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Arrived and arrested at Varennes in the ArJune 21. - Started at midnight from Paris. gonne at II P.M.

June 22. Departure from Varennes at five or six in the morning; breakfasted at SainteMénéhould; arrived at Châlons at ten; supped and slept there.

June 23.-The mass was interrupted in or

Louis XVI., when quietly noting down | were massacred. The affair, however, the facts of his life, never dreamed that did not make much noise in Paris at the they were leading up to a great tragedy. time, and the people who were sipping This is the way in which he chronicled coffee on the Boulevards heard naught of political events-"Departure of the Abbé the matter till next day. Terray. Bed of justice at Paris; dined On the 20th of June, 1791, occurs at La Muette; slept at Versailles. March" Nothing," though his Majesty must 20, 1778, presentation of deputies from have been very busy making preparations America." In April, 1781, "Comedy, re- to fly in the direction of Metz, and his treat of M. Necker," and so on. A good army, where Bouillé was waiting for deal is said about the weather, which was him. His attempted escape is thus often so bad as to prevent the King from briefly jotted down: going out to hunt or shoot, though even when it was fine his Majesty now and then had what would certainly be reckened nowadays poor sport. On the 3rd of October, 1791, we find that he slaughtered three pheasants. In November, 1784, a squirrel; on another day, three squirrels; an another, one fox; and on the 20th of March, 1783, a dog. His Majesty also shot swallows, and on the 28th of June, 1784, he is credited with having killed 200 of these birds; but this is probably a misprint, as on no other day does he seem to have killed more than a dozen. The word "rien" often occurs in the diary, and in the most ridiculous manner. Thus, the King writes: "Nothing; remonstrances of Parliament." "Nothing; oaths of M. de Malesherbes." "Nothing; illness of my youngest daughter, which prevented me from hunting. Nothing; death of M. de Maurepas." "Nothing; death of my mother-in-law, the Empress Maria Theresa." "Nothing; sermon," &c. The explanation is that "rien meant simply that there was no hunting or shooting, and when this was the case his Majesty felt grieved.

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In July, 1790, when as Carlyle would say, things were growing shrill, the King wrote: -" 19th. Reviewed federals and troops of the line at l'Etoile; dined at four; hunted the deer at the Cross of Montmorin. 29th. Nothing; my aunts came to dinner; had a face-ache. August 1st. Mass at home. 2nd and 3rd. Idem. 4th. Medicine; hunted at the Cross of Montmorin. 6th. Nothing; Vichy waters. 28th. Medicine; end of Vichy waters; mass as usual." March began badly. "4th. Nothing; began to get fever. 5th. Nothing. 6th. Took an emetic; mass in my bed; got up afterwards."

We should have mentioned that on the 14th of July, 1789, the King entered the simple word " Nothing," though it was upon that date that the Bastile fell, and that old De Launay and its defenders

der to hasten the departure; breakfasted at Châlons, dined at Epernay; found the Commissioners from the Assembly at the Binson gate. Arrived at eleven at Dormans; supped there and slept for three hours in an armchair.

June 24.1 Left Dormans at half-past seven; dined at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre; reached Meaux at eleven; supped and slept at the bishop's palace.

June 25.-Quitted Meaux; arrived at Paris without stopping at eight o'clock.

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June 26. Nothing at all. Conference with some whey. the Commissioners of the Assembly. I took

The King noted down with great minuteness his personal expenditure, and all his gains and losses at play are carefully recorded. On one occasion he appears to have lost with his associates 36,000 livres at lansquenet at Marli, and on the whole his Majesty was not a winner: probably he did not cheat at cards as Napoleon did after him. His household expenditure is chronicled in a way which would have made Frederick the Great jealous. We find 12 sous for a watch-glass, 7 sous for sending a watch to Paris, 2 livres 14 sous for greasing a postchaise, I livre 16 sous for a corkscrew. The most prominent item for the table is pork, and there are days when his Majesty must have devoured black-pudding wholesale. If Louis XVI. was careful, however, in registering unimportant items, that did not hinder money from being spent at Versailles with a prodigality that baffled the resources of even De Calonne's fertile mind. The King's civil list was considerably larger than that of the English monarch, and his Majesty's brothers were always dipping their fingers into the Treasury. The Comte de Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII., one day re

ceived 200,000 livres, on another 450,000; j wards betrayed where the iron chest was and 5,000,000 was invested to furnish him concealed, often occurs, and his Majesty with an income of 500,000 livres, which gave the son 3,000 livres to set him up in appears to have been insufficient, as he business. Louis XVI. also seems to afterwards received 1,800,000 more. The have paid large sums for diamonds for Comte d'Artois, afterwards Charles X., the Queen to Bohmer, who parted with was even more prodigal than his brother, the celebrated diamond necklace to the and the King's aunts received consider- Cardinal de Rohan. Another curious able sums out of the Treasury. entry not explained is 12,000 livres Madame de Cavaignac for her son!

There are a few items in the King's private expenditure worth noticing; for instance, various sums of money given to Beaumarchais, whose "Mariage de Figaro" hurried on the Revolution and was disapproved by the King. The name of Gamain, the King's locksmith, who after-nate King in popular esteem.

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This diary was in all probability simply meant as a book of reference for private use; but though that circumstance may be remembered, the publication of his diary will not fail to lower the unfortu

spect of the vicious or depraved qualities of his nature. There is in the latter case far more scope for oratorical candour, and we can conceive few more embarrassing positions than that occupied by the correspondent of the Orcadian at Walls on "Sabbath, the 2nd of March." On that occasion the Rev. Mr. Keillor, the minister of the parish, introduced into one of his prayers the following "special petition," which the unfortunate correspondent reports "as nearly verbatim" as he can remember :- May that person in our midst,” prayed the Rev. Mr. Keillor, "who has from time to time been sending forth unsought-for tidings to the public, be restored to his right frame of mind, and released from that state of mental derangement which makes him seek after pub

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SCOLDING. Scolding is mostly a habit. There is not much meaning to it. It is often the result of nervousness, and an irritable condition of both mind and body. A person is tired, or annoyed at some trivial cause, and forthwith commences finding fault with everything and everybody in reach. Scolding is a habit very easily formed. It is astonishing how soon one who indulges in it at all becomes addicted to it and confirmed in it. It is an unreasoning and unreasonable habit. Persons who once get into the way of scolding always find something to scold about. If there is nothing else, they fall a-scolding at the mere absence of anything to scold at. It is an extremely disagreeable habit. It is contagious. Once introduced into a family, it is pretty certain in a short time to affect all the members.lic notoriety. May he be granted that characPeople in the country more readily fall into the habit of scolding than people in town. Women contract the habit more frequently than men. This may be because they live more frequently in the house, in a confined and heated atmosphere, very trying to the nervous system and the health in general; and it may be, partly, that their natures are more susceptible and their sensitiveness more easily wounded."

THE practice of preaching at a member of the congregation is, it is said, not altogether unknown among the English clergy, but the power exercised by them in this respect is evidently as nothing compared to that possessed by their brethren the Presbyterians. The custom of extempore prayer places in the hands of the Scotch minister a still more effective weapon than that wielded by the Anglican clergyman, inasmuch as it must be less painful to a hearer to be preached at than to be made the subject of a prayer of intercession in re

ter which he would make us believe that he possesses, but appears to be devoid of," &c. At this point, the correspondent of the Orcadian appears to have ceased taking a shorthand report of the reverend gentleman's prayer, but from the extract already given it seems to have been a most able and damaging supplication, doing great credit to the Rev. Mr. Keillor's powers of invective. The only objection we know of to the employment of public prayer as a medium for these attacks is that the object of them might at the conclusion of the prayer retaliate by a slashing "response," and the proceedings of divine service might then perhaps assume too much the appearance of a parliamentary debate.

Pall Mall.

MR. CARLYLE is reported to have spoken of the Dublin University Bill as "an amorphous botch, out of which nothing endurable can ever be made." Pall Mall.

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Had not the teacher an empire strange,
The lesson a magic might,

That thus I remember through wrong and

change,

Through treachery, chill, and blight?

Ah! the sapphire still glows, though faith is fled,

The ruby is blushing that hope is dead,
And why, when the Love's last dirge is said,
Should the diamond gleam so bright?

And has, indeed, no shadow past
O'er the glittering toy you hold?
The gems the same as you saw them last,
The same the burnished gold,
And yet you glance from it to me,
As if the clue to a riddle to see;
For how should the pledge on the finger be,
When the heart to the troth is cold?

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Nay, hush man's proud impetuous thought,
Man's jealous spirit quell;

It was but with woe and folly fraught, else-Our wild youth's first love-spell.

Soft giiding of the years that are not years,
Eternal spaces:·
:-not like those our sighs
Note as they pass, while, fast as bubbles fly,
Days come and days go by.

THE RING.

People's Magazine.

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Let friendly hands clasp cordially, And friendly eyes meet fearlessly And friendly tones say earnestly, "So be it, it is well."

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From Blackwood's Magazine.
EXPLORATIONS. PART II.

the bed of the Jordan. It is about twelve and a quarter miles long from north to south, and at its broadest part six and three quarter miles wide from east to west. But its width is by no means regular, its shape being that of a pear or a leg of mutton, the broadest part toward the north, and the more projecting side toward the west, the eastern shore

THE pleasure which we promised ourselves when recently concluding a paper on the Surveys of the Holy Land, we now realize, as there is an opportunity afforded of giving some account of the examination of the Sea of Galilee by the Engineer expedition. On the shores of this sea our Lord was "in His own coun-being by comparison straight, except try," for Nazareth is only about twenty near the lower end. It is full of fish. Its miles from the part of the water nearest waters, thick and muddy at the extreme to it: the sea washes the district in north, become clear and bright as they which His youth and the greatest part of approach its narrow end; for Jordan, His manhood were passed; for He was which flows into it a foul stream, leaves only an occasional visitor to Jerusalem. the lake a pure and sweet river. The A large proportion of the scenes depict- surface is from 600 to 700 feet below the ed in the Gospels occurred on this lake level of the Mediterranean. The climate or on its shores, or in the immediate is genial in winter, and not excessively neighbourhood of them. If the hills and hot in summer. With shores that rise valleys, and towns, and strands, and but gently, in most parts, from the basin, waters, and fields, and rocks of this and whose colour is uniformly brown favoured region could give their testi- where seen above the foliage at their mony, they would furnish tales on which bases, the scenery would be tame were it millions of minds would hang with rap- not for the fine hills, including the snowy ture; and the "many other things which tops of Hermon, which can be seen all Jesus did, the which, if they should be round through the transparent ether, and written every one, I suppose that even for the innumerable effects of light and the world itself could not contain the shade. Shrubs and blossoms add to the books that should be written," would be beauty of the coasts, which vary continmade manifest for our edification. That ually, being sometimes backed by broad wisdom of which we inherit but a few plains, showing at others the openings of pages was being poured forth daily for long gorges, and elsewhere, especially to years in the parts of Zebulon and Naph-the north, being broken into many and tali; those parables of which we know charming bays. Volcanic action appears but a selection were narrated plentifully to be energetic: there are hot springs in around the famous lake; that beneficence the basin of the lake, and very serious of which we long for further instances earthquakes occur. Wild boar are to be had here its chief exercise,- for it was found on a plain to the north-east. in this region principally that our Lord Those who have formed a mental pic"went about doing good." There can- ture of this sea, so often recurring in not be a mile of ground here which is not sacred story- as who in childhood has a field of interest—not a village nor a not? — have, no doubt, imagined a water highway but what we can believe to have covered with ships and boats, resounding received the impress of his feet, or with the cries of sailors and fishermen, have echoed to his voice. The construc- and flanked by many proud cities rich in tion, therefore, of an accurate map of the merchandise and glorious to the sight. country, will be hailed universally with Alas for such visions! the cities and the satisfaction, and the researches of the men and the traffic were there, but they map-makers will, we are sure, be ardently | have disappeared so completely that the followed.

The Sea of Galilee, or the Sea of Tiberias, or Lake of Gennesareth, is a sheet of water formed by the expansion of

waters of the lake may be said to sleep amid a solitude. As for the famous cities, of most of them it cannot be said with certainty where they were, and this

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