Christian Churches who do nothing more than maintain those privileges which belong by Divine inheritance, Apostolic Order, and Evangelic Truth, to every Church of Christendom.

M. Bautain listened very patiently to the statement of these and some other facts connected with the Anglican Church, and also to some observations, from Scripture and early Ecclesiastical History, upon the question of the primacy of St. Peter; but he seemed to have more respect for modern Romanism than for ancient Catholicity. To my allegation of St. Cyprian's practice and language with respect to Pope Stephanus, as a proof of Cyprian's opinion on this matter, he replied somewhat naïvely, "Ce n'est pas ce que St. Cyprien a fait de mieux"."

His frankness of language showed me the feeling with which the Church of England is regarded by Romish theologians; and however much they may wish for advances in their direction from England, certain, I think, it is that they are wholly indisposed to make any approaches whatever towards us, and this, simply because in their minds we are not only heretics but are unworthy of the name of Christians. One of the last words addressed to me here by M. Bautain was an earnest wish that England might become Christian. It is true that his colleague, M. Goschler, added Catholique, as by way of substitution ;

7 See Note to p. 142, at end.

but this was the language of courtesy, the other of unqualified sincerity. It is useless to disguise matters; some good may arise from a statement of the truth. It is much to be desired, that as the French, even the learned, read so little English, there were some work written in French which would give them clearer notions than they now possess of the history and constitution of the English Church.

Sunday, August 25.-After a comfortable night's rest I took my leave of the college of Juilly at seven o'clock this morning; the weather was now fine, and the park looked very beautiful, and the more so after the rain of yesterday, which had confined me almost entirely within the walls. Reached Paris for Morning Service at the English Church, in the Rue d'Aguesseau, where I met Dr. Jarvis of New York in the vestry; he read the prayers in the morning and preached in the afternoon.

Monday, August 26.-Went by the chemin de fer, rive droite of the Seine, to Versailles; had the pleasure of falling in again with Dr. Jarvis, and travelling with him in the same carriage: he was shortly about to leave France to attend the Convention of the Clergy in America, which will derive additional interest from the theological questions that have recently arisen in the American Church. He seems full of hope with respect to the Church in that country.

There was a fair at Versailles, and all the usual

attendants of dancers and charlatans with miraculous medicaments for all kinds of disorders; one mountebank in an Asiatic dress, with a magnificent carriage and horses, and trumpeters seated on the roof of his carriage, attracted a great crowd to listen to the wondrous feats wrought by an aromatic salve (brought from Egypt by his father), on patients of every description. He operated on two labouring men taken out of the crowd, and, as far as appearances went, with immediate success on the first; we left him manipulating the other.

After a visit to some friends at Versailles, we returned by the same route. Had with us in our train carriage a Curé of a country village, who was very communicative, but did not give me a very favourable impression of his professional sensibilities; he spoke of the fearful accident which occurred not long since on the railroad of the rive gauche, when upwards of a hundred people were absolutely burnt to ashes in consequence of the attachment, to the end of the train, of a more powerful engine than that at the head of it; the doors of all the carriages being locked. He had seen the train and all its wretched accompaniments almost immediately after the catastrophe, which, it will be remembered, occurred on a Sunday, a day when the grand water-works at the palace at Versailles played; but he seemed to regard the event as little more than a natural consequence of want of mechanical skill, experience, and presence

of mind, which it would be very easy to acquire in time. The religious and moral uses of such awful dispensations did not seem to occur to his mind, nor indeed to meet with any response when presented to it.

Dined in the evening in the Champs-Elysées. Among our company we had an American lady and gentleman, very wealthy, and great travellers; this gentleman mentioned to me a book lately published by Madden, in London, as containing a great deal of very valuable statistical information concerning France. I had heard before that American ladies ▲ have lately taken to smoking, but never had personal experience of the fact till this evening: while the American gentleman was smoking his cigar without compunction in our host's salle à manger, (much to our annoyance,) his wife and her young friend were regaling the ladies in a similar manner on the terrace of the drawing-room. A young lady said to them very frankly, that, after this exhibition, she should believe all that Mrs. Trollope had written concerning America. These two American ladies were young and good-loooking; this novel accomplishment did not add much to their charms.

Our English friends, who have resided here for some time, seem to have a very unfavourable opinion of French education, both for boys and girls. The

The title is," France and her Governmental Administration," 10s. 6d. London, Madden.

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usual practice for French parents is to bring forward their children as much and as fast as possible, by associating them with grown-up people, and conforming them to their ways and habits. Thus you see children of five or six years old taking their meals with their parents, faring on the same food, at the same late hours, and listening to their conversation, -sometimes not very edifying-and stimulated to take a part in it, and to show how spirituels they are. Hence arises premature independence and insubordination in children, and impatience of parental authority. I have heard it said that another consequence of this encouragement of display in children is a great disregard for truth; cleverness and show of wit in their offspring being preferred by their parents to veracity.

The legal degradation of marriage to a civil contract has led to its natural results: as a proof of this degradation, it may be mentioned, that it is penal in France for the priest to pronounce the nuptial benediction before the marriage has been celebrated by the civil authorities! see for example the case of the curé of Frêche, September, 1830, who was fined for so doing. Such is now the liberty of the French Church! separated from the State in theory, it is subject to the worst kind of State-domination in practice, in this and in numerous other respects.

To say, however, one word more about marriage: as the boys of French families are retained in thral