Star.
London, England, 1824-11-08 00:00:00

TO A WITHERED ROSE..

Frail nurilirg of a Summer sky, -
Ah ! anon tl y day of pride's gone by,
Chill Autumn reigns %Rind—
Thy leaves, which such sweet frigrance *bed,
Lie scatter'd, colourless, and dead,
And scentless on the groom!.
No more the sun shall cheer
Thy drooping head ; nor morning dews
Again refresh thy faded hues,
Sad relic of the year!

And Man, alas! is only horn,
Like thee to flourish while 'tis morn,
And wither ere 'tis night :
Like thine—his Summer swiftly flies;
Like thine—his form of beauty dies;
Time shed• on all his blight—
And Ileaury's but a flower
That only I,ln.borns to decay,
The off.pring of a sunny day,
The trifle of an hour!

ror frosty age will bring its dorm,
Aid nip the fairest, freshest bloom,

'That Nature ever gave :
'the vermeil cheek, the snowy brow,
Must sink alike beneath the blow-
-111us• moulder in the grave.

Too oft an early doom
llas snatch'd some infant bud away,
Ere yet it s'pen'd to the day,
And crude(' it in the tomb !
Yet they, perhaps, are happiest still,
Who ere they taste the cup of ill,

The soonest disappear :
Their Mule hour is quickly past ;
And all untouched by sorrow's blast,
They seek an early bier s
Far all who stay below
More bitter falls the frequent tear,
And rougher is their journey bar,
And darker is their woe!

J. S. B.

PRECEDENCY OF ESQUIRES.

The following question relative to the precedency of
Esquires by Office is taken literally front the Harleian
MSS. 1433, and is written on the first leaf of the Visi-
tation of Surrey. The signatures appear to be original
autographs :
QUISTION.
" Whether an Esquire by (gee shall take place of another Esquire
by office, who was made Esquire by virtue of the said office six or
seven years after, although the latter may be the more ancient
Gentleman ?"

ANSWER.

" Their office being of equal rank and qualitie, he that is first an
Esquire k, yffice shall take place of him that is made Esquire after-
wards by virtue of the said office, although the latter may be the
more ancient Gentleman.
(Signed) "JOHN BOROUGH, Garter Principal
King of Arms.
WILLIAM LE LEVE, Clarencieus.
• "JIEN. ST. GEORGE, Norroy."

UNIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGENCL

CAMBRIDGE., NOV. 5.
Yesterday, Thomas Le Blanc, Esq. LL.D. Master of Trinity
Mall, was elected Vice-Chancellor of this University for neat year.
The following is the subject of 'the Norrislan Prize Essay for
the ensuing year:—" No valid argument can be drawn from the
incredulity of the Heathen Philosophers against the Truth of the
Christian Religion."

OXFORD, NOV. 6.
Wednesd. y, Simon Taylor, Student in Civil Law, who had lately
resigned, w.ts re-elected Fellow; and Richard Charles Hippesley
Tuekheld, B.A. of Odd College. was elected Fellow of All Souls'.
Tlturcd4y, William 11111, Edward Blencowe, and John Griffith',
Were admitted &Wars of Watiliarn CuLege.
Thursday, the nomination in the following Gentlemen to the
office of Public Examiners was approved in Convocation, viz.
The Rev. Benjamin Parsons Syn)ons, MIA Fellow of Wadharn
College; the 11ev. James Endall 'lyric"-, B.D. Fellow of Oriel Col-
lege ; the Itev.Thos. Vowler Short, B. N. Student of Christ Church ;
and the Rev. Charles Otmore Ogilvie, M.A. Fellow of alined
College, continues Public Examiner.
The same day the following degrees were conferred:
BACIINLOIS IN CIVIL I.AW.—Wm. Heathcote, Esq. Fellow of
AU Souls' College, grand compounder; Simon Taylor, Esq. Fellow
of All Souls' College, grand compounder; lion. Arthur Philip
Perceval, Fellow of MI Souls' College.
MASTERS or AWM—ltcv. J. F. Moor, Brasennose College,
grand compounder ; 11ev. Owen Jenkins, Fellow of Jesus College ;
hew. Allred Roberts, Trinity Cull. Henry Whin!, Merton Coil.
UACHNLONS or AR/S.—George Granville Keltewich, Exeter Cul.
lege; William Trench, Christ Church; Charles newer, Trinity
College; William Evans, Trinity Colkge ; William George Mere-
dith, Brasennose College; James Currie, University College; John
Baden Morris, University College.

STIC AN PROMOTIONS',
Rev. F.. Faulkner, M.A. to be Chaplain to Worcester City Jail.
Friday se'nnight, the R. v. Richard Cobb°ld, M.A. was, upon his
own petition, instituted to the united Rectories of Wortham Eve-
rard and Wortham Jervis, in. Suffolk.
Thursday, the Rev. Frederick Charles Blackstone* 8.C.!. and
Fellow of New College, Oxfoid, was pre,ented by..the Warden
and Fellows of that Society, to the Vicatage of Heekfield, its the
comity of Hants, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Milton.
The Duke of Sussex has appointed the Rev. Dr. Fra, of Magda-
len Hall. Oxford, and of Parson's Green, Fulham, to be one of his
Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains.
The ltev. Joshua Rowley, M.A. was last week instituted to the
Rectory of Holton, Suffolk, on the presentation of Sir W. Rowley.
Tuesday ae'nnight, the Rev. Archibald Bennie, from Canon-
street Chapel of Ea.e. Glasgow, was inducted as Pastor of the
%Vest Church of Stirling.
Thursday se' 'ght, the United Associate Congregation of Mel-
vesstreet, Glasgow, gave an unanimous call to Mr. John Stuart,
preacher. to he their l'a,tor.
The Bishop of Cork has appointed the Rev. Wm. Harvey to the
valuable Prebend of Killnaglory. otherwise the Ovens, vacant by
the resignation of the Re's. James Pratt; and also to appoint the
Rev. Robert Pratt, son of the above Gentkman, to the Prebend
of Desertafore.

KILMANNOM—it is pleasant to notice the increasing !I
prosperity of this town. By a calculation made last I
v:trek of the number of looms employed in manufactur-
ing
Scottish cat pets, it appears that there are upwards
of 330 looms engaged in working common carpets,
and 50 for the • Mussels and Wilton. A number of
looms are also:levote,l to the manufacture of hearth
rugs of various descriptions. It is estimated that -these
looms will each produce cloth to the amount of 51. a
steek ; which is neatly 100,00(V. yearly. The mann-
factute of bonnets is also uncommonly brisk. Nearly
200 dozen are produced weekly in Kilmarnock, which
do not nearly satii.ly the demand. The bonnet makets
are to stand out this week for a 1 ice of a shilling on the
second class of bonnets, which sell at 10s. a dozen ; and
fur the szme rise on the third dabs, which sell at 13c. a
dozen. There arc at present upwards of a thousand
people in Kamarnock employed m the manufacture of
bilk and worsted shawls. It is calculated that their la-
bour produces 2,3601. a week; 9r 133,120/. a yeat.—
The goods are principally sold in Glasgow and London.
The woollen mills are all fully employed, and a hand-
some one, the first driven by steam in this quartet, is
just finished. There is a vast quan:ity of building, both
of public works and Ovate houses, going on.
The intended railway from Birmingham to Liver-
pool will forma stupendous undertaking. it is propoied
to be 75 feet in width, and from 90 to 95 miles in ex-
tent, requiting, it is stated, a capital of a million, which
by sowe is declared as totally inadequate, from the in-
dettinity that wits be tequited by the landowners in its
bane. The supi.osed time of duration for the comple-
tiQn of tl.e works has not been mentioned.