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that therefore my loiter to you would nok probably reach
ou jj Wednesday, Ur Monday [ dined with De Toe-Neville
 with a small party. Yesterday (Monday) we had
°Ur excursion to Versailles in a special train ab nine o’clock in
the morning ; about 760 were in the party, We were shown
freely over the palace, and then we went to a large hall
“allod the Tennis Court,’ in which luncheon was provided.
After it wag over, I was moved into the chair, and we
Went through the interesting little ceremony of presenting
to each of our American friends a copy of the New Testament
0 French, ag a tribute of our admiration for their zeal in
%oning go far to attend the Congress. Then we returned to
the grounds of the palace, and saw the exhibition of the
Water-works, which was really a splendid sight. A vast
rowd of French people was there, and they were exceedlngly
 good-humouréd and polite, but they seemed to be
Wible to suppress their smiles at the Guakeresses’ bonnets.
From Versailles the train carried the party to St. Cloud
to See the exhibition of the water-works there at night
Numinated.”
While Cobden was busied in this way, Mr. Bright had
Bone to study the Irish Question on the spot. He was a
Routh in the country, and was accompanied for part of the
binge by one of the Commissioners of the Board of Works.
Hig inquiries were extousive and incessant, and what he had
%id about Irish affairs in some of his speeches secured for
him particular attention on every side. Mr. Bright speedily
Put his finger upon the root of the mischief, What was uni-Vorsally
 demanded; he said, was security for improvements.
Want, of this was the canse of perpetual war between landlord
 and tenant. In order to remove the evil, he agreed

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® Tue famous scene of ous of the most memorable incidents of the first
age in the French Revolution. Strange contrast between the mad agitation
nd furious resoive of the Oath of tha Tennis Court, and this pacifie
Dlegentation of Now Testaments to the American Onakera 1