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Coblentz a number of stuffed figures , clothed in the National uniform . As these new warriors floated down the stream , they were saluted by a tremenduous fire from the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein , and all the redoubts in its environs . The boats , however , still floated down the stream , and the troops on board faced the storm of bombs and balls with intrepid calmness . The alarm of the Austrians increased , and their troops were drawn up in battle , array , until , with equal surprize and shame , they discerned the quality of their stoical opponents ! Thisjoke cost the people of Coblentz rather dear ; the Austrians , in the first impulse of their indignation , having destroyed several of their houses by a shower of bombs .

A curious circumstance occurred lately at Brightcin . Sir John Lade , for a trifling wager , undertook to carry Lord Cholmondeley on bis back , from opposite tiie Pavilion twice round the Steine . Several ladies attended to be spectators of this extraordinary feat of the dwarf carrying a giant . When his Lordship declared himself ready , Sir John desired him to strip . " Strip ! " exclaimed the other ; "Why surely you promised to carry me in my clothes !"— "By no means , " replied the Baronet ; "I engaged to carry you , but not an inch of clothes therefore *

. So , my Lord , make ready , and let us not disappoint the ladies . '' After much laughable altercation , it was at length decided that Sir John had won his wager , the Peer declining to exhibit inpuris naturalibus . A Gazette of this month announced a commission of bankruptcy issued aga ' ufst a person in the Land of Promise !—If dockets were to be struck against all persons in that extensive district , the sheets of the Gazette would spon swell to the size of the Statutes at Large .

ANECDOTE . —A lady of some rank in EDINBURGH , during the sitting of the-B RITISH CONVENTION , having a large company at her house , and the conversation turning upon the said Assembly—Parliamentary Reform , Equality , Rights of the People , & c . —sagaciously observed , that the vulgar , novi-adays , meddled with things which did not belong to them—that mankind were naturally divided into tiro classes—that , for her part , she could not help comparing the higher classes to China Ware , and the lower sort to common Crockery . Being in her own house ,

however , no person ventured to dissent from her in opinion ; but soon after-. wards ,, her young family being mentioned , the company present expressed a desire of seeing her son , an infant then in the nurse ' s arms ; on which she ordered the footman to ' tell the nursery-maid to bring him down . The man , who had . listened with more attention than satisfaction to the distinction just before drawn by his lady , in obedience to her commands left the room—but leaving the door open , he called out with a loud voice , at the foot of the stairs , " Crockery , bring down young China . " The company laughed incontinently—the lady reddened like a turkey-cock— -and the facetious footman was immediately discharged .

COELEGE ANECDOTE . —The late Dutchess Dowager of Bedford meeting once a Cambridge Student , asked him how her Noble Relation did ? " Truly , Madam , ( says he ) he is a brave fellow , and sticks close to Catharine Hall , " ( the " name of a College there ) . " I vow ( saidher Grace ) I feared as much—for he had always a hankering after the viencbes . '" ANECDOTE . —The Marquis del Campo , the Spanish Ambassador , now about to leave this kingdom , has always enjoyed here a greater portion of the Royal favour than was ever bestowed on any Member of the Diplomatic Corps . It

originated in the following circumstance , which is not generally known : —At the time when the phrenzy of Margaret Nicholson prompted her to attack the life of our Sovereign , the Marquis , with that readiness of apprehension which , marks the man fitted for great occasions , immediately took a post-chaise and set off for Windsor . —He entered into conversation with her Majesty , and prevented her , as was his object , from being disturbed by any idle rumours , until his Majesty arrived ; bringing himself the news of the traitorous attempt , and the full assurance of its failure !' AGRICULTURE . —If Dibbling , instead of Broadcast , was wholly practised , itwouli produce a saving in wheat annually of 320 , 000 quarters , besides giving employment to a great number of children .