cottage, at Clurn Hill. I passed it to-day, and it looked so cheerful; and when you get there, you must take Ellen's advice, and _depend_ solely on yourself." "Och Ma'am, dear, don't mintion it--sure it's that makes me so down in the mouth, this very minit. Sure I saw that born blackguard, Jack Waddy, and he comes in here, quite innocent like"--"Shane, you've an eye to 'Squire's new lodge," says he. "Maybe I have," says I. "I am y'er man," says he. "How so?" says I. "Sure I'm as good as married to my lady's maid," said he; "and I'll spake to the 'Squire for you, my own self." "The blessing be about you," says I, quite grateful,--and we took a strong cup on the strength of it; and _depinding_ on him, I thought all safe,--"and what d'ye think, my lady? Why, himself stalks into the place--talked the 'Squire over, to be sure--and without so much as by y'er lave, sates himself and his new wife on the laase in the house; and I may go whistle." "It was a great pity, Shane, that you didn't go yourself to Mr. Clurn." "That's a true word for ye, Ma'am, dear; but it's hard if a poor man can't have a frind to DEPIND on."--_Sketches of Irish Character, by Mrs. S.C. Hall_. * * * * * THE GATHERER. "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." SHAKSPEARE * * * * * POTATOES. One is almost induced to imagine that certain orders of London conceive that "_takers_," as they commonly call them in their uncooked state, is a generical term; and that they only become entitled to the prefix of "_pot_," after they have been boiled. * * * * * DINING LATE. A wag, on being told it was the fashion to dine later and later every day, said, "he supposed it would end at last in not dining till to-morrow!" * * * * * MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON. Moore has printed between three and four hundred pages of his Life of Lord Byron, which is interspersed with original letters and poems, of singular merit--after the manner of Mason's Life of Gray, and Hayley's Life of Cowper. Nearly the whole of the manuscript is in town, and the work, consisting of a thick 4to. volume, will be published during the season.--_Court Journal, No. 1_. * * * * * PISTRUCCI. This gifted improvisatore (who is poet to the King's Theatre,) sometimes astonishes his acquaintance--especially if a new one--by holding his hand close over the flame of a candle, or an argand lamp, for several minutes together. It is a singular fact that several of the male branches of this family--of whom the unrivalled artist who cut the die of the sovereign, with the St. George upon it, is one--have one of their hands covered with a thick coat of horn-like matter, as hard as tortoiseshell, and perfectly insensible.--_Ibid._ * * * * * WRITTEN EXTEMPORE IN A COPY OF COKE UPON LITTLETON, 1721.