front; upon receiving no answer he whispered to his companion, "It is not a man, it is a figure;" she said, "Oh, yes, I knew that, and so is the next to him;" immediately upon which, to test her judgment, the gentleman asked a question of our friend, and upon not receiving an answer, went to some of the spectators, and asked who those two figures were. This drew the attention of several of the spectators to them, and after they had looked for a few minutes, our friend put his hand suddenly in his pocket, took out his catalogue, got up and walked away as if he was innocent of the deception, and a loud and unusual burst of laughter was produced. The best time to see the exhibition is when it is lighted up in the evening, as the countenances look more natural then. The music which is played here is very pleasing, and generally there is a very great concourse of people. The dresses are very good.

We paid a second visit, after the marriage of the Queen, and we then saw a group of figures, representing those who were present on the 10th of February, 1840, when her Majesty was married to her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha. He would not be twenty-one years of age until the 26th of August in that year, and she would be twenty-one on the 24th of May in that year. His Royal Highness' likeness is very good; they are both looking very happy; he has every appearance of being a good kind-hearted

man. He has a very small moustache, which is very becoming to him. Queen Adelaide is in the group, and Prince Albert's father and brother. The Queen's favorite uncle, the Duke of Sussex, is also there, in capacity of father, to give her away; there are several beautiful women of her household about her person, but the Queen and Prince Albert of course engage the attention of spectators. There is scarcely any body who has attracted the attention of the public, but what is to be found here. It may, perhaps, amuse some of our own countrywomen to know how the Queen was dressed: she wore on her head a wreath of orange blossoms and a lace veil, with diamond ear-rings and necklace. Her gown was of white satin, with a great deal of beautiful lace, and with orange blossoms all over the body and train. The cost of the lace alone was £1000; the satin was made in London in Spitalfields, where a great number of silk weavers live. As the Queen could not wear, so as to exhibit it, the order of the Garter, where it is usually worn by males, she wore it upon her arm, with its motto of "Evil be to him who evil thinks;" and she also wore the star of the order.

We saw at this exhibition William Pitt and Charles James Fox, whose names are familiar to every one who knows anything about the political history of England; they having, for very many years, been the leaders of the parties known as

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Whigs and Tories. There is a group which seems most attractive to young people, which is Louis the Sixteenth of France, Marie Antoinette, his queen, and their young son, commonly called the Dauphin, or next heir to the throne. The King and Queen, it is well known, were beheaded by their subjects in the Revolution at the end of the last century. There is also a representation of a very beautiful woman, who is lying at full length on a bench, and who is represented as being sleeping, and who, from her chest heaving, and the apparent actions of a person whilst slumbering, is often taken for reality.

There is also Voltaire, the French political writer, and a man who thought very differently from many of his neighbours with regard to religion, and who was called an Atheist, because he promulgated opinions which were opposed to the Catholic Religion. In India we have heard much of him, and we are informed he worshipped one God, and his revilers three, or what they call Trinity, and that they should have named him Deist instead of Atheist. He is an extraordinary looking man, dressed so oddly too, with little pinched-up features, and his hair so curiously arranged. We looked much at him, thinking he must have had much courage, and have thought himself quite right in his belief to have stood opposed to all the existing religious systems of his native land. He, however, and those who

thought differently from him, have long since, in another world, experienced that if men only act up to what they believe to be right, that the Maker of the Deist, the Christian, and the Parsee, will receive them into his presence; and that it is the professor of religion, who is nothing but a professor, let his creed be what it may, that will meet with the greatest punishment from Him who ruleth all things.

We have said much about Madame Tussaud's Wax-work, because we were very much pleased; and we know of no exhibition (where a person has read about people) that will afford him so much pleasure, always recollecting that it is only one shilling, and for this you may stop just as long as you feel an inclination. We saw a wax-work figure of Madame Tussaud herself in the exhibition, and when we saw her alive upon leaving the room, we could scarce discover the real from the imitation.

CHAPTER VII.

RAILROADS. EGHAM. WINDSOR.

WE were apprehensive upon our voyage that we should have had some difficulties in retaining our customs, which our religion as Parsees call upon us to do.

We are accustomed to have our food cooked by one of our own caste, and we require private apartments to perform our devotional duties, and we thought we should have met with some trouble to carry on these things, but in the Portland Hotel, and every other inn and lodging house, where we subsequently lodged, we found every convenience, every comfort, and we and our servants were allowed unmolested to do every thing we required.

Neither did we in the course of our residence in England among our numerous acquaintances, find one who condemned our religion or ridiculed its ceremonies; on the contrary, many of them who knew that we could not partake of their hospi