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Commission Avas previously submitted to the leaders of the democratic party , and all those who were supposed to be disaffected were exchanged . I cannot but suppose the ministry Avatch with a zealous eye all those Avho arrive in

London from this country , ancl more especially those who are under the patronage of the Duke of Orleans . His physician , a German , Avhose name is Seve or Seive , has returned to Paris within these feAV clays . The object of his mission was to prevail on

the fugitive to return , but his courage is , luckily for the world , not equal to his wickedness , ancl he dares not brave the ' indignation of the honest part of the capital . Caloime will not in the moment succeed .

I am convinced the Democrates Avould not regret his recall , but the popular hatred is yet too strong . Perhaps they were onl y willing to alarm Neckar , and see what effect the idea of his disgrace Avould produce on the public .

I cannot help continuing in the same opinion that I first held , that there will be partial troubles and general anarchy for some time to come , but that the general position of affairs is not likel y to be changed by other means than the resolutions of another legislature .

Friday , past 5 o ' clock . The Assembly have decreed upon the king ' s letter , that they regretted not being able to yield to his Majesty ' s desires , but they see no reason to depart from their previous resolutions , Mirabeau proposed

that no letters or propositions should for the future be received from the king . Valenciennes and the nei ghbouring country are a prey to the most dreadful disorders . There has been a trifling riot to-day amongst the Avorkmeu , Avhich Avas suppressed without difficulty or bloodshed .

Letter of the French King , to the President of the National Assembly , March the 25 th , 1790 . "Je suis surpris , Monsieur que 1 'Assemble Nationale n ' ait jias encore mis doliberation a la proposition faite de . ma

part par le premier Ministre des Finances relotivement a tin Bureau de Tresore dont en je choiserois la pin partdes membres dans l'Assemble . Je crois cette disposition

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aussi utile que pressante et je A * demands de ne pas differerir la presenter a la deliberation de l'Assemble . ( Signed ) Louis . " ( To be continued . )

What Happened At A Christmas Gathering.

WHAT HAPPENED AT A CHRISTMAS GATHERING .

BY THE 0 P 1 LUS TOJILINSON . CHAPTER I . I AM getting an oldish youth now , but have not quite lost , happily for myself , all " sentiment . " It is a very bad thing for

anyone to lose his " sentiment , " because he becomes dry and hard , and callous , and cynical— -indifferent alike to the charms of sympathy , or the attractions of the beautiful . We come across , however , constantl y that kindly disposition and that genial

temperament Avhich are so comel y in themselves , especially in elderly people , and Avhich make us all keenly sensible of all that is loAung and " leal ; " of all that is fresh and fair , of all that is tender and true , in this rough battle of life .

Whenever you encounter such a person —Avhether an old boy or an old " gal permeated , " as the swell writer says , by an " emotional psychology , "—cultivate him or her at once . Depend upon it your time will not be thrown awaynor your

, pains in A ain . NOAV , I have not said this to puff myself . I am neither " laudator temporis acti "—at least not too much so—nor

egotistical m any degree , but I merely think it well , for special and Aveighty reasons me thereto moving , to praise " sentiment , " because it is a main ingredient in this little story . I am like the eloquent speaker , AVIIO said once in

proposing " The Ladies" ( AA'hat stuff men Avill talk about women Avhen they have a chance ) , " Sir , the man Avithout sentiment is like a flat bottle of Bass ! " There is a good deal of force , if not truth , in this illustrationcommon-place and sensual as

, it may appear to some . It Avould possibly horrify Sir Wilfred Lawson , but pace that excellent man—though not a beerdrinker myself—I believe that it is » generally admitted truth that a bottle o >