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 LONG BILLS could not attend the invitation. "I need not tell you, my lady (said the knight), that business must be attended to, before anything else. We have a large order to pack up, which I fear will not be done before half-past nine o'clock, so you see I should be half an hour too late for your party; but I've brought thie ticket back, that you may scratch out my name, and then it will do for another. Now, my lady, I hope you will excuse me, but do tell me the meaning of this word in the corner, it has puzzled us all at our house exceed ingly-R. S. V. P.; my mother says it is a French word, but I think it no word at all. I think it is what they call initials "a Regular Small Whist Party. Now tell me, Lady B , which of us is right?" LONG BILLS and low bows. The landlord of the principal inn at Henley- upon-Thames had retired from the cares of business a few years since, with a handsome competency, and took up his abode at an agrecable distance from town. An old frcquenter, seeing hin at the gate of his garden, took occasion to copl ment him on his having had the merit to realize a liberal independence in much less time than was usual, and to express his surprise how he had been able to effect it. "All done by long bills and lout boes, Sir," answered ex-Boniface, Esq.- " Yes, Sir, always took care to charge as liberally as I thought my custoners would bear; and if they found fault, which they sometimes did, rather outrageously, I always mollified them with low bows.-Besides, tithes, taxes, rent, and corn laws, were no bad excuse, you know."-"But Mr., I think you must have made a pretty profit of your wine, for, between our- 59