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ceiving these letters had arisen, we believe, from the ab- 

 sence from Paris, of the Comte tTArtois and suite. 



Sept. 28. — Hitherto the weather at Paris had been clear, 

 and the temperature agreeable. But rain seemed now to 

 set in/- and this morning felt so cold that we found it de- 

 sirable to have our chenct furnished with billets, and to en- 

 joy the comfort of a fire. * 



Lutheran Church. 



At mid-day we went to the Lutheran Church in Rue des 

 Billcttes, and heard a sermon by the Rev. J. J. Goep. 

 The service is generally conducted in French, but to-day 

 it was in German. We were somewhat amused to find 

 pasted on the church-walls a list of the texts to be treated 

 by the preachers on each Sunday of the current year ; a 

 practice very different from the Scottish, where the subject 

 of discourse is in general kept in a kind of mysterious se- 

 crecy, till announced from the pulpit at the moment of be- 

 ginning the sermon. After the service, the sacrament of 

 the supper was dispensed to members of the church, who 

 advanced one by one to the altar, the females first. Mr 

 Goep administered the bread, which was formed into pieces 

 resembling wafers. M. Boissard, the other pastor, present- 

 ed the chalice. The organ meanwhile sounded slow and 

 solemn music, so soft as not to drown the voices of the cler- 

 gymen, who continued at short intervals to repeat passages 

 of Holy Writ connected with the sacred institution. A 

 golden crucifix stood in front of the clerk's desk ; but no per- 

 ceptible notice was at any time taken of it, either by the 

 officiating ministers or by the congregation. 



In walking home we noticed that shops of almost every 

 kind were open; and at the Innocents, all the covered 

 fruit-stalls were well frequented. The coffee-houses were 



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