Lord Chesterfield.-When Lord Chesterfield was in administration, he proposed a person to his late Majesty as proper to fill a place of great trust, but which the king himself was determined should be filled by another. The council, however, resolved not to indulge the king, for fear of a dangerous precedent. It was Lord Chesterfield's business to present the grant of office for the king's signature. Not to incense his Majesty, by asking him abruptly, he with accents of great humility, begged to know with whose name his Majesty would be pleased to have the blanks filled up? "With the devil's !" replied the king, in a paroxysm of rage. "And shall the instrument," said the earl, coolly, "run as usual, Our trusty and well-beloved cousin and counsellor?" a repartee at which the king laughed heartily, and with great good humour signed the grant.

ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS.

116. Jehosophat (Jehu so fat!)-117. Because what he puts up, he generally knocks down.-118. He is, of course, partial to the highest bidder.

NEW CONUNDRUMS, PUZZLES, &c.

119. Why is 4 equal to 7?

120. When school-boys repeat the alphabet, do they not seem to take it for granted that A and B have the power of vision?

PUZZLE.

Given 5 squares, each divided into two parts, as in the margin, by a line from one angle bisecting the opposite, side. Cut each square into two parts by the diagonal line, and there will, of course be ten pieces. Required to arrange these ten pieces so as to form one square.

Housekeeper's Guide.

COOKERY FOR THE SICK.

Beef tea. Cut a pound of fleshy beef in thin slices; simmer with a quart of water twenty minutes, after it has once boiled, and been skimmed. If approved, season it; but if the stomach be very weak, salt will be found sufficient.

An excellent Jelly.-Take rice, sago, pearl-barley, hartshorn shavings, each an ounce ; simmer with three pints of water to one, and strain it. When cold it will be a jelly; of which give, dissolved in wine, milk, or broth, in change with other nourishment.

Eggs. An egg broken into a cup of tea, or beaten and mixed with a basin of milk, makes a breakfast more supporting than tea solely. An egg divided, and the yolk and white beaten separately, then mixed with a glass of wine, will afford two very wholesome draughts, and prove lighter than when taken together. Eggs very little boiled, or poached, taken in small quantity, convey much nourishment; the yolk only, when dressed, should be eaten by invalids.

Shank Jelly-Soak twelve shanks of mutton four hours, then brush and scour them very clean. Lay them in a sauce-pan with three blades of mace, an onion, twenty Jamaica and thirty or forty black peppers, a bunch of sweet herbs, and a crust of bread made very brown by toasting. Pour three quarts of water to them, and set them on a hot hearth close-covered: let them simmer as gently as possible for five hours, then strain it off, and put it in a cold place. This may have the addition of a pound of beef, if approved, for flavour.— It is a remarkably good thing for people who are weak.

Arrow-root Jelly.-If genuine, is very nourishing, especially for weak bowels. Put into a sauce-pan half a pint of water, a glass of sherry, or a spoonful of brandy, grated nutmeg and fine sugar; boil once up, then mix it by degrees into a desert-spoonful of arrow-root, previously rubbed smooth with two spoonsfull of cold water; then return the whole into the sauce-pan; stir and boil it three minutes.

Restorative Pork Jelly.-Take a leg of well-fed pork, just as cut up, beat it, and break the bone. Put it over a gentle fire, with three gallons of water, and simmer to one. Let half an ounce of mace, and the same of nutmegs,be strewed in it ; strain through a fine seive. When cold, take off the fat. Give a chocolate cup the first and the last thing, and at noon, putting salt to taste.

Panada made in five Minutes.-Set a little water on the fire with a glass of white wine, some sugar, and a scrape of nutmeg and lemon-peel; meanwhile grate some crumbs of bread. The moment the mixture boils up, keeping it still on the fire, put the crumbs in and let it boil as fast as it can. When of a proper thickness just to drink, take it off.

Another.-Put to the water a bit of lemon-peel, mix the crumbs in, and when nearly boiled enough, put some lemon or orange syrup. Observe to boil all the ingredients; for if any be added after, the panada will break, and not congeal.

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Another. Make as above, but instead of a glass of wine put in a tea-spoonful of rum, and a bit of butter; sugar as above. This is a most pleasant mess.

Chicken Panada.-Boil it till about three parts ready, in a quart of water, take of the skin, cut the white meat off when cold, and put into a marble mortar: pound it to a paste with a little of the water it was boiled in, season with a little salt, a grate of nutmeg, and the least bit of lemon-peel. Boil gently for a few minutes to the consistency you like; it should be such as you can drink, though tolerably thick. This conveys great nourishment in small compass.

Sippets, when the Stomach will not receive Meat.On an extreme hot plate put two or three sippets of bread, and pour over them some gravy from beef, mutton, or veal, if there is no butter in the dish. Sprinkle a little salt over.

The Cornwall Correspondent.

On Monday morning, at 24 minutes to 5 o'clock, a severe shock of earthquake was felt in this town and neighbourhood, which lasted about 10 seconds. We have heard of no injury done.

The following clever Jeu d'Esprit was composed on the facetious, colloquial, and other entertaining qualities of a blunt and eccentric character, in reality now no more. It had been shewn to him when in the enjoyment of good health, on a joyous occasion, and, we are told, he expressed his admiration of the wit and piquant humour it contained, and bestowed a high panegyric on the ingenuity of its author:

OF A

Sacred to the Memory

OF

D**** F*****, ESQUIRE,

*****

IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA:

A Gentleman of Scottish Extraction,

And allied to most of the great and noble families
Of that illustrious Nation.

Educated to no profession, his attainments, though
multifarious were not eminently useful.
He was a lively, facetious, companion,
Delighting much in conversation, to which he largely
contributed:

Never chaining down the attention of his bearers to one subject,

But passing, with inconceivable rapidity, from one to

another.

It was the transition of a moment to descend from William Wallace to Walter Scott!

From the heroic exploits of Robert de Bruce,
To the homely occupations of...... David B**d*n!
He was, however, not without imperfectious;
Being afflicted with incurable deafness:

And his nasal suspirations, during slumber, resembled
The snorting of the armed Rhinoceros.
He seemed to say with the Poet,

66 Sleep no more!" F*****" has murdered sleep!" His delineations in relating a story were peculiarly Felicitous, and his fertile fancy added a pleasing variety to the tales which he told.

He was an ardent admirer of the fair sex, in fact, One of true-love's votaries:

And, when verging towards his grand climacteric, He became violently enamoured of a very young lady, Who rejected his addresses with disdain; and, to his importunities,

Opposed a deafness equalled only by his own.
The brief remainder of his life,

For not long did he survive the cruel disappointment,
Was embittered by the poignant feeling of mortified
Vanity, and ill-requited Love.

His natural cheerfulness entirely forsook him,
And he was seldom seen to smile.

At his death, indeed, Slander, combined with
Ingratitude,

Rumoured abroad, and affected to lament, his early levities; and a constitution undermined by jovial compotations.

It was even whispered that his disease was of the stomach-not of the heart;

And that he shortened his days by an immoderate use of EPSOM SALTS AND PYROLIGNEOUS ACID. Charity admonishes us to hope, that these were the inventions of some discarded favourite, or some

discontented menial.

All that, with certainty, is known, is, that he expired at his seat at A*****, on the day of

1826,

Sincerely regretted by all his friends; But by none more than the Author of this imperfect Sketch of his Life and Character.

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY ALEX. HOLMES.

Falmouth.

"Sir Philip Mordaunt was young, brave, beautiful, sincere, an Englishman." GOLDSMITH'S ESSAYS.

In the years 1823-4, the question of Negro Emanci pation in our colonies was, for the hundredth time agitated in the British Parliament. Pamphlets teeming with invective and misrepresentation against the colonists were circulated in hundreds of thousands, and this island was traduced as the land of cruelty and crime. At this feverish crisis, the colonist, though superior to timidity, was yet inclined to be apprehensive for the rashness of the poor creatures who, deluded by wicked and designing men, imagining themselves the victims of tyranny and injustice, were roused to unnatural feelings of resentment against their masters, protectors, and supporters. The voice of

truth was drowned in the clamour of prejudice, and the tocsin of "No slavery" was sounded throughout all the British dominions. The legislators affected to give their scheme of Radical Reform in the colonies the softer term of amelioration-but the design-the