Star.
London, England, 1830-12-30 00:00:00

SCINTILLA

TITANIC GOD MID YOUR LORDSHI P.—A foolish fel.
lowl when addressed by a man of rank, used to answer—" Thank God
' and your Lordship"—" How many children have you, bonelt moo.,
said a Grandee, " Two, thank God and your Lordship.*
AGRICULTURAL PUN.—A farmer, in the neighbour-
hood of Doncaster, was lately met by his landlord, who accosted him
thus—" John, I intend to raise your rent ;" to which John replied,
" Sir I'm very much obliged to you, for I cannot mire it myself."
GOOD RECRUITING .—A aerjeant, who was recruiting
in Leicestershire last week, told his captain be had got him an eur,
ordinary recruit. " Aye !" said the captain, " what is he „
butcher, Sir, replies theierjeant, " and you'll And him very useful
for we have enlisted two sheep starlets in the company before him."
SIMPLICITY.—A countryman giving evidence in a Court.
was asked by the Counsel if he was bons in wedlock ? " No, Sir,"
answered the man, " I was born in Devonshire."

A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.—" How are you this
morning ?" said a wag to a lawyer. " Why, not at all myself," re.
plied " Latitat. " That I heartily congratulate you," said the wit,
" for be whoever else you will, you must be a gainer by the bargain:,
A NOSE.—Lord Hood, who died lately at a very ad-
vanced age, had one of the largest noses in the kingdom. One day on a
division in the House of Commons, an acquaintance said to him,
"Hood, I'm surprised to see you among the Ayes! I should hare
thouOt you would have been led by the Noes."
Gzsyri LITT. —Chesterfield says—" Next to clothes be.
!Riese, they should be well made, and worn easily ; for a min Is only
the less genteel for a fine cost, if in wearing it he shows a raged for it,
and is not as easy in it as if It were a plain one."
MARCH OP INTELLECT.—SOME carpenters were WOrkdog
at the Archbishop of Canterbury's house. On his Grace's pod%
one of them whispered, " Tom, that's our Primate, isn't it ?"—.
" Prime-mate ! no," replied Tom, " that's our masks, you fool."
A PUNNING POST CAPTAIN.A ship of war captured
a smuggler. The captain immediately, on the smuggler striking, Paid
to one of his midshipmen, "Come, Sir, you are enkr.prising, I under.
stand, and the sooner you eater that prize the better. '
A VERDICT.—A Frenchman in one of the Cafes ex-
plaining to his countrymen our laws respecting the inquest on the book,
of murdered persons, also defined'the crime under the different head, of
homicide, fratricide, infanticide, suicide, &c. &c. but he observed there
was one very curious verdict brought in by a Jury at Brighton when be
was there, and which he was totally unable to translate into his own
ig=r" The case vas dis," said the Frenchman ; " a man tree
oirthe Shain Pier, and vas drown--de jury vas desire to sit
upon his both, and dey bring in their jugement dat it vas fell.i.de.
sea-side."

On the farm of a noble Duke near Winchester, it i 4 an-
nounced by advertisement that Mere are " a few dozen nigeoni to he
sold." We would recommend Ms Grace's house steward to put them
in a plc. _

A poor woman at Winchester is said to have been recently
delivered of twins united in the same manner as the Siamese boys.
L'Ecluse, who was at the head of the Varietes Amusan-
tes, used to relate, that young, and without fortune, he arrived at Lune.
vine, where he obtained the place of dentist to King Stanislaus on the
very day that the monarch lost his last tooth.

A contemporary informs its readers that two fine bullocks
wen slaughtered on -Wednesday last at Launceston,--one of them an
ow and the other a cow d Such a statement in Ireland would have been
called a bill.

When Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, had an interview
with the King of Sennaar, a Cadi, who was present, asked him when
the Haginge Maginge were to arrive. " The Haginge 3laginge," said
the Cadi, " are little people not so big u bees., or like the simb, or fir
of Senaar, that come in great swarms out of the earth—aye, in mul.
titudes that cannot be counted; two of their Chiefs are to ride upon
au us, and every hair of that us is to be a pipe, and every pipe is
to play a different kind of music; and all that bur and follow themare
carded
to bell." " I know them not," said Bruce, who had assumed
the character of an English Dervish; " and in the name of the Loan
I fear them not, were they twice as little as you say they are, and twice
u numerous. I trust in Oen I shall never be so fond of music as to go
to hell after an us. for all the tunes that he or they can play.' The
King laughed violently, and Bruce went away.—From Bruce's Life in
" The Fansily Wray."
The following right pithy and pleasant notice, appears in
the advertising columns of the York Gazelle (an American Paper 0—
C/tunny—l hereby forewarn all persons trusting or harbouring my
husband, John Kolb, on my account. He has spent my whole fortune,
and now tries to give me a bad name every place he goes to. He had
me published In the Awti-Repnbhoaw, that no person should trust me.
I think no person of sense will trust him, uhe cares little whether he
pays say of his debts or not. I for my part always pay as Igo along.
AU that ever he bought, that he paid esah for, was of my money; now
be tries to hurt my feelings wherever he can ; but people know him,
and I think they will know how to treat him.

I was a rich girl, and my fortune was good,
And courted I was by a false young la;
He courted me truly both night and day,
But now be's got my money and skated away.
York, November IV, 1830. M*ii KOLB.

A CHINESE GANUTREB9.—Youvro Hoo T. OLD FAT.
—Madam Fei-ehung.po, i.e. old Lady Fat, now in her 67th year, in her
youth was the wife of a tea-merchant, and who, after bee husband's
death, lived in the most distressing poverty foe some years, inasmuch
that she often attempted to make an end of herself. Having come into
possession of a small house, she sold it, and commenced gamester. She
was successful, and became famous among all the Chinese gentlemen
blacklegs. She gamed either with ladies or with gentlemen, and was
Illbeval to the police, and daily increased in fortune, till she reckoned
hearoperty not by hundreds or thousands, but by hundreds of thou-
sands. However, Lady Fat is now In limbo. The notable magistrate
of Pwan.yu district has a prodigal son, who lost one night 1,000 dol-
lars in playing with Lady Fat. He was chagrined, raised the wind,
and went to play again. Her ladyship was afraid of the magisterial
gamester, and refused. Young Hoo became angry laid a
plot to entrap Lady Fat—had her seised—tried to extort—
tailed, and was forced to show her up to his father. The plot thickened
—the father was enraged at the discovery of the son's turpitude—re.
solved to punish all parties to the utmost rigour of the law—reporuel to
his superiors—imprisoned Lady Fat, whose official friends stood glom
in the day of need—and there, in prison, according to the last accounts.
she remains—Canton Rs Seger.

SIWGVLAIL DISCOVZHY.—•-htr. Horton, a gentleman
' who has been engaged in boring for water in Providence.
ft. I. has presented to the public some remarkable resultt.
In his second experiment in boring, he selected the
extreme point of a wharf, many yards from the
original land. He bored through a stream of mod
then through a bog-meadow, containing a INOj
peat—then through .and and quartz gravel. At eta
point, water impregnated with copperas and arsenic. broke
forth ; but determining to proceed further, Mr. Hors=
next struck a vineyard and drew up vines, grapes, gray
seeds, leaves, acorns, hazel nuts, pine nuts, and the seeds of
unknown fruits, together with pure water. This was tbirm-
five feet below the bed of the river.—Baltintore Chronicle.

BIRTH.
At Falmouth, the Lady of Lieutenant Crooke, of his Majesty'. brig
Emulous, of a son. _

MARRIED.
The 10th Inst. at Tavistock. Lieut. Richanl Darke. R.N. to ilic 11.
second daughter of the late (Jeronimo Greco, F:sq. of Dublin-7410+6Y,
at Monks lUsbotough, Buckinghamshire, F. Gunning, barrister at law,
of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. to Maria, third daughter of the Rey. Z. Brooke.
at the former plice.

DIED.
At Dumfries, on the 20th ult. the Lady Elisabeth Daheli,'"At
Plaistow Lodge, in the county of Kent. Walter Boyd. Eaq. ALP. (or'
merly of du cekbrated firm of Lloyd, Benfield, and Co. governatal
financiers.
At Ediabuqgh, on the Iflah curt P. Pleaderleath, ILK. fa the 35.11
year of his age.—Saturday sennlght, suddenly. at Union Cottage.
Storehouse, aged 42, Mary %nn, wife of Mr. Nicholas Lust:mob&
landing-waiter of his Majesty's Customs at Plymouth, leaving ell"
chikken.—At Trelinno, near Launceston, on Friday Warden. led
' 32, Outrude Honour, youngest daughter of the late Samuel Ph IP:,
gAil• of Pendispu, to St. Rem—ln Jamaica, of fever, on the 01
Octobers Ma. JOS Sturdy, son of Mr. Oswald Sturdy, of Irvinavo"'
eta
.master.—NAt Florerwe,from mursiamirm, en his return to his bruit,
Rds. ilatismerchant, Odin 25. son of Captain Ede of Liston',
Cornwall..—At hones in-stre, 11arrIalonne, or th'
21t6 luau. John Richards. Esq. Captain in his Majertys Royal NAT
aged 70 yeses.—The 21st inst. at the Elms, Bedhampton, no*
!larks, the daughter of bir Theophiltts Lee, aged seven years and fore
mouths.—At Calcutta, of fever. on the of May, Mr. John Arcith
hold, one of the Hon. East India engineers.

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