1850.
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LIFE OF COBDEH. [ox

fortable dinner at six. At nine o’clock the boat was obliged
50 leave the harbour, and cast anchor outside to save the tide:
We went aboard with our luggage, and for npwards of tW0
hours we were rocking at anchor in a heavy swell. I lay do®n
on my back in the cabin (for there were no berths), which, 88
soon ag the mail-train arrived at eleven with the passengers
was full of people, and I never had a moro uncomfortable
night. Ilay in one posture till we had fairly cast anchor in ho
port of Ostend, with my bones and flesh aching 28 if I
had been beaten. On opening my eyes and sitting oP I
found that my next neighbour was Count A——, Who bad
passed a terrible night, and who looked anything bub the
Adonis he strives to appear in the drawing-room. We
started from Ostend at seven o’clock in the morning, and
got to Cologne at nine at night, where we found ourselves
with all the discomfort of reaching a strange town withou®
knowing the language, and the little contretemps ab the
baggage-office upset my temper. The trials of my tempe”
were increased when, on driving with an omnibus-load of
fellow-passengers to the best hotel, we found there nob ®
bed to be had, and so we had to hunt about the town ill
nearly ten o’clock, when we took refuge in a not first-rate
hotel; the dining-room, where we took a cup of *%
was filled with Germans, with beards on their chins and
pipes in their mouths, playing cards and dominoes. Hovever,
 a night’s rest has restored my equanimity agail-The
 crowd of travellers, particularly English, exceeds all
past experience. It is lucky for me that I have a comfor br
able reception awaiting me at Frankfort.”
“ Frankfort, Aug. 23. ( ,, )—We yesterday held our first
sitting of the Congress, in the same place where the Germas
Parliament assembled. It is a large church of a sem”
circular form, newly fitted up and decorated with flags, and
capable of holding 3000 persons. It was well filled during