Star.
London, England, 1830-10-05 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

AMERICAN PRECOCITY.—A Yankee friend assures us
that he has a little ghl at home, who, when only Ohm weeks old,
:ZVthe family while at dinner by saying, in an audible voice,
I guess them 'tater, are tunnel= nice I"
Tan Goose.—Yet, well fare the gentle goose, which
beingeth toe man, even to his doore, so many exceeding commodities I
For the goose is man's comfort in warre or pace, sleepinge or wakinge.
What payee Never is given to shootynge, the goose may challenge the
best put of it. Bow well clothe she make a man fare at his table I
Bow milk dodt she make a roan lie in his bolds ! How flue, even as
her feathers be only for shootynge so be her quit for writinge I—Roper
daimon.
DIGNITY Olt THE MAGISTERIAL BENCII.—A corru-
Cdgates “ that respectable man, tamed James Sheehy, applied
weelt week to the Magistrates at Ballymms Petit Sessions, for a ear.
tilleate to sell spirituous liquors, and was refused. The applicant
was a inaessine last election, and be intends to give a further proof
of wisdom by applying to the Banister next Quarter Sessions.
Sheehy, addressing one of the Magistrates (an old derygymsa,)
said, " Sir, you will give me a character ?" to which he received
the following laconic answer t—" B—d I—k to me if Ido !"
(Boars of laughter.)—Tipperary Bros Pows.
A FLATTERING Annaass.—N— related an anec-
dote of Mr. Moore (brother of the General,) who was on board an
English frigate in the Awoken war, sod coming in sight of another
vessel whirls did not answer their signs* they expected an sleds%
when the Captain called his men together sod addressed them in the
following manner s—‘4 Yes dirty, ilLloOkieg blackguards l do you
suczni con agree to deliver such a set of seareerows as you as
pr
to that smart, frippery P 1 can't think of such a
thing. Not by 0.41, you must fight till seta mend you k left, for
I should be ashamed at owning such a ragenodin crew " This was
received with load shouts and assurances of dewy. but the eased
tamed out to be an English one.—Hoslitt's ConeeresSene of
Noralook.

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LIBNITY 01 Tits Pause.—There is a nuisance not
uncommon in our streets which it would not be ODIN if those who may
happen to whom it, could in any manner counteracts we allude to the
Itinerant venders of horrible statements of atrocities that never dap-
ped except in the brain of a certain " (heedful accident maker," who
is add to make nice pickings from supplying these itinerants with
" full, tree, and particular" amounts d&mdful and and murders,
like that which was committed lea week upon " two Bohemian Broom
Girls," near Stockport 1 Scores of tender-hearted gossips have been
defrauded of their sympathies while reeding this tragical stoey, and
led to lay heavy charges against us, the rightful chroniclers of all legit'.
mate autualides affecting the lives or Ihnhe of his Majesty's subjects,
for not giving any account of so atrocious an Whir I
Tan YOUNG WINE.—The late extraordinary marriage of
a Mr. Foote, a lawyer, of Decatur, Dekalb county, to a little girl of
the same county, Iles been made the subject of legal discussion at
Athens, where the parties were brought before Judge Myatt, on the td
inst. by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus. The girl, at the time of the
marriage, was aged ten years one month, and seventeen days, weighed
only fifty-two pounds, and fully as childish in ha manners as is costa-
-1 mary at her age. It appeared in the evidence, as reported to us, that
the family, which is respectable but humble, consists of the girl, her
mother, and a brother, he probably of age, or nearly so. The father
had left a small property, part of which, probably two or three newer,
is the portion of the gir The mother is rather • weak-minded woman,
and Foote had obtained such influence ember mini as to induce her to
believe that her son was disposed to wages end destroy the property, to
tom him out of doors, and to marry her dateglase to him (Foote), as the
only means of protecting the property. The marriage was determined
aim with the knowledge of the daughter, en one night, and took place
the next. The clergyman and magistrate if Ike neighbourhood both
retired to perm= the ceremony, and the mogineme who officiated was
taught hem a distance. The Homo limed the age of the girl to be
wee twelve years. When the gid was kallemmed, on the arrival of the
magistrate, that she was to be married, die peeitively refused, and for a
keg dam sited by clinging to the buLpeet ; sod when the ceremony
was pedhemed ebe at in a chair, alai( lo stand up. She went hems
with Tom velomendy, and slept with his two lem, after which dm
was taken sway boon him by the bang asked by the
Judge if she said 44 yes" to the usulrin.mden, the she did, but
did so from kat of her mother ; and whm seal by him If Me wished
to Ito with Foote, she replied with ask warmth that she Al net, and
never wookL—that she hated him, sad did set wish to boar bls nos
madared to bee. Foote is said mhs In snow cleemmtmem, and
mid tor his board. The Judge deckled that the Rid dwell be amp
ran Fame, under charge of a paean, till she deed her tall& yams,
when she is to :become his wife, or not, as she hood, may deursabm—
Prom the GAW9IIIII (daserieem) Paper.

THE LATE LADY TIEVILOW.ThiII lady, who died at
Southampton a short date ago, wen the widow of the snood Baron
Thurlow, and well known to the admirers of the drama as Mies M.
Belton, of Covent.garden theatre, where, at he ap of 17. she made her
first appearance in the character of Polly in the Aware' Opera, Oct.
8,1806. Previous to her public offset on this occasion, she had never
seen but five plays perfonned.—three during bar infancy, sad two at a
recent period. Her stabs as an actress sad a singes are still fresh
in the recollection of many of our readers. Ms was a pupil of Lam ;
and such was the success which attended her, in Polly, deal it led to
the revival of Lowe in a Village and other operas during the season,
in all of which she was equally successful Her beauty, figure, and
lad .like demeanour, rendered ha a ,t acquisiden to the theatre,
whilst her embed in private life gained her the esteem of all who
knew her. She continued at Caveat garden dll 1813, when she with.
drew from the stage ; and on the 13th of November in that year she
become the. wife of the late Lord Thurlow, with whom she lived in a
state of meat domestic happiness until his Lordship's death, which
event took piece on the dth of June, 1829. Her ladyship leaves three
sou to lament this early deprivation of both their parents. Previous
to her carnage with Lord Thurlow she waned from his Lordship an
annuity for her parents during their lives, which, we believe, they still
live to enjoy.

DEATH OP THE DUKE OP ATHOLL.—Thio *VOW took
place at Hanka, about ten o'clock on Wednesday morning. A letter
dared on that day says I—" A more useful and respected public man
did not exist in this county, and as a private man he will be remem-
bered es one of worth, constantly exercising his pest influence and
power in mood some useful object. His death, neither very sudden
nor vseyunexpected, was like the stopping of some great power engine.
which kept a thousand people in empfmt. In point of fact, at ten
o'clock this seeming, 500 people were at work, constructing a beautiful
palace for his habitation. At twelve o'clock I went with a beery heart
to the pima—not a hemmer was heard, and scarcely on individual to be
seen. I soon met John Angus, (his principal alum for nearly thirty
years) sitting by himself on an uncut Outten& He could not my
ward—neither could I. The change was so great and striking—it spoke
more than a thousand sermons. I did not see his Orace yesterday, but
I received a distinct message from him. He had been declining for a
fortnight, but be was not worse at ten o'clock lest night than h4hati
been to several days. He slept pretty soundly during the night. but
was not so well in the morning, and danger was apprehended. About
nine o'clock he took hell a glass of wine. and intimated to the weeping
Mends around him that he thought he was dying. He leaned his head
on his pillow, and was instantly asleep. He showed no symptoms of
pain, and continued apparently in a sound sleep for half an hour. He
sever awoke, and it was some time before his worthy and devoted
Duchess could believe he was dead. All greatness in this world is cool-
pestles—but in the sense I have already esd bed, he will ever be con-
sidered in the county of Perth as a great man. His Orate (says the
Perth Courier) was in his 75th year, daring the latter thiny.six of
which he his distheiged the various sad important duties attendant on
his ace as Lord Lieutesiont of this extensive county, with a seal and
integrity which will make the bereavement es severely felt by the
county, as his loss, as a patriotic nobleman, will be lamented by the na.
dm at kap. To the Highlands of Perthshire, with which he wag
mess iimmdiatel connected—the chief place of his residence,
and as peat field of his public spirit and enterprise as a landed
loss will be as incalculable as his services.
Willills"bismay, Duke of Atholl, Marquis of Tullibardine, (Earl Strange
Ind) ke- Knight of the Thistle, a Privy Councillor, Lord
Lillainliat of Perthshire, and Governor of the Isle of Man, was born on
the 1116 June 1755, and succeeded his father in 1774. lie was the
eldest son of John Duke of Atholl, who monied his cousin Lady Chal-
k**. Murray, only daughter of James Doke of Atholl, his uncle. The
Ye Duke married first, Jean, sista to the present Earl Wham who
died in 1700. By her he had John, now Duke of Atholl, born 1775;
—Antes Lord Glenlyon, born 176, married to Lady Emily Penal.
sister of the present Doke of Northumberland, and hes several children:
and three daughters, Lake Charlotte married Rear-Admiral Adam
rummond, of Meginch. Amelia Sophia Viscountess Strathallan, and
Elisabeth Murray, all of whom have families. His Oren
married, s y, Marjory. eldest daughter of the late Lord Forbes.
and widow of Lord Macleod, by whom he had several children. hot
NM of them are now alive. The last was Lord Charles Murray. eh°
died some years since.

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BIRTH.
The id. inst. the wife of T. G. Kiosk. Esq. of a see.
MARRIED.
The Id asst. at LestAlogtoa, Sir C. E. Carrington, of Cbalfoot St.
ht the coonty of Becks, M.P. to Mary Aso, ooly daughter of
J. Cape*, Esq. of Rassell.siaate, M.P.
DIED.
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