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men of the "Mite" in the pink silk mantilla and grubby whitekid gloves, dines off horseflesh in the winter; and that littlegirl in short sleeves and lace drawers, and large flappingTuscan hat, has the dirt showing through her yellow hair(tbr \ve noticed her but yesterday playing on a door-step),positively as tliick as the crust npon an old Stilton cheese.

Again, those who can pinch a sufficient number of groschensout of the stomachs of themselves or their servants, retire tothe saline gaieties of Ems, and there they walk bareheadedabout the streets at noon, with their hair dressed as if for aball; or eise they dine at the table d'hute with bare neck andShoulders, at one in the day, and having shaken their stiff-starched muslin flounces to the sound of the band among thegay invalids in the gardens by the Colonnade, betake them-selves in the evening to the play-table, to risk their couple ofShillings at the wretched avarice of roulette: for the habitof gambling, that even in Paris was confined to professional" lorettes," is in Germany indulged in by people who are saidto rank as "ladies" in the land.

Indeed it is an apt Illustration of the state of civilisation inGermany, that gambling, which is forbidden by England andFrance, is not only permitted by the German authorities, buteven encouraged by some of the beggarly princes, who dineat the tables d'hote, like arch-tempters, to seduce people totheir "hells." In all the cafes and beer-houses, cards are inno way prohibited; and even at the hoteis, icarti or piquetare commenced the very instant the dessert is placed on thetable.

Now there are but two ways of making money in the world,the slow and the quick,—the former is the process of patientindustry, the latter that of hasty speculation; and it is the rule,that whereas the one almost invariably succeeds in compassing

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