Star.
London, England, 1831-06-18 00:00:00

SCINTILAX.

RUMINATIONS FOlt HOYA LT Y.—The Fast ye.st
has teemed with events disastrous to the nu- rs of State::
and Nations, in a degree perhaps unprecedented in the annals
of history ; for, by an extraordinary coincidence, it will be
found that within the last twelve months twelve Potentates
have ceased to reign, some " exchanging their earthly
crowns for celestial diadems," whilst others have had their
sceptres wrested Irons their grasp by the will of the peopl.,
viz :
England ••• George IV. .. Dead
Hanover .. George IV. .. Dead
France .. Charles X. .. Deposed
Algiers hlahmoud Tutted out
I Rome Pius VIII. ••• Dead
Saxony ... Anthony ... Deposed
Naples .. Francis ~. Dead
Belgium William ... Deposed
Sardinia ... Charles Felix ... Dead
Brunswick ... Duke Charles ... Deposed
Greece ..• Capo D'lstrias .. Resigned
Brazils ... Don Pedro I. ... Abdicated.
As the frogs said to the boys—" it may he spot t
(Scintilla') for you, but it is death for us," said an ex. King,
who troubled us with a visit, while making up our scraps.
CtiltiOLs tlw extract from the re-
port of the legal Commissioners appointed to inquire into
the stare of the gaols in the West Indies, and recently
printed for the House of Commons. we find the following
questions put by the Commissioners to the Deputy Provost.
hlarshal of Tobago, and his most extract dinary answers :-
1" Is it (the gaol) usually full ? " Generally empty."
"Is it sufficiently large ? ' "Not one-tenth part of the
size it ought to be." This is evidently some transatlantic
Degbeiry doling in perplexities and paradoxes.
EN TICEM ENT.—The editorof the National Ga-
:ale ends an elaborate definition of the above word with the
following authority. It is comprised in an anecdote of a
sailor, a bo, giving his testimony in a Boston Court, about
an as.ault and battery, stated that Jack (the traverser) had
yowettally enticed Sam the complainant). Jack's counsel
asked !,iin to explain what he 'want by the word • entice.'
" What do I mean' Sir," said the honest tar. " Why, Sir,
I mean this—Jack took a devilish big handspike. and drove
it plump into Sam's back; that's what I calls enticing.'..—
New Tot k gazette.

GRAN DI L0Q1.7 ENT.—The following specimen of
the anti-climax, is from a Mobile (Alabama) paper of May
3. and commences thus, via.-4, All hail !—Sunday morning,
at about roar o'clock, ale of the prettiest storms ever exhi-
bited in Mobile was a imetsed. The wind blew from the
north west. like the last trump. Lightning decorated the
mantle of night with golden chains, and unrolled and spread
out all over the earth, her sheets of fire. Hail fell—
sparkling in the diamonds from the clouds--and
about as big as a piece of chalk.—New York Casette.
MATILIMON Y.—The following curious advertise-
ment appeared in The New Sporting Magazine of the pre.
sent month—" A gentleman, residing in one of the princi-
pal hunting countries, of middle age, and sportsman-like
manner. iStesit 0114 Of uniting himself to a lady possessing
a passion for field slants. Folmar or beauty are not the ob-
ject of the advertiser, the flumes., if any, may be set tied upon
the latter, though not an obj,ctiun, it nevertheless is not a
primary object. Good humour, a small foot, and an easy
set on horseback are the principal qualifications required. As
this is the Mae/liftman of a fox, and not a tot tune hunter,
It is to be hoped that no one will answer it out of Idle curi-
osity.—P. S. None with red hair need apply."
When Charles H. was rebuked by some con-
scientious clergyman, for using so many oaths in his conver-
sation, he declared that he was nothing in that matter to
what his father had been. Your hlartyr," said he "was
' the man for swearing." This irreverent speech may be
taken turn gran : but the melancholy fate of Charles I.
has unquestionably tilt own a gravity over his memory, which
was not barite out by the manners of his court.—Tlie
James, the fathet of Charles I. seldom spoke without an
oath, and Buckingham, the ftiend and companion of
Charles, was die most profligate man of his age, having
all die vice, without the wit and whim of the second Villiers.

FOOLS AN D FUTURITY.—In a late number of
the Petit Courtier dee Dames, a Parisian periodical devoted
to fashions and light reading, in an account of a recent visit
to the Bicctre, we are told the tollowing anecdote :--" It is
a singular thing bow the prophesies of fools are sometimes
verified by chance. The last summer there was confined is
the blendicity Asylum an old fool, who called herself Queen
of France. Site boasted that she kept Charles X. under her
protection. and used to declare that, at her death, he should
cease to reign. She died on the 25th of July, in the eve-
ning—on the 29th die reign of the Bourbons bad ceased for
ever.

When, says a modern tourist, will the ladies of
Europe, and of England in particular, reject the absurdity
of French fashions, ingeniously contrived to give apparent
bulk and roundness to the diminutive and scanty figures of
Parisian belles, but extremely disfiguring to the full and
finely moulded proportions of Shish beauty.
Early marriages among the Roman Catholic
peasantry of Ireland are much encouraged by the Priests,
whose own scanty means of subsistence are principally de-
rived from wedding and christening fees.
CONJUGAL FELICITY.—Ne rous fez jansais
aux Apparences, is an excellent French motto—" Never
put faith in appearances." I had just left a newly-married
couple, who scented perfectly to adore each other. I was
quite overcome with the picture of happiness to which I had
just been a witness, as much so as one can be, at least, in
the character of a 'dummy, or a third pawn. (Niel foil
menage!—What a promising union ! How condescending-
ly they addressed each other ! What proofs of tenderness
would have been given had I not been there ! Neither ap.
peered to have a wish of their own. It was always "if it
please you, my dear; I am quite at your service, my love."
I am guided entirely by you, my dear friend."—" Wall
then, my angel, speak only, and command it ;" and these
expressions were accompanied by looks so tender ! The
husband appeased before his wife, to exhibit the most the-
rough refinement in gallantry.—The wife in presence of bet
husband was all sweetness and docility, to which was joined
a complaisance of the highest polish, and of the most se-
ducttve kind. Afon Dieu, said I, buttoning my riding
coat, (as I descended the stair-case,) how happy these people
must be ! In making these reflections I petccived the rain
was beginning to fall, and my umbrella had been left above
In the d vont. I knocked at the street door, and re-
mounted is curia to take it; my foot was already on the
tipper stair;—What disturbance is this ?-1 hesitated so
it,stant, and .hen distinguished the voices of the married
people : it was no longer the tone of persuasion and harmony
that bad so charmed me but scarcely a minute before.--
l'ounubial bliss, ail ! whither art thou fled?—" You area
I fool. and you tease me to death," said the lady. "Aladans,"
replied the Iknediet, " you area vixen, and it is not pout-
hie to live with you !"—" I am driven to madness now more
than a month," retorted the wile.—" If you knew how cor-
dially I de-test you !—Grand Dieu! when shall Ibe rid
of this chain ?" groaned out the husband. And I, in all
haste' cfiletcd toy escape, confused and ashamed at being
thus made the dupe of appearances.
F. E.
Bf RTH S.
The 12th Inst. at Battersea, the lady of J. 8. Lefevre,
Esq. of a son.—The 16th inst. at Harnmerstuithelthe lady
of Capt. Bathie, of a daughter.--16th, at Camberwell, Sits.
E. Godsell, of a daughter.

MARRIED.

The 14th inst. at Alnwick, NV. Charleton, Esq. of Lon-
don, to Anni Isabella, daughter of the late E. Charleton,
Esq. of Lcc.ball, county of Northumberland.—The 11th
Inst. at Richmond. Dlr. J. T. Barker, of Graceelturcb.str-
and of Camberwell, to Judith, eldest daughter of the late
J. Scale, Esq. formerly of Cheapide, and of Bexley, Kat.
—The Mb Inst.. at St. Luke's, Chelsea, J. Barstow, El.
of Acomb, near York, to Elisabeth, eldest daughter of the
late T. Fan cell, Esq. of Askham Bryan, in the county et
York.

DIED.
The 16th Inst., at Clifton, Eliza, wife of Lieut.-Cieneral
Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart.—The 18th inst. at Shirehampton.
Julia Mary Bablogien, 13, daughter of 7. 0. Babington.
Esq. of Shireitampton.--The 11th inst., at her house, SiOg-
bill, Clitoo, 81, Mr.. Hamilton, widow of the late Colonel
E. Hamilton—the 16th inst. H. J. M. Plaits. son of Mt.
Platts, of the Crescent, Jewithstreet—the 14th inst. at
Haling Wove, near Croydon, in her 16th year, Nary Judith,
-the - • daughter Mr. Red U°lll-

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th=se aanghter'd Rid Lion.
15th alt. in her 80th year, Mrs. Sarah Tay's.
nfo of W. Taylor. of Arlington-stint, Camden Town—
lag Reap, Mrs. Trutle, agedn—in Jantalcs, on the 4th
of thy, at Gregory Park,lL J. Reid, Eij. of &b.oods, M
vimeselbfit island.
L:swims': hinted en by JORII ATM It.,
Bras Omar, No. 1, Picket-place) ToziPie Bar.