Lin was well up in all the learning of his country, and supplied no end of subjects for romances about China, He was an in valuable archaeologist, and was ever prepared to trace the origin of all things to his Vater land, and years before the world was created according to the Ussher chronology; his last feat related to spectacles, and he produced a piece of old crockery, with the figures of mandarins looking apparently at fish fights, through spectacles, which were kept in posi tion by strings coiling over the ear, with weights at the end, just like the cords of a Swiss cuckoo clock. I nearly forgot to add, that painting is calculated to enable me to graduate in the seven ages of man; thus Titian was 99 years old when he was gathered to his fathers; Claude Lorrain 82, Teniers 80, Greuze 79, David 77, Leonardi de Vinci 75, Poussin and Reynolds 71. Michael Angelo was 90 when he died. Other nota bilities not destined for longevity—the Deputies: they have been a long time doomed to death, and at last are fated to die; they themselves are about pronouncing their own doom, which is considered to be as great a sacrifice as establishing a constitution. The beautiful weather we enjoy must have some thing to do with these political bonbons, and doctors say the span of life is intimately connected with meteorology. When the Deputies left for their vacation, the terrible sullen sky and north-east zephyrs had settled down on us like the old man of the tain on the backs of certain voyagers, no more to be shaken off than a poor relation, or a dun after the twentieth asking for a settlement of his little bill; well, the proverbial die-hards have returned, and are the first to throw their hats up in the air and demand their extinction ; they merit to be elected senators, and in any case their decision is like water in the desert, and re ceived with as much gratitude as the new fruits and vegetables which are strongly competing with cosmetics in imparting a spring look to wintry visages. 