and told him bluntly his fears, at the same time offering to procure for him parochial aid. "Thank you,

thank you, sir," said the carter, for your kind intentions," his heart swelling as he spoke; "but, if you please, I'll not apply just yet, till we see how things turn out; the times I hear are beginning to mend, and by and by I'll, may be, get a little work; at any rate, sir, I have yet twenty-pence and the skin o' the horse!"

EMPEROR JOSEPH II.

THE Emperor of Germany, Joseph II. had once a petition presented to him in behalf of a poor superannuated officer, who lived, with a family of ten children, in an indigent condition, at some distance from Vienna. The emperor inquired of several old officers whether they knew this man, and received from all of them an excellent character of him. His majesty gave no answer to the petition, but went, without any attendants, to the house of the poor officer, whom he found at dinner, with eleven children. "I heard you had ten children," said the em"but here I see eleven." peror, This," replied the officer, pointing to the eleventh, "is a poor orphan whom I found at my door; and though I have done all I could to engage some persons more opulent than myself, to provide for him, all my endeavours have proved in vain ; I have therefore shared my small portion with him, and brought him up as my own child." The emperor admired the noble and generous humanity of this indigent man, to whom he discovered himself, and said, "I desire that all these children may be my pensioners, and that you will

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continue to give them examples of virtue and honour. I grant you 100 florins per annum for each of them, and 200 florins in addition to your pension. Go to-morrow to my treasurer, where you will receive the first quarter's payment, with a commission of lieutenancy for your eldest son. Continue to be your children's faithful tutor, and I will henceforth be their father." The old man with all his family, threw himself at the feet of his sovereign, which he bedewed with tears of gratitude. The emperor shed tears himself, and after giving some small presents to the children, retired. When he joined his retinue, he said to Count Calleredo, "I thank God for this day's favour, He hath guided me to discover a virtuous man in obscurity,

SINGULAR DETECTION.

AT Delft, a servant girl was accused of being accessary to the robbery of her master's house, on a Sunday, when the family were gone to church. She was condemned on circumstantial evidence, and suffered the severe punishment allotted by the laws of Holland to servants who rob their masters. Her conduct whilst confined, was so exemplary, and her character had stood so fair, previous to the imputed offence, that her master not only interceded to shorten her confinement, but received her again into his service.

Some time had elapsed after her release, when a circumstance occurred, which led to the detection of the real robber, and consequently to the complete vindication of her innocence,

It happened as she was passing through the butcher's market at Delft, that one of them tapping her on the shoulder, whispered in her ear some words of very remarkable import. She instantly recollected having used these very words on the fatal Sunday of the robbery for which she had suffered, while she was surveying herself in a glass in her dressing room, and when as she supposed With a palpitating heart she hastened

no one was near.

He was

This

to her master, and told him what had occurred. a magistrate, and immediately instituted an inquiry into the circumstances of the suspected person, from which it appeared that he had suddenly got up in the world subsesequent to the robbery, nobody could tell how. circumstance was deemed sufficient to justify a search being made, and the measures of the police were so arranged, that it was made at one and the same time in his The result own house, and that of his nearest kindred. was, that various articles which had been stolen from the magistrate's house, at the time the maid servant had been accused, were found and taken away.

It seems that the robber had concealed himself in the turf-room, or garret, where the turf was stowed away, adjoining which was the servant's chamber; and whilst the poor girl was dressing, the villain overheard the words which led to his detection; and having effected the robbery, got off unperceived.

He was broken alive upon the rack, and the city gave a handsome portion to the sufferer, by way of compensation for the wrongs she had suffered.

RIGHTS OF HOSPITALITY.

"I HAVE been assured," says Chenier, in his Present state of Morocco,'" that a Brebe who went to hunt the lion, having proceeded far into the forest, happened to meet with two lion's whelps that came to caress him: the hunter stopped with the little animals, and waiting for the coming of the sire or the dam, took out his breakfast, and gave them a part. The lioness arrived unperceived by the huntsman, so that he had not time, or perhaps wanted the courage, to take his gun. After having for some time looked at the man who was thus feasting her young, the lioness went away, and soon after returned bearing with her a sheep, which she came and laid at the huntsman's feet.

"The Brebe thus become one of the family, took this occasion of making a good meal, skinned the sheep, made a fire, and roasted a part, giving the entrails to the young lions. The old lion in his turn came also; and, as if respecting the rights of hospitality, showed no tokens whatever of ferocity. Their guest the next day, having finished his provisions returned, and came to a resolution never more to kill any of those animals, the noble generosity of which he had so fully proved. He stroked and caressed the whelps at taking leave of them, and the dam and sire accompanied him till he was safely out of the forest.”

LONDON CHARITIES.

AMONG the moral features of the British metropolis, is the multitude of its institutions for the relief of the

Indigent and the sick in their various wants. Independent of the two hospitals supported at the public charge at Greenwich and Chelsea, London has twenty-two hospitals, or asylums for the sick, lame, &c.; one hundred and seven alms-houses, for the maintenance of old men and women; twenty institutions for indigent persons of various other descriptions; twenty-two dispensaries for gratuitously supplying the poor with medicine and medical aid at their own dwellings; forty-one free-schools, with perpetual endowments for educating and maintaining three thousand five hundred children of both sexes; twenty other public schools for deserted and poor children; one hundred and sixty-five parish schools, supported by their respective parishes, with the aid of occasional voluntary contributions, which on an average, clothe and edu cate six thousand boys and girls.

But this ample list of public charities does not include the whole account; in the City of London, belonging to its corporation, there are ninety-four public companies, who distribute above £7500 in charity annually; and the metropolis has, besides, many institutions for the education or relief of those who are actually distressed, of a less public and prominent nature, but which immensely extend aid to the indigent. The sum annually expended in the metropolis in charitahle purposes, independent of private relief to individuals, has been estimated at £800,500.

Most of the hospitals and asylums were founded by private munificence; of these some are endowed with perpetual revenues, and others supported by annual or occasional voluntary contributions. The alms-houses were built and endowed either by private individuals, or corporate bodies of tradesmen, and many of the free-schools sprang from the same origin.