Star.
London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

GA LLANTRY.--QUiti being asked by a lady why it was
reported there were more women than men, be replied, " It is in con.
Remit), with the arrangements of nature, Diadem; we always see more
of heaven than earth."
A LZOAL BULL.—Mr. Sergeant Wilde, at Bri(tol,
while very whey on the absurdities of a Polish Jew, repeatedly re.
marked on the difficulty of discovering the prisoner's Christi/us name.
PARENTAL AFFECTION.—James Lane, indicted at the
Lancaster Anises for moldering his own son, by repeatedly heating him
with sticks and ropes, pleaded guilty of Manslaughter, and was gen.
tented to transportation for life. The brute said, he only beat the boy
to et the sulks out of him.
TUBICISII CRUELTY.--When his Majesty's ship Rifle-
man arrived at Malta from Negropont and Napoli di Romania, at Ne.
gropont she left a Turkish man of war and two transports, embarling
the ordnance stores from that Wand. Twelve Greeks' heads adorned
the portal of the sulky and bloody-minded Omar Pasha. The day be.
fore their arrival he flayed one alive, and on the same morning hanged
another !

SOUNDlNos.—Between Gibraltar and Ceuta, Captain
Smyth sounded to the extraordinary depth of 260 fathoms, where
found a gravelly:bottom, with fragments of shells!
ACCOMMODATION.III Ireland, at the election of 18'26.
a challenge having passed between two of the candidates, the Shetiff,
with genuine Milesian courtesy and gentlemanly feeling, adjourned the
election to enable the candidates to settle the &Stir. We are not vitt
sure that the Sheriff did not second one of the candidates; but the dad
was fought, and, neither party having been wounded, the business of ,h..
election was resumed as if nothing out of the usual way had *pellet:.
PHOSPHATE OF QUINIA.—This new preparation of qi
nia, when rendered slightly acid, is a much milder medicine than tie
sulphate, or the free alkalL It is better retained on the stomach where
irritation exists, or by nervous patients. Its use does not occasion that
unpleasant feeling which is sometimes produced after taking the hut.
phase ; it does not so readily accelerate the motions of the heart,
does it irritate the lungs. It should be administered in pills of from o e
to four grains.—Belletin Universe&
THE POPE AND THE Ex-KING.—The French prelates
wrote to the Pope urging upon him the absolute necessity of interfering to
induce the King to put a check upon the liberty of the press in Fran*.
With a view to place in a conspicuous light the claims of Charles X.
upon the church, they gave a list of the donations and legacies made to
the church during the short reign of Charles (of five years), which
amounted to a sum ,A. 30,000,900 francs ; whereas in the whole nine
years of the reign of Louis XVIII use legacies and donations amountel
so only 12,000,000, and in the thirteen yet.rs of the Imperial government
to only 2,000,000. iThe Pope resisted, for some time, :hese solicitations
of the French prelates to urge upon the King a measure of rigour against
the press ; and that at length, on yielding. he said to the Cardinal
Albani, " May GOD avert from me the evil that may arise out of thi:
measure !"

Quiw, in his old age, every one knows, became a great
gourmsnd, and, among other things, invented a composition, which he
called his " Siamese soup," pretending that Its Ingredients were prin.
cipally from the " east." The peculiarity of its flavour became the
topic of the day. The " rage "at Bath was Mr. Quin's soup ; hut, as
he would not pert with the recipe, this state of notice was highly incon.
venient ; every person of taste was endeavouring to dine with him;
every dinner he was at, on apology was made for the absence of the
" Siamese soup." His female friends Quin was forced to put off with
promises ; the males received a respectful but manly denial. A con.
spimey was accordingly projected by a dozen bona oioans of Bath,
against his peace and comfort. At home he was Sooded with anonymous
letters; abroad beset with applications under every form. The posses.
sloe of this secret was made a canker to all his enjoyments. At length
be discovered the design, and determined •on revenge. Collecting the
names of the principal confederates, he invited them to dinner, promis.
log to give them the recipe before they departed—an invitation which
wee joyfully accepted. Quin then gave a pair of old boots to the house.
maid to scour and soak, and, when sufficiently seasoned, to chop up
into tine particles, like minced meat. On the appointed day, he took
these particles, and pouring them into a copper pot, with sage, onions,
spice, ham, wine, water, and other ingredients, composed a mixture or
about two (gallons, which wu saved up at his table as his " Siamese
soup." The company were in transports at its favour; but Quin,
pleading a cold, did not taste it. A pleasant evening was spent, and
when the hour of departure arrived, each person pulled out his
tablets to write down the recipe. Quin now pretended that he
had forgot making the promise ; but his guests were not to be put off,
and, closing the door, they told him in plain terms that neither he nor
they should quit the room till this pledge should have been redeemed.
Quin stammered and evaded, and kept them from the point as long as
possible ; but when their patience was beating down all bounds, his
reluctance gave way. " Well, then, gentlemen," said he, "in the fiat
place, take an old pair of boots !" " What an old pair of boots "
' " The older the batter;" (they stared at each other)—" cut off their
taps and soles, and soak them in a tub of water I—(they hesitated)—
chop them into fins particles, and pour them into a pot with two gal.
less and a half of water." Why, Quin," they simultaneously ex.
claimed, "you don't mean to say that the soup we've been drinking
was made of old boots r " I do, gentlemen," he replied, " my cook
will assure you she chopped them up." They reqUlred no such attes-
tation ' • his cool, infiexillsb• expeenfon was sufficient z in an instant
horror and despair were depicted, on each countenance, in the conviction
they were individually poisoned. Quin, observing this, begged them
sot to be alarmed, since he could contemplate no dangerous result from
their dinner ; but if they thought It would sit uneasy on their stomachs,
there was an apothecary's shop in the next street the hint was taken :
an idea of personal safety subdued the rising throbs of indignation.
Seizing their hats, away flew the whole bevy down the stairs, and
along the street to the place advised, where ipeeacuanha and other
provocatives were speedily pocured, and the " Siamese soup" (and all
its concomitants) were spy diagoiged.—Bernard'sfietrospectdate
Stag&
A GALLANT TR•NSLATOlt.—Anthony Wydeville, Earl
Rivers, in the reign of Edward the Fourth, was considered the most ac-
complished cavalier of his day. Sailing into Spain, and " layckyng
syght of all Wades," he whiled away the time by translating into Eng-
-1111 a small treatise, lent him for the nonce by "a worshipful' ;gently.
,man called Lowys de Bretaylles." This work is entitled, "The
Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. translated out of the latyn into
Prenche by a worshipful toan called Alessire Jehan de Teonville, Pro.
vat of Paris." The gallantry of the noble author, however, is CO3.
spicuous in his omitting to translate a part of it, because it contained
sarcasms of Socrates against the fair sex. This book is supposed to be
the second ever printed in England by Caxton, who seems to have felt
none of his Lordship's scruples, for he did not hesitate to translate the
satirical parts himmlf, and add them to the performance, not certainly
without an apology. for the liberty. A highly interesting account of
Lord Rivers' (then Lord Scales) celebrated "Passage of Arms at
Smithfield," with the "Bastard of Burgundy," is given in the second
part of the " Excerpts Histories," just published, taken from a MOD-
pair in the Arundel collection, preserved at the Herald's College.
TRUTH FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.—Mr. Temple,
the author of two volumes of Travels in Peru, recently published in
London, tells this story of a shark and a Yankee:—" Several years
ago, in the West Indies, a British ship of war fell in with an Americ..n
merchant vessel, which, from circumstances, was generally supposed to
be a good and lawful prize • but no papers being found on board to
condemn the vessel, and her Captain swearing that all was correct, the
British Captain, afteri the detention of a day or two, was induced to re-
linquish his capture. Shortly after this—l forget the precise specs of
time—a shark was caught by another British ship of war on the same
station, and in cutting it up—a delightful operation seldom ornitteti...:,
tin ease, containing sundry papers, was found in its stomach. They
proved to have belonged to the merchant vessel abovementioned, and
had been thrown overboard by the Captain when about to be examined
by the British cruiser. The fact was soon discovered ; the papers wee
taken se Port Royal, where the American Captain had actually cos,
mewed an action for damages against the British Captain for unlawful
leotnenthantion:
whose
shtaipble:aswcondeere immediately
"iatealygoodturat
konwfulthertteo.nbti
shark was one of the largat size, and the jaws are preserved to Ibis day
in the Justice-ball at Spanish Town, to the annoyance of many aYankee
Captain, who, when swearing about the destination of his ship and the
correctness of his papers, is reminded of this extraordinary detection. t'y
some one in coon significantly pointing to the jaws of the shark, axle
saying—" Take care, the truth will out though from the bottom of the
sea." I have heard this story corroborated by several persons, and very
lately by an officer who was acquainted with the commander of the
ship, on board which the shark that had swallowed the timbox en'
taken."—New York Clsr. Adv.

MARRIED.
The 2d inst. at Moreton Say, Salop, T. 011irant, Esq. of Mucha-
ter, to Margery, youngest daughter of the late W. Minor, Esq. of Ma-
ley Brow, near Market Drayton...She 2d inst. at St. George's, RIC'S"
gate, J. Sikes, Esq. of Sudbury, Suffolk, to Mary, only daughter cf
S. Churchill, Esq. of Hitchin, Herts.—The 26th ult. at St. Andrew*
Church, Plymouth. the Rev. T. Littleton Wheeler. M.A. Scholar
Worcester College on Sir 'l'. Cooke 'it Foundation, to Ross Emu"-
Lockyer, daughter of the late E. Lockyer, M.D.

DIED.
The let inst. at Lewes, Sussex, Fanny Anne, the eldest daughter of
G. P. Parkin, E .of Weelwich.—A few days since, at the VloctogL.
Warden, Bedtoedshire, Emily, second daughter of the Rev. F. H. Neves
Y. A. of Mama Collage, Oxford.—Rey. J. Thomas, of 111° New
Chat =lmo—Rev y. T. Wilson, Vier of 'instead, Kent—Rev..
M. hessel Rectos of Monigesnery.—Rer. A. Bird, of
Purist Cambridge.—Rey. J. loam, M.A. Rector of Llangyn-
befid, At Llandegley, Radnorshire. the Rev. B. Scott,
Vicar of mid Prior's Salford-, Warwickshire.

Lo I DON t Rioted sad rublisbed by Joau blaYsti al the 5"&"
Omen, 170. 1, Pickatislose, Temp/one