Transcribed by Susan Bergeron. Geo. The Whitehaven Herald, Tuesday, April 23, 1833 Miscellaneous Anecdote of Jekyll. Sir Thomas M____, before he inherited his large fortune, and became an M.P., and a baronet, was many years a waiter. One day it was the lot of this individual to bring up a turnpike bill; when JEKYLL thus utterly discomfited the gravity of the speaker, by whispering in his ear, "This is the first time I ever saw that fellow bring up a bill without a bottle." ..... Hatred to Tyranny. At the Union meeting on Monday last, one of the speakers declaimed to the following effect: "Gentlemen, I say "perdition to tyrants and despots all the world over;" I hate and detest any thing arbitrary. Ho, knock off that fellow's hat there (hat knocked off accordingly with a big shillelagh.) Liberty is like the air we breathe if we has it not we dies" Irish Paper. ..... Conundrums. If a woman expressed a dislike to decayed cheese, the name of what woman mentioned in sacred history would you apply to her? A shun-a-mite. Why will Sir Andrew SLADE'S daughter never be found until she is married? Because she will be always Mislaid (Miss SLADE.) If you were to go into the garden without your hat, what insect would you catch to cover your head? A Gnat (an hat-Cockney Dictionary.) The people are petitioning for the repeal of the whole window-tax. What is to become of the broken ones? What does Captain POLHILL treat the Drury-lane Company with every day at rehearsal, that reminds them of Good Friday? A Cross Bun (Alfred Bunn.) Why is Mrs. BUNN like a sailor, who dies at sea? Because she is consigned to a Sea-grave. If you hear a boy crying on board a ship in the pool below London Bridge, what beverage does it put you in mind of? Port Wine (wine.) If Dan O'CONNELL were ill, what city would he represent? Dan-sick (Dantzic.) "Why, " said Sir Claudius HUNTER to Sir Charles FLOWER, "is a man who can't make a conundrum, like an oss (horse) sixteen hands high? Do you give it up? Because he is a tall oss (at a loss.) Why is a lawyer like a benevolent man? Because he loves good actions. Why is an auctioneer like a ship? Because sales (sails) keep him going. Where a select vestry are assembled, why are the parishioners like persons allowed to spit? Because they may expectorate (expect a rate.) ..... M.P.'s at a Discount. During the past week the Metropolitan Magistrates have been entertained with complaints against two of our august legislators; the one, on a charge of non-payment of an overdue bill (given for electioneering purposes,) and an alleged assault of the fair Xantippe who waited upon his Statesmanship for payment; which case was dismissed. The other, a charge of a much graver nature, being for the unlegislative act of pawning another man's property; the delinquent, in the latter case (and whose name for the honour of a Reformed Parliament has not yet been suffered to transpire) is at present non est inventus by reason of the Easter recess. Of a variety, such disgraceful doings are but a sorry return to the high-minded constituencies that made M.P.'s of such defendants. Nicholson's Gazette. ..... Extraordinary Coincidence. The wife of Mr. Wm. MUMMERY, poulterer, Margate, has brought him not less than six children within a period of seven months! On the 23rd Aug. last, Mrs. MUMMERY was confined with twins; and on the 21st March instant, she presented her husband with four more children; recently the great lioness in Wombwell's menagerie, now exhibiting in Worcester, presented her royal spouse with a litter of five cubs. We are happy to add that in both instances the ladies and their little ones are as well as can be expected. ..... American Mode of Suppressing Drunkenness. An American paper states, that drunkenness in one of the newly-settled countries has been in a great degree prevented by a wholesome regulation in obliging every offender to dig up a stump of a tree for each time he is found intoxicated. This is rather a novel way of rooting out intemperance. ..... A Dog Blow Up. Munchausen Outdone. The Exeter News Letter (American paper) gives a curious account of a canine explosion that took place in a 'neighbouring state,' a place where a great many things happen. A ma having long been troubled by the repeated intrusions of the dog of a neighbouring storekeeper, at length resolved to rid himself of the nuisance by his own ingenuity, as his remonstrances with the owner were likely to prove unavailing. He accordingly procured a cylinder of tin, half an inch in diameter , and about three in length this he nearly filled with powder, and placed on the top a small piece of touchwood, enveloped the tube in a piece of fat pork, and threw it into the street. Poor JOWLER seized and swallowed the dainty morsel; and thus primed and loaded, returned to his master's store, which was well filled with ladies and gentlemen purchasing goods, where he soon exploded!!! With a tremendous report (says the editor) which shook the whole building, and alarmed all the citizens in the neighbourhood, poor JOWLER was blown into ten thousand atoms, which were equally distributed in every part of the shop! The ladies were covered with the bleeding fragments of the dog; and one of them had her cheek terribly scratched by the claws which were attached to one of his hind legs, as it whizzed like double-headed shot past her ear. A portion of the spine struck Mr. SMITH, the owner, in the forehead, and laid him sprawling. His clerk rushed to the door, his clothes and features bespattered with blood, and screamed "fire!" and "murder!" right manfully. the ladies joined in the chorus, the bells were set a ringing, and the people rapidly assembled, and gazed with horror and consternation on this unparalleled scene of blood and carnage. Philadelphia Commercial Herald. .....