The Statue of Lord Byron.-There has been much misrepresentation on the subject of the statue executed by Thorwalsden of Lord Byron. It cost, not £30,000, but £2,000. This sum was raised by subscription, and paid for the statue; a fact which disposes of the imaginary reverting right of the artist's executors. and all the fanciful proceedings ascribed to them. The statue was never removed from the London Docks, where it was originally deposited. The Queen and the Jeweller.-The following is a copy of a note sent by Anna, Queen of James I, to George Heriot, the wealthy jeweller:-"Ane presept of the queen. -Geordg Heriatt, I earnestlie dissyr youe present to send me tua hundrethe pundes vith all expidition, becaus I maun hest me away presentie. ANNA R." A Novelty,-On the statue of the Duke of Wellington being elevated in front of the Royal Exchange, on the 18th instant, it was mentioned by Mr. L. Jones that that was "The first equestrian statue ever raised during the life of the person represented. Never had either king or subject the opportunity of seeing himself so represented be fore." The late Mr. Campbell.-Application has been made by Mr. Campbell's executors to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, for the purpose of ascertaining whether permission could be granted, on application, for the interment of his remains in the Poet's Corner of the Abbey. The answer was in the affirmative. Mr. Dickens.-This gentleffia leaves England with his wife and family, to take up his abode for a time in Italy. He proceeds, in the first instance, to Genoa. King Charles's Bible.-At Broomfield, near Chelmsford, is a bible which belonged to King Charles the First, the date A.D., 1529, Norton and Bill, printers. It is a folio, bound in purple velvet; the arms of England richly embroidered on both covers; and on a fly leaf is written, "This bible was King Charles the First's, afterwards it was my grandfather's, Patrick Youngs, Esq., who was library keeper to his Majesty, now given to the church at Broomfield, by me, Sarah Atwood, August 4th, 1723." The bible is perfect, but there is no signature to sheet I; the pages run from 84 to 87, there being no 85 and 86. Slavery in England.-In the twelfth year of Edward III, a general commission was issued to manumit the slaves. The greater part of the peasants in some countries of Germany had acquired their liberty before the end of the thirteenth century; in other parts, as well as in all the northern and eastern regions of Europe, they remained much longer in a state of vassalage. Particular instruments for the manumission of slaves in England are extant of the age of Henry VIII; and instances of predial servitude have been discovered as late as the time of Elizabeth. Hints for Talkers.-He who will never condescend to remark "how very hard it rained last night;" that "the dust was very troublesome in the park;" or that the "thermometer stood this morning in the shade, at 720;" will justly be considered a morose fellow, and will be as much avoided by good company as the man who never ventures into a more questionable proposition. He who cries "Pish!" when he hears that frugality is a virtue, or that Joseph Hume sometimes talks without book, must be content to pass for a free-thinker; and he who will not stoop to vent an occasional Joe Miller, must make up his mind to sit often mumchance, and to find no favour for his most brilliant bon mot. The Monks and the People. - Dr. Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire, has collected from the MS. leger-book of Vale-Royal abbey some curious particulars relating to the hostility which the natives of Dernhall manor for a long time displayed towards their monastic proprietors in the fourteenth century. In the year 1321, says Dr. Ormerod, "the monks who ventured to pass their consecrated limits, were pursued by the Winningtons, Leightons, and Bulkeleys, and saved their lives only by flight; and, in the same year, the leger-book records a still more atrocious instance, by which it appears that the Ollingtons murdered John Boddeworth, a monk of the abbey, and played at football with the head after the perpetration of the deed." Great Minds command Respect.-"If common-place men, hurried by vulgar perplexities into a display of passionate fear, extort from us a pitying smile: on the other hand, we regard with awe a spirit in which the seed of a great destiny is sown-which can accelerate neither the good nor the evil, Editor, at the Office, 2, Tavistock-street, Covent neither the happiness nor the unhappiness, that will spring up from it."-Göethe. Anecdote of a Spanish Grandee.-Carlos IV, in friendly conversation, one day asked All communications to be addressed to the garden. LONDON: Printed and Published by AIRD and BURSTALL, 2, Tavistock street, Covent-garden, and sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. 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