DAUBIGNY IN BOND STREET.--Through the organisation of Messrs. BOUSSOD, VALADON & CO., and the kindness of Mr. JAMES STAATS FORBES, Mr. W. CUTHBERT QUILTER, Mr. ALEXANDER YOUNG, and other courteous collectors, we are enabled to enjoy, at the Goupil Gallery, as many as forty-three works by this distinguished _paysagiste_ of the Barbizon School. Nothing of the "daub" to be seen here excepting in the first half of the name. Charming collection. Nice boys they were of the Barbizon School, all in the best form. _Mr. Punch_ recommends everybody not to neglect to pay an immediate visit to this superb exhibition. * * * * * LE KICK-BALLE FIGHT. "No definite date has yet been fixed for the football match which is to take place here between an English and a French eleven, the latter consisting of pupils from the Lycee Janson de Sailly, but the preliminary negotiations are still proceeding."--_Letter of Paris Correspondent._ MON CHER MONSIEUR, [Illustration:] It is with the feelings of _a 'Igh Life-Sporting-Gentlemans_ most ecstatic and profound, that I find myself preparing "_Le Onze_" of the great spirited youths of our Lycee, who have, brave-souled heroes, volunteered to meet on the _veritable champ de bataille_ of the kicke-legges-match your Public-school-team, who have thrown in their faces the challenge glove of combat. I say, I am preparing, but this means, of course, with such modifications of your _Jeu-de-Rugby_ rules, which, indeed, turn the struggle into _un vrai carnage_, degrading alike to humanity and civilisation, as will permit the enlightened children of our great, refined and Republican France, to meet their antagonists not with the savage antics of Blood-thirsty Cannibals, which seem to characterise what you term "_le scrimmage_," as practised by your contending "_'ome-teams_" at _le Hovals_ and other arenas, where meet and rend each other with the fury unrestrained, terrible and indescribable of the wild beasts and gladiators of the barbaric Roman Circus, of ancient times, but with the humanised activity of that expurgated and refined form of the contest which has enabled the courageous but reasoning youth of this great reforming and Republic France of ours, to throw open wide her arms and welcome to her heart elastic and generous _Le Kick-Balle Fight_, as henceforth her own chosen and peculiar national game.