According to the Mahomedan law, the state of slavery is divided into two conditions--the perfect and absolute, or imperfect and privileged. Those who belong to the first class are, with all their property, at the disposal of their masters. The second, though they cannot, before emancipation, inherit or acquire property, have many privileges, and cannot be sold or transferred. A female, who has a child to her master, belongs to the privileged class; as does a slave, to whom his master has promised his liberty, on the payment of a certain sum, or on his death.--_Sir J. Malcolm's Sketches of Persia._ * * * * * The Gatherer. "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's stuff."--_Wotton._ LEVEES. Secretaries of state, presidents of the council, and generals of an army, have crowds of visitants in a morning, all soliciting of past promises; which are but a civiller sort of duns, that lay claim to voluntary debts.--CONGREVE. * * * * * PERVERSE PUN. The other day as Kenny was dining at a friend's house, after dinner wine being introduced and Kenny partaking of it, was on the instant observed to cough immoderately, when one of the company inquired if the cause was not owing to a bit of cork getting into the glass; to which Kenny replied, "I should think it was Cork, for it went far to _Kill Kenny_." P.K.R. * * * * * AUTHORS AND EDITORS. "Do you hear, let them be well used." SHAKSPEARE.