We had a long walk with Mama to the places where the people that were killed in July were buried.  There are tricolor flags over them all, and the flowers and crowns of everlastings were all nicely arranged about the tombs.  Amongst them was the kennel of a poor dog whose master was one of the killed, which has come every day since and lain on his grave.  The dog itself was not in.  The poor Swiss are buried there, too, but without flowers or crowns or railings, or even stones, to show the place.

She had been “wishing horridly for fields and trees and grass” for some time past; on June 16, 1831, they were all back again in England.

    Dover, June 16, 1831

Everything seems odd here; pokers and leather harness, all the women and girls with bonnets and long petticoats and shawls and flounces and comfortable poky straw bonnets, and boys so nicely dressed, and urns and small panes (no glasses and no clocks), trays, good bread, and everybody with clean and fresh and pretty faces.  We have been walking this evening by the sea, and all the English look very odd; they all look hangy and loose, so different from the Paris ladies, laced so tight they can hardly walk, and the men and boys look ten times better.

    ROCHESTER, June 17, 1831

We did not leave Dover till near twelve—­the country has really been beautiful to-day; all the beautiful gentlemen’s places with large trees, and the pretty hedges all along the road full of honeysuckle and roses; clean cows and white fat sheep feeding in most beautiful rich green grass; the nicest little cottages with lattice windows and thatched roofs and neat gardens, and roses, ivy, and honeysuckle creeping to the tops of the chimneys; everybody and everything clean and tidy....  The cart-horses are beautiful, and even the beggars look as if they washed their faces.

    October 9, 1831, BOGNOR

We heard this morning of the loss of the Reform Bill, and we were at first all very sorry, but in a little while rather glad because it gives us a chance of Minto.  When the people of Bognor heard it was lost, they took the flowers and ribands off that they had dressed up the coaches with, thinking it had passed, and put them in mourning.

Lord John Russell had introduced the first Reform Bill on March 1, 1831; this was carried by a majority of one; but in a later division the Government was defeated by a majority of eight, and Parliament was dissolved.  The elections resulted in an emphatic verdict in favour of Reform, and on June 24th Lord John introduced the second Reform Bill, which was carried by a large majority in the House of Commons.  He had proposed to disfranchise partially or completely 110 boroughs; a proposition which had seemed so revolutionary that it was at first received with laughter by the Opposition, who were confident no such measure could