M. Mansixo.r.---.We visited this man-mountain for the first time on
Thursday. We were prepared for a very great man from the facts an nounced in the bill ; but our expectations fell much short of the reality—. he is prodigious. M. Maii.stior is a French Canadian ; his stature six feet four, and his weight 619 lbs.—forty-six stone jockey ! When he gets up, you might fancy to yourself Miss Djelk figuring on her hind legs in a surtout and trousers ; and when he walks across the room, the floor creaks and the walls vibrate under his ponderous tread. BURNS speaks of "sturdy bearers ;" but what would he have said to a leg of forty inches in circumference, and a thigh of forty-six? These are "bearers" worth speaking of; and truly they had need be sturdy, see- ing they have a body of seven feet girth to bear up. We never saw LAMBERT ; but from description, he must have been a greasy, paunchy. looking fellow. We did not anticipate a very pleasant object in M. MAILHIOT but were agreeably corrected. His features are good, and his long grey hairs, has even a venerable appearance ; his hand is far from being 'extraordinarily large ; and his skin is clean, cool, and healthy. The old gentleman (he is sixty-four) converses sensibly and cheerfully for a man of his years and gravity. He says that in his family there have been an alternation of large and small. His son, who is with him, is a light, active-looking young man ; but a daughter, who remains at home, and who is only twenty-eight, weighs, we were informed, twenty- one stone. His mother was a very large woman, and one of his brothers was also very tall and stout, though not so fat as himself.
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