GHASTLY RELICS OF WATERLOO.

For the truth of the incident related below I havw the best possible proof. George Shaw', n brave Englishman, when surrounded on the field of Waterloo by a number of the enemy, made a gallant struggle for existence, and fought his way back to his comrades over the dead homes of a dozen Frenchmen whom he had slain As a reward for his bravery, Wellington sent for the soldier, and in the course of his conversation with him, gave him permission to take home with him 'whatever relic he chose from the battlefield. Shaw's choice was the skeleton of a French general killed in the action. Tbe ghastly trophy was safely transported to England, and hung in the soldier's closet at fTanley, in Staffordshire, England, till he came to regard it as a nuisance, &nd disposed of it to Samuel Bullock, a manufacturer of china. As bones form a large portion of the ingredients from which English china is made, it occurred to the manufacturer that the remains of the poor general would look much better made up into some handsome ornament than dangling frotn a peg in an obscure closet ; and in accordance with this inspiration, the French general was ground down, and, in due timp, was metamorphosed into teacupsandsaucprs: in whtch condition he adorns to this day the museum of Hawley, appropriately inscribed with the history of transformation. It happened one day that Marshal Soult visited the museum, and Irs attention was attracted by the china, which was a bright pink tint, and is ornamented wirh flowers. But when his eye rested upon the label, which enabled him to recognise in the collection the remains of one of his former Generals, the Marshal was deeply shocked ; and wrapping his niarshal cloak around him, walked indignantly away. He did not forget to inform Napoleon then at St. Helena, of the indigoity which bad been offered to- the memory of their departed coun-trym-in. "It is not indignity :" quoth Napoleon ; " what mo-re pleasing disposition can there be of one's bones after death than to be made up into cups to becobsrantly in use, and placed between the ipsy lips of ladies ? The thought is delightful!" This was an aspect of the case which had not occurred to the prosaic Marshal; but he was forced to content himself wiih it. —•Boston Traveller.