Star.
London, England, 1831-07-06 00:00:00

OINTINCES OF TOE PRISONEM

Fourteen years' transportation—Thomas Jones, stealing
chickens, from E. Hadduck, of Shelsey Beauchamp; Wm.
Presdre, for stealing flour from J. Starling, of Alfrick ; and
Francis Drinkwater, stealing poultry from James Hill, of
Chaddesley Corbett.
Seven years--William Millward, stealing fish from John
Haynes, of Brotusgrove ; Thomas Lacey, stealing a boiler
and wheel-barrow from Thomas Reston, of Dudley ; Rdw.
Smith, stealing articles from the house of W. Edwards, of
JEing's Norton, and poultry from W.Darley of Alvechurch;
James Pearce, stealing potatoes and rabbits from J. Veal,
of Bromsgrove.

The Amateurs of Billiards will learn with surp..st,
in a match which took place at our Assembly 11-Jcit
tween Mr. Mr. the two hex
tiemen players in England, the former gentleman to ,
Lone game of 100 tip! The occurrence is the more extra,
ordinary, as it happened at, decidedly, the severest table
the kingdom ; that is, with the pockets fornitd after th,
nicest and strictest rules.
BIRMINGHAM, Justz 30.—We have had a pleatifo
supply of all descriptions of grain at to-day's market,
little demand, and every article in the trade lower.—Wht,u,
7s. to 9s ; Barley, per imperial quarter. 40s. 4Cs ;
old and new, 54,. Ws; Oats, per 39Ibs. old and new, 31.
4s. 4s. 3d r. Flour per sack of 281bs. One, 535. 55, ; second,. t
48s. Ws. _ _ _

HAYstaacirr, Juice 28.—There was a good buppl: C
both bay and straw, but little demand ; bay, GOs. to
straw, 535. to 70s. per ton.
SMITHFIELD,JuIia 30.—There was a pretty gncd
of cattle, and a little better sale. Beef, bd. to bid : mit.;
bd. bid ; veal, 4id.6d. per lb. Fat pigs, Bs. to its. per wort
MARRIED.—At elaines; Benjamin Hooke, Egg. it.
Norton Lodge, to Miss Painter, of Grove Villa, Woree.., c.
shire.

DIED.—At Warstone-lane, Mr. Edward Jane,' tli
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merly of Bull-street.—At Solihull, Miss C. A. I* eo,
youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Yates, Rector of Sabo, 1
—At Selly Grove, Mary, relict of David Owen, gent
At Prescot,near Stourbridge Francis Rufford, Esq. barker.
78.-82, MOW Brewin, Society of Friends.—At Allesi,
Richard Adams, Esq. 117-81, Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman,
list of the late William Freeman, Esq. of Worcester._\r "
Allen, Esq. late of Harley Tower, Salop.
St 'IN 11 I. Lit:.

NI w PEERS.—A French publication, in givin;
a list of the Vice-Presidents of the Royal Humane Sock.
has made some whimsical mistakes. Among them we
—Comtc de Stamfort, Duc de Romney, Duc de Posit .
Duc d'Eldon, Lord Prudhoe, &c. The College honour:
of some of the Chaplains of the Society are also oddly eruri..:
printed as names, thus : D.D.R. Yates.—D.D. Rev.
Akland.-31.A. Rev. Jackman, M.A.—Literary Gazelle.
MORAL CHARACTER OF THE FRIENDS.--1;
is said Judge Mellen, in his charge to the Grand Jury,
the opening of the present term of the Court at Porthr.l.
Maine, stated that in a practice of 45 years, in which it
had beet: intimately acquainted with the proceedings of ti.t
judicial courts in that part of the country, he had n:vc:
known but one instance in which a member of the Sodtt.
of Friends was arraigned at the bar as a criminaL—At'e:o::.
dria (A.A.) Phirni.e.
A CLEVER MAN.—In the list of ,

whose petitions are advertised to be heard at York on Mt
day, we find the name of " Michael Bell," who is descrgi..'
as late of Stone.g.tte. in the parish of St. Michael-lc-lkhicy,
in the city of York, Milliner, Dress-maker, and Jut 1.
NIMMAN joiwza !—Leeds Intelliyeneer.

At a parish in Devonshire, last week, a m on;a4
brought her son to be christened, and on the Minister ir..
quiring what was to be name of the child, she replird Act . '
The Minister doubting the accuracy of so novel a name, st4l
inquiring why she had chosen one so lar, she said, tts!
her husband and self were religious folks, that haring
christened their four other boys by the names of the Ent-
gelists, it was their intuition to pay the same complimer
to the Apostles, and they had thtreiore comnic:.:4.ll sib
the Acts.

During the severe toilet discipline exercisoj
upon the Royal Horse Guards Blue, the trumpeters wen I
exempted from dyeing their mustachios, on the plea that
the lime employed in the preparations burnt their lips, and
interfered with the use of their instrument—Court Journal.
[The lips of the remainder of the regiment, in furtherance
of this despicable foppery, were of course to be burnt an:.
impunity.]
A BELDAM.—PIot, in his History of Stafford- i
shire, says, " How old Mary Ceoper was. of Kill's Brotw
ley in this country, not long since dead, I t ,uld not certainly
learn, but she must be a very Wei woman, for she lived tcK
a Beldam ; that is, to sec the sixth generation, and said
say, as 1 have heard reported of another, viz. Rise up.
daughter, and go to thy daughter, for thy da'ughter's dealt-
ter hath got a daughter.' " The other case to which die his.
torian alludes, is that of a matron connected with a tobl:
family of Norms, on whom Zulnger made the distich which
Plot has translated—" Materait nate, dic nate blia, tat=
ut moneat, nate plangere filiolans."
IMPORTANCE OF TOE FAN..—AB for the fat.
its powers are nowhere seen displayed to such advantage Si
on the Pude,. I believe I shall never be able to look at a
fan in the hands of any other than a Spanish woman, co.
tainly no other woman understands the management of it.
In her hand it is never one moment at rest,—she throws it
open, tans herself, furls it to the right, opens it again, again
fans herself, and furls it to the kit, and all with thee,
fingers of one hand. This is absolutely marvellcus
one who has been accustomed to see a fan opened with
both hands, and furled only on one side. But, that I
may at once exhaust the subject of fans, let me add, that
in the hands of its true mistress, the fan becomes a substi-
tute for language, and an interpreter of etiquette. If a lady
perceives that she is an object of attention to some inquiss
tiveand admiring caballero, she has an immediate recourse
to her tan, that she may convey to him one most important
piece of information. If she be married, she fans hersei
slowly ; if still senorita, rapidly. The caballero, therefore.
at once ascertains his chances and his risks. This fact I
ascertained from a Spanish lady of rank in 11Iadrid, the wife
of a gentleman in a high official situation. The motion et
the fan, too, marks distinctly, and with the utmost ricay,
the degree of intimacy that subsists between one lady and ,
another. The shake of the fan is the universal acknowledg•
meat of acquaintance ; and, according as the lad is open o:
shut, the intimacy is great or small.—)nglies Spain inllte.
HUNGRY MIDDILS.—There is no class of per-
sons in his Majesty's naval service who have such mvenos
appetites as the younger class of middies; indeed, their
plates and platters leave the berth, generally, as clean
u they were before the dinner entered. What may
be the cause of this voracity it is needless to inquire—
the fact of their prodigious appetites is universal. Ana
it will easily be imagined that, in such a community,
the Esquimau: maxim of first conic, first served,
would sometimes introduce itself into ie practice e:
those polished young gentlemen. One day, after keep.
ing the forenoon watch, 1 went down at hilf-past twelve
to dinner, but found nothing left on the board but
a morsel of the ship's beef, which we generally called salt
junk, and sometimes believed to be salt horse, resembling
very much a piece of mahogany, and often quite as sapless.
To this was added a very small portion of suet pudding,
called, in our lingo, dough, or duff, and differing but little
inaspect and weight from good honest pipe-clay. It has
been very properly observed of a young midshipman, that
"although GOD may turn his heart, the devil cannot turn
his stomach ;" and, certainly, upon this occasion, I made co
objection to the victuals set before me—except as to the
quantity. In five minutes, the dish and the plate had re.
wined to their habitual state of purity, which would have
rendered the office of scullion a complete sinecure, had we
n honoured with such an attendant--Captain Hags
Fragments.

A coin of a five-franc piece, with the stamp of
Henry the Fifth, has been exhibited in the City
this morning; and it is said that 50,000 of them
are in preparation. Is this legal without the know-
ledge of our Government ? Several months ago.
we made mention of such a coinage having been
manufactured at the Mint.

The 3d inst. at Wendorer, the Lady of A. Smith, Eul.
li. P. of a daughter—The 3d inst. in Weymouth-street, the
Lady of R. T. Kinder'ley, Esq. Barrister at, Law, of a a.m.

MARRIED.
The sth inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, C. W.
Puller, Esq. only son of the late Sir C. Puller, Chief Justice
In Bengal, to Emily, youngest daughter of W. Blake, Et 4•
of Danesbury—The sth inst. at St. Alarylebone Church,U •
G. Gambier, Esq. eldest son of Sir J. Gambier, to A.
Frances, second daughter of the lite C. G. Colleton, Esq. )t
Haines-hill, in the county of Wilts—The sth inst. at ?t.
James's Church, the Rev. W. C. Roberts, of Glasnev in,
II dare, to Al. Hewitt, daughter of the late D. Mitchell, Esq.

DIED.
The 3d inst. at Hayes, Kent, A. Moysey, Esq. ire 01
Bloomsbury.square, in the 88th year of his age—At Cal•
cutta, in May last, Lieut. T. Marriott, and also Mrs. Mir'
riott, his wife, leaving a young family wholly unprornini
for—The 4th Inst. at Brompton, in the 68th year of her age..
Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. J. Gunning, late Rector et
Spezhall—Tuesday, at his house in Portman-square, a
Grant, Esq. of Gaon Castle.
LONDON: Printed an Thi.7.l.ablislied by JOlllll MAYNE, at tii4
-DTA% Gyms, No. 1, Pickett-place, Temple:Bar.