Star.
London, England, 1830-08-25 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

ANAGRAM.
Tout—•° A SOT."
A toast is like a sot; or, what is most
Comparative, a sot is like a tout :
For when their substances in liquor sink,
Both properly are said to be in drink.

EPITAPH.
Beneath this gravel, and those stones,
Lie poor Jack Tissey's skin and bones ;
His flesh, I've often heard him say,
He hoped, in time, would make good hay.
Quoth I, how can that come to pass?
And he replied, "All flesh is grass."

COPERNICUS.—A statue of this great
about to be placed in the square which fronts the Palace
Society of the Friends of the Sciences, at Warsaw.
Lord Erskine, when once pleading at the bar, in a style
a boldness and freedom which offended the Judge, concluded his aitzu.
went on the case with this noble sentiment :—" It was the first M-
ound and counsel of my youth, always to do what my conscience tot!
me to be my duty ; and to leave the consequences to GOD.
ADVERTISTMENTo--A young woman, 25 years of age,
who is possessed of an annuity of 3W. a-year, Is willing to alter her
condition, provided she can find a worthy honest man, who must be ork
of those despised people called Methodists. The young woman cannot
boast of the beauty of her person ; she had rather be esteemed for de
beauty of her mind. He must be a man that loves to do his duty, en.
deavours to be a good Christian, and must not be ashamed of stuffings
and reviling. fur righteousness sake. Thirty pounds a-year may b.: a
comfortable assistance to a man in trade, and may enable an honest
couple, joined in the LORD, to pass, with some degree of happiness,
through this transitory life—this vale of teats.—Letters directed to S.L.
to be left at the Chaper Coffee-house, shall, if approved, be answered
—Relies of Literature.
KING JOHN gave several lands, at Kepperton and Atti:-
ton, in Kent, to Solomon Attefield, to be held by this singular service
—that as often as the King should be pleased to cross the sea, the said
Solomon, or his heirs, should be obliged to go with him, to hold hi,
Majesty's head, if there should be occasion for it, " that is, if he
should be seasick ;" and it appears, by the record in the Tower, that
this same office of head.holdiny was actually performed in the teign of
Edward the First.

On the 15th January, 1800, the Union Question was
again brought forward. In the interim Lord Cornwallis and Lord Cas.
tlereagh had secured forty-three refractory anti-unionists. 1,500,000 L
was raised to compensate proprietors for the loss of their boroughs ;
Lords Ely, Shannon, Clanmorris, Belvidere, and Sir Hercules Langrishe,
received 143,0001. the two first noblemen being paid 00,0001. for their
six members.—Sir Jonah Barrington.
In the Dictum de Kenilworth, made in the fifty-first ycat
of the reign of Henry 111. there is the following curious clause:—
" Knights and Squires, who are robbers, and among the principal rob-
bers in wars and piunderings, if they have no lands, but have goods,
shall pay half their goods for their redemption, and find sufficient surety
henceforward to keep the peace of the King and kingdom."
HOUSEHOLD OF HENRY Vlll.—His Highness's baker
shall not put alums in the bread, or mix rye, oaten, or bean flour
with the same ; and if detected, he shall be pet in the stocks. His
Highness's attendants we pot to steal any locks, or keys, tables,
forms, cupboards, or other furniture, out of noblemen's or gentlemen's
houses, where they go to visit. Master cooks shall not Employ such
scallions as go about naked, or lie all night on the ground below the
kitchen fire! No dogs to be kept in the court, but only a few spaniels
for the tidies. Dinners to be at ten; suppers at four. The officer* of his
privy chamber shall be loving together; no grudging, nor grumbling,
nor talking of the King's pastiest. The King's barber is enjoined to
be cleanly; not to frequent the company of misguided women, for fear
of danger to the King's royal person. There shall be no romping with
maids on the staircase, by which dishes and other things are often
broken ! Care shall be taken of the pewter spoons, and that the wooden
ones used in the kitchen be not broken or stolen. The pages shall
not interrupt the kitchen maids! The grooms shall not steal his High.
i ness's straw for beds, sufficient being allowed for them. Coal only to
be allowed to the King's, Queen's, and Lady Mary's, chambers. The
hewers are not to put any brimstone in the ale.
CAIRO.—The Paella of Egypt has resolved to estab-
lish at Cairo a museum of antiquities. With this view he has for.
bidden Europeans to export, and even to search for, antiquities.
A FRUITFUL MOTHER.—In a village in the neighbour-
hood of Venice, a woman was lately delivered of six living boys. Four
of them died at the end of a fortnight, but the two others survive at,
and are likely to do well.
The American States have as many climates as names,
and, like the gardener and the potter in the fable, whilst one prays for
rain, the other looks anxiously for the sun. A New York paper, tired
of rain, kindly offers to swap with the Nashville paper, a thunder
cloud against a gleam of sunshine. He says, " The Nashville, Tc.
nesse, toper says—' We are suffering much from excessive drought.
Indeed I—we should be right glad to swap with them a thunder cloud
or two Of water for a degree of sunshine—and give them a night's rain
into the bargain."
ELECTRIC HARANGU.4=IIapo' leon, passing in review
the second regiment of Horse.Cliesieurs, at Lobenstein, two days before
the battle of Jena, asked the Colonel how many men there were? " Five
hundred," said the Colonel ; " but some of them very young."
" What matters that," said Napoleon, with an air of surprise at such
an observation, " are they not all Frenchmen ?" And then, turnirg to
the regiment, thus addressed them r "Young men, you must not fear
death ;" and When that is the case, you will make it enter the enemy's
ranks." A sudden shout of enthusiasm followed these words, harbinger
of that memorable victory, which forty-eight hours afterwards overthrew
the Column of Rosbacb. . .

SMALL DEBT COI; RT.— A recent publication gives an
amusing account of the Small Debt Courts in America. In the coun-
try towns of America there are, generalfy, two or three justices of :he
peace, and an attorney or two. '1 hese justices or judge* (in fact, they
are both judge and jury,) as may well be imagined, are men that have
not much law at their fingers' ends. In almost all cases they subsist
chiefly by following some mechanical trade, and not unfrequently the
dignity of village "Squire" is conjoined with the more humble. i•ut
probably as useful, occupations of carpenter or shoemaker. They most
commonly give a verdict In favour of the plaintiff. I recollect a circur.:.
stance which afforded me no little amusement. It was the case of a
young man of the village who got half seas over,' one day, and either
through mischief or accident, had shot an honest woman's pig ; she fad
him instantly arrested and brought before the justice. As rear as I
can remember, the following colloquy took place. The judge w.ts a
quaker and a mechanic :
Justice.—Well, Jane, what has thee to say against neighbour Bill ?
Plaintiff.—Say ! why I've too much to say about the waggabone
would you believe it, the good-for-nothing fellor has killed my
without no manner of provocation.
Justice—And did thee not want thy pig slain, friend Jane?
Plaintiff—No, I guess my pig would have fed a hundred weig':: come
Christmas. I calculate I had :good feed for the poor thing; bet that
there Bill, the low fellot, shot him. I guess he would be r,ore
worse of a good spanking with a clever stick.
Justica—Pesce, Jane, peace, we shall find for thee, we shall find law
for thee, woman, 1 say, but be not violent against Bill. Why did thee
kill that pig of Jane's, Bill ?
Squire, I expect that I was shooting at a mark on the
fence, when dar'nt pig poked his nose too near the mouth of my rifle.
and I being typsy a bit, I guess he was shot.
Justioe—Why then, Bill, you must pay Jane the price of the pig,
and two dollars damages, besides the expense of court.
Billy—No, Sammy, no, 'nation sink me if I do pay a cent. e' da-
mages. I guess I must pay for the porker, but bang me, Sammy, if
ever I take a shoe from you in my life if you talk of damages. I ealcu.
late I'll get them cheaper at all events from John Arkwright.
Justice.m.Now, friend Jane, since Bill has confessed his mistake. yeu
must let him pasa.this time free of damages. I guess Bill will treat..
Bill—Why.ammy, I vow that's clever. I'll treat, I swear I will:
come over to Bill Ivison's tavern, and I calculate we'll have goi toddy
there and fix our matters.

BIRTH.
On the 18th Inst. at Exmouth, the lady of Capt. Hobert Insanity,
of a son.

MARRIED.
At Kensington, on the 21st inst. Lieut. Charles Forbes. 17th Lan-
cers, second son of Sir Charles Forbes, Ban. M. P. to Carolir.e. v:-
cond daughter of George Bettye, Esq. of Conden.hill.—At
Irlirg-
ton church, Captain Grover, late of the 19th Foot, to Louisa, p3urt:-
est daughter of J. Bourdelain, Esq. of Highbury-grove.--At the Br•-
dab Consulate, Bordeaux, Nathaniel Johnston, jun. Esq. of t"3:
place, to Charlotte Sophia, youngest daughter of H. Scott, Esq.
Britannic Majesty's Consul at Bordeaux.

PI e.D.
At Cheltenham, Mrs. S. J. Ricketts, relict of 0. P. Ricketts, Esq.
Bengal Civil Service, and youngest daughter of the late Capt. Place.
of the Halswell East Indiaman, the disastrous shipwreck of which. on
the coast of Sussex, may be in the recollection of some of our readers.
—At Forfar, on the 11th curt. 31r. David Milne, botanist. in the
63d year of his age.—At the Manse of Kiltoalie. on Thursday, the
12th curt. the Rev. Duncan M'lntyre, :minister of that parish, in the
14th year of his age, and forty.sisth of his ministry.— At Learning.
ton, IVarwickshire, on the 22d inst. Frances Lady Dueie.--M her
house, in Clucks-street, Berkeleyssquare. in the 70th year of her age,
Harriou Mary, Countess of Malniesbury, widow of the late, and mo-
ther of the present, Berl of Malmesbury.

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