the manner of the maid-servant, who looked like a man disguised; and he felt a very unpleasant emotion.  This feeling was strengthened by a similar deportment in the mistress of the house, who soon after entered his room, and asked him if he wanted anything before he retired to rest:  disliking her manner, he soon dismissed her, and went to bed, but the disagreeable impression made on his mind by the maid and mistress, kept him long awake; at length, however, he fell asleep.  During his sleep he dreamed that the corpse of a gentleman, who had been murdered, was deposited in the cellar of the house.  This dream co-operating with the unfavourable, or rather repulsive countenances and demeanour of the two women, precluded all hopes of renewed sleep, and it being the summer season, he arose about five o’clock in the morning, took his hat, and resolved to quit a house of such alarm and terror.  To his surprise, as he was leaving it, he met the mistress in the entry, dressed, as if she had never gone to bed.  She seemed to be much agitated, and inquired his reason for wishing to go out so early in the morning.  He hesitated a moment with increased alarm, and then told her that he expected a friend, who was to arrive by a stage in Bishopsgate-street, and that he was going to meet him.  He was suffered to go out of the house, and when revived by the open air, he felt, as he afterwards declared, as if relieved from impending destruction.  He stated that in a few hours after, he returned with a friend to whom he had told his dream, and the impression made on him by the maid and the mistress; he, however, only laughed at him for his superstitious terrors, but on entering the house, they found that it was deserted, and calling in a gentleman who was accidentally passing, they all descended to the cellar, and actually found a corpse in the state which the gentleman’s dream had represented.

Drawing an Inference.

Dr. Monsey, with two or three old members of the university, in the course of an evening walk, differed about a proper definition of man.  While they were severally offering their notions on the subject, they came to a wall where an itinerant artist had drawn various representations of animals, ships, &c.  After complimenting him on his skill, one of the gentlemen asked him if he could draw an inference.  “No,” said the artist, “I never saw one.”  Logic then gave way to jocularity, and a man coming by with a fine team of horses, they stopped him, spoke highly of the condition of his horses, particularly admiring the first.  “That horse, carter,” said another of the gentlemen, “seems to be a very strong one, I suppose he could draw a butt,” The man assented.  “Do you think he could draw an inference?"—­“Why,” said the man, “he can draw anything in reason.”  “There,” said Monsey, “what becomes of your definition, when you met a man that could not draw an inference and a horse that could?”