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CONVEYANCES.-1-horse Cab, between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. as follows:-For the Course (anywhere within the town), 1 fr. for first half-hour; every quarter of any hour after, t0c. By time for 2-horse Fiacres the charge is not fixed by tariff, but is not high. The Voitures de Grande Renise are dearer. Pourboirc, 25 cents, small packages, free; larger, 15 cents each.

ENGLISH CHURCHES.-Church of the Resurrection, Rue Stassart; Chaplain, Rev. J. C. Jenkins, M.A., 29, Rue St. Bernard. Holy Communion on Sunday and Festivals at 8-30 a.m. Sunday prayers, Sermon, Holy Communion 11 a.m.; Litany 3-45 p.m.; Evening prayer and Sermon 7 p.m. Daily Service 11 a.m.; Friday (extra) at 3-30 p m.

Christ Church (C. C. C. Society), Rue Crespel, Avenue de la Toison d'Or; Chaplain, Rev. W. R. Stephens, M.A., 171, Chaussée de Vleurgat. Sundays, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesdays and Festivals, 11 a.m. Lord's Supper, 1st and 3rd Sunday of month in winter, and every Sunday May to October. Donations to building fund may be paid to the chaplain, or to C. C. C. Society, London.

Service is also held in the French Church, Rue Belliard, Quartier Léopold, Rev. A. K. Harlock, M.A., Chaplain. Morning service, 12; afternoon, 4. Holy Communion on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month, and on all the great festivals.

[N.B. For any alterations in the hours of service see bills at the hotels.]

ENGLISH CHAPEL, 50, Boulevard de l'Observatoire.

The new SYNAGOGUE is near the new Conservatoire, in the Rue de la Régence.

PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN, &c.,

RECOMMENDED.

PHYSICIAN.-H. Collignon, M.D., 24, Rue des Chevaliers, physician to the U.S. A. Legation, and to the British Charitable Fund. Accoucheur (at home from twelve till half-past two o'clock in the afternoon). Recommended.

BIBLE SOCIETY'S AGENT.-Mr. W. H. Kirkpatrick, 5, Rue de la Pépinière.

OLD ENGLISH BANK.-Bigwood & Morgan, 8, Rue Royale, opposite the Park. Correspondents of all the principal English and American Banks. Circular Letters of Credit cashed and issued for all parts of the Continent. Purchases and sales effected in British and Foreign Stocks and Securities. Register kept for English and American travellers.

LACE MANUFACTORY.-Cie Royale des Dentelles de Bruxelles. We recommend with all confidence the establishment of M. O. de Vergnies et Sœurs, 26, Rue des Paroissiens, near the Cathedral of St. Gudule.

LACE MANUFACTORY.-Des Marès, 15, Rue de la Chancellerie, near the Cathedral. This establishment can also be recommended, and visitors are invited to inspect the workrooms.

GLOVES.-Maison Dor, Son, Rue des Harengs, Nos. 3 and 4. First houses on the right and left hand sides, coming from the Marché aux Herbes.

EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT.-The Rev. J. C. Jenkins, M.A., chaplain of the Church of the Resurrection, and formerly scholar of Magdelene College, Cambridge, has passed pupils (direct) for Eton and Winchester Foundation Scholarships, the army, navy, &c. First prizes for French and German have been obtained by former pupils at Eton and Woolwich. Special preparation for the Mercantile Profession. Clergymen's sons received at reduced terms. Senior and junior departments. Terms commence September 15, January 15, and April 15. Address-29 Rue St. Bernard, Brussels.

Tobacco.-Messrs. W. D. and H. O. Wills's "Best Bird's Eye" is sold by Mons. LelotteTown, 88, Montague-de-la-Cour.

Excursions from Brussels.

Waterloo. The Museum Hotel, near the Lion, recommended; Hotel Mont St. Jean (at Mont St. Jean; and Hotel de Colonnes.

The excursion to Waterloo is a very pleasant one indeed through the forest of Soignies. Few English or American travellers who visit Brussels

can refrain from going to Waterloo and Mont St. Jean, the Chateau of Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, Quatre Bras, &c., which, with their exciting associations, are as attractive as ever. It may be done by Rail as well as by coach, &c. The Waterloo District is now traversed by Rail direct from Brussels to Charleroi, taking in Waterloo, Brainel'Alleud, Nivelles, Genappe, Belle Alliance, and Quatre-Bras. A part of it passes Baulers, Nivelles, Rèves (near Luttre), Frasnes-lezGosselies (Ney's head-quarters), and Wagnelé St. Amand (near Quatre-Bras), Blücher's headquarters at the Battle of Ligny.

CONVEYANCES.- From Brussels, by rail, see Bradshaw's Continental Guide, page 88. Fare to Braine-l'Alleud (which is the nearest station to the Mount) there and back, 1st class, 3fr. 80c.; fare of the omnibus from Braine-l'Alleud to the Lion included. N.B.-Stations at Waterloo and Brainel'Alleud; the latter only a mile from the Belgian Lion, to which there is a conveyance. By the four-horse coach (Sundays excepted); fare there and back, 7 frs. Private carriages for 1 to 5 persons, 25 frs. Insist upon being put down at the Museum Hotel, when going by private carriage, otherwise you will have to walk 3 or 4 miles. The Museum is kept by the niece of the late Sergeant-Major Cotton.

Travellers wishing to possess a concise and authentic history of the celebrated battle should purchase "The Voice from Waterloo," by the late Serjeant-Major Cotton, to be had at the Waterloo Museum, at the foot of the Lion Mount.

Its

Waterloo is a large and handsome village. church is an elegant rotunda, adorned by a neat frontispiece, bearing an inscription, which states that the Marquis of Castanaga, governor of the Low Countries, laid the first stone of the church in 1690. The hamlet of Mont St. Jean is a little beyond Waterloo. The French named the battle of the 18th June, 1815, after this hamlet, Mont St. Jean; the victorious allies, as it is well known, called it after the village of Waterloo. Planchenoit, where the farm of La Belle Alliance; the usual ssian name for the battle, is situated, is still a ther on.

The road from Brussels to Waterloo lies for the greater part through the Forest of Soignies and except the view of the town obtained near the village of Ixelles, presents no features worthy of observation.

Byron, using a poetical license, describes the march of the British troops through the forest in the following beautiful lines:

"And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves
Dewy with nature's tear drops, as they pass,
Grieving, if ought inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the unreturning brave. Alas!

Ere evening to be trodden like the grass
Which now beneath them, but above shall grow
In its next verdure, when its fiery mass
Of living valour, rolling on the foe,
And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold
and low."

This forest is 9 miles long, and about 8 broad.

The village of Waterloo receives us immediately on leaving the forest, but contains nothing to attract our attention, except the elegant little Chapel, built 1855, surmounted by a handsome dome, and containing several marble tablets to the memory of those who fell in the contest, and the house in which the leg of Lord Uxbridge was amputated. The spot in the garden in which the shattered leg was buried, is marked by a small monument. In this church are thirty tablets and monuments, melancholy memorials of the horrible vicissitudes of war, and its victims, the English officers who fell on that memorable field.

"Many a wounded Briton there was laid

With such poor help as time might then allow
From the fresh carnage of the field conveyed.
And they whom human succour could not save
Here in its precincts found a hasty grave.
And here, on marble tablets set on high,
In English lines by foreign workmen trac'd,
Are names familiar to an English eye;
Their brethren here the fit memorials plac'd,
Whose unadorned inscriptions briefly tell
Their gallant comrades' rank and where they fell "
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St. Jean, and leaving the road to Nivelles on the right, we proceed in the direction of Genappe and Charleroi, and soon after arrive at the farm of Mont St. Jean, which was immediately in the rear of the centre of the British line. Proceeding further on the road to Charleroi, we arrive at La Belle Alliance, a farm-house and hamlet situate on the opposite ridge, and corresponding with the farm of Mont St. Jean. This is the extent of the scene of the tourist's observation.

memory of the duke, his father, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Jena. During the night this division of the troops fell back upon Waterloo to join the Duke of Wellington, commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Belgian army, who had his head-quarters in that village; his troops were posted in front of the Forest of Soignies, on the 17th, the Duke's horse (not Copenhagen) was shot under him; in the evening, he rode 14 miles to have a private meeting with Blücher at Wavre. The English position occupied a line of about one mile and a half in length, the centre being in front of the farmhouse of Mont St. Jean; the left extending to a hamlet called Smouken, and a farm-house named Papelotte, and having in front the farm of La Haye - Sainte, whence a succession of broken roads formed a precarious communication with Blücher's position at Wavre; and the right stretch

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of artillery, passed the Sambre, and having defeated some regiments of Prussians, took possession of Charleroi, a town, at that time, without defence. On the 16th they advanced into the plains of Fleurus, where the fate of Belgium has thrice been decided, and at Ligny attacked the Prussian army, whose commander, Field-Marshal Blücher, narrowly escaped being taken prisoner. been thrown from his horse in the midst of the action, when surrounded on all sides by the pursuing enemy, whose precipitation alone prevented their recognising the marshal's person. A momentary repulse of the French by a body of Prussian cavalry, afforded Blücher time to be extricated from his perilous situation and mounted on a dragoon's horse. The French took some pieces of artillery and remained masters of the field. Blücher made a good retreat to Wavre. While these operations were rapidly carrying on, a strong column of French troops advanced towards Quatre Bras, a point of junction of four roads, nearly twenty miles from Brussels, on the road to Charleroi, where the Prince of Orange was posted with a division of Belgian and British troops.

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tion in a semicircular slope backwards until the extreme flank rested on Marke-Braine, where it was protected by a ravine. The right of the British army, extending along the same eminence, occupied and protected the Nivelles Road as far as the enclosures of Hougoumont. ground in front of the British position sloped easily down into lower ground, forming a sort of valley-not a level plain, but a declivity, varied by many gentle sweeps and hollows, as if formed The ground then by the course of a river. ascends in the same manner to a ridge opposite to that of Mont St. Jean, and running parallel to it at the distance of twelve or fourteen hundred yards. This was the position of the French. The valley between the two ridges is entirely open and uninclosed, and on that memorable day bore a tall and strong crop of corn. But in the centre of the valley, about half way between the two ridges, and situated considerably to the right of the English centre, was the Château de Goumont, or Hougoumont. This was a gentleman's house of the old Flemish architecture, having a tower and battlements. It was surrounded on one side by a large farm-yard, and on the other opening to a garden and orchard, and faced by a brick wall: the whole encircled by a grove of tall trees. This Château, with the advantages afforded by its wood and orchard, formed a strong point d'appui to the British right wing.

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