SHAKSPEARE. * * * * * BULL AND NO BULL. "I was going," said an Irishman, "over Westminster Bridge the other day, and I met Pat Hewins--'Hewins,' says I, 'how are you?'--'Pretty well,' says he, 'thank you, Donnelly.'--'Donnelly,' says I, 'that's not _my_ name.'-- 'Faith, no more is mine Hewins,' says he. So we looked at each other again, and sure it turned out to be neither of us--and where's the bull of _that_ now?" * * * * * BAD HABIT. Sir Frederick Flood had a droll habit of which he could never effectually break himself (at least in Ireland.) Whenever a person at his back whispered or suggested any thing to him whilst he was speaking in public, without a moment's reflection, he always repeated the suggestion _literatim_. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring "that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord Lieutenant's favour,"--John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."-- "And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, amidst peals of uncontrollable laughter. * * * * * CURIOUS POST OFFICE. It is said, as the Isle of Ascension is visited by the homeward-bound ships on account of its sea fowls, fish, turtle, and goats, there is in a crevice of the rock a place called the "_Post Office_," where letters are deposited, shut up in a well-corked bottle, for the ships that next visit the island.[22] P.T.W. [22] Our correspondent calls this a "curious Post Office;" we should say it was merely an inland post. * * * * * AMERICAN COURTSHIP. The young ladies of Medina county, among other means of preventing the too frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved that they will not receive the addresses of any young gentleman who is in the habit of using spirituous liquors. The young gentlemen in the same neighbourhood, by way of retaliation, have resolved that they will not _seriously_ pay their addresses to any young lady who wears corsets. This is right. If whiskey has slain its thousands--corsets have slain their tens of thousands.--_N.Y. American_. * * * * * What colours were the _winds_ and _waves_ the last tempest at sea? _Answer_.--The winds _blew_ and the waves _rose_. C.K.W. * * * * * LIGHT EVIL.