dishonest, and another haughty. At last he saw approaching a serious, kindly-looking, middle-aged loiterer, with a rusty black suit and white cravat,--apparently a poor curate taking his "constitutional." Our friend explained his dilemma, and was assured, in the most courteous terms, that the stranger would accommodate him with pleasure. Very deliberately the latter picked up the guinea, wiped it carefully on his coat-sleeve, and transferred it to his vest-pocket,--walking off with a cheerful nod. Indignant at the trick, the invalid called out "Stop, thief!" The rascal was chased and caught, and, when taken to the police office, proved to be Bristol Bill,--one of the most notorious and evasive burglars in London. Many like instances of false pretences are traditional in Broadway,--where there are sometimes visible scenic personages, like a quack doctor whose costume and bearing were borrowed from Don Pasquale, and Dr. Knickerbocker in the elegant and obselete breeches, buckles, and cocked hat of the olden time. A peculiar hardihood and local wit are claimed for what are called the B'hoys. A cockney, in pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, was walking up Broadway with the hospitable citizen to whose guidance he had been specially commended by a London correspondent. "I want," said the stranger, "to see a b'hoy,--a real b'hoy." "There's one," replied his companion, pointing to a strapping fellow, in a red shirt and crush hat, waiting for a job at the corner. "Ah, how curious!" replied John Bull, examining this new species with his double eye-glass,--"very curious; I never saw a real b'hoy before. I should like to hear him speak." "Then, why don't you talk to him?" "I don't know what to say." "Ask him the way to Laight Street." The inquisitive traveller crossed the street, and, deferentially approaching the new genus, lisped, "Ha--ah--how d' do, ha? I want to go to Laight Street." "Then why in hell don't you go?" loudly and gruffly asks the b'hoy. Cockney nervously rejoined his friend, saying,--"Very curious, the Broadway b'hoys!"