and less circumspect." Tourville, filled with indignation at this letter, immediately assembled his captains, and read it to them; after which he added: "The business is not now to deliberate, but to act :-if they accuse us of circumspection, at least, let them not tax us with cowardice." When Louis XIV. heard of the loss of part of his fleet, he said, "Is Tourville safe? we may easily get other ships; but where shall we repair the loss of such an officer as he?" Seeing him pass some time after in the gallery at Versailles, he exclaimed ;"There goes the man, that obeyed me at La Hogue."

CURIOUS EPISCOPAL ANECDOTE.

Doctor William Lyons, who was preferred to the bishopric of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, towards the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was originally a captain in the navy, and who had distinguished himself gallantly in several actions with the Spaniards; that on being introduced to the

Queen, she told him, " He should have the first vacancy that offered."

The honest captain, who understood the Queen literally, soon after, hearing of a vacancy in the see of Cork, immediately set out for court, and claimed the royal promise. The Queen, astonished at the request for a time, remonstrated against the impropriety of it, and what she could never think of, as an office suitable for him." It was, however, in vain, he said, "the Royal word was passed; and he relied on it." Her Majesty then said, "she would take a few days to consider of it." When examining into his character, and finding him a sober, moral man, as well as an intrepid commander, she sent for Lyons, and gave him the bishopric, saying, at the same time,.. "She hoped he would take as good care of the church, as he had done of the state." Lyons immediately set out for his bishopric, which he enjoyed for above twenty years, with great reputation to himself; but never attempted to preach but once, and that was on the death of the Queen.

On that melancholy occasion, he thought it his duty to pay the last honours to his Royal Mistress; and accordingly mounted the pulpit, in christ-church, in the city of Cork, . when, after giving a good discourse on the uncertainty of life, and the great and amiable qualities of the Queen, he concluded in the following warm, but whimsical manner :"Let those who feel this loss, deplore with me on the melancholy occasion; but if there be any that hear me, that have secretly wished for this melancholy event, (as perhaps there may,) they have now got their wish; and the D-1 do them good with it." This is given on good traditional authority; the bishop's name, and the day of his appointment in 1583, are on record, at the consistorial court of Cork, and his picture, in his captain's uniform, (the left hand wanting a finger,) is still to be seen at the bishop's palace, at Cork.

Humourous Account of Newspapers, from Joinerianna.

Newspapers, at this period, may be considered in a threefold light: Vehicles of fo

reign and domestic intelligence; as an object of trade and manufacture; and as the means of raising vast sums to government, by one of the most enormous taxes, (without being grievous) that ever was laid upon a people. Scarcely any are dissatisfied; nor can be said, to groan under this weighty impost; so that at first sight, it appears to be none; on the contrary, the public are thereby receiving a particular gratification, conso→ nant to modern ideas of liberty, and are so far from murmuring that every one pays it with the utmost pleasure.-'Tis the price of the thing, and not at all extravagant, when we come to consider the quantity, as well as the quality. Those who are (agreeable to the practice of their profession) obliged to pro..cure the earliest intelligence for their guests. and customers, profit by the expence they are at. Town and country, are daily furnished with an amazing variety of new and extraordinary matter.

Students of every class, may now burn their books, like so much useless lumber,

and circumscribe their studies hereafter to the news-paper productions of the press: they will therein find employment, and instruction, sufficient for all the purposes of social and civil life. The common people, of late years, are become so wonderfully learned amongst us, by the vast encrease of Diurnals, and Nocturnals, Gazettes, and Gazetteers, Papers, and Packets, Journals, and Ledgers, Mercuries, and Flying-Posts; that you will scarcely find the meanest peasant, or sootiest chimney-sweeper, so unlettered, as not to be able to spell a newspaper. A great number of hands, who would otherwise be idle, and, many of them, useless to society, are now fully employed, and may truly be said, to have their hands full.

Rag-Merchants, Paper-Makers, Stationers, Stampers, Paragraph-Mongers, Printers, Hawkers, &c. &c. &c.

Authors, innumerable, are fed by those channels of light amusement, and profound speculation. Adepts in all sciences. Di