Star.
London, England, 1830-06-14 00:00:00

MISCELLANEA.

It is said that the title of the next heir to the Crown
of England is to be " Henry the Ninth." As the name of the
Dake of Clarence is William Henry, we should hue thought that
" William the Fourth" would have been preferred.—Lceds him
ettry.—This report of his Royal Highness's intention to change his
name has also appeared in some of the London papers. The thin'
seems too 'baud to be credited.

DRICADFUL ERUPTION OF MOUNT JETWA.—Let.
ten from Palermo speak of a violent eruption of Mount /Etna.—
There are seven openings on the declivity of this mountain, mu
several villages have been destroyed. A shower of ashes, carried by
the hurricane which at that time prevailed all over the Mediterra.
neap, and in which some of our vessels perished, has extended as
far as Rome. Great injury hu been sustained in Calabria, am!
numbers of olive trees have suffered severely.
Jane Shore's stature was meane ; her hayre of a dark.
byellow ; her face round and full, her eye grey ; delycatc harmonye
ring betwixt each part's proportyon and each proportyon's colour;
her body* fat, whyte and smoothe ; her countenance cheerful, and
like to her condytyon.—Afirror.

SUNDAY SolonLs.—ln great Britain and Ireland
there are in connection with the Sunday School Union, 9,895 schools,
97,747 teachers, and 1,019,576 scholars, being an increase last yeas
of 667 schools, and 40,600 scholars.

Apprehensions are entertained, or professed to be en-
tertained, as to whether there is wheat enough in the country to
meet the consumption of the next three months, for, let the bravest
be ever so early—and of a very early one there is not much prospect
at present—the time, at least, must elapse before the new wheats
can be brought into use. But it appears that the speculators are on
the alert, and are already making preparations for purchasing wheat
on the Continent, and therefore we ought to listen with a good deal
of caution to reports which are now current on the subject. As
yet, the rise in the prices is not sufficient, perhaps, to excite alarn .
The aggregate average of the last six weeks, which regulates the
duty, is fras. 9d. and the weekly average 655. I Id. Should, how.
ever, the price rise above Gfirt—a quotation to which it now closely
approximates—the duty may expect to diminish rapidly. A con.
temporary observes that " the unpropitious state of the weather,
which seems to
,threaten a repetition of the last summer, and the
presumed deficiency in the last crop, are the points on which the
speculators chiefly place their reliance ; and they arc even said to
be so confident of the truth of their predictions, that they offer large
wagers of an admission of foreign wheat, at Is. duty, previous to
the end of August next.'

POLITICAL PA RTIES—( Front the Briy&ton Gazette.)
—We are now enabled to state that the amalgamation which was
expected to take place between the Whigs and Tories has been
found impracticable, although it is more than likely that on many
subjects there will be a cordial co-operation; sometimes in opposi.
tion to the Government, checking them in wrong and mischievous
measures ; and, on other occasions, in the promotion of objects
which both parties may deem advantageous to the country. On the
Greek question, for instance, the Tories will, as a body, support the
Whigs; and in other respects the results of this arrangement will
be immediately manifest. Under all circumstances we arc not sure
that this result is not the best for the country, as well as the moat
honourable for parties. The Tories will be henceforth found acting
in concert, instead of being scattered, as they have lately been, use.
lessly wasting their in desultory movements. They will
now form a strong boleillohbservation, acting in such force as to re.
store the importance which they had almost frittered away ; and will
be in a condition, at all events, to check the attempts of any uncoil.
stitutional Government.

MUSCULAR STRENGTH OF INSECTS.--It has been
remarked, with reference to comparative size and strength, that a
cock-chafer is six times stronger than a horse ; and Linnaeus observes
If an elephant were as strong in proportion as a stag-beetle, it would
be able to tear up rocks and level mountains. We may understand
the proximate cause of the strength of insects, when we look at the
prodigious number of their muscles, the fleshy belts or ribands by
whose means all animal motions are performed. The number of
these instruments of motion in the human body is reckoned about
029, but in the caterpillar of the goat-moth, layonnet counted more
than seven times as many : in the head, 228 ; in the body. 1,647 ;
and around the intestines, 2,186; which, after deducting 20 com.
mon to the neck and gullet, gives a total of 4,061.

CLERICAL BENEVOLENCE.—A correspondent at
Stokesley says—." A cause which has been pending for ante time
betwixt the vicar of a village near Stokesley and his parishioners,
was recently decided—the former gaining part of what he contended
for, and the latter gaining in some points. No arrangements were,
however, agreed to by some of the parties; and the agent of the
vicar therefore attends the farm during milking hours, and receives
a tenth of the milk, which, as soon as he receives, be invariably
throws on the ground ; thus wasting and destroying, before the In.
dustrious farmer, in many cases one entire meal if a cow, and
sometimes more, to the benefit of no individual whatever." Surely
this conduct must be misrepresented, or the clerical extractor will be
able to give some explanation of his extraordinary conduct.—York
Herald.