JULES FAVRE writes, under cover of confidence, to the prefect here, that since the interview of which I gave you an account he has had a severe attack of gumboils, and despairs of softening the heart of BISMARCK.

he's a doctor down at Winnipeg, but he's all gone to politics; he was out night after night makin' speeches, and he had a young fellow lookin' after his practice who wouldn't know a corn from a gumboil only they grow in different places.

" George, my dear old school-chum, with the V.C., and his wife tells me of it as casually as if it had been a gumboil!

He's got a gumboil on one side of his face and he has been stung by a wasp on the other.