Star.
London, England, 1830-08-13 00:00:00

SCINTILLA'.

THE DEPENDENCY OF THE TWO GREAT PASSIONS.
Love and ambition are two tapers lit up in the human breast, which
burn more in unison than worldly folk allow; and time, whose
object is to extinguish both, in order to reduce us to darkness, never
puffs with effect at the latter, till he has first succeeded in quenching
the former.—The English at Home, by Lord Normality.
YOUTH AND Ao E.—ln youth, a minute, a glance its
sufficient to overthrow, not only d and sorrow, but to
modify philosophy, reason's self, and to even the very face
of truth. It is the season in which the moods and passions of the
mind succeed and heal, and give life and freshness to one another.
In age, expect more sameness. Youth enjoys an English climate,
in which clouds and sunshine chase each other and intermingle.—
Nature, now o'crcast with honer, and now smiling but with more
brilliancy for the drops which the shower has left, and which began
themmeeaadd Age is the clime of the South and East, either a long,
long, unvaried sunshine, without a cloud, monotonously and un.
breaklagly serene; else it is all gloom the rain eternally falling,
falling, and drowning all life with wrath. —lbid.
THE INFLUENCE OF TIME ON SENTIMENT.—TO
=Ovate a woman, struck Willoughby's vanity as a far more manly
achievement than to have caught the young affections of a girl.—
Vanity is love's alloy. They are always mingled, even at the first;
but as pears advance, the coin of sentiment, like that of a king.
don, grows baser by degrees, and sinks profoundly in value, even
while Its expression or superscription remains the same. This
petty enjoyment, however, like all of Its kind, wears away.—/lid.
THE MASTIVE, OR BANDEDOG.—It appears that
Great Britain was so noted for its mastiffs, that the Roman Empe.
rors appointed an officer in this island with the title of Procurator
Cynegil, whose sole business it was to breed, and transmit from
hence to the amphitheatre, such dogs as would prove equal to the
combats exhibited at that place. The mastiff bas been described,
by other naturalists, as a species of great size and strength, and very
loud barker; whence they have derived its name, mastiff, quasi,
Mao ikfa ; it being sat posed to frighten away robbers by its tre-
mendous voice. looses Ainieudiron.
A ROWLAND FOR AN OLIVER.—Dr. Radcliffe
would never be brought to pay bills without much following and
importunity; nor even then, if there appeared any chance of wear-
ing out his creditors. A peeler, after long and fruitless attempts,
caught him just getting out of his chariot at his own door, in
Bloomsbury-square, and set upon him. " Why you rascal," said
the doctor, " do you pretend to be paid for such a piece of work ?
Why, you have spoiled my pavement, and then covered it over with
earth to hide your bad work." " Doctor," said the pettier. " mine
is not the only bad work the earth hides." " You dog, you," said
Radcliffe, " are you a wit ?—you must be poor—come in :" and
paid him.
Ow FUNERAL RITES.—Men have lost their reason
in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts
make martyrs; and since the religion of one, seems madness to ano-
ther, to afford an account, or rational of old rights requires no
rigid reader. That they kindled the pyre avesely, or turning their
face from it, was an handsome symbol of unwilling miner
that they washed their bones with wine and milk, that
wrapt them in linen, and dried them in her bosom the first fostering
part and place of their nourishment; that they opened their eyes
Ward Heaven. before they kindled the fire, as the place of their
hspes, or original, were no improper ceremonies. The last valedic-
don, thrice uttered by the attendants, was also very solemn, and
somewhat answered by Christians, who thought it too little, if they
threw not the earth thrice upon the interred body. That in strew.
log their tombs, the Romans affected the rose, the Greeks ammo-
thus and myrtle; that the funnel pyre consisted of sweet fuel, ty-
pos, lk, lade, yew, and trees perpetually verdant, lay silent ex.
museisas of their surviving hope +; wherein Christians which deck
their Who with bays, have found a more elegant emblem—for that
k, warlag deed, will restore itself from the root; and its dry and
sinnoeseilems resume their verdure again; which, if we mistake
not, we have also observed in fume. Whether the planting of the
yew in churchyards bold not its original from ancient funeral rites,
eras an emblem of resurrection, from its perpetual verdure, may also
admit conjecture.—Sir T. Browne.
COFFEE. —The coffee-pot should be three parts full
4 boiling water; the coffee is to be added a spoonful at • time, and
war stirred between each ; then boil gently, still stirring, to prevent
the mixture from boiling over as the coffee swells. and to force it
into combination with the water ; this will be effected in a few mi.
mutes, after which the most gentle boiling must be kept up during
an hour. The coffee must then be removed from the fire to settle :
one or two spoonsfull of cold water thrown in assists the clarification
and precipitates the grounds. In about an hour, as soon as the
liquor has leeome clear, it is to be pouted into another vessel, taking
care not to disturb the sediment.—Coffee made in this manner will
be of the finest flavour, and may be kept three days in summer and
four or five in winter. When ordered for use, it only requires heat.
beg in the coffee-pot, and may be served up at two minutes' notice.
The grounds which remain will make a second quantity of coffee.
by boiling with fresh water for an bour.—The Cook's Dictionary,
by Richard Dolby.
OLD SARUNI.—The name of this ancient fortress,
mede, town, city, and borough, is much better known to the public
than its actual condition. Mr. Canning once exclaimed that he
woad not surrender one stone et Old Sarum to the Reformers.
This are now but few atones to be surrendered's' the only remains
is former buildings are about a dozen cubical feet of what once
111111pseed the wall of the castle. The place which was formerly
mad " Burgum Cnsaris," has for some time back been " Ber.
Pm Alexandri," haying wend into the poesmeion of Mr. Alex-
ander, a relation of Lord Calais. The right of voting results from
the possession of some land called burgage tenures. of which there
were formerly eleven lots, in possession of different persons. All
&se lots have graduall come into the possession of Mr. Alex.
Miff alone, who is t represented in the imperial par.
&ism by himself and whatever other gentleman he may choose to
—'orate. The right of pralding at the election, and making the
mama to the writ, is in the sat, as lessee of an adjoining
fit, which belonged to the greet Earl of Chatham, and upon
Ala his lordship was born. To the south of the borough is a se-
amy tree, under which the election is holden by the lessee aforesaid,
who very gravely proceeds to the spot, reads the writ, receives the
tom, and returns the two members. The progress in the value of
parliamentary influence, and in the increase of parliamentary comp•
tion, may perhaps be estimated by the fact, that this estate which.
with the burger tenures, was sold in 1690 by the Cecil family to
Mr. Pitt for 1,500 L was within 100 years after purchased of the Pitt
family, by Lord Wedges, for the enormous sum of 63,000 L The
borough consists at present of a large circular mound of earth, sur-
mounted in the centre by a smaller mound. Sonic bushes grow upon
the top, and a flourishing crop of wheat and barley occupies the si-
tuation of the former rampart, but there is no house nor vestige of a
house,.and. as Mr. Burke said on a remarkable occasion, " not one
man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast,"
are to be seen upon either of the mounds, or in the immedist,
vicinity.
0 arr u ARIES.—The Waterford Chronicle requests
that persons supplying that Journal with obituaries, will attend to
the following scale of prices. The idea is droll.—For a simple
death, two shillings and sixpence.— For the death of a person deeply
regretted, five shillings.—For the death of a person who lived a
perfect pattern of all the Christian virtues, and died regretted by the
whole country, ten shillings.—For the death of a person who pos-
sessed extensive literature and profound erudition, sup enelded to
which, his whole life was remarkable for piety. humility, charity.
and self-denial, one pound.—For the death of a lady. whose husband
is inconsolable for her loss, and who was the delight of the circle in
which she moved, one pound ten shillings.—For the death of a gen-
tleman, who had been only six months married, who was an ex-
ample of every conjugal and domestic virtue. and whose widow' is
in a state of anguish bordering on distraction, two pounds. For the
death of an edema; who was a pattern of meekness, a model of
humility, a of distressed genius, a genuine philanthropist, an
exemplary Chelsdin, an extensive almsgiver, profoundly learned,
unrendstiag in his attention eo the duties of his station, kind, hos-
pitable, and offeescaste to his tenantry, and whose Demo will* be re-
membered and his loss deplored to the latest posterity, five
pounds!—Far every additional good quality, whether domestic,
moral, or religious, there will be an additional charge.

BIRTHS.
The Ilth iast. at Ids house, Orare.end-road. Regent's-park, the
lady of B. Roberts, Esq. of a moo.

MARRIED.
The 12th inst. at St. Georges, Bloomsbury, F. Talbot. Esq. of
BedfOrd.row, to Missßoue, of Bloomsbury-square—At St. Jaroc.'s
church, the 1201 init. K. Heudrie, Eq. of Tiabornc.street, to Miss
Henrietta WilaoM—The 12th Wet. at All Sainte, Poplar, J. Cooper.
Esq. of Sutton's-sate. Houichutch, to Ann, only daughter o( The,.
Astiton E
sq.-The
12th inst. at St. Peter's, l'ornhill, Mr. J. Cox.
of Giblion's-square, Islingtoo, to Mary, youngest daughter of the
late D. Maclaurin, Esq. Lornbard-Ktreet—The 7th inst. at Bishop-
✓teignton Devon, Shearran, Erg. of the Stroud, to Caroline.
third daughter of J. Bite, Eq. of the Amer place—At Edinburgh.
on the' 10th inst. J. Murray, Eq. merchant, Liverpool, to Elisa-
beth, eldest daughter of Hie Isle J. Bryce, Esq.

the Dint.
11" The 1116 int. at Tunbridge-Welk, in the Nth et Mr age.
•"*," Mrs. Smith, mother In lan of Air. Pigeon of South-
: 4"1 wads—The Igh inst. at Margate, aged N. :he in. it. work, B.M.
anJ minister Mins chapel, and Innate of tit. Amery's, Hoiloon—The
ule lllth lost. Moon Phipps, wife et H. M. Dyer, Sm. el Demo-
sitire.plan.hoose—The Nth inst. Mrs. A. Reyes, of Dowg•Plagat
114 Nt, .I=4.
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