An occasional residence in Abbot's Park is one of the necessary measures for the completion of a Real Life in London education.

It is a fashionable retreat absolutely necessary, and therefore I have voluntarily determined upon it.

What rare advice a young man may pick up in the precincts of the Fleet and 1 It has often been said figuratively, that marriage is a lottery; but we do not recollect to have met with a practical illustration of the truth of the simile before the following, which is a free translation of an Advertisement in the Louisiana Gazette:-- "A young man of good figure and disposition, unable though "desirous to procure a Wife without the preliminary trouble of "amassing a fortune, proposes the following expedient to obtain the "object of his wishes:--He offers himself as the prize of a Lottery "to all Widows and Virgins under 32: the number of tickets to be "600 at 50 dollars each; but one number to be drawn from the "wheel, the fortunate proprietor of which is to be entitled to "himself and the 30,000 dollars."-- New York, America.
~376~~ the King's Bench! He may soon learn the art of sharp-shooting and skirmishing." "And pray," says Tallyho, "what do you term skirmishing ?" "I will tell you," was the reply.

"When you have got as deeply in debt every where as you can, you may still remain on the town as a Sunday-man for a brace of years, and with good management perhaps longer.

Next you may toddle off to Scotland for another twelvemonth, and live in the sanctuary of Holyrood House, after seeing the North, where writs will not arrive in time to touch you.