Star.
London, England, 1830-06-02 00:00:00

1101111IRG FRANCIS.

The best of all robbers as ever I know d,
Is the bold Fighting Attie, the pride of the road !
Fighting Attieomy hero, I saw you today
A purse full of yellow boys seize ;
And, as just at present, rme kw in Me lay,
I'll borrow a quid, if you please.
Oh ! bold Fighting Attie—the knowing...the natty—
By us all it must sure be confest
Though your shoppers and snobbers are pretty good robbers,
A soldier is always the best.
FIGHTING ATTIE.
• Shade your +Mids.
You wants to trick I !
Lend you ray quids it—
Not one by Dickey !

MOBSING ',ANGUS.
Oh, what a beast is a niggardly ruler,
Nabbing—grabbing all for himself;
Hang it, old fellow, I'll hit you a muffler,
Since you won't give me a pinch of the pelf—
You has not a heart for the general distress !
You cares not a mag if our party should fall,
And if Scarlet Jem were not good at a press,
By Golcs it would soon be all up with us all !
Oh, Scarlet Jem, he is trusty and trim,
Like his wig to his poll, sticks his conscience to him.
But I vows I despises the fellow who prises
More his own ends than the popular stock, Sir ;
And the soldier as bones for himself and his crones,
Should be bon'd like a traitor himself at the block, Sir,

• Hold your tongue.

DIVINES OF THE CHURCH' OF ENGLAND.

The first number of a work has just been published by
Mr. VALPY, which is to be continued in monthly vo-
lumes, being a series of the most esteemed Divines of the
Church of England, with the lives of the Authors, argu-
ments to each Sermon or Discourse, Notes, &c. It is
edited by the learned and accomplished Doctor HUGHES,
of Emmanuel College, and recently Christian Advocate
in the University of Cambridge. We shall, on a future
occasion, take care to bestow particular notice on this
useful and interesting work. In the meantime we may
be permitted to introduce it to our readers, by
quoting that part of its object and plan, as set forth
by the enterprising publisher. He speaks thus :
" It has frequently been a subject of complaint, that a
Collection of the best English Divines, front the scarcity
of good editions, and the expense of procuring them, is
rarely met with in the libraries even of our clergy,
although these are the sources to which, after the Holy
Scriptures, they must apply for instruction and edifica-
tion. A few select volumes of some favourite authors are
perhaps found on their shelves ; but a regular Series,
exhibiting the profound researches, the luminous exposi-
tions, the interesting criticisms, and the noble eloquence
of British Theologians, falls to the lot of few : indeed our
great public repositories themselves are not unfrequently
deficient in this important branch of literature. To re-
medy these defects, and enable the clergy and laymen
to possess a treasure of such real excellence—at a time too
when the Church of England requires the best exertions of
her sons—is the object of the present undertaking." The
volume before us contains a Biographical Memoir of
Bishop Sherlock...a younger son of Doctor William
Sherlock, Master of the Temple, and Dean of St. Paul's,
a Divine who, having passed the greater part of his life
in the excitement of polemics, became celebrated in his
day for the multiplicity of his controversial writings
with twenty-four of his discourses. The one which
strikes us most forcibly is that from Romans iv. 25
" The spirit itself beureth witness with our spirit, that
we are the children of GOD."

PEERAGE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 28.
THE ROLM PEERAGE.

The claimant in this case is Matthew Montague son of Morrisl
Robinson, who resided some years ago in Chancery?lane. In order
to establish his claim, which is a right to vote at the election of re-
ptesentative peers for Ireland, the following evidence was put in :
The original patent, conferring the dignity on Richard Robinson,
Archbishop of Armagh, and the heirs of his body, or, in failure
thereof, on Matthew Robinson, his brother, and his heirs male.
This patent was dated 1777.
There being no register of deaths kcpt in Armagh antecedent to
1804, the inscription on the Primate's tombstone, which tepresented
him to have died in 1794, aged 86 years, was admitted to prove that
fact.

Sir John Robinson proved that the Archbishop died without
leaving any issue.
Some documents were produced to show that the nephew of the
Primate had succeeded to the title, and that it continued in that line
down to the death of the late Lord Rokeby, in 1829.
Sir John Robinson deposed, that the late Lord Rokeby had the
reputation of having died unmarried, and that the present claituant
was his eldest brother.

The Rev. Gilbert Beresford, rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
produced the register of births of that parish, in which was recorded
the birth of the claimant, in 1772, as the son of Morris and Jane
Robinson, of 23, Chancery lane.
Mr. Bigland, from the Earl Marshal's office, produced a book con.
tabling a record of a licence, granted by his late Majesty to the
claimant, to bear the arms and name of Montague, on the petition
of his aunt, Mrs. Montague.
A pedigree of the family of Robinson, signed by the primate of all
Ireland, the first Lord Rokeby, was produced front the Heralds'
Office.

The case on behalf of the claimant having closed,
The LORD CHANCZLLOI observed, that if the documents pro.
duped were such as they were represented to be, they were sufficient
to establish the claim ; but before the committee could decide on it,
it would be necessary for them to inspect these documents. He
I therefore moved that the further consideration of it be adjournedl until Wednesday, which was accordingly agreed to.

EARTHQUAKE AT Porr-Au-Patxrcz.—Port-au-
Prince, Aprill4 :—" We experienced a tremendous
shock of an earthquake here the night before last. The
walls of all the brick houses in town were cracked. The
commotion lasted about 30 seconds. The house in which
I was was of wood, which kept such a cracking that I
was afraid it would fall every moment. I ran out on the
piazza, and was in the act of jumping from it, a distance
of 40 feet, when every thing became quiet again. Every
house was deserted, and in a few minutes the street weal
full of people, running in all directions. The lowing of
the cattle, the howling of the dogs, and the cries and
screams f the women and children, were truly alarm-
ing. This is the third earthquake since my arrival, the
other two being very slight. After all was over, I went
round the town, and saw large stones and pillars of
brick-work thrown from the helms, and the walls
ruined."