"Jung Bahadur, has thought best to visit Paris, the capital of France, before returning to India. The first Indian who visited Paris was Ram Mohan Roy, who was succeeded by Dwarkanath Thakur and others. But these were not true Hindoos, of the good school, for they were of the sect of Ram Mohan [who established a sort of philosophic religion under the name of _Brahma-Sabha_, or the "Reunion of Deists"]. General Jung Bahadur, Kunwar, Ranaji, and his brothers are then in reality, the first orthodox Hindoos who have honored Europe with their presence. We do not know how these personages can have followed the prescriptions of the _schastars_ in their passage across the ocean, but we learn by the news from Europe, that they have not taken a single meal with the English, and have neither eaten nor drank with them, though this does not render it certain that they have been free from fault in other respects. It is said beside, that in order to repair every thing, when the Ambassador returns to Nepaul, the King will cast water upon him and thus will purify his _pabitra_ [Brahaminic insignia]. Should this arrangement take place and be adopted in other parts of Hindostan, we can believe that many Hindoos of every class will go to feast their eyes with the marvels of Europe." _Original Poetry._ MUSIC. By Alfred B. Street. Music, how strange her power! her varied strains Thrill with a magic spell the human heart. She wakens memory--brightens hope--the pains, The joys of being at her bidding start. Now to her trumpet-call the spirit leaps; Now to her brooding, tender tones it weeps. Sweet music! is she portion of that breath With which the worlds were born--on which they wheel? One of lost Eden's tones, eluding death, To make man what is best within him feel! Keep open his else sealed up depths of heart, And wake to active life the better part Of his mixed nature, being thus the tie That links us to our God, and draws us toward the sky! _Authors and Books._