THE RECRUIT'S DEPARTURE.

SERVANT maids and peasant girls are proverbial for their attachment to the heroic race, and the more gaudy the colours, the more striking the effect. We once witnessed in a continental town an amusing instance of the instantaneous power which the youthful sons of Mars exercised over these handmaids of the lower world. The military of the town, having come into conflict with the inhabitants, were replaced by a cavalry regiment. On the very first evening of their arrival they were seen in dozens, each with his fair one hanging on his arm, with all the fond confidence for which the Venuses of this class are distinguished. We thought that the cavalieri serventi might be appropriately translated cavaliers of the servants, but we leave the suggestion to more learned heads. Whether the peasant girl in the plate before us be made of sterner stuff, or whether the tears which she sheds for the absence of her dear recruit will last longer than an April shower, we do not venture to decide.

VILLAGE COMEDY.

THIS scene may frequently be found in natura in the smaller towns and villages of Germany and the Tyrol, and for ought we know, in some places nearer home. Some twenty years ago we beheld similar exhibitions in the neighbourhood of the metropolis itself, nor can we profess much regret at their disappearance.

IMPERTINENCE.

THE fair sex seem occasionally to display a wish to belong to the school of that diplomatist, now defunct, who gravely asserted that words were given us to correct our thoughts, for with them "No" often means "Yes," and "Go away" may mean the opposite of locomotion. To this school, the bare-legged fair one seems to appertain, for if she did not wish to listen to "Impertinence," she need not have staid.