After our Readers have perused the foregoing edifying description of the Reverend Gentleman, we think they will agree with us in thinking that it was a great pity he did not answer the following Advertisement, which graced the pages of "The Monthly Mirror" some years ago:

"WANTED, for a newly-erected Chapel, near Grosvenor Square, a gentleman of elegant manners, and insinuating address, to conduct the theological department to a refined audience. It is not necessary that he believe in the Thirty-nine Articles; but it is expected that he should possess a white hand and a diamond ring; he will be expected to leave out vulgar ideas, and denunciations against polite vices which he may meet with in the Bible; and, upon no account, be guilty of wounding the ears of his auditory with the words h-ll, or dOne who lisps, is near-sighted, and who has a due regard for amiable weaknesses, will be preferred.

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"N. B.-If he is of pleasing and accommodating manners, he will have a chance of being introduced to the first company, and three card parties every Sunday evening. One who knows a few college jokes, or who has been Chaplain to the Whip Club, will be preferred. He will have no occasion to administer Baptism, &c. &c. there being an old gentleman employed, who, on account of extreme distress, has agreed, for ten pounds per annum, to preach in the afternoon, and do all the under work.

"Letters must be addressed to James Speculate, Esq. Surveyor's Office, New Square, Mary-leBone."

NOVEMBER.

2nd-1825.

On this night a circumstance occurred at a gentleman's house in Northampton-square, which we must leave to the solution of the learned Professors of the New London University, for we fear it is too puzzling for the sages of Oxford or Cambridge.

For some weeks previously a panic had been spreading through the family. Noises were heard at the very "witching time of night"-doors opened and closed-light, gliding footsteps faintly echoed on the stairs. It could not be robbers, for the gentlemen of that profession seldom depart empty-handed. Could it be a ghost? The notion is rather obsolete. The house was not old enough for a disembodied spirit to lay a legitimate claim to its occupation. No love-lorn maid-of-all-work had hanged herself in her garters on the premises, nor had any portly butler rivalled Werter in the fatal excesses of his sensibility. Still the belief made its way in the family. Jenny, the housemaid, who slept in the front attic, and James, the footman, who was placed (at a cautious distance from the

females) on the ground floor, were the first to adopt this creed. They soon converted Caroline, the nursery maid, who impressed it as an article of faith on the minds of little Master Philip and Miss Emmelina. Mamma heard their infantine tales till they made her half a believer; in short, there was no determined sceptic left in the whole house but the gentleman to whom it belonged.

Communicating his intentions to no one but his lady, (though we will not aver that she may have dropped a hint or two to Caroline or Jane,) he two nights successively sat watching, in a room on the first landing-place, for the Ghost, resolved to

66 Speak to it, though Hell itself should gape !" The perturbed spirit, however, on these occasions, was provokingly quiet; and the Gentleman, soon tired of Ghost-watching, gave up the hope of penetrating the mystery. Some nights now passed on, and all still remained quiet, when accident produced a solution of the enigma. One night Mr. -, being troubled (like Iago) with a "raging tooth," lay tossing on his sleepless bed, when suddenly a footstep met his ear; he overcame the sense of pain, stole gently from his bed, cautiously opened the door, and straining his eyesight down the staircase, beheld, by the faint glimpses of the moon, a figure all in white, gliding softly toward the lower part of the house. He scarcely knew what to think of this apparition. The hour, the darkness, the

white figure, faintly seen, and scarcely heard to move, at first

"Made his seated heart knock at his ribs." But he summoned up resolution; and as nothing is so offensive to a genuine Ghost as candlelight, he арplied the match to his phosphorus box, lit his taper, and pursued the path the apparition had taken. It had vanished. When he reached the ground floor, nothing was to be seen. All the doors were shut, and there was no way that the spirit could have passed, but through one of them. Mr. tried the doors; they were all fast until he came to that of James's room, which, on his pushing it, gave way, and discovered the fair Jane in that dress in which Tam O'Shanter saw the young witch of Alloa.

Mr. loudly began to reprimand both Jenny and James, when the former, with great expression of surprise, exclaimed-" Dear me! Where am I? How could I get here? I must have been walking in my sleep!"

5th-1605.

GUNPOWDER PLOT.

HONE, in that admirable publication,

Every-Day Book," says―

"The

"On the fifth of November, a year or two ago, an outrageous sparkle of humour broke forth. A poor hard-working man, while at breakfast in his garret,

was enticed from it by a message, that some one who knew him wished to speak to him at the street door. When he got there he was shaken hands with, and invited to a chair. He had scarcely said 'nay' before the ayes had him,' and clapping him in the vacant seat, tied him there. They then painted his face to their liking, put a wig and paper cap on his head, fastened a dark lantern in one of his hands, and a bundle of matches in the other, and carried him about all day, with shouts of laughter and huzzas, begging for their 'Guy.' When he was released at night he went home, and having slept upon his wrongs, he carried them the next morning to a police office, whither his offenders were presently brought by warrant, before the magistrates, who ordered them to find bail or stand committed; these ministering spirits' of the Law deeming it illegal to smug a man for a Guy.'"

7th.

MICHAELMAS TERM begins:-and as our Volume is certain of being perused by many of the blue bag gentry, for their especial edification we reprint the following useful advice :—

You are to consider yourself as one of the limbs of that noble profession, the head of which takes precedence of all the lay Peers in England, and whose Members have swelled the Right Honourables of the Court Calendar more than the Navy,