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eagle raised on a flag-staff, and made out of the hardestwood—the forester who brings down tlie last fragment ofthe bird being the king for the ensuing year, and carriedhome in triumph at night with music and torches.*

Another festive ctistom with the Coblenzers consists inpassing the night on the summit of the " Kuhkopf]" so as tosee .the sun rise, on the morning of Whit-Monday. In theyear 1855, the proprietor of one of the " restaurations" pro-vided a supper and breakfast on the hill-top for the ephemeralmountaineers, and the night was passed, we were told, in riotand drunkenness.f

It is but fair, however, to State, that whatever may bethe national failings of the Prussian people, intemperanceappears to be far less common with them than with us—thatis to say, drunken men are seldom or never seen in the streets.lf

* Here is the advertisement for the entertainment:—

SHOOTING-FEAST AT COBLENZ.Monday, 30th June, at Three in the Afternoon.

CONTINUATION OF THE

TÄKtSIT^gKlOOTIMtS W@U I^®YÄL Kl©K!®ty)[&l ßM©

Accompanied with Grand Hakmont, and a Ball in the Evening in the ShootingTent, in addition to a display ofGRAND FIREWORKS.At the conclusion of which the Name and Titles of the distinguished Patronswill be splendidly displayed in brilliant fire.

The Directors of the Coblenz Shooting-Society.

f Here is an advertisement of a similar festivity in Sayn :—

Whitsuntide, Sunday and Monday.— Harmony and Dancing, with Refresh-ment, on the Summit of Freidrichsberg. Commended to the notice of the Public.

P. Ball, Tavern-keeper in Sayn.

J This surface-sohriety, however, is mere appearance, after all, for statisticsprove the Preussen to be just four times as drunken as our own people. Theannual consumption of spirits throughout Prussia amounts to between 40 and45 million gallons Englisli, whereas the entire quantity of British and foreign