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 Maximilian, when he thus quaintly characterized the people of the four great monarchies, would have been mortified could he have foreseen that the Emperor of Germany would one day be reduced to be Rex Servorum, and himself little better than the vassal of an upstart tyrant. Rex Asinorum the Ruler of France might well be stiled, if patience were the only crime of his subjects. The King of Spain is still Rex Hominum, for never since the commencement of human history have any people acted a more manly part than the Spaniards of our own days. As for the King of England, if folly and fanaticism continue to spread as they are spreading, he bids fair in half a century to be King of the Saints.

  Mr. Daniel Lambert and the Irish Giant both died in fear of the surgeons. Great men of every description are in