Reynolds's Newspaper from London, Greater London, England • 2

2 Rmmimn hkwsfafhi. Bgceinber 2i. im waters, than those off the Rio de In groins off Peru'. It was my turn to stand at, th7-shotf! head and with my shoulders leaning against the i i ast" to and fro I idly swawJ in royal shrouds, hrouds. because I have not known sometimes whether she was a married or an unmarried lady.

The doorkeeper says to me, If such is the case, to oblige you, I will tell you. She is Mademoiselle (such a One). On my part, I show a little civility to the doorkeeper, by. giving him (shrug) a glass of wine. Now'there is another subject which I will explain to you.

When a gentleman has no confidence in his wife, he employs a commissioner to follow her when she goes out alone. Then the gentleman Bays to the commissionur, Follow that lady you must tell me in detail every place where she stops I shall come to. year station this evening for an answer." Then I say to the gentleman, Sir, madame stopped in (shrug) Street, No. (shrug). Madame remained for half-an-hour in that house during that time I walked up and down opposite the carriafze-gate on the other side of the street, in order to know when she would leave the street.

Madame went to tb.it warehouse for novelties, Street (shrug), No. Prom thence madame got into a hacknuy-carriage, which she stopped in the street on coming out of the warehouse. As for me, I ran as fast as my legs could carry me to follow the carriage. Madame got out of it in Street, say No. Madame sent away the carriage, after having paid for it.

Madame went into that house, where she remained an hour and a half. On going out of that house madame went straight home. Madame returned home at half-past five. I did not Bee any description of gentleman speak to madame. In short, sir, these are all the details and information which I can give you (shrug) for to-day." The gentleman says to me, Well done, commissioner how much do I owe you I say, Sir, you are generous enough to d'heure la remise d'un nantissement est priee de se plaindre de ce retard a Messieurs les Chefs du Service du MagaBin." (Any person who shall have three-quarters of an hour for the restoration of his pawned goods is requested to make a.

complaint of the same to the superintendents.) At the large open window Btood an employe, who successively called out the numero of eaok person seated before him. In obedience to his voice, I saw one respectably-dressed woman rise from a bench, walk up to him, produce her numero, in return for which he handed over to her a bundle of clothing and a cigar-case. To another woman, on the production of her numero-paper, he professionally rolled out upon the counter about a dozen silver spoons in short, as in tho case of the act of pawning, everybody saw what everybody received. One respectable-looking woman of about forty, dressed in deep mourning and in a clean cap, on untying the bundle of linen she had just redeemed, and which, ia the moment of adversity, she had negligently huddled together, carefully folded up avery article, and then packed it in a clean basket, the lid of which was held open for the purpose by a nice little girl at her side the storm had blown over and sunshine had returned. As soon as each transaction was concluded, the recipient of the goeds departed with them through a door pointed out by the words, Degagemens sortie." (The delivery of articles.) In the vicinity is another hall, similar to that juat described.

The Whale. Herman Melville. Bentley, Burlington-street. This is a most agreeable and exciting work, in three volumes, quaintly told, but full of life and anecdote. It purports to be the history of a whaling voyage, in whioh that good ship the Pequod," Captain Ahab, of Nantucket, was engaged.

The names which occur in the course of the following extraats are those of certain individuals comprising the whaler's crew. Perhaps there is no employment so dangerous or exciting as that of the whale fishery and the graphic sketches of tierce combats with monsters of the deep, as given in the three volumes now before us, afford a good idea of the perils thoao engaged in its pursuit encounter. ATTACKING THE WHALE. Meanwhile, all the boats tore on. The repeated specific allusions of Flask to "that whale," as he called the fictitious monster which he declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boat's bow with its tail these allusions of his were at times so vivid aad life-like, that they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch a fearful look over the shoulder.

But this was ajrainst all rule; for the oarsmen must put out their eyes, and ram a skewer through their necks usage pronouncing that they must have no organs but ears, and no limbs but arms, in these critical moments. It was a sight full of quick wonder and aw The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almoBt Beemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of ttie opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other all these, with the crie3 of the headsman and harpooneers, and comprehend how much that commission is worth." Here, commissioner, are two francs. Are you satisfied?" "YeB, sir, I am satisfied." If I want you to-morrow I will let you know, or I will go to your station myself." I ay to him, "Very well, sir (shrug), it is all right. I thank you. Good day, sir (shrug).

Well (shrug), the next morning the gentleman arrives. Tell me, commissioner, can you do the same commission for me that you did yesterday you understand Come with me you will keep yourself opposite my carriage-gate when a lady comes out, a little brunette, she is to come in half-an-hour she has a gown of Tartan silk, a green bonnet, and a large shawl, with a blue ground and red enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it-Z 6 dreamy.mood losing all consciousness, at lat mv i at out of my body though my body still continued to Went a pendulum will, long after the power which first mowrt aB withdrawn. Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me 1 16 noticed that the seamen at the main and mizen mast were already drowsy, so that at last all three of us Hf ads swung from the spars, and for every swing that we there was a nod from below from the slumbering hel matie The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests and wiie trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the mm all. Suddenly bubbles ssemed bursting beneath mT eyes; like vices my hands grasped the shrouds; some sible, gracious agency preserved rae with a shock I back to life.

And lo close under our lee, not toy off, a gigantic sperm whale lay rolling in the water mTn" capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Pth-pian hue, glistening in the sun's rays like a mirror lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and tranquilly spouting his vapoury jet, the whale looked lit portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon a that pipe, poor whale, was thy last. As if struck hv enchanter's wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in -f once started into wakefulness; and more than a scor 't voices from all parts of the vessel, simultaneously wi'h a three notes from aloft, shouted forth the accustomed crv the great, fish slowly and regularly spouted the snarkr brine into the air. Clear iiway the boats Lnjrt" Ahab. And obeying his own order, he dashed the he'i down before the helmsman could handle the spokes Th sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed th whale and ere the boats were down, majestically turni he swam away to the leeward, but with such a steady quillity, and making so few ripples as he swam, that thiakin" after all he might not as yet be alarmed, Ahab gave orde that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak bo' in whispers. So, seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwal of the boats, we swiftly but silently paddled along: thecal not admitting of the noiseless sails being set.

Presently we thus glided ia chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted'h? tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight lite tower swallowed up. "There go flukes!" was the cry a announcement immediately followed by Stubb's product" his match and Igniting his pipe, for now a respite was grant, After the full interval of his sounding had elapsed, the ty rose again and being now in advance of the smoker's boat and much nearer to it than to any of the others, Stubb counted upon the honour of the capture. It was obvious notv that the whale had at length become aware of his pursuers', ah silence of cautiousness waa therefore no longer of use Paddles were dropped, and oars came loudly into nm And, still puffing at his pipe, Stubb cheered on Ms crew to' the assault. Yes a mighty change had come over the Ssh All alive to his jeopardy, he was going bead out that part obliquely projecting from the mad yeast which he brewed. "Start her, start her, my men! Don't hurry yourselves'-take plenty of time but start her; start her like thunder claps, that's all," cried Stubb, spluttering out the smoke as he spoke.

Start her, now give 'em the long and strong stroke Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool cucumbers is the word easy, easy only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise tlie buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, bojs thsl's all. Start her!" "Woo-hoo! Wa-hee!" screamed tlie Gay-Header, in reply, raising same old war-whoop to the Bkies aa every oarsman in the strained boat involuntarily bounced forward with the one tremendous leading-stroke which the eager Indian gave. But hia wild screams were answered by others quite as wild. "Kee-heer Kee-hee!" yelled Daggoo, straining forwards and backwards on liia ssaf, like a pacing tiger in his cage.

Koo-loo howled Queequeg, as if smacking his lips over a mouthful of Grena-diefs steak. And thus with oars and yells the keels cut the sea. Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place ia the van, still encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from his moutfe. Like desperadoes they tugged and fhey A- Faggot of -French. -Sticks.

John Murray, Albemarle-street. This quaint-titled work is tho production of Sir' Francis Head, the well-known author of Bubbles from the Brunnen of likewiseof some political letters on the French the defences this country, which have attracted much attention. Sir Francis is a keen observer' as well as a clever writer, and a city like Paris afforded ample materials for filling with entertaining matter the two elegant bound volumes just published. To persons acquainted with Paris the book will be peculiarly welcome, as representing scenes and persons with which they must, during any term of residence there, have become familiarised. Tho following description of a Parisian commissionaire (or ticket-porter), his multifarious occupations, is extremely amusing and faithful.

He is supposed to be enumerating them in answer to'the author's queries. THE MAN OF MANY CALLINGS. Sir, I black bootB I saw wood I take it up into the apartments; I carry portmanteaus and luggage, and whatever offers itself I carry letters -and parcels; I rub the floors of apartments and stairs; I wash the floors and the dining-rooms I change furniture frsm one house to another with a hand-barrow, carried by two men with leathern straps I draw a cart with portmanteaus, wood, or furniture; I beat carpets, take them up out of the apartments, and carry them to the barrier outside Paris (yes, sir) I bring them back to the persons to whom they belong I lay them down. I know how to arrange a room make the beds I colour the inlaid lioors of the apartments I watch, a siek person through the night and day (a shrug), for so much a day (a shrug), and for the night also (a shrug) I agree as to the price with those persons who employ me, for five francs the night, eight francs for the twenty-four hours, when they do not feed me besides, I watch the dead in the apartment during the twenty-four hours that they remain exposed in short (three shrugs), I do whatever is offered to me. I receive commercial notes, for whoever will charge me with the commission, and who will give me the note to enable me to receive it I bring back the money to the person who has entrusted me with the note, and the person pays me for my commission I pawn at the Mont de Piete whatever the public is willing to entrust to me, jewels (a shrug), chains, watches, gold, or silver I pawn silver spoons and forks, for eating I pawn clocks, linen they take everything in pawn (a shrug) at the Mont dc Piete, furniture, pianos, mattresses, candelabras, Iu6tre8; in short, they take in pawn everything of value; and I bring back the money and the pawnbroker's ticket ta tiie person who has entrusted me with the commission, and at the same time that person pays me for ray commission.

Afterwards, I redeem pawned articles from the Mont de Piete, for all those persons who choose to honour me with their commissions, provided that the person puts his signature o-a the back of the paper which the Mont de Piete delivered to him on the day when he pawned the aforesaid articles. I act as commissioner throughout all the departments of France, and also (shrug) in foreign countries, according to the price agreed on, and at a reasonable price I travel on the railroads (shrug), in the diligence (shrug) I go as quick as I can, and I come back as quick as I can rub down a horse, I can I feed him wash the carriage drive the carriage arrange the cellar rinse out the bottles bottle the wine pile up the bottles after they are corked and stamped lower the hogsheads of wine into the eellar with a thick rope, with the help of a comrade, and the price is twa francs for eaoh hogshead. In my own country I am a labourer, and do everything relating to the cultivation of the ground. I root up the trees I saw them into several Itngths I split the wood pile it up to dry then load it on mules, and carry it to the house to be burnt afterwards I mow the hay and corn oarry the corn into the barn (shrug), and the hay also thrash the corn, and put it away into the granary from whence they take it out by little and little to have it ground and to make bread. I prune the vines dig round them put props at the foot of escu to support it from bending; at the time 1 fasten the vines to them with straw whioh has been soaked in water, and selected expressly to fasten the vine to the prop, so that the grapes may ripen better, and that they may not trail on the ground.

Now I commence my vintage, that is to say, gather the grapes I carry them to the house in a rough basket, which is carried on the back by means of two straps, fastened and nailed on to the basket. When the basket is full of grapes it weighs two hundred pounds. Afterwards, I carry it to the house, and empty it into a large cellar made expressly to contain the wine. My vintage lasts four days (shrug), five days and by the time I have finished my vintage my cellar is full then I employ myself every day in crushing the grapes with a wooden pestle. flowers, you will follow her.

Iveep yourselt at a distance, Borne way oif, so that she mav not suspect that you follow her; bring me back a very exact account you must tell me wherever she has. stopped, trie name of the street, and the number of the house, of all the houses where she may stop. I shall come and get your answer here at your station this evening at (shrHg) seven o'clock." It is now seven o'clock. Sir, I have done your commission very exactly. On leaving her house, madame stopped on the boulevard, at a shoemaker's shop.

Madame stayed there fifteen minutes from there madame wont to Street, No. madame stayed two hours in that house from thence madame came out she went to the Garden of the Tuileries madame was talking there for half-an-hour with a gentleman, well dressed, not very tall, of a dark complexion a gentleman who may be about eight-and-tbirty this gentleman wears moustaches. From thence madame parted from this gentleman she returned home to her own house at (shrug) half-past six. This is all the tour that madame has made to-day." Sometimes a lady in the same way makes me follow her husband, whom I know. In order that this gentleman may not recognise me, I dress myself like a citizen.

My comrade, oppo-Bite, ence followed a gentleman for ten days, at the rate of six francs a day. In those ten days he was not able to discover or find out anything. the shuddering gasps of tile oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod" bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood all this was thrilling. Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle not the dead man's ghost encountering the first unknown phantom in the other world; neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of tho hunted sperm whale. The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming mure and more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows flung upon the sea.

The jets of vapour no longer blended, but tilted everywhere to right and left the whales seemed separating their wakes. The boats were pulled more apart, Starbuck giving chase to three whales running dead to leeward. Our sail was now set, and, with the still rising wind, we rushed along, the boat going with such madness through the water, that the lee oars could scarcely be worked rabidly enough to escape being torn from the row-locks. Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist neither ship nor boat to be seen. Give way, men," whispered Star-buck, drawing still further aft the sheet of his sail there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.

There's white water again olose to Spring Soon after, two cries in qaick succession on each side of us denoted that the other boats had got fast but hardly were they overheard, when Further on we find tho following description of THE FRENCH PAWNBROKERS. On entering the portion of the department headed En-gagemens," I proceeded up-stairs, and along a rather crooked passage, to its bureau," a little room in which I found a stove, a large open sort of window with a broad counter before it, and round the other three sides of the apartment a wooden bench, on which were sitting in mute silence, with baskets or bundles on their laps, ten very poor people, of whom the greater portion were women. Ab I entered I was followed by an old man with a parcel in his hand and without noticing or being noticed by any of those who had come before us, we sat down together Bide by side on the bench, where we remained as silent as if we had been corpses. Before me was the back of a poor woman, looking upwards into the face of an employe wearing large long moustachios, who was untying the bundle she had humbly laid on the counter before him. In about a minute, like a spider running away with a fly, he disappeared with it; very shortly, however, after the poor woman had returned to her hard seat, he re-appeared, looking as if he had forgotten all about it, and received from a man a parcel of old wearing apparel, most probably," said I to myself, to be, converted into food for a starving family The scene altogether was so simple and yet so sad, that I felt anxious to decamp from it; however, before doing so I was determined, whatever might be the penalty, I would pepp into the window and accordingly, walking up to it, and to the broad counter before it, I saw on the right of the gentleman in mustachois a large magazine fitted up from ceiling to floor with shelves, upon which were arranged the heterogeneous goods as fast as they were pledged.

In hurrying from the scene of misery I had witnessed I almost ran against a man in the passage holding in his hand a frying-pan he was about to pledge, and iuto which I managed to drop a small piece of silver which fortunately for him happened to be lying loose in my waistcoat pocket. Ia an adjoining still smaller room, the furniture of which also consisted solely of a Btove and wooden benches which is round, and made expressly for the purpose. It is very wide at the bottom. Afterwards, at the end of fifteen days, my wine is in the cellar. I draw it off from below as long as the cellar supplies it.

This wine is of the first quality. I put it into a cask by itself, and I keep it to sell, in order to pay the contributions of my vineyard. The residue which remains in the cellar I take away in pails, and carry it to the wine-press there I press it, and the wise I get from it is for the use of my family. This wine is inferior to the first (shrug) (because the first is made of the ripest grapes whioh are crushed). Now, the residue which remains, which I take out of the wine-press, I put iuto a cellar made on purpose for strained, till the welcome cry was beard btaud up, Tashtego 1 give it to him The harpoon was hurlea.

Stem all The oarsman backed water the same moment something went hot and hissing along every one of their wris'j. It was the magical line. An instant before, Stubb Iiai swiftly caught two additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its increased rapid circling, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and mingled with Ilia steady fumes from his pipe. Aa the line passed round and round the loggerhead, so also, just before reaching that point, it blisteringly passed through ana through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped. It was like holding an enemy's sharp two-edged sword by the blade, and that eHemy all the time striving to wrest it out of your clutch.

"Wet the line! wet the line!" cried Stubb to the tub-oarsman (him seated by the tub) who, snatching off his hat, dashed the sea-water into it. Jlore turns were taken, so that the line began holding its place. The boat now flew through the boiling water, like a shark, all fins, Stubb and Tashtego here changed places stem for Btern a staggering business truly in that rocky commotion. From the vibrating line extending the entire length of the upper part of the boat, and from its now being more tight than a harp-string, you would have thought the craft had two keels one cleaving the water, the other the air as the boat churned on through both epposing elements atonce. Acon-tinual cascade played at the bows a ceaseless whirling eddy in her wake and, at the slightest motion from within, even but of a little finger, the vibrating, cracking craft canted over her spasmodic gunwale into the sea.

Thus they rushed; each man with might and main clinging to his seat, to prevent being tossed to the foam and the tali form of Tashtego at the steering oar crouching almost double, in order to bwS down his centre of gravity. Whole Atlantics and Pacifies seemed passed as they shot on their way, till at length tlie whale somewhat slackened his flight. Haul in haul in; cried Stub's to the bowsman and, facing round towards the whale, all hands began pulling the boat up to him, while yet the boat was being towed on. Soon ranging up by his fiank, Scubb. firmly plautiog his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart iuto the flying fish at the word command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whales horrible wallow, and then ranging up for another fling.

red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooKa down a hill. His tormented body rolled not in brine but blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in thei wake. The slanting sun playing upon this crimson P0. the sea, Bent back its reflection into every face, so that all glowed to each other like red men. And all the jt after jet of white amoke was agonizingly shot from spiracle of the whale, and vehement puff after puff 1 it, and I add to it from seven (shrug) to eight (shrug) pails with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said Stand up 1" and Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprung to his feet.

Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so eiose to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance of the mate in the stern Of the boat, they knew that the imminent instant had come they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound, as of fifty elephants stirring in their litter. Meanwhile the bsat was still booming through the miat, the waves curling and hissing arouud us like the erected crests of enraged serpents. "That's his hump. There, there, give it to him whispered Starbuck. A short rushing sound leaped out of the boat it was the darted iron of Queequeg.

Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible push from astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge the sail collapsed and exploded a gusli of ssalding vapour shot up near by something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us. The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall. Squall, whale, and harpoon had. all blended together and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped. Though completely swamped, the boat was nearly unharmed.

Swimming round it we picked up the floating oara, and lashing them aoress the gunwale tumbled back to our places. There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward-gazing eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the bottom of the ocean. The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked and-crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, uncoh-sntned, we were burning- immortal in these jawB of death I In vain we hailed the other boats as well roar to the live down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those boats in that storm. Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew darker with the shadows of night no sign of the Bhip could be seen. The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat.

The oars were useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers. So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern: then stretching it on a waif-pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heavt of that almighty f'orlornness; there, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a against the walls, and which was devoted, I believe, entirely to bijouterie," or jewellery, I found a Bimilar window and broad lattice, at which a poor woman was pledging a ring. After she had left it, there walked up to the pawning hole, leading a thin dog by a very old bit of string, a young girl, who deposited a Bpoon. There were four or five other women, alt of whom, as well as myself, became cognizant of every article that was brought to be pawned.

Within the window before me, as well as within that of the chamber I had just left, there existed, out of sight of us all, an appraiser, whose duty it is to estimate everything offered, in order that the regulated proportion, namely, four-fifthB of the value of gold and silver articles, and two-thirds of that of all other effects, might be offered to the owner of each. "Huit francs, madame" (eight franca, ma'am), said the man at the window who had received the ring; the poor woman, whose heart had no doubt erred in over-estimating its value, began to grumble a little. Without a moment's delay a voice from within called the next number (for every article as it is taken is numbered), and the clurk in the window briefly informed the woman to whose property it had applied the amount of money she might obtain. Those satisfied with the sums they were to receive had to appear before a little door on whioh was written the word "Caieae" (cashier's office), and underneath it Le public n'entre qu'a l'appel de eon numero." (No one to enter until his number is, called.) Accordingly, on the calling out of each number, I saw a poor person open it, disappear for a few seconds, and then come out with a yellow ticket, an acknowledgment by the Mont de Piete of of water, and I let it all boil during five or six days after that I make brandy from this residue. I warm this residue in a still.

By slow degrees, as it becomes heated, the concentrated vapour produces me brandy of twenty-two degrees strength, which I reduce to eighteen degrees (because at twenty-two degrees it is too strong, it is bad for the constitution) by adding water to it. That is the way we work in our country we make our own wine (shrug), we make our own brandy (shrug), we thrash our corn, we make bread enough for a month. The oven where we bake our bread is in common it belongs to my village. They bake fifty-five loaves, of eight pounds each. When the oven requires to be repaired, it is the syndic of the village who has what is necessary done.

He pays with the revenues of the village, proceeding from some lands which our ancestors gave for a school for beys and for girls. This school is kept during six months of the year, and they give the boys' school-master seventy francs, and the girls' school-mistrees fifty francs for the six months. These revenues are from lands under cultivation, meadows and fields belonging to the village. They are let by auction to him who offers the highest price they are given on certain conditions if he has not sufficient security of his own to answer the payment of his rent, he must find a solvent bail to answer for him. But to return to the commission.

Sometimes, when a beautiful woman passes by, a gentleman says to me, Commissioner, follow that lady, and try to find out her name you must bring me back her name and address here is my card and direction where I live get the name very exact, and bring me back the answer mouth of the excited headsman as at every aarc, upon his crooked lance (by the line attached to it). straightened it again and again, by a few rapid blos a the gunwale, then again and again sent it into the "Pull up pull up!" he now cried to the bowman, a waning whale relaxed in his wrath. Pull up cl 8 and the boat ranged along the fish's flank. When, rea far over the bow. Stubb slowly churned his long the effects held in pawn, and for which, from the hands of the cashier within, at a wire-work grating, covered with green dingy stuff, upon which is inscribed, Parlez baB, S.

V. (Speak softly, if you please), she received her money. There exist several bureaux similar to those above described. Having very cursorily witnessed the mauner in which, with the assistance of one sucoursale," two other auxiliary offices, and twenty-two commissions, established in different quarters of the city, the Mont dc Piete of Paris has received, on an average of the last fifteen years, 1,313,000 articles, on which it has, advanced per annum 22,800,000 francs, averaging into tne fiah, and kept it there, carefully cmirmus atcii to feel after some that the whale might have swallowed, ana e0i man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat, we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on.

The mist still spread over the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat. Suddenly Queequeg Btarted to his feet, hollowing his hand to his ear. We all heard a faint creaking, as of ropes and yards hitherto muffled by the storm. The sound came nearer and nearer tlie thick mists were dimly parted by a huge, vague form. Affrighted, we all sprang into the the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon us within a distance of not much more than its length.

Floating on the waves we the abandoned boat.ai far one instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship's buws like a chip at the base of a cataract and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern. Again we swam for it, were dashed against it by tile sas, and were at last taken up and safely landed on board. Ere the squall eame close to, the other boats had cut loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time. The ship had given us up, but was still cruising, if haply it might light upon some token of our perishing, an oar or a lance pole. seventeen francs lcirty centimes for each, I proceeded to a aiuerein, pari ui me uuuuiag, upon which is inscribed, Comptoir Ue la Delivrauce (Delivering department), in fearful of breaking ere he could hook it out.

jw oW watch he sought was the innermost life of the fish. A it is struck for starting from his trance into that un able thiag culled his "flurry," the mouster horribly in his blood, over-wrapped himself in impenetra Dl ie, boiling apray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from tna' zied twilight into the clear air of the day. And now -i in his flurry, the whale once more rolled oat into surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating a traetirig his spout-hole, with Bharp, cracking, agonized tions. At last, gush after gush of clotted red gore, which I entered a large gloomy room, full of benches, separated by an iron rail from a narrow, passage leading close round the walls of two sides of the aoartment to a small win to my house at six clock this evening 1 pay you iiDe-rally for your commission." I answer him, Sir, madame lives in Street" (shrugXfnever mind where), She is called Mademoiselle Now, sir, you can write to her, if that is agreeable to you." This gentleman then says to me, Come to-morrow morning at nine o'olock; I will give you a letter to deliver to mademoiselle." Now I go and carry the letter; monsieur sees me return. Here is the answer to your letter Ah, I thank you, commissioner.

Well, how much do I owe you, commissioner Sir, this young lady kept me waiting a long time for her answer so. sir, it is well worth thirty sous you know it is a long way Well, here are thirty sous, commissioner if I want you to-morrow I shall pass by your station." Now, this gentleman puts to me some questions. He asks me, Has this young lady got handsome furniture I answer him, Yes, sir (a shrug). I saw a good bed, a convenient writing-table, a beautiful clock on the chimney-piece, and the floor was carpetted. In short (shrug), sir, I have told you all I saw.

Sir, I am going back to my station." Well, that will do, commissioner. If I want you I will let you know." I thank you. Good day, sir" (shrug). Now, when a doorkeeper refuses to tell me the name of the person whom I describe to him, for example, a tall fair lady who has just come in, who has crossed over to the back of the court-yard, to the staircase on the right hand, I say to the doorkeeper, Monsieur doorkeeper, would you be so good as to tell me the name of that tall lady who has just gone in there all alone The doorkeeper says to me, But what do you want with her name?" I say to him, "It is a gentleman who has given me the commission to learn the name of that young lady (correcting himself), of that person, dow. By this simple arrangement no one can take his seat on the parterre of benches until ho has received from this little window, in acknowledgment of.

the repayment of the money he had borrowed, a small ticket, on which is inscribed had been the purple leea ot reo wine, sno'-. air; and falling back again, ran dripping down bis mot fljmku iato the sea. His heart had burst tlie Renlete with narrative resembling the above, work abounds in interest, and will be read pleasure. European Letters. J.

B. O'Bbien. Queen's have read with Again, we read the following animated description of a more successful encounter with one of the oily monsters KILLING A WHALE. The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing, special to engage them, the Pequodls" crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea. For this part of the Indian Ocean, through which we were then voyaging, is not what whalemen call a lively ground that is, it, affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins, flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring his numero, and which forniB his passport through a narrow wioket-gate, sufficient only for the passage of oneperson to the benches, in front of which is a lang square opening, which can be closed by a sliding shutter.

Ou the right of the benches, on which were seated in mute silence about wenty persons, many of whom were very respectably dressed (one was a poor woman with a baby fast asleep on her lap, or rather, on the brink of her knees, for although her eyes were fixed upon it, she did not touch it with either of her hands), was inscribed on the walls the following notice: "Toute jjersoune qui aura attendu pendant t-rois quarts the. r.nmhfirs alveaiK- nnWished ot this setl oi andean witn contiileitco aecisre ukm. vo di-nth nf thnpo-lH. and Dower of aig".