horses are low and thick, and like all strong. They will make a stage of of this make, very sready, sure, and thirty miles without a bait, and will eat the coarsest food. From some indications of former habits about my own horse, I was several times led to conclude, that he had been more accustomed to feed about the lanes, and live on his wits, as it were, than in any settled habitation, either meadow or stable. I never had a brute companion to which I took a greater fancy.

substantially. Poultry, chestnuts, milk, and dried fruit, formed their daily support. "We never buy meat," said she, because we can raise more poultry than we can sell."

in war as well as in peace, and had no reputation either for honesty of industry; that she had no visiting society at Calais, and never went to the town' hut on household business; that the price of every thing had doubled within four years, but that the plenty, and the successes of the Emperor, were bringing every thing to their for mer standard; that her father paid very moderate taxes; her brother stated about five Louis annually; but they differed in this point. The house was of that size and order, which in England would have paid at least thirty pounds, and added to this was a domain of between sixty and seventy ar pents.

The gentleman to whom I had brought a letter of introduction was at Paris; but I saw his son, to whom I was therefore compelled to introduce myself. The young man lamented much that his father was from home, and that he could not receive me in a manner which was suitable to a gentleman of my appearance. All these things are matter of course to all Frenchmen, who are never at a loss for civility and terms of endearment. A young English gentleman of the same age with this youth (about nineteen,) The dinner, whether in compliment would either have affronted you by his to me, or that things have now all ta-? sulky reserve, or compelled you as a ken this turn in France, was in submatter of charity to leave him, to re- stance so completely English, and lease him from blushing and stammer- served up in a manner so English, as ing. On the other hand, young Tan- almost to call forth an exclamation tuis and myself were intimate in the surprise. When we enter a new coun moment after our first introduction. try, we so fully expect to find everyt thing new, as to be surprised at almost any necessary coincidence. This chaut racteristic difference is rapidly wearing off in every kingdom in Europe. A couple of fowls, a rice-pudding, and at small chine, composed our dinner. It was served in a pretty kind of china, and with silver forks. The cloth was removed as in England, and the table? covered with dried fruits, confectionary, and coffee; a tall silver epergne supporting small bottles of capillaire, and sweetmeats in cut glass. The fruits were in plates very tastily painted in landscape by Mademoiselle; and at the top and bottom of the table was a silver image of Vertumnus and Po mona, of the same height with the epergne in the centre. The covering of the table was a fine deep green cloth, spotted with the simple flower. called the double daisy,

Upon entering the house, and a parlour opening upon a lawn in the back part, I was introduced to Mademoiselle his sister, a beautiful girl, a year, or perhaps more, younger than her brother. She rose from an English piano as I entered, whilst her brother introduced me with a preamble, which he rolled off his tongue in a moment. A refreshment of fruit, capillaire, and a sweet wine, of which I knew not the name, was shortly placed before me, and the young people conversed with me about England and Calais, and whatever I told them

of my

y own concerns, with as much ease and apparent interest, as if we had been born and lived in the same village.

Mademoiselle informed me that the people in Calais had no character at all; that they were fishermen and smug glers, which last business they carried on

Besides the fallow, they manure for wheat. The manure in the immediate vicinity of Calais is the dung of the stable-keepers and the filth of that town. The rent of the land around Calais, within the daily market of the town, is as high as sixty livres; but beyond the circuit of the town, is about twenty livres (sixteen shillings.) Since the settlement of the Governinent, the price of land has risen; twenty Louis an acre is now the average price in the purchase of a large farm. There are no tithes, but a small rate for the officiating minister. Labourers earn thirty sous per day (about fifteen-pence English) and women, in picking stones, &c. half that sum. Rents, since the Revolution, are all in money; but there are some instances of personal service, and which are held to be le

I am the more particular in this description, as the dinner was thus served, and the table thus appointed, without any apparent preparation, as if it was all in their due and daily course. Indeed, I have had occasion frequently to observe, that the French ladies infinitely excel those of every other nation in these minor elegancies; in a cheap and tasteful simplicity, and in giving a value to indifferent things in a manner peculiar to themselves. Mademoiselle left us after the first cup af coffee, saying, that she had heard that it was a custom in England, that gentlemen should have their own conversation after dinner. I endeavoured to turn off a compliment in the French style upon this observation; but felt extremely awkward, upon foundering in the middle of it, for want of more familiar acquaintance with the langu-gal even under the present state of age. Monsieur, her brother, perceived my embarrassment, and becoming my interpreter, helped me out of it with much good-humour, and with some dexterity. I resolved, however, another time, never to tilt with a French lady in compliments

things, provided they relate to husbandry, and not to any servitude or attendance upon the person of the landlord. Upon the whole, I found that the Revolution had much improved the condition of the farmers, having relieved them from feudal tenures and Being alone with the young man, I lay-tithes. On the other hand, some made some inquiries upon subjects of the proprietors, even in the neigh upon which I wanted information, and bourhood of Calais, had lost nearly the found him at once communicative and whole of the rents, under the interpre intelligent. The agriculture of the tation of the law respecting what were colatry about Calais appears to be to be considered as feudal impositions. wretched. The soil is in generál very The Commissioners acting under these good, except where the substratum of laws had determined all old rents to chalk, or marle, rises too near the surcome under this description, and had face, which is the case immediately on thus rendered the tenants under leasé the cliffs. The course of the crops is proprietors of the lands. bad indeed fallow, rye, oats. In some land it is fallow, wheat, and bar ley. In no farm, however, is the fallov ladd aside; it is considered as indispensable for wheat, and on poor lands for rye. The produce, reduced to English Winchester measure, is about nineteen bushels of wheat, and twenty-three or twenty-four of barley.

The young lady who had left us returned towards evening, and by her heightened colour, and a small parcel in her hand, appeared to have walked some distance. Her brother, doubtless from a sympathetic nature, guessed in an instant the object of her walk, "You Have been to Calais," said he.

Yes," replied she, with the lovely