The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

TUE 11,'INTE/CS EFENING.

[From " lit LW.), one." I
Well ! at last wooer is (moo, and (;o.1!) we
have got a good excuse h.r " cherishing our knees at
tile lire." ‘Ve have little more to do with the green
fields and cliviled laeilgi.s of the country, for they are
all lasi asleep, and trust 1s scatcely a bird left to wake
t 11.•111 Irons limn' stale of toriaii. Our existelice therefore,
will be nencelorward confined to in-door amusements;
to blintlislan's-but( with ille ) 4 t s. and reeve C.ll/.
I.lly, 11( 1:1/1111/11 WII/11114 Wllll the elders 114 if we go
uu,, lite asvect ol 11:11111C stares its lii the face like all
ugly wuniaii, and steins to say " W iiat the deuce do you
want here. We will iiicrelore take toe old lady's
an I coifliat ourselves to tile comforts of a lire•sifle, awl
so rciatne shall we become to a few days, that long
before toe st inter Is titer, we shall dread the idea iii
partiii4 wins oni tire as we should dread leas ing a dear
mend tt no way Stilt return to, ye Ira.
Bat, balk ! tt.e Ineese is rattliti4 ag.aiiist the window-
panes, and the coll.) east wind sues for aiinittauce at tits

key-hole. Nut at home, my friend, a brisk Inc-side is
now the only acquaintance who is henceforth allowed
to share the liodotirs of our intimacy, fur there is some-
thing a-i honest in his red-glowi itg coactimaii-like looking
face without the science of Lavater, we can iscover us
his phisiognomy the traces of a sociattle disposition.
And now what is to to done, the lire is already stirred,
the tea pruned out, and ourselves prepared tar a SCCOM
attack tin the meek heaviness of a quariern loaf. We
will turn to a page of Horace, and see what this ancient
modern writer ilJi to say for himself upon the suoject.
He advises us to keep our doors well fastened; (hie
mean with saiiil-bags placed at the hour,,, to heap
woo,l upon the tire, " ligila slyer loco large
and make the 1111 l st our present Win-
ter," saes tic" will out last long, but it is as well to utake
the most of it while it does last." This is 1111.111S,V1:1.11ne
logic, and we immediately close the hook with a trans-
ltoit of delight at the snuud reasoning ot the author.
Bert the clock strikes ten, it must slipper time surely
—accordingly in comes a htscuit or so, (we are no great
supper eaters,) kept in countenance by a ltberal rotun-
dity of howl, glitteriter, in auticioateti repleinstmess.—
The whisky is introduced, winds, after a few decent
Ce(C1110111t4, is CrifIACIICLI by the COIIII4IIIIO appellation
of whisky-toddy, and exultilig in its newly-acquired
name, iiivites its to partake of the honours of its baptism,
" Thus," as Peter Pmilar says,
" hits have I seen all ass baptized a jack,
Graced by a Clll4llllll sweeper on his hack,
Fling, snort, and cock his heels with libeiality,
In imitation of a horse oi quality."
And now that we have " tasted the creature," as an
Irishman would exclaim, suppose we have a fear ghost
stories to while away the evening. Awful amitnicia.
• nOll ! Even the candles num blue at the intelligence,
and the tire already smells ot sulphur. " But, who
begin;?"—" I wdl if you please. lii the black forest in
(ieriiimiy, there was otice a tradition"—" Is it a long
one, wiiiipers a clrowiy companion ?"—Go 911 exclaims
the y gest of the party ;we go oil accordingly to the
end of our story, and ale roused be the sound of the hall
clock striking ,out the midnight tuna of to dye. "It
iieVer sounded so gloomily before," bothers out an
affrighted auditor, " And biess Inc there -is a thief in
the candle, it really looks Tine ominous."—" Hark I
In yon not hear a noise,' whispers whither, "No I
it is only the moaning of the noun wield."—" l'here is
certainly a sound of lantstrin on the stairs," shrieks a
young lady, her glossy hair Ithilitilttg on end, even through
her curl papers. " run and see is hat it ist
" Not I."—" And I'm sure I W 011.1" IjACULIICS anotheri
" Nor I,' replies a third. The gnost irep meantime
approaches—the pause t, certmoly awful; all the neigii-
imurhood have lung since re:irvil to rest, and if the sprite
has come to maid its, he may du it without interruption.
.111 now is dead silence ; 1.111 tile distant soutul of the
%yawn dug as it sullenly hays tile 'noon. lo the mean-
wit Ic the lith:s it tilt Count are burning don, and the
extrettluy t already to dal ituiess• is that a mall stand..
n: in the corner there ;" "No! it is Only a great coat,
and a hat placed on toe hack ot a chair."
lint hark, hie cootsteus advance nearer ; a dins light
bunts through the key-hole, and as the 000 r is gruffly
lified on its latch, a tall woke figure slowly approaches
towards tis—rinil or heaven( it it —lt is—the
Wil/1 lIJD come to tell that the sheets and bads are
ready for our reception. The charm is accordnigly
broken, and luckily just itt time 10 Save is ruin the
nigist-mare.
This then is the amusement of our wither evenings,
Wiliell, if it does not beindit our fellow•ciemines, dues
not, at any rate, diminish their 3.1 X.. .1.11/IntifSS.—.•
Bin while we discuss our own comforts, it is not to
torget the unfortunate for whoa) we lure still a tear and
a
114n4011, as he does listiessly by his fire side, can listen
unconcerned to the winter wind that roars around the
unsheltered head of tile indigent traveller.

Maid' to do Fifty Miles in Ten Hours.—A gen-
tleman named Smith, an officer in the army, under-
took on NVednesday, for 100 guineas to do the above
great match, which was made on Saturday night.
at a sporting-house in St. James's, to be done within
43 hours. It was considered impossible without
previous training, but it sec.rs the pedestrian is
always in training, or in other words, lie is an ab-
stentious man who takes wonderful exercise. The
work was done over a live-miles piece of ground, on
the Hounslow enclosures, as follows;

AI in. Sec.
9 0

9 14
9 10
4
5

111iIv'. 1
5

Ik.. Min. Ser.
. 0 49 0

5 0 42 01
5 0 92 50
0 .50 30
5
1 30 30
5
0 4M 01
... 0 50 1.0
I 58 :41.4

6
7

9 47 48
The pedestrian was much beat after the 45 miles,
but he had made good his ground at going olf, and
he had leisure to rest an hour at intervals in the la: t
live miles. The weather was his friend, and betting
was two to one on him after doing 25 miles in three
hours, 42 minutes, and 31) seconds.
EmertteuskE.—The neighbourhood between
Harleeh and Bartnouth, Merionethshire, was much
alarmed a little after nine o'clock on the night of
Wednesday se'nuight by a slight shock of an evrth.
quake. The noise was something similar to that
produced by a large ball rolling on a hollow floor,
and continued tUr about bait' a minute. It seems to
have been generally heard, and as generally feared
by Ile country people.