Czar : "So at my contemp tuous nod the heroic Alexander of Batten berg has been ignominiously driven from his principality ?" Aide : " Certainly, your Majesty." Czar : " And now to arrange a matter of far greater importance. Have you lined the railroad with armed troops ?" Aide: " Yes, your Majesty." Czar: "Given them loaded rifles with fixed bayonets, ready to fire upon anyone who comes within o thousand yards along which I have to travol ?" Aide: " Yes, jour Majesty." Czar: "And have you got me three trains, so that by frequent changes I may baffle the conspira tors ?" Aide : " Yes, your Majesty." Czar : " And are all the stations carefully fortified, so that a surprise is impossible ?" Aide : " Tea, your Majesty." Czar : " And is the routo flooded with police spies, prepared at the smallest eign of danger to sound an alarm ?" Aide : " Yes, your Majesty." Czar : " And are you quite sure that no one is looking ?" Aide : " Yes, your Majesty." Czar : " Then I think I may vonture to travel from ono town m my dominions to another." [Does so.] — Punch. An Oriental gontloinan piominently con nected with the Indian portion of the Exhi bition writes as follows :— " I hope you will, through the medium of your columns, allow me to place before the world an incident that took place m tho Covent Garden the other day, when I visited that place with an Indian ofllcer of high rank. I was invited to break fast, and was taken to that interesting place to see it, as I am a visitor from India, feeling specially interested m agri-horticultural pro ducts. We came to a place where a heap of baskets filled with raspberries were laid to gether, and my host was inclined to buy some for me ; but on enquiring the price he was told by a stout, stern-looking person m a resolute ton* that they were not for salo. It was gone nine, the market was just closed, and thero appeared no chance of obtaining the fruit. 