"Come, child," said Aunt Katy, looking in, "there is Deacon Twitchel's chaise in sight,--are you ready?" "Yes, mother." [To be continued.] THE AUTOCRAT GIVES A BREAKFAST TO THE PUBLIC. Before my friend the Professor takes his place at our old table, where, Providence permitting, he means to wish you all a happy New Year on or about the First of January next, I wish you to do me the favor of being my guests at the table which you see spread before you. This table is a very long one. Legs in every Atlantic and inland city,--legs in California and Oregon,--legs on the shores of 'Quoddy and of Lake Pontchartrain,--legs everywhere, like a millipede or a banian-tree. The schoolmistress that was,--and is,--(there are her little scholars at the side-table.)--shall pour out coffee or tea for you as you like. Sit down and make yourselves comfortable.--A teaspoon, my dear, for Minnesota.--Sacramento's cup is out. Bridget has become a thought, and serves us a great deal faster than the sticky lightning of the submarine _par vagum_, as the Professor calls it.--Pepper for Kansas, Bridget.--A sandwich for Cincinnati.--Rolls and sardines for Washington.--A bit of the Cape Ann turkey for Boston.--South Carolina prefers dark meat.--Fifty thousand glasses of _eau sucree_ at once, and the rest simultaneously.--Now give us the nude mahogany, that we may talk over it.--Bridget becomes as a mighty wind and peels off the immeasurable table-cloth as a northwester strips off the leafy damask from the autumn woods. [At this point of the entertainment the Reporter of the "Oceanic Miscellany" was introduced, and to his fluent and indefatigable pen we owe the further account of the proceedings.--_Editors of the "Oceanic Miscellany."_] --The liberal and untiring editors of the "Oceanic Miscellany" commissioned their special reporter to be present at the Great Breakfast given by the personage known as the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, furnishing him with one of the _caput-mortuum_ tickets usually distributed on such occasions. The tables groaned with the delicacies of the season, provided by the distinguished caterers whose names are familiar in our mouths as household words. After the usual contest for places,--a proceeding more honored in the breach than the observance,--the band discoursed sweet music. The creature comforts were then discussed, consisting of the various luxuries that flesh is heir to, together with fish and fowl, too numerous to mention. After the material banquet had cloyed the hungry edge of appetite, began the feast of reason and the flow of soul. As, take him for all in all, the bright particular star of the evening was the distinguished individual who played the part of mine host, we shall make no apology for confining our report to the SPEECH OF THE AUTOCRAT.