EMIGRANTS.

AN Irish gentleman, resident in Canada, was desirous to persuade his
sons to work as backwoodsmen, instead of drinking champagne at something
more than a dollar a bottle. Whenever this old gentleman saw his sons so
engaged he used to exclaim, "Ah, my boys! there goes an acre of land,
_trees and all_."

MCCXLIX.--PARLIAMENTARY CASE.

BISHOP ANDREWS, who was master and a great benefactor of Pembroke Hall,
was one day at court with Waller the poet, and others. While King James
was at dinner, attended by Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, and Neale,
Bishop of Durham, his Majesty said to the prelates: "My lords, cannot I
take my subjects' _money_ when I want it, without all this formality in
Parliament?" Bishop Neale quickly replied, "God forbid, sir, but you
should: you are the breath of our nostrils." On which the king said to
the Bishop of Winchester, "Well, my lord, and what say you?"--"Sir,"
replied Andrews, "I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary
cases."--"Come, come," answered his Majesty, "no put-offs, my lord;
answer me presently."--"Then, sir," said Andrews, "I think it lawful for
you to take my _brother Neale's money_, for he offers it."

MCCL.--OUTLINE OF AN AMBASSADOR.

WHEN the Duke de Choiseul, who was a remarkably meagre-looking man, came
to London to negotiate a peace, Charles Townsend, being asked whether
the French government had sent the _preliminaries_ of a treaty,
answered, "he did not know, but they had sent _the outline of an
ambassador_."

MCCLI.--NATURE AND ART.

A WORTHY English agriculturist visited the great dinner-table of the
Astor House Hotel, in New York, and took up the bill of fare. His eye
caught up the names of its--to him--unknown dishes: "Soupe a la
flamande"--"Soupe a la Creci"--"Langue de Boeuf piquee"--"Pieds de
Cochon a la Ste. Menehould"--"Pates de sanglier"--"Pates a la gelee de
volailles"--"Les cannelons de creme glacee." It was too much for his
simple heart. Laying down the scarlet-bound volume in disgust, he cried
to the waiter, "Here, my good man, I shall go back to _first
principles_! Give us some beans and bacon!"

MCCLII.--A COMPARISON.

IT is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles,--the less
they have in them, the _more noise_ they make in pouring it out.

MCCLIII.--THE SNUFF-BOX.

AT a party in Portman Square, Brummell's snuff-box was particularly
admired: it was handed round, and