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     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 
     
    
   
   
    
     69 
     
    
   
   
    
     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