Star.
London, England, 1830-06-22 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

MARCH OP INTELLECT.—A Scotehman WIA held to
ball, a few days since, for " impignorating" • pair of smallelothes.
What an excellent thing learning is.—Ape.
A LITTLE GREAT M A N.—The most disagreeable two.
legged animal in the world is a little great man ; and the next, s
little great man's factotum and friend.
A GOOD Ju DG E.—The late Chief Baron Thompson,
being at an Wilt dinner, where there was among the company
a tippling dignitary of the Church, remarked " that the wine
was very good." " Yes, my Lord, it is so," said the pastor of
the Christian flock, " and I think a certain quantity of such be.
n 'age cannot possibly do any man harm, after a good dinner." " Oh,
no, Sir, by no means" replied the Baron, " it is the uncertain
quantity that does all the mischief."

Kilo JAMES —King James lit coined his 22 shil-
ling pieces, called Jarobuses, where, on his head, he wore a crown ;
after that he coined his 20 shillings, and wore the laurel instead of
the crown. Upon which, mutilation Ben Johnson said pleasantly,
that poets being always poor, the bays were rather the emblem of
wit than wealth, since King James no sooner began to wear them,
than he fell two shillings in the pound in public valuation.
Ma. ADDISO .—Among all the excellent papers of
the great Addison, there is no one sentiment more honourable to
his head and heart than this short sentence ; " Were my abilities
equal to my wishes, there should be neither pain nor poverty in the
world." Such a heart is an inexhaustible fund of benevolence,
and raises the soul above the unsatisfactory desires of this lower
world.

When Humphrey Parsons the great porter brewer, was
Lord Mayor, he drove In his stage.eoach, six of his finest dray.
horses !

The very name of an Englishman, after the conquest,
became a term of reproach ; even so late u the reign of Richard I.
if a Norman was accused of any thing which be thought dishonour.
able, and chose to deny, he uid—" What I do you imagine that I
am an Englishman r
The Gold Medal of the Edinburgh Company of Gol-
fers was played for over Leith Links, on Saturday the lath inst. and
gained by J. H. Wood, Esq. Leith.
In France, the person who forges a Bank note is
branded, and sentenced to five yearl• imprisonment. In England
he is condemned to death ; and yet, in France the cases of forgery
are much fewer than in this country.

A FAMOUS BLow-up.—The Americans are a rising
nation. The Troy Senriertf says :—During the late cruise of the
Peacock, in the Ouiph of Mexico, in a violent gale, one of the
sailors was blown off from the top-gallant-mast royal-yard, into the
sea. He was picked up without much difficulty, and brought on
board, without having sustained any apparent injury. Distance
upwards of ono hundred and fifty feet ! !
Tile CORBETT Torre V E.—lf there were any doubt of
Mr. Cobbctt's Wag the greatest master of vituperation in the Eng.
Hall language, the following finished example would surely remove
it. According to the Eastern phrasing, It " leaves nothing to be
desired," in the way of abuse :—" Cheltenham is what they call a
walerisg-pletoe—that is to say, a place to which tax.gorgers, to.
gether with gluttons, drunkards, and debauchees of all descriptions,
female as well as male, resort, at the suggestions of silently laugh.
ing quacks, in the hope of getting rid of the bodily consequences of
their manifold sins and iniquities. When I enter a place like this,
I almost feel disposed to squeeze up my nose with my fingers. It
is nonsense to bo sure ; but I conceive that every two. legged creature
that I see coming near me, is about to cover me with the poisonous
proceeds of its impurities. To places like this come all that is kna-
vish and all that is foolish, and all that is base ; gamesters, pick.
pockets and harlots; young wife-hunters in search of rich and ugly
old women, and young husband.hunters in search of rich,
wrinkled, or half-rotten men—the former resolutely beat, be the
means what they may, to give the latter heirs to their land and te.
'laments. Before we got into Cheltenham, I learned from a coal.
carter, which way we had to go, in order to see' The Now Build.
kg. which are now nearly at a stand. We rode up the main
street of the town, for some distance, and then turned off to the left,
which soon brought us to the 'desolation of abomination' I have
seldom seen anything with more heartfelt satisfaction. ' Oh,' said
I to myself, 'the accursed May has certainly got a blow, then, in
every part of its corrupt and corrupting carcass !` The whole town,
(and it was now ten o'clock) looked delightfully dull. I did not
see more than four or five carriages, and, perhaps, twenty people on
horseback ; and these seemed by their hook noses and round eyes
and by the long and sooty necks of the women, to be, for the greater
part, Jews and Jewesses. The place really appears to be sinking
very fast, and I have been told, and believe the fact, that houses in
Cheltenham will now sell for only just about one-third as much as
the same would have sold for only in last Oe:ober. It is curious to
see names which the vermin owners have put upon the houses hers.
There's a new row of most gaudy anti fantastical dwelling places,
called Colombia Place, given it doubtless by sonic dealer in Bonds.
There is what a boy told us was the Nev. Spa, there is Walorloo
Howe I Oh, how I rejoiced at the ruin of the base creatures.—
There is Liverpool Colla,,e. Oman, Collabe, Peel Collar ; and
the good of it is, that the ridiculous beasts have put this word coltayo
'pun scores of houses, and sonic very mean and shabby houses,
standing alone and making part of an unbroken street ; What a
figure this place will cut in another year or two ! I should not won.
der to see it nearly wholis deserted. It is situated in a nasty, fiat,
stupid spot, without anything pleasant near it. A putting down of
the one-pound notes will soon take away its spa poll*. Those of
the notes that have been already cut off, have, it seems, lessened the
quantity of silmente very considerably: another brush will cure
all the complaints."