Bertha Wiggins."

"P.S.—Monday.—Dear daughter! Your distressed father sends you this. Your unhappy mother eloped last night with that villain Alexis—and all the luggage. I have discovered that he and the Marquis are a couple of sharpers. A pretty week we have made of it!

Your wretched father,

Bartholomew Wiggins."

COUNTRY COMMISSIONS.

"Mr. Hume moved for a list of all Commissions issued between the 1st of April, 1833, and the 1st of April, 1837, and of the expenses incurred thereon."

Parliamentary Register.

Twenty times have I taken my pen,

And began my dear Julia's name,

Twenty times have I dropped it again,