to be buried under the houses in Arundel Street. The upper part of the Parian Chronicle, containing forty-five lines, is believed to have been worked up in repairing a chimney.

SIR HILDEBRAND JACOB had a pleasant mode of travelling in the earlier part of his life (1735). As soon as the road became tolerably good, and the fine weather began to set in, he and his man set off with a portmanteau, and without knowing whither they were going. Towards evening, when they came to a village, they inquired if the great man loved books, and had a good library: and if the answer was in the affirmative, Sir Hildebrand sent his compliments, that he was come to see him; and then he used to stay till he was disposed to move farther. In this manner he travelled through the greatest part of England, scarcely ever sleeping at an inn unless when town or village did not afford one person civilized enough to be glad to see a gentleman and a scholar."-NICHOLS's Anecdotes.

THE day after Mr. Robins's murderer was hanged near Stourbridge, a noted party of plunderers assembled under his gibbet, and drank his health! The first Sunday, more than 100,000 persons came to see him hanging in chains; and a kind of wake continued for some weeks for ale and gingerbread, &c. "For the information of Rosanna, who is sadly disconcerted at remaining in ignorance of what all the country knows but herself, I have made a drawing of the scene; but I am sorry to say she would rather see the original." Rosanna is an old servant, too old to go six miles to see the sight.

Ar Farlam, near Naworth Castle, was this epitaph:

“John Bell of Brekenbrow ligs under this stean,

Four of mine een sons laid it on my weam.' I liv'd all my days but [without] shirt or strife,

I was man of my meat, and master of my wife.

If thou'st done better in thy time than I have done in mine,

Take the stean off o' my weam, and lay it upon thine."

Mr. Beaupre Bell sent to the Antiquarian Society a Latin version, which is truly a masterpiece of mistranslation,—that is, of that sort of translation which effectually destroys the life, spirit, and essence of an original.

"Ipse Caledoniis Bellus bene notus in oris

Mole sub hâc, nati quam posuere, cubo. Mensa parata mihi, mihi semper amabilis

uxor,

Et placidæ noctes, et sine lite dies. Heus, bone vir! siquid fecisti rectius istis, Hoc marmor tibi do quod tegat ossa libens."

THERE is in the Bodleian a tract describing “The most dangerous and memorable adventure of Richard Ferris, one of the five ordinary messengers of her Majesty's chamber, who departed from Tower Wharf on Midsummer day last past, with Andrew Hill and William Thomas, who undertook in a small wherry boat to row by sea to the city of Bristowe, and are now safely returned." Upon accomplishment of this voyage, “The mayor of Bristow, with his brethren the aldermen, came to the waterside, and welcomed us most lovingly, and the people came in great multitudes to see us, in so much as, by the consent of the magistrates, they took our boat from us, not suffering us once

Stick him it' weum, is a common expression in Cumberland. The etymology of the word is the same as that of Womb. Iceland. Vömb. Dan. Vom. See SCHILTER'S Thesaur, in v. Wamba, JUNII Gloss. in Evangel. Vers. Goth. and KILIANA in v. Wambeys.-J. W. W.

to meddle with it, in respect that we were all extreame weary, and carried our said boat to the high cross in the city; from thence it was convayed to the Town House, there locked safe all night. And on the next morning the people of the city gathered themselves together, and had prepared trumpets, drums, fyfes, and ensigns, to go before the boat, which was carried upon men's shoulders round about the city, with the waites of the said city, playing orderly in honour of our rare and dangerous attempt atchieved. Afterwards we were had to Maister Maior's, to the aldermen and sheriffs' houses, where we were feasted most royally, and spared for no cost at the time that we remained there."-British Bibliographer, vol. ii. p. 552.

along, and knocked him down. The other got up and coolly said, "Who the devil sent you to London without a martingale ?"

£100 was sent to a Mr. Averell in Ireland, anonymously, to be laid out according to his judgment among the poorest missionaries who instructed the people in Irish. It came from a Quaker, by the language. Averell, who had been pestered with anonymous letters, not knowing the hand, refused to take it in. It was returned to the Dead Letter Office, and being in due time opened there, was again returned to him.

NONE but the wearer can tell where the shoe pinches, says the proverb. In like manner, none else can tell where it fits.

THE age of puberty is the dangerous age in colonies as well as in individuals.

Ir is a good anecdote of histrionic feeling that Booth hated Cato the most of all the Romans.-AARON HILL, vol. ii. p. 364.

GEORGE SMITH GREEN, a watchmaker at Oxford, published, somewhere about 175060, a specimen of a new version of Paradise Lost, into blank verse (?), “by which that amazing work is brought somewhat nearer the summit of perfection."

LOCUSTS, why so numerous? Other creatures lay as many eggs, and yet do not multiply to the annoyance of mankind. Is the link destroyed that should have checked them?

THE blood of the Jews, like that of the Goths, is a strong blood. For wherever there is a cross of it, the cast of the Mosaic features predominates.

JOHNSON Once heard a fisherman who was skinning an eel, curse it because it would not lie still. He noticed it as a striking instance of human insensibility and inconsideration.

* JOHNSON tells a story of a man who was standing in an inn kitchen with his back to the fire, and thus accosted the person next him : "Do you know, Sir, who I am?"— "No, Sir," said the other, "I have not that advantage."—" Sir," said he, "I am the great Twalmley, who invented the new floodgate iron," that is, the box-iron with the sliding door, or ironing box, flat heaters alone having till then been used, or possibly the box-iron with the door and bolt.

THE cross by the wayside a memento, which, often as it is passed with indifference, must often excite a salutary thought; and he who condemns it as a superstitious memorial, would do well to examine whether there is not in his own frame of mind more of sectarianism than of Christianity.

"THE heathens," says SOUTH, "attributed a kind of divinity or godhead to springs, because of that continual inexhaustible emanation from them, resembling a kind of infinity."-Vol. ii. p. 539.

OUR common laurel was first brought into the Low Countries, 1576, (together with the horse-chesnut) from Constantinople, as a present from David Unguad, the Imperial ambassador in Turkey, to Clusius the botanist. It was sent to him by the name of Trabison-Curmasi, i. e. the Date of Trebisond, but he named it Lauro-Cerasus.-MA- | SON, Note to the English Garden.

JOSIAH CONDER knew a man who began to doubt the Scripture in general, because he did not think it possible that Nebuchadnezzar could have lived seven years upon grass. And to ascertain this point, he set about grazing himself, and persevered in it, by his own account, a whole week,-which was six days longer than Edward Williams, -but then the bard's was only a politicoeconomical experiment. How it agreed

All the Anecdotes I have marked with an asterisk have been used up either in Espriella's Letters, or The Doctor, &c.-J. W. W.

with his digestion, I did not learn, but his doubts were satisfied, and he became from that time a zealous professor.

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Josiah Conder once heard Huntington the S.S. in the pulpit examine St. Paul and St. James concerning their imputed difference of doctrine. 'My dear Paul," he said, "and my dear James," and so carried on the imaginary dialogue in a colloquial and familiar style, suited to his congregation, but never bordering upon vulgarity. At last the examiner brought St. James to a point which gave him occasion to exclaim, “Why you are of the same opinion as Paul after all! "To be sure I am," replied James; "the only difference is, that we were speaking to different persons, under different circumstances."

IN 1815 I saw written on the walls in London, "God save Napoleon! No imposing kings by a foreign army!"—" No commissioners of hackney coaches!" in another place.

Among the odd things in the streets at that time, was an eagle at the corner of Pall Mall and St. James's Street,—a beggar walking with a ship on his head,—and another mendicant without legs or thighs, drawn in a low cart by two dogs abreast,and a monkey playing upon a tambourine.

1815. Waterloo gown pieces,-in which the word made the pattern, or the pattern (rather) the word.

sequence of which nobody will venture to the forge the next day. A master found these visits of his Satanic Majesty so frequent and so troublesome, that at last he declared he would turn off the first man who should see the Devil. One fellow saw the ghost of a waggon with a great light in it, in a place where no mortal waggon could have got.

A WELSHMAN here had 500 tobaccoboxes made at Birmingham with this inscription in Welsh, “He is an Englishman, take care of him." The man had been cheated by an Englishman.

THERE are several weddings there every Sunday. The bridegroom leads the bride by a pocket-handkerchief to church, preceded by a harper. At a funeral there are always several hundred followers.

A MADMAN was conveyed from Rye to Bedlam. They slept in the Borough, and he suspected whither they were taking him. He rose before sun-rise-went to Bedlam

and told the keepers there that the next day he should bring him a patient, "but that in order to lead him willingly he had been persuaded that I am mad, accordingly I shall come as the madman. He will be very outrageous when you seize him, but you must clap on a strait waistcoat." Accordingly the sane man was imprisoned and the lunatic returned home. He entered a room full of his relations and friends, told the story with exceeding glee, and immediately relapsed into his madness. The other man had a strait waistcoat for about four days before he was exchanged.

Ar Merthyr, Danvers used a plaister poll-parrot for an extinguisher.

THE Pool smugglers who were hung for the most cruel murder I remember to have read of, told the judge, who dwelt upon the guilt of murder, that "nobody could have a greater abhorrence of murder than

WILKINS the clergyman at Pill sent to a poor man for his Easter dues. They amounted to two shillings. The man returned for answer that he "could not then pay the money, but on the Saturday next he should have his pay and would bring it." The poor fellow had offended a servant who had influence over his master, Wilkins, and prevailed upon him to put him in the Bishops' Court. Here the fees and expences daily increased, and when Saturday came, amounted to a sum which he could not pay. He was arrested and carried to Ivelchester: it was a cold season - he lay upon straw in the prison-he was seventy-eight-died there, and was buried in the grave with a felon who had been hanged. Mr. Kift related this at Danverses this evening. He had ascertained the facts. June 26, 1799.-Smart, the man's name, a tyler, the debt was two shillings, the law charges £30, and more, he ran away and was taken on venturing

The latter paragraph is of more recent date, --but not much. I may note here, that in Southey's early MSS. he wrote " Danverses,” and "Gileses," &c. unmodernized.

2 I saw the like disgusting exhibition in Wolverhampton about the year 1817. The poor beast was then called, as I well recollect, the Polo Savage.-J. W. W.