Mister and Mistress Brown both had their wish; They hoped the dinner would go off all well, And so it did go off—ay, every dish! NEW LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF FRANCE. Professed patriots being always addicted to abusing their own country, it is presumed that the height of patriotism would consist in an Englishman writing leading articles for a French Radical newspaper. With this view a few literary friends of freedom have associated for the purpose of supplying the Parisian Press with Anti-English leaders at a cheap rate, and the following is submitted as a specimen of the article it is proposed to manufacture. The subject is a particularly happy one, being no less than the solemn declaration of the King of the French (while being invested with the Order of the Garter) that he would never make war upon the Sovereign of the Order alluded to. The circumstance that the oath taken includes no promise or declaration of the kind can of course be of no consequence, as the leader is intended for a French newspaper. The following is the specimen:— "_Nous voyons_ [We see] _que perfide Albion_ (we don't translate _perfide Albion_, for everybody knows the meaning of that) _a donné une Jarretière_ [has given a Garter] _à Louis Philippe_ [to Louis Philippe]. _Mais, pourquoi cette Jarretière?_ [But why this Garter?] _Nous voyons dans cette Jarretière_ [We see in this Garter] _une autre chaîne_ [another chain] _pour France_ [for France]. _Oui, oui!_ [Yes, yes!] _cette Jarretière infâme_ [this infamous Garter] _tiera Louis Philippe par la jambe_ [will tie Louis Philippe by the leg] _plus que jamais_ [more than ever]. _En recevant ce Jarretière honteuse_ [In receiving this infamous Garter] _on lui a fait jurer_, [they made him swear,] _qu'il ne fera pas la guerre_ [that he will not make war] _sur le Souverain de l'Ordre_ [on the Sovereign of the Order]. _Hein, hein!_ [Alas, alas!] _notre pauvre campagne_ [our poor country] _est trahie_ [is betrayed].