The intrepidity and military ardour which so distinguished our allies are shared it appears, by the ladies of our nation.

Three nights ago a buxom, cantiniere accompanied her battalion to the trenches there to supply them with the restorative petit verre, and to brave, with masculine courage, the storm of shot and shell.

There was probably some miscalculation in the matter, but the fact is that, towards the small hours of the morning, she was taken with the pains of maternity, and gave birth to twins. Mother and children are doing well. - Times’ Correspondent.

We find the following “going astray” in a contemporary: - Mr. Thomas CARLYLE was at Berlin a few months back, and went a sight-seeing, as a matter of course, to Potsdam. Some one met him at dinner at Lord BLOOMFIELD’s, and asked him what he thought of the Royal residence, so much admired and so full of interesting historical recollections.

“Well,” replied the distinguished writer, in his peculiar accent, “I think the new palace is a gigantic specimen of old grimace,a nd the gardens round one of the most extensive frog preserves I ever met with.”

In a steam engine manufactory established some years back at Charenton, Mr. MANBY, the director, remarked a great difference in the quantity of work done by English and French workmen employed in the same operations; and he thought that it arose from the latter not being so well fed. He accordingly took measures for having them as well fed as the English, and from that moment all difference disappeared.

The prisoners in the central gaol at Riom polished 120 square inches of glass in a day, but when their food was increased they polished 340!

Last week the bakers of the metropolis very generally reduced the price of bread. In those localities where the poor chiefly abound, the trade is principally carried on for ready money, what is termed “best wheaten bread” is now selling at 8 ½d and 9d the 4lb loaf; among the half priced bakers the price is 9 ½d and 10d. Household bread is to be had at 7d and 7 ½ d the 4lb loaf. The corn chandlers are selling flour at from 2s 10d to 3s 4d per stone of 14lb.