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t with a pleasantry and a disclaimer. He said it was only a bit of coquetry. America was like a girl whose lover was not so ardent as she wished him to be, and who was trying to pique him by pretending to favor another suitor. But there was nothing in it. England was really the only country in Europe that the Americans cared for, and now he could go home and assure them that their affection was fully reciprocated! There was a dose for Exeter Hall ! They swallowed it however. Gruff John Bull does not get flattered often — when he does, it comes to him with all the charm of novelty. "This true," said Mr. Beecher, (of course I do not give his words,) "that we have been annoyed at what we consider unfriendly treatment; but we love England after all and since the rams have been stopped, and Earl Russell has said that a majority of the English people favor the North, it is all right once more.--We shall have nothing to do with the Russian." Nr Slidell in Paris — Procious Stat