Star.
London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

SCINTILLX.

SWEET LOVE.—A Scottish poet of tho last age tin
celebrated the charms of ids mistress:—

0, honey, it is very sweet,
But sugar it is sweeter,
And my love as tar excels sugar
As sugar does saltpeter.

WANTED TO PURCHASE—An honest, tractable, vrto
little Female. For reference, apply at this °film—Barbados. I', • .

NOTICZ TO " CHARLETS."—Taken away from :i (
ley, in a state of brutal Intoxication, on the morning of the 2:10.
A straw hat and hard wood club. The former being nearly as ;or.:
lows u a well inhabited city, has been committed to the flames. Ti,
latter, which is marked PM'S, No. 22, will be returned.—lbitl.

It appears that the Kay by which the doors of Gaildha!!
were bcked up on Monday last, was, for some reason, entangled wiri
and checked by, the wards, and was not extricated with perfect ease.
It is uncertain if the fault was in the key, or if the wards are out cf
order.

Ax Eczio.—Echo is to the ear what recollection is to the
mind ; each brings back the past, restores lost enjoyment, augments
satisfactions, and enriches our mental store. The mind of man ILI
memory's echo ever at command ; his tongue can, after a Lips., ot tiu.%
recover again sweet sounds ; his declamation can revive eloquence lot
another age ; the books which he has perused with attention, live froh
in his remembrance, and, like echo, speak to him invisibly, and pre'et
themselves again to his view.

A Russian lady, being engaged to dinner with M. d,
Talleyrand, at that time Minister for Foreign Affairs, was detained .
full hour by some unexpected accident. The tarnished guests grumbled.
and looked at their watches. On the lady's entrance, one of the ecr .
pany observed to his neighbour in Greek, " When a woman is neith.:
young nor handsome, she ought to betimes." The lady, turning
round sharply, wasted the satirist in the same language When .
woman," says she, " has the misfortune to dine with savages, she .1.
ways arrives_too soon."

A curious paper was lately read to the Academie des Sci-
epees, at Paris, by M. Flourens, on what is called hibernation. Hi.
bernatica, in natural history, is the state of torpor and kthariq
which several animals, as the marmot, for instance, pus nearly the
whole of the winter. Cold, insensible, immoveable, rolled up into a
ball, they continue for three or four successive months without eating,
without drinking, without breathing, and almost without any cireula.
Lion. M. Flourens made a variety of experiments, with a view to as-
certain the causes of this phenomenon. The result appears to be, that
it is by the gradual decease of respiration in these animals
that the cold is permitted to operate in producing the state of torpor al-
luded to; and that as the respiration regains Ito activity, the operation
of the cold becomes less and less influential. From other experiments
I made on birds, M. Flourens confidently draws the following conclu-
sions, as applicable to human beings : vit, that a prolonged exposure to
cold is ass of the most powerful causes of pulmonary cconsumption ;
and that, on the contrary, living in a warm place is so powerful an an.
taro's( of that malady, that, alone, it is sufficient to cure it when it
has not been allowed to proceed to the last stages
TAVERNS IN OLD Ttsi Es.—By a statute of the 7th
and last year of Edward VIM. it is enacted, " None shall keep a tavern
for retailing wines. unless licensed; and that only in cities, towns tor.
porate. burghs, post towns or market towns; cc la the towns of Graves.
end. Sittingborn, Tuxford, and Bagshot, on the forfeiture of tea
pounds. And there shall be only two taverns for the retailing of wine
in every city or town, except in London. which may have 40 taverns ;
in York, 8 taverns ; in Norwhich, 4; in Westminster, 3; in Bristol, 6;
in Lincoln, 3; in Hull, 4 ; in Shrewsbury, 3 ; in Exeter, 4 ; In Salts.
bury, 3 ; In Gloucester, 4 ; in West Chester, 4 ; in Hereford, 3; in
Worcester, 3 ; in Southampton, 3 ; in Canterbury, 4 ; in Ipswich, 3:
in Winchester, 3; in Oxford, 3; in Cambridge, 4; In Colchester, 3;
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4."

RANUNCULUS.—The following plan of raising seedlings
of the beautiful flower the Ranunculus, is from a correspondent in Lou-
don's useful periodical, the " Gardener's Magazine
have sowed at all seasons, from the Ist of August to the It.t of March.
, I prefer the middle or latter end of October anti the beginning of Jan
toothy times. I sow in boxes, 18 in. by 11 in. and 4 in. in depth. I
till thenfull of loamy earth, press the :surface level. Then 1 row th.
seeds about an eighth of an inch span. cover them as thinly as possibL,
and water with a fine rose ; I next place the boxes under Klass
heat. The plants usually make their appearance in about a month. I
give air day and night, except in severe frost ; then I cover up with
straw mats ; with such protection the young plants will endure th,
severest seasons; mine were not injured by the severity of Last rioter.
I clean the surfaces of the boxes from green mess in February, and top.
dress them. I put the boxes in the open ground up to the ter the
second week in May, and water daily until the rasa begins to wither.
4then suffer the boxes to become quite dry ' • and in the middle of Jul:-
take them up, and preserve the mote in bags until February, when
plant them as I do my general stock. In the following June they flower
in great profusion. lam confident if florists would adopt this methotl,
that more than half the old flowers under name would soon be throw::
into mixtures.

A fierce fire broke out between one and two o'clock yes-
terday in the premises of Messrs. Williams and Co. military capmaten.
at the back of Richmond-buildings, in Dean.sueet, Soho. winch coin.
pletely destroyed them. (heat apprehensions were entertained of the
lextensive factories of Bendel! and Bridge, which joined, and of );r.
Carpuc's and other houses in Dean-street, but no serious damage was
dons. The conduct of the new pollee was very exemplary, and dig!'
bore the taunts of the rabble with firmness, and soon made thew
retreat from the (veined spot in which the fire took place. Then
was a In in the same place and similar premises about fourteen
years ago.

BIRTHS.
The 7th last. the lady of 0 A. Moultrie, Esq. of Astou.hall. Shrop•
shire, of a Ma.—The 10th lost. the lady of 3. Muspratt, Esq. Of 3
110 n.

MARRIED.
Tuesday, at Bathwick, the Rev. A. Colvile, vicar of 3lidsoutcr.Nor-
ton, to Maria, fotuth daughter of the late E. Broderip, Esq. of Wells.

DIED.
The 7th tilt. at Madeira, Caroline Eloise, wife of the Rey.
E. Berastd, and daughter of the late It. Bowen, Esq.—Monday. it
Derby.sueet, 'Westminster, C. S. Colley, Esq. barrletcr.at.les.-71k
2d inst. Captain E. Rotherham, C.B. R.N. in the 78th year of his sge
Capt. Rotherham commanded in the celebrated battle of Trafalgar, his
Majesty's ship Royal Sovereign, bearing the flag of fiord Collingwoilti
Fifteen months ago. on the recommendation of his present
when Lord High Admiral. he was apppointed to an extra Captaincy HI
Greenwich Hospital. Capt. Rotherham was a brave °Seer, and uri
serially respected..—The 3d inst. at the Vicarage, ilenbury, aced
the Her. 111 W. Trevelyan.—The Bth inst. in Crawford-street. 31171,-
bone, R. J. Lawrence, Esq. of Fairfield, in the island of Jamaica,
aged 86.—The Bth inst. at Clifton, C. J. Hippins, RN+ of comhir,
and Claphanucommen, Surrey, in the 42d year of his age.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
IL lIL 11. r.
Merniod is id Afternoon

Imatlon : Punted sad rublisbed by Jomw Arai "Aft-
Orris; No. 1, Pickett-place, Teo** Bar.