Star.
London, England, 1830-05-19 00:00:00

MY HOME IS 7'HE WORLD!

remit FILASEIeS Magazine for May.
SPELD, speed, my Heel vessel ! the shore is in sight,
The breezes are fair, we shall anchor to-night ;
T..morrow, at sunrise, once more I shall stand
On the ses.eaten shore of my dear native land.

ath ' why does despondency weigh down my heart?
*: %eh thoughts are for friends who reluctantly part;
I come from an exile of twenty long years,
WO gaze on my country through fast-falling tears !
I see the hills purple with bells of the heath,
And my own happy vidley that nestles beneath,
And the fragrant white blossoms spread over the thorn
That grows near the cottage in which I was born.

It cannot be changed—no, the clematis climbs
O'er the gay little porch, as it did in old times ;
' And the seat where my father reclined is still there—
Bat where is my father ?—oh, answer me, where ?

My mother's own casement, the chamber she loved,
Is there—overlooking the lawn where I roved;
•4bc thoughtfully sat with her hand o'er her brow,
Ard she watch'd her young darling :--ah ! where is she now ?
And there is my poor sister's garden : how wild
iireze the innocent sports of that beautiful child !
Her voice had a spell in it's musical tone,
And her cheek was like rose-leaves :—ah ! where is she gone ?

No father reclines in the clematis seat!
No mother looks forth from the shaded retreat !
No sister is there, stealing slyly away,
Till half-suppress'd laughter betrayed where she lay !
t How oft in my exile, when kind friends were near,
t I've slighted their kindness, and sighed to be here !
How oft have I said—" Could I once again see
That sweet little valley, how blest I should be!".
How blest ! ob ! it is not a valley like this
That unaided can realise visions of bliss;
For voices I listen—and then I look round
For light steps that used to trip after the sound !
But see ! this green path—l remember it well_
'Tin the way to the church—bark ! the toll of the bell!
Oh! oft in my boyhood a truant I've strayed
To yonder dark yew-tree, and slept in its shade.
But surely the pathway is narrower now !
No smooth space is left 'math the dark yew-tree bough
O'er tablets inscribed with sad records I tread.
And the home I have sought--is the home of the dead
And was it to this I look'd forward so long,
And shrunk from the sweetness of Italy's song ?
And turn'd from the dance of the dark of Spain?
And wept for my country again and again ?

And was it for this to my casement I crept
To gaze on the deep when they deemed that I slept ?
To think of fond meetings—the welcome—the kiss—
The friendly hand's pressure--oh ! was it for this 9
When those, who so long have been absent, return
To the scenes of their childhood, it is but to mourn ;
Wounds open afresh that time nearly had healed,
And the ills of a life at one glance are revealed.
Speed, speed, my fleet vessel ! the tempest may rave,....
There's a calm for my heart in the dash of the wave :
Speed, speed, my fleet vessel ! the sails are unfurl'd,
Oh ! ask me not whither—my Home is the World !

FALL OF THE STEEPLE OF ORFORD CHURCH,
A WELL-KNOWN AND IMPORTANT SEA-MARK.

Sunday last, between the hours of eight and nine in
the morning, the good people of the snug borough of Or-
ford, in the county of Suffolk, were fearfully alarmed at
a shock like that of an earthquake, and finding them-
selves enveloped in a cloud of dust. When this latter
source of wonder had in some measure cleared away,
they discovered that a great portion of the nieple of
their parish church, or rather chapel, which had
long been in a shattered condition, had fallen to the
ground, leaving only the walls to the north and east stand-
ing, and the bells, with their heavy frame-work, suspended
from them. The sexton, who had been in the belfry toll-
ing the eight o'clock bell, had providentially left the
church some minutes, otherwise he would have been
buried in the ruins. It may also appear a peculiar pro-
vidence that it happened so early in the morning, for had
it taken place a few hours later, the congregation would
have been assembled, and the consequences might have
been most serious to many. The fall also of the two sides
was like that of an avalanche, beginning at the base ; had
it been headlong many families residing in the skirts of
the churchyard, would have been in danger. It is hourly
expected that the remaining sides will fall, the bells
hanging from them (five in number) being very heavy ;
and a fissure in the northern wall, which is gradually in-
creasing, excites the greatest fear that nearly the whole
of the remaining ruins, bells and all, will fall on the roof
of the body of the church, destroying it and the excellent
organ it contains, and making a fearful wreck of that
which has so long been a venerable relic of the olden
times.

The church is of great antiquity, but the date of its
erection, and the name of its founder, are unknown.
—The pillars, which remain of the chancel (long
since divided from the body of the church) seem to
indicate, by the excellence and rarity of their work-
manship, an origin many years anterior to the other
parts of the sacred edifice. As the steeple has long been
a sea-mark of much importance; it is most desirable that
its change of form
.and the probability of its entire re-
moval; should be made as public as possible, lest the con-
sequences on sea be much more serious than they have
been on land.

It is but justice to the inhabitants of Orford to state,
that not many weeks back they offered, by advertise-
ment, to contract with any one for the erection of a strong
buttress against that part of the church which seemed to
be in danger of falling. The work had not commenced,
otherwise there cannot be a shadow of doubt how more
than melancholy the result would have been.

.„
At Lambeth-street, yesterday, a waggoner, named
Stern, in the employment of Mr. Gardiner, a cCal-mer-
thant in Mile End-road, was committed for trial for
stealing a quantity of beans which had been supplied
him for food for the horses, but which he carried off
arid sold to a man named Ree, the horsekeeper at the
Plough Inn, at the same place, and the latter was also
committed for receiving the same.
When our celebrated countryman, Captain PARRY,
was preparing for his first expedition to the Pole, sage
conjectures were afloat, both from the, learned and un-
learned. To reach the Pacific. through .a region of ice
was certainly deemed impracticable, ,and every' attempt
has yet demonstrated the tact. Two honest farmeni in
our neighbourhood had received la newspaper giving all
the particulars of the intended.expedition, and long, long
they tried to conjectureVhat the Pole was; and the season
why all this bustle was going 0n....:‘;' .Step," Jaya Peter
Davison; " I seeitt.now ltiA•loOk at that grunstane—
that's the. yeardk. ,apek'; the . Iron .axleltree• is the Pole."
44 says' Rib " what:o' s' that ; what can
parry do the auda3trtie of the.yearth—=can he make
it better ?"-OuisteogasPhical hero, not theleast daunted,
immediatelrieplied—" He canon make it better, Rab;
that l- Oh*, you know, we have had some savers
weather thee twa winters back, and something maim be
we land ate, ye ken, Pairy's just gaun out to oil the
Pahept6 make it go roun' better."—Greenock Advertiser.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 18.
Sittings in BODO%
DOE, D. CALVERT AND CO. V. REID.

This was an ejectment, brought for breach of covenant
in a lease. The defendant was a publican, and had co-
venanted in the lease which he held of his house that he
should consume on the premises no other porter than that
of the Star Brewery, of which the business was carried
on by two persons of the names of Phillips and Meyers.
Afterwards Phillips and Meyers assigned to the plaintiffs
the Star Brewery, and the trade of the defendant's house.
They did not continue to carry on the brewing business
at the place called the Star Brewery, but removed it to
another place, and the question was, whether the defend-
ant was bound by his covenant to consume on his pre-
mises no other porter than that of the plaintiff ?
By the Co U RT—The covenant was, that the defendant
should consume on his premises no other porter than that
of Phillips and Meyers, and their successors, in the Star
Brewery. If the plaintiffs had continued the business at
the place called the Star Brewery, the defendant might
be bound ; but they did not so continue it, but removed
it to another place, and the change of place might make
an essential difference to the publican. The Court
therefore was of opinion, that when the business ceased
at the Star Brewery, the defendant was released from the
covenant.

Postea for the defendant.
EXPARTE JOSEPH DIGBY.

Mr. CAMPBELL applied for a rule to show cause why
a Writ of Habeas Corpus should not issue to bring up
the body of Thomas Digby from the Gaol of Springfield,
in Essex, in order to his being discharged. The man
had been found, as was alleged, on board a smuggling
vessel, containing spirits, &c. and had been taken before
some Essex Magistrates, who made out a warrant for
his commitment to the County Gaol, at Chelmsford, and
an order to the Keeper, a man of the name of Caulkwell,
to detain him. The man, however, was committed, not
to Chelmsford Gaol, but to this Gaol at Springfield, of
which a man of the name of Clarkson Knivett was
keeper. Besides, nothing appeared on the face of the
information or warrant to show that Digby had been
landed on any place within the jurisdiction of the Ma-
gistrates ; and for these reasons it was evident that the
imprisonment was illegal, There were other reasons,
but it was unnecessary to mention them.
Rule Granted.
FAXARDO V. DEL MONTE.

Mr. RICHARDS applied to the Court for a rule to
show cause why the defendant in that case should not be
discharged out of the custody of the marshal of the
King's Bench, on filing common bail. This was a case
of very great hardship, and the facts were briefly these :
--The defendant was a Spaniard of very high rank ; in
1821, his father, the Baron del Monte, died, and left his
affairs in a very embarrassed situation ; the son was not,
by the law of Spain, obliged to take upon himself his fa-
ther's obligations, but he nevertheless did so, and did
every thing in his power to arrange them to the satisfac •
Lion of the creditors ; in 1825, he met the plaintiff, who,'
upon understanding the state of the case, agreed to ad-
vance a sum of money on the security of certain estates
in Spain, belonging to the defendant ; still the defen-
dant found it impossible to get his father's affairs ar-
ranged, and submitted himself to a kind of process bear-
ing a resemblance to our commission of bankruptcy, by,
which be himself was personally cleared and made free
from arrest, the creditors having recourse against his
property. Under this proceeding, a portion of his debt
was paid to the plaintiff, neither he nor the other cre-
ditors, however, being paid in full. The intimacy be-
tween the plaintiff and the defendant, however, con-
tinued till 1829, about the close of which the plaintiff
informed the defendant that he was obliged to leave Spain
for some time, and proceed to France, and he proposed
to the defendant to accompany him part of the way,
to which the latter agreed. On the way, the
plaintiff next proposed that the defendant should ac-
company him on a tour in France, and to induce him to
consent, entered into an engagement to defray his ex-
penses. On these terms the defendant consented to ac-
company him, and they proceeded to Gibraltar, where
plaintiff took their passage on board an English vessel
bound for France, as the plaintiff represented. On the
Ist of February last, however, the vessel arrived at Fal-
mouth, where the plaintiff and defendant landed, and on
the 13th the defendant was arrested and taken to a lock-
up house. The plaintiff said that this arose only from I
mistake at the Alien-office, and left the defendant with
a promise to go to the office and set the matter right.
The defendant, who had no acquaintance with the
English language, but understood the French, happened
to meet at the lock-up house with a person who spoke
French, and then for the first time understood that he
was arrested for debt at the suit of the plaintiff, who bad
brought him to this country apparently for this very pur-
pose.—Rule granted.