Star.
London, England, 1830-11-10 00:00:00

Tll2 •TATIONAR! ADVERTIAERS.

Why do those fellows thrust their papers into one's hand Is t!.ere
any reason for supposing I have such pressing need of the iotormhtion
they convey ? If it must be done why are they so parsimonious of
their paper ?

THE DRAYS, WAGGONS, •Nn OTHER LETJATHANS.
have you ever noticed that the machines
"Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,"
come in your way most perversely, when you arc most in a hurry ? 11
you have an assignation to keep, or a dun to avoid—a girl Imt of. or a
tailor after you—chuck comes a six-honed CILTIOIU3 of coal, emerging
from some corner, and laying an embargo on the rapidity of pin nio•
tions, until the lady is out of your sight, or the fraction of humanity
upon your shoulder. On other occasions, when the velocity of move-
ment is of no consequence, when you are neither the hunter nor his prey.
you we unmolested.
In like manner, what the citizens call "a lock," never ocrory lout
when you are bent on speed. A bill lies due in Lombard--tort a'l'ts,:
too punctual clerk has called in the morning, leaving his ominous but of
paper, concluding with " Please call," (how civil that insidious word
pease) between three and fire'—having the fear of the notary helm::
your eyes, and the bill, unfortunately, amounting to a
which the drawer positively protests he cannot renew for the fifth time,
you raise, with inconceivable difficulty, the proceeds at hum in Picca-
dilly ; and hastening. on the wings of the wind. towinds Temple Bar.
take a coach to put you faster towards your destination. Fatal mea-
sure ! A check of carriages from the various confluences of Fleet Mar-
ket—Farringtion-street, I man—Ludgate-hill—Bridge-street—Fleet-
street itself meeting at the Waithnianian corner, keeps you tight as in a
vice, and, maugre all the efforts of your jarvey, and all his speed in
getting forward, after being disentangled, you perceive, on castiiig your
anxious eye upon the clock of the quondam post-office in Lomb:int-
street, within four steps of the Bank, that it is three minutes past tine,
and sigh somewhat for your loss of credit in the bill-market at:d sNI
more, for the fare of the hackney-coach, and the three and sixpence
to be paid for the tiny quadrangle of paper at the corner of your bill in
the morning.
Or—but this is still more awful—running with a check upon a bank
in dubious circumstances—caught in a storm of coaches—delayed—en-
tangled—kept back—and at last, by super-human exertions, able to
reach the door just in time, to be told that it had stopped payment—and
the rascal of a clerk, with a hypocritical scrape, condoling with you.
by saying, ‘. it was a pity you had not contrived to call a quarter of an
hour before, when the sum being so small,"&c. Jupiter confound him !
This happened to myself—Pus !
Junior flailed S-rvise Club.

M. O' D.

PETITION PRESENTED BY LORD ALTUORP.
ON Bth NOVEMBER 1830.

To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of I;:tat
Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled:

The humble Petition of Lieutenant General William Thornton, of
Groavenor-gate, Park-lane, in the County of Middlesex.

That your Petitioner has observed with much pain and concern in
the Minutes of Proceedings of the Lords, that his 3lajesty the King
11 is still required to make and subscribe the Declaration against Trait-
sabstantiation, pursuant to the Bill of Rights ; from which obligation
all his Majesty's subjects have been for some time happily released.
Your petitioner. during the time he had the honour of a seat in l'ar.
Bement, moved in two successive Sessions for leave to brit% in a Bill to
repeal the Declarations against Transubstantiation, whereupon the pre-
vious question "That the question be now put" web moved and nega-
tired. In that 1111 it was intended to introduce a clause' ensuing,,
that the Oath of Supremacy should he taken, or that a declaration to the
same effect as the oath of supremacy should be made, subscribed and audi-
bly repeated by the King or Quernof the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, instead of the said Declaration against Transubstantiation.
Since which time another declaration to be made by his Majesty's sub.
jec:s has been enacted for the protection of the Established Church.
Your petitioner, for the honour of the established religion to which
he is firmly attached. humbly prays your honourable House to adopt
such 'meanies as will, in future, release every King and Queen of this
realm, oncoming to, and succeeding in, the imperial Crown of this
kingdom, or at his or her coronation, front the obligation of caking,
subscribing, and audibly repeating, the said declaration against teen.
substantiation, and asserting the worship of the Church of /tonic to be
idolatrous, any law, statute. or usage. to the contrary, in ant wise, not-
withstanding.

SELLS OF ALL KINDS AND DESCRIPTIONS.
I do not object to the sound of the church-going bell of Cowper,
(though, to tell the truth, I always considered the phrase to be a bull.
tor I neret yet knew a bell that went to church :) but I do object to
the street-walking bells with the utmost vehemence. The postman_
the dustman—the muffinman—all and sundry, are objects of my de-
testation. Have you ever had the misfortune of walking in the
same line with one of these worthies along a street of any length ?
If you have, you will perfectly agree with me, particularly if you
happened to have had a deaf man for your companion.
The pretence fur giving the privilege of splitting our ears to these
peculiar persons. I never could comprehend. If the getting rid of your
dust he a matter to be proclaimed by sound of bell, why not the getting
in of your daily provender ; and yet nobody antra the hand of the car-
borne bwcher's boy with a jingli,ig instrument to announce his ap.
proach. If the thin small voice of the inuffineer's ring be justifiable,
why is not the baker let loose upon us, to sound his quartems in our
ears ? We should have all in the ring, or nothing. •
But the postman, you will say, in requisite, to remind the people of
the necessity of having their letters ready. What is this but a bounty
upon idleness, which should be contended against by the Illaldiusian CoMMEReIAt. INTELLIGENCE, Nov. 9.—1• the Co-
philosophers, on the same principle that actuates them in their tender lonia! Markets very little business has been doing this morning. The
hearted opposition to the poor laws. We nerd no such flappers for deliveries of British Plantation Sugar trona the West India Docks, last
the twopenny-post—nothing to suggest to us, that if we do not put our, week, were rather above 2.6b0 hogsheads and 140 tierces, leaving a
bilkt-iiosiz to the fair Flora of the romantic region of Hairmatead into stock of 40,870 hogsheads, 3,000 tierces In prices there is no ahem.
;the gaping letter-box of our neighbour, the cheesemonger' before four' tion. The demand for Mauritius is very slack, and not a single bag
.o'clock, she will be destined to retire to rest uncheered by our tender fur home use was delivered last week from 'he IVest India Dock's and
sentences, ant! deprived perhaps of sleep for the night—ov, what is only 788 for exportation. Foreign and Refined Goods have sustained
worse, lutnted by hideous dreams of wandering lonely by herself upon no variation.

WILLIAM THORNToti.