We take the introduction of this and similar passages in the British metropolis to have been originally from the French capital. Thus, in Paris are the _Passage des Panoramas_; _the Passage Delorme_; the _Passage d'Artois_; the _Passage Feydeau_; the _Passage de Caire_; and the _Passage Montesquieu_. A more grandiloquent name applied by the French to some of their passages is _galerie_: we remember the _Galerie Vivienne_ as one of the most splendid specimens, with its _marchands_ of artificial luxuries. The _Galerie Vero Dodat_, (we think shorter than the Lowther Arcade,) is in the extreme of shop-front magnificence: the floor is of alternate squares of black and white marble, and the fronts are of plate-glass with highly-polished brass frames, and we doubt whether that common material, wood, is to be seen in the doors. This _Galerie_ is named after its proprietor, M. Vero Dodat, an opulent _charcutier_, (a pork-butcher) in the neighbouring street; but we are unable to inform the reader by how many horse power his sausage-chopping machine is worked. * * * * * VIRGINIA WATER. (_To the Editor_.) In No. 533 of _The Mirror_ is a Cut of the _Cascade_ at Virginia Water (which by the way is a very correct one, with the keeper's lodge in the distance) which you state was the late King's own planing; but such was not the case, as it was built in the reign of George the Third; the late king merely added improvements about it, one of which was the building of a rude bridge a little below the cascade, of stones similar to the fall: this bridge connects a favourite drive down to the nursery. _Brighton_. E.E. * * * * * FISHING IN CANADA. (_To the Editor_.)