TO A YOUNG LADY WHO REQUESTED THE AUTHOR TO RESTORE A LOCK OF HAIR HE HAD
TAKEN FROM HER.--_By E.S. Barrett._

By one only recompense can I be led
With this beautiful ringlet to part;
That should I restore you the _lock_ of your head,
You will give me the key of your heart.--_Atlas._

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PARLIAMENTARY QUALIFICATIONS.


When the friends of the youngest Thelluson proposed making him a member
of parliament, he said, "he did not understand exactly what it was to be
in parliament, or what they meant by constituents in the country; but, if
there was any necessity to go backwards and forwards _for their orders_,
he could trot down as fast as any member of parliament in the kingdom."

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CHANGING NAMES.


Thomas Knight, Esq. whose paternal name was Brodnax, which, very early
in life, he changed for that of May, afterwards, by a statute of 9th
Geo. II. took the name of Knight, which occasioned a facetious member of