MISERLY GENIUSES.
WEALTH makes misers, as poverty makes prodigals. Yet misers are the most prod:g.al of spendthrifts. They fling ferny their re- putation to ',ace a penny. Decency and feeling and'respect are nothing in their eyes, when compared with a sixpenny-piece. The possession of thousands.is nothing to the luxury of saving a shil- ling. They will spend pounds iti trying to avoid overpayinieo farthing. Pacsaeristi has defended an action at law for the reco- very of thirty guineas, claimed by the person who acted as his secretary, interpreter, confidential agent, and month. The costs alone will stand him in perhaps ten times what he could have hoped to save, even if a jury hail valued the services of his agent at the same rate that he did. But the demand was reasonable, ani they awarded it in full. We can match the Italian Maestro, however, with a miserly genius in this country. TURNER, whe performs wonders with his brush and pallette as great as PAGAN! NI with his bow and fiddle, rivals him in the _rasping propensity. The painter's professional pursuits render him proficient in keeping, as the great fiddlers practice perfects him in stopping. TURNER, in sending home picture for which lie gets a thousand guineas, insists ofi being paid for the packing-case. PAGANI NI, who has been earning; as Mr. PHILLIPS stated, about 2001. per hour by his performances here, grudges his man of business a guinea a day for his sets- vieps. Yet he acknowledged the value of them, and could shed tears—no he only showed them in his eyes, he would not bestow even them gratis—when he parted from his friend and factotum ; saying that " a mole honest, worthy, and deserving young man, did not exist."
Sentiment is not an expensive commodity, kept, as it is by PAGANINI, clear of all baser matters. It costs him nothing to in- dulge his sensibilities. He refuses to pay his agent, with his eyes suffused with tears : he bowingly declines an encore, with his face dressed in smiles.
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