observed.  To describe this deficiency as laconically as possible, Mr. Colton wanted that mental firmness which the unfortunate Burns has aptly enough termed “Self-control.”  I once saw him, in the company of the above mentioned Mr. Tucker, seat himself, at Edmonton Fair, in one of those vulgar vehicles called swings:  he was highly delighted with the novelty of the exercise, which he enjoyed amidst the rude stare and boisterous grins of the motley group around him; “this is life,” said he, upon getting out of the swing, “what shall we see next?” In his poem of Hypocrisy, he has beautifully eulogized General Graham, who showed his sense of this intellectual tribute by sending the author a complimentary piece of plate.  Like Goldsmith, Mr. Colton entertained an unfortunate predilection for gaming, and although he often proved a better match for his wily antagonists than “the mild bard of Auburn” was to his, still he was subject to the fluctuations of the Goddess of Chance, and the quiet charms of literature which once had a beautiful hold upon his mind, were succeeded by the demons of worldly anxiety, which heavy losses, among professed gamesters as acute as himself, would occasionally subject him to.  ENORT.

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NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA.

(To the Editor.)

Perhaps the following traits of the national fidelity of the French people may not be unacceptable to some of your readers.  During my stay at St. Helena, about six months ago, a French transport arrived with an old regiment of French soldiers, who had fought under Napoleon, and who had been from France ever since the exile of the emperor.  When they came on shore, they marched in regularity and silence to the tomb, before which they knelt (many weeping) and uttered prayers for their fallen emperor:  this done, they marched back to the town with the same regularity and silence, and returned to their ship much affected.

The account of Captain Mundy’s visit to Longwood is very correct.[4] The billiard table which he mentions is still there, and gentlemen visiting Longwood, generally play there; the trees which he so justly calls “scrubby” are “gum-wood” trees, from which an intoxicating liquor (called by the natives “Toddy,”) is extracted.  The garden has lately been much improved, as several gentlemen of the island have taken up their residence at the New House.  In the vicinity of Longwood are many beautiful and romantic scenes.  About a mile from thence is Halley’s Mount, from which that great astronomer observed the transit of Venus.  It is but too true that Napoleon’s parlour is now occupied by a threshing machine.  H.M.B.

    [4] See Supplementary Number of the Mirror, No. 549.

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SCRIPTURAL HERALDRY.

(To the Editor.)