your lover, to owe all his happiness to you handsome young woman was reading with great alone! Filled with the most pleasing ideas our hero arrived at the Priory. It appeared to be a very ancient building, and much out of repair. On entering the court-yard, a servant of rather a shaby appearance, asked him what he wanted. Sir Edward told him he wished to see Mrs. Jones, and if she was at home, to tell her that the cousin of Mr. Clements, whose death she had, he supposed, been made acquainted with, requested to see her. The man said his mistress had heard of Mr. Clements' death, and imme diately showed him into a parlour, where a very attention a letter, which, on Sir Edward's en- [To be concluded in our next.] ADDITIONS TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CERTAIN ANIMALS. LIONS. WOLVES. several young ones, of which three were left her to bring up; one of these little ones sometimes got through the bars of the cage in which they were kept, in order to play with the dogs in the yard, and afterwards returned into the cage. The keeper said that the father and dam of the young wolves were displeased at this frequentation; be this as it may, one morning they fell on the three young ones and devoured them; nothing was left but pieces of the skin and a few bones. CITIZEN FELIX, in 1797, brought a lion In 1799 one of the wolves which was kept in and a lioness to the national Menagerie in Paris. || the national Menagerie, in Paris, brought forth About two years after, Felix fell ill, and could no|| longer attend the lions, so that another person was obliged to do the duty for him. The lien, sad and solitary, remained from that moment constantly seated at the end of his cage, and refused to receive any thing from the stranger; his presence was even hateful to him, and he menaced him by roaring. The company of the female also seemed to displease him, he paid no attention to her. The uneasiness of the animal made him be thought really ill, but no person dared to approach him. At length Felix got well, and meaning to surprise the lion, he crept softly to the cage, and showed only his face against the bars; the lion directly made a bound against the bars, patted him with his paws, licked his hands and face, and trembled with pleasure. The female ran to him also, but the lion drove her back, seemed angry, and unwilling she should snatch any favours from Felix; a quarrel seemed about to take place between them, but Felix entered into the cage to pacify them; he|| caressed them by turns. Felix is now frequently seen between this formidable couple, whose power he has fettered, holding a kind of conversation with them. If he wishes them to separate and retire to their cage, they obey his commands, and at the least sign from him, lie down on their backs to shew strangers their paws armed with terrible claws, and open their mouths full of tremendous teeth; and are rewarded by being permitted to lick his hands. These two animals, of a strong breed, are five years and a half old (1799); they were both of the same mother, and have always lived together. It may not be thought incurious to insert a few particulars about the number of wolves in France, extracted from two French publications on the subject. M. de la Bergerie, in his "Researches into the principal impediments to the progress of Agriculture," says," If the state were to pay a million of livres for the head of the last wolf in France, it would in the same year gain above twenty millions: on my own lands between the months of March and October, which time does not include the season when wolves commit the greatest ravages, they destroyed a bull, a cow, a mare, and a foal." M. de Moncel says,-" In my parish, in six weeks time of the winter 1797, the wolves destroyed twenty three horses, and in a neighbouring parish fifty-three head of cattle in the same year." This book contains a register, in near 400 pages, of the havoc made by wolves, and mentions that twenty-three persons were devoured by them in the environs of Sens. From the emigration of rich and idle people, from the general disarming, and from the ordinary consequences of war, wolves have multiplied terribly in France; in 1796 the government proclaimed rewards to whoever killed a wolf big with young, of fifty' Mad wolves, or which had attacked men 22 Wolves big with young She wolves not with young.. Young wolves, the size of foxes...... 8479 Total 5351 In this list is not reckoned such as were killed by persons who did not claim any reward. These six thousand wolves would probably have produced in two years at least twelve thousand more, which, at only ten sheep each, would have devoured 120,000 sheep, not to mention horses and cattle. If the value of these animals be calculated it will be found to amount to an enormous sum, both on account of the preservation and the reproduction. Wolves infested Ireland many centuries after their extirpation in England; the last presentment for killing wolves being made in the county of Cork about the year 1710. The breed of these animals can hardly ever become extinct in France, because they abound in the immense forests of Germany which confine on the north east borders of France, into which empire thousands are continually making inroads. M. de Moncel, among other enemies to agriculture, enumerates sparrows, which occasion infinite damage. Their number is calculated to || be half that of the population of France, and that each sparrow eats annually a measure of corn weighing twenty pounds. These birds are equally noxious in other countries. (To be continued.). SELECT ANECDOTES AND SAYINGS OF THE LATE M. DE CHAMFORT, MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY, OF MADAME NECKER, AND OTHERS. A RING of Sardinia was once told that the nobility of Savoy were very poor. At a certain time several noblemen, knowing that the king was to pass through Chambery, came to pay their homage in magnificent dresses. The king gave them to understand that he did not think them so poor as had been represented. "Sire," answered they, "we were informed of your ma jesty's arrival; we have done what we ought, but we owe what we have done." Nous avons fait tout ce que nous devions, mais nous devons tout ce que nous avons fait." Towards the end of life we are ourselves; we no longer seek to please, and we lose the desire of pleasing together with the right. D'Alembert was of opinion, that for the public assembled a particular kind of eloquence is || requisite; that it is essential to speak in short sentences, and never to exhibit any thing to notice which is difficult to be understood. As soon as the attention of a numerous assembly is distracted for a moment it cannot be fixed anew. The following epitaph was made on the mother of the Duke d'Orleans, regent:-" Here lies Idleness." The proverb says," Idleness is the mother of all vices." "I do not like those impeccable women,” said T-, "who are above all weakness 1 fancy I read on their door the line of Dante on the gate of hell. Voi che intrate, lasciate ogni speranza.” An idea which appears twice in one work, especially if at a short distance, affects me in the manner these people do who, after having taken leave, return to fetch their cane or sword. "I am playing at chess for a shilling in a saloon where the dice are rattling for a hundred guineas," said a General who was employed in a difficult and unprofitable service, whilst other Generals were making easy, brilliant, and lucrative campaigns. The Duke de Lauraguais carried off an actress; the Duchess was generally esteemed, and the public was exasperated at her husband for this action. He attempted to justify himself to the Abbe d'Arnaud, with the eulogy of his mistress. "Have you done?" answered the Abbé, "put into the other scale the contempt of the public." The Duke embraced him fervently; my dear Abbé, I am the happiest of men, I possess at one time a virtuous wife, a charming mistress, and a sincere friend." Marmontel said that the difference between the tragedies of the ancients and those of the moderns was like that between a spit-jack and a watch; as to the jack, the weight which moves the machine is on the outside; this is fatality, &c : in the watch, as in modern tragedy, the springs are in the inside; these are love, ambition, &c. A man being at his last gasp, his confessor attended him, and said,-"I am come to exhort you to die." "And 1," replied the other, "oxhort you to let me die." T2 A STATISTICAL SURVEY OF PRUSSIA IN SEPTEMBER, 1906. FROM THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHORITIES. Chief Towns, and their Population.-Berlin, 178,308-Warschau, 74,591-Breslau, 60,950 Konigsberg, 60,000-Dantzig, 46,213-Magdeburg, S7,451-Potsdam, 26,980-Stettin, 22,895 Posen, 21,473-Halle, 21,350-Elbing, 18,805-Erfurt, 17,664-Frankfurt, (on the Oder) 17,501 Anspach, 13,928-Hlberstadt, 13,816-Munster, 18,000-Hildeshiem, 12,400-Furth, 12,338 Brandenburg, 12,154-Quedlinburg, 11,500-Emden, 10,745-Bayreuth, 10,000. Note 1. In 1805, the remaining part of the Duchy of Cleve, the Principalities of Neufchatel and Valengin, of Anspach and Bayreuth, were ceded to France; in lieu of which the Hanoverian Countries (about 700 German square miles, and one million and one hundred thousand Inhabitants). were disposed of by Napoleon in favour of the King of Prussia. . Note 2. Deducting the former from and adding the latter to the sum total at the top of the above Survey, the Prussian Monarchy contained in September, 186, 6,191 German square miles, and 10,365,100 Inhabitants.-Public Revenue 38-40 Millions of Rix dollars, or 60 Millions of Florins. 50 98,407 1,969 120 493,000 4,108 62 270,000 4,902 571 225,000 3,896 16 |