AS OTHERS SEE US.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1761, 25 June 1886, Page 6

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A friend in Paris has written me an account of a most amusing lecture on Londoners which a certain iVI. Tell has been delivering in the well-known Salle des Conferences in the Boulevard des Capucines. M. Tell claims to have lived five years in this city, and how well he turned his residence to account will be gathered from some of the " facts" he related to bis audience. Here is a startling " fact" to begin with. The London policeman, he gravely asserts, acts as referee in all cases of street fights, between husband and wife. These fights, he added, are officially winked at, aB no Magistrate would dare to punish either of the combatants in these marital encounters. It seems, too, that it is the custom for the religious youth of London to go to St. Paul's, Wfcstmiuster Abbey, the Tabernacle, and other conventicles (sic) every Sunday afternoon, and there play at " JCiss in the Ring" and other such gamps in the presence of High Church dignitaries. As to the Blue Ribbon, it is, as M. T4l assured bis Parisian listener?, an English decoration intended to rival the French Legion of Honour, and is in the gift of the General of the Salvation Army. As to our English girls, they had " but one sport, husband-hnnting," which they carry on ev<?n in railway carriages, and tramcars. And the young men of London, ibis pleasing to know, have their favourite sport also. It is a sort of improptu hurdle-race through the streets of the metropolis, the place or! the hurdles being taken by the bodies of the men and women who lie dead drunk across the London pavement. But I think this i 3 enough to know how well M. Toll used his eyes whilst he was travelling — Figaro,