Star.
London, England, 1830-09-07 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

ifonlapse, about 15 yam; of age, the son of
a horse-keeper at the Swan with Two Necks, Isad-lane, was yesterday
charged with stealing a parcel, which was brought from Newbury by a
Bristol coach on the 25th ult. and which contained halves of provincial
notes to the amount of 4001.

Mr. Waterhouse, jun. having stated the nature of the use, called
Thomas William Brodrick, who said that the parcel In question came
by the Regent coach, and was called over by him on its snivel in check.
ing the way-bill. On the following evening, in checking the par-
eels charged to him, the principal porter discovered that none
of his men had accounted to him for the delivery of this parcel, nor
could any of them recollect anything of it. Here the mattes rested till
Wednesday last, when Mrs. Ashby, of Bunhill.row, complained of
the non.delivery of the parcel to her, and stated It contained the
halves of notes to the extent of 400 L Upon enquiry, whims learned
the next morning, that a porter named Cleveland had been observed
to be in possession of half an Oxford Old Bank note for 201. Cleve-
land was applied to, and said he received it from a porter named
Fowler, who took It from the father of the boy, upon being asked by
him if it was of any use. It had been given to the father in the pre-
sence of another porter by the son, who said he had picked it up as
it was swimming down the kennel in Gutter-lane, en the evening the
parcel was stolen.
Several other witnesses were heard, but they did not state any new
facts, end the prisoner was remanded till Saturday.

UNlON.HALL.—Yesterday, three men, named Smith, Driver, and
Clark, were charged with breaking into the premises of Mr. Farmer,
oil and paint manufacturer, in Lock's-fields.
One of the policemen of P. division saw three auspicious looking
characters lurking about Mr. Farmer's premises. The no sooner
found that they were noticed, than they
in a different direction to elude suspicion. segreated'policeman proceeding
that the warehouse had been broken open, and a quantity of paint,
varnish, and verdigris, taken out of the casks, and placed in
ready to be carried off the premises by the thieves. The policeman
apprehended Smith while undressing to go to bed. Smith was
highly indignant when informed of the suspicion attached to
his conduct, and when told that he must proceed to the station.bouse,
he became quite outrageous, and seizing a poker, swore that no power
should take him out of his house. Unfortunately for him, while engaged
in Mr. Farmer's warehouse taking the verdigris out of the casks,- his
shirt and stockings were stained with that article, and when that proof
of bis having been on the premises was mentioned to him, he became
quite calm, and submitted to be taken out of his house without any
resistance.

The other prisoners, on separating hem eilddi, it will be recollected,
went in contrary directions, both erwhom, lemma as to his fate, pr!-
eeeded afterwards to his house, and were in the same bed.
Their clothes were also soiled with the is, and en the
room, one of the padlocks which was wssecitsd off the door of Mr. ar.
mer's warehouse was found; these, together with a large quantity of
butter, the property of a Mr.Wrighessa,whess premises had been broken
into a few nights ago, and robbed of property to a considerable amount,
were identified. A knife was fond in Mr. Farmer's warehouse, left
behind by the thieves, on the hails of which were the initials of the
prisoner Clark's name. The Idioms were conmattaL
Lautitru•sTizas.....Ymterday, AIM Gould was= with
stealing a leg of mutton from one of the station.houses to IL
division of police, and which was intended for the Sunday's dinner of
the policemen stationed there.

The prisoner, ma the preceding morning, obsemed the leg of mutton
hanging up in the hall ; and, though he was perfectly aware of what
the house was. yet he could not resist so tempting an offer. After pos.
swing himself of his prise, be scampered GC but being observed, a
posse of policemen were soon in pursuit, and secured him and the mut.
, ton. He was committed for three months to the tread-mill, the magis-
trates at the same time remarking that his attempt was a most daring
eta.

A ludiaous charge of felony was prefened!against two little urchins,
whose heads scarcely reached to the top of the bar behind which they
were placed, and whose united ages could not exceed fifteen years.
From the statement of the prosecutor, an itinerant poulterer, ft ap..
peered that he had on Saturday night placed four sucking pigs in a
basket in Whitechapel market, and during his absence the prisoners had
sold them to different customers for 13s. though their first coat to him
was 245. He subsequently, however, speared the p and found
on one of them the whole of the money which be hadreceived for the
pip, and which he took from him.
The Magistrates, after a severe admonition, discharged the young
delinquents.

Thalia& Pottcr..—Yesterday, Patrick Crams, an excavator was
charged with knocking down several of his countrymen, and assaulting:
the new police. It appeared that, on Saturday night, about twelve
o'clock, the prisoner rushed out of a house in Old Oravel-lane, Shad.
well, in a state of intoxication, followed by several persons, the whole if
whom he knocked down In succession. Cries of murder were raised, and
Lee, a Felice-constable, stepped up to secure the prisoner, who soon le- I
veiled him with the earth. Two other officers came to his assistance, end
they were also felled to the ground.
Mr. Young, an Inspector of K. division, said the defendant be.
bayed in the most outrageous manner at the station-house, upset the
table and lamp, and attempted to strike him.

Prisoner—lt was all owing to the whisky I got at Larry Hine&
ley's wake r I hope
that
Honors will look over it this time.
An officer stated that the prisoner had best a female in a very
brutal manner.

Prisoner—Oh, that was only my wife; pure now a man may bate
his own wife without being called over the coals.

Mr. BEODERIP ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 40 shillings to
the Sing. In default, he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

Curvier, the celebrated French naturalist, is said to have
dissected an insect which, though but an inch long, contained 494 pairs
of muscles, connected with u many nerves, and 40,000 antenna.
Crcesus offered large sums of money to Anacharais, the
celebrated Scythian philosopher, but he refused them, saying, my ap.
pad is s Scythian rug ; my oboes the hardness of my feet; ply bed the
earths my MCC hunger ; and my riches content; if you wish to serve
me, you cannot do so more effectually than by bestowing the gifts you
intended fa me upon those of your citizens, who stand in need of them,
or in sacrificing to the immortal GOD.

CROWDED STATE Or THE PRISONS or THE METROPOLIS.
—There were no less than 75 charges at Bow.street yesterday, brought
t‘p by the Police of the Division F, to this Office, and Sir R. Birnie
took occasion to 'observe to Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent, that he
had received communications from the Governors of the three prisons,
the House of Correction, New Prison, Clerkenwell, and Tothill.Helds,
tofoiming him that those receptacles for offenders were crowded beyond
all precedent, many prisoners in each place being obliged to sleep at
night in the open air, occupying the yards usually appropriated for their
use for exercise during the day. He (Sir R. Thule) therefore hoped
the men under Mr. Thomea's contrail would be instructed to bring u
few charges forward as they could, consistently with the proper pee•
fortune, of their duty. The charges were almost •ll of a very trivial
nature, and but few were committed or decd.

SCINTILLA.

TOBACCO.
Sublime Tobacco ! which, from East to West,
Cheers the Tar's labour or the Turkman's rest ;
Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides
His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ;
Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,
Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand ;
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe ;
Like other charmers, wooing the caress
More dazzlingly when daring in full dreez
Yet thy true lovers mom admire by far
Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar !
Lord Byron a The Island.

OLD PARR.—It was the privilege
_ of Old Pan. to escape
six times the infection of the plague. He was bom before_ plating
came to be in vogue, and had lived 80 years before guns were fabricated
in England. He wintered the first importation of busks, masks muffs,
fans, and periwigs, for female use, all derived from Italy, but by the
English borrowed from their French ndghboun. Although deprived
of his sight, he retained his mental fumbles, more especially the shrewd-
ness of his apprehension, of which a curious instance is given by hi,
biographer. Being desirous to renew the leased his house for the third
time, for sixty years, for the benefit of his wife, who was about a ctn.
tury younger than himself, be took occasion, when his landlord we.:
coming to his house, to desire that a pin might be dropped on his shoe;
and scarcely bad the landlord to enter into conversation with him,
than the wily old man exclaim 4 "Is not that a pin I see there ?"
By which artifice he hoped to make the landlord -believe that he Q.
recovered his sight, and consequently was not unreasonable in demand.
ing the renewal of his lase.
A HINT TO MOTHERS.—AII young animals naturally
delight to be In the open air and in perpetual motion : but we signify
our disapprobation of this intention of Nature by confining our infants
mostly in houses, and swathing them from the time they are born its
tightly as possible. This natural instinct appears very strung when we
see a child released from its confinement, in the short interval betwixt
pulling Wits day loathes, and swathing it again before it is put to
sleep. The evident tokens of delight which the little creature shows in
recovering the free use of its limbs, and the strong reluctance it dis.
covers to be again remitted to its bondage, one should think would strike
conviction of the amity and absurdity of this practice into the most
stupid of mankind.—Dr. Gregory's Comparative View qf the Faculties
of Man with those of Ike Animal World.
LEGAL DECISIONS.—" Reason is the life of the Law;
nay, the Common Law itself is nothing else but reason."—lf a man
rays et a Counsellor of Law' " thou art a daffaalownsdilly," an action
lies. So adjudged in Seacario and agreed per iota= aniata....l Pin.
Ab. 448.—" He bath no more law than Mr. C.'s bull," these words
being spoken of an attorney the Court inclined that they were actionable,
and that the plaintiff should have judgment, though It was objected that
the plaintiff had not declared that C. had a bull (Side:fin, 327, p 1 &
Push. 19 Car. IL Baker v. Morfue.) The Chief Justice was of opinion
that if C. had no bull the scandal was the greater. And it was pro.
nounced per curiam in the same ease, that to say of a lawyer, " that he
has no more law than a goose," has been aljudgedactionable.—Sid. 127,
pL 8. There is a querre added, as to the saying, "He bath no more
law than the man in the moon" (ib. 2 Kib. 209); the law, doubtless,
contemplating the possibility of there being a man iu the =lion, and of
his being a good lawyer.
DOCTER MARTIN LUTHER'S NOTIONS OP LOVE AND
Moray ox.—Some one said to the Doctor that a very pretty girl had
been given to an old widower, a aipple, and at the same time cross and
avaricious, who had treated his former wife in the harshest manner.
When he plagued ber more than usual she would say, se Can the Devil
not get quit of you—if he had bad you as long in hell he would have
been sick of you." Then said Dr. Martian Luther, "GOD give her
his blessing and this epithelia:ilium, that he may be as jealous of her as
old men generally are of their wives. Ah ! dear Goa, what a grand but
Musinular thing it is to love wife and children as we ought ! We can
Mu a mistress easily enough, but a wedded wife not easily. It must
be a very righteous man indeed who can love his wife, and a righteous
woman who can sincerely love her husband and children. So completely
has Satan got the better of Gon's ordinances, and extinguished all natural
affection and love in us. For whatever we ought to do, that we are sure
not to do. For Law excites dislike in us, even in worldly and temporal
things. What we ought to do, it grieves us always to do, and we never
do it without ill-wilL Were a man to be compelled by law to have a
new bride every week, it would be insupportable to him, merely because
the law commanded him. Thus we can be fond of any vile creature
anemsbalg) but we cannot have the same love for a wedded wife."...
Luau's Collwatia, f. SOIL
DIRT.—The inhabitants of the northern extremities of
Europe and Asia, the Esquimau:, and the people of Terra del Fuego,
live entirely on flesh, and that often raw, and yet in strength, size, and
courage, are far inferior to the rest of mankind. This proves that ani.
mal diet does not necesearily confer moral and physical energy. Again,
vegetable diet is not connected with weakness and cowardice. The
Greeks and Romans subsisted chiefly on vegetable preparations, as a
period when their valour and energy rendered them the terror and admi-
ration of surrounding nations. The Irish and Scotch, who me not
weaker than ourselves, live chiefly on vegetable aliment. The Swedes
under Gustavus and Charles were herbiverous and invincible. The ye.
groes, distinguished for all kinds of physical energy, live chiefly in the
mine way ; and so do the South Sea islanders, whose agility and
strength were found infinitely to surpass those of our stoutest sailors.—
On the other hand, the debilitating effects of animal food are altogether
without foundation; there is not a vestige of evidence that any period
ever existed when the whole human race abstained from flesh. and lived
in a state of perfect innocence and profound repose. Look at the diet
of that nation which has produced some of the most inundate names
in the records of the human race, whether in literature, science. politi-
cal, civil, or military eminence,—the country of Shakspeare, Newton,
Locke, and Milton. With such examples before us, it is monstrously
absurd to assert that animal food is productive of any detrimental effect
on the developement and powers of the human mind and body.—
Griffides Translation of Cutder's Animal Kingdom.
Kismo.—There is too much of kissing in the Comedies
of the time of Moliere. The valets are always requesting kisses from
the waiting-women; which is exceedingly flat and disagreeable, espe-
cially when the actors are ugly and must necessarily exhibit against the
grain.—ln a chapter on Kissing by John de la Casa, Archbishop of
Benevento, he says that people may kiss from the head to the foot. Be
complains, however, of long noses, and recommends ladies who posses
such to have lovers with shun ones. To kiss was the ordinary mantel
of salutation throughout all antiquity. Plutarch relates, that the coo.
spiraters, before they killed Cesar, kissed his face, his hands. and his
bosom. It is horrible to betray while saluting : the assuainarion of
Casa: Is thereby rendered much more odious. The kiss of Judas has
become a proverb. Josh, one of the Captains of David, aid to him,
Art thou in health, my brother ?" and took him by the beard with his
right hand to kiss him, while with the other he drew his silent and
smote him so that his bowels were " shed upon the ground." We know
not of any kissing in the other assassinations so frequent ainong the
Jews, except possibly the kisses given by Judith to the Captain Hob
fawn, before she cut off his bend in bed ; but no mention is /nark of
them, and therefore the fact is only to be regarded as probable. The
first Christians, male and female, Wad with the mouth at their Agape
or love-feasts. They bestowed the holy kiss, the kiss of peace, the Mo-
therly and sisterly kiss,—ogion Akins. This custom lasted for four
centuries, and was finally abolished in distrust of the consequences. It
is remarkable, that mankind and turtles and pigeons alone practice kiss.
fog; hence the Latin word colatbatim, which our language mesa
ea:dm—Philosophical Dictionary.
GIBBON'S APPRECIATION OP HIS OWN CHARACTER.
May Bth, 1782. This was my birth-day, on which I entered into
the Nth year of my age. This gave me occasion to look a link fro
myself, and consider impartially my good and bad qualities. It v-
eep:ll2:dt rtandam:sagneauebeseuPimacdon,thisformini:oleiletyuiryfor: getterouthatnemseys
gonechl,:biestuetrlthwiiiisrttliWernSat:PM4vouint.
to cultivate, exurpate, or restrain, according to their different teorieuy,
Wit I have none...- My imagination is rather straw than pleasing. 313 r
memory both capacious and retentive. The shining qualities of my
understanding are extensiveness and penetration; but I want both quick.
nese and exactness."—Ectracted from his Annual. See Gibbon's ;tit.
cellansons Works.

BIRTHS.
The 3d hut. at Richmond, Surrey. Mn. (lulchet, wife of H. Ow-
ehet, late of I'Ecola de Thole, of a daughter—The bth last. at Dalhatil,
the lady of E. Pauli, Esq. of a son.

MARRIED.
The 4th lust. at All Saints, Poplar, Lieut. F. R. Coelho, R.N•
Jane Monaurally daughter of L.Bealf, Esq. sorgeoo—Thedth lam
at St. Alkuniturs Church, Derby, Mr. S. S. Woollatt, Holhors.llBl.
to Elisabeth, only daughter of the late Mr. J.Woollatt, of flaky. oat
Duffield, Derbyshire—Saturday, at Fawley, Northamptonshire, the
Rev. A. Fawkes, to Miss E. Storey, second daughter of the Isle J. B.
&orey, Esq. of Lockingtoo.hall, Lricesteraire—The Sfst nit. at &-
Joliet, Hempstead, William, son of B. Brooks. Esq. of Lincoln's Inc.
to Mule. widow of the late G. Rodd, Esq.

DIED.
The lit inst. Mrs. Lathes, Union.row, Peckham, aged 68•••• The
2tl inst. Mr. J. Rymer, late of Fountain.court, Strand, in the 42d year
of his sp.—The 4th inst. at Dover, R. Mush, Esq. in the (154 yesi of
his age.—Tbe 4th inst. at Leamington, is the 61st year of his art HL
Hored, of Waterloo-place, Pall.malL--The 4th inst. in ha 72ih
year, J. Bartlett, Ea +of WielthW, Bracknell, Becks.--The sth inst.
at ines Langky, Haw, T. Taney, Esq. erg 72.—Tke 17th oh. at
Flotsam, H. D. Raba& Esq. aged

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