considering moreover the ruin which a glass or two of brandy may bring upon a young non-commissioned officer in the army, as also the heavy punishment it may entail upon an old soldier, it would be well for them peremptorily to forbid, at all their refreshment-rooms, the sale by any of their servants, to the public, of ardent spirits. But the bell is violently calling the passengers to ‘Come! come away!’--and as they have all paid their fares, and as the engine is loudly hissing--attracted by their pockets as well as by their engagements, they soon, like the swallows of summer, congregate together and then fly away. It appears from the books that the annual consumption at the refreshment-rooms averages-- 182,500 Banbury cakes. 56,940 Queen cakes. 29,200 patés. 36,500 lbs. of flour. 13,140 „ butter. 2,920 „ coffee. 43,800 „ meat. 5,110 „ currants. 1,277 „ tea. 5,840 „ loaf-sugar. 5,110 „ moist sugar. 16,425 quarts of milk. 1,095 „ cream. 8,088 bottles of lemonade. 10,416 „ soda-water. 45,012 „ stout. 25,692 „ ale. 5,208 „ ginger-beer. 547 „ port. 2,095 „ sherry. And we regret to add, 666 bottles of gin. 464 „ rum. 2,392 „ brandy. To the eatables are to be added, or driven, the 85 pigs, who after having been from their birth most kindly treated and most luxuriously fed, are impartially promoted, by seniority, one after another, into an infinite number of pork pies.