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falsehood, evinced the eldest brother's title to the estate from the contradictory evidence of the witnesses, and the false reasonings of the pleaders, unravelled all the sophistry to the very bottom, and gained a complete victory in favour of Truth and Justice.

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A person in the city of Chester, who is noted for a high setter of shops, (as they express it in the North) had one standing empty a long time, on the account of the exhorbitant rent he asked for it; a tradesman wrote upon the shutters, Gibralter, where it remained two or three days before the meaning was found out, which is, It will never again be taken.

It was observed by an Irish gentleman, a few days ago, while speaking of a certain regiment, that for three weeks, he never saw any regiment Improve so little in his life, for do you know, added he, They grew worse and worse every day.

The same gentleman being at a ball at Tunbridge had sat up very late, after observing he was to go the next morning to Eastbourne, to ride a race for his uncle, bluntly exclaimed, By J--—s, if my uncle wants Me to ride his horse, he must get Somebody else.

Among the toasts drank at the late corporation dinner at Norwich, was the following; Buonaparte in Fetter-lane, and his army at Gravesend.

The French soldiers are famous for having a good appetite, but we suspect that they will not