"Quand on a tout perdu et qu'on a plus déspoir
On prend l'devant sa chemise pour sa farie un mouchoir."
The above are all copied verbatim and literatim. J.G.R.
When a Grand Vizier is favourably deposed, that is, without banishing or putting him to death, it is signified to him by a messenger from the Sultan, who goes to his table, and wipes the ink out of his golden pen; this he understands as the sign of dismissal. W.G.C.
TIME.
It is the remark of a sensible authoress, (Miss Hawkins,) that every day resembles a trunk which has to be filled; and when we fancy that we have packed it to the uttermost, we shall still find that by good management it might, and would, have held more.—Our quotation is from memory, but correct as to simile and substance; and we consider the remark not less striking than quaint. M.L.B.
On January 31 will be published, price 5s. with a Frontispiece, and upwards of thirty other Engravings, the