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156 SUPPL T. unmber one, for he holds out the temptation of " laundress's expenses" 'to a person who is expected to combine the characters of companion, dress-maker, and governess. The " companion ship" would probably be the most objectionable part of the work, for one would be naturally anxious to avoid all. association with a "lady' who values the education of her children at " nothing," and wishes to make a milliner of their governess. The Times of the 11th contains an advertise ment too lengthy to quote in full ; hut which de mands the services of " a well-educated accom plished gentlewoman, not under twenty-one years of age," to " train and educate a little girl," and " be willing to undertake the entire charge of her pupil's wardrobe," for a salary of £lO per an num. In addition to her intellectual and milli nery acquirements, the accomplished gentle woman is expected " to combine firmness with gentleness" in her disposition ; or, in other words, she is to unite the strength to execute her various labours with the softness necessary to make her satisfied with the shabbiest possible salary. If people cannot, or will not, pay a governess for the qualities a governess ought to possess, they should forego an appendage to their estab lishment which is in reality a badge of meanness and degradation, though employed for the sake of display, and the governess is thus the real " victim to appearances." LITERARY EXTRACTS. DREA3IS.—And how can we certainly distinguish between our dreams and our waking thoughts ? What criterion is there by which we may surely know whether we are awake or asleep P It is true, as soon as we awake out of sleep, we know we have been in a dream, and are now awake. But how shall we know that a dream is such, while we continue therein P What is a dream ? To give a gross and superficial, not a philosophical account of it, it is a series of per sons and things presented to our mind in sleep, which have no being but in our own imagination. A dream, therefore, is a kind of digression from our real life ; it seems to be an echo of what was said or done when we were awake. Or, may we say, a dream is a fragment of life, broken off at both ends, not connected either with the past that goes before, or with that which follows after ? And is there any better way of distinguishing our dreams from our waking thoughts, than lby this very circumstance ? It is a kind of pa renthesis inserted in life, as that is in a discourse which goes on equally well either with it or without it. By this, then, we may infallibly know a dream ; by its being broken off at both ends ; by its having no proper connection with the real things which either precede or follow it.---John Wesley. THE BEAUTIFUL "Tx DEUM" of Giovanni Adelfo Hasse, surnamed Il Sassonis, a native of Bergedorf, near Hamburg, born 1399, had the following singular origin :—He had been commissioned by King Augus tus 111. to compose a new Te Deurn, but, having been for some time very ill, he was not disposed to study, and was unable to please himself. Meanwhile the day it was to be delivered was near at hand ; almost de spairing of success, he took a walk on a fine Sunday morning in the Royal-park. A lusty peasant from Gruna, who was going to Communion at a neighbour ing church, overtook him near the Palace, addressed him cordially, and kept close to him, notwithstanding the cool answers he received. Vexed at being thus interrupted in his meditations, he was about to turn into a side path, when suddenly a ray of invention was kindled in his soul, and the leading idea of the Te Deum flashed across his mind. Not to lose it, he im petuously desired the peasant to stand still, ran into the gardener's lodge for a piece of chalk, and was about to draw the stave across the broad shoulders of the peasant, when the latter, already amazed at the command to stand still, grew quite angry at the chalk marks on his Sunday coat, and, supposing Hasse to be mad, ran at full speed towards the city, followed by Hasse, chalk in hand, who luckily caught him, and beg- iMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN ging him for heaven's sake to stop, wrote his leading theme upon the black coat, and drove the owner before him (humming the note as he went along) to the park gate, when he obtained pen, ink, and paper, and copied the whole. With this treasure Hasse hastened home, and the principal parts of the Te Deurn were com pleted. On the following day he went to Gruna, car rying a present of a dozen of wine for the obliging peasant whose black coat had been of such essential service to him. A QUEER SPECIMEN OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. —The low beach rendered landing (at point Manabique, near the Gulf of Honduras, in Central America) an easy task, and we were soon in the rancho of an old and ugly herculean negro, known in the country far and wide by the name of " Tata Puss." This singular specimen of mortality is an unique human inhabitant of that part of the coast, and has lived there for many years, feeding on fish and wild fruits. He had the care of an immense heap of cocoa nuts, destined for a merchant from Belize, and was mounting guard before his treasure with a rusty old sword and a ridiculou s air of self-importance. We had a brief discussion with him before he would allow us to land on his domain ; he even shammed showing signs of fight, but a glass of aqua ardiente and the promise of an old shirt to cover his black nakedness soon put us in his good graces. I was not a little surprised by hearing him address me in broken English; and on inquiry I dis covered that he had, in his younger days, served as a sailor in the British navy, and had actually been engaged at the battle of Trafalgar. I was much amused by his telling me, striking his breast vio lently, " Me gentleman-buckra, me Englishman, me no Spaniard, me no Carib, me no nigger, me true born English gentleman." It was the most curious specimen of an English gentleman I ever met with, as, soon after, he boasted of having eaten his own mother, and of having murdered a whole family of natives who had settled in his neighbourhood. He was all over scars, received in fights and quarrels with the inhabitants of the nearest settlements, and, being covered with vermin, was certainly a most disgusting object. It made me feel queer when I looked at him and thought that " all men are brothers.---Fraser's Magazine. FREDERICK 11. OF PRIISSIA....- Frederick, though sometimes superb in his expenses, was habitually penu rious. He seems to have tho u ght that war was the only thing on which it was worth his while to spend money. The salaries of his gentlemen and attendants were all on the narrowest scale. Lord Malmesbury observes, that even the Prince of Dessau's marriage, at which he was present, exhibited this penury. All the apart ments, except those immediately used for supper or cards, were lighted with a single candle. The supper had no dessert ; the wines were bad ; their quantity stinted. On his asking, after dancing, for some wine and water, he was answered, " The wine is all gone ; but you may have some tea ;" and this was a pecu liarly distinguished party. He saw the King himself directing the servants in lighting up the ball-room, and telling them where to put the candles. Whilst this operation was performing, the Queen, the Royal family, and the company, were waiting literally in the dark, as the King did not begin this ceremony till supper was finished, and no one dared to give orders to have it done. Frederick, when a young man, was intended for the husband of a British princess. This was a match of his mother's construction. But the old King, who hated George 11., threatened to cut off his son's head for his presumption. The English King called the Prussian "my brother.the sergeant ;" the Prussian retaliated by calling the English King " my brother the dancing-master." This hostility amounted to a mixture of the profane and the ludicrous. When the old King was seized with his mortal illness, he asked whether "it was necessary to forgive all his enemies." On receiving the proper answer, he said to the Queen, " Dorothy, write to your brother that I forgive him all the evil that he has done me ; but wait till I'm dead first." A good repartee of Sir Andrew Mitchell on the battle of Quebec is mentioned. " Is it true," said the King to him, " that, after all, you have taken Quebec P" " Yes, sire," said Sir Andrew Mitchell, the envoy, "by the help of Provi dence." What !" said the King, "is Providence among your allies ?" " Yes, sire," said the envoy, " and the only one among them who demands no subsidy." O CT lt 4 .30, OcToBO, ' 155. tt c , ARD 'll r° ; 0 10 4 1, 4 e Plo h BUSINESS IN CAlRO.—Wheat " e l small mills worked by buffaloes o r el the of the baker is somewhat different ally rs lea inc , with us. The loaves are usuallYA' the customers, and brought at sta te " l , ll es t h , e 7 twice in the day, to the baker, who P a " j e ll afe - r ec. oven, which is always kept heated , 0 14 0 lie b *Aeti returns them sufficiently baked, for , to tlie, 4 o l a small sum. I had to advance illon e) all r P f o r purchase flour, as he would not incur aco ce, „09 self, and also to pay him in part in,. 3 „, is ,ss i ne f , labour. I inquired why he was so eal°l"`botila have the bread for his security till he 6 a 01 1 ,ed, his pay. His reply was, that he wal lt ,i e to ola!', e $ 111 " not bread, and that I might only inten' a l vra ctr i et;i of him. I found this to be the u sli ,t,;o o ll tradesmen, who will not do work to ' o f l e : few piastres without receiving a Pa r ,, t a l;er advance. I sent my boots to a alo e "' e d r e paired, by my servant, who soon retnrllloloo for four or five piastres, without whic h : ) , - . g,# ) ,`' t iO t to undertake them.--Olin's Travel s " fe 2 , A PORTRAIT OF SHERIDAN:4 ba°11ior101))117 time an opportunity of seeing this ,r e ,'"fo€ , 5 51 He was then in the prime of life, P° 4 ' oo o c o gy i. , , powers. His countenance struck we a' ilifi e f f ifl; most characteristic I had ever seen. di# o ,..; diir ek much, but 1 thought that I co° he physiognomy every quality for which guished ; the pleasantry of the man el, o &t, e `' keen observation of the great drainati. a s `L,fe s , l ), ness of the daring first-rate orator. P; r ftilL' fine, but their combination was so ?t ile d tual, that at the moment when he t w it " s' you, you felt that you were l o oking e ' highest order of faculties. None of i" of his day had a physiognomy 5 ° • Burke's spectacled eyes told but little; grand outlines of a Greek sage, had 0 0 : ture ; Pitt was evidently no favo ta l goddess presided over beauty at his birLi. ror dan's countenance was the actual in most glowing, versatil e , a n d vivid ul iau- His eyes alone would h ave given esP is r es o of clay. I never saw in h u man head ery s 'i f intense a black, and of such spark ling manners, too, were then admirable ; ea s , ligence, and respectful as the guest av • without a grain of servility. He temptss that affectation of epigram which cannot help knowing that his good tli: - AGED GENEIIALS.—" Do not supe youth is genius ; all that I say is tha t 7 young, is divine. Why, the g r e a test ancient and modern times both conq uered Youth, extreme youth, overthrew the r ( Don John of Austria, won Lepanto at 2 5 ' battle of modern time ; had it not been ~,en of Philip, the next year he would have of Mauritan. Gaston de Foix wa s a ' - stood a victor on the plain of itsvenfoe w, a ., members Conde and Rocroy at t i n e , - his caP c' ' ; vus Adolphus died at 38. Look a' 36 Whee',l wonderful Duke of Weimar, only les , dl e° Baner himself, after all his wir a i e be Cortes was little more than 30 wnellgatil the golden cupolas of Mexico. wh i lea t, l ony died at 32, all Europe acknow", l -s , s t stal the greatest captain and the profotin"- hut the age. Then there is Nelson, Cl i , e rhere warriors, and perhaps you may - • the things than war. Ido not ; I worshT' Hosts. But take the most illustrious ao.crie, civil prudence. Innocent 111., th e ' t 37, Popes, was the despot of Christendom 9 . r ajoi Medici was a cardinal at 15, and GniAcr;foi baffled with his craft Ferdinand af He was Pope Leo X. at 37. Luther robbed of his richest province at 35. Take w ith and John Wesley—they worke d Ignatius was only 30 when he a de 111 ' and wrote the " Spiritual Exercis es. great work at 16, the greatest of Frencliglio at 37. Ah ! that fatal' 37, whi ch ° Tor. Byron—greater even as a man than a wr,,, e lod experience that guided the penile Rai ) ; A)) painted the palaces at Rome ? dieu Well, the ° , o f lieu was Secretary of State at 31. b e t o f are Bolingbroke and Pitt, both minister d ent e men leave off cricket. Grotius was in P ly , ace Ai ilat t a °l3 • 1 4 0 , ) (Nett.44,o ! ( , ( 1 - ' - i /ft 4 , 4 Ri.;-.45. ler 111,, .11 fiillc t ,i, , power ;, 0, he i , taro& F?lt°. 411,1'k,' as oil llt 1%, o f tile le i a ? 'elt fialPabV .t) ' t 4 di o r .1 I, se tle ; fos,:t/ 44t .Do obilltY , se e b arite of:" . : cot, birth. ~Pnei:ii lt4t 1 airror or 01 , e w i n ds in th e 0 c",.11. ,spress'iontu i; , eian,,, ' tare' t, C orbs $0 {re' . 41" ;ling 1115-, Of! , thi easy Wit',°,l st at a ro,er , ti ( was 0°1;00; '`,lll)le(ii tempts 3 ,, fee? 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