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‘nwave ofsteel and gold, r the lovely pageant on: c champion young and bold wit-{99a lance and gentalon." , F‘“ ebuld exceed the magnificence of this spec. was performed by young men of noble birth, in the Imperial riding school. This was rig, surrounded by a narrow gallery about cm the ground, communicating with the ‘ palace, and running behind the hands 4 Columns which supported a second as: the whole was most brilliantly illuminated. ations were calculated to hold about a ectators—the seats at the end ofihe room gapart for .the crowned heads, and at the other fOur ladies, whom we were to consider as the objects which would this evening call forth the isof skill and prowess in the aspiring knights. ’ o’clock the heralds sounded their trumpets, an- the entrance ofthese fair ladies, who, con- the champion knights, took their places of , on. One would have imagined that all the fig of Vienna had been collected tosadorn these 1“” V f beauty. Their dresses of velvet and gold ‘ covered with pearls and diamonds. They were iiiidediiflc'four Companies, distinguished by the colors . wors';r‘of one party, the velvet was black; of her,§carlet; ofthe third, crimson; and of the fourtii, ;, and the mantle of each knight corresponded with fidress-of his lady fair. , The knights were in Spanish Wfiplendidly adorned with gold and silver. The 3fubtpets now sounded to announce the arrival of the “ On the entrance ofthe sovereigns, the band , ' the national air “God save the Emperor,” and ' {nations .rent the roof. The Emperors of Russia ' ttstria took. their places in the centre, at the front, he‘Empresses on each side; and then all the sovereigns, princes and potentates, in their order edency. ‘They were all in their full uniform, and its magnificent an assemblage as Europe could ‘ce. The building now resounded with martial ‘and the twenty—four knights entered the arena, moun- n their gallant steeds; whose natural colors could to be traceOthrough their gold embroidery and . The knights, attended by their esquires in ~ simple Spanish dresses, approached the sovereigns

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probably have sent to the collector, a picture of what

,Mrs. Mal aprop calls “ An Allegory on the banks of the

Nile." Aster,the archer, volunteered an autograph, and " "it it bang into Phillip’s right eye. Some individuals are so chary of their hand-writing as to bestow, when requested, only a mark or cross; others more liberally adorn a specimen oftheir penmanship with such extraneous flourishes as a corkscrew, a serpent, or

a circumbendibus, not to mention such caligrdphic

fancies as eagles, ships and swans. Then, again, there are what may be called Mosaic Autographs, i. e. inlaid with cockle-shells, blue and white pebbles, and thelikc, in a little gravel walk. Our grandmothers worked their autographs in canvass samplers; and I have seen one wrought out with pins’ heads on a huge white pin- cushion, as thus— WELCOME SWEET BABY. MARY, JONES.

When the sweetheart of Mr. John Junk requested his autograph, and explained what it was, namely, “ a couple ofliues or so, with his nameto it,” he replied, that he would leave it to her in his will, seeing as how it was “done with gunpowder on his left arm.” There have even been autographs written by prox , For example, Dr. Dodd penned One for Lord Chesterfield; but to obiige a stranger in this way is very dangerous, con- sidering how easily a few lines can be twisted into a rope. According to Lord Byron, the Greek girls com- pound autographs as apothecaries make up prescriptions; with such materials as flowers, herbs, pebbles, ashes, and bits of coal. Lord Byron himself, if asked for a specimen of his hand, would, probably, have sent out a plaster cast of it. King George the Fourth and the Duke of York, when their autographs were request- ed for a keep-sake, royally favoured the applicant with some of theirLatinjEnglish exercises. With regard to my own particular practica, I have often traced an au- tograph with my walking-slick on the sea-sand. I also seem to remember writing one with my fore-finger on a dusty table, and am pretty sure I could do it with the smoke ofa candle on the ceiling. I have seen some- thing like every badly scribbled autograph made by children with a thread of treacle on a slice of suet dumpling.» Then it may be done with vegetables. My little girl drew her autograph, the other day, in mustard and cress. Domestic servants, I have observed, are fond of scrawling autographs on a tea-board with the slopped-milk. Also, of scratching them on a soft dcal

body, and saluted with their lances. Then, wheel- Jo'und with rapidity, they advanced, and paid the ' mark of respect to the ladies, who, standing up, usly returned their salutations. ~The knights skilfully manoeuvering their well-trained horses, _v from the arena; but four of them quickly rc- for the purpose of performing the various feats 3‘: appointed for the amusement ofthe evening. service, figures were placed, bearing the grim , drinks and Moors. Towards these, each git “toadvance, and, passing at full speed, strike ofl'in'. the beards with his sword; then, in :ltkemannentn raise them from the ground with his wea- _, randsoflu various ways, give proof of his prowess * ,lbe‘gxcrcise ofcombat. Allthe knights then entered '«pagties of four, and went through their evolutions; ' ary' blinds playing appropriate airs or martial

Wderable time having been occupied by these ts, the scene again changed,‘and the whole ,of‘lmights and squires appeared together, and begin various and rapid movements, skilfully g their horses while at full speed, in all the q «and tiirnings, and windings of an English ,/,,“dance, and the more graceful motions of a "‘qitadrille. Other trials ofskill succeeded, in , they passed their lances, at full speed, through 161‘ disengaged small objects suspended at a height given The exercises being ended, the knights saluted the court, and their “ladyes;” and, en- }! by their smiles and applauses‘, soon reappeared When) .in triumph to the ball, prepared in the alnon Redoute. The whole amply realized every "ation of an imperial entertainment; whatever ust in sovereignty, warlike in the field, ‘great in i e, assisted as -speétators ofthe carousal, and menight entered into the lists in whose veins the ’ blood did not flow. It called to mind the days .‘eient chivalry, when those military sports formed Inge apart of the amusements of the European

noon 0N AUTOGRAI’HS.

g tdr"accede to it; but, unluckily, you-have omitted tufhrm tuefifithe sort ofthing you want. Autographs Of'fi,alty-fiinds. Some personsgehalk them on the A bars, inscribe what may be called auto-litho- » an pundry colours, on the flag-stones. Gentlemen ' blight-in carving their autographs on the bark as other idle fellows are apt to hack and hew It! benches and rustic seats. Amongst various ._I have seen a shop-boy dribble his autograph up of water on a dry pavement. The autographs “charity boys are written on large sheets of paper, ,nated with engravings, and are technically called , The celebrated Miss Bifiin used to distri- ngraphs amongst her visitors, which she wrote :pon grasped between her teeth. Another, a Ger- ppmenon, held the implement with his toes. ruin the Iron Mask scratched an autograph with . MM silver plate, and threw it out ofthe window. “fifth smudged one with a charred stick; and with his fore-finger dipped in a. mixture

7 Lord Chesterfield wrote autographs *tth a diamond pencil. So did Sir Wiilter Queen Elizabeth. Draco, when Themis sentences for her album, dipped his sty- Faust used the same fluid in the mgr?! with Mephistophiles. The He- ; ’ ’1 ‘ pargotua backwards; and some of tp clothe them in hieroglyphics. An , if asked fer his autograph, would

. much flattered by your request, and quite wil- ’

dresser, the lead ofthe sink, and above all, the quick- silver side of a looking glass; a surface, by the by, quite irresistible to any one who can write, and does not bite his nails. A friend of mine possesses an autograph—— “ REMEMBER JIM HosmNs”-—doue with a red hot poker on the back kitchen door. This, however, is awkward to bind up. Another—but a young lady—Lpossesscs a book of autographs, fitted jhst like a tailor’s pattern-book ——-with samples of stutfand fustian. Theforegoing, sir, are but a few ofthe varieties; and the questions that have occurred to me in consequence ofyour only naming the genus, and not the species, have been innumerable. Would the gentleman like it short or long? for Doppel- dickins, the learned Dutchman, wrote an autograph for a friend, which the latter published in a quarto volume. Would he prefer it in red ink, or black,—or suppose he had it in sympathetic, so that he could draw me out when he pleased? Would he choose it on white paper or tinted, like Maroncelli’s’! Would he like it. without my name to it—as somebody favoured the lately with his autograph in an anonymous letter? Would he rather it werelike Guy Faiix’s to Lord Mounteagle (not Spring Rice).in a feigned hand! Would he relish it in the aristocratical style, 2'. e. partially or totally illegible ’2, Would he like it—in case he shouldn’t like it—on a slate? With such a maze to wander in, if I should not take‘the exact course you wish, you must blame the short and insufficientrclue you have afl‘orded me. In the mean time, as you have not forwarded to me a tree or a table,—a pavingstone or a brick wall,—-a looking-glass or a window, a teaboard or silver plate,—a bill-stamp or a back-kitchen door,——I presume, to conclude, that you want only a Common pen-ink-and-paper autograph; and in the absence of any particular directions for its transmissiou,—for instance, by a carrier pigeon,——-or in a fire—balloon,——or set adrift in a bottle—or per wag- gon—or favoured by Mr. Waghorn—or by telegraph, I think the best way will be to send it to you in print,

-—I am, sir, your most obedient Servant, THOMsAS Hoop.

POPULAR EDUCATiON.——At a meeting recently held, for the furtherance oftliis object, in Yorkshire, the Bishop of Ripon said—“ It was a humiliating fact, with respect to Europe at large, that, with the exception of the two extremities of it, Russia and Spain, England stood the lowest in the scale of popular education, ,There ought, in every country, to be one.f0unh ofthe whole community receiving a general education, He doubted whether, in arty country, the maximum. had ever been attained. In Wurtemberg, perhaps the highest of any country, there was one fifth ofthe population sub- mitting to education. His Lordship then referred to one of the cantons of Swnzerland, where an immense sum was annually granted for the education of the peo- ple, and to the fact that a law had: been passed in Aus- tria preventing any man from being married or any tradesmen from employing Worknien until hfi could read, write, and cast accounts. His, lordship next alluded to the schools in Scotland, established in every village, and supported by a tax on the landed proprietors. With respect to England, howsver, it proved a lamentable ex- ception to the rest ofEurope, for in this country'only 1 out at every II or 12 were under primary education; and if that were the case with respect to England, they must be satisfied thatin that diocese, comprising as it did a large manufacturing district, the average must be still less favourable. His Lordship then observed, that it was quite clear great exertions were necessary in or- der to remedy the evil. With a view ofgivmg to the poor the benefits of education, it was propOSed to esta- blish a diocesan board, the rules and regulations of which had been drawn up, and Would shortly be submit-

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ted foiztlie approval ofthe meeting.” England is the richest and most intellectual country of Europe, and yet she is the lowest in the scale of popular education.

SAM SLICK'S DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SWEETHEART AND A WIFE—This must be an everlastin fine country beyond all doubt, for the folks have nothin to do but to ride about and talk politics. In winter, when the ground is covered with snow, what grand times they have a slaying over these here mashes with the gals, or plain ball on the ice, or goin to quiltin frolics of nice long winter evenings, and then a drive home like triad by moonlight. Natnr meant that season on purpose for courtin. A little tidy scrumtuous-lookirig slay, a real clipper of a horse,’.i string ofbells as long as a string of iiiions round his neck, and a sprig on his back, looking for all the world like a bunch of apples broke off at ga- thering time, and a sweetheart alongside, all muffled up but her eyes and'lips, and one lookiii right at you, is e’en

almost to drive one ravin, tariii, distracted mad with,

pleasure, ain’t it'! And then the dear critters say the bells make such a din there’s no hearin oncrs selfspeak; so they put their pretty little mugs close up to the face and talk, talk, talk, till one can’t help looking at them instead of the horse, and then wliap you both go cap- sized intova snow drift together, skins, cushions, and all. And then to see the little critter shake herself when she gets up, like a duck landing from a pond, a chattering away all the time like a canary bird, and you a haw- hawiug with pleasure, is fun alive, you may depend. In this way blue nose gets led on to offer himself as a lover, before he knows where he is. But when he gets mar- ried, he recovers his eyesight in little less than half no time. He soon finds he’s heed—his flint is fixed then, you may depend. She larns him how vinegar'is made, “ put plenty of sugar into the water aforehand, my dear,” said she, “ if you want it real sharp.” The larf is on the other side of his month then. If his slay gets upsot,

it’s no longer a funny matter,- I tell you—he catches it

right and left. Her eyes don’t look ,to his’n any more, nor her little tongue ring like a bell any longer; but a great big hood covers her head, and a whappiii great muff covers her face, and she looks like a bag of old clothes agoing to the brook to be washed—W hen they gets out, she don’t want any more for him to walk lock and lock with her, but they march like a horse and a bow to water, in each gutter. If there ain’t a transmog- rification, it’s a pity. The difference between a wife and a sweetheart is near about as great as there is be- tween new and hard cider—a man never tires of putting one to his lips, but makes plaguy wry faces at t’other. It makes me so kinder wamblecropt when I think on it, that I’m afeard to venture on matrimony at all. I have seen some blue noscs most properly bit, you may depend. The marriage yoke is plaguy apt to gall the neck, as the ash bow does the ox in rainy weather, unless’it be most particularly well fitted. You’yc seen a yoke of cattle. that warn’t properly mated—they spend more time in pulliu agin each other, than in pullin the load. Well, that’s apt to be the case with them as chooses their wives in slayin parties,quiltin frolics, and so on, instead ofthe dairies, looms, and cheese house.

Sin JouN HERSCiIEL.——A recent number of the Phi- lasap/tz'cal diligazina contains the following interesting accountofthe awarding ofthe Royal medal to this dis- tinguished astronomer at the meeting of the Royal Soci- ety :—-The Royal medal which the‘ Council had propo- sed to giye to the most important paper on Astronomy communicated to the Royal Society within the last three years, is awarded to Sir John Frederick William Her- schel, for his Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters ofStars, published in the Philosophical Transactions f0r1833. In delivering this medal the President addressed the So- ciety as follows :—“ This, gentlemen, is the second time that a royal medal has been adjudged to Sir John Her- shel, for researches in a department of Astronomy which has descended to him as an hereditary possession; and I believe I may venture to say, that in no case has a noble inheritance been mare carefully cultivated, or more enriched by new acquisitions—The catalogue for which the royal medal is now given contains a list of 2500 nebulae and clusters of stars, the same number of which had been observed and catalogued by his father, though only 2000 of them are common to both cata- logues; the right ascension and declination ofall these objects are determined; the general character oftheir appearance recorded; and all those which present any very extraordinary character, shape, or constitution, of which there are nearly one hundred, are drawn with a delicacy and precision worthy of an accomplished artist. It presents a record of those objects so interesting, as forming the basis of our speciilations on the physical constitution of the heavens, which are observable in the hemisphere, which is sufficiently perfect to become a standard of reference for all future observers, and will furnish the means of ascertaining the changes, whether periodical or not, which many oftheni are probably des- tined to undergo. Itrust, gentlemen, that a long time will not elapse before we shall be enabled to welcome the return of Sir John Herschel to this country, with materials for a catalogue of the nebula: of the southern hemisphere, perhaps as perfect and comprehensive as that which we are now called upon to signalise with the highest mark of approbation which it is in our power to bestow. He then will have fixed the monuments of an iuiperishable fame in every region of the heavens.” .

FAITH OF THE INDIANs.——Catlin gives the followmg account of the belief of the western’tribes of Indians in a future state, as described by an Indian Chief: I

“ Our people all believe that the spirit lives in a future state—that it has a great distance to travel after death towards the west—that it has to cross a dreadful deep and rapid stream, which is hemmed in on both‘SldeS by high and rugged hills—over the stream, from hill to bill, there is a long and slippery pine log, with the bark peeled off, over which the dead have to pass to the delightful hunting-grounds. On the other side of the stream there are six persons ofthe good hunting-grounds, with rocks in their bands, which they throw at them all when they are on the middle of the log. The g°°d walk on safely to the good hunting-grounds, where there

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but for ever live young and enjoy the youthful pleawres.

which they fall from the log, and go down thousands of feet to the water, which is dashing over the rocks, and is stinking with dead fish and animals, where they to car- ried around and brought continually back to the" same place in Whirlpools—where thetrees are all dead, and the waters are full of toads, and lizards, and snakes— whcre the dead are always hungry, and have nothing to eat—are always sick, and never die——where the sun never shines, and where the wicked are continually climbing up by thousands on the sidés ofa high rock, from h’hich they can overlook the beautiful country of the good hunting-grounds, the place of the happy, but never can reach it.” . »

IIiGiiLAND _CLANs.—The following is an alphabetical list-of all the known clans ofScotland, with a description of the particular badge of distinction anciently worn by each clan, which served as the distinguishing mark of their chiefs—In addition to the distinguishing badge of his clan, a highland chief also wore two eagle’s feathers in his bonnet. '

Buclrun, birch; Cameron, oak ; Campbell, myrtle; Chisholm, elder; Colquiioun, hazle ; Farq-uharsan, purple fox-glove; Ferguson, poplar; Forbes, broom; Fraser, yew; Gordon, ivy; Graham, laurel; Grant, cranberry- heath; Gunn, rosewort; Lamont, crab-apple tree; Ma Allister, five—leaved heath ; McDonald, bell~heath; Ma Donnal, mountain heath ; McDougal, cypress ; McFar- lane, cloud-berry bush; ZlIcGregor, pine; McIntosh, hoxwood; ZlIcKay, bullrush; llIcIfcnzic, deer grass; ilHKinnon, St. John’s wort; ZlIcLac/tlan', mountain-ash; ilchean, black-berry heath; McLeod, red whortle-ber- ries ;McNab’, rose buck berries; llIcNeil, sea-ware; Mo P/terson, variegated hoxwood ; liIcQuarrie, black thorp;

zirs, ash; .Murray, juniper; Ogilvie, hawthorn; pliant, the great maple; Robertson, fern; Rose, briar rose; R0 53, bear berries; Sinclair, clover; Stewart; thistle ; Sutherland, cat’stail grass.

NAMES av wnicu THE INHABITANTS OF SOME OF THE UNITED STATES AllErCALLED.—New Englanders, Yan- knrs ; Indianians, Hoosiers; Michigan, Wolverines ;‘ Ohio, Buck-eyes; North Carolinians, ~Cunnuclrs; Mis- sourians, Pukcs; Tennesseeans, Corn-crackers ; Virgi— nians, Tuclraltoes; Illinois, Suckers; Pensylvanians, Pennites. ‘ l . BRITISH Pnov1N0E5.—-—Nova Scotians and New Bruns- wickers, Blue Noses. \