il,
the Frenchman before mentioned. It is at least a strange coincidence.

We came into the capital of Prussia in the eil-wagen from Wusterhausen.
We had tramped the previous day a distance of good two-and-thirty English
miles, through a flat, uninteresting country, and being dead beat, had
made an anxious bargain with the driver of the "Fast-coach," to carry us
to Berlin for a dollar a-head. It was late in the evening as we rumbled
heavily along the dusty road, and through the long vista of thick
plantations which skirt the public way as you enter the city from
Spandau. We dismounted, cramped and weary, from our vehicle, and my
companion, a native of Berlin, unwilling to disturb his friends at that
late hour, and in his then travel-worn guise; and I myself being unknown
and unknowing in the huge capital, led the way at once to "Our Herberge."

The English term "House of Call" is but an inadequate translation of the
German "Herberge." It must be remembered that the German artisan is
ruled in everything by the state; for while English workmen, by their own
collective will, raise up their trade or other societies, in whatever
form or to whatever purpose their intelligence or their caprices may
dictate to them, the German, on the contrary, discovers among his very
first perceptions that his position and treatment in the world is already
fixed and irrevocable. He becomes numbered and labelled from the hour of
his birth, and the gathering items of his existence are duly
recorded--not in the annals of history--but in the registry of the
police. Thus he finds that the State, in the shape of his Zunft or
Guild, is his Sick Benefit Club and his Burial Society, his Travellers'
Fund and his Trade Roll-Call; aspires indeed to be everything he ought to
desire, and certainly succeeds in being a great deal that he does not
want.

I have a little paper at my hand presented to me by the police of
Dresden, which may help to elucidate the question of associations of
workmen in Germany. It is an "Ordinance" by which "We, Frederick
Augustus, by God's grace King of Saxony, &c., &c., make known to all
working journeymen the penalties to which they are liable should they
take part in any disallowed 'workmen's unions, tribunals, or
declarations;'" the said penalties having been determined on by the
various governments of the German Union. "Independently," says the
Ordinance, "of the punishment" (not named) "which may be inflicted for