The following pathetic soliloquy was found written on the back of a hundred pound note of the National Bank, which passed through our hands lately, and we are sorry we can now add our sympathies to those of our poet on the transitory nature of those sublunary enjoyments:-- "A little while ye hae been mine; Nae langer can I keep ye; I fear ye'll ne'er be mine again, Nor any ither like ye." _Edinburgh Paper._ * * * * * FRENCH.--- ENGLISH. _At Boulogne._ "NOTICE to Informe the gentries: Find Dogs and some to be sold." _At Paris._ "M. Boursier, mershant, has the honour to give account at the English and strangers, gentlemen and livings from East Indies, that he takes charge of all species of goods or ventures, and all commissions. Like all kinds of spices and fine eating things: keep likewise a general staple of French and strangers wines, the all in confidence, and the most reasonable prices." _At Boulogne._ "Bed and table linen, plate, knives, and forks, also donkies to let. Mangling done here." _In the church al Calais._ "Tronc pour les pauvres de L'hôpital." "Trunk for the poor hospitable." _At Dieppe._ _French despair._ "Quand on a tout perdu et qu'on a plus déspoir On prend l'devant sa chemise pour sa farie un mouchoir." The above are all copied verbatim and literatim. J.G.R. * * * * * When a Grand Vizier is favourably deposed, that is, without banishing or putting him to death, it is signified to him by a messenger from the Sultan, who goes to his table, and wipes the ink out of his golden pen; this he understands as the sign of dismissal. W.G.C. * * * * * TIME. It is the remark of a sensible authoress, (Miss Hawkins,) that every _day_ resembles a _trunk_ which has to be filled; and when we fancy that we have packed it to the uttermost, we shall still find that by good management it might, and would, have held more.--Our quotation is from memory, but correct as to simile and substance; and we consider the remark not less striking than quaint. M.L.B. * * * * * On January 31 will be published, price 5_s_. with a Frontispiece, and upwards of thirty other Engravings, the ARCANA OF SCIENCE, AND ANNUAL REGISTER OF THE USEFUL ARTS, FOR 1829. The MECHANICAL department contains ONE HUNDRED New Inventions and Discoveries, with 14 _Engravings_. CHEMICAL, SEVENTY articles, with 2 _Engravings_. NATURAL HISTORY, 135 New Facts and Discoveries, with 7 _Engravings_. ASTRONOMICAL and METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA--35 articles--6 _Engravings_. AGRICULTURE, GARDENING, and RURAL ECONOMY, 30 _pages_. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. USEFUL ARTS. FINE ARTS. MISCELLANEOUS REGISTER, &c. For Critical Opinions of the Volume for last year, see Gardener's, New Monthly, and _London Magazines_, &c. &c.