On board I find a goodly company of lunchers. Mr. Recorder BUNNY, Q.C., sedate and silent--once the terror of thieves of all classes, and ruffians of every degree, now partly in retreat. Then there is the MACSTORM, C.B., warrior and novelist. Foreign affairs are represented by MM. BONHOMMIE and DE CZARVILLE, excellent fellows both, and capable correspondents in London. Then there are a host of celebrities. DICKY HOGARTH, the caricaturist; SAMUEL STEELE SHERIDAN, the dramatist; and SHAKSPEARE JOHNSON COCKAIGNE, the man of literary all-work. "It is very fine this to me when therefore I come out why," observes an Italian explorer, who has the reputation of speaking five-and-twenty languages fluently, and is particularly proud of his English. "Certainly," I answer promptly, because my friend is a little irritable, and still believes in the possibilities of the _duello_. "Therefore maybe you find myself when I am not placed which was consequently forwards." And with this the amiable explorer from the sunny south, no doubt believing that he has been imparting information of the most valuable character, relapses into a smiling silence. In the course of the voyage I find that, if I pleased, I could wait until a quarter to four, and then return to my native shores. This would give me more than three hours in Calais. But what should I do with them? "You might go to the Old Church," says Mr. Recorder BUNNY, Q.C., "which was an English place of worship in the time of Queen MARY. Some of the chapels are still dedicated to English Saints, and there are various other memorials of the British occupation." "Or you can go to the _plage_," puts in the MACSTORM. "Great fun in fine weather. Whole families pic-nic on the sands. They feed under tents or in chalets. In the water all day long, except at meal-times. At night they retire, I think, to a little collection of timber-built villas, planted in a neatly-kept square. The whole thing rather suggestive of ALEXANDER SELKIRK _plus_ an unlimited supply of a quarter-inch deal flooring, canvas, and cardboard." [Illustration]