When lo! descending from his seat, The parson, full of holy heat, At losing thus his labour, Tweak'd one's stout nose, then graceful bow'd, And said, "good sir, _you snore so loud,_ _I fear you'll wake your neighbour_." J. M. L. * * * * * _The advantages of solitude for Study._ My garden neat, Has got a seat Hid from ev'ry eye sir; There day and night, I read and write, And _nobody's_ the wiser. * * * * * _Favourite divertissements in Spain._ The theatres of this country, since the landing of the English, have, among other dramas, called mysteries, frequently represented one entitled _Las profecias des Daniel_ (prophecies of Daniel). No subject can be better adapted than this, for combining a splendid variety of pageantry in one oratorio, or sacred opera. The jubilee of adoration to the golden colossus of Bel, the flaming _auto-de-fe_ for the refractory holy children; the voluptuous dance exhibited during the meal of Belshazzar; the sacrilegious use of the chalices of Jerusalem; the sudden wrath of Heaven; the gloom of the thunder; the shadowy hand writing on the wall, in characters of lurid fire; and the armed irruption of the besiegers to renew a scene of purer triumph; all these form a series of picturesque magnificence, which, says our correspondent, you would enjoy to see some Sunday evening, at Drury-lane. The popularity of this play may be ascribed to the continual allusions of the Spanish patriotic writers to the seizure and supposed profanation of sacramental vessels by the French. Another new and very singular drama opens with Bonaparte, who soliloquizes about Spain. Allegorical demons stand watching around, and when he has confessed the whole atrocity of his purposes, they seize and carry him off in a fiery car to the place of torment. Next appears Ferdinand VII. a ballet of angels listen to his promises of virtuous sway, and crown him during the dance with wreaths of victory. Finally appears king George the third, who declares his horror for the tyrant, his affection to the virtuous and native monarch; and who is entertained by St. Iago and the virgin Mary, or by figures representing the genius of Spain, and that of Christianity, with a performance in full chorus of "God save the king." * * * * * _Longevity._