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peared that Queen Caroliue, the ill-fated wife 

 of the Fourth George, had been expected ; that 

 some Dartford Paul Prv had caus^ht a view of 

 the gold embroidered velvet jackets and caps 

 of the postilions, and had given the signal for 

 the cheers, raistakinof the inmates of the carriasfe 

 for at least Lord Hood in his Chamberlain's 

 dress, Sir Matthew Wood in his Aldermanic 

 gown, or Her Majesty herself decked out in 

 Royal attire. Finding we could not reach Dover 

 in time for the boat to Calais we stopped for 

 the night at the " Rose," Sittingbourue. 



I have already referred to the French omnibus ; 

 and it may not be here out of place to record 

 an instance of the lio^ht-heartedness of our Con- 

 tinental neighbours, who instead of erasing a 

 most painful episode in the history of their 

 country from their minds, appear to perpetuate 

 it, as will be seen by the following state- 

 ment extracted from one of their own 

 journals : — 



" The Parisian Omnibus Company has pre- 

 served a curious relic of the late Commune in 

 the shape of an omnibus which the Communists 

 used for one of their barricades, and which was 

 riddled throus^h the street fio-hts between the 

 Versailles troops and the insurgents by as many 



