Star.
London, England, 1831-04-25 00:00:00

THE. LIFE OF

MRS. JORDAN.

By James Borden, Esq. 3d edition, in 2 vols. Gvo w ith Portrait.
"Mr. Braden has brought into clear view much that was formerly
hidden in obscurity and falsehood. lie has had the justice likewise to
let Mrs. Jordan speak for herself. Her letters, which he has inserted,
carry the strongest claims to attention.—Courier.

IV.
THE ROMANCE OF HISTORY..—ENOL AND.
Hy Henry Neale. 4th edition, in 3 vols. neatly bound, with Plater,
price 18s.
Mr. Neele's Tales are valuable illustrations of English manners.—
Times

BACON'S LIFE OF FRANCIS In.
New edition. with Portrait, t'rom Tidal, 2 vols. Bvo.
A mot,t full and animated account of Francis—a most chivalrous mo.
t,:reh iterary Gazette.
i'rinted for EDWARD BULL, New Public Subscription Library,
nolles-street„Cavendish.aquare

THE MILDENHALL FARM,
With immediate possession.
By Mr. RAMSAY,
By Order of the Proprietor, '•
At Garraway's Caret Howe, Chew Allot. Landon. '-
On THURSDAY, the Uth day of Area., 1131, st One o'Clock,
THIS VALUABLE ESTATE consists of a new brick-
built, handsome, modetu Itosideoos. It for the reception oi a
FemSy, of the Arse respectabliky, onoftWrifi 111 large
_Remo, capital
Dairy, Chow and Stan Room. Deriffill&mokaa too ***b.
erected Bans, Stabling for 40 Hones, Cow-booms, Sheds, Granaries,
Piggeries, Ikc. Extensive Gardena, and Orchard well stocked with
choice Fruit Trees, and 300 acres of Freehold Land, Tithe-free, lying
in a ring fence; 70 acres of the land are arable, in the highest state of
cultivation, and the remainder is prime Old Pasture. The Estate is
surrounded by a plantation of one half mile in length, affording a good
Covey for Game, of which this County abounds, forming a Capital
Sporting Residence. in the midst of several Packs of Fox Hounds, in
the immediate neighbourhood of 00 Market Towns. within the dis-
tance of six to thirty miles, and all good Turnpike Roads, and near to
excellent Water Carriage. An the outgoings are very moderate, and
immediate possession may be had by taking the Crops by fair value.
tion, or a tenant of the blithest respectability is ready to take the whole

_on Lease at a good Rent:
May be viewed by applying to, and further particulars may be bad
of Thomas Tooke, Esq. Solicitor, 41, Stamford.streset, London ; and
of Mr. Lunar, Auctioneer, 264, Oxford-street ; and at Garraway's
Coffee-house.

PURE AND WHOLESOME SPIRITS.
TO obviate the difficulty of procuring in small quantities
such Spirits as Connoisseurs and Families may confidently rely
on being free from pernicious ingredients, HENRY BRETT under-
takes to supply every article, by retail as well as wholesale, in a state of
pristine purity : accordingly the annexed select quotations, though
not presenting the delusive attraction of exceedingly low prices, will
be found, by those who can appreciate quality, much cheaper lu com-
parison than commodities whose principal recommendation consists
in being offered for sale on lower terms than they can be imported
or manufactured.

Imperial Measure. Gallon. Bottle. Pint.
" Cream of tbe Valley" Gm lits 6d ..,. 2s 2d .... is 4d
Old Jamaica Russ .. 13s Cod .... 2s ed .... is 8d
_ _

The Pure Patent BRANDT .. ..... 18e Od .... 5. Qd .... 21 4d

Foa tHa COUNTILY..— Half-doxen hamper* are kept ready packed,
whit two bottles of each of the above excellent Spirits, price only
EIGHTEEN SHILLIN6S, package included.
Orders by Post (paid), or by Carrier. punctually executed. For
Ready Money only.
HENRY BRETT, Sumas Maacmarr,
109, DRURY-LANE.

C:3. PASS. )VER lifJA.—Thh highly approved over-proof Spirit,
originally introduced by special license of the Rev. Rabbi Maldols,
may still be had at Barres Vaults, 161. per Gallon ; or from the
original Puncheon, at the ettraordluary strength of between 30 and 40
per cent. over-proof, a Pound per Gallon.

The following petition, which had been forwarded from
St. Peter's parish, was presented in the House of Commons,
on Monday week, by Mr. Maurice O'Connell:
That your petitioners respectfully approach your honourable house,
complaining of the act of 7 Geo. 4, cap. 72, called the Vestry Act, un-
der which your petitioners are annually taxed in large sums of money,
without having any voice or controul in the meetings, at which the
far greater part of such sums are. voted, and that for purposes which
cannot, by possibility, be of the slightest benefit to petitioners.
That at the two vestries held in this parish, in the present Easter
week, the amount assessed upon the parishioners, for parish and church
ceases, exceeded the sum of 1,9001 and in the preceding year the
amount exceeded 1.7001. this making in two years upwards ut 3,5001.
assessed upon the parish for church cos.
Tkpt not only are your petitioners, and the other Catholics of the
parish, obliged to pay tithes and minister's money, but they have to
support their own clergymen, of which, however, they do not complain,
and they have lately had to build a parish chapel, and there is now a
large debt due thereon, which they are unable to discharge, neither
have they funds for the plaistering or ceiling thereof, and the vaned edi•
fice presents to the view the painful spectacle of naked stone walls
without any ceiling.
That notwithstanding these heavy burdens to which the Catholics of
this parish are subject, they are taxed for the support of no less than
four Protestant churches in the parish, two of them having lately been
built at the expense of the parish, although no two points in the parish
are three miles distant from each other. _

That the following are some of the items composing the aforevaid
sum of 1,8001. hotly assessed upon the parish for one year's church
cess

For organists .. ... £136 0 0
Blowing the bellows and tuning the organ 32 10 0
Total expenses of one years pariah £167 10 0
Four sextons .. .. ••• ... ... 150 0 0
Four clerks .. ... ... .. ... 156 0 0
Four beadles ... • • •• • ••• ... 94 0 0
Hanging four churches in black cloth on death of George
Fourth, (part of the cloth was stolen out of the church
and replaced at the expense of the pariah) .. ... 62 9 0
Crape rcarri for said mourning, and eambrick for clergy.
men's bands ... .. ... ... .. 117 6
Five surplices for clergymen ... .. ... 11 5 0
Sacramental elements .. ... ... .. 30 0 0
Plastering and painting outside of Sr. Peter's church .. 100 0 0
Ironmongery and smith's work for Rsthmines church ... 131 16 4
Ditto for St. Stephen's .. .. .. .. 124 6 3
Slating and building work at ditto, notwithstanding that
15001. was lately borrowed for completing said church 120 18 5j
For vestry clerk, in addition to 801. salary, for collecting
said sum of 18001. being nearly 2s. in the pound .. 163 0 0
Making in all to the vestry clerk, 2431.
The other items being composed for the most part of accounts due to
painurs, glaziers' carpenters, upholsterers, &e.
That these large sums are annually voted away upon two days in
Easter week, by thirty or forty persona, assembled in a small vestry-
room, scarcely capable of containing the one hundredth part of the
parishioners, and are proposed without any previous notice of their
particulars.
That owing to the want of any efficient legislative control, the
annual amount of these assessment* has gone on, increasing progres-
sively every succeeding year. The year 1821 they amounted to 8001.
whereas, in this year they exceed I,BOOL being 1,0001. more than in
1821. .

That it is a mockery to tell your petitioners they have the power to
appeal. The act surrounds the appellant with every technical diffi-
culty, and even should he appeal, he is subsequently compelled to
contribute to the costs of resisting his own appeal, which coats are, by
the act, chargeable upon the parish, and in a recent case, in the parish
of St. Andrew's, in this city, they amounted to 1801.
That your petitioners protest against the gross injustice of taxing
them, for purposes it. which it is nut pretended they have or can have
the slightest interest. and fer the support of houses of worship which
they never enter, or desire to enter.
That the ratty bill, lately brought into the honourable house by the
government, is, in the opinion of your petitioners, calculated to aggra-
vate the evils it purposes to remedy, and the clause In said bill, which
goes to exclude Catholics from being even present at particular vestries,
shews that the government which introduces such an unjust and uncon-
stitutional measure, is either lamentably ignorant of the feelings of the
people of Ireland, or exhibits a most reprehensible contempt of their
opinions, and, in either case, *hews an utter disregard of the principles
of the constitution, which proclaim that no man shall be taxed without
his consent.

That the said vestry act is so flagitious in its principle, that It is ut-
terly impossible to amend it, and therefore your petitioners pray your
honourable house to repeal it altogether.

- It is a gratification to ourselves, as it cannot fail to be to
all believers in the Gospel, to record the opinions of persons
of rank, but especially entertained by those who wield the
sceptre of empires. This leads us to mention, that among
documents of a similar import is the following, addressed to
Mr. Rae Wilson, b y his Majesty the ging of Prussia ; on
those journeys he made through India, Samaria, Galilee. and
in general that interesting country the "cradle of the Chris-
t* world." We give exclusively, from a work now in the
Pram.
received the truly interesting work which you sent. Accept
of my best acknowledgments; and believe me, I admire the means you
Isamedopted, to propagate extensively ideas of umfulneas and interest.
Sodas, doubtless, the stibnite character, vArtillPirpilated, in our Voly
relights, that to know It is sufficient for any owe to feel the evidence
Ohl& As, nevertheless infidel writer., whose misfortune it was to
Wilburn Insensible to divine truth, have assailed the sacred writings
wish a reproach of affected 'contradictions to history, and even to the
laws of nature, it became desirable that well-informed men should de.
monstrate, that there reigns the most exact conformity betwixt the Sa-
cred Volume and nature. This task you have with eminent success,
completely fulfilled,

Votn Aral
FMlode Gnillama

Potsdam,
I Maniocs William Rae Wilma.

ST. OEOROE'S DAY.

At some distance from Bayreuth, which terminates the Holy Land,
the Held is pointed out where St. George fought the dragon. It may
be Interesting to know that this saint or hero is famous in the Holy
Land, and represented on horseback tilting at a dragon at his feet.
His sanctity is established in the Franciscan and Greek churches, and
he is distinguished by the title of the " Great Martyr." Several
temples were dedicated to him at Constantinople, and one of them gave
to the Hellespont the name of St. George. Portugal has honoured hint
as her tutelar saint, as did England under the first Norman kings, at
the council of Oxford, in 1222, when his feast was commanded to be
kept a holiday. His name alvo was a war cry.
Advance our standards ! Set upon our foes !
Our ancient word of courage, " Fair St. George !"
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons :
Upon them !
Hie history is this :—On the death of his father, who lost his life
in defence of the Gospel, St. George accompanied his mother into Par
Isstine, where he came into possession of large property. The emperor
Dioclesian. who was not aware that he was a Christian, and admiring
his noble aspect and majestic form, appointed Win to the command

of one of his legions, and a seat in his council. In his twentieth year he
lost his mother, and dedicated himself to military duties, in which be
greatly distinguished himself. During the height of his fame the per-
secution of the Christians took place with great violence and cruelty,
on which he withdrew himself from the service of the tyrant, whom he
publicly upbraided in the senate. Astonished at his boldness, the em.
peror resolved to destroy him, but euspended his vengeance, in the hope
of tavieg sgstfir4)te benefit of his military talcum. Resolute, however,
in his refusal to serve him, he was put to the torture, beheaded, and
Al I formerly observed, was buried at Lydda, the rendezvous of the
Christian forces. There is this injunction to the English in an old art
of war:—" Item, that all souldiers entering into bauaile, assault,
skirmish, or other faction of armes, shall have for their common cry and
word, N. George forward! or, Upon Owns, Se. George! whereby
the soldier is much comforted, and the enemie dianzied by calling to
Wade the ancient valour of England. which with that name has so
often been victorious."—Rae Wilson's Trawls is, tits Holy Land.