rence some tons.

[6] In the confectioner's shops at Paris, they are sold peeled,
baked, and iced with sugar. We can answer for their being very
delicious.

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Lord Hudson, in Queen Elizabeth's time, said, "To have courage to
observe an affront, is to be even with an adversary. To have the
patience to forgive it, is to be above him."

C.B.

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DEATH AMONGST LIONS.

It is remarkable that in 1438, all the lions in the Tower of London
died.

T. GILL.

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ANTIQUITY OF PORTERS.

Saccarii, among the Romans were a company or fraternity of porters,
who had the sole privilege to carry all goods from the harbour to the
warehouses, none being allowed to employ their own slaves, and much less
those of others, for that purpose.

The modern _Saccarii_, alias tackle porters and ticket porters, are
well known to Londoners, and have been thus poetized by Gay:

"If drawn by business to a street unknown,
Let the _sworn porter_ point thee through the town."

These _portly gentry_ have been compared to kings. Howel says, "It is
with _kings_ sometimes as with _porters_, whose packs may jostle
one against the other, yet remain good friends still."

N.B. This is a _knotty_ subject.

P.T.W.

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STANZAS ON MADAME VESTRIS HAVING ESTABLISHED A THEATRE OF HER OWN.

_Written by Sir Lumley Skeffington._

Now Vestris, the tenth of the Muses,
To Mirth rears a fanciful dome,
We mark, while delight she infuses,
The Graces find beauty at home.
In her eye such vivacity glitters,
To her voice such perfections belong,
That care and the life it embitters,
Find balm in the sweets of her song.

When monarchs o'er valleys are ranging,
A court is transferr'd to the green;
And flowers, transplanted, are changing
Not fragrance, but merely the scene.
'Tis circumstance dignifies places;
A desert is charming with spring!
And pleasure finds twenty new graces,
Wherever the Vestris may sing!

_Times._

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LORD ANSON.

(_To the Editor._)

Being in Sussex a short time since, I observed at a public-house
adjoining the Duke of Richmond's, at Goodwood, the figure head of the
Centurion, the ship in which Lord Anson sailed round the world. On the
pedestal tha