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into the vortex of financial speculation ; but he looks a butterfly among the busy throng , and his air ( as doubtless he wishes it to bo ) is quite different from that of the habitues of the precinct . Nothing more conduces to preserve youthfuluess than a considerable amount of mental activity . The alertness and vivacity of the mind

transfer themselves to the personal appearance ; and despite all the worry aud anxieties which these moneydealors aud speculators are supposed to , and sometimes do , undergo , they wear better , and keep their youth longer , than the farmers and provincial classes generally . —Blackwood ' s Magazine .

" TUB PSYCIHETOJIY on TUB HASD , " by means of which it is attempted to prove the hand to he au index of moral , intellectual , and social development , is the title of a new work by Mr . Richard Beamish , F . R . S ., the well known compiler of " The Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunei . " The " Psychonomy of the Hand" is a development of the system of M . D'Arpeutigny , and contains a notice of the chiromatic theory of M . Desbarrolles .

ME . BRACEBKIDGE HEUYNG has a new novel iu the press . Its title will be " Gaspar Trenchard . " More than one successful novel , issued anonymously , or under a nom de plume , are said to have been written hy this

gentleman . ' OE M . REXAN a letter informs us that his " Yie de Jesus" has brought him the sum of £ 4 , 000 , and the golden harvest is still far from garnered : " his pen can transmute ink and paper into gold whenever he pleases ; he has several works which daily find purchasers ; and

he is a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres , which'place brings him enough to pay house-rent . " It is understood that he has in the press a work on his quarrel with the French Government , entitled " My Situation . "—Header . THE PARISH PRIEST . —Their is one branch of

priestcraft which , if not characteristic of the Anglican Church , is more thought of iu that than iu any other . I mean parochial visitation . The English priest must be ready not only to receive his people when they visit him , but to visit them when they are . unwilling to receive him . Except in large town parishes , where shifting . thousands

crowd his district , and he simply cannot call on every one , he tries the accessibility of all his parishioners . He walks about among his flock in the sunshine and the rain . He rings at the park gates , and clicks the cottager ' s garden latch . He is not ashamed to be seen carrying the good book about under his arm . But ,

though he is expected to be thus kindly aggressive rather that accessible , he has no legal right of entry anywhere , as a priest . "Unlike the semi-political Romanist in foreign parts , he relies only on such Christian courtesy as he shows himself . The sinner ' s house is his castle . He may damn himself undisturbed within doors , as long

as he keeps clear of crime . IsTo parson may cross his threshold on any errand of mercy or conversion without the sinner ' s leave . The priest who forced a door or broke a fence in the name of the Lord , might deservedly be taken up by a policeman . Still , though he may neither command admission as a right , nor creep into a house on the sly , he must call upon the evil and the good

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alike . Those who affect to resent his visits would be among the first to blame him for not visiting . Though denied a right of entry , he must present himself at the entrance . And for a good reason . It is required of priests iu England that a man be found open . "We suspect retired asceticism . Popular imagination furnishes the cell and table of the hermit with eider down and fat .

But national reserve yields to daily acquaintance . Englishmen want to get used to a man before they can trust him as a priest . Again—unless perhaps it be in some town district , where the preacher is lost sight of in the crowd as soon as he walks away from the church door—there is a distrust of Sunday performances .

People like to see their pastor about our Father ' s business on the week day . —Fraser . ME . ASSHEIOX SMITH . —The last great run by Mr . Smith was one of an . hour aud forty'minutes , seven or eight seasons since , from Ham Ashley to Huugerford , aud he was so pleased with the chesuut he rode , that he

gave Mr . Sam Reeves 175 guineas for him . He christened him from the covert where they found , and ranked him ever after with the Amport , Rochelle , and Ayston , of his Hampshire affections . The last-named was perhaps the best of the three , aud on one occasion , when he tripped on the road to cover , Mr . Pierrepoint said , " If

I were you , Tom , I'd ride that horse no more . " He replied , " If I were going to ride for my life , I'd ride him and no other ; " and he did so for several seasons . His last hunting gallop was on Shamrock , in the October of 1856 , three miles in twenty minutes , from Sinicotepark to Siding-cut , and he crossed the downs as gaily

as a boy . The cover side knew him uo more after the October of ' 57 , when he just cantered up to Wilbury on his chesnut hack Blemish , to see his hounds draw , aud he was on her at the door of his covered conservatory rides , facing over Wilbury Liberty , when he took his last look at his hounds . Carter got his orders to bring

the choicest of the 1858 entry , and he and Will Bryce arrived at the usual rendezvous , with five couple of bitches by tho Fitzwilliarn , Hardwicke , and Hermit . He looked at them a short time , and said , " Well , they ' re as beautiful as they can be ; " bade both his men good-bye , and they saw him no more . What was once a summer

temple , at the top of a long beech-shaded vista in his garden , is now his resting-place . Thousands whose lot it was to labour to produce his wealth , and for whose happiness and well-being he effected so much in return , will long cling fondly to his memory . Still , iu the eye of the world , which knew little of these things , it was

fox-hunting which lent such an intense earnestness to his life , aud looking back at him only in that point of view , none will be found to dispute that , however hasty both in temper and action he might be in the field or on the flags , he was the mightiest hunter that ever " rode across Belvoir ' s sweet vale , " or wore a horn at his saddlebow . —From "Silk and Scarlet . "

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OLD men's eyes are like old men ' s memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off . SOJIE men are called sagacious because they are avaricious : whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born .