120. 9.

The company laughed heartily at my oppo- nent. and gave me the greatest possible credit {or my readiness. and we ﬁnished the evening with much hilarity. and at the close of our sit- ting, the following day was ﬁxed for my ex.

crimental journey from King Charles the ll‘irst at Charing Cross to the Royal Exchange on Cornhill.

Well! away I went, holding the golden por. traiture of his late Majesty George the Fourth, as tight between my teeth as l had formerly held a bit of Wood while under the painful dis- cipline of Dr. Waddington’s birch at school, re- solved that no power should induce me to let go my guinea.

All succeeded according to my wishes. The tall portal of Exeter Hall, already for Gog and Magog when they Walk westward, and the lengthened avenue of Waterloo bridge,were passed in safely ; Somerset House, the Strand Theatre, Jones’ Lucifer shop, the Lancet ofﬁce, Paul’s banking house, and 'I‘wining’s tea shop, were successfully achieved: when just thinking of an epigram on the said shop, which I recol- lected to have seen some years since in a news- paper, and which, [dare say, every body else 'has forgotten, I repeated to myself the thing, which runs thus :

It seems as if nature had curiously planned,

That names should with calling agree ; There’s Twining, the tea-man who livesin the

Would be wining if robbed of his T. [Strand Just as I had ﬁnished, I heard a prodigious noise, and in a minute found myself in the mid- dle ofa crowd assembled, as it appeared to me, like Roderick Dhu’s troopers at a preconcerted signal. There [was in the midst ofit. What then ! said I; let what may occur. I say no- thing ; [shall keep my mouth shut, and keep m golden opinion to myself; nothing shall “ rep from the honourable gentleman,” which shall endanger my bet.

“Come what’s all this here noise about!’ said a police-man ; “move on.”

“ Move on, Shir!” said a poor Jew boy, his eyes streaming with tears, “ I vish I could move on ; but dese coot gentlemens have run right against me an upset my box vith all my razors, and combs and shigsars."

“ Poor boy !” said one man, (a remarkably genteel looking individual.) “ here my ear fellow!" and he picked up a comb for iim. Then came another who handed him a razor or two, and so on, until it appeared to me he had collected nearly the whole contents of his box; when another gentleman said to him, “ Well Mosee have you got all your rattle traps toge- ther again ?”

“ All but my guinea, Sir,” said the boy ; ‘a guinea vich is all de monish 1 half in de whole. varsal world; do! I shoppose is rolled in the muds."

“ Muds, Moses!” said a little urchin with a snub noscand a hairy cap—l never shall forget his countenance—“ what d‘ye mean by muds? 1 seed that ere gentleman with a black stock pick it up ever so long ago.”

The policeman looked me full in the face, so did the rest of‘he people. [were a black stock.

“ What did he do with it, my dear?” said"a Brobdiguagean woman without a bonnet, ad. dressing the imp who had just spoken.

“ Vy, he vipt it into his month,” said the ur- chin ; 1 seed him vith my own eyes.”

With whose eyes he should have seen such a sight except his own, I did not stay to ask ; but 1 exclaimed, foaming with rage, ‘ Why you lit- tle—.’

“ Ah,” bellowed the huge Amazon,

" The guardian naiad of the Strand,”

THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

“if you hav’nt got it in your mouth, vy don't you speak plain?”

Upon this the mob, police-man and all, put me to trial. Never were cross questions more fatal to a culprit, than the consolidated one- pound-one at that moment between my teeth was to me.

“ Give the boy his money!” cried one. ‘Shame,’ cried another. “ You’d better give it up!” said the police-man ;-—when, seeing several of the more active of the mobocrac faling to the rear, and arming themselves witll'sundry hand- fuls of thick Macadam pudding from the highway. 1 made a merit of necessity, gave the .lew boy my gold for Ransom, and slunk 06' to .Moreland’: to write a check for my lost twenty pounds.

VARIETIES.

Naval Qualieﬁcation for the .Medical Profes- sion.—A shabbily dressed young man, from the Land 0’ Cakes, whose lean appearance beto- kened a long estrangement from the kail pot, appeared at the Mansion House, London, last week, to swear to the loss ofa duplicate for a case of surgeon’s instruments. The ofﬁcer, suspecting from his look and appearance that the articles had probably been stolen, directed the attention of Mr. Hobler to the circum- stance. How came you by those instruments ? inquired Mr. Hobler. Ibocht them, said the applicant, in a strong Scotch accent. Mr. Hobler.—For what purpose? Applicant—I’m engaged to gang as medical attendant to a vessel that’s ganging out till Canada. Why, said Mr. Hobler, evidently surprised, are you pro- perly qualiﬁed? Applicant—l canna say just precisely ; but l’ve been twa years as porter in a poticary’s shop in Edinbro. Mr. llobler—A ver competent qualiﬁcation, truly! The aiﬁ avit having been sworn, the medical gen- tleman withdrew.

Depreciation ofProperty in Jamaica.—Con- stant Spring Estate, a property that formerly sold for 100,0001., was put up to public auction in this city on Monday, and knocked down for l5,000l.-IL'ingrlon Chronicle.

Destruction of a Town by Fire—We learn from Mr. Joseph Sterett, supercargo of the brig Brazen, arrived at this port yesterday, from Ponce, Porto Rico, that the Town of Guayama, in that Island, was entirely consumed by ﬁre, about the 11th of April.—Baltimore Guardian.

The Primitive Methodist Conference commenced its sittings at Bradford inYork- shire, on Friday the 18th of May, and clo- sed on Thursday the 24th. The returns made, exhibit this year an increase of 4,- 105 members ; making a present total of 41,301 members; 263 travelling preachers; 3,141 local preachers, and 463 chapels.

At Aix-la Chapelle, from 50,000 to 60,- 000 pilgrims had arrived on the 15th 0 June to perform their devotion at the shrine of the Reliques, exposed there once in every seven years!!!

The University of VVilna, has been suppressed by an Imperial Ukase. Its li- brary of200,000 volumes is ordered to be

The Plague having broken out in Persia; in the Towns of Rastel and Sinsen, Russia. has ordered a most strict Quarantine.

The Petition from India, against the abolition of the rite of Suttee, referred to the Lords of the Privy Council, was by them, after a patient hearing, very pro- perly dismissed. Dr. Lushington advoca- ted the cause of the Petitioners.

.llmerican Drunkards.— The Chancellor of the State of New York, has made an or- der restraining all persons who should be served with a copy of that order, from sell- ing or delivering to any habitual Drunk- ard, who had been declared such by a de— cree of the Chancellor’s court, any spirit- uous liquors whatever, under pain of in- curring a contempt of that Court. This decision will enable the Committees of all habitual Drunkards to obtain similar orders, and by this means to present all tavern-keepers, and others from selling them liquors—«Maw York Journaqu Com- merce.

Several of the. Wesleyan Missionaries are at present being examined before the Committee of both Houses of Parliament on the subject of Slavery.—The Rev. John Barry’s examination occupied four days, and his evidence embraces 700 folios ! ! ! The Rev W. Knibb, the Baptist Mission- ary just returned from Jamaica, is also subpoened to give evidence.-- Weekly pap.

There are no less than Eleven Repub- lics, established on the American Conti- nent, at the head every one of which is a military chief.

Extraordinary Madness—There is at present a man who believes himself dead ever since the battle of Austerlitz, where he receiveda serious wound. His delirium consistsin that he can no longer recognise his own body. If he is asked how he is, he says, you ask how “ Pere” Lambert is, but he is dead, he was killed at the battle of Austerlitz; what you now see is not him, but a machine made in his likeness, and which has been very badly made. This man has frequently fallen into a state of immo- bility and insensibility, which lasts for several days. Neither sinapisms nor blisters ever cause the slightest pain. The skin has been frequently pinched, and pierced with pins, without his being aware of it. Does not this man offer a remarkable example of delirium manifestly inﬂuenced by want of se'gsibility in the skin. and want of well-marked modiﬁcation of visceral sensibility ?

Charles the Finland Carisbrook Carlie, Isle of lVighL—At Carisbrook Castle are shown the ruins of the apartments where charles l. was conﬁned. and the window through which he attempted to escape. When the King was being removed hence to Hurst Castle, he ave Mr. Worsley,who had risked his life..for im, , his watch, saying, “This is all my gratitude; has to give.” The watch is still presetvM-‘jln' '

removed to Russia,

the fami!y. n is of silver, large and essay '.j ,4