favorite with Italians?' 'Oh, yes; I adore him very mosh; I almost do admire him; but he was very _sorry_ poet.' 'How so? BYRON a sorry bard?' 'Oh, yes, very sorry; don't you think so? _molto triste_--very mel-_an_-choly; don't you find him so? I always feel very sorry when I read him. I think he's far more sorry than PETRARCA; don't you?' This will remind the reader of the very strong term used by a Frenchman, who on being asked at a soiree what was the cause of his evident sadness, replied: 'I av just hear my fader he die: _I_ am ver' mosh _dissatisfied!_' . . . WE shall _probably_ find a place for the paper entitled '_Foreigners in America_.' The writer touches with a trenchant pen upon 'the social abuses which the first families in the metropolis tolerate at the hands of disreputable exquisites and titled rascals.' Nervous words, but not undeserved. 'How much more rapidly a fashionable foreigner will move in the high road of preferment than one of your thinking, feeling, complex persons, in whom honor, integrity and reason make such a pother that no step can be taken without consulting them!' . . . WE have indulged in one or two sonorous guffaws, and several of Mr. COOPER's 'silent laughs,' over the following 'palpable hit' from a New-Jersey journal: 'A talking-machine,' says the 'Newton Herald,' 'which speaks passable French, capital English, and choice Italian, is now to be seen at New-York. It is made of wood, brass, and gum-elastic.' 'A similar machine,' adds the 'Sussex Register,' 'compounded of buckram, brass, and soap-locks, and familiarly called 'GREEN JOSEY,' is to be seen in Newton, at the Herald office; though we cannot say that it speaks _any_ language 'passably.' It frequently makes the attempt, however, and here is one of its last 'essays:' 'Gov. GILMER is understood to have had a standing CART-BALANCE for any appointment under the present administration, which he might choose to _except_; but he will not _except_ an appointment of any kind under this administration.' Isn't that 'standing _cart-balance_' rich? The usual phrase _carte-blanche_, which in the sentence quoted might be rendered by 'unconditional offer,' is transmogrified into _cart-balance_! Among all the blunders perpetrated by conceited ignorance in its attempts to _parley-voo_, this stands unequalled. We have seen _hic jacet_ turned into _his jacket_, in an obituary; that was a trifle; but CART-BALANCE overcomes our gravity!' So it does ours. The anecdote, to adopt the reading of a kindred accomplished linguist whom we wot of, is a 'capital _jesus-de-sprit!_' . . . THE beginning of 'L.'s '_Stanzas_' is by no means unpromising; but what a 'lame and impotent conclusion!' 'Lord HOWE he went out, And LORD! how he came in!'