Barthe, ex-Minister, first President (of the Cour de Comptes).

Many ages, however, had elapsed, since its first institution, when the Father Abbot de Rancé, the celebrated reformer of his time, determined to become a member, whose singular history and conversion was the subject of a poem by Monsieur Barthe.

It was truly a famous barThe Auraand it deserved its fame.

Colonel De Barthe, secretary of military affairs in the cabinet of the viceroy, to whom I was sent for information on this subject, said: "The lives of the British soldiers in India are very tedious and trying, especially during the hot summers, which, in the greater part of the empire, last for several months.

"You cannot prevent men from drinking any more than you can prevent them from swearing or indulging in any other vice," continued Colonel De Barthe, "but you can diminish the amount of vice by judicious measures, and that we believe is being done by our institutes, with their libraries, reading-rooms, lunch-rooms, cafes, amusement-rooms, bars, theaters for concerts, lectures and amateur dramatic performances.

THE BARTHE MASTER OF THE ROLLS.

Howe got over the difficulty by passing his thread, on its way to the needle, over the upper extremity of the needle barthe ascent of the bar, then, sufficed to pull up the slack.

About here we usually only see two of themthe two that are now down on the barthe American Crow and the Fish Crow.

Casimir Perrier bowed his head over the paper that lay before him, in order to conceal his mirth, and minister Barthe availed himself of the opportunity to give a proof of his eloquence and of his severity, by observing that a law existed against the duchess, and that a law was a sacred thing that no one should be permitted to evade.

At others they swayed gently to and fro, like tree tops in a breeze; and when he sat down, the oldest at the barthe President on the benchfelt that it was among the best speeches they had ever heard, if not the best.