last by loud exclamations from the banks, she roused herself, only to behold the frightful chasm before her, when, perceiving all hope of escape to be vain, and every effort fruitless, she coolly finished off the contents of her bottle, and plunged into the abyss.--See _Quart. Journ. Agric._ No. 18. * * * * * ANECDOTE GALLERY. SATIN STONE NECKLACES. These beautiful ornaments of polished fluorspar--first made and brought into fashion, we believe, by the late Mr. Mawe, of the Strand--are even more appreciated by our Gallic neighbours than by ourselves. We have been in society where the attention and admiration of a gallant French gentleman was ludicrously divided between the attractions of a lady's face and her satin-stone necklace. Some years since, the Duchess de Berri, it is said, purchased various ornaments of this description and material, to a considerable amount, which she wore, either upon, or immediately subsequent to, her marriage. On the fatal night of the Duke de Berri's assassination, the Duchess happened (so goes the story) to be wearing one of these identical purchases; and, in consequence, upon the anniversary of her widowhood, and on other occasions when peculiarly depressed in spirits, never fails to put on a satin-stone necklace, as a memento of the hours of her bridal and deprivation. Louis XVIII. purchased, when in England, a large stock of these delicate, white necklaces, which, on returning to France, he disposed off amongst his admiring fair _noblesse_, by gift or purchase. * * * * * DUELLING IN FRANCE. Different versions of the following anecdotes, respecting Mr. G---- (an English officer), may be abroad, but we give them as detailed to us:--