The King of Spain, after the old Roman manner, has a whole page of titles, to express the several kingdoms and signories of which he is master. Henry IV. of England had the title of "Grace" conferred on him; Henry VI. that of "Excellent Grace;" Edward IV. that of "High and Mighty Prince;" Henry VII. "Highness;" Henry VIII. "Majesty," (and was the first and last that was styled, "Dread Sovereign;") and James I. that of "Sacred," or, "Most Excellent Majesty." That of "Majesty" was first given to Louis XI. of France; before, it was the title only of emperors. The Kings of Arragon, Castile, and Portugal, had the title only of "Highness;" those of England, "Your Grace;" those of France, "Your _Despotism_." P.T.W. * * * * * THE GATHERER. * * * * * _Hood's Comic Annual for 1833._--Mr. Hood's announcement of his forthcoming volume is in the very vein of the work itself. He writes to his publisher:--"The report of my death, I can assure you is premature, but I am equally obliged to you for your tribute of putting up shutters and wearing a crape hatband. I suspect your friend and informant, Mr. Livingstone--(it should be Gravestone)--drew his inference from a dark passage in Miss Sheridan's Preface which states that, 'of the three _Comic Annuals_ which started at the same time, the Comic Offering alone remains.' The two defuncts therein referred to are the 'Falstaff' and 'The Humorist,' which I understand have put an end to themselves. "If you should still entertain any doubts, you will shortly have ten thousand impressions to the contrary; for I intend to contradict my _demys_ by fresh _octavos_. The Comic Annual for 1833, with its usual complement of plates--mind, not coffin-plates--to appear as heretofore, in November, will give the lie, I trust, not merely to my departure, but even to anything like a _serious_ illness: and a novel, about the same time, will help to prove that I am not in a state of de-composition. "I should have relieved your joint anxieties some days earlier, but till I met Mr. Livingstone, at Bury, I was really not alive to my death." * * * * *