At a time when Queen Elizabeth was making one of her progresses through the kingdom, a mayor of Coventry, attended by a large cavalcade, went out to meet her Majesty and usher her into the city with due formality. On their return, the weather being very hot, as they passed through a wide brook, Mr. Mayor’s horse several times attempted to drink, and each time his worship checked him, which her Majesty observing called out to him, “Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor! let your horse drink, Mr. Mayor;” but the magistrate, veiling his bonnet, and bowing very low, modestly answered, “Nay, nay, may it please your Majesty’s horse to drink first!” A LACONIC LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN TO HIS CURATE. “I do not like your terms; my wife is very ill; and please God she but die, I’ll do the duty myself.” A NEW TRANSLATION. A country squire asked his son, who had been at a Latin school, what was the meaning of the words _nemini secundus_? “Why, father,” said he, “that is a man who was never second to anyone in a duel.” A TRAVELLER’S BULL. A modern traveller, in a late publication, states that the _women_ of Sunda, near Fez, are the best _horsemen_ in the world. THE BLIND AND THE BLIND. A gentleman disputing about religion in Button’s coffee-house, some of the company said, “You talk of religion, I’ll hold you five guineas you can’t repeat the Lord’s Prayer; Sir Richard Steel here shall hold the stakes.” The money being deposited, the gentleman began, “I believe in God,” and so went through his Creed, “Well!” said the other, “I own I have lost; but did not think you could have done it.” SYMPATHY. The late Duke of Grafton, when hunting, was thrown into a ditch; the next moment a young curate called out, “Lie still, your grace!” leapt over him, and pursued his sport. Such an apparent want of feeling, we might presume, was properly resented--not so. On being assisted to remount, the duke said “That young man shall have the first good living that falls to my disposal; had he stopped to have taken care of me I never would have patronised him.” Being delighted with an ardour similar to his own, or with a spirit that would not stoop to flatter. BEN JOHNSON.