* * * * * Captain Basil Hall has addressed a letter to a Scotch newspaper, stating that the story of his _walking_ 16,000 miles in fifteen months, is a hoax--the whole journey being performed in land conveyances and steam-vessels! Not a line is written of the "Book" of these exploits, said to be "in the press;" the latter is by no means so great a blunder as the former. * * * * * A facetious _gourmand_ suggests that the old story of "lighting a candle to the devil," or as it has been corrupted, "_holding_ a candle to the devil," probably arose from the adage of "GOD sends meat, and the devil sends cooks,"--and was an offering to his Infernal Majesty, by some epicure who was in want of a cook. * * * * * GERMAN MODE OF PREVENTING TIPPLING. The following is a late order from the mayor of a department in the Isere:---"All persons drinking and tippling upon Sundays and holidays, in coffee-houses, &c. during the celebration of mass or vespers, are hereby authorized to depart without paying for what they have had." * * * * * [*.*] ERRATA at page 189--for _Quoites_ read _Quoties_, and in the same line insert hyphen--thus, _mori_. * * * * * LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE BRITISH NOVELIST, Publishing in Monthly Parts, price 6d. each.--Each Novel will be complete in itself, and may be purchased separately. _The following Novels are already Published:_ _s._ _d._ Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6 Paul and Virginia 0 6 The Castle of Otranto 0 6 Almoran and Hamet 0 6 Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6 The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6 Rasselas 0 8 The Old English Baron 0 8 Nature and Art 0 8 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10 Sicilian Romance 1 0 The Man of the World 1 0 A Simple Story 1 4 Joseph Andrews 1 6 Humphry Clinker 1 8 The Romance of the Forest 1 8 The Italian 2 0 Zeluco, by Dr. Moore 2 0 Edward, by Dr. Moore 2 6 Roderick Random 2 6 The Mysteries of Udolpho 3 6 Peregrine Pickle 4 6 * * * * * _Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset-House.) London: sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers._