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296 woman of the better class, who, with her long hair all dishevelled, and eyes sparkling with a wild light, stood at the open window of her cell, where for the present they are obliged to confine her, and who poured forth the most piteous lamentations, and adjured every one who passed, in the most pathetic terms, to restore her husband and children to her. One girl was singing cheerfully—one or two women were sewing, but most of them were sitting crouched on the floor, with a look of melancholy vacancy. The poor are admitted gratis, and the richer classes pay a moderate sum for their board. . . ..

To turn to a very different theme. We continue to go to the opera, certainly the most agreeable amusement in Mexico, and generally to the Minister's box, in the centre. Last evening, Belisario was repeated, but with less splendor than on its representation in honor of Santa Anna.

We expect to leave this on the sixteenth, going in a diligence as far as Toluca, where a Mexican officer, Colonel Y, has kindly promised to meet us with mules and horses. M. le Comte de B and Mr. W, Secretaries of the French and English Legations, have made arrangements for accompanying us as far as Valladolid; with which agreeable travelling companions we may reasonably expect a pleasant journey. . . ..

Last Sunday was the Festival of All Saints; on the evening of which day, we walked out under the portales, with M. and Madame de, Minister and his wife, to look at the illumination, and