Everybody looked gayFrench people so dearly love a showand it was amusing to see the interest every one took in the steady stream of people, from the fashionable woman driving to the Bois in her victoria to the workmen, who would stand in groups on the corners of the streetssome of them occasionally with a child on their shoulders.

One a gorgeously coloured print of the lamented Queen Victoria in a deep gold frame, and the other a representation of an entrancing allegorical theme entitled "The Two Paths," illustrating the ascent of the saint into heaven and the descent of the sinner into hell.

At 10.0 a.m. left the principal camp on the Victoria with a party consisting of Messrs. H. Gregory, Elsey, and Dr. Mueller, Robert Bowman, Charles Dean, and J. Melville, seven saddle and twenty-seven pack horses, conveying five months' provisions of salt pork and meat biscuits, and six months' supply of flour, tea, sugar, coffee, etc., twenty-six pounds of gunpowder, sixty pounds bullets, 1 hundredweight shot, 5000 caps, etc.

An extreme view of the effect upon population may be obtained from a comparison of the statistics of Victoria at the close of the years 1850 and 1855 respectively.

But the crowning honour was graciously conferred upon me by her late Majesty Queen Victoria on January 1, 1899, through the then Marquis of Salisbury, who signified that her Majesty intended to raise me to the peerage.

Himself married to the fervently religious Princess Sophie of Nassau, the king brought about the marriage of his oldest son, Crown Prince Adolphus, the present king of Sweden, to Princess Victoria of Bade, a granddaughter of Emperor William of Germany, and a great-granddaughter of Gustavus IV of Sweden.

"Would you find out for me, please, when the next train leaves Victoria for Horleydene?"

I came up to-day with VICTORIA from Balmoral.

She characterized Aunt Victoria as a mean old thing, an epithet for which she was not reproved, her mother sitting quite absent and absorbed in the letter.

This is the document addressed by the municipality of Brussels to Queen Victoria after that intervention: The great and noble people over whose destinies you preside have just given a further proof of its benevolent sentiments towards this country.

Lucy had less veneration for the name of Queen Victoria than for that of Schomberg.

They followed up the course of the Fitzmaurice River and then passed over rough country, not reaching the Victoria until the 17th.

I am, therefore, in hope that the party will be able to leave the Victoria before the expiration of the ensuing month.