THE RHINE.

DOMESTIC MANNEES OF TUE PEUSSIANS.

The surest way to make an Englishman love his country is tosend him out of it.

At home, John Bull is so proud of the liberty of grumbling,that he delights in cxercising the glorious bilious privilegewhenever his dinner has disagreed with him.

A true-born Briton gives vent to his indignation and indiges-tion in national abuse of the cabinet ministers, and growls aloudfor " the right inen in the right places." We groan audibly inthe "Times" under the pressure of the income-tax. We cryout lustily from the platform at the number of our placemen,and raise our voices as patriotic, "constant readers," againstthe jobbery, bribery, and corruption that we declare to pre-vail throughout the land. The British labourer, it is said, is" crushcd under the chariot-wheels of a Juggernaut oligarchy;"and in no country, we are assured, are the poor so multi-tudinous, so pitiable, and yet so despised and neglected, aswith us.

But two hours' sea-sickness, and the cloud of discontent isfor ever dispelled from our brain. Once across the Channel,

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