He has an affable, open countenance, in which the radiance of an amiable spirit, and the lustre of a sprightly intellect, happily commingle, and illuminate the sable covering.

On either hand of Mr.B._we_ sit, occupying the posts of honor.

On the right and left of Mrs.B., and at the opposite corners from us, sit two other guests, one a colored merchant, and the other a young son-in-law of Mr.B., whose face is the very double extract of blackness; for which his intelligence, the splendor of his dress, and the elegance of his manners, can make to be sure but slight atonement! The middle seats are filled on the one side by an unmarried daughter of Mr.B., and on the other side by a promising son of eleven, who is to start on the morrow for Edinburgh, where he is to remain until he has received the honors of Scotland's far famed university.
We shall doubtless be thought by some of our readers to glory in our shame.

Be it so.

We _did_ glory in joining the company which we have just described.