QUEEN ELIZABETH'S STATE COACH.

The accompanying engraving is taken from a very old print representing the state procession of Queen Elizabeth on her way to open Parliament on April 2nd, 1571. This was the first occasion on which a state coach had ever been used by a sovereign of England, and it was the only vehicle in the procession; the Lord Keeper, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, all attending on horseback. It was drawn by two palfreys, which were decked with trappings of crimson velvet; and, according to an old authority, the name of the driver was William Boonen, a Dutchman, who thus became the first state coachman.

EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER.

M. Brady, Physician to Prince Charles of Lorraine, gives the following particulars of an extraordinary sleeper :

"A woman, named Elizabeth Alton, of a healthful strong constitution, who had been servant to the curate of St. Guilain, near the town of Mons, about the beginning of the year 1738, when she was about thirtysix years of age grew extremely restless and melancholy. In the month of August, in the same year, she fell into a sleep which held four days, notwithstanding all possible endeavours to awake her. At length she awoke naturally, but became more restless and uneasy than before; for six or seven days, however, she resumed her usual employments, until she fell asleep again,

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which continued eighteen hours. that time to the year 1753, which is fifteen years, she fell asleep daily about three o'clock in the morning, without waking until about eight or nine at night. In 1754, indeed, her sleep returned to the natural periods for four months, and, in 1748, a tertian ague prevented her sleeping for three weeks. On February 20, 1755, M. Brady, with a surgeon, went to see her. About five o'clock in the evening, they found her pulse extremely regular; on taking hold of her arm it was so rigid that it was not bent without much trouble. They then attempted to lift up her head, but her neck and back were as stiff as her arms. He hallooed in her ear as loud as his voice could reach; he thrust a needle into her flesh up to the bone; he put a piece of rag to her nose flaming with spirits of wine, and let it burn some time, yet all without being able to disturb her in the least. At length, in about six hours and a-half, her limbs began to relax; in eight hours she turned herself in the bed, and then suddenly raised herself up, sat down by the fire, eat heartily, and began to spin. At other times, they whipped her till the blood came; they rubbed her back with honey, and then exposed it to the stings of bees; they thrust nails under her fingernails; and it seems these triers of experi ments consulted more the gratifying their own curiosity than the recovery of the unhappy object of the malady.

DREAM OF KING HENRY I.

A SINGULAR dream, which happened to this monarch when passing over to Normandy in 1130, has been depicted in a manuscript of Florence of Worcester, in Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The rapacity and oppressive taxation of his government, and the reflection forced on him by his own unpopular measures, may have originated the vision. He imagined himself to have been visited by the representatives of the three most important grades of society-the husbandmen, the knights, and the clergy, who gathered round his bed, and so fearfully menaced him, that he awoke in great alarm, and, seizing his sword, loudly called for his attendants. The drawings that accompany this narrative, and represent each of these visions, appear to have been executed shortly afterwards, and are valuable illustrations of the general costume of the period. One of them is introduced in this place.

The king is here seen sleeping; behind him stand three husbandmen, one carrying a scythe, another a pitchfork, and the third a shovel. They are each dressed in simple tunics, without girdles, with plain closefitting sleeves; the central one has a mantle fastened by a plain brooch, leaving the right arm free. The beards of two of these figures are as ample as those of their lords, this being an article of fashionable indulgence within their means. The one with the scythe wears a hat not unlike the felt hat still worn by his descendants in the same grade: the scroll in his left hand is merely placed there to contain the words he is supposed to utter to the king.

A HAPPY FAMILY.

A gentleman travelling through Mecklenburgh, some years since, witnessed a singular association of incongruous animals. After dinner, the landlord of the inn placed on the floor a large dish of soup, and gave a loud whistle. Immediately there came into the room a mastiff, an Angora cat, an old raven, and a remarkably large rat, with a bell about its neck. They all four went to the dish, and, without disturbing each other, fed together; after which the dog, cat, and rat, lay before the fire, while the raven hopped about the room. The landlord, after accounting for the familiarity of these animals, informed his guest that the rat was the most useful of the four; for the noise he made had completely freed his house from the rats and mice with which it was before infested.

AN OLD GANDER.

Willoughby states in his work on Ornithology, that a friend of his possessed a end became so ferocious that they were gander eighty years of age, which in the it committed in the barn-yard. He also forced to kill it, in consequence of the havoc talks of a swan three centuries old; and several celebrated parrots are said to have attained from 100 to 150 years.

THE SOUTH STACK LIGHT-HOUSE.

Though not so celebrated as the Eddystone, the South Stack Light-house is unquestionably one of the marvels of science, and as such may be appropriately described in our pages. It is erected on the summit of an isolated rock, three or four miles westward from Holyhead, and separated from the main land by a chasm ninety feet in

10, or 180 American Indians, took up the hatchet, or declared war, in favour of the French, which is represented by the hatchet placed over the arms of France.

2. They departed from Montreal-represented by the bird just taking wing from the top of a mountain. The moon and the buck show the time to have been in the first

quarter of the buck-moon, answering to July.

3. They went by water-signified by the canoe. The number of huts, such as they raise to pass the night in, shows they were 21 days on their passage.

4. Then they came on shore, and travelled seven days by land-represented by the foot and the seven huts.

5. When they arrived near the habitations of their enemies, at sun-rise, shown by the sun being to the eastward of them, beginning, as they think, its daily course, there they lay in wait three days-represented by the hand pointing, and the three huts.

6. After which, they surprised their enemies, in number 12 times 10, or 120. The man asleep shows how they surprised them, and the hole in the top of the building is supposed to signify that they broke into some of their habitations in that manner.

7. They killed with the club eleven of their enemies, and took five prisoners. The former represented by the club and the eleven heads, the latter by the figures on the little pedestals.

8. They lost nine of their own men in the action-represented by the nine heads within the bow, which is the emblem of honour among the Americans, but had none taken prisoners a circumstance they lay great weight on, shown by all the pedestals being empty.

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9. The heads of the arrows, pointing opposite ways, represent the battle.

10. The heads of the arrows all pointing the same way, signify the flight of the

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ASSOCIATION.

A CONVERSATIONAL SKETCH.

JOHN. Well, Annie, reading again! May I ask the title of the work over which you are poring so intently?

ANNIE. Abercrombie on the intellectual powers; subject, The Association of Ideas. have been reading to Mary, and both of us have been interrupting our author with remarks of our own.

JOHN. That is a capital way of dealing with any book; for, by such a method, we are more likely to make the instruction it unfolds subservient to our own mental use, which is, or should be, the object of all our reading. But I suppose you agree with your author?

MARY. O yes; but we have been trying part of the time to find out how far our own mental experience verified his observations. Doubtless you are aware that he speaks of three different kinds of association: 1st, natural or philosophical; 2nd, local or incidental; 3rd, arbitrary or fictitious? We owned at once to a familiar acquaintance with the two last, as I suppose every one must, more or less; indeed, it appears to me, that association of the two latter kinds is a habit into which the mind naturally falls without the slightest effort; and by this power it is enabled to imbue scenes and places with its own sentiments and feelings, and all the different objects of our senses may become, in this way, sacred to the memory of past joys and sorrows, hopes and fears.

ANNIE. Yes; and when we consider each individual mind as subject to the same process, we must allow the very universe to be alive with sentiment.

JOHN. Well, I quite believe that the universe is alive with sentiment, but I question the universality of the ability to read it; and though the power of association is a natural endowment, yet all are not alike qualified to paint a mental picture with colouring deep enough to be permanent. A person accustomed to observation, and possessing a taste for the beauties and sublimities of natural scenery and phenomena, will have a more extended field of association than another whose range of speculation is limited by a dull perception and defective education; yet it cannot but be a matter of regret that the associated treasures of a mind, even the most nobly gifted, and highly cultivated, are but few in comparison with the numbers that have been swept away by the stream of forgetful

ness. Doubtless we ourselves are conscious of having witnessed many stirring incidents of which the mind retains but a very slight recollection because unlinked to the chain of association. This thought is beautifully expressed by an eminent writer, who says, "How advantageous it is to connect, if we could, some striking association with every idea or scene we wish to remember with permanent interest! this is like framing and glazing the mental picture, and will preserve it an indefinite length of time."

MARY. Certainly that is a very beautiful idea, providing the picture is a pleasing one; but alas! we know that, with many, the power of reproducing past scenes and acts is a curse from which they would gladly

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case;

JOHN. Yes; but you must allow that conscience has a great deal to do in that for instance, I have heard of criminals who had for a time eluded detection voluntarily giving themselves up to justice, preferring death to the ceaseless torment of an accusing conscience.

ANNIE. But in cases irrespective of anything criminal, or even blameworthy, the associations often partake of a melancholy and painful character.

MARY. Truly, nor can we expect it to be otherwise in "a world so thorny, and where none find happiness complete," but to the Christian, the most painful and adverse circumstances are made subservient to good, and the consolation that the mind receives becomes a link in the chain of association, and is thus perpetuated to sooth the mind afresh.

ANNIE. Well, really you make me think that if this faculty were constantly exercised, it would serve instead of a diary; but we are overlooking the dignified department of it, namely the philosophical. Come, John, give us the benefit of your thoughts on the subject.

JOHN. Willingly; but they will be tame after what you have read in Abercrombie. First, then, I would observe that its aspect, though dignified, as you say, has nothing repulsive about it, and, though termed philosophical, after a little acquaintance be comes easy and natural; indeed it is so essential a guide in the progressive work of increasing our mental treasures, that we cannot fail to see in it the wise and beneficent appointment of Him who gave it, and designed its adaptation. By the aid of this faculty, what is known becomes instrumental in pushing our conquests into the region of the unknown, and acquirements gained in this way, and united in the bonds