course, some doggrel rhymes, with a dogma in dog-Latin, expressing the dog-lienza of some Duchess, who, "dog-gi in domani," mourns over the loss of her lap-dog, would be necessary to celebrate the praises of one, who, true as the Egyptian Dogstar, has proved himself a friend to that race which Byron describes as "possessing beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices." The inscription might run as follows. cursorily:

"Canis habebat suum diem."

We give it

"Hoc testimonium est datus ad Episcopum de via Bonda, ut nota gratitudinis pro suis enixibus in vice canini cursus."

Which, for the benefit of country gentlemen, we take the liberty of translating:

"The dog will have his day."

SHAKSPEARE.

"This token is given to the Bishop of Bond Street, as a mark of gratitude for his exertions in behalf of the canine race."

Seriously speaking, we think a " Bishop Testimonial" ought to be presented to the publicspirited individual who has done "the state so much service," and we would suggest a handsome silver candelabra, with the following lines:

"Hoc grate animi testimonium Henrico Bishop offertur, pro ejus prosperâ solicitudine inferendâ lege, quâ in eos, qui canes furantur æque accelant animadvertitur."

The candelabra to be supported by dogs, with a fine specimen of the English bull breed on its summit. Upon one panel a representation of the scene so beautifully described by Walter Scott, as having taken place in the Helvellyn mountains, when a youth lost his life. by falling down a precipice, and whose remains

were discovered some months afterwards, with his faithful dog, almost reduced to a skeleton, still guarding them:

"Dark green was the spot, 'mid the brown mountainheather,

Where the pilgrim of nature lay stretched in

decay;

Like the corpse of an outcast abandoned to weather, Till the mountain winds wasted the tenantless

clay;

Nor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended,
For, faithful in death, his mute favorite attended
The much-loved remains of her master defended,
And chased the hill-fox and the raven away."

Upon another panel, the canine mausoleum at Newstead, and the epitaph to Byron's " Boatswain,"

"But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend,

The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still his master's own,
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth.”

On a third panel might be Argus, the

favourite of Ulysses, and the return of that monarch, disguised as a beggar, after twenty years' absence, with the lines from Pope,

"Near to the gates, conferring as they drew,
Argus the dog his ancient master knew;
And not unconscious of the voice and tread,
Lifts to the sounds his ears, and rears his head;
He knows his lord, he knew and strove to meet;
In vain he strove to crawl and kiss his feet:
Yet, all he could, his tail, his ears, his eyes,
Salute his master, and confess his joys."

On the fourth panel the faithful animal recorded by Plutarch, who, when the Athenians, in the time of Themistocles, were obliged to abandon their native city, followed his master across the sea of Salamis, where he died, and was honoured with a tomb by the Athenians, who gave the name of the Dogs Grave to that part of the Island, in which he was buried.

Doctor Burls has given up his school at Kennington, and having in his seventy-fourth. year, married his former housekeeper, Mrs. Redpath, lives in a snug little villa near the

Regent's Park, and is "as well as as well as can be ex

pected." My old combatant, young Edkins the bully, entered the army, and still maintains a dastardly spirit; having showed the white feather in an engagement with the enemy in India, he was allowed to sell out, much to the delight of his brother officers, and the men under his command.

Mes

Le Chevalier Edkins and Miladi, (as they called themselves in France), died at Boulogne some years ago, after sojourning for a considerable time in that refuge for the destitute. dames Le Roy et Dupont, despite of the patronage of Lady Anne Graystork, figured in the Bankruptcy Court, and among the list of debtors to the firm, appeared the name of that aristocratic dame, for a sum that would have reduced her income to more than half its amount; to escape any unpleasant proceedings on the part of the assignees, her ladyship retired to Brussels, where she did a great deal of inexpensive hospitality in the shape of tea parties. Edward Purchas having sown his