the cheek, and sprinkled the sorrows of age upon

the honoured head.

A CROWD is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, where there is no love.

WOMEN.

NINON DE L'ENCLOS said she returned thanks to God every night for the strength of her mind, and prayed every morning to preserve it from the weakness of her heart.

THE LAW OF ENGLAND.

A CERTAIN learned judge, being asked what he would do if a man owed him £10, and refused to pay him" Rather than bring an action, with its cost and uncertainty," said he, "I would send him a receipt in full of all demands-" Ay," said he, recollecting himself, "and I would, moreover, send him £5 to cover all possible costs."

AN ARCHITECT'S WAGES FORMERLY.

IN 1544, John of Padua was "devizour of his majestie's works," and his payment was two shillings a day!

ANECDOTE OF THE LATE JAMES SMITH.

A GENTLEMAN with the same Christian and surname took lodgings in the same house. The consequence was eternal confusion of calls and letters. Indeed the postman had no alternative but to share the letters equally between the two. "This is intolerable, sir," said our friend, "and you must quit." "Why am I to quit more than you?" "Because you are James the Second and must abdicate."

IT is calculated that 50,000 drunkards die yearly

in this country, and that one half of the insanity, two-thirds of the pauperism, and three-fourths of the crimes of the land, are the consequence of drunkenness.

DEFECTS IN ORATORY.

VOLTAIRE, Speaking of the generality of modern orators, says, "What they want in depth, they give us in length."

KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE.

THE man of knowledge lives eternally after his death, while his members are reduced to dust beneath the tomb. But the ignorant man is dead even while he walks upon the earth; he is numbered with the living men, yet existeth not.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S ANCESTRY.

I MET Roger Pepys newly come out of the country; in discourse he told me that his grandfather had 8007. per annum in Queen Elizabeth's time, in the very town of Cottenham; and that we did certainly come out of Scotland with the abbot of Crowland.

STOICISM OF SEAMEN.

"AVAST there!" cried a sailor to his comrade, who was busied in heaving overboard the lower division of a shipmate just cut in halves by a chainshot, "Avast! let us first see if Ben arn't got the key of our mess-chest in his pocket!"

NAPOLEON'S CONSIDERATION FOR THE POOR.

It was the Emperor's wish that everything connected with the exercise of religion should be gratuitous, and that the poor should be interred at once gratuitously and decently. "It was not

right," he said, "to tax the dead; it was not right to deprive the poor of what consoles their poverty." He commanded the churches to be opened gratuitously to the public; and that if a church had been hung with black for the funeral service of a rich man, the hangings should not be taken down till the service for the poor man had likewise been performed. It was at one time his intention to reduce the admission on Sundays to the pit of the Théâtre Français to twenty sous, that the humbler classes also might enjoy the masterpieces of our literature.

ADMITTING YOURSELF OUT OF COURT.

A LIBERALITY of concession to your opponent by which you destroy your own cause. This excess of candour was well illustrated by the Irishman, who boasted that he had often skated sixty miles a-day. "Sixty miles!" exclaimed an auditor-" that is a great distance: it must have been accomplished when the days were longest."-"To be sure it was; I admit that," cried the ingenious Hibernian.

IT chanced one gloomy day in the month of December, that a good-humoured Irishman applied to a merchant to discount a bill of exchange for him at rather a long though not an unusual date, and the merchant having casually remarked that the bill had a great many days to run, "That's true," replied the Irishman; " but then, my honey, you don't consider how short the days are at this time of the year."

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"LITTLE OF ITS AGE."

'MR. FOOTE," said Lord Kelly, "I know you are a connoisseur in wines; and I have some very

old Constantia, which I wish you would taste." Roused by this, Foote looked earnestly for the bottle, when, to his great surprise and chagrin, a pint was produced. "There," said his lordship, pouring out a quarter of a glass and handing it to his witty guest, "there, Mr. Foote, that Constantia's twenty-two years of age." "Twenty-two years of age," exclaimed Foote; "why, my lord, it is impossible!" "I give you my honour it is; but why impossible?" "Because," replied the wag, "it is so little of its age."

NOTHING IS LOST.

THE drop of water which is spilt, the fragment of water which is burnt, the plant that rots on the ground, all that perishes and is forgetten, equally seeks the atmosphere; and all is there preserved, and thence daily returned for use.

HIP, HIP, HURRA!

DURING the stirring times of the Crusades, the chivalry of Europe was excited to arms by the inflammatory appeals of the well-known Peter the Hermit. While preaching the crusade, this furious zealot was accustomed to exhibit a banner emblazoned with the following letters, H. E. P., the initials of the Latin words, Hierosolyma est Perdita, Jerusalem is destroyed. The people, in some of the countries which he visited, not being acquainted with the Latin, read and pronounced the inscription as if one word-Hep. The followers of the hermit were accustomed, whenever an unfortunate Jew appeared in the streets, to raise the cry, "Hep, hep, hura!" to hunt him down, and flesh upon the defenceless Israelite their maiden swords, before they

essayed their temper with the scimetar of the Saracen.

LOVE OF LIFE.

THERE is an anecdote recorded of one of the favourite marshals of Napoleon, the Duke de Montebello, which finely illustrates the strength of this instinctive principle. During a battle in the south of Germany, the duke was struck by a cannon-ball, and so severely wounded that there was no hope of a respite. Summoning the surgeon, he ordered his wounds to be dressed; and when help was declared unavailing, the dying officer, excited into frenzy by the love of life, burned with vindictive anger against the medical attendant, threatening the heaviest penalties if his art should bring no relief. The dying marshal demanded that Napoleon should be sent for, as one who had power to save; whose words could stop the effusion of blood from the wound, and awe nature itself into submission. Napoleon arrived just in time to see the last fearful struggle of expiring nature, and to hear his favourite marshal vociferate, as the lamp of life was just being extinguished, "Save me, Napoleon !"-We have heard of instances in humble life. A man, on the point of death, vowed he would not die, cursing his physician, who announced the near termination of his life, and insisting that he would live, in defiance of the laws of nature! In both these cases we see clearly manifested the passion for life, the instinct of self-preservation, which it is almost impossible to master.

MATHEWS AND THE SILVER SPOON.

AMONGST Mathews' pranks of younger days, that is to say, when he first came from York to the