a dish in the house of a Jewish publican was a miracle in itself. Mr. Eustace says, he looked for this dish, but found that the French, "whose delight is brutal violence, as it is that of the lion or the tiger," had carried it way. And so indeed they The carrying off re

did. But that was nothing. lics-the robbing of Peter to pay Paul, and spoliating one church to enrich another was an old trick of legitimate conquerors in all ages; for this very "dish" had been carried away by the royal crusaders, when they took Cesarea in Palestine, under Guillaume Embriaco, in the twelfth century. In the division of spoils, this emerald fell to the share of the Genoese crusaders, into whose holy vocation something of their old trading propensities evidently entered; and they deemed the vulgar value, the profane price, of this treasure, so high, that on an emergency, they pledged it for nine thousand five hundred livres. Redeemed and replaced, it was guarded by the knights of honour, called Clavigeri; and only escaped once a year! Millions knelt before it, and the penalty on the bold but zealous hand that touched it with a diamond, was a thousand golden ducats.

The French seized this relic, as the crusaders had done in the twelfth century; but instead of conveying it from the church of San Lorenzo to the abbey of St. Denis, (selon les règles,) they most sacrilegiously sent it to a laboratory. Instead of submitting it, with its traditional story, to a council of Trent, they handed it over to the institute of Paris; and chemists, geologists, and philosophers, were called on to decide the fate of that relic which bishops,

priests, and deacons had pronounced to be too sacred for human investigation, or even for human touch. The result of the scientific inquisition was, that the EMERALD dish was a PIECE OF GREEN GLASS!

When England made the King of Sardinia a present of the dukedom of one of the oldest republics in Europe, and restitutions were making " de part et d'autre:"- Victor Emmanuel insisted upon having his emerald dish; not for the purpose of putting it in a cabinet of curiosities, as they had done at Paris, to serve as a curious monument of the remote epoch in which the art of making coloured glass was known-(of its great antiquity there is no doubt) but of restoring it to its shrine at San Lorenzo-to its guards of knights servitors-to the homage, offerings, and bigotry of the people! with a republished assurance, that this is the invaluable emerald dish, the "Sagro Catino" which Queen Sheba offered, with other gems, to King Solomon, (who deposited it, where all gems should be, in his church,) and which afterwards was reserved for a higher destiny than even that assigned to it in the gorgeous temple of Jerusalem. The story of the analysis by the institute of Paris is hushed up, and those who would revive it would be branded with the odium of blasphemy and sedition; none now remember such things, but those who are the determined enemies of social order, or as the Genoese Royal Journal would call them, "the radicals of the age."-Italy, by Lady Morgan.

THE EMPEROR'S CONCEALMENT OF HIS WOUNDS.

ONE day whilst Napoleon was dressing, he put his hand on his left thigh, where there was a deep scar. He called the attention of Count Las Cases to it, by laying his finger in it; and finding that he did not understand what it was, told him that it was the mark of a bayonet wound by which he had nearly lost his limb. Marchand, who was dressing him, here took the liberty of remarking, that the circumstance was well known on board the Northumberland, that one of the crew had told him on going on board, that it was an Englishman who first wounded our emperor.

The emperor, on this, observed that people had in general wondered and talked a great deal of the singular good fortune which had preserved him, as it were, invulnerable in so many battles. "They were mistaken," added be: "the only reason was, that I made a secret of all my dangers." He then related that he had had three horses killed under him at the siege of Toulon; that he had had several killed and wounded in his campaigns of Italy; and three or four at the siege of St. Jean d'Acre. added, that he had been wounded several times; that at the battle of Ratisbon, a ball had struck his heel; and at the battle of Esling or Wagram, I cannot say which, a ball had torn his boot and stocking, and grazed the skin of his left leg. In 1814, he lost a horse and his hat at Arcis sur-Aube, or its neighbourhood. After the battle of Brienne, as he was returning to head quarters in the evening,

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in a melancholy and pensive mood, he was suddenly attacked by some Cossacks, who had passed over the rear of the army. He thrust one of them away, and was obliged to draw his sword in his defence; several of the Cossacks were killed at his side. "But what renders this circumstance very extraordinary," said he, "is, that it took place near a tree which at that moment caught my eye, and which I recognised as the very tree under which, when I was but twelve years old, I used to sit during play hours, and read Jerusalem Delivered.'"

CONSPIRACY TO SEND NAPOLEON TO ST. HELENA.

CIPRIANI, the emperor's major domo, had been sent, in the early part of the year 1815, from Elba to Leghorn, to purchase one hundred thousand francs worth of furniture for Napoleon's palace. During his stay, he became very intimate with a person named ***, who had a *** at Vienna, from whom a private intimation was sent to him, that it was the determination of the congress of Vienna, to send the emperor to St. Helena, and even a paper was sent containing the substance of the agreement, a copy of which he gave to Cipriani, who departed instantly for Elba, to communicate the information he had received to the emperor. This, with the confirmation which he afterwards received from M*** A** and M*** at Vienna, contributed to determine Napoleon to attempt the recovery of his throne.

FERDINAND'S RETURN TO NAPLES.

THIS king, on the restoration, sent the prince, his son, to look about him, and bring him the news from Naples; for having, like Falstaff, "run away upon instinct," he had an instinctive apprehension of returning, without first making inquiries as to theking traps and grass-snakes set there." The prince returned in raptures with the improved and beautiful palaces and city, exclaiming in the presence of many courtiers, "Oh papa, mio! if you had only stayed away another ten years!"

THE MOTIVES WHICH DETERMINED NAPOLEON TO QUIT THE ISLAND OF ELBA.

HITHERTO people have been unable to agree on the motives and circumstances which induced the 'Emperor Napoleon to quit the Island of Elba. Some supposed that he acted of his own accord : others that he had conspired with his partisans the downfall of the Bourbons. Both these suppositions are equally false. The world will learn with surprise, perhaps with admiration, that this astonishing revolution was the work of two individuals and a few words.

Whilst the revolutionary storm was gathering in France, in the early part of 1814, Napoleon's days and nights glided along in philosophical retirement in the remote island of Elba. Ambition had taken flight, and he was seen to prefer a life of unostentatious retirement to all his former grandeurs. Repose had greater charms for him than the noble tur