Star.
London, England, 1825-08-10 00:00:00

THE BOX OF RELICKS.

BY JAMES EDMESTON.

Oh ! raise not up that casket lid,
No riches there to tempt thee shine;
No pilfered treasure there lies hid,
Nor glittering gem from Ormian mine :
Yet, dearer than the diamond's blaze,
To me those seeming trifles are ;
Dlemorials of departed days,
And wrecks of forms, though faded, fair !
Remembrances—yet do not these
Alone diffuse this shadowy gloom—
The evening walk, the favourite trees,
The empty scat, the vacant room :
These tell me, wheresoe'er I go,
There was a time—though now 'tis past—
That once—it was not always so—
But that was far too bright to last !

Tes—sightless to another's view,
To me, there lurks in many a place,
Beath a Heaven of cloudless blue,
A shade the sun can never chase :
ALId though afar should light, and day,.
And every form I love, depart
-FTOIII memory I can never stray,
Nor lull the thoughts that burn my heart !

Yet, might I close my aching eye,
And sonic short hours of respite steal,
Though dreams of joy might waft them by,
I would not.—it is sweet to feel:
'Tis sweet to catch the Seraph tone
Of love, ere yet the dream be fled ;
gut sweeter, far, to sit alone,
And meditate_upon the dead !

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 8.

Wednesday their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of CAMBRIDGE and suite landed from the
Medina steam-packet on the pier of this place. Mr.
and Lady G. BULKELEY and family, Sir A. PAGET, and
Sir H; VIVIAN were, by appointment, waiting to re-
ceive the Royal Party. His Royal Highness led Lady
GEORGIA NA BULKELEY to the Dolphin Inn; wl ere they
partook of a handsome breakfast, and afterwards
walked on the road for London, whilst the carriages
followed, till they were some way out of the town.
The bells rung, and the flags were flying during the day.

AYR, AUGUST 2.

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A dashing Corinthian (whose white hat and brown
surtout had seen better days), driving a very sorry hack
in a gig, at a high pace, along the street the other day,
came in contact with an Irish labourer, who was hand.
ling a hod in a heap of lime. " Get out of the way,
fellow," bawled the dandy, " or I'll ride you down."
Plase your honour," said the Patlander as he slowly
stepped aside, "I have something to tell you." " What
is it?'' Why, Stir, you ate., driving like a fool, but
your-horse is a sensible baste, and if he had money, I'll
be sworn he would buy corn r
A pair of:dandified young men, " fraught with legal
knowledge," passed through Carrick in a gig, a few
days ago, and as they went along resisted payment of
the turnpike dues at every gate not havingits cognomen
painted on the board of rates, in terms of the Act of Paz:-
liament. One toll-keeper, not less acquainted with the
law than themselves, however, turned the tables on the
travellers, by reminding them that the gig in which
they rode was hired, and as the owner's name was not
painted upon it, he was liable in a penalty of 51. and
they as drivers in 21. ee:ch. This intimation changed
the tone of the legal bloods, who may find travelling in
Carrick more expensive, than they had anticipated.

The new Comedy called Quite Correct, founded upon
one of the stories in Sayings and Doings, and now per•
forming at the Haymarket Theatre, is not written by the
Rev. Gentleman to whom it has been attributed, but
by a young Lady. It is her first dramatic effort.
James Mallet, who was convicted of horse-stealing,
at the Bssex Assizes, was executed on Friday last, at
Chelmsford ; he did not name any of his accomplices:
John Power, a man lately tried for child murder,
at the Assizes of Waterford, has since married the
anther of the infant with whose murder he was charged.
A few days since, in repairing some of the vaults of
St. Martin's Church, in Exeter, on opening a lead coffin,
wherein were deposited. eighty-five years ago, the !e-
-ntails of the Itev. Mr. Heron, Rector of the Parish, the
body was found as perfect as when it was deposited in
the tomb, the flesh yielding to the touch, and recover-
ing its smcothness when the finger was removed ; a
napkin•terapped round the head, and the shroud cover-
inp, the corpse; were as white and uninjured as if they
had just come from a draper's shop.
ATTACK ON THE THEASURT.—Within these few
days a most violent and unprecedented attack has been
made on his*Majesty's Treasury, which created a con-
siderable &glee of alarm there. A Revenue officer,
accompanied by two of the City Police, made his ap-
pearance. and insisted on having a chest, supposed to
contain Lady F---'s china (a label to that purport
being affixed to the lid), opened for his inspection. The
clerks of the office manifesting an indisposition to com-
ply witli this unr,asonable request, the officer threat.
ened to b:ing in the Castle guard to force it open. Ac-
cordingly he did force the chest—and what think you,
gentle readrrt had the china been converted into?—
lato•thiee score black bottles, filled with " mountain
thw," of the purest quality.—Dublin Evening Pest.
Yesterday evening an Inquest was held at St. Bat tho-
fon)ew% Hospital, on the body of W. Burgess. The
house in which the parents of the deceased resided,
was undergoing repair, and while he was standing in
the yard, a tile fell on his head, which fractured his
skull, and caused his death. Verdict, Accidental Death.
Another Inquest was held on the body of Johanna
Rourke. •It appeated that the deceased bad quarrelled
with her husband on Monday fortnight, who struck
her on the head. On the Friday following, she was
taken ill, and conveyed to the above Hospital, where
she expired on Saturday last. In consequence of ,a re-
port that she had been murdered by her husband, he
was taken into custody, and examined at Guildhall on
Moody, but remanded, to await the result of the In-
quest. The Surgeon who attended the deceased said,
she died of the land scurvy. On examining the body
after her death, he found her brain and intestines much
diseased, but not caused by any external violence.
Verdict—Died ky the Visitation of GOD.

IRISH ASSIZES.

TRALEE. AUGUST 2.
HENRY DREARY V. WILLIAM TOWNSEND OIIN.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the loss of the
services of his daughter—damages bid at £l,OOO.
The pleadiogs were opened by.blr. Howler.
The facts of the case were as follows :—The plaintiff
is a plain, humble, industrious man, and bolds a situa-
tion as sejeant in the Kerry Militia. The defendant is
a young Gentleman of considerable fortune (3,0001. a
year), and a minor. The plaintiff's wife and the de-
fendant's grandmother are first cousins. The plaintiff
has in amiable and interesting daughter, named Cathe-
rine, who was taken into the defendant's mother's'
family in 1823, and placed under the protection of the
defendant's mother, Mrs. Gun, her own relation, in the
capacity of companion and superintendent to two young
Ladies, with one cf whom she slept. The defendant
was in his 17th •year—be fixed his eyes upon this in-
teresting girl—paid her marked attention—vowed he
loved her, and in an unguarded moment, in August,
1823, she yielded to him, and he effected her ruin.
The circumstance of their connection was kept a secret
for several months. The defendant implored her to
keep her situation a secret, aud swore on a Bible he
would protect her—he would take her to Gretna Green,
aad marry her. She, however, left the house, and re-
turned to her father's. Her mother perceived some-
thing desponding in her demeanour, and a.ked her the
reason? The unhappy. girl confessed the truth. The
mother removed her to a friend's house until she had
broken the affair to her father, who, on hearing it, be-
came distracted, and would not allow her near his
house. The consequence was, that she lived seclirded
for nearly 12 months—suffering the most acute agony
of body and mind. In December, 1824, a female child
was born. Her father consented that she should return
home, but that she should be secluded from the rest of
the family. The plaintiff's son a young man of twenty
years, was so sincerely attached to his sister, that he
pined away, and died of a broken heart. These facts
were detailed by Miss Gre.try, an interesting pretty
girl, who told her " tale of woe" with great modesty,
and interested all who heard her. _ _

The facts adduced for the defence were singular—A
Captain Lambert, of the Constabulary, and of a Gal-
way family, was quartered at Listowell. He was on
intimate terms with the defendant's family. Mrs. Gun
procured a situation for a man named Summers in his
corps—and about the month of January, 1824, this
Captain was in treaty with Summers to marry the
seduced girl. The match did not take place. But in
the same month, Mr. Lambert was on a visit to Mrs.
Gun ; he had, as he stated, some conversation with
Miss Greary, and in two or three days, he found a
letter on his bed-room table, written in the name of
Catherine Greary, soliciting him to meet her. Mr.
Lambert had a conversation with Miss Greary on the
purport of the assignation. She came to him, and
stayed with him part of the night—and she came to
him again on a subsequent night. He also deposed tol
having received two or three letters from her, and
having sent her money.
Miss Greary most positively denied, in her cross-
examination, what Mr. Lambert now advanced. She
never received a farthing of money from Mr. Lambert,
and had only once written a letter to him, and that was
at the suggestion of defendant's mother, whose name
was introduced into it. _ _ _

The Learned JUDGE drew the attention of the Jury
w the conflicting testimony. Their decision would
mainly depend upon the credit or discredit which they
gave to the one or the other witnesses.
The Jury retired for twenty minutes, and returned
with a verdict for the plAintiff—Damages £5OO, and
W. costs. _

- The people in crowds ran to the house of the plaintiff, and con.
tinued in joyous congratulation for several hours.

MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF THE
L4TE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.
On the dexter side of the Communion Table, in the
Chapel dedicated to the Wessed Virgin, in the Cathe-
dral of his Episcopal City, has been lately erected a
Monument to the Memory of the late Bishop North;
it is executed by Chantrey, in lii very best style; the
cost 2,000 guineas. The Bishop is kneeling, and in the
act of prayer; the likeness is amazingly good, and the
whole do-..s great credit to the sculptor. The following
is the inscription ; it is said to have been written by the
venerable Dean Rennell:
M: S.
Reverendi admodum in Christo Pattie
Bzowsmow.Noatar S : T : P.
Frareisci Comitis de Guilford Fill natu niinoris,
Pt imo Licbfeldensis,
Deinde Vigornienis,
Postretato Wintoniensis Diteceseos
Episcopi.
In amplissinturn !tune dignitatis gradurn evectus,
"Equitate. Clementia, et propensi in Gregent
Sibi COMTIIiSSUM benignitate
Proccipuum (minium atunrem et venerationem
Ctmeiliavit.
In r-bus gereudis perspicaci prudentia:
•
firmo et selerti judtcio usui est :
Literis Ilumanirmibue apprime erodltus
Simplicem nitorem et eleganttam
In Seripta et Orationem transtulit :
Ecclesiz Anglicans: singulari affectu
devinctus.
Fidem a primzvi Antlquitate derivatam
•
Integre cnsteslivit.
Morbi ingraveseentis dolores placide et constanter
Perpessus.
Vitam matte commutavic '
• Die Jai 12. Anna salutis 1820.
/Etat', 78:"
hoc pietatis et desiderit
Monumentum
Eatare voluerunt
Liberi superstites. •

There w's another Meeting of the Catholic Asso-
ciation in Dublin, on Saturday, but nothing of the
slightest interest transpired.
SHORT WEIGHT3.—The Inquest of the Ward of Al-
dersgate have set an example well worthy of the imi-
tation of the different Inquests of the other divisions
of London. Instead of merely presenting the names
of parties detected in using false weights, measures,.
&c. to the Court of Aldermen, which it appears has
been the usual practice, the Inquest of this Ward have
adopted the almost forgotten, but more effectual re-
medy, of laying informations and summoning offenders,
under the statute, before the Magistrates, who hive
authority, on conviction, to fine for such offences in
any sum, at their discretion, not exceeding twenty
shillings, nor less than five shillings. Four shopkeepers
of that Ward, against whom informations had been
preferred, attended yesterday before Aldermen Cox and
Vittrmst.as, and the offence having been clearly proved
against them, they were fined.


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