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quit the subject on any account. Dinner has been often three hours ready for him before he could be brought to table. When he has been getting up in a morning, he has sometimes begun to dress, and with one leg in his breeches, sat down again on the bed, and so remained for hours before he got his clothes on. Monthly Review, vol. 47, p. 332. In a letter from one of his descendants.

CURIOUS phenomenon on the morning of the earthquake.-About two o'clock, A. M., on the 20th ult., a smack from the Wyre was off Bispham, at the distance of about a mile and a half from the shore, when the master, who was at the helm, perceived within a few yards of the vessel a large volume of pale fire whirling round with great rapidity over the surface of the sea. The water at the spot did not seem agitated. Report says that a slight shock was felt at Kirkham about two o'clock.-Manchester Courier, Sept. 12, 1835.

IN the Kamtchatsal translation of the Lord's Prayer, the passages-forgive us our trespasses, and lead us not into temptation, are omitted. M. Kracheninnikow assigning as a reason, that the Kamtchadales could not be made to comprehend the meaning of the terms.-Monthly Review, vol. 41, p. 443.

An enquiry into the subject of suicide, published by some Mr. Moore, in 1790, is said to prove that no cause has produced it so frequently as gaming,-probably in the proportion of nine cases out of ten.

The editor of Mrs. Carter's Letters calls it a copious and elaborate enquiry.

Monthly Review, vol. 65, p. 313.-Triumph of Dulness, a poem, against this Grace.

A.D. 1781. A GRACE past at Cambridge to prevent those who either directly or indirectly had the assistance of private tutors for the two years preceding their degree, from receiving those honours to which they would otherwise have been entitled. The ground was, that it increased the expenses of

the University, already too high, and gave an undue advantage to those who could afford to pay for this assistance. Feeders these tutors were called, a cockpit term, cramming being thought good only for the nonce, leaving no strength.

In the year 1008 the Emperor Tchintsong was informed in a vision that a book should be sent to him from Heaven. Accordingly it was, suspended at one of the gates of his palace, in a covering of yellow silk, twenty feet long. The Emperor went to the place, attended by his grandees, received the celestial book on his knees, placed it on a magnificent chariot, and read in it a prediction that the family of Song, (his dynasty), should possess the empire during 700 generations. The book was deposited in a gold box, the monarch received the congratulations of the whole empire on occasion of the celestial present, and public rejoicings were celebrated five days successively.-Monthly Review, vol. 60, p. 508. From the Hist. Gen. de la Chine.

THE vilest wretch may become an object of the best feelings in others. When William Coxe was at Moscow, there was a gentleman confined there in the prison of the police; and he alone of all the prisoners was denied the privilege of ever coming out. His crime was, having used several of his peasants so cruelly that they died. Close to the door of his prison, his nurse, then about seventy years of age, had built a miserable shed which scarcely protected her from the weather, and there she lived in order to render him all the services in her power, services which could have no other possible motive than affection; for it was certain that his punishment would be, as it deserved, for life. Upon Coxe's giving her a small piece of money, she immediately gave it to the prisoner.-Monthly Review, vol. 64, p. 383.

SPEGHT'S (Rachel) Mouzell for Melastomus, the Cynical Bayter, and foul-mouthed

Barker against Evah's Sex, and Ansuere made to Jo. Swetnan's Arraignment of Women, 4to. with many MS. Notes, half russia, 9s. 6d., sold for £1. 11s. 6d. at Gordonstoun sale. 1617.

"In ancient Rome, when the empire was come to its height, and learning and arts were grown into reputation among them, it was the fashion for such as aimed at the credit of being accomplished gentlemen, to frequent conferences, and entertain the company with discourses of philosophy, and all other specimens of study and wit. In consequence to this it happened, that others who had neither parts nor industry to accomplish themselves on this manner, and yet were ambitious to have a share in every thing that made men look great, made it their practice to buy some learned slaves out of Greece, and to carry those about with them into company; and then whatsoever wit or learning the slaves could produce, that the masters looked upon as their own, and took the glory of it unto themselves." — YOUNG (the father's), Sermons, vol. 1, p. 97.

Times, 23d March, 1836.-Wax and composition casts from the heads of Fieschi, Lacenaire, Avril, and David, exhibited at the Cosmorama in Regent Street; in appearance like so many heads just separated from the bodies by the guillotine. And to make them more complete, the hair and whiskers are those of the murderers themselves!

July, 1836. STRANGE Discovery.—“About three weeks ago, while a number of boys were amusing themselves in searching for rabbit burrows on the north-east range of Arthur's Seat, they noticed, in a very rugged and secluded spot, a small opening in one of the rocks, the peculiar appearance of which attracted their attention. The mouth of this little cave was closed by three thin pieces of slate-stone, rudely cut at the upper ends into a conical form, and so placed

as to protect the interior from the effects of the weather. The boys having removed these tiny slabs, discovered an aperture about twelve inches square, in which were lodged seventeen Lilliputian coffins, forming two tiers of eight each, and one on a third, just begun! Each of the coffins contained a miniature figure of the human form cut out in wood, the faces in particular being pretty well executed. They were dressed from head to foot in cotton clothes, and decently "laid out" with a mimic representation of all the funereal trappings which usually form the last habiliments of the dead. The coffins are about three or four inches in length, regularly shaped, and cut out from a single piece of wood, with the exception of the lids, which are nailed down with wire sprigs or common brass pins. The lid and sides of each are profusely studded with ornaments, formed with small pieces of tin, and inserted in the wood with great care and regularity. Another remarkable circumstance is, that many years must have elapsed since the first interment took place in this mysterious sepulchre, and it is also evident that the depositions must have been made singly, and at considerable intervals-facts indicated by the rotten and decayed state of the first tier of coffins, and their wooden mummies, the wrapping cloths being in some instances entirely mouldered away, while others show various degrees of decomposition, and the coffin last placed, with its shrouded tenant, are as clean and fresh as if only a few days had elapsed since their entombment. As before stated, there were in all seventeen of these mystic coffins ; but a number were destroyed by the boys pelting them at each other as unmeaning and contemptible trifles. None of the learned with whom we have conversed on the subject can account in any way for this singular fantasy of the human mind. The idea seems rather above insanity, and yet much beneath rationality; nor is any such freak recorded in the Natural History of Enthusiasm. Our own opinion would be, had we not some years ago abjured witchcraft and

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to it should be regulated with a more than | became the more degraded and corrupt in ordinary regard to propriety and decorum." their national religion." -OWEN. Hist of B. Soc. vol. 2, p. 529.

See vol. 3, pp. 154-5.

"Ir is no bad maxim, where there are two handles, to take hold of the cleanest."

How the B. Soc. may be looked at by its MAJOR DOYLE. Irish Debates, vol. 7, p. 225. friends.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 44.

"WHAT truth, what knowledge, What any thing but eating is good in her? 'Twould make a fool prophecy to be fed continually;

Inspired with full deep cups, who cannot prophecy?

A tinker, out of ale, will give predictions." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Prophetess, p. 115.

BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 3, p. 201.-Wish for a Bible in every family,-for education and discipline.

Ibid. vol. 4, p. 268.-CHURCH and State. Plato.

The Jesuits divide them,-agreeing here with the schismatics.

Ibid. pp. 290-1.-How unity is to be preserved-unquiet—and in the end uncomfortable singularities.

"THE very philosopher could say that 'wickedness doth putrify the principles of the mind,' and that such as are men's courses of life, such likewise are the dispositions of their minds towards practical truth.'"-Ibid. p. 303.

Κακία φθαρτικὴ ἀρχῆς. — ARIST. Eth. lib. 6, c. 5.

Αἱ ἀκροάσεις κατὰ τὰ ἔθη συμβαίνουσιν. | ὡς γὰρ εἰώθαμεν, οὕτως ἀξιοῦμεν λέγεσα | Oat.-Ibid. Metaphys. Min. lib. 1, c. 3.

"Ir is curious to observe," says GODFREY HIGGINS, (Celtic Druids, p. 207) "that the more elegant, polite, and learned these people became, in the same proportion they

"WHEN the payment of the clergy by tithes in kind was instituted, the landlord was also paid in kind. The clergy were paid by the produce of the land, to be consumed upon the land; and the landlord was also paid by the produce for the use of his land."-MR. BROWNE. Ibid. p. 349.

"COARSE expressions-which men are apt to bring forth, when they are pumping in vain for strong ones.”—MR. BURKE. Ibid. vol. 11, p. 327.

Lords B. and Nugent to wit.

"APRÈS avoir creusé les fertiles sillons, Qui reçoivent le grain, espoir de nos mois

sons,

Si chaque jour le soc repasse sur la terre, Au lieu de l'abondance il produit la misère, Et detruit aujourd'hui ce qu'il a fait hier. Tel est le mouvement dont le siecle est si fier.

Le talent naturel s'éteint dans la lecture, Et l'esprit est sterile à force de culture."

"D'UN ton fier, en vrai gentilhomme de lettres," said of Chateaubriand in this MS. satire.

Nov. 1786. “A meeting of lawyers at Lord Mansfield's to take into consideration the alarming growth of perjury, which had become so very rife in our courts of justice, as to threaten the most dangerous consequences: it was determined at this meeting that nothing short of capital punishment was sufficient to deter persons from the commission of this crime, and it was agreed that a bill should be prepared to make perjury in any court of justice, &c. a capital offence, punishable with death." - Lady's Magazine, vol. 17, p. 667.

"QUOIQU'ON en dise, l'imagination sert à | long volumes of antiquity, if we would be voir beaucoup de choses très-réelles." F. R. Bibliothèque Universelle. Mai 1830. p. 84.

“L'Angleterre avec son orgueil, sa population, ses richesses, ses prejugés, et ses cérémonies, est le Japon de l'Europe."M. DE CUSTINE, vol. 2, p. 189.

diligent to mark them, so that they can be compared to nothing fitter, than to a wheel ever turning in the same motion."—Ibid. p. 9.

"WHATEVER occurrences seem strange, they are but the same fable acted by other persons, and nothing different from those of older times but in the names of the ac

OAFBOROUGH, Rascalburgh, and Rabble- tors."-Ibid. p. 8.

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