delight at seeing his deliverer was sin cere. In the fulness of his gratitude he embraced all the officers, and ran about the ship shaking hands with the crew. He repaid his pecuniary obligation to Nelson, and would have trebled the sum, which Nelson refused. He sent on board fruits, bread, wine, and meat, sufficient to keep the ACCOUNT OF A BRAIN OF AN sailors feasting for several days, and kept open house on shore for all the officers. audible. The coxcomb, horror-strack at his danger, said tremblingly, "What have I to pay?" On being told, he laid down his money, and sneaked away, without even tasting his Madeira. When taking his final leave, he presented Nelson with a sword and a cane, which the "Pretender" had used all his life; they were plainly mounted in silver, and highly valued by Nelson. It is difficult to tell which to admire most, the generosity of Nelson or the gratitude of the Cardinal; both did honour to their distinct professions, and this anecdote is equally creditable to the memory of two great and good men. VARIETIES. The late Lord Camelford, of duelling notoriety, entered one evening the Prince of Wales coffee-house, Conduit street, as was his usual custom, sat down and read the paper of the day. A dashing fellow, and, as he thought himself, a first-rate blood, entered afterwards, and threw himself on the opposite seat of the same box, and in a consequential tone bawled "waiter! bring me a pint of Madeira and a couple of wax candles, and put them in the next box." He then drew to himself Lord Camelford's candles, and began to read. His lordship glanced a look of indignation, and continued reading his paper. The waiter soon re-appeared and announced the completion of the gentleman's commands, who immediately lounged round to his own box." Lord Camelford having finished his paragraph, called out in a mimic tone, "waiter, bring me a pair of snuffers !" They were quickly brought, when his lordship laid down his paper, and walked round the table where the blood sat, snuffed out the candles, and retired to his seat. Boiling with rage and fury, the indignant beau roared out "waiter, waiter, who the devil is this fellow that dares insult a gentleman? What is he? What do they call him?" "Lord Camelford, Sir,' replied the other, in a tone scarcely OX ENTIRELY PETRIFIED. A French surgeon, not long since, produced before the Society of Medicine, the brain of an ox, not only entirely petrified, it is said, but acquired the hardness of flint. The butcher with all his might could not cleave it asunder, it was like a piece of rockwork. What is remarkable, this ox was fat and so vigorous as to break loose from the butcher several times. The only instance of a petrified ox's brain on record, is that of Bartholin's ox, killed at Stockholm; but that ox was very lean, appeared sickly, and always went with its head down. CUSTOM DESERVING OF IMI- In the duchy of Gotha thêre are many villages which obtain a rent of 200 or 300 dollars or more for their fruit trees planted on the road side, and on the commons. Every new married couple is bound to plant two young fruit trees. The rent is applied to parochial purposes, (at present to payment of the debts incurred during the late wars.) In order to preserve the plantations from injury, the inhabitants of the parish are all made answerable; each of whom is thus on the watch over the other; and if any one is caught in the act of committing any injury, all the damage done in the same year, the authors of which cannot be discovered, is attributed to him, and he is compelled to atone for it ac cording to its extent, either by fine, or by corporal punishment. THE RIVALS. When Maximillian II. was Emperor of Germany, two gentlemen, the one a Spaniard, the other a German, having asked of him in marriage his natural daughter, the beautiful Helen Scarfe quinn, the Emperor told them that he held both in equal estimation, and wished that their strength and dexte rity should decide the matter between themselves. As the friend of both, however, he took the liberty to propose, instead of risking their lives by a duel, they should procure a sack, in which he who contrived to put his adversary should espouse the lady. The two gentlemen accordingly contended more than an hour before the assembled court, when at length the Spaniard fell; on which the German, Andrew Eberhard, Baron de Talbert, placed his rival in the sack, took him on his back, and deposited him, to the infinite diversion of all the spectators, at the feet of the Emperor; and the next day married the beautiful Helen. NATIONAL CONTRAST. PATRICIUS LOQUITUR. In a noisy mob two handsome young women, who were very much alarmed, threw themselves into the arms of two gentlemen standing near, for safety. One of the gentlemen, an Irishman, immediately gave her who had flown to him for protection a hearty embrace, by way, as he said, of encouraging the poor crature; the other, an Englishman, immediately put his hands in his pockets to guard them. Two officers, observing a fine girl in a milliner's shop, the one, an Irishman, proposed to go in and buy a watch-ribbon, in order to get a nearer view of her. "Hoot, mon," says his northern friend, "there's nae occasion to waste siller, let us gang in and speer if she can give us twa saxpances for a shilling." It is notorious, that in one of Marlborough's battles the Irish brigade on advancing to the charge threw away their knapsacks, and every thing which tended to encumber them, all which were carefully picked up by a Scotch regiment that followed to support them. It was a saying of the old Lord Tyrawley, at a period when the contests between nations were decided by much smaller numbers than by the immense masses which have taken the field of late years, that to constitute the beau ideal of an army, a General should take ten thousand fasting Scotchmen, ten thousand Englishmen after a hearty dinner, and ten thousand Irishmen who have just swallowed their second bottle. DAINTY MORSELS; OR, AFTER DINNER CHIT-CHAT. To cause the joyous langh JEALOUSY. When Quin and Garrick performed at the same theatre, in the same play, one night each ordered a chair, it being very stormy. Quin was mortified at Garrick's chair arriving first. "Let me get into the chair," exclaimed the surly veteran," and put little Davy into the lantern." "By all means," replied Garrick, "I shall ever be happy to give Mr. Quin light in any thing." A PARAPHRASTIC REPROOF. On the eve of a battle, an officer came to the Marechal de Toiras to beg permission to visit his father, who was, Go," rehe said, on his death-bed. plied the general; "you honour your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land." A'SAUCY QUESTION ANSWERED. When Serjeant Cockle was on the Northern Circuit, he once told a witness that he was saucy, and followed up the remark by saying, "Pray what sauce do you like best?" "Any sauce but Cockle sauce," was the reply. CHALLENGING A JURY. A colonel of dragoons, who was by birth an Hibernian, previous to a trial, in which he was defendant, was informed by his counsel, that if he had any personal objection to any of the jury, he might legally challenge them. "Faith and so I will," replied the son of Mars; "if they do not bring me off handsomely, I will challenge every man of them." DR. FRANKLIN. When people who had got together a little money in trade, used to be capriciously wishing to live in the country (without having a single quality or habit to fit them for agriculture, its pursuit, or enjoyments), he would dryly ask, "What do you think of the country for ?" The answer usually was, "Oh! because I am tired of the town.""And for this reason," replied he, "you want to re-tire in the country." THE POET'S CORNER. HEART'S EASE. I used to love thee, simple flow'r, To love thee dearly when a boy; For thou didst seem, in childhood's hour, By waking thoughts of pleasures fled: For that ne'er tells of what has been, I love thee not-thou simple flow'r, THE MEETING. FROM LORD BYRON'S PARASINA. Is it not to list the waterfall That Parasina leaves ber hall, And is it not to gaze on heavenly light 'Tis not for the sake of its full-blown flower- There whispers a voice thro' the rastling leaves; TO WINE. Dear wine! when fortune's smiles have fled, Now, though my bark behind her leaves ... EPIGRAM. BY DR. JOHNSON. Liber ut esse velim suasisti pulchra Maris, Imitated. Oft, dear Maria, hast thou sung Oh! hide those eyes ! oh! stop that voice, For if sweet liberty's my choice, "Bacon" must be a rasher youth than he imagines to turn Sonnetteer. He does not even merit the definition of one by Dr. Johnson, a "small poet in contempt." We feel no hesitation in pronouncing him no poet at all. "D." shall have a place in our Corner. But as for "V." he is too vicious to appear any where, and ought to be indicted for a nuisance. Contributions (post paid) to be sent to the Editor, at the Publisher's. "We ought not, like the spider, to spin a flimsy web wholly from our own magazine; but, like the bee, visit every store, and cull the most useful and the best."-GREGORY. POMPEY'S PILLAR, Is situated about a quarter of a league from the southern_gate of Alexandria, a city of Lower Egypt, and once its capital. It is composed of red granite; the capital, which is eight feet high, is Corinthian, with palm leaves, and not indented. The shaft and the upper member of the base are of one piece of granite, ninety feet long and nine feet in diameter. The base, which is one solid block of marble, fifteen feet square, rests on two layers of stone, bound together with lead. The whole column is one hundred and fourteen feet high. It is perfectly well polished, and only a little shivered on the eastern side. Nothing can equal the majesty of this monument, which seen from a distance overtops the town and seems as a signal for vessels. Approaching it nearer, Pompey's Pillar produces astonishment mixed with awe; and the beauty of the capital, the length of the shaft, and the extraordinary simplicity of the pedestal, excite the admiration of all travellers. It was not, however, to mere admiration that a party of English sailors confined themselves. These jolly sons of Neptune had been pushing the can about on board their ship in the harbour of Alexandria, when they determined to go on shore and drink a bowl of punch on the top of Pompey's Pillar. The eccentricity of the idea was sufficient to make it be immediately adopted, and its apparent impossibility a certain spur for putting it into execution. On arriving at the spot many contrivances were tried but without effect, and the British tars began to despair of success, when the officer who had planned the frolic suggested the means of accomplishing it by a paper kite, for which one of the men was despatched to the city. The inhabitants were by this time apprized of what was going forward, and flocked in crowds to witness the exploit. The governor of Alexandria was told that the English seamen were about to pull down Pompey's Pillar, but he would not interfere, saying, the English were too great patriots to injure the remains of Pompey. He knew little, however, of the disposition of the people engaged in the undertaking; for had the Turkish empire risen in opposition it would not perhaps at this moment have deterred them. The kite was brought and flown directly over the pillar, by which means a cord was carried over the capital. This accomplished, a rope was then drawn over, and one of the seamen ascended by it to the top, where being arrived, other ropes were handed to him by the same conveyance, and in little more than an hour a regular set of shrouds was erected, by which the whole company went up, and drank their bowl of punch amidst the shouts of several thousand people collected to see what they termed a miracle, as no one had before been known to have seen the top of that stupendous edifice, which overtops the highest buildings of the city. To the eye below, the capital does not appear capable of holding more than one man, but our seamen found it would contain no less than eight persons very conveniently; they also discovered what before was unknown, that there was originally a statue on this pillar, of gigantic size, of which the foot and ancle are the only parts now remaining. The only injury the pillar sustained was the loss of one of its volutes, which fell down and was brought to England by one of the captains. The sailors, after painting the initials of their names in large letters, just beneath the capital, descended, to the great astonishment of the Turks, who to this day speak of. it as the madcap experiment. Our engraving presents a beautiful and correct view of Pompey's Pillar, with the shrouds, &c. by which our tars ascended to its top-a combination of one of the wonders of the ancients with as extraordinary an exploit as was perhaps ever attempted even by British sailors. WILD PIGEONS. The accounts of the enormous flocks in which the passenger, or wild pigeons, fly about in North America, seem to an European like the tales of Baron Munchausen; but the travellers are "all in a story." In Upper Canada, says Mr. Howison, in his entertaining Sketches, you may kill 20 or 30 at one shot out of the masses which darken the air. And in the United States, according to Wilson the ornithologist, they sometimes desolate and lay waste a tract of country 40 or 50 miles long, and 5 or 6 broad, by making it their breeding place. While in the State of Ohio, Mr. Wilson saw a flock of these |