wards them. For a moment they were awed by a superstitious fear; but they soon learned the history of his escape. He had found little difficulty in killing the cubs, and he was in the act of making his way out, when the mouth of the hole was darkened, and the shewolf was upon him. With one lucky thrust of his dirk, he dispatched her at once; but his contest with her grim companion was long and severe; and although he fought in that narrow place, and from behind the body of the brute he had killed, he was nearly torn to pieces before he succeeded in depriving his ferocious enemy of life. The indignation of the people against the dastard brother, on thus beholding his falsehood and cowardice made manifest, knew no bounds. They dragged him before the laird, who, on hearing the case, adjudged him to be forthwith hanged on the summit of a conical hill, a sentence that was immediately put into execution. The hill is called Thomas Rhy-" mer's Hill, for what reason I could never make out.-Sir T. D. Lauder's Floods of Moray. A SAXON DINNER. THE dining-table was oblong, and rounded at the ends. The cloth was a rich crimson, with a broad gilt margin, and hung low beneath the table. The company sat upon chairs with concave backs, and were arranged, much as at the present day, with the view that to each of the ladies should be assigned a neighbour of the other sex. The dishes consisted of fowls and fish, of the flesh of oxen, sheep, deer, and swine, both wild and domestic, not excepting certain portions of the sea-swine, or porpoise a food not at present much in repute, but at that period no unfrequent article of diet. There were two sanda, or dishes, of sodden syflian, or soup bouilli, and one of seathen, or boiled goose. The bread was of the finest wheaten flour, and lay in two silver baskets upon the table. Almost the only vegetable in use among the Saxons was kale wort; and the only condiments were salt and pepper. These various articles were boiled, baked, or broiled; and were handed by the attendants upon small spits to the company. Instead of forks, which were not used in England till James the First's time, when Tom Coriate introduced them from Italy, our ancestors made use of their fingers; but, for the sake of cleanliness, each person was provided with a small silver ewer containing water, and two flowered napkins of the finest hirien. Their dessert consisted of grapes, figs, nuts, apples, pears, and almonds.-SeaKings in England; by the Author o "The Fall of Nineveh.". MACE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. was THE mace itself is of silver, about four feet in length, and very massive; some time ago gilded, the expense of which was 207. It is the same which was in use, time out of mind, in the House of Commons, and to which Cromwell, when he dissolved the Long Parliament, alluded in the words, "Take away that bauble!" Shortly after, it was presented to the Royal Society by Charles II.; being superseded at the House of Commons by the one now borne by Colonel Seymour, the sergeantat-arms.-. - Literary Gazette. AFRICAN TRAVELLERS. THE Conflict, brig, Lieut. Matson, has arrived at Portsmouth from the Coast of Africa, and has been paid off. By this conveyance official information has been received from Mr. Richard Lander, who, accompanied by his brother, had been sent out by the Colonial Department, to trace, if possible, the termination of the hitherto mysterious Niger. Mr. Lander sailed from Portsmouth in January last, in the ship Alert, for Cape Coast Castle, where he safely arrived, and found the same individuals who had accompanied him on his return to Badagry from Soccatoo after the death of Captain Clapperton. By these persons he was received with great joy, and they all volunteered to accompany him in his new undertaking; and notwithstanding the treachery that had been before displayed to Lander by Old Pasko, the native of Houssa, who in the first instance had accompanied Belzoni, then Clapperton, and returned with Lander to the coast, it was considered advisable to employ him again, and also that his wife should be of the party. The Conflict conveyed the travellers to Badagry, which place they reached about the 25th of March, and a communication directly took place with the king, who instantly recognised Lander, and gave him a cordial reception, with assurances of a safe conveyance through his territory; and messengers were dispatched to Jennah to insure a favourable reception at that place. Every arrangement being made, Mr. R. Lander and his brother landed early in April, and proceeded on their perilous undertaking, accompanied by Pasko, his wife, and the former faithful attendants Aboudah, and Jowdie. Adólee, the king, gave Lander the little horse which had conveyed the traveller from Soccatoo to Badagry, and which the latter had presented to the former on his previous journey. The travellers left Badagry in excellent health and spirits, and information is received of their having got safely through that kingdom. The friendly reception experienced by Mr. Lander arose from his having so readily swallowed the fetish draught during his former residence at Badagry, and which caused the king and all his subjects to treat him as the wonderful man it would be dangerous to insult." Badagry had suffered from the effect of a severe fire which destroyed half the town, and reduced the miserable inhabi tants to the greatest distress.-United Service Journal. The Gatherer. A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. SHAKSPEARE. CHRISTMAS. JOHN SELDEN in his Table Talk, says "Christmas succeeds the Saturnalia, the same time, the same number of holydays, then the master waited upon the servant like the Lord of Misrule-our sports and our meats (much of them) have relation to church works. The coffin of our Christmas-pies, in shape long, is in imitation of the crotch; our choosing kings and queens on TwelfthNight, hath reference to the three kings. So likewise our eating of fritters, whipping of tops, roasting of herrings, Jack of Lents, &c. they are all in imitation of church works, emblems of martyrdom. Our Tansies at Easter have reference to the bitter herbs; tho' at the same time 'twas always the fashion for a man to have a gammon of bacon to show himself to be no Jew." ROMAN MODE OF BALLOT. THREE ballots were given to each judge, marked one with an A for absolvo, I absolve; a second with a C for condemno condemn; and the third with NL which stood for non liquet, it is not clear. One or other of these, each judge, according to his judgment, put into an urn, and the prætor acquitted or condemned the criminal, according to the respective number of these letters. If the suffrages for acquitting and condemning were equal, the accused was always acquitted. When a new law was proposed, or an ANECDOTE GALLERY, The, 69-129-157-239-285-326-340- Embellished Articles in each Number. Fine Arts, 55-144-162-183-224-255-270-306-342-358 Naturalist, The, 79-144-179-205-243-254-320-445 · Notes of a Reader, 78-87-175-228-303-324-350 -429-486 Novelist, The, 125-166-262-300-479 Old Poets, 287-445 Original Articles in each Number. Retrospective Gleanings, 11-52-70-109-142-268-284-302-316-382- 403 Select Biography, 73-158 Selector, The, and Notices of New Works, 14-57-93-113-129-160-172- 476 Sketch Book, 108-189-225-238-269-414-434-442 Spirit of the Annuals, 361 to 376-458 to 472 Spirit of Discovery, 77-195-210-288-413 Spirit of the Public Journals, 60-73-89-112-132-146-163-181-192-212 -227-271-291-310-322-332-354-386-403–417-439-450-482 Topographer, The, 252-354-390-394-453 Aager and Eliza, a Ballad, 112 Adventure on the Coast, 414-434 African Travellers, 487 Album, Lines for, 320 Asses on Parnassus, 86 Ballads from the Danish, 112 Algiers, Expedition to, by Charles V., Ballad Stanzas, 84 282 Algiers described, 66 Alnwick Castle described, 153 Anglo-Saxon Coronation Prayer, 143 Forget-me-Not, 307-361 Friendship's Offering, 317-363 Literary Souvenir, 371 Antwerp, Fire-ships at, 258 Arithmetic, Practical System of, 433 Ashantee Jubilee, 392 2 K Ballot, Roman Mode of, 488 Beer and Gin, Lines on, 296 Belgium and Holland, Union of, 259 Bernard's Retrospections of the Stage, Birds, Music of, 182 Blood, Circulation of, discovered, 94 Bloomfield, the Poet, 381 Blow-up, 476 Boats, Wager, 11 Bob Bowles and his Landlady, 241 [No. 468. Burns' Address to the Deil, 144 Cabinet Atlas, the, 144 Cat and the Fiddle, Origin of, 13 Cheese Hoppers, 113 Civil List, Origin of the, 324 Concatenation, an Anecdote, 119 Confession, Stanzas, 439 Cornwall, Duke of, 18 Cornish Pie, the, 55 Council Chamber of Henry VIII. 425 Criminal Punishment, 285 Crusades, Emblems of, 142 Custom House and Post Office, New, 13 D'ale Abbey, by Montgomery, 465 Davy Jones and the Yankee Privateer, Davy, the late Sir Humphry, 380 Despair, Lines on, 14 228 Dingo, or Australian Dog, 331 Domestic Asides, 476 Dying Prisoner, Lines on, 86 Eating Match, 456 Eclipse, an Anecdote, 184 Edward V. and his Brother, Remains of, 71 Election, Blessings of, 178 Elephants, Anecdotes of, 228 Convenient Distance, Inconveniences of, Elephant, Food and Size of, 254 181 Ear for Music, 255 Eltham, Hall of, 390 Coronation of the King of Madagascar, Encroachments of the Sea, 79 116 Cornish Intellect, 280- England, Kings of, a Vision, 155 "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," George the Fourth, Death of, 2 Entertainments in the City of London, Debts of, 24- - 28 302-303 Esquire, Title of, 347 Evaporation Prevented, 290 Factions, Curious, 257 Fairy Rings, 200 Fashionable Novels, 271 Fete, splendid, at Carlton House, 35 Fitzherbert, Mrs., and George IV., 20 Florence, Dryness of the Air at, 146 Free Admissions, Theatrical, 194 Galt's Life of Lord Byron, 199-207- Game Laws, the, 116 Garraway's Coffee House, Origin of, Gas versus Moon, 54 Gavaston on Dartmoor, a Ballad, 192 Genius on the Wing, 242 George III., Illness of, 24 George IV. appearances after death, 51 tions of, 48 George the Fourth, Accession of, 44 Adolescence of, 21 Dining room of, 106 vestigation," 31 and Mrs. Fitzher- and his Father, 24 122 Illness of, 4 Last Moments of, 3-7 Lines on, 107 Lines on the Death of, 87 Lying in State, 82 and Mrs. Robinson, and Sheridan, 23- -40 and the Whigs, 22 German Humility, 232 |