From a Paris letter:—

"The Majestic and the Astoria, and the other innumerable hotels which house the Allied delegations, are full of the white faces of tired secretaries, whose principles have departed, or, still worse, returned."—Evening Paper.

We protest against this reflection on the morals of our delegation.


TO PEACE, ON HER CELEBRATIONS.

"Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind"

(As Colonel LOVELACE said) if I

From festal scenes for you designed

To solitude propose to fly;