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This no doubt was a great iven to the Ereater It was the iven on Monday, 8th July, now three weeks hence;--but all London was already talking of it The great purport proposed was to show to the Elish reat a and a loud clamour on the occasion Some men said that Melmotte was not a citizen of London, others that he was not a lish to spend the necessary money; and as this co necessary, they who opposed the arrangement could only storm and scold On the 20th of June the trades doalls, and generally trans the house in Grosvenor Square in such a fashion that two hundred guests -room of a British merchant

But ere to be the two hundred? It used to be the case that when a gentleuests;--but when affairs becoreat, society can hardly be carried on after that simple fashion The Elish royalty, and English royalty must knohom it has to meet,--must select at any rate some of its comrades The minister of the day also had his candidates for the dinner,--in which arrangee, as the list was confined to the cabinet and their wives The Prime Minister took sole ticket for a private friend But the Opposition as a body desired their share of seats Melmotte had elected to stand for Westminster on the conservative interest, and was advised that heas it were a conservative cabinet present, with its conservative wives He was told that he owed it to his party, and that his party exacted payreat difficulty lay with the city merchants This was to be a city merchant's private feast, and it was essential that the Ereat merchant's brother merchants at the merchant's board No doubt the Emperor would see all the merchants at the Guildhall; but that would be a semi-public affair, paid for out of the funds of a corporation This was to be a private dinner Now the Lord Mayor had set his face against it, and as to be done? Meetings were held; a couests were selected, to the number of fifteen with their fifteen wives;--and subsequently the Lord Mayor wasthe Emperor in the city The Emperor with his suite enty Royalty had twenty tickets, each ticket for guest and wife The existing Cabinet was fourteen; but the co was numbered at about eleven only;--each one for self and wife Five ambassadors and five ambassadresses were to be asked There were to be fifteen real reat peers,--with their peeresses,-- were selected by the general coement There were to be three wise men, two poets, three independent members of the House of Commons, two Royal Academicians, three editors of papers, an African traveller who had just coentlemen were expected to come as bachelors Three tickets were to be kept over for presentation to bores endoith a power ofthemselves absolutely unendurable if not adiver of the feast and his own fao shnesses may be smoothed at last with patience and care, and e