and a List of our Metropolitan Charitable Institutions, their officers, &c.  The Parliamentary Register is as copious as usual; the Chronicle of the Session is neatly compiled; and a rapid Sketch of Public Improvements, and a Chronicle of Events of 1829 will be interesting to all readers.  In short, we can scarcely conceive a work that is likely to be more extensively useful than the present:  it concerns the business of all; it is perhaps less domestic than in previous years; but as “great wits have short memories,” its scientific helps are not overrated.

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PENITENT LETTER.

The following letter occurs in Captain Beaver’s Memoirs, said to be written by a runaway pirate:—­

“To Mr. Beaver.—­Sir, I hope that you will parden me for riteing to you, which I know I am not worthy of, but I hope you will forgive me for all things past, for I am going to try to get a passage to the Cape deverds, and then for America.  Sir, if you will be so good as to let me go, I shall be grately ableaght to you.  Sir, I hope you will parden me for running away.  Sir, I am your most obedent umbld servant,

“PETER HAYLES.

“Sir, I do rite with tears in my eyes.”

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FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN ENGLAND.

A Frenchman in London, without any knowledge of our language will cut but a sorry figure, and be more liable to ridicule than an Englishman in a similar condition in Paris:  to wit, the waggish joke told of the Parisian inquiring for Old Bailey, or Mr. Bailey, Sen. It is, therefore, quite as requisite that a Frenchman should be provided with a good French and English phrase-book, as that an Englishman should have an English and French Manual.  Of the former description is Mr. Leigh’s “Recueil de Phrases utiles aux etrangers voyageant en Angleterre,” a new and improved edition of which is before us.  It contains every description of information, from the embarkation at Calais to all the Lions of London—­how to punish a roguish hackney-coachman—­to criticise Miss Kemble at Covent Garden—­to write an English letter, or to make out a washing-bill—­which miscellaneous matters are very useful to know in a metropolis like ours, where, as the new Lord Mayor told a countryman the other day, we should consider every stranger a rogue.  Glancing at the fetes or holidays, there is a woeful falling off from the Parisian list—­in ours only eleven are given—­but “they manage these things better in France.”

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CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES.

In the Quarterly Review (lately published) there is an excellent paper on these Societies.