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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF TUE rRUSSIANS.

positions extracted from liis writings. In a word, what wasproposed to be a simple Conference, now assumed the aspectof a trial and grave proceeding. A copy of the charges wasfurnished him, but, as usual at such proceedings, he wasdenied an advocate.

Now let us proceed to inspect the old Coneilium's Saal,where the great ecclesiastical Diet, before which John Husswas arraigned, held its sittings.

The steel engraving represents the end of the buildingnext the Ober-Mauer, along which we have to pass on ourway to and from the old Dominican Kloster.

Let us cross the little bridge leading to the harbour, atthe end of which the Saal Stands, and so obtain a nearer viewof the building. You perceive it gives you the notion, as wesaid, of an old Swiss barn; the steep and almost pyramidalroof is set with kind of pigeon-house-like attics at thecorners, and immediately beneath the eaves, there hangs adeep valance, as it were, of old brown wood, and which indeedconstitutes the main peculiarity of the building.

As we stroll round the walls we find at the back a boardinscribed, for the guidance of sight-seers, with the followingnotice in two languages:— "Auf diesen Conciliurris Saal istder Eingang vornen" (the entrance to the Concilium's Saal isat the front).

On reaching the said entrance we perceive another poly-glot notice over the arched doorway, running as follows: —

Concilium's Saal.Samlung geschichtlicher denkwürdigkeiter.

And beneath this is painted an English translation in the fol-lowing words, " Gallery of Remarkables Antiquities."

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