Star.
London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

SCINTILLA?.

ENHANMONIC Pun.—A Mr. George Sharp, commonly
called by his friends 0 Sharp, looking rather dull one evening in cam-
pany, a friend observed S was rather atom key. "Oh !" re-
plied a lady, " any one knows G Sharp is Alla* !"
A village politician told his wife that the Low Countries
lad risen (alluding to the disturbances In the Netherlands). " I am
glad of it, exclaimed the old dame, " we shall not hear of the floods
doing so much &snags again."
One Mr. Washington Robey advertises in the Washing-
ton Daily National InteltigeNcer thus :—" Cain I Casa ! CASH !
The advertiser will give the highest prices for likely young negroes of
both uses from 12 to 25 years of age. Any letters addressed to me,
through thepost-office, will be attended to." In the same paper there
We two other advertisements offering " Cash for likely young
Negroes r
The Countess Guiccioli was at this time about twenty, but
she appeared younger; her complexion was fair, with large dark lan-
guishing eyes ; and her auburn hair fell in great profusion of natural
ringlets over her shapely shoulders. Her features were not so regular
as in their expression pleasing, and there was an amiable gentleness in
her voice which was peculiarly interesting. Leigh Hunt's account of
her is not essentially dissimilar from any other that I have ever heard
or met with. He differs, however, in one respect, from every other;
in saying her hair was yellow. Her destiny seems at present to promise
that the interest for her is likely to be revived by another unhappy Eng-
, lish coonezion.—Galls Life of Byron.
SPANISH PouTaxiss,—The Duke of Albuquerque
when he visited the wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, the British Ambas:
sador at Madrid, in the reign of Charles the Second, said, " Madam,
I am Don Juan de la Cueva, Duke of Albuquerque, Viceroy of Milan,
of his Majesty's Privy Council, General of the Galleys, twice Grandee,
the First Gentleman of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and a near kinsman
to his Catholic Majesty, whom Goa long preserve ;" and then rising
up, and making a low reverence, with his hat off, said—" These, with
my family and life, I lay at your Excellency's feet."
Tess JESUITS.—The sons of Loyola appeared in the
world to render themselves masters of it. Th selected education for
their Instrument of conquest. The Cardinal de Lorraine, who was their
protector in France, procured them the privileges which their successors
BM claim. In order to weaken the influences of the Universities, they
announced immediately to the heads of families that they would gra-
tuitously teach all the pupils that should be confided to them. Many
were seduced by this perfidious generosity. The National Col-
leges were deserted in consequence of it; and the University of Pa-
ris, which had reckoned as many as 30,000 scholars, sunk to belor:
3,000. However, it was false that the education of these new pro-
fessors was really gratuitous, as they pretended. They took amok
means to indemnify themselves. They prevailed upon famihes
to make donations in their favour. They spollaW property ,
they entrapped successions. Their riches soon became a sandal to hat-
rope. " These men," said 31. de Thou, " are born with a singular
industry to wheedle men over. It is very pernicious to the French Re-
public to intrust them with the instruction of youth " The illustrious
President was in the right, and history confirms the correctness of his
judgment. Two Kings of France, Louis XII. and Henry IV. were
excommunicated, the former by Pope Julius, the second by Status V.
On the first excommunication not a single Frenchman stirn.4 ; on the
contrary. all doubled their love and devotion to their King. The second
took place 30 years afterwards ; but during the interval the Society of
Loyola had possessed itself of the rising generation. The anathema
which struck the best of Princes, caused Paris, Lyons, Marseilles.
Toulouse, Rouen, Hants, Trove, Dijon, Angouletne, and a number of
other towns, to rebel against him. Such is the power of education—
such may be its rapid and fatal consequences.--D'Herbigny's Trea-
tise on Politics end Public Education.

We tab the following from a work entitled " An Essay on the Cre-
ation of the Universe, and Evidences of the existence of GOD t" by
Charles Doyne SUltry t " The Minuteness of Creation.—First, then.
how small is the mite ! yet, on the application of the microscope it is
seen to be an animal, perfect in its limbs, active in its motions; of a
regular form, full of life and sensibility, and provided with all requi-
site organs. But Lenwenhoek tells us of insects seen with a :microscope
of which 117 millions would only be equal to a mite, yet each of these
animalcules is an organised body, provided with a heart, with longs.
with muscles, glands, arteries, and veins, with blood and other fluids
passing through them ! Insects of various kinds are discernable in the
cavities of a common grain of sand. The mouldy substance on demi.
bodies exhibits a region of minute plants. Sometimes it appears a for-
est of trees, whose branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits, are clearly die-
tinguished. Some of the flowers have long, white, transparent stalks.
and the buds, before they open, arc little green balls, which become
white. The particles of dust on the wing of a butterfly prove, by the
microscope, to be beautiful and well arranged little fathers. By the
lame instrument every hair of our bead is seen to be a hollow tube. The
surface of our skin has scales resembling those of a fish, but pi
minute that a single grain would cover two hundred and fifty, and
a single scale completely covers five hundred pores wl.ict
issues the insensible perspiration necessary to health ; consequently. a
single grain of sand can cover 125,000 pores of the human body.
From a lighted candle there issues, in a minute, more particles et
light than Mere are grains in the whole earth ; how vast, then, the num-
ber that flows in a day. or a year, or a century, from that immense
body the sun ! Who can tell where the grand chain of nature ceases tO
exist r

• The mite makes 500 steps in a second. Each drop of stagnant
water coatairs a little world of animated beings that swim about then
with as much freedom as a whale in the sea. Each leaf of a tree is
colony of insects, resembling oxen grazing in large pastures. Ever!
plant, every flower, affords food for millions of creatures.

BIRTH.
The 17th inst. at Pimlico-lodge, Mrs. J. L. Elliot, ors son.

MARRIED.

The 48th inst. H. H. Young. of Baltimore, United States, to Eli-
zabeth, eldest daughter of t►e late Rev. J. Cundale, of Kingston urn
Thames.

DIED.
The 17th instant, Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. B. Hewitt. of
South Lambeth—At Wrexham, on the 17th inst. in the Sad year of
her age, Charlotte, the wife of R. M. Lloyd, banker, of that place.

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