Miss Louisa--not clever; but in all other respects, ditto--ditto. Miss Charlotte was always very romantic; refused a respectable banker with indignation, and married her uncle's footman--for love. Having sketched the female part of the family first (a compliment by the way they do not always receive from their own sex)--I will tell you what I remember of the gentlemen. "The Emperor," as Mr. Augustus was called, from his stately manner and dignified deportment, aided by as much self-esteem as could well be contained in a human body, _depended_, without any "compunctuous visitings of conscience," on the venison, claret, and champagne of his friends, and thought all the time he did them honour:--and thus he passed his life. "Dashing Dick" was the opposite of the Emperor; sung a good song--told a good story--and gloried in making ladies blush. He _depended_ on his cousin, Colonel Bloomfield, procuring him a commission in his regiment, and cheated tailors, hosiers, glovers, coach-makers, and even lawyers, with impunity. Happily for the world at large, Dashing Dick broke his neck in a steeple chase, on a stolen horse, which he would have been hanged for purloining, had he lived a day longer. Ferdinand was the bonne-bouche of the family: they used to call him "the Parson!" Excellent Ferdinand!--he _depended_ on his exertions; and, if ever the name of Headerton rises in the scale of moral or intellectual superiority, it will be owing to the steady and virtuous efforts of Mister Ferdinand Headerton, merchant, in the good city of B----. _Sketches of Irish Character, by Mrs. S.C. Hall_. * * * * * PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES. We quote the following from the portion of the _Library of Entertaining Knowledge_, with the above title--to show the mode in which the heads of the respective chapters are illustrated: _Obscure Origin_. "The parents of SEBASTIAN CASTALIO, the elegant Latin translator of the Bible, were poor peasants, who lived among the mountains in Dauphiny. "The Abbé HAUTEFEUILLE, who distinguished himself in the seventeenth century, by his inventions in clock and watch making, was the son of a baker. "PARINI, the modern satiric poet of Italy, was the son of a peasant, who died when he was in his boyhood, and left him to be the only support of his widowed mother; while, to add to his difficulties, he was attacked in his nineteenth year by a paralysis, which rendered him a cripple for life. "The parents of Dr. JOHN PRIDEAUX, who afterwards rose to be Bishop of Worcester, were in such poor circumstances, that they were with difficulty able to keep him at school till he had learned to read and write; and he obtained the rest of his education by walking on foot to Oxford, and getting employed in the first instance as assistant in the kitchen of Exeter College, in which society he remained till he gradually made his way to a fellowship.