STERNE, the author of the "Sentimental Journey," who had the credit of treating his wife very ill, was one day talking to Garrick in a fine sentimental manner in praise of conjugal love and fidelity: "The husband," said he, with amazing assurance, "who behaves unkindly to his wife, deserves to have his house burnt over his head."--"If you think so," replied Garrick, "I hope _your_ house is insured." ML.--CROMWELL. ONE being asked whom it was that he judged to be the chiefest actor in the murder of the king, he answered in this short enigma or riddle:-- "The heart of the loaf, and the head of the spring, Is the name of the man that murdered the king." MLI.--BILL PAID IN FULL. AT Wimpole there was to be seen a portrait of Mr. Harley, the speaker, in his robes of office. The active part he took to forward the bill to settle the crown on the house of Hanover induced him to have a _scroll_ painted in his hand, bearing the title of that bill. Soon after George the First arrived in England, Harley was sent to the _Tower_, and this circumstance being told to Prior whilst he was viewing the portrait, he wrote on the white part of the scroll the date of the day on which Harley was committed to the Tower, and under it: "THIS BILL PAID IN FULL." MLII.--WOMEN. AT no time of life should a man give up the thoughts of enjoying the society of women. "In youth," says Lord Bacon, "women are our mistresses, at a riper age our companions, in old age our nurses, and in all ages our friends." A gentleman being asked what difference there was between a clock and a woman, instantly replied, "A clock serves to _point_ out the hours, and a woman to make us _forget_ them." MLIII.--THE DEVIL'S OWN. AT a review of the volunteers, when the half-drowned heroes were defiling by all the best ways, the Devil's Own walked straight through. This being reported to Lord B----, he remarked, "that the lawyers always went through _thick_ and _thin_." MLIV.--WHIST-PLAYING. CHARLES LAMB said once to a brother whist-player, who was a hand more clever than clean, and who had enough in him to afford the joke: "M., if _dirt_ were trumps, what _hands_ you would hold!" MLV.--A CRUEL CASE. POPE the actor, well known for his devotion to the culinary art, received an invitation to dinner, accompanied by an apology for the simplicity of the intended fare--a small turbot and a boiled edgebone of beef. "The very thing of all others that I like," exclaimed Pope; "I will come with the greatest pleasure": and come he did, and eat he did, till he could literally eat no longer; when the word was given, and a haunch of venison was brought in. Poor Pope, after a puny effort at trifling with a slice of fat, laid down his knife and fork, and gave way to a hysterical burst of tears, exclaiming, "A friend of twenty years' standing, and to be _served in this manner_!" MLVI.--ON SHELLEY'S POEM, "PROMETHEUS UNBOUND."