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One day, a physician alighted from his carriage, and entering the shop of a medical bookseller, inquired of its sleek-faced master, “whether he had a copy of Heberden’s Commentaries?” “No, sir,” replied the man of letters, “but we have Caesar’s Commentaries, and they are by far the best.”—­Metropolitan.

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Mortality in the reign of William IV.—­Since the accession of King William not less, we are told, than twenty-four generals and twenty-six admirals, have found their way into Westminster Abbey, or elsewhere.  Considering that his majesty continues to receive the most friendly assurances from all foreign powers, this attack upon the army and navy list is rather prodigious.  Napoleon himself could scarcely have made greater gaps in the United Service Club in the time.  To be sure they were not all Nelsons and Marlboroughs, or we should have marked them as they dropped off; whereas one can hardly name, five of the fifty great warriors. —­Ibid.

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Origin of Black Monday.—­Black Monday—­Easter Monday, in the year 1359, when hail stones killed both men and horses in the army of our King Edward the Third, in France.  He was on his march, within two leagues of Chartres, when there happened a storm of piercing wind, that swelled to a tempest of rain, lightning, and hail stones, so prodigious, as instantly to kill 6,000 of his horses, and 1,000 of his best troops.  P.T.W.

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*** MR. HAYDON’S Exhibition in our next.

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