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ly by dealers on the Boulevards of St Martin and the 

 Temple. 



The Oratoiri: 



Sept. 21. — This being Sunday, we attended the Pro- 

 testant Church of the Oratoire, in Rue St Honore, at the 

 usual morning hour, and were, at first, not a little sur- 

 prised to find the service going on in English, and the 

 congregation composed almost exclusively of British na- 

 tives. After hearing a sermon by the Reverend Ed- 

 ward Forster, A. M. (chaplain, we believe, to Sir Charles 

 Stewart), we remained in church, being informed that the 

 French service would commence at mid-day. During the 

 interval we read some of the affiches on the interior walls 

 of the church ; among others, one from Mr Forster, ex- 

 pressing his wish that the English congregation should 

 join in the psalmody. The French Protestants do so, 

 and it is believed had been rather scandalised at the silence 

 of the English worshippers. — In a short time the Parisian 

 congregation began to assemble. A female vestry-keeper 

 placed a Bible on the pulpit-cushion. The clerk, from his 

 own desk, read a lesson from the Gospel by St John, 

 and gave out a psalm. Dr Marron having entered the 

 pulpit, read prayers from a manuscript book, and then 

 preached a sermon, with considerable fluency and elo- 

 quence. The congregation was by no means large, and 

 several pews remained wholly unoccupied. There is only 

 another French Protestant church in Paris, that of the Visi- 

 tation, in Rue St Antoine; the Panthemont, in Rue de Gre- 

 nelle, on the other side of the Seine, having some years 

 ago been converted into a magazine. If there be, as is 

 said, nbont 40,000 Protestants in the capital, it seems but 



