The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-07

The subjoined anecdotes from the "Recollec-
tons OF Leslie" which have just been published.
The work is edited by Mr.. Tom TAYLOR, who has
added genial and appreciative memoir Of the
deceased artist. The following is related by Lord
Egremont:
'On one occasion, when Leslie went to Petworth,
he found the house full of poor relations and Door
friends. few days before, 1000 people had been
teasted in the park. The porter and his wife were
dying OF old age in the lodge of the principal en-
trance, and Lord Egremont had the gates closed
while they lived, for fear they should be disturbed
by the traffic. His good temper kept pace with
his benevolence. Sir William Beechv said of him
that 'he had more put-up-abity than almost any
man. and Mr.. Leslie adds that people were some
times encouraged by his forbearance to behave
with an easy assurance which drove him to order
the offender to leave the house. In the midst of his
prlDcely hospitality he avoided all Ostentation
His llverles were plain, and he himself was some
times mistaken for one Of his own domestics. The
lady's maid OF guest met him crossing the hall
as the bell was ringing for the servants dinner
Come, old gentleman she exclaimed, you and
will go together, for | can't find my way in this
great house, He gave her his arm and led her to
the dinner-table, very much, no doubt, to the as
tonishment OF the assembled servants. sYou' he
said to her, dine here; T. don't dine till seven'"
Here are some specimens of Sydney Smiths hui
NOR, which we do not remember to have seen be-
fore:
"Newton told me that at a dinner-part at Lord
Lyndhursts, at which he was present, the CONVEX
sation turned on the custom in India of widows
burning themselves. Smith began 10 defend the
practice, asserting that wife who truly loved her
husband could wish to survive him. But if
Lord Lyndhurst were to die, you would be sorry
that Lady Lyndhurst should burn hersef?' LADY
Lyndhurst, he replied, would, no doubt as an
aectionate wife, consider it her duty to burn her
sell, but it would be our duty to put her out: and
as the wife of the Lord Chancellor Lady Lvnd-
hurst should not be put out like an ordinary widow
1t should be State affair. First procession of
the judges, and then of the lawyers But, where
Mr. Smith, the clergy? 'All gone to con-
graduate the new Chancellor" i
'At the back of Holland House, window is dis
tinguished from all the rest by an iron grating over
it. This window communicates with Lady Hol-
lands bedroom, and she had it grated when she
heard of gentleman and his wife being murdered
in their bed by servant, who entered their room
another account of this window. 'Allen,' he said,
keeps clergyman in confinement there, upon
bread and WATER"
"Mr Luttrell mentioned Irish clergyman
who was much offended at being called plural
lSt, and said, if you don't take care, YOU will
find me a dueUist.' Smith took this up and said
suppose there is scarcely clergyman in Ireland
who has not been out am told they settle these
matters when the afternoons service is over |
have seen parsons challenge:-Sir, meet me on
the first Sunday after the Epiphany"
The next two extravagant stories the late poet
Rogers was responsible for:
ga nervous gentleman kept fre-escape-a
kind OF sack in which he could lower himself from
his window. Being suddenly awakened, one night
by the sound, as he thought, of the wheels Of a
fire-engine, followed by tremendous knocking at
the door, he descended in his sack in great haste
and reached the streetust in time to hand his wife
who had been at the opera, out of her carriage
Such anecdotes, though utterly incredible, amuse
like the incidents in farce. The next tale bears
equally the stamp of fiction. The body of NAL
etactor who was hanged in chains disappeared in
the night. Nearly fortnight afterwards it was
again dangling in the air, and looked as if fresh
| from the hands of the executioner. The man on
the first occasion was not quite dead. A farmer
and his son passing by heard him groan, took him
home and nursed him. When he recovered they
were awoke by noise, and found their guest at
his old trade-packing up every article of value in
| the house. They agreed that he would be better
returned to the place from whence he came, and
restrangling him they put him back into his iron
| case on the gibbet."