forsake Christ for Mahomet. No persuasions, however, could prevail upon the convert to comply with this requisition; Goolam went back to India without accomplishing the object of his mission, which produced no improvement in her straitened circumstances. Two years afterwards, she learned that an Indian Prince had landed in England with a splendid retinue, including three females, but that he had been obliged by the English government to embark again immediately for India. Aline had no doubt that this event had some connexion with her history, but she heard no more of the matter. These particulars are chiefly extracted from the preface to the books of the Princess, written by the Marquess de Fortia. This nobleman generously took upon himself the charge of supporting Aline, who has now attained the age of sixty years in a foreign land.--_Court Journal_. * * * * * MAKING PUNCH. (_From the Noctes--Blackwood_.) _Shepherd_.--I hae mony a time thocht it took as muckle natural genius to mak a jug of punch as an epic poem, sic as Paradise Lost, or even Queen Hynde hersell. _Odoherty_.--More, my friend, more. I think an ingenious comparison between these works of intellect could be easily made by a man of a metaphysical turn of mind. _North_.--A more interesting consideration would be, the effect produced upon the national character, by the mere circumstance of the modes of preparing the different beverages of different countries. Much of the acknowledged inferiority of the inhabitants of wine countries, arises from the circumstance of having their liquor prepared to their hand. There is no stretch of imagination in pouring wine ready made from carafe, or barochio, or flask, into a glass--the operation is merely mechanical; whereas, among us punch drinkers, the necessity of a nightly manufacture of a most intricate kind, calls forth habits of industry and forethought--induces a taste for chemical experiment--improves us in hygrometry, and many other sciences--to say nothing of the geographical reflections drawn forth by the pressure of the lemon, or the colonial questions, which press upon every meditative mind on the appearance of white sugar. LION-EATING AND HANGING. _North_.--When I was at Timbuctoo-- _Shepherd (aside.)_--A lang yarn is beginning the noo-- _Moses Edrehi_.--Sind sie geweson, sare, dans I'Afrique? _North_.--Many years--I was Sultan of Bello for a long period, until dethroned by an act of the grossest injustice; but I intend to expose the traitorous conspirators to the indignation of an outraged world. _Tickler (aside to Shepherd.)_--He's raving. _Shepherd (to Tickler.)_--Dementit. _Odoherty (to both.)_--Mad as a hatter. Hand me a segar. _Moses Edrehi_.--Yo suis of Madoc. _North (aside.)_--Zounds! _(to Edrehi)_ I never chanced to pass that way--the emperor and I were not on good terms.