Of the abhorrence with which the Dutch regard the French tongue, the following lines of Bilderdyk are an amusing example:-- Begone, thou bastard-tongue! so base--so broken-- By human jackals and hyaenas spoken; Formed for a race of infidels, and fit To laugh at truth--and scepticize in wit; What stammering, snivelling sounds, which scarcely dare, Bravely through nasal channels meet the ear-- Yet helped by apes' grimaces--and the devil, Have ruled the world, and ruled the world for evil! _Ibid._ * * * * * COALS. One of the pamphlets of the age of the Commonwealth is said, in the title-page, to be Printed in the year That sea-coal was exceeding dear. The remembrance of this inconvenience, which the Londoners had suffered during the stoppage of their supply from Newcastle, made "the committees of both kingdoms conclude and agree among themselves, that some of the most notorious delinquents and malignants, late coal-owners in the town of Newcastle, be wholly excluded from intermeddling with any shares or parts of colleries;" "but as the parliament might find a difficulty in _driving on the trade_, they did not conceive it for their service to put out all the said malignants at once, but were rather constrained, for the present, to make use of those delinquents in working their own collieries as tenants and servants." The more stubborn and _wealthy_, therefore, were selected for example; and the others had this favour shown them. * * * * * LADY-POETS OF ENGLAND. The following is a Frenchman's expression of homage to our modern female poets, in which we excel all the world:--