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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. XI. 
and merriment. Owen relates that he translated 
the Lord Mayor’s speech, which was. delivered in 
English, to a young French lieutenant, who retailed 
it to his friends, and they to the people, ‘ who re- 
peated the sentences and screamed with delight.’ 
‘ To find a worthy old alderman made a demigod 
for the nonce was very rich ; but the furore and 
crowding to see the plain gray-haired old gentle- 
man has gone on increasing, and, say what they 
will of our crowding to see our Queen, it is nothing 
to compare with the clustering of all Paris about 
the Lord Mayor as he walked from fountain to 
fountain through Versailles yesterday ; Hussars 
and Dragoons dismounted, with all their French 
official energy, hardly able to keep away from the 
honest man we once so dreadfully bullied about 
Smithfield at our “ Commission.” ’ 
On reaching Paris, the luggage was found to 
have been left behind ; it gradually arrived in 
course of the next tw'o days, but one member 
could not attend the Prefect of the Seine’s 
banquet in consequence, and Lord Ebrington 
had to buy a new suit of clothes in order to be 
present. 
Owen stayed at the Hotel Brighton, and by 
some means or other his ticket for the fete at 
St. Cloud given by the President of the Republic 
to the Commissioners did not arrive, and he was 
refused admittance. So he and C. T. Newton, 
who was in the same predicament, climbed up a 
