A very smart letter, of course manufactured, from a freed slave to his master, who asked him to return and be a servant. He calculates how much is due to him and his wife, less clothing and medicine, for the years his Massa had their labour for nothing, and makes it about 11,600 dollars. If his employer will remit this, as a token that he means honestly, SAMBO and the Missis will consider about returning. Meantime, he forgives Massa for trying to shoot him. I should not oppose the black franchise if a quarter of the negroes were half as clever as this sham one.

GODIVA is amends for Eve.

91.

92.

Women are far more honest than men, but not so self-denying. That is, a woman can never deny herself the pleasure of paying a debt when she has the money. More of us men have attained that height of stern morality.

93.

When the Captain of a steamer says grace before dinner, it is edifying to see the astonishment the process causes in snob tourists, who keep their hats on.

94.

Tread on your dog's tail, and he is profuse with his affectionate apologies for having vexed you by a moment's howling. Tread on your cat's, and she claws your leg, spits, and sulks for an hour. I don't defend MRS. PUSS, but you are much more careful to avoid treading on her than on the doggie. It is just the same in families.

95.

If a man means to spend much time with his wife, a girl's sweet temper and her ready smile ought to be reckoned as £20,000, and be so estimated in the settlements. If she has not the sweet temper and smile, he had better see the money in Consols, and there is one still better thing for him to do.

96.

I only state a fact. You often hear a wife say, with a sort of smiling pride, "My husband, you know, is not the very best temper in the world." 97.

ARISTOTLE says, "Potter hates potter.", May be so. The monger of the name does not hate to talk hideous nonsense.

103.

DOD's Peerage is a capital book, and you should all buy it, if only for the sake of the widow of the author, who was a gallant officer, and came to an early end by an accident. DoD is also a most convenient book, betters. Moreover, in case any of you want to be made peers, it gives and besides all the usual information, it tells you how to address your you the "unappropriated titles." There are six counties languishing for the cool shade of aristocracy, Dorset, Kent, Monmouth, Sussex, York, and Middlesex.

98. I lighted on an interesting criticism, by LEIGH HUNT, in the Examiner for April 19, 1818. He is noticing the Spring Gardens Exhibition. "The works of merit will be spoken of in future numbers," he says. There is one picture in it, however, of Fighting Dogs, by a youth, EDWIN LANDSEER, which we must now notice, as one of the best paintings of animals that has been produced since the time of SNYDERS. It is purchased, we learn, by SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT."

100.

People seem never tired of sending me what they call the last begging dodge. Somebody has got a group of children, some of them rather nice-looking, has photographed them together, and sends the picture to you, with each child numbered. He states himself to be the father, appends the usual mendicant prayer, but begs that you will indicate for which child you wish to provide. I dare say that he has made it answer. He is not more impudent than many begging parsons, who watch the birth lists and attack you through your own children.

112.

CANNING used to talk of the Glutinous adhesion of LORD WESTMORELAND to office.

113.

I see several objections to the theory that LORD BACON wrote the valuable portion of the plays attributed to SHAKSPEARE, the latter putting in the claptrap and objectionabilities, seeing to rehearsals, and taking the reputation, in order to screen the philosopher from the charge of being an accomplice of player-folk. But I like to maintain that theory, because it drives a certain class well nigh frantic.

114.

What old-fashioned rubbish the Almanacs are. Who wants to be told when CAPTAIN COOK was killed, when the Royal Exchange was burned, and when THURTELL was hanged? And the makers servilely copy each other, not even verifying their ridiculous dates. Evidently the fellows are not brothers of him whose

AN IMPOSSIBLE TRIAL.

"IN the Court of Queen's Bench the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE is (professedly) a member of the Church of England, MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN is a Presbyterian, MR. JUSTICE MELLOR a Unitarian, MR. JUSTICE SHEE a Roman Catholic, and MR. JUSTICE LUSH a Baptist."-Morning Paper.

SNOOZER v. BUMBLE.

This case was tried at the last Assizes. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, SNOOZER, a barber, against the defendant, BUMBLE, beadle of the Church of St. Fortywinks, at Snorterton, for various assaults alleged to have been committed during divine service one afternoon. The plaintiff had been continually going to sleep, and, as it was alleged, disturbing his neighbours in church, by nasal noises, and the defendant, after vainly poking him many times, ejected him from the edifice, telling him to be off and sleep at home. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one farthing, and he resolved on asking for a new trial. Much interest was excited in the profession by the hearing of an ecclesiastical case before the mixed tribunal now presented by the Court of Queen's Bench. Counsel of ecclesiastical tendencies had been retained.

MR. BOVILL moved for a new trial, on account of the smallness of the damages. A farthing was no compensation to a man for being publicly paraded all down the aisle in the stern clutch of a tyrannical church officer.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE wished to know at what period of the service the ejectment was served.

MR. BOVILL. During the sermon, my Lord.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Unless the sermon was a very good one, prima facie an improbability, I think, MR. BOVILL, that so far from your client being injured, the beadle should be considered as a benefactor to him.

MR. BOVILL. I am informed that the sermon was a very good one indeed, my Lord.

MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN. We ought to have strong evidence of that. It is a very unusual thing in England.

MR. JUSTICE SHEE. And in the State-Church in Ireland.
MR. JUSTICE MELLOR. In any church, in fact.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Or chapel.

MR. JUSTICE LUSH. I dissent from the Chief's last remark. MR. PRIDEAUX said that nothing could be more valuable than the dicta with which the Court had favoured them, but that inasmuch as the plaintiff had been pertinaciously and schismatically going to sleep all the time, the quality of the discourse was not of immediate moment.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. But suppose the sermon sent him to sleep?

MR. MEREWETHER said that a man had no right to go to sleep in church, and cited the authority of GEORGE HERBERT, to show that the worse the sermon, the more the hearers were bound to use patience. MR. BOVILL said that the service had been long, owing to christenings. MR. JUSTICE LUSH could recognise nothing of the kind. MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN said that the superiority of the Scotch Presbyterian religion was shown when cases like this arose. Had there been a deacon, he would have quietly remonstrated with the offender, and just have given him a wee pinch of snuff.

MR. JUSTICE LUSH could not consider a snuff-box as a proper thing to be produced in any religious edifice, however agreeable elsewhere.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. That's because you are a very Particular Baptist, brother LUSH.

MR. JUSTICE MELLOR. I don't at present see that we should disturb this verdict. If people will go to churches they must behave decorously. They must take the consequence of exposing themselves to the non-intellectual influences of such preaching as they get there.

MR. JUSTICE SHEE might not think that persons should go to church, as to a lecture, to have their intellects entertained, but passing this, the case showed the disadvantages of the pew system. Had the plaintiff occupied a hard chair, he would not have slept.

MR. JUSTICE LUSH said that sleeping was improper, but that a free Englishman should be poked, collared, and hauled about by a huge

clown fantastically dressed up like a chimney-sweep on May-day was intolerable. Dissenters had no beadles.

MR. JUSTICE SHEE agreed that a beadle was a contemptible object. Look at the splendid Swiss who preserved order in a continental cathedral.

MR. JUSTICE LUSH said that he was worse than a beadle.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. I am afraid, MR. BOVILL, the plaintiff will take nothing.

MR. HENRY JAMES (as amicus curia) suggested that the plaintiff had taken too much, or would not have gone to sleep in church.

MR. BOVILL said that if so, it was wicked, but if all wicked people were to be turned out, and debarred from hearing that they ought to be better, what was the use of a church?

MR. JUSTICE MELLOR had not said that it was of any use.
MR. JUSTICE LUSH had not said so, either.

MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN begged to intimate that if church meant kirk, he saw great use in it.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. What injury has your client sustained, MR. BOVILL? He has not heard part of a sermon of which he manifestly wished to hear none, and he has a splendid advertisement.

MR. BOVILL. Consider the pokes in the poor barber's ribs, my Lord. MR. MEREWETHER was instructed that the pokes were the mildest form of physical suasion, such as are used to induce a dull person to comprehend a witty observation.

MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN. Not barbarous pokes, MR. MEREWETHER? (Great laughter.)

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Besides, the treatment has given him éclat. Very likely he is known as the Barber-Martyr. Also the beadle has read him a valuable lesson for his soul's health and reformation, as they say elsewhere. He will not go to sleep in church any more.

MR. BOVILL. He will never go to church any more, my Lord. He has turned Dissenter.

MR. JUSTICE LUSH. I am very glad to hear it, and as he has received that benefit, and on other grounds, I concur with my Lord that there should be no new trial.

[Old Gent explodes.

MR. JUSTICE MELLOR. We have not before us the form which his dissent has taken.

MR. MEREWETHER. One of the forms set apart for the Sunday School children at the Independent Chapel, my Lord. I am instructed to hope that it will tip up with him, and send him rolling, the first time he indulges in his soporific propensities. He will then find out his error in leaving the easy yoke of the Church of England.

MR. JUSTICE MELLOR. I concur with my Lord, and at present my sympathies are very partially aroused for this purblind barber. MR. JUSTICE SHEE. I am of the same opinion. Vigilantibus non dormientibus.

MR. JUSTICE BLACKBURN. I am just agreeable. It would be a good thing for sleepy barbers and such cattle if you had a Kirk Session in your Erastian establishment. That would wake you all up.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. The Court is unanimous, by whatever diversity of roads that unanimity has been attained. We cannot say that any of the parties concerned deserve much credit. It is always open to a good-natured neighbour to kick the shins of a sleeper, and had one of the congregation of St. Fortywinks had the kind feeling to keep on kicking the plaintiff's shins, the Court does not believe that he would have gone to sleep. It is alleged by defendant's counsel that the sermon was very good, but we have no evidence of this, and the ordinary common sense and knowledge of mankind point to a different conviction. BUMBLE, the beadle, technically did his duty, and his conduct is unimpeachable, therefore, but he seems a bumptious kind of beast. And the plaintiff deserves no sympathy, as he must have known his own habits, and had better have attended service before dinner. Rule refused.

QUERY FOR QUEEN'S COUNSEL.

IF a Barrister takes one's new umbrella out of Court instead of his own gingham, can he be said to have "taken silk."

THE FLIRT'S PARADISE.-Coquet Island.