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sides, is exactly like the lower deck of a ship, and gives onethe notion, as the horses' feet tramp on the boards with tliosame hollow sound as thcy do on the stage of a theatre, thatwe are travelling in a mail-coach from end to end of tlie" orlop " of the " Great Eastern."

Tlien, as the diligence darts into the lieht at the otherextremity, the sunbeams flash in the eyes with the sameblinding brillianee as they do when issuing from a railway-tnnnel, and the horses begin to labour up the equally steephill on the opposite shore — the village dwindling and dwind-ling below as the vehicle ascends.

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BüBIED ALIYE — FlINEBALS----AND TlME OF MoUBMNG.

A country e.hurchyard in England, with its long rankgrass, half-hiding the heavy stone tablets on the ground — withits dilapidated and tumble-down headstones, to graves thatare barely a score of years old — would lead the foreigner toconclude that we were a nation that cared hut little for onrdead; whereas the trim garden-like character of a Parisiancemetery, where every grave is a flower-bed—and where yousee the toys of the lost children enshrined in glass-cases at thehead of their little tombs—where you can teil, too, by thedifferent tints of the wreaths of " immortelles," (passing bygentle gradations, from the bright yellow chaplet of almost