The Mournful Interview.

"Remember me!" the dying Princess said,
When her afflicted Sire approach'd her bed:
The sad intreaty the fond parent hears-
It fills his breast with woe, his eyes with tears;
And, as his hand in her's was softly press'd,
The Monarch thus her languid voice address'd:-
"Father! accept this ring; inscrib'd you'll see
"Your daughter's last request-Remember me!"

A few years ago, when Buonaparte threatened to invade this country, a Quaker, residing at Epping, in Essex, being afraid, if such an event should take place, that he might lose his money, thought of the following stratagem to save it, which was to hide 2007. upon Epping Forest; but for fear that he might die, or be killed by the enemy, it would not be prudent to hide it without acquainting somebody with it, accordingly he fixed upon his neighbour, a smith, as a proper person to be intrusted with the secret. They set out together, and chose a spot by the side of a large oak, where a hole was soon made, and the money very carefully deposited; taking great care to cover it up with such exactness, that no person travelling by chance that way might have any suspicion. They returned home. The next morning early the smith went and took the money away, not thinking the Quaker would so soon suspect his integrity. The Quaker, however, paid a visit to the spot where his beloved treasure was

deposited, when, to his great surprize, it was gone. Suspicion immediately fell upon the smith, but instead of accusing him, he thought of the following stratagem to get his money back; he informed the smith he wished to add another 50%. This had the desired effect, for the smith immediately went and replaced the 2007. not only to prevent his neighbour from judging him to be the thief, but to get the other 50%. Away they both go together, and opening the hole, the Quaker, to his great joy, discovered his beloved treasurehe immediately fell into the following ejaculation: "Ah! my friend, I find thee goest and comest; but for fear that thee shouldst go, and never return, I'll e'en take thee home, for I think thee art as safe in my house as on Epping Forest." Thus ended the matter, to the no small mortification of the smith.

Witchcraft.-At the Bridgewater Assizes, Betty Townsend, a very old woman, aged 77, who for many years past has been considered by the superstitious as a witch, was tried for obtaining money from a child under the following circumstances:-The prosecutor, J. Poole, was a labouring man, residing in a hamlet of Taunton, in which parish the prisoner also resided, and had been in the habit of sending his daughter, aged about 13, with apples in a basket to market. About the 24th of January last, the old woman met the little girl, stopped her, and asked to see what she had in her basket; which having ex

amined, she said to her, "Hast got any money The child said she had none. "Then get some for me," said the old woman, "and bring it to mẹ at the Castle door (a tavern in Taunton), or I will kill thee!" The child, terrified at such a threat from a witch, procured 28. and carried it to her; when the old woman said, "It is a good turn thou hast got it, or else I would have made thee die by inches." This was repeated seven times within five months, when Poole, the father going to the shop of Mr. Bruford, a druggist in Taunton, to pay a little bill which he owed for medicine, found no less than seven different charges against him for money lent; and on inquiry, found that divers small sums of 2s., 2s. 6d. and 5s. &c. had been borrowed by the little girl in her father's name, for the purpose, as she said of going to market, but carried as peace-offerings to the old woman. The whole was now discovered; and Poole's wife and another woman took the girl with them to the prisoner's house, and interrogated her as to the facts. She admitted a knowledge of the girl, but on being reprehended for her conduct, raved and swore that if they dared to accuse her, she would make them "die by inches." "No," said Mrs. P. who appears to have thought that she knew much better how to deal with a witch than her daughter, “that thee shalt not, I'll hinder that ;" and taking a pin from her clothes, scratched the witch from her elbow to her wrist, in three places, to draw her blood, a process believed to be of unfailing efficacy as an

antidote to witchcraft. The idea of this wicked woman's power has had such an effect on the mind of the poor little girl, that she is now reduced to such a state of debility as to be scarcely able to take any sustenance. The Jury found the prisoner guilty; and the Judge observed, that only her extreme old age prevented him from pronouncing on her the severest sentence the law would allow. She was sentenced to pay a fine of one shilling, and to be kept to hard labour in the house of correction for six calendar months.

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Cure for the tooth-ache.-Take a clean tobaccopipe, place the bowl of it in the fire till red-hot ; put two or three pinches of henbane seed* into the bowl; over which put the broad part of a common funnel-the tube of the funnel against the tooth affected, so that the smoke arising from the seed may enter. As often as the pipe gets cold, heat it afresh, and put in more seed; continue this for about a quarter of an hour, and the pain, if not allayed immediately, will soon cease.

This is a certain cure for that most distressing pain, which is so often severely felt by the inhabitants of this country, more than any other.

The seed may be got at any seed-shop, and two-pennyworth of it will serve for 20 people. Care should be taken that the person, after the

*This was the seed with which the blacksmith at Brighton cured the Prince of Wales a short time ago.

performance of this operation, does not take cold in order to prevent this, it had better be performed shortly before the person retires to rest; and it is a question whether he ever will be afflicted with the tooth-ache again, at least for some years. It is the opinion of some of the first dentists, although they publicly ridicule this process, knowing its efficacy, that was it regularly performed every month, the teeth of the person so making use of this remedy would never decay, or be in any manner afflicted with pain.

Modern Sportsmen outdone.-Nothing can be more dull than the accounts of sports and pastimes of the present day. Compared with those of older times, there seems as much degeneracy in our breed of horses as of men. For instance :

Mr. Cooper Thornhill, in 1745, rode three times up and down, and up again, from Stilton to London, in all 213 miles, in 11 hours and 33 minutes 52 seconds.

Jennison Shafto, Esq. in 1759, rode a match against time, at Newmarket, 50 miles and a quarter in one hour and 49 minutes 17 seconds.

And above all, the memorable performance of Mr. John Woodcock, in 1761, proved the bottom both of man and horse.

He rode 2900 miles in 29 successive days-the obligation being to ride 100 miles each day, on one and the same horse each day. One of the days the horse he set out with tired at the end of