PARLIAMENTARY QUALIFICATIONS.
When the friends of the youngest Thelluson proposed making him a member of parliament, he said, "he did not understand exactly what it was to be in parliament, or what they meant by constituents in the country; but, if there was any necessity to go backwards and forwards for their orders, he could trot down as fast as any member of parliament in the kingdom."
CHANGING NAMES.
Thomas Knight, Esq. whose paternal name was Brodnax, which, very early in life, he changed for that of May, afterwards, by a statute of 9th Geo. II. took the name of Knight, which occasioned a facetious member of the house to get up, and propose "a general bill to enable that gentleman to take what name he pleased."
TOUCHSTONE FOR THE TIMES.
Midas (we read) with wond'rous art of old,
Whate'er he touch'd, at once transformed to gold;