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London, England, 1825-10-22 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, kg.

WAGES or MEMBERS OF PA [ILIA M UNT.---The
House of Commons on the 18th of March, 1580,
ordered, that " such members as shall depart
without licence, be fined, over and above the
loss of their wages, and none to depart without
leave of the Speaker." There is an Act of
Parliament of the 6th of Henry the Eighth,
c. 16 , upon this subject, which may be said to
be obsolete, as the penalty inflicted by it has
now no longer any existence : by that act " every
member who absents himself, without licence
from the House, and that licence to be entered
of record in the clerk's book, shall loose his
wages, and the place for which he serves shall
be discharged of the wages against the said per-
son, and his executors."

ANECDOTE OF A MAN KILLED PT A
the reign of AuGusTus, King of Poland, and
Elector of Saxony, a lion was kept in the mena-
gerie at Dresden, between whom and his keeper
such a good understand subsisted, that the latter
used not to lay the food which he brought him
before the grate, but carried it into his cage. Ge-
nerally the man wore a green jacket, and the lion
always appeared very friendly and grateful when.
ever he received a visit from him. On one occasion
the keeper, having been at church, had put on a
black coat, and still wore it when he went to
give the lion his dinner. The unusual appearance
of the black coat excited the lion's rage, he
leaped on the keeper, and stuck his claws into
his shoulder. The man spoke to him gently, when
the lion appeared to recollect his voice ; doubt
appeared expressed in his terrific countenance ;
still, howevr, he did not quit his hold. An
alarm was raised, and wife and children ran
to the place with shrieks of terror. Some- of
the King's Guards arrived, and offered to shoot
the animal, as there seemed to be no other
means of extricating the man, but the keeper,
who was very much attached to the animal,
begged them not to do it, as he hoped he would
he able to extricate himself nt a less expellee.
In nearly a quarter of an hour he capitulated
with his enraged friend, who still would
not let go his hold ? at length the man
felt himself unable to sustain the weight of
the lion, and yet any serious effort to extricate
himself would have been at the immediate hasard
of his life. lie therefore desired the soldiers to
fire, which they did, and killed the lion, but in
the same moment, perhaps only by a dying con-
vulsive grasp, he squeezed the unfortunate keeper
between his powerful claws with such force that
he broke his arms, ribs, and spine, and they both
fell dead together.

MERCANTILE GENEROSITY.--•CIIARLES V.
having been reduced to great straits by the disastrous issue of
a very expensive expedition against Tunis, the Fugisrs, a
family of merchants at Augsburg, furnished him with the sums
which, by his own calculation, would make his affairs easy, and
enable him to act with the vigour becoming the head of
Germany; and for this loan the Emperor gave them writ-
ten obligations. Charles one day taking the air near their
house, the noble-spirited merchants begged he would do
them the honour to accept of refreshment, which he ac-
cepted ; and after the collation, they ordered a heap
of cinnamon to be laid on the fire, saying that common wood
was not fit fuel for such a worthy Prince ; to which he answered,
By St. Martin, it will be the most costly fire I ever sat by."
" The fire, Sir, is nothing to what we intend to light it with ;"
and one of them taking the Emperor's bonds out of his
bo-
som, and setting fire to them, thrust them among the cinnamon,
the merchants at the same time exclaiming, " Thus bright
and fragrant is Charles's name."
44 A WISE MAN," says Dean SWIFT, 64 who
loth not assist with his counsels, a great man with his protec-
tion, a rich man with his bounty and charity, and a poor man
with his labour, are perfect nuisances in a commonwealth."
POPE SIXTUS QUINTUS used to wake a jest or
his mean birth, saying, " that he was demo natut perillustri,
the house, or cottage, where he was born, being so out of re-
pair, that the sun shone through every part of it."
In AnmikAr.iloTnAin's naval victory off Genoa,
1795, when the surviving officer of a line-of-battle ship which
was taken had some days afterwards his sword returned to him,
he congratulated himself upon receiving it, and at the same
time observed, that he had been obliged to thrust that sword
through the bodies of several of his seamen to make the remain-
der stand to their guns; he, at the same time, asked the First-
Lieutenant of the Admiral's ship, on board of which the
Frenchman was a prisoner, " How the English officers con-
trived to keep their men to their guns ?" " We have no ne-
cessity to keep them to their guns," replied the Lieutenant ;
" for the Devil himself could not drive them from them."—
( Naval Chronicle.

EARL OF PETERBOROUGII.-It was one of the
military maxims of the Earl of PETERBOROUGII, that the
readiest way to surprise his enemies, was to elude his friends ;
and he always illustrated it by his own conduct, in keeping
his enterprises during the war in Spain, a secret from his of-
ficers, until !the moment they were called upon to contibute to
their execution.

SPORTING INTELI•[GE'NCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, Isle.

FRIDAY, OCT. IL
Mr. Pettit's Leeway, by Aladdin, Bst. 81b. beat Mr. Lee's
Madeline, Bst. T.Y.C. 51 sov.-2 to 1 on Leeway.
Wyndham's Stumps, Bst. beat D. of Grafton's Pucelle,
Bst. 81b. A.P. 200, h. ft.-6 to 4 agst Stumps.
General Grosvenor's Crockery, beat I,d Anson's Ina, Bst. 41b.
each. T.Y.C. 100, h. ft.-7 to 4on Crokery.
Renewal of the Prendergast Stakes of 50 soy. each, h. ft. colts,
51b. fillies, Bst. 31b. T.Y.C.
Mr. Wortley's c. Crusader,by Cervantes out of Octaviana 1
D. of Grafton's ch. c. Goshawk, by Merlin,out of Coquette 2
Nine started—Eighteen pd.—The Judge placed but two.
7t04 on Crusader-9 to 1 eget Goshawk.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE ENSUING WEEK.
His Majesty's Stag Hounds, on Monday, at Ascot Heath
Race Ground; Friday, at King's Beach Hill; if prevented I,y
the weather, they will meet the following day at the same place.
Mr. Dewing's Hounds, on Monday, at Saxthorpe ; Wed-
nesday, at Winburghl; Friday, at Binham.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Shirley Park ;
Thursday, at Swarkstone Bridge; Saturday, at Blithefield.
The Shropshire Hounds, on Monday, at Battlefield ; Wed-
nesday, at Stoke Heath ; Friday, at Condover Park.
The Conock Harriers, on Monday, at Upavon Plantation ;
triday, at Redhone Gate.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Kingcrby ;
Wednesday, at Iroy Village ; Friday, at Kingsfoth House ;
Saturday, at Roxton Wood.
The South Wold Subscription Hounds, on Tuesday, at
Revesby ; Thursday, at Fullerby Mill ; Saturday, Skendleby
Salter.
Mr. King's Hounds, on Monday next, at Knatham, oppo-
site Maistow ; Wednesday, at Morwell Down, in Tavistock ;
Friday, at Beeralston.
The Somerset Subscription Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at
Asholt Wood ; Friday, at Buncombe Bottom.
The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcham • Wednes-
day, at the Race-course ; Friday, at the Devil's Dike.
The Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket Hill ;
Wednesday, at Lewes Race Course; Friday, at Tellescombe
Tye.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Bostock Lodge;
Wednesday, at Peover ; Thursday, at Tatton Park ; Satur-
day, at Winnington Bridge.
The Chester Harriers, on Monday, at Caughall Bridge;
Thursday, at Stamford Bridge.

We are assured that snow fell in many parts of
he Metropolis early on Friday morning.