them probably owe their origin to names distinguished in our
literature; as Oliver Goldsmith, for instance, is believed
in his earlier days to have written such compositions. Dr.
E.F. Rimbault gives us the following particulars as to some
well-known favorites: "Sing a Song of Sixpence," is as old
as the sixteenth century. "Three Blind Mice" is found in a
music-book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed
in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice" dates from
1633. "London Bridge is Broken Down" is of unfathomed
antiquity. "Girls and Boys come out to play" is certainly
old as the reign of Charles II.; as is also "Lucy Locket
lost her Pocket," to the tune of which the American song of
"Yankee Doodle" was written. "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where
have you been?" is of the age of Queen Bess. "Little Jack
Horner" is older than the seventeenth century. "The Old
Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of James II., to
which monarch it is supposed to allude.

_Salem Gazette._

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Some British opinions of Benedict Arnold.

"The good whigs of America," says a late paper, "may be
assured, that the infamous BENEDICT ARNOLD'S mansion is the
very next to TYBURN,--a well chosen habitation for such an
abandoned traitor: A step or two conveys him to that fatal
spot, where the most guilty of all the miserable beings who
have ever suffered, was perfectly innocent compared with