The Duke of Wellington.-The late Earl of Mornington married Anne, daughter of Arthur Hill Trevor, Viscount Dungannon, of Brynkinalt, in the county of Denbigh, descended from Tudor Trevor, Earl of Hereford, founder of the sixteenth tribe of North Wales. The Wellesley family is of English origin, but resident for ages in Ireland; from this union of the nations is Arthur, Duke of Wellington, and of this marriage the fifth son.

The Two Smiths.-There were once, in the Liverpool theatre, two Mr. Smiths, one a serious, the other a lively actor, who, to distinguish himself from his namesake, always had the initial of his sponsorial John attached to his patronymic, in the play-bills. The grave actor falling ill, a wag wrote up in the green-room,

"If tragedy Smith should chance to die,
Then comedy Smith will lose his I."

Playing About. Colonial Slang.-At Sydney, sitting in the stocks is called taking it out in timber. Yellow paint, and, indeed, anything of a yellow colour, is unsaleable at Sydney, on account of the convicts having a yellow stripe on their clothing, which they call the government livery.

A Good Master." The only difference betwixt master and man is, that one comes in by the front door, and t'other down the hairy steps."-Playing About.

Malthus anticipated.-The multitude of people, (says Sir Walter Raleigh,) is such, that if by wars or pestilence they were not sometimes taken off by many thousands, the earth, with all the industry of man, could not give them food.-Hist. World, B. I., chap. viii. 84. (See Edin. Rev. No. 143, p. 68.)

The late Duchess of St. Albans was a pious, charitable woman, called capricious and intemperate, perhaps, by those who envied her fortune, and her two husbands.-Playing About.

Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh.-Few, if any, ever on a scaffold kindled such a blaze of powerful emotions of pity, wonder, and admiration. His deportment throughout the prolonged scene evinced a degree of mental strength, self-possession, calmness, and superiority to the fear of death, that might be described as godlike. His devotion appeared sincere and elevated, and tempered a courage which nothing could shake. "He was," says the Bishop of Salisbury, who attended him officially, "the most fearless of death that ever was known, and the most resolute and confident, yet with reverence and conscience."-Edinburgh Review.

Laporte.-I appeared in a French character for Laporte's benefit: he dined with us, just ere his starting for England, and said, with tearful grimacing gesticulations, "Au revoir, donc, my kind friends! croyez moi, I shall nevare rem-embare your goodness to me." He kept his word. - Benson Hill; Playing About.

The Australian Bee is no larger than the common fly, and hives in a tree, whence the natives take the honey to sweeten water for drinking.

"Here goes for a lark," as the hawk said when he dropped into the corn-field.

Pastoral Elegy. By Drummond, of Hawthornden : Shepherds on Forth, and you by Dover rocks, Which use to sing and sport, and keep your flocks, Pay tribute here of tears; ye never had To aggravate your moans and cause more sad; And to their sorrows hither bring your mands, Charg'd with sweetest flowers, and with pure hands, Fair nymphs, the blushing hyacinth and rose Spread on the place his relics doth inclose; Weave garlands to his memory, and put Over his hearse a verse in cypress cut: "Virtue did die, goodness but Heaven did give, After the noble Alcon left to live: Friendship an earthquake suffer'd: losing him, Love's brightest constellation turned dim."

Royal Society.-Mr. Gardiner notes: "After the readings were over, the royal president and company ascended to the library, where tea and coffee were served. The Duke, who was in a rich suit of velvet, laden with court appendages, complained that he was d-d hot in his fine dress, and begged leave to withdraw for a few minutes to change. ✦ ✦ ✦ I was shewn the book containing the names of the fellows. Charles II. stood first, as the founder, but the neatly written name of Newton blinded me to all the rest."-Music and Friends.

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Kean. I was Oswald to Kean's Lear. mory was lost for the time. Instead of saying, "Who am I, sir?" he asked me, "Who are you?" luckily, not then a slang expression. I brought round his next speech, by answering, "I am your daughter's servant, sir; and you are-my lady's father.' from cuffing me for "a knave," he squeezed my hand, muttering, "Bless ye! you've saved me !" Benson Hill; Playing About.

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Comet of 1811.-Sir John Herschel states the head of this comet to have been sixty times the diameter of the earth, and the tail more than one hundred millions of miles in length. When Halley's comet was expected, in 1835, a shoemaker, named Joseph Mills, in Leicester, set about tracing the path of this comet through the heavens. This he did by drawing its orbit upon his house-floor, from which he made a diagram that more accurately represented the course of the comet than any that had been previously published. On being questioned how he had calculated the disturbing forces, so as to come so near the truth, he replied, that he could not tell, further than that he had performed it by the common rules of arithmetic.

Trap-door Spiders are a species so named from their inhabiting cylindrical tubes covered with a moveable trap-door.

Roman Urns.-Some workmen, in lately removing what appeared an accidental heap of stones, on the top of one of the Lammermuir hills, the property of Mr. Borthwick, of Crookston, found underneath this heap, or cairn, a trough, consisting of hewn stones of a square shape, in which were placed, under a stone cover, a number of urns, of about the size of ordinary flower-pots, ranged in rows, and filled with ashes and pieces of bone. Some of the urns are in the possession of Mr. Borthwick, and are in as perfect preservation as if they had been recently made; though they are evidently genuine specimens of the ancient terra cotta, and must have been deposited in this Roman sepulchre many centuries ago.Caledonian Mercury.

Herschel was a good musician; and such was his ardour for discovery, that, in some benefit concert which he gave, he had his telescope fixed in a window, and made his observations between the acts. Emery.-A Yorkshire farmer set up a stone in his garden, inscribed with,

"Sacred to the memory

Of poor Jack Emery."

Maunday Money.-These small pieces are, by an order of Government, declared current coins of the realm; no one, therefore, can legally refuse to take them if they are tendered in payment, although they are not in reality intended for that purpose: as a proof of this, the new groat will be found, on examination, to be from the die of the Maunday threepence, that is, the head side; but it has a different reverse, and is thicker, and, of course, of the weight of the Maunday fourpence. They are struck chiefly as presents for various officers attached to the Crown, as well as to others.- Till's Essay on the Roman Denarius, &c.

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THE ABNEY PARK CEMETERY. OUR readers are, probably, aware that there are already four large public Cemeteries formed in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, varying, in superficial extent, from twenty to forty-six acres. Of these, none surpass, in natural advantages and picturesque beauty, that at Abney Park, which has also the advantage of greater proximity to the metropolis than any of

the others.

Abney Park lies within two miles and a half of the Stones' End, on the eastern

side of London, and is already nobly planted. Many of the trees in the Engraving may be termed individual portraits, rather than mere pictorial representations, Nothing can exceed the fine proportions of some of these aged trees; amongst which are beautiful and rare specimens of the cedar of Lebanon, the witch-elm, the horse-chestnut, and the Liriodendron Tulipifera. There is, also, a fine grove of ancient yew-trees upon the property, which adds much to the picturesque effect, and is peculiarly characteristic of the sacred purposes to which the estate is devoted.

The Engraving represents a bird's eye view of the grounds, taken from the turret of the mansion-house, which belongs to the Cemetery Company. Herein the celebrated Dr. Isaac Watts died, after having spent the last thirty-six years of his life under the hospitable roof of his friend and patron, Sir Thomas Abney, and of his widow, Lady Abney; to whom the estate then belonged.

Great as are the natural advantages of this property, they would be of slight comparative value, with reference to its present appropriation, if the soil had been of a wet and humid nature : but, on the point of drainage, this Company is particularly fortunate; as, throughout the greater portion of the land, excavations may be made to the depth of fifty feet and upwards, and an average depth of thirty feet may be obtained, without the least appearance of springs or water. This is a practical advantage, of which few can estimate the benefit, unless circumstances may have invited or compelled their attention to the subject.

The architectural arrangements are not, as yet, completed; but it would be an omission not to allude to the striking specimen of pure Egyptain architecture, displayed in the lodges and buildings of the eastern entrance, on the Stoke Newington road, at the foot of Stamford-hill. A temporary chapel has been erected, with excellent catacombs constructed under it; and the large permanent chapel, the elevation of which is shewn in the Engraving, is in the course of erection.

The Cemetery has been opened during the past month. The mode in which the planting department has been conducted, deserves the attention of the visitor. The Directors confided the planting arrange. ments to the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney; who have formed a complete Arboretum of plants, in which specimens will be found of all trees and shrubs which are sufficiently hardy to bear the out-door climate of this country.

A small portion of the estate, consisting of three or four acres, has been set apart for the reception of roses only; and in this Rosarium are planted upwards of 1,000 different specimens. The Arboretum, containing nearly 2,000 varieties of shrubs and trees, including a choice collection of pines, is also completed; with the exception of the Magnolia and Rhododendron tribes, which, with the other American flowering shrubs, will not be planted until

the autumn.

The great value of some of the shrubs will not allow the Directors to open the grounds indiscriminately, and at all times and hours; but we understand that, the Cemetery being opened for interments, any respectable applicant may at once receive an order for admission to view the establishment.

We are amongst those who view interment in Cemeteries as a great public improvement upon the old plan of burying in churches and, accordingly, wish each establishment of the kind its fair proportion of success.

THE MAID OF ATHENS.

THE deepest charm of which Egina, with all its beauties, can boast, is in the presence of one, poetically known to the reader as the " Maid of Athens." She resides in a little cottage, on the borders of the village, with everything around her mildly partaking of the romance sprinkled through her history. In her person she is slightly formed, hardly reaching the medium stature, and yet possessing all the graces of a rich symmetry. A very small foot and hand give a lightness to her attitude and motions; while a deep blue eye sheds softness over the expressive and delicately harmonized features of her face. Her dress is simple and native, betraying no vanity or even solicitude, if you except the care with which the glossy fulness of dark hair is made to assume the beautiful form of the turban. The bridal flowers that once adorned those locks, have often been renewed from the blossoming gifts of the year. The bloom and vivacity which once coloured in her cheeks, and gave a child-like sprightliness to her manner, though still, at times, half surviving and

betrayed, have yielded to a paler aspect, and a more subdued air. Her countenance, which appears to reveal the undisguised flow of her feelings, has a mingled expression of diffidence, tenderness, and sorrow. You would think, from her look, that some portion of her life had been overcast ; that some hope, fondly cherished, had been broken; or that some memory clung to her heart, pointing to one that had now passed beyond the reach of her sympathy, and the perception of grief. Yet there is a tone of cheerfulness in her conversation,-a playfulness in her fancy, that leads you, at times, half to doubt if there be any permanent weight upon the delicate wings of her spirit. In speaking, she becomes instantly animated; her eye dilates, her countenance lightens up, her voice, without losing any of its sweetness, becomes more assured; every look and tone is full of soul; when suddenly, as if some thought, to which you are a stranger, had swept through her breast, she appears to struggle between a current of emotions wholly new, and those to which she had partially given utterance. And yet, the blushing delicacy with which she escapes from this momentary embarrassment touches you more than the most eloquently turned period.

OBSERVANDA.

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The avidity of Provost Hutchinson for office, called forth the satirical remark of

Lord North, that "if Hutchinson had England and Ireland given him, he would still solicit the Isle of Man for a potatogarden."

Hussey Burgh, at the opening of the session of 1777, moved the Address to the King, in which was the following sentence: "It is not by temporary expedients, but by an extension of trade, that Ireland can be ameliorated." Flood, who was seated in the Vice-Treasurer's place, said, audibly: "Why not a free trade?" The amendment electrified the house; the words were adopted by his friend; and the motion was carried unanimously.

Curran, after a debate which gave rise to high words, put his hand to his heart, and declared, that he was the trusty guardian of his own honour: upon which Sir Boyle Roche congratulated his honourable friend on the snug little sinecure he had discovered for himself.

When a man, who had done the Govern ment some service, but was very generally considered a fool, applied to Lord Norbury for a certain appointment, then vacant, his lordship remarked, that though a goose had saved the capitol of Rome, it never obtained the consulship.

clergyman not to rely on some favourable A sick man being admonished by his symptoms, replied: "No, sir, I do not admit such music into my ears.'

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A poor carrier, who, in some difficulty, received unexpected assistance from stranger, turned to him, and said: "God bless you, sir, may you wonder at your own good luck."

A man, offering a horse for sale, being told that he asked too high a price, said that the shadow of his horse on the wall was well worth the price he was asking.

A labourer being urged to work in harvest-time, after the usual hour, replied: that there was no making an empty sack stand.

A lady relieved a poor woman from pecuniary distress. The woman, amazed at her generosity, and knowing that she had very little money to spare, knelt down and prayed: May Heaven be your banker!"

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The Confessor refused to give Lulli absolution, unless he burned his opera of Achilles et Polixene, which he was then preparing for the stage. He consented, and the manuscript was burned. A few days after, when he was somewhat better, one of the young princes came to see him. "What, Baptiste," cried the prince, have you been such a fool as to burn your opera?" "Hush, my lord!" whispered Lulli, "I have got a copy of it."

Though there were many giants of old, in physics and philosophy, yet, I say, with shoulders of a giant, may see further than Didacus Stella:" a dwarf, standing on the the giant himself."-Burton.

It is with our judgments as with our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.- -Pope.

He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green.-Bacon.

Sir Nicholas Bacon was asked, by Queen Elizabeth, to give his opinion on a monopoly licence; when he answered, "Madam, will you have me speak the truth? Licentiâ omnes deteriores sumus."