Star.
London, England, 1830-07-26 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

ORIGIN OP THR TERM TONTINE..--The word Tontine
is only a ant word, derived from the name of an Italian projects.
This was me Lawrence Toad, a aeature of Cardinal Magazine,
=Lilt:people extremely out of humour with his Eminency's
imagined be could reconcile them by a proposal of
adding pas* rich in an instant, with trouble or pito& Mc
*boo was a lottery of annuities, with survivorship, which Pt
yarpred la 1663, with the consent of the Court, but the Parlia.
aunt weld not register the edict. Three years after, he tried in,
spin, for building a stone bridge over the Seine, when it
rboth the favour of the Court and the sanction of Parliament
DANORROUS IstPos IT lox .—The public cannot be
too cautious in purchasing green peas from hawkers. Commoa
field peas are continually brought to market and sold as green gar.
den peas. They are indigestible after three hours boiling, and pro.
duce most dangerous and distressing pains in the stomach and
bowels. They are easily detected in the raw state, being tough slid
divested of that sweetness which is common to young garden peas.
When boiled they are the colour of beans. People should be
equally cautious in the choice of mushrooms.
A SEAT WANTED poi WILLIAM COBBETT..—I am
not sure that I shall not go into Essex, where I have got an invita.
don to oppose Pole Long Wellesley Pole (a fearfully long name):
and, Wane body will pay for the hustings, I may perhaps do it, if
Westminster should not keep me in the metropolis of the " British
Bleffre." I see that Mr. Mond has declined-for Reading. I have
a hint to start for that place; but who trill pay for the hustings
I have the money offered to pay for them at Westminster; and it I
do it, I will show up the Daddy in grand style ! I will treat him
to a Scotch document, that will make even Thimble and Cowhide
stare. In short, lam in the humour for spat; and I am determined
to have it somewhere or other.—Weekly Register.
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ATTAINDERS ON SCOTCH FAMILIES.--A few years
ago Government acceded to the popular wish, that the attainders.
which had so long lain on the honours of several of our historic
families should be removed; and accordingly the titles of 31ar.
Carnwath, Airlie, Kenmure, Duffus, Strathallan, Nairn, and
Weymss, once more came into existence. But here the Royal
clemency faltered. The Scottish Peers still suffering under the
attainder are.—Keith, Earl Marischal, attainted 1715; Maxwell,
Earl of Nithsdale, attainted 1715; Seton, Earl of Winton, at.
tainted 1715; Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow, attainted 1715;
Drummond, Earl of Perth. attainted 1745 ; Carnegie, Earl of
Southesk, attainted 1715; Mackenzie, Earl of Seaford) attainted
1715; Livingstone, Earl of Callender, attainted 1715; Maule,
Earl of Pantnure, attainted 1715 ; Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock, at.
tainted 1746 ; Mackenzie, Earl of Cromarty, attainted 1745 ;
Seaton, Viscount Kingston, attainted 1715 ; Livingston, Viscount
Kilsyth, attainted 1715 ; Fraser, Lord Lovat, attainted 1743 ; El.
phinston, Lord Balmerino, attainted 1745; Balfour, Lord Bur.
leigh, attainted 1716; Preston. Lord Dingwall, attainted 1715;
Forbes, Lord Pitsligo, attainted 1745.
SIR WALTER SCOTTS-A GENERAL.—Sir Walter
Scott writes on military affairs as few ever did or eves will write ;
but he labours under the great disadvantage of never having seen
war—a disadvantage that even his genius cannot altogether over.
come. We confess that, forgetful of the dangers a life so valuable
would have been exposed: to, we sometimes amuse ourselves in
speculatleg on what might have been the result had chance made
Sir Walter a military man, and placed him in situations favourable
for the display of his genius, which is evidently of a military cast.
What sort of battles and what sort of books should we have had ?
for we should of course have had both, and both very different
from those we have had. But, though he was not with us in
the hour of danger, yet his spirit accompanied us, and his
genius cheered us. We recollect being one of a party who
a stormy night, while encamped on the heights above
pawed
Pennscova,s in reading the " Lady of the Lake," then just
published, that as a special favour had been lent to us for that night
only; and though our cloaks were hardly able, in addition to the
rickety walls of our tent, to protect our single luminary, we did not
break up till every word of the book, notes and all, had been read
and discussed. In the fields of Vittoria and Pampeluna, the grass
now waves over two of those whose hearts then beat high at the re-
cital of that delightful tale; the gallant owner of the volume lies
betted in the church-yard of St. Etienne which it was his dying
order to defend to the last. The third of the party has found a happy
home to soothe the sufferings that severe and complicated wounds
have entailed upon him ; while the last, after years of absence, a
stranger In his native land, with nothing but the recollections of the
peat to dwell.upon, traces these sketches, because, as Sir James
Turner says, "he knew not bow to pass away his solitary and
retired hours with &store harmless divertisement."—United Service
Journal.

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A WITCY.—A woman, named Niblett, was brought
before the Rev. J. Neale, at the public office, h with prac-
tising the " mystic arts" of sorcery and divination,ca
and with
curing all kinds of disorders, casting out devils, Att. Ac. by mys.
terious and supernatural influences. The ceremonies she per.
formed previous to achieving these wonders, were, crossing pins in a
peculiar manner, and twisting thread, while she pronounced some
solemn incantation. The princial act required from those who
' applied to her for assistance being the advance of as much
money as their credulity and superstition would prompt them
to give. After the talisman had been prepared in the above
manner, they were sold at a high price ; and a box of
charmed ointment possessed such extrardinary virtues, that it
was considered cheap by a customer who purchased it for tbs. The
facts of which she was accused having been clearly established, 31ra.
Nlblett was very properly sentenced to six week's confinement in the
House of Correction at Northleach ; but conceiving the decree to be
unjust, and fancying herself a martyr in a gond cause, she gave no-
tice of appeal against the conviction at the Quarter Sessions. The
question was accordingly argued, and many ancient cues and con.
victions for sorcery produced pro and eon. a few days since, before
that tribunal at Gloucester; when, after a patient hearing, the
Chairman (the Rev. Dr. Cooke) confirmed the conviction, and ex-
pressed his regret that she had not been punished to the full extent
allowed by law, as an impostor. She was therefore sentenced to six
weeks' penance in a jail, as the only means of laying those evil
spirits in the Red Sea, who had possessed and taught her such un-
hol pact ices.—Cheltenlems Journal.
FIRE AT W OOLTORD..--Abollt one o'olock in the
morning of Thursday last, a fire commenced in the bleach works
at Woolfmd, near Bury, which in two hours destroyed from 1,300
to 1,400 calico pieces, and the whole of the interior of the edifice in
which it commenced. Two of the men employed at the works had
gone to work at that early hour, and the lighted candle they made
use of by some means occasioned the calamitous event. The wash
wheels, water wheeVdrying machine, and the adjoining buildings,
were all saved. What adds to the misfortune is, that the works
were carried on for the benefit of the widow and numerous family of
the late Mr. James Booth, who, it will be recollected, met with a
premature death by partaking of a pudding into which arsenic had
been introduced, at the vestry dinner, at Tottington Lower.end, in
September last. The building was about fourteen yards long, twelve
yards wide, and three stories high, but neither it nor any part of the
Ilsotents were insured.

H EBDO3IA DA RY.
Tins DAY.—St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary. The
Moon will transit the first meridian of this country at 26 minutes
put fi evening. The Battle of Talavera, 1800.
To-Moznow.—Moon enters the first quarter 42 min. past 8 after-
noon r it will be in apogee at 1 l morning. Battle of the Pr-
rennet', 1813.
Wasurzumw.—About this time the bees kill the drones, and the
frogs begin to leave the water and resort to the long grass. The
Spanish Armada was destroyed, 1583. Earl of Essex beheaded.
1640. Mars rises 66 min. past 9 evening.
Tuu RH/AlN—Jupiter sets 7 min. past 2 morning. This is the
Blaek last with the Jews, in memory of the burning of the Tem-
ple by Nebuchadneuar. Numb. ziv. 29, 31.
FIIDAY.....BaIUft3 sets 20 min. past 7. Thomas Gray died, 1771.
Sawonnaw..—Richard Savage died, 1743.
Sttirrozw.—Lammas Day—Battle of the Nile, 1798—Sun rises 18
min. put 4, sets 41 min. past 7.

BIRTHS.
The Cid lest at Roydon, in Essex. the lady of the Rev. B.
Auriol, of a aon—The 114th inst. the lady of J. 0. Jones, EN. of
John-street, Bedford.row, of a sin, still.botn—The 24th instant, at
York.terrsee, Regenes.park, the lady of A. Duff, Evti. of Wood.
oott.heame. Oxfordshire, of a son.

MARRIED.
Henry, thbd son of W. Smith, Esq. of Richmond, Sarre'', to
Rum% thini daughter of T. D. Broughton, loq. ef the same plea.

DIED.

The 12d instant, In his 27tITY;;;,at the residence of his father,
Thomas, eldest eon of T.Pardngton, taq. of I Wham, in the county
of Sussex—The Seth of May last, at Belvedese estate, Jamaica.
Abbas he had gone for the benefit of his health, Jsmcs, the eldest
eon of J. Lewis, Esq. of Rodney-place, Clifton,in the 41st year of
his age—Th.22d inst. at Hastings, 11r. 0. Darby, late Quarter.
master in the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Maras, aged IL

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