kes its time from Heaven!"

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There is something very amusing to us in this passage, which we find
copied upon a dingy slip of paper in the "Drawer," descriptive of the
"sweet uses" to which sugar is put in "Gaul's gay capital:"

"Here is the whole animal creation in paste, and history and all the fine
arts in _sucre d'orge_. You can buy an epigram in dough, and a pun in a
soda-biscuit; a 'Constitutional Charter,' all in jumbles, and a
'Revolution' just out of the frying-pan. Or, if you love American history,
here is a United States frigate, two inches long, and a big-bellied
commodore bombarding Paris with 'shin-plasters;' and the French women and
children stretching out their little arms, three-quarters of an inch long,
toward Heaven, and supplicating the mercy of the victors, in molasses
candy. You see also a General Jackson, with the head of a hickory-nut,
with a purse, I believe, of 'Carroway Comfits,' and in a great hurry,
pouring out the 'twenty-five millions,' a king, a queen, and a royal
family, all of plaster of Paris. If you step into one of these stores, you
will see a gentleman in mustaches, whom you will mistake for a nobleman,
who will ask you to 'give yourself the pain to sit down,' and he will put
you up a paper of bon-bons, and he will send it home for you, and he will
accompany you to the door, and he will have 'the honor to salute you'--all
for four sous!"

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Few things are more amusing, to one who looks at the matter with
attention, than the literary style of the Chinese. How inseparable it is,
from the exalted opinions which "John Chinaman" holds of the "Celestial
Flowery Land!" Every body, all nations, away from the Celestial Empire,
are "Outside Barbarians." And this feeling is not assumed; it is innate
and real in the hearts of the Chinese, both rulers and ruled. A friend
once showed us a map of China. China, by that map, _occupied all the
world_, with the exception of two small spots on the very outer edge,
which represented Great Britain and the United States! These "places" they
had _heard_ of, in the way of trade for teas, silks, etc., with the
empire.

We once heard a friend describe a Chinese "chop," on government-order. He
was an officer on board a United States vessel, then lying in the harbor
at Hong-kong. A great commotion was observable among the crowds of boats
upon t