FEROCITY OF A TIGER.

The following fact serves further to illustrate the ferocious boldness of the Tiger, under certain circumstances:A short time since an Arab ship sent over her boat from Penang, to procure some sand for ballast. After having laden the long boat, one of the Kiddies, who had landed, went up a little way in the jungle, where he was attacked by a tiger. The boat's crew saw him, and setting up a tremendous yell, succeeded in frightening him off the poor Caffree, who was much lacerated: they then landed, and helped their wounded comrade into the boat, where he was hardly seated, when the Tiger having recovered from his fright, followed them, and endeavoured to get into the boat, but the Arabs filling their baskets with sand, threw it into his face, and thus blinded him, pushing off the boat at the same time. In this manner, they at length got away; the tiger, however, not desisting from following them until the water became too deep for him. The poor man was taken to a hospital on the opposite shore, where it was some time before he recovered from the effects of his rencontre with the tiger.

INDIAN ANECDOTE.

When Gen. Lincoln went to make peace with the Greek Indians, one of the chiefs asked him to sit down on a log. He was then desired to move, and, in a few minutes, to move farther. The request was repeated till the general got to the end of the log. The Indian said, "Move farther;" to which the general replied, "I can move no farther." "Just so it is with us," said the chief; "You have moved us back to the water, and then ask us to move farther!"

The French translator of the "Heart of Mid Lothian," transformed "a buxom young woman" into "une femme a teint couleur de bais," (a young woman of the complexion of box-wood.)

In the debate which recently took place in the Pensylvania legislature, on the bill for taxing bachelors, the epithet of wretched being" was applied by some of the married gentlemen: when a sturdy old bachelor said he scorned the epithet, and "would rather have a pair of feather breeches forced on him, and be set to hatching eggs, than to be married as some men are married." Mr. Wise thought bachelors pretty well taxed already: he read a

section of the tax-law, showing that cows, hogs, horses, single freemen without occupation, geese, and geldings, were enumerated as taxables.

POST CHAISES.

They are of French invention, and, according to Granger, they were introduced into England by Mr. Wm. Tull, son of the well known writer upon Husbandry..

SEDAN CHAIRS.

Sedan Chairs were first introduced in London in 1634, when Sir Sanders Duncomb obtained the sole privilege to use, let, and hire a number of such covered chairs, for fourteen years. The first Sedan Chair used in England was by the Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of James I. Johnson thinks their name derived from the town of Sedan, in Champagne, where he supposes they were originally made.

INCREASE OF THE PRIVILEGED
CLASS.

When George III. came to the throne in 1760, the House of Peers was composed of 107 lay peers, besides the bishops. Even the revolution of 1688, which entailed so sensible an obligation on William, produced only three dukes and five earls, and none of inferior degree. But in 55 years the English peerage increased to 336 persons, deducting the 28 Irish peers for life, and 16 peers for Scotland, an addition of 191 to the ranks of the nobility in that short time-add to these a new creation of Irish peers, who had now seats in the upper house, about 75-and it makes a total of 266. Baronets have increased in a still greater proportion; for there were 398 English baronets more in 1816 than in 1760.

MASTER (magister), was a title frequent among the Romans: they had their master of the people, magister populi, who was the dictator. Master of the cavalry, magister equitum, who held the second post in an army after the dictator. Under the later emperors there were also masters of the infantry, magistri peditum. A master of the census, magister census, who had nothing of the charge of a censor, or subcensor, as the name seems to intimate; but was the same with the præpositus frumentario

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WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE.

From the new Novel by Sir Walter Scott, entituled, REDGAUNTLET, a tale of the Eighteenth Century.

The present Proprietor of this Work being anxious, as early as possible, to lay before his numerous <readers every novelty both in Literature and in Science, has the pleasure to invite attention to WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE, from the new novel just published. In doing this he trusts an immediate gratification will be af. forded, to his fair readers in particular, who unless very quick, will have to "wait a little," before they would be able to get a reading of it from the Circulating Library.

Ye maun have heard of Sir Robert Redgauntlet of that Ilk, who lived in these parts before the dear years. The country will lang mind him; and our fathers used to draw breath thick if ever they heard him named. He was out wi' the Hielandmen in Montrose's time; and again he was in the hills wi' Glencairn in the saxteen hundred and fifty-twa; and sae when King Charles the Second came in, wha was in sic favour as the Laird of Redgauntlet? He was knighted at Lonon court, wi' the King's ain sword; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy, and of lunacy for what I ken, to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should first tire the other. Redgauntlet was aye for the strong hand; and his name is kenn'd as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tam Dalyell's. Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir bill folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. And troth when they fand them, they didna mak muckle mair ceremony than a Hielandman wi' a roe-buck—It was

just, "Will ye tak the test !"—if not, "Make ready-present-fire !"-and there lay the recusant.

Far and wide was Sir Robert hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact with Satan-that he was proof against steel-and that bullets happed aff his buff-coat like hail-stanes from a hearth-that he had a mear that would turn a hare on the side of Carrifra-gawns-and muckle to the same purpose, of whilk mair anon. The best blessing they wared on him was, "De'il scowp wi' Redgauntlet!" He wasna a bad master to his ain folk though, and was weel aneugh liked by his tenants; and as for the lackies and troopers that raid out wi' him to the persecutions, as the Whigs ca'ad these killing times, they wad hae drunken themsels blind to his health at ony time.

Now ye are to ken that my gudesire lived on Redgauntlet's grundthey ca' the place Primrose-Knowe. We had lived on the grund, and under the Redgauntlets, since the riding days, and lang before. It was a pleasant bit; and I think the air is callerer and fresher there than onywhere else in the country. It's a' deserted now; and I sat on the broken door-cheek three days since, and was glad I couldna see the plight the place was in; but that's a' wide o' the mark. There dwelt my gudesire, Steenie Steenson, a rambling, rattling chiel' he had been in his young days, and could play weel on the pipes; he was famous at "Hoopers and Girders" a' Cumberland couldna touch him at " Jockie Lattin❞—and he had the finest finger for the backlill between Berwick and Carlisle. The like o' Steenie wasna the sort that they made Whigs o'. And so he became a Tory, as they ca' it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae ill-will to the Whig bodies, and likedna to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hosting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief,

and may be did some, that he could-
na avoid.

Now Steenie was a kind of fa-
vourite with his master, and kenn'd
a' the folks about the castle, and was
often sent for to play the pipes when
they were at their merriment. Auld
Dougal MacCallum, the butler, that
had followed Sir Robert through gude
and ill, thick and thin, pool and
stream, was specially fond of the
pipes, and aye gae my gudesire his
gude word wi' the Laird; for Dougal
could turn his master round his
finger.

Weel, round came the Revolution, and it had like to have broken the hearts baith of Dougal and his master. But the change was not a'thegether sae great as they feared, and other folk thought for. The Whigs made an unca crawing what they wad do with their auld enemies, and in special wi' Sir Robert Redgauntlet. But there were ower mony great folks dipped in the same doings, to make a spick and span new warld. So Parliament passed it a' ower easy; and Sir Robert, bating that he was held to hunting foxes instead of Covenanters, remained just the man he was. His revel was as loud, and his hall as weel lighted, as ever it had been, though may be he lacked the fines of the non-conformists, that used to come to stock larder and cellar; for it is certain he began to be keener about the rents than his tenants used to find him before, and they behoved to be prompt to the rent-day, or else the Laird wasna pleased. And he was sic an awsome body, that naebody cared to anger him; for the oaths he swore, and the rage that he used to get into, and the looks that he put on, made men sometimes think him a deevil incarnate.

Weel, my gudesire was nae manager-no that he was a very great misguider-but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms rent in arrear. He got the first brash at Whitsunday put ower wi' fair words and piping; but when Martinmas came, there was a summons from the grund-officer to come wi' the rent on a day preceese, or else Steenie be

hoved to flitt. Sair wark he had to get the siller; but he was weelfreended, and at last he got the haill scraped thegether a thousand merks -the maist of it was from a neighbour they ca'd Laurie Lapraik-a sly! tod. Laurie had walth o' gear could hunt wi' the hound and rin wi the hare-and be Whig or Tory, saunt or sinner, as the wind stood. He was a professor in this Revolution warld, but he liked an orra sound and a tune on the pipes weel eneugh, at a byetime; and abune a', he thought he had gude security for the siller he lent my gudesire over the stocking at Primrose-Knowe.

Away trots my gudesire to Redgauntlet Castle wi' a heavy purse and a light heart, glad to be out of the Laird's danger. Weel, the first thing he learned at the Castle was, that Sir Robert had fretted himsell into a fit of the gout, because he did not appear before twelve o'clock. It wasna a' thegether for sake of the money, Dougal thought; but because he didna like to part wi' my gudesire aff the grund. Dougal was glad to see Steenie, and brought him into the great oak parlour, and there sat the Laird his leesome lane, excepting that he had beside him a great, ill favoured jack-an-ape, that was a special pet of his; a cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played-ill to please it was, and easily angered-ran about the haill castle, chattering and yowling, and pinching, and biting folk, specially before ill-weather, or disturbances in the state. Sir Robert ca'ad it Major Weir, after the warlock that was burned; and few folk liked either the name or the conditions of the crea-i ture-they thought there was something in it by ordinar-and my gude sire was not just easy in mind when the door shut on him, and he saw himself in the room wi' naebody but the Laird, Dugal MacAllum, and the Major, a thing that hadna chanced to him before,

Sir Robert sat, or, I should say, lay, in a great armed chair, wi' his grand velvet gown, and his feet on a cradle; for he had baith gout and gravel, and his face looked as gash and ghastly as