The author of a treatise on this subject, tells the following anecdote, which may in some degree account for the numbers registered at Whitehall, (who were _touched_) which were from the year 1660 to 1664 inclusive, a period of five years, 23,601; and from May 1667 to May 1684, 68,506; viz. an old man who was witness in a cause, had by his residence fixed the time of a fact, by Queen Anne having been at Oxford, and _touched_ him while a child, for the cure of the evil. When he had finished his evidence, the relater had an opportunity of asking him whether he was really cured. Upon which he answered with a significant smile, "that he believed himself never to have had a complaint, that deserved to be considered as the _evil_, but that his parents were poor, and _had no objection to the bit of gold_." When King Charles II. _touched_ at Whitehall, he usually sat in a chair of state, and put about each of their necks a white ribbon, with an _angel_ of gold on it. Query.--Was not this the _original golden or angelic_ ointment? Edward the Confessor is generally mentioned as the first possessor of this art; although the historians of France are disposed to maintain, that it was originally inherent in their kings. Dr. Johnson's mother is said to have been instigated by the advice of a celebrated physician, Sir John Floyer, to bring her son to London for the purpose of receiving the remedy, and it is recorded that he was _touched_ by Queen Anne. P.T.W. * * * * * ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AMONG THE EGYPTIANS. (_For the Mirror_.)