This will account for the _piggish_ habits and propensities so
conspicuous in the inhabitants of certain places in England, and whose
partiality for _swine's flesh_, is proverbial. The _sheepish_ manners of
our students and school-boys, may also be attributed to the _mutton_ so
generally alloted to them. I might continue my observations, _ad
infinitum_. I might say, that the _wisdom of the goose_ was discoverable
in--whose love of that, "most abused of God's creatures," is well known:
and that the sea-side predilections of a certain Bart., of festive
notoriety, were occasioned by his partiality for turtle.

QUÆSITOR.

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WHITEHALL.

MARRIAGE OF ANNE BOLEYN

_(For the Mirror)_


The extraordinary revolution which took place in our religious
institutions in the time of Henry VIII., has rendered his reign one of
the most important in the annals of ecclesiastical history. For the great
changes at that glorious æra, the reformation, when the clouds of
ignorance and superstition were dispelled, we are principally indebted to
the beauteous, but unfortunate Anne Boleyn, whose influence with the
haughty monarch, was the chief cause of the abolition of the papal
supremacy in England; one of the greatest blessings ever bestowed by a