept for any device which had been found uselul in this northern lati- ‘ tude, was the treatment of the down-spouts. The inevitable is frankly accepted; water‘ will freeza, cause a bursting of choked oon- ‘ ductors and when the thaw comes do dam- age which is as likely to befall the walls of the house as the clothes and person of the unwary wayfarer. Like prudent souls, the inhabitants prefer that their house walls shall be kept as dry as posssihie, and con- sider that it is their neighbor’s affair Here, again, the charming effect that, at: certein stages of its existence, an unpainted tin roof may give to a spire or a dome could be noted in every direction; it. seemed a1. together a noble metal, and ite mode-ab sheen was quite superior to [ Building material of all kinds, ssve iron ‘ snd terracotta, are used in the most catho- iio msnner : stone, brick and wooden build- ings stand check by jowl and have a home- like sir, vast] different from the melancholy formnlism of ontresl. The stone used is of several kinds and colors, the most common a whitish limestone about the color of Concord granite. Other than this the most notice- sble materiel won on exceedingly agreeable dark green limestone, too solid in color to be called serpentine, of which was built the large jail just beside Wolfe's moument. It be just enough color to seem to be an integral put of the lsndsoape, to be an outgrowth of the soil itself, and not on im. position upon it._ QUITE A MARITIME AIR, while the little [french corvette in the road- stead, With its white-painted guns. cream- colored hull, and white-clad sailors, give the place a gala air and remind one that the French sailor is considered by his English brother rather a fair-weather creature when all is said. From this lower level to the rampart above runs the inclined railway, or rather, elevator, which makes trips every few minutes, and which is a most popular contrivance. Descriptions of any particular building can be found in the guide-books in quite as reli- able and interesting form as it would be pos sible to give them here. It was pleasure enough to drive about the towu without do. finite itinerary. turning down one street or another according as the first glance seemed to promise something of interest; now driv- ing down a bill so precipitous that the car. riage threatened to turn a somersault over the horse's back. the skilful descent of which won respect both for the surefootedness of the beast and the soundness of hie harness ; now winding about through the lower part of the town, destroyed by fire some six years ago, but still having an air of pictures- queneas in spite of the buiidings being little more than one and two-story, flat-roofed brick boxes of perhaps {our rooms each 3 now taking along the water-front on the ‘ other side of the town, where the ocean- liners and some few vessels give the place thet‘ the lendecepe erchitect could give it, A little! but it meme hopeleee to e t thet eny- toequeetic thing will he done thet wil be of much etroegieth eveil. One thin could be oerried out The ourm which would ro 5i; prove eii‘eotive: oidolleree while the hu idin etende on perher log e the higheet epot in t e city the lend tell ee ere ewey more ebruptly towerd the 'roed thet pence. it on the neat lidO. end i the melu Ii eny on epproech oi the building were to beover hie neture this reed end the ground pro rly terreced. trig to Eu end breed flighte oi etepe. he i the length of en epend a the front, built u from below, en efl'eot enjoyment would be geined w leh would be in coueon- can eeiel e enee with the generel type of trip requ re m: sonnet or run ISLAM). WWW? W in to edmire But now the building in nothin other then would he built in eny flet oountgy, end “imp ‘23": eoeeemee little teme end out of key with 3! ° 1! h“ in eurreundlnge. For ell this, tehou by .tuhmo itself. it ie one thet givu much pleeeure to ‘ Qomhte n the beholder, ee there in e generel eir of th t“ ill. elegenee end refinement ehoutit beepeekiug ‘ 1'; 'i the work of one treined in French rether Ell?“ ho?“ then Englieh eohooil. To oouieu thet no "”13“ ettempt wee mede to toe the building from 93:19 every side, nor yet to discover whether the r en. internel treetment wee ea preiseworthy I ee the exterior doee not imply luck of in- terest or energy, but onl shown how po- Th0 Indie tent wee the feeling thet t 0 city conteined et Moieie ; enough of things unique to fill all the scent) of their m houre et commend wrthont epending en of wen it here 1 them on en object which, however goo in lamp on a itself, might been eppro rietely pieced in covered the Omehe en in Quebec. he desire to be beams of ti penetrated by the spirit of the piece a! e circle of me] whole stood in the way of epending time in ting on the fl e coneoieutioue architecture! diminution about the we of the many other hulidin e of intereet. lam. occupir n_.n-Ine:-_- .: _.__- ___.. “J,“ Ln_!l sea A. There is a men in Pelethe, Fl... who Im- eginee thet he in e teepot. He in perfectly one on every other subject, but nothing on convince him thet he in not a teapot, end an anrthern one It thet. He etlokl out one arm to represent the spout, bend: the other to repreeent the henale. mehee e hlulng‘ noise to repreeent_the eecepjlng steam, end then, if an one oomee neer Im, In very no- my leet e7 hit him end hreek of! either hie handle or hie epont. Singular accidents have befalien eastern. Connecticut horeee recently. A few da s ago F. X. River's fine pair, at Woodstoc ‘ ran away with the mowi machine in a fiel J, and the keen saw-tooth blade, worket“ at a terrific speed b the furious pace, 0: ,di off both the hind age of one of. the an M13, The Wounded horee was shot. The ether horse was not scratched. Not ion ago Henry Burk oi Breekville x ihile out dr ving, trotted his fast stepper, valued at 8600, over a stable fork that had dropped in the road from a cart which had just passed; the horse's hoof tilted the handle, and the ani- maiwae epitted upon the tines. So fiercely was the weapm driven that it penetrated the inguinal region, bmkward through the pelvic cevl to the venibrm, thence forward into the d hragm. passing through the left lung. and nearly perioratin the skin at the left shoulder, a distance 0 four feet. The horse lived several hours and was then shot. At New London, Tyler B. Earl’s livery horse not long ago near] ended ite lliie in scratching its ear with ts leit hind foot. The oaik of the ehoewae can ht in the horse's teeth, and wed in so tig tly that it eoeld not be remov . In its struggle the horse fell, and the force of the fall ripp. en the shoe oil' the hoof. The shoe was dangling from the horse's month when its owner, alarmed by the tumult In the stable, arrived. 4~‘__....- nakea, painted nvageiâ€"C. H. FARxnul, in Harper's Illagazhle. Asthedrummingquickened, they increased their grotezqne contortione and their shout- ing;here and there aman turned about to face his neighbor, and the two carried on with the ducking an extravagant pan- tomime, portraying the hunt or the war; the music rose in the most frantic crescendos and savage discards ; the actors, bounding about, bent over and tore the ecalps from their prostrate victim, while yells and groans filled the air. A It waer the ancient War-dunes, lacking only the lurid fire on thg Elnmeg pqd bloody tomahawks of the Their chief motion was therefore, ducking, asif the entire company in unison had tredden upon one another’s come: and although they took three steps forward on each foot, yet by drawing this back, they advanwu but an inch or two in each measure, and their loge, like those of a dancingâ€"jack, seemed to be jointed only at the knees. The keeping of time was in the ducking, for there was no stamping. After a number of rounds thus in single file about the stove they retired, and some of the squaws came reluctantly out to per- form. ‘ Theydancedas the mendid,dueking, how- ever, still more suddenly, and advancing :still less at each step. They we'e tx- ‘ tremely funny, notwithstanding their great decorum, their rather heavy figures, erect and rigid as statues,withdowncast eves and a shy turn of the head, bobbed up and down with overpowering solemnity. They soon gave place to the men again. The young Huron Indian now took the drum, and sang a more spirited and a varied air to enliven the dance. The men closed up the file formimg a continuous circle of ducking figure. Their steps were longer and freer, and they began moving their arms about, and grunting, f‘ He {he i he !’ The 'firat set was like all the rest in general form:anumber of men came out of the crowd, and began following one another around the stove near the centre of the room. Their steps consisted in ad- vancing one foot, ducking, by bending the knees, then sliding back the advanced foot. nearly to_t_he other one. Now and then s squaw picked her way among the crouching figures on the floor to the bed, hauled out her roll of bnby, and gave it to suck. The women wore their national caps of black and red, but the men presented more variety, wehring felt hats, or red usndkerchieis thet floated about the shoulders, or letting their long. black, straight, greasy hair whip up and down on their checks. The band consisted of a drum like a. common sieve, hung from the ceiling by a string in front of the drum- mersinger. His score was very simple, and yet the low notes of the voice. stafifty and a fourth below the drum, were quite effective with a sombre color suited to the shadowy! iantsstio scene, The Indians at Botahiemite, Cannds. and at Moieie honored me with an exhibition of their national dances. The ballroom wuabnre lo -houee. dimly lighted bv a lamp on a h gh shelf. A great shadow covered the tawny fnceo just under the beams of the ceiling, 3nd fell talent the circle of men, tqunwe, end children tqnmt~ ting on the floor in front of those etnnding about the walls. An aged couple and some doge occupicd a bed in one corner, along with a number of babies done up in rolls and corded againlt the wall. The old women gave the dogs and her husband to{ drink fromnenncepan, and the old man\ often lny book on the pillow with one leg‘ across the other to finger his toes. Quebec nud lu surrounding: ll u memory that will not 1000 lultro n time pum, even I! one In: new Edinburgh, Gibraltar, Ehrenbrolutoi or m of the famous Euro- pc_au_ plm wh ch ong to the lame gene A little laot that can. to ago: in never to a question about but enema toehow how thong in the tendency to oherirh tradition. The currency 0! Canada hae long been one o! doilare and oontn,’ and no one thinh of ring a price in tny other termr, but u are um united in pound. and panoe. ‘ 1! any one hat any Int-giving a: to whether hit nature fit- him to enjoy and rofit by a his to Europe. let him take I! ty dollars an epend aweok at Quebec. 1! he find. enjoyment and tool- enthusiasm there, he can “Mi tpend the larger tum a E uopoan trip rtqu roe; but if he finds it dull, per- functory work. and cannot nee what there in to admire or amnlo in crooked buildi e, Iteep and narrow attent- and an unint i- glhle patch that onnuot be found in the alums of hi. own neighborhood, let him Ituy at home. Queer Deaths of Horses. Indians Dancing. The journey from Berlin presents nothing of special interest until on reach the little stream which makes al the difference be- tween Germanv and Russia. Wirballen is i the first town on the frontier after passing a the border, and there of course assports ere examined and baggage search , but no _ more thoroughly and with quite as much liteness asa foreigner is apt to mzet on anding in America. In fact, I have receiv- ed no more courteous treatment anywhere than right here in Russia from the first day I entered it, both on the part of army oili. , cers, police and civilians, and I believe that no one, unless he is very obstre tone and bound to disobey the laws, nee have the least difficulty in oing everywhere and with the utmost {rec om. Of course, with a swarming population. composed of such varied elements, regulations must be strict and obeyed to the letter; but would it not be well if some of the Americin cities, which are similarly situated, were under discipline as strict? There is very little 1 show of force here; one sees more armed 1 soldiers in Berlin in an hour than in Peters- burg in a day, and everything is more nict and orderly here than in any Cana- dian city of its size that I know oi. We have been educated to think that the Em- peror site all day, cowering in his palace, entirly unapproachabie, and ‘ ' -. summer heat: Remem. 11:2: 28:11:12,131”: .n calendar is twelve daya but is on the .{emember that St. Potere_ Rangember aisn shorea of the Baltic Seat road to the ‘ that you are on the direo' n two hm. North Pole. Already I have :1?“ been( d snow storms, and our teeth in here A acontinual chatter since resch- pageants. in.tlle country (May 28) the . . ore Just plowing and sowing for the" 8‘ mmer cro pa, and in the city HEAVY OVERCOATS AND FURS m quite at home. There is one thing, avever, that strikes a Canadian very agreeably as well as strangely, and that is the suddenly increased length of the days. Even now the sun does not set until about 9 o‘clock and rises no one knows how early ; and soon the longest days will have reached here when the sun is only nominally below the horizm from one-quarter past 10 till one-qnsr tax- before 2, but really the twilight in so bri ht that one can read with ease all night. 0 doubt this has much to do in maturing the harvest so rapidly in the few monthe of summer. set 'A fine stone bridge crosses the' Rhine i front of the city. A rapid night‘s ri a through Dusseldorf and Hanover brinp .de to Berlin. As we pass through Cherie ,c us burg we can see the tower of the then- which car Kaiser Frederick made h’ lece Of Be in, something later on. 1 r .s ome. St. Petersburg to-night, and, uni .In ofl‘ for for us, the fest train has not y: artunstely on, so we have a. ride of two ni ,1; been put days before we can reach the ghte and two dew.” “ Tsar’s Win- If it is May or J uue - Russia without the heaviv do not come to and the heaviest of win? It Winter clothing you may have left En’ 101‘ wraps, even tho' hawthorne blouomg’ " gland all ablaze With tulips, and Berlin st Jolleuci carpet_ed with but forced to earn her breed by selling fruit in this same market place. He recognize: her at once and. of course, her life is sunshine ever after. You don't believe the tale? Well, the people of the City of Cologne did, at any rate; and the whole story In woven in and about this lovely fountain rected by her citizens to commemorete the event; and there you may have every vee- tige of your doub.t_removed to-glay. . _ l About the year 1593 there lived a farmer’s boy, J In Van Werth by name, and he fell in love with 3 pretty serving maid by the name of Margaretta or Greta. They plighted their troth, but J an was forced into the army and obliged to go off to the were and fight the battles of his country. Fifty years and more went by and in the meantime the farmer’s son had risen step by step until he returned home for the first time, a C)m- mending Genenl, and right here in the year 1652 he finds his Greta, old, and yet with a wonderfully 17w“ fortunate in having friends reelding J» the city. who spared no pain: to nuke my visit on interesting and enjoyable as pos- aible. They were very proud of the im- provements which are rapidly being made in ull directionsâ€"the new streets, which have been laid out, the fine enbnnkment which will econ follow the Rhine tor miles in front of the town, etc. But we have enough that in new at home ; and we desire to spend all the time possible in and around the Cathe- dral. which has given the city its world- wide !nme, and through the quaint, old, narrow streets there is an old paved market ; place, in the center of which is a beautifully carved and lofty atone drinking fountain, and‘we stop to listen to its etorv.» MAGNIFICEXCE OF THE FINE CARVIXG with which it is covered from the found.- tion to the summit of its two great towers. The interior is equal! fine and the bsauty of the stained win own and chapel; and carved stalls and tapaatriea can hudly be turpaucgi. 7 An entiqnarian would revel in Cologne, there is so much of the old to trace down to the new. There in an old Roman tower and I part of the well and many houses dating back to the thirteenth century. The found ttiona of the Cethedml were laid in 1248, ulthough It we! not completed and consecrated until 1880. The en ravin so! it give little idea. of it: length, reedt and height, or the From Ameterdem to the encient City of Cologne (or “ Koin ")-irom Coionie, en old Romen colony of Agrippi’e timeâ€"in e ride of ebout eixty milee through e country, pert oi whichie very beeutiful. end pert oi which in very undy, bere end unintereeting. But when Colo e oomee into view end the greet oethedreig‘iifce n in tower ebove the city. one forget: eli t e ietigne oi e hot, ‘ dnety dey'e trip. There in only one thin thet I regret, and thet ie thet the oethedre iecee the town end not the Rhine. .Ae it now etende the front in eurrounded with old, tumble-down etruotnree, which are so close to the towere that it ie eimoet impel- eib‘e to eecnre e View from eny dirtence. However, this in being remedied eI repidiy ee pouihie, end every yeer e ler e eppropri- etion is mede by the city, whio ie e very rich city. tor the pnrcheee end removel of these buildin e neer the oethedrei, which ere being torn own one by one end repieoed by gerdene end bede of flowere. With a Paul-3 Gin-u u Com”. YOUNG AND LOVELY FACE. A RIDE To RUSSIA. BY HENRY ll. WRIGHT. um, mu never "on looked ot hot, or ukod ho:- name. no don't-um tympothoflo. 1nd I know I Iho'nt like him.” men can do to pey some ettentlon to the child, end that men out here efull hour, with that deer, sweet baby under his very nose, and never .2"): {ooked et her. or -gL-) L__ 7.7 «011.1 don't doubt that, end I do like his nermom. But i don’t think much of him for n punter.” " Why, whet in the trouble 7" The wrath and disap intment thnt ha been increasing our noe the minister's departure broke forth. " Well, 1 don't care who a men in or how learned he la, when he oomel tomnken friendly cell nt my house, end Ihnve my baby all fixed up and brought in (or hid special benefit, I think it‘s no little u the "39! 0”! d0 t0 Div some nthntlnn on 91.. w. val- nvrl’. ' “ Why, Thule sure you would be planed with him, he in such a thouthy good und «011.1 do'n'c doubt .Fhi‘t.’ _.nd I_ do like l'l'l In'mnn- I)“; I j, pastoral culls, visited the family of 3 member of hi. church, and WM Io favornbly impressed with the Indy that he Itayod a long time. Unfortunately. he had not I 1 i i i _ mngfleflg‘iflpfif PE "3??? 09.0111 her traveller, Who is a' .n, the veteramAirieau" has written the fa , present staying in- Paris, ’ “ I do “Oh do: allowinc letter 3â€": . 5 m sterions “7‘" .pair of Stanley wet“! the ‘ze should tr m, past“ of the Baht-cl Gina-z probable. “c .m out to be Emit), which 3' prises, ca' etanley is an artist in the sur- dr-flnfi. 1‘ astrophes, and properties of a la. in f swall as in its denouemmt. He and W' .ot, a sort of geographies] Sardon. hand' can the World pulls out its cimhrio log! tar-chief he will probably come up smil- I I and ask, ‘ what the dance is the matter 1' 5‘ .m a great admirer of Stanley. He is ' mply the prince of African explorers of .his day or of any day. But as an adminis- huor 1 rank him below par, and the best proof of this is that of all the new stations he has founded on the Congo, at a cruel ex~ pense and waste of life and labour, as walks of gold, there is hardly one that has not been- abandoned and left to {all in ruins. MR. srsrthY‘s avowsn OBJECI'. . “On the present cecasion his avowed obr has distinctly and determinedly declined to be rescued, but Stanley's real object was to divert the ivory trade tram the long and ex- pensive Zu z‘bar line to the cheap and safe waterway of the C mgo. The idea is excel- lent. By this means Belgium rcconps the millions wasted upm expeditions and sta- tions. Zuz.bar also, under the unprejndic- ed annexationist, cur cousins German, can have the profit of the slave exportation; nor Would a Teuton of them all raisea hand against what brings grit to their mills. Stanley has thus, by one touch of; his t magic wand, converted the Con 0 Free State, the harpy hunting ground 0 Tippao ’ Tip and his merry Sawahili menâ€"absurdly named Antsâ€"into a Congo Slave State par excellence. The great slave mines are new transferred from the Unyamwesi coun- try, the old Mountains of the Moon, to the Upper Congo. These fresh diggings remain to be explortcd, Tippoo Tib is made gov- ernor. (God save the mark 1) of those new slave reserves, at a salary of £300 a year where he can easily make £30,000 a year, and where his followers are pretty sure to shoot him if he talks any nonsense about the abo- lition of slavery. You must not expect to to hear any truths of this kind in England, where the imperious and tyrannical opin- ion of society suhdnts even the boldest spirit. “ I do not de: m stations wh' ze should tr probabie. 5” prison, ca’ . drum}, 3 a is, in f an " Of all the cities we have seen Sb. P« r . burg is the moat bewnldering, and o 194;, scarcely be placed in a more confuw ‘ tion than to be set down Alone i 1. goals these streets. The signs are all I‘ .2 one oi course, and look like Greek w 9595“!» Of wards, while the strange long» {Elfin back- side rendere the position still .Ifib on every However, as long as one car more diflisult. can manage in some Wuy- 4 make aigue he hereafter, as thie letter tr .yut more of thin â€"â€"-.~ unit 3 ) to the mall. L‘i- ninLnâ€"A 1)-. Sir Richard Rurt' traveller, who in a' has written the fa in may be at a distance from it. Even the “droskv ” drivers, though it must necessi- tate the utmost ingenuity at times to pick their way through the crowd“! streets at the psee they go, still ere always on the lookout for the praying places, and seldom pus one without removing their hat bowiu' and _crossing themselves. -- _- uâ€"v as nuv Ill. Owl and find you are using some church. though it may be at a iatancge from in. Even the “lit-AYLn ” 11-3."..- -L___L 2- , A VERY numerous norm. There sro hundreds of churches besides the osthedrsls, sud also little buildiais {orprsyer in many places on the streets ; t .ey are very careful not; to pass one of any of them with- out the utmost reverence. You are rldin in a street car when suddenly every hut wil come off and all are crossing themselves. You look muud to_eee whstris the mutter -__1l!, 3 on every elde. Don't you believe in The laote are that he rldee ehont the etreet in an open ouriage irequently end utterly unat- tended. eXoept by hi: driver. Oi eouree there are pert: oi the city where he proba- ' hly would not venture in that way 3 and are there not in London and New York eeetione where it would not be wise for anyone to go without protletioni lie in not only one 0! the moat iearleee but kindeet h nrted of men, And it ie eaid to be a very common ocurrenee for himself and the Empreee to vieit the hcepitele and uylume entire) alone. He seem: to he very popular and hi! ieture le exhibited in almoet every window. go much for the iaete which I have been oereiul to verify. St. Peter-burg la n moat interesting cit y. The street: are very broad and well paved with atone and wood. and they are he t in a manner which would put our authorit on to the blush. The huildtnge are many of them ver tine. especial] the enthedrall. one of wh oh, that of St. one, ie magnificent. 0n ‘ either eide oi the altar are urge column of lapia lazuli not leee than thirty ioet high. and outeide of these etil' larger column. 0! malachite, four on each eide at least liity feet in height, while between theee column: ere very ler e and finely executed picturee in mosaic. he wealth of gold, eilver end precious etonee need in ornamentation one would eeereely believe without hevirg teen. The music in ell the cathedrals u very fine. There are no inetrumente in any of the Greek ehurohee, but the effect of the great choir compo-ed of men and boys in grand. The Realm are Sir Richard Br suamuxow Wl'fll GUARDS .rton‘s Opinion,