Star.
London, England, 1830-08-23 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

TAKING A WIFIC.
" Come, come," (said Tom's father) " at your time of life
There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake,
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife."
" Why so it is, father, whose wife shall I take ?"

EPIGRAM.
When the hairs on "the Duke's" head presumed to inquire
" What he thought ?" he replied with a frown,
"You damn'd HEIRS raosuWPTIVE! don't kindle my Ire.
Or I'LL SHAVE YOU ALL 01,1* FROM THE CROWN !"

THE WHIG s.—At a late election not one of the barbers
in the place would vote for the Whig party.
Youwo THISTLEWOOD.—It is a singular fact that a son
of the well-known Arthur Thistlewood, who was executed in this country
some years ago for high treason, was actively engaged in the late revo.
lotion in France. He led on the people against the Swiss Body °Ulla
of the ex-Hing.
No BAD RULE.—" I never come late to a friend's
dinner," says Boileau, for I have observed, that when a company
is waiting foe a man, they make use of that time to load him with
abuse."

MARRIAGE LAW.—By a late law of New York, males
of 17, and females of 14 years of age, are capable of legally contracting
marriages.
LEISURE FOR ALL.—The steam-engine, "properly ap
plied, will, at some future time, plough and sow 1,030 acres in a week
and reap the crop in a day." ,
"A NoD's AS GOOD AS A WINK," &c.—The Times,
alluding to the appointment of Sebastiani to the Ministry of Marine,
says, that "Foreign Courts have no more right to quarrel with the ap.
pointment than the French would have to remonstrate with our Cabilet
because Lord Ellenborough is at the head of the Board of Control"
REASON FOR NOT SHOOTING.--Old Liston, the father
of our comic actor, once quarrelled with a man who wanted to tight
with pistols; but Liston replied, " No; I once shot London bridge,
and you shall never catch me shooting any more."
THE UGLY SEASON.—At Cheltenham so remarkable is
the company this year for plainness of features, that there are only two
or throe females in the place who possess any pretensions to beauty.
Indeed it is so much the subject of conversation, that the present is
called " the ugly season." Notwithstanding the " Age of Ugliness"
is at its height," black legs, sharpers, and bullies," congregate there
as usual.

REWARD OF ROO E ItY.—Some knaves are rewarded
for apostaey, others foe roguery. The following is of the latter descrip.
Lion s—The fellow who deals the cards for French hazard in one of the
hells in the neighbourhood of St. Jamees.street, has a salary of six gui.
near a week, besides what he can pick up from the dupes and dupers
who attend his performances !
NATIONAL-SCHOOL a LA RNING."—The following is a
literal copy of a bill ported in a neighbouring village :—" Lodgings to
Let Gest Down the Line thews A puler and A kitchen and 3 Bed
rooms all redy furneht, and a Mae Green Lawn in (runt."
RETORT COURTEOUS.—A divine in Essex, seldom in
church, but a rigid justice of the peace, having a fellow brought before
him, said, " I shall teach you Law, I warrant you."—" Sir," an.
swet7ed the fellow, " it would be more becoming if you would teach me
GosiwL"

AN A POLOG Y.—The words " paltry insect" having been
complained of by Mr. Stapylton to Mr. Brougham, as " not allowa.
able in controversies between gentlemen," Mr. Brougham disclaimed
all personal hostility to that gentleman ; and Mr. Stapylum, on re.
ceiving this, wrote to the learned gentleman to return thanks fur
his obliging explanation.
WATERLOO TR EE.—The tree on the plains of Waterloo,
known by the name of the Waterloo, or Wellington tree, was lately cut
down, and employed by the purchaser for the following purposes:—
One chair, with a medallion of the Duke of Wellington, presented to
the late King. Two others (failures) tor the King, the proprietor re.
tains. Various portions he has given to his friends; and the, perhaps,
most curious part, the heart of the tree, about six feet above the ground.
mark, in which is an iron groove and chain embedded, he has presented
to the British Museum.

SPANISH IDEA OF TILE ARTS.-. letter from Madrid
says, " Our Government patronises the arts with a dignity worthy of it.
It has just established at Seville a school of tauromachy, under the pro.
tection of the Intendant. Thit school has two professors, with salaries
of 12,000 and 8,000 real. ; and, henceforth. every town and village in.
dined to have hull-fights, must contribute 100 reals towards the expense
of the school."

LIZARDS.—It is a common custom with children in It-
aly, to put a grain or two of snuff upon the nose of these harmless
reptiles, and the effect is so powerful, that they generally die on the
spot —Atheneum
A TASTE OF 13uss.—The complainant in a police case
who charged a baker, named Bliss, with knocking him down, for which
the man of dough was lined a sovereign, on retiring, remarked that,
though punsters call a baker a master of the rolls, it was too much that
a customer, who complained of a loss of meal, should receive a roll in
the street fora recompence.This, he remarked, was not wet, and it was
but a slight penalty to impose on a man who, depriving him of
.20 de-
licious mouthfuls of beef and pie, had made it up to him by such an
undesired taste of Bliss.

MR. SEIU EA N T PELL AND MOTHER CHURCH.
There was a great deal of point in the remark made by Mr. Serjesnt
Pell, on nominating Mr. Adeane fur Cambridge. " I (said the learned
gentleman) am a member of the Church of England, and a dutiful son
of that most venerable mother, but old ladies as well as young ones now
and then require a little looking after, and I must say that my excellent
parent is not a little capricious in the distribution of her family favours.
Some of her sons, such as those of Winchester, Durham, London, York,
Canterbury, and Ely, walk forth like sleek and stall-fed oxen—the very
pictures of ecclesiastical plethora, while some of the lower branches of
her house stand starving at the palace gates." Immense cheers followed
these remarks.

NEW ROUTE TO INDIA.—A Bombay paper mentions
that Mr. Waghom, the gentleman who came to England in October,
1828, to take the necessary measures for establishing a regular comm.
nication between Great Britain and India, has performed a most expe-
ditious and unprecedented journey from London to Juddah. Mr. Wag-
horn left London, October 28, 1829, and proceeded via Dover, Bou-
logne, Paris, Milan, Trieste, Alexandria, Rosetta, Cairo, Sue; and
Camel; to Juddah, where he arrived on Dec. 23; thus having scam-
pushed a distance of 3,622 miles in the short space of 41 days, of which
14 were spent in unavoidable delay.
ENGLAND FOR EVER !—Fourteen years ago the people
of England had fur all their long.continued privations—their uaex-
tunpled expenditure of blood and money, the pageant of a day : the
assemblage of crowned heads in their capital ! They were amused
with the exhibition of an Alexander, a Blucher, and the barbarous
Cossacks, and they now want bread ! while (to the disiJace of the age
be it said) that want is mocked by the Minister, who denies the exist-
ence of their distress.
AcHILLEs.—On the day of the review in Hyde-park,
the mobility put a pipe in the mouth of the statue of Achilles, an oak
branch in his hand, and lted him with stones. What a compliment
to the great Dicraroa !the Hero of Waterloo ! it proved, however,
one thing—that they molted him, and were determined to give him a
rid pro quo.—Pats! Pry.
Goo's CURSE.—It was rather a curious circumstance
that one of the first persons who met Charles the Tenth, on his ap-
proaching our shores, was a gallant officer, who, formerly, from his
being in the habit of swearing occasionally, was ludicrously called
" 11—'4 Curse." The following lines were written on the occasion:—
Heaven's wrath compelled from France to fly,
But something worse poor Charles may fear;
For now he sees, with startled eye,
God's Curse was waiting for him here."