TIME WORKS WONDERS.—­A correspondent Of the Melbourne Daily News remarks that in June, 1847, he met Prince Louis Napoleon and his cousin Jerome Napoleon at Lady Blessington’s.  “The president was then living in a very modest house in King-street, St. James’s-square, and his very unaffected demeanor led me to form an intimate acquaintance with him.  He appeared to me a person more fond of the ordinary amusements of the metropolis, frequenting the theaters, casinos, and other similar places, than an ambitious adventurer.  On the following May as I was entering the chambers of my solicitor, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, an old gentleman with an umbrella under his arm passed me as I opened the swing doors, and politely removed his hat as I made way for him.  It was Louis Philippe.  It is scarce three weeks ago I was ordering a waistcoat of my tailor, when two gentlemen entered the shop, and one of them in broken English gave an order for a paletot; I looked up, It was Ledru Rollin and Etienne Arago; when they had gone, the worthy tradesman, knowing I had lived much in Paris, asked me if I knew his customer (M.  Arago,) and if he could safely give him credit!”

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AMERICAN MUMMIES.—­A letter from Ratisbon states, that the Museum of the Zoological and Mineralogical Society of that town has made a curious acquisition,—­that of two mummies found in the sands of the desert of Atacama in Upper Peru, by Dr. Ried, a Bavarian physician resident at Valparaiso.  These mummies, male and female, both of American race, are natural mummies,—­that is to say, dried without embalming or any other species of preparation.  The man is in a stooping posture, his head sustained on his hands, and his elbows renting on his knees.  The face has an expression of pain which seems to indicate a, violent death.  The woman is stretched at length, with arms crossed on her breast.  Both heads are covered with long hair, dark and silky, and divided into an infinity of small plaits.  When Dr. Reid discovered these mummies both had their teeth complete; but during their transport to Europe many of these have fallen out, and were found at the bottom of the cases containing these curious relics of American antiquity.

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THE COMMON SLANDERS AGAINST DANIEL WEBSTER are noted in the English Journals in connection with his acceptance of the Secretaryship of State.  “These scandals,” observes the Spectator, “cannot, however, hide from us the fact, that of all public men in America, perhaps with one exception, Mr. Webster is he who has evinced the greatest knowledge of public affairs, the greatest acumen in administration, and the greatest common sense in emergency.  High intelligence is probably the best of all substitutes for high honor—­if, indeed, it does not necessarily include that nobler quality.”

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