Some Original Letters.

pardoning the Duke of Wellington after he had won the battle of Waterloo ! " Louis Philippe desired to be kindly remembered to you , or , as he expressed it , 1 VeuiUey ., mademoiselle , faire mills et-mille comp liments , et dire tout ce qu'il y a de plus

leudre de ma part a mon ami le NapoUon tie Connecticut . ' "Wefound the French more polite than wo could have believed any earthly beings to be . The churches are splendid , ancl in one Ave Avished jiarticularly for your

presence , as over the altar there Avas a picture of Napoleon in quite a IIOAV position—that is to say in heaven I or very near it . By the bye , you are perhaps not aivare that you have been elected President of the Royal Academy , ancl are expected to come over at once to commence the duties of

that high position . The temporary president is Eastlake , who has been knighted , as , of course , you Avill be on your arrival . I Avent to the Eoyal Academy the other day with the Doyles , ancl Ave saAV P eome in ( you remember IIOAV short he is ) Dick said , ' I won't speak to him ; why don't he come full length like other people , or else stay in the miniature-room % ' P

came to see us yesterday , and is as mysterious as ever . We suppose him to he the man in the moon , and that he can onl y get leave of absence ' when de moon am gone aAvay . ' He takes , he says , ' a morbid view of everything ; ' the Avorld is getting worse and worse dayand sihs

every , gas deepl y as his size will let him for the good old times when you might see any of your mends' heads stuck on Temple Bar , or be mimed yourself for saying your prayers oufc of fashion . He says that you are the ° too much of

my person one never sees . loii ahvays like to hear of my misfortunes , So I will tell you of the last , on Monday , W ; as we were starting for a party at Hickens ' s !

W must know I had a very pretty l » ot of snowdrops of which I took such care j was so fond , ancl that evening , to my ( , 1 'i'or , the maid threw them down and ouipletel y smashed them ! She did it in le dark so I could not scoldand for

, , t ; of better relief I cried!—there ' s a 7 n ™ de my eyes red , & c—' no con-. police ' -mat to Dickens ' s ; , never en-; i , * Party so much in my life ; danced U 1 Cruikshank ; talked with Thackeray

a great deal ; he smokes , luckily , so I am going to send kim some of the cigars you left , as I am sure no one can he more Avorthy of them in your opinion or in mine . Now you know vidio is the reigning monarch I The room was full of genius and funand I got leave of absence for the

, night from the ' High Principled Society . ' Mark Lemon said it spoilt his back hair to dance in a croivded quadrille . I tallied to Stanfield about the attempt you and papa made to steal the club draAvings . He asked IIOAV I heard it , and I told him I

saAV it in the police reports : I need not tell you all the people AVIIO were there . . . . . Though I knoAV you don ' t get my letters , I write because it is my duty to do so ; but you should remember that a correspondence is like a triangle , it should have two sides equal to one another . . ' "H . J . L . "

" The barometer is very IOAV ; it rains ; the postman is seen looming ; he conies in ; and what a consolation to find a letter in the box from the captain ! The spirits of the Avhole house rise . Papa has just returned from a visit to the Duke of .

and declares that dukes arc the pleasantest people in the Avorld except captains . He talked rather grandly when he first came back , but has come doAvn again IIOAV ancl Avalks to Hampstsad every fine Sunda }' . I go Avith him to keep him from being carried aivay by effects—chimney-pots & e . He

, is going to lecture there soon on Constable and Girtin , and the room wih be hung all round Avith their pictures ; but I ' m afraid the Hampstead Heath-ens won ' t understand it . The Chalons haA'e gone to a UOAV house at Kensingtonthat isan old house

, , , very pretty AA'ith a real garden . We paid a state visit ancl were shown everything , and , as they have some goats , Alfred said , ' Would you like to see a chamois-hunt 1 ' Then Louis carried a beautiful little kid to the other end of the gardenand called

, Tiny and Mizzy , and let the kid go ; aivay it bounded , and the two fat dogs ran after it for a feiv yards , and then gave it up >; but the grand triunqih Avas to see the little kid jump OA'er a crag of floAver-pots placed expressly to make the chase more

interesting . Alfred is much the same , but John is much changed ; Stanfield and Landseer have both been ill , and the club is entirely r