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 liberty, and have freedom of access to the place of public worship; but their manners had been so corrupted, that they were with difficulty restored even to their former discipline.

A Definition.—When the notorious Jeffreys was a barrister, a gentleman in the course of his evidence was making use of the law terms lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee: which might have escaped observation, had not his testimony been directly against Jeffrey's client. 'You there, with your law terms of your lessor and lessee, and of your assignee and your assignor, do you know what a lessee or lessor is? I don't believe that you know that, for all your formal evidence.' 'Yes, Sir George,' said the witness, in reply to this gasconade, 'but I do, and I will give you this instance: if I nod to you, I am the nodder, and if you nod to me, then I am the noddee.'

A Great Wall.—The substance of the great wall of China, which extends along a space of 1500 miles from the shore of the Yellow Sea to Western Tartary, has been estimated by Mr Barrow to exceed in quantity that of all the houses in Great Britain, and to be capable of surrounding the whole earth with a wall several feet high.

Mr Peter Glass.—Mr Peter Glass, minister of Crail, in Fife, about the middle of the eighteenth century, was one of the old school of Presbyterian Clergymen,—addressed himself in