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Province d'Anvers," published by Jouan in the Place 

 Verte. It comes forth daily, but consists only of a small 

 folio sheet, which does not contain as much matter as one 

 page of our common English newspapers. Each publica- 

 tion seldom displays more than a dozen of advertisements. 

 The articles of news are always written in French ; the 

 advertisements frequently in Flemish. This Antwerp 

 Journal, in what may be called its leading article, con- 

 stantly evinces the greatest antipathy to Britain. In this 

 way it contrives to give vent to the regret felt for the over- 

 throw of Buonaparte ; an event which, notwithstanding his 

 arbitrary measures, seems to be very generally deplored by 

 the Brabantines. As an indication of the feeling of the 

 people here, we may mention, that copies of a paper bear- 

 ing to be a protest by the Ex-Empress, were yesterday 

 eagerly purchased by the inhabitants, and that to-day the 

 sale is suppressed, and a military guard placed over a sta- 

 tioner's shop in our neighbourhood, where the alleged pro- 

 test had been sold. 



We have already adverted to the care bestowed on the 

 rearing of trees on the margin of the quay. The same 

 kind of taste induces the inhabitants to train vines, and 

 sometimes ornamental shrubs, along the front of their houses 

 in the streets. In a wide lane communicating with Place 

 Verte, our attention was attracted by a very large and an- 

 cient vine, apparently of the variety called the Frankendale, 

 planted in the centre of the front- wall of a large house, which 

 it now covers. The pavement of the street (resembling 

 the old style of our causeway) reaches close up to the stem, 

 which is secured from being injured by carts or wheel-bar- 

 rows, by means of a small wooden box. At the height of be- 

 tween two and three feet from the ground, a single branch 

 had originally been trained horizontally to each side, the whole 



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