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promenade in former days, but now chiefly patronized by the inmales of tlie adjoining poor-houses. Excursions from Copenhagen. Few Capital citics in Europe liaye sucli atlraclive environs as Copenhagen. Sliady avenues, changing landscapes, verchanl woods and views of fairy loveliness , scenes in which tlie sea bas ever a part, allure the lourist even as they allure the citizens lo excursions beyond tlie ramparls. Ilow willingly the inhabilants of tlie city eede lo the temptation, may he seen of Sunday afternoon in summer, in spring or in autumn when the wealher is fair; for Ilion Ihc crowds of all classcs who are streaming out of every avenue from lown, on foot, on horse back and in vehicles of every descriplion, arc so densc that a stranger might well be excused for thinking thal a general oxodus of Copenhageners was taking place, and the city was left soul-less, like a city of the dead. That the traveller who visits Copenhagen may the more easily share in these excursions, we will accompany him to the places most olien visiled, and endeavour to the hest of our

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