"par Noble Fratrum."

The lowmfí circuiustance rúes to miow ;hut General Shennau is uo respectar oí persons, aud sho.ws very li.tle f'avoritisui in the admiuistration of tifairsi ju his military uoniniuud. While Senator Sborfflan wa here u a visit. about a week ago, he was preseuted by Frank lilair with a vury fine horse, o:iptured during the Soii'.h Caroliua campaign. He was luid that he musr get a pasa (rom his brother, the Cjeuera), beloru he oould ship the aunnal to tbe Norlb, but thought tliis would be a very snialí matter. So he wuut to (' üuiüp's' huati. quartci'H lo lull liim of his luck, aud gat the iiecpssary dounuieiit. " It's a spiendíd liorse, Cnmp," said the honorable Setiator, " and íf you'll jimt sign a purtuit I'll luko liini up iu tbe boat with me. Cump rcplid, adjusting his ehirt-col ]ar with both hands. " -l'm very glud ho'8 a good horse, We are very rnuoh iu need of go d horscs in tho army. I have Büine orderlieR arouod headquarters that are d - -d badly mouuted. The grave and reverend fenatw wa v taken aback by tbi, itnd agaiu reniind ed the General that 1 li e hor.se had beeu preseuted to him, and was not goveruuiont property. " Ouii't let you have l'iiu, John. All tho horsea bore bnlong to Ut:c!e Sam. Individual tilles aiu'c worth a cent," gaid Cimip, and so the Senator vva eheated out of b present.- Cor. Cincinnati Commercial, Beaths of Engüsh Kings and Queens Williatn tho Conqueror died from onormous fat, from drink, and fiom tbc violenec of bis passions. Wüliam Rtifus died the death of the poor stagM that ho hunted. Ilenry I. died of luttony. Ilenry II. died of a bruken beurt, easioned by the bad condnut of bis ohüdren. Ricluird Coeur de Lion died like the animal from which bis heart was natned, by an arrow from an lircher. John died, uobody knows how, but it is is said of chagrín, wliiob we suppose is anothcr term for a doso of hallebore. Henry III. la said to have died a natural de:ith. Edward I. is likewise said to have died of a "natural siuknesn," a sickness which it would pnzzlo all the college of physiuians to deno'ninate. Edward II. was roost barbnro'isly and indecently murclered by rnfBans employed by h;s own mother and her paramour. Edward III died of dotage, and Richard II. of starvation, the very reverso of Georgo IV. Henry IV. is aid to have died 'of fits caused by unoasines.s" aud uneasi ness in palaces in those times was a very eotiimon couiplaint. Henry V. is said to have died " of a paiuful affliction prematnrely 1" Tbis is a courtly phrase for getting rid of n king. IJeiin VI. died in prison, by nieans known then only to his juilor, and known now only to Heaven. Edward V. was strongled in tbe tower by his únele, Richard III. Hichard III. was killed in battle. Henry VII. wasted away is n miser ought to do, and Honry VIII. diod rf carbunele., fat and fury, while Kdward VI. died of a decline. Queen Mary ishaid to have died of " a broken heart," wheieas uhe died of. a snrfeit, from ciUing too much of black puddings. Old Queen Bess is said to havo died of melancholy, Irom baving saprificed Ëssex to his enemies - her privide character not beiug above suspicion. James I. died of drinking, aud of the effeots of a narneless vico. Charles I. died a righteoua duntii on the Bcaffold, and Charles II. died suddenly, it is said of ipoplexy. Williain III. died fiom crin5umptive habita of body, and froin the stumbling of bis borse. Queen Arne died from her attaehment to "strong water," or in other words from drunkennese, which tkc physu-ians polittily called droppy. Ger-rge I. died of drunkennessi, whieb his physieinus a politely called an apoplectic fit. George II. died of a rupture of the heart, which the periodieids of that day termed a viitation of God, It is the only iustauce io which God ever toucbüd bis heart. George III. died as he had lived - a madmao. Thrmighout life ho was at least a consistent monarch, George IV. died of gluttony and drunkenness. Williatu IV. died amidst the sympathiea of his subject?.