Bride, father, and brother-in-law are acquitted for want of evidence. Steppenseifer leaves the court repeating the well-known Berlin saying, "Cutting it fat won't find a dinner!" TOO LATE ! Herr Rummelberg is sixty-seven years of age. But, regarding his feelings-in spite of his paunch and his gray hair-he is but six-andthirty, and he never met in his life a pretty face without feeling an inclination to make a conquest. Fortunately for his virtue and his health, Herr Rummelberg has near him Madame Streithorst, under the elastic title of a housekeeper, whose exertions are exclusively directed to keeping all temptation far from her master. But, for all that, the old butterfly manages to flutter to all the places where gas and other flames enliven the evening. Our history commences, therefore, at Kroll's, and is developed in the police-court. In the prisoners' box is a young, most elegantlydressed lady, whose charming face at this moment bears traces of anger, and whose dark, fiery eye casts furious glances on Madame Streithorst, who is seated in the witness-box, and appears to be busily engaged with Herr Rummelberg. Miss Rosalie. While she was beating him, she overwhelmed him with reproaches, whence I discovered that she was the ill housekeeper, whose connection with her master appeared only to want the blessing of some afternoon-preacher. I saw in my presence an obstacle to the reconciliation of the two old people, and wished, therefore, to retire Madame Streithorst. That is-with the jewelry. Miss Rosalie. When the old monster tore off my shawl, opened the window, and called out "Help! thieves!" A policeman came directly, and I was taken to the lock-up. Madame Streithorst. As a thief deserves. the old gentleman, you will perceive that I am not Miss Rosalie. If your worship will question a thief: at least, I do not think him so wicked as to accuse me of it. Magistrate. Herr Rummelberg, did the affair take place in the way the prisoner has described it? Rummelberg (stuttering). Your worshipthere are cases in which a man-unpleasant embarrassment-very painful position for me (wiping the perspiration from his forehead). Magistrate. Pray speak more plainly. Rummelberg Certainly no idea of theftquite unfounded--as I said, highly unpleasant for Magistrate (to the young lady). Rosalie Wer-me--still-after all—a man like myself-in his der, you are charged with having robbed Herr best years-unmarried-no crime-still highly Rummelberg, rentier and householder, of various unpleasant-extraordinarily unpleasant! articles of jewelry. Magistrate. Silence! and let the accused party speak. (To Rosalie.) What have you to say in your defence? Miss Rosalie. One evening I was at Kroll's, and looking for my friend, whom I had lost in the crowd, when, suddenly, an old and very ugly man (Rummelberg fidgets on his seat) offers me his protection. He asserted that he had to deliver to me various articles of jewelry from my cousin at Rathenow, among them a splendid bracelet. The court, after a short consultation, acquits Rosalie Werder, who retires hurriedly, with a smiling face. justice that! Come, we'll arrange the matter very Madame Streithorst (to Rummelberg). Pretty differently at home! Saphir's humoristich satirischer Volks Calendar, published at Vienna, commences with a variety of prophecies, mostly very bad, but from which we can contrive to make a few extracts. "The year 1855 will enter a new Russian phase. It will make its boots uncommonly dirty in consequence. It will look round for a boot-cleaner, when Paskievitch Madame Streithorst. False! utterly false ! will recommend Omar Pacha, who is a faMiss Rosalie. That is possible: I have not mous hand at polishing people off. The pribeen able to inquire yet. The venerable exterior of the old gentleman, the corpse-like dignity of soners in Kamschatka will be liberated by his appearance, could not cause me to hesitate in the Turks, and receive free billets of admis believing him and accompanying him home in his sion to the slave market of Constantinople. droschki, in order to receive the articles he had Napier will be nominated Barber of Cronstadt, mentioned. We arrived. He opened the door of and immediately proceed to sharpen his weahis house, and begged me to go up-stairs as gently pons, during which operation he will cut his as possible, because his housekeeper was danger-fingers once more. A whole regiment of Madame Streithorst. Well, well-only wait, and I'll show you I'm quite well. ously ill. Miss Rosalie. But we had scarce entered his house, before he closed the door, fell on his knees before me, and told me of his love. I had not time to feel horrified at this confession, before an old female monster rushed forward with a wet broom, and furiously attacked the venerable man, behind whom I had sought shelter in the first moment of terror. Cossacks of the Don will go over to-humanity. Diogenes will join the Turks on account of " Sinope." At a ball in Bucharest, a Turk will be present, who is not a Hungarian, Pole, Italian, or Frenchman. Frederika Bremer will espouse Elihu Burritt, and propagate olive-branches in Norway. In HessenCassel, a poor fellow will be jolly. The doctors consider his condition dangerous. He Hesse Cassel will have an international law of copyright. The truth will find its way into a Petersburg journal at the risk of life. The Prussian Ambassador in Petersburg (Baron von Werthern) will bring out a new edition of the "Sorrows of Werther." Marius will emigrate from the ruins of Carthage to Bomarsund. Xenophon's Anabasis, or the "Retreat," will be translated from the Greek into the Muscovite. A new planet will be discovered in the tail of "Ursa Major," which the astronomers will christen "Humanity." "In the year 1855, 365 eclipses will take place, which will be visible at all places where the eyes are not shut. The first of these eclipses will take place on New Year's-day, when the congratulators will not have any thing to see. The second eclipse will take place in Germany, commencing at Bamberg and extending to Frankfurt, and this eclipse will be so total, that folks will not see the knout before their eyes. The third eclipse, coming from the North, will cover the Crescent, and extend its shadow over Arndt's 'Wo ist des Deutschen Vaterland,' set to music, and provided with 'notes.' The fourth eclipse is a total one, commencing with the Gold region' and extending far beyond the Credit zone.' The fifth eclipse will be visible at Silistria, where not the smallest Russian can be seen for the heaviest sum of money," &c., &c. But the joke of jokes in Saphir's Almanac is contained in his illustrations of the signs of the zodiac. Under "Aries," he writes as follows: "Aries, or Richard Cobden, the lamb of peace and the apostle of wool. This sign indicates the season when the sheep are driven out to pasture. This ram of ours annually drives his flocks of peace to the meadow of publicity. Peace and wool!' is his motto. It is evident that a sheep is the most fitting advocate for both, even if he bleats pro domo." The principal jokes, however, in all the comic almanacs, appear to relate to Charley Napier's celebrated order "to sharpen cutlasses," and to the "Jahde Busen," or Gulf of Jahde, which Prussia recently purchased from Oldenburg, for the purpose of establishing a national harbor for Germany. But before parting from our kind readers, we will fulfil our promise of giving them some German notions of English manners, which we will derive from the opening part of the story to which we alluded. "London, that central point of trade, of riches and want, has fallen into the arms of sleep and rest, for midnight is long past. The fine, penetrating rain pierces the dense fog, decided physiognomy to which it could not be recog son had given his friends a per, in honor of his being ap to her Majesty Queen Victori rich tradesman Joffrey is ju in osder to reach the City, Regent-street to Trafalgar-s who, like Joffrey, enjoys th like that he had just finished Simpson, doubtless knows r ger. The consumption of which is as necessary for a mach as the daily dry brea poor in the same city, at lea effect which the boa feels w lowed a jaguar: it is unsus different to all that crawls ar "The same may be assu Stuffed with that respect-d tum of meat, tea, game, and would be astonished that suc comprehend one of his fello ing from hunger? Wrappe Joffrey consequently hurried the misery which night in Lo the streets. Trafalgar squar finest and largest squares in t as Europe signifies the world. fashionable West end, the ro Old England surround it, a buildings and museums; whi magnificent terrace, it support a statue-above, the King C the lofty pillar of the naval he and Abukir, both of which ar the fine watery dust of the fo the palace-resembling private rise in a long row from the Stran Mall, exhale that proud aris was peculiar to the style of th and whose type the English r present day most faithfully re "These palaces are generall small porticos, which with polished stones serve as a ro the homeless. There it is wh five years cower behind a pill cold, and try in vain to wrap their rags. Horrible wome there, and in bestial carelessne heads, heavy with gin or run stones, while they clutch tightl of spirits, which offers them th human delight. Men with s and only covered with the abs sary rags, barefooted, withou perhaps with only a patched WARREN HASTINGS. d and starving--these are from that picture which nightly in London. Round es of Trafalgar-square crime defiling those marble pillars ential breath, and during the s and the mortar of these orrified listeners to curses lamentations and complaints --the same stones which, on e delicate feet of a duchess trip over." our readers had enough? If 537 they have not, we have! But how true it From the Biographical Magazine. WARREN HASTINGS. century ago, when the inhab- | n expected a hostile visitation lans, when the Thames was a pure river, and pleasant las still existed between CharTemple-Bar, a boy wandered Westminster School, in whose that of many other little boys, he future man was very dimly His family were in decayed and he easily detected the o wealth, even in those years ; while at home he heard tra3 not far removed, when his a high place among the Eng. 7. He would be often told of estry-the connection of his rons and earls-and those fair s, sold by his grandfather's r means to fight the battle of nd Royalists, when he follow'standard through folly and . Daylesford, the last of the ons, had belonged to them une; and their records bore the wners for nearly five hundred een years before the school ad been sold to a Bristol citiWestminster lad determined to gain; and seventy-four years he realized this juvenile pur scenes of magnificence and Oriental splendor, Nearly forty years had passed away after He who enjoys, nor covets more, Is of true bliss possessed; Which labored years have won ; se to which he clung amid Daylesford and his Westminster purposes Dowla. He had gained th natives, and his captivity was Surajah Dowla violently opp lish interest; but this Indian afterwards defeated by Mee his throne, and subsequently his former prisoner was acci Clive as Resident Minister to conqueror. The calamities of some m springs of their prosperity; a ity of Hastings may have pre for his diplomatic employm quired great influence over his new capacity; and afte materially in his contracted interests of the empire, he India in 1765. Hastings rer country for a few years, an was appointed by the Directo India Company a member of for Madras; with the under he should succeed to the g the Presidency. He proceede in 1769. It was a period of rassment; for the British Em menaced by numerous foes. threatened its finest colonies. vision was followed by succ and revolution, in America. spiracy of Indian kings had against the infant empire of th the influence and power of th India were employed to sweep flag from Hindostan. The pecu ces of the Company in the forestalled. The competency o chiefs in Asia was denied. Ev forces in the Indian seas had to defend the coasts of the Pre the attacks of the French flee India Company's power was brink of destruction. The I Proprietary trembled for the va stock; and the history of the Empire seemed nearly complete the emergency when the Direct determined to place their affairs under the control of a man of genius; and Warren Hastings to proceed from Madras, and Governorship of Bengal, in 177 The Bengal Presidency had come British property. A few viously the Company with difficu permission to trade where the the virtual rulers. Warren H the first Governor-General of In ercised direct authority over the His predecessors, Lord Clive, Mr.Verelst, and Mr. Cartier, had acted in conjunction with the Court of Moorshedabad. They doubtless exercised complete powers under a pretence; which Hastings was instructed to withdraw. He had therefore to construct a new system of government for thirty millions of persons, without a Parliament, without precedents; with a distracted Cabinet at home and a divided council in India; while the basis of his power was shaken by the attacks of external foes and intriguing partisans. In this conjuncture of difficulties he was almost the only one capable of government, for his assistants knew little of the habits, the history, the laws, languages, and religions of those nations whom he was to form into a compact state. The Rohilla war broke out immediately after his appointment. The contest originated in an alliance with the Nawab of Oude, which Hastings did not frame, although he approved of its conditions; and they strengthened the frontier of Hindostan by securing a faithful ally among the native princes. That war had scarcely been brought to a conclusion, when he was drawn into a serious contest in defence of Bombay against the Mahrattas. The Presidency of Bengal was then far removed from the nearest territory of Bombay. Independent nations stood between them; and a Governor at Calcutta of less patriotism than Hastings would have left the Bombay authorities to fight by themselves those battles which they had undertaken. This policy might have been prudent for a man of ease; but it could not be adopted by the sagacious statesman who probably foresaw the union of the three Presidencies under one government. The Bombay forces had been beaten by the Mahrattas, when the Bengal army arrived, changed the current of events, and saved the Presidency. But Bombay was saved only to allow Bengal and Hastings to succor Madras, overwhelmed by Hyder Ali and the incompetency of its governors, while threatened by a French army and fleet. The armies of Madras were either defeated in the field or starved in the forts. The commissariat was in distress, and the treasury was empty. Captivity and disgrace, or death by famine and the sword, were the only apparent alternatives of the British in Madras, when the genius of Hastings devised, and his perseverance accomplished their rescue. | barrassing and painful. The Court of Directors endeavored always to provide a majority against his measures in his Council. The land tax adopted in 1772 was limited to five years. All the plans of renewal proposed by him were invariably resisted by General Clavering, Colonel Monson, and Mr. Francis; while they were as invariably supported by Mr. Barwell. The revenues of the Presidency were endangered by this division of opinion; but the death of Colonel Monson in 1776 delivered the Governor-General from this thraldom, for the Council being equally divided, his casting vote rendered him supreme; and he applied his energy and genius to the financial business of the country, without the fear of defeat. The five years' leases had not realized the nominal rental. The arrears amounted to 129,000l., and the remissions to 118,0007. At the end of the period, Mr. Francis, the great opponent of the Governor-General, in Council, proposed a fixed and invariable rent; while the latter, in conjunction with Mr. Barwell, desired a strict inquiry into the capabilities of the soil, and the adoption of a variable tax. Hastings enforced his opinion by his vote. And as the Directors wished to postpone the adjustment of the rent-roll, annual arrangements were made until 1781. The vacillating policy of the Directors turned all Hindostan into a tenure at will for a number of years, and yet the inconvenience of an unsettled revenue fell upon their representative, to whom "life in India" was a succession of annoyances. The Directors, receiving dispatches four months after their date, issued orders, proceeding upon their contents, which were to be enforced four months after they had been written. These orders generally were to undo whatever Hastings had performed, who, with nearly equal determination, postponed or refused compliance with their requests. The Rohilla war was discussed and condemned by the Directors, who passed a resolution reflecting severely upon the GovernorGeneral. The proprietors, at their next meeting, passed a contra-resolution, expressive of their "highest opinion of the services and integrity of Warren Hastings, Esq.," adding, that "they could not admit a corrupt suspicion of him without proof." This vote was given on the 6th December, 1775; but on the 8th May, 1766, the Directors resolved to address the King for the recall of During these struggles the Governor- Hastings; while on the 17th of the same General's position with his Council at Cal-month the Proprietors, by a vote of 377 to |