Star.
London, England, 1830-08-05 00:00:00

SCINTILLiE.

A Pious PRINCE !--The golden rose, ornamented
with diamonds, which is given by the Pope, to the most " sincerely
pious" of Catholic Princes, has this year been presented, by his
Holiness' commands, to Don Miguel I !
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DUN AND KETcII.—A fellow named Dun, was the
first noted finisher of the law. lie was succeeded by one Jack
Ketch, whose greater notoriety gave his name permanendy to the
office ; while that of Dun attached itself to the scarcely less ho.
nourable office of bailiff's follower.

AN EXPLOIT.—A labouring man named Squires, who
resided in the pariah of Heavitree, hung himself in his bed-room.
Report says that he arrived at home in a state of intoxication ; and
on his wife accusing him of being drunk, which he denied, and
saying she would rather hang herself than live with such a man, he
turned the tables upon her, by hanging hiussey:
A MEMBER.—The Whipper-in, from the nature of
his office, is generally at the tail of the pack ; but in contradistinc-
tion to this, the whipper-in of the late House of Commons, has
been the first Member returned to the new one.
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TIIE KinG.—During the expedition of the late Duke
of York to Holland, he was accompanied by Prince William, his
resent Majesty, who having, in the eagerness of youth, ventured
yond the outposts, received more than one ball through his coat.
TEA AND PEAS.—At the splendid dejnow on Tuesday
morning in Kensington Gardens, his Majesty desired one of his si-
tes:Wants to bring him some green tea and cream, and although the
attendant went off with alacrity to obey his Majesty's commands, a
considerable time elapsed before his return, when at length he was
seen hastening with rapidity towards his Majesty with a smoking
dish of green pose and a cream ewer S The mistake afforded much
amusement to those who witnessed it.
Dust OF ORLEANS.—The present Duke of Orleans
is the son of the well-known l'Egalite, who suffered during the
French Revolution by the guillotine, and cousin to the ei.King. He
I was several years himself a Colonel in the Republican cavalry, and
fought various battles under the tri-ooloured flag. He was, after.
wards, obliged to Hy to Switzerland, where he was a professor of ma-
thematics, and, some time after, came over to tits country, and
took up his residence at Chiswick. On the restoration of the Bour-
bons he returned to France, and had the whole of his immense pro-
perty restored to him.
A DISCOVERY.—The Zoological Society have made
this wonderful discovery in natural history, that Thames flounders
will live in a pond. We wait for the result of their important et-
punt:tents on " gudgeons."
A Nsw HABIT.—One of our London papers adver-
tises an " Adelaide Habit Shirt." This, certainly, must be one
of the best habits that can be worn, particularly in this " piping
time."

A NEw SCHOOL.—To such perfection have the
Americans brought the pyrotechnic art, that an artist in that line
iu Philadelphis produces picture*, anti even intricate landscapes, in
fire-works.

JOINING HANI)S.—A writing master having engaged
the affections of a female scholar with a fortune of 20,0001. led her
to the hymeneal altar. A few days previous he had been asked by
her guardian how Miss came on in her writing ? To which he
gravely replied, " Vastly well, indeed, Sir ; I shall soon have her
Ira joining-hard!"
WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN ?..—A re-
markable coincidence lately occurred at the Bristol Sessions.
Three jurymen who were soccessively called into the box had each
lost his left eye. A punster observed, that they could not fail to
see the case in a sista light.
VICTUALLING 01IFICE.—A young naval officer, of
a spare skeleton figure, lately stopped to ask his way to the Admi-
ralty. " Are you not mistaken in the place of your inquiry ?" said
the gentleman ; " I should think your business laid with the Vic-
tualling Office."
A DINER-OCT.—A Scotchman (a regular diner-out)
gave the following reason for visiting the Holy Land :—" I will go
to Jerusalem ; for having seen it all, I shall, on my return to Edin-
burgh, be asked to dinner every day in (lie week.
TRIFLE/.—ln the beginning of the French Revolu-
tion, when the belief in the existence of a Surinam BEING was
(honesco referees !) abrogated by law, till Robespierre found it ex-
pedient to declare "lly a an litre Summits," different formulas
of making oath became requisite. Men swore accordingly then upon
what they thought proper, true, sacred, obligatory, and binding, as
they are now said to swear in America upon Euclid or Johnson's bile-
tionary, &c. the same having all the force of law in Courts of Justice.
It is recorded of one French General, who, on being sworn in, said,
"Je jure sur won sabre (I swear by my sword) ;" whilst another
more frivolous admirer of foppery made use of the expression,
"Je jure sur ma moustache.' British peers and Princes of the
Blood Royal are privileged to swear, or rather to aver and declare.
" Upon their honour." And though swearing upon their musta-
chios was not usual amongst the military officers of England, there
were, no doubt, many who would not have parted willingly with a
single hair of their beloved mustachios. The sacrifice of this
mealy and soldier-like, or heroically-looking ornament, must, there-
fore, have cost bitter pangs to many a noble breast, and, perchance,
childish mind. It appears, consequently, that this ready compliance
with the King's dread command, and even the anticipation of his
wishes, proves the omnipotence of the Royal pleasure.
LACRTMJE DRACONICIE..-(FTOM IL Correspondent of
a morning .)—" And all the Palace echoed, Shave the troops."
I have with the utmost alarm in your paper, a paragraph
which, no offence to you, Sir, I hope and trust is a lie—setting
forth that the King is a sworn enemy and exterminator of whis-
kers and mustaches. It is not very credible that our most reli-
gious and King would make so light of Sacred History
as to order fill:sops to be shorn ; for surely he remembers Samp-
son and the nice wig-making of his days : nor can it be forgotten
what a lift it was to legitimacy that Absolam wore his hair pretty
much after the present fashion. All antiquity is agreed upon this
one point, that a flowing beard (barbs sylvosa the learned call it) is
to a man what a Inane is to a lion, or a comb to a cock--a sign and
symbol of strength, spirit, and audacity. Your combless cock and
your smooth-lipp*d boy are too often of the Craven breed. Dame
Partlett would not select any suchAfor her chanticleer, nor would
other dames, whom I might mention be very apt to choose a cava-
lier by the sanielmarks and tokens. Shall Ibe plain ? Tice ladies
are taken by the beard. The golden beard of Esculapius was not
more effectual to strike the ailing public with veneration for his art
than is the mustache of a Hussar to win golden opinions from all
eons of females. Many a goodly dower have I seen entangled in
its busby meshes, and lung, long and thickset may it curl upon
the upper lip of our British soldiery, the greatest, warmest, cheap-
est ornament of which the human face military is or can be suscep-
Me. One of the wisest Kings. Lycurgus of Sputa, a man whose
band was an apt emblem of his brains—toads a law for the
growth and propagation of facial hair. He encouraged it for two
mama, of a seemingly contradictory tendency—namely, to improve
the beauty of the handsome, and to render the ugly more trightful
In beide. The Spartans were such soldiers as on ne twit plus ; their
mad at Thermopylee having been at least equal to the lines of
Torres Vedras, and all because the silken dandies of Persia had no
mess of a beard to swear by than the fair Rosalind herself. Fur the
which reasons I judge that, if our good King did dislike the cut
of a certain courtier's beard (I name no names,) that is no rea-
son at all for stripping the faces of his dragoons. Let him
" shave the Marines," if be be so minded in his Royal pleasure
but, if it please him to leave our countenances in their pre-
sent disguises, he shall find that we neither love nor serve
I him one hair the less. What is the use of a military Cabinet if we
cannot obtain this favour? Where is the Lord Hill—the Laid
Rosslyn—the Lord Combermere—the gallant and hairy London-
derry—he that used to be bearded like a pant ?Is there no friend
to Rowland—no aliquis de genre Itircati centurionuni—to stand up
for the honour of Bears' Grease and Macassar Oil t All chop.
fallen That smooth-ebeeked. whiskerless, Kaman* Peel—Ali,
nimium lubricus avid !—must he carry the day, and reduce us to
the deformity and weakness of nakedness ? Au .scours !—Men of
whiskers ! ye who bate razors, and wish to remain as beautiful as
Nature made you—rise up and protest, at least, against this cutting
and clipping. SYLVESTER SCARAMOUCHE.
Hibernicii for what Hf is.

DIRT H.
July 30, In Clifford-street, lady Jane Walrond, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
'Tuesday, at St. Ann's, Westminster, Walter Smith, Esq. mew.
chant of the City, to Miss Ann Ton, eldest daughter of J. Tort,
esq. Devon.—E. B. Stewart, Esq. am of the late lion. J Stewart,
Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court at Halifax, to Frances
Isabella, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Jaisleel Brenton, Bart.
K.O B.—At Wilco' church, Bath, Donald C. Baynes, Esq. of his
Majesty's Odd Regiment of Von, to Anne Maria, youngest daughter
of the late H. Buultoo, Eve of tleddington, in the county of
Northampton.

DIED.
Saturday Wool lit, at Fordtuo Room, near Crediton. aged 31,
Anre. the wife of Thomu Pring. Req. solicitor.—iaturday, At Ms
father's residence, Wellington Cottage, Camberwell, of a &dim.
aged 17, William Henry Rayner, only son of Mt. Rayner, the
Comedian. At the early age of 14 he evinced extraordinary talent
aaA youthful poet I at 13 he left his home to embrace the profv
*ion of the mage.tommencing career, as " Giles," in " The Milker
Maid," in which character he exhibited a degree of talent bidding
fair to rival his father in that peculiar line of acuag.

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