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Professor Owen have the goodness to ' see about 

 it at once.' But there are also many letters from 

 foreigners, which are models of politeness and 

 diction, especially when their goods received an 

 award. 



The President of the French Republic having 

 invited the jurors of the Great Exhibition to 

 Paris, Owen started the last day of July, along 

 with Dr. Lyon Playfair, Joseph Paxton, Lord 

 Wharncliffe, the Lord Mayor of London, and 

 others. Owen wrote some amusing letters during 

 his stay at Paris. At Boulogne the party was 

 received by the Prefect and a band, which played 

 4 God save the Queen.' At the railway station a 

 cold collation had been provided and speeches 

 were made, and champagne revived the flagging 

 energies of those who felt indisposed after the sea 

 voyage. When the train-bell rang it was dis- 

 covered that the doors of the room in which they 

 had been lunching were locked, and there were 

 no officials at hand to open them. Some of the 

 more daring escaped by the window until a young 

 soldier came and guarded that exit with fixed 

 bayonet. The doors, however, were soon opened, 

 the confusion having occurred simply from a re- 

 gard for the safety of the English ' Lor' Maire,' and 

 the travellers steamed off to Amiens. A similar 

 reception awaited the representatives there, and 

 they were formed into a procession and marched 

 along to another collation, with more speeches 



