Lausanne. I recollect some one saying, that in walking out you should never look up in the air, but always on the ground, as, by the former practice, you were certain never to find any thing, although you might by the latter. So if you will not enter into conversation, you are not likely to obtain much information; whereas if you do, you will always chance to obtain some, even from the quarters the least promising. I was seated on the box of the carriage, with the Swiss _voiturier_--and asked him, "If it were not a lucrative profession?" "It may appear so to you, sir," replied he, "from the price paid for the horses, but it is not so. All we gain, is in five months in the year; the seven months of winter, we have to feed our horses without employment for them, that is, generally speaking." "But have you no employment for them in the winter?" "Yes, we put them into the waggons and draw wood and stone, which about pays their expenses. If you are known and trusted, you will be employed to transport wine, which is more profitable; but that _voiturier_ who can find sufficient employment for his horses during the winter to pay their keeping, considers himself very fortunate." "When you do make money, what do you do with it?" "If we can buy a bit of land we do, but most people, if they can, buy a house, which pays better. I prefer land." "There is not much territory in Switzerland, and land is not often for sale. Everybody cannot buy land. What do the others do?" "Lock the money up in their chests." "But do you never put your money in the foreign funds?" "Yes, the rich do and those who understand it. We have a few very rich people in Switzerland, but, generally speaking, the people do not like to part with their money, and they keep it by them." "I was told by a Frenchman at Basle, that there was a great deal of bullion lying idle in Switzerland?" "He told you very true, sir; there is an enormous quantity of it, if collected together. Those are Jews," continued he, pointing to a _char-a-banc_ passing. "Have you many of those in Switzerland? I should think not." "No, sir, we do not allow them. One or two families are perhaps permitted in a large town, but no more. We are a small country, and if we were to allow the Jews to settle here, we should soon have too large a population to support. By their customs, they may marry at any age, and they never go into the field, and work at the plough." "But may not you marry at any age, and when you please?" "No, sir; we have good laws in that respect, and it prevents the population increasing too fast. I belong to a commune (parish); if I wish to marry, I must first prove that all my debts are paid, and all my father's debts, and then the commune will permit the Cure to marry me." "All your father's debts as well as your own?"