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One advantage of traveling alone isthe better cpportunity it offers of making the acquaintance ef your fellow passengers. 1 have meé Americans sboard wha boasted tant they never spoke to their ucighbors in railway csrs, afraid, perhaps, of compre- majsing their dignity. Such foolish people are to be pitied, for they miss many oppor- tunities cf gnining information about the country and peaple thraugh whieh they are traveling. To wiy gurpriso I] have found the Huglish everywhere in tbo east ex- tremely civil and polite to pirangerz, eape- cially to Americsns, I am told at home it iy quite the reverse. 3

My companon du Voyage to-day was a very intehigent Huglishman, to whom mv cigar case was 8 letter of Introduction. He had been for twelve gears ia the elvil ser- vies, and was thorsughly posted on every paint connected with the goverument of fngis. ib was gratifying to see that ke wae 48 touch interested in what I could tell him about ameries, ag 1 was in the exceedingly vsitiable information so frecly imparted by hia, snd which I could not have acquired from books.

Quar route lay tegether for several days after, andi shall place to the credit of that cheroot one of the mest intelligent ard agree able of the mauy pleasant travelling cox- pstiors i mayvemet abroad. Bub when my friend acked in a ¥oica alinost plaintive, whether wa Americans would join Ruavia in a war againeb “our mother country,’ 1 was ata loss what to repiy, i hove been asked the same question many times befere, and it implies a respect, perhaps a dread, of our power which was uot shown before the rebellion,

The fear of Russia aud the dread that the Muccovits will work dows and eventually drive them ont cf India, is the great night- mara that resis upon the Eeclish in the Hast. The Russiané are steadily advancing southward in Asis, conquering their way atep by step, until England and Russia ara now shinost face $ face. Tat tho Buglish have got to fight for the poadassion of this magnificent empire in the Hast upon the plaing of India is ‘‘menifeat destiny ;? but Lam not the propnat to foretell the result, ‘The intehigent natives watch, with great in- terest the advance of Russia; not that they would be aay better off under her than uo- der the British, whom they fear, but do bot love; but they would like to see the