Star.
London, England, 1825-01-21 00:00:00

PUBLIC &ILES.

MIL FAREBROTEIF,R.

Leaseholds—Theischeriste 11i heel !nit, Egharn, Surrey, contain-
ing thirty chambers, bar, commercial, ciffee, and tap-rooms, kit-
chens, cellarage, brewery, stabling for 60 horses, granary, soldiers'
rooms, cattle yard, sheds, garden, plot of ground adjoining, small
house arid paddock, containing 27A. 3a. 12e. the whole indepen-
dent of good-will, of the estimat-d annual value of £291 74. The
inn and premises, excepting the land, held for forty-one years, at a
ground-rent of £25. The land held for one year and three quarters
at £B3 per annum. Fixtures and stock to be taken at a ♦aluation.

—Sold ior .42,950.
A building, formerly a barn, opposite the preceding, converted
te st4bling for fourteen 'horses, held at a ground-rent of Xs for
fort y-one year;-1:160.
Shares—City of London Gas Company : a share. £2O paid, pur-
chaser entitled to dividend declared yesterday-4383.

Oar ditto— f I 50
klanclitttet and Salford Water Works—••Tett XlOO shares—
-054 earl.

newt sionat y Interest Society—Twenty shares-4;0 each.

Tvti ditto—.Eso 104. each.

Annui:y— fhe sum of Al 2 les. per annum for Cie rental/ling
term of I:y-one years, with annual tra►►sfcrahle admission for the
:tl ill, from June 5. to October S, in each year—C2os.

'AIR. CAUTY.

TLe Galery Historical and Allegorical Picture, painted by Re-
v.lii, known as the Spanish Inquisition, in which Philip 11. is re•
presented as Tyr.inny—Cardinal Ximenes, as Fanaticism—the
Grand Inquisitor Torquemado, as I lypocrisy—with various other
emblematical figures and device3;2o guineas.

We understand that the Costorn 11.asse is in a much
dangei oils state than the public were led to ex-
pect, Mr. SSIIRKE, the architect, who has been in con-
s-ant attendance .it the Custom House for several days
past, having declared that he could not insure it from
one day to another. Is is not true, as at first reported,
that the piles on which the arches are erected hat e
given stay, in consequence of the overflowing of the
tides. The truth is, that only one arch has given way,
and that has arisen, it is reported, from some misma-
nagement in its construction. The floor of the Long
Room has stink as much as six or seven inches, but
every precaution has been taken to prevent accidents,
by propping and shoring up the defective part. A
great number of workmen ,have been employed, for
sevtral days past, in the Long Room, in erecting scaf-
folding to prevent the ornaments of the ceiling from
falling on the heads of the clerks below. The expense,
likely to be incurred, is estimated at the enormous sum'
of 175,000/.
The Correctional Tribunal of Beziers has just con-
demned an uncle and nephew, for an infringement of
the Usury Laws; the one has been fined 50.940 francs,
10 cents, and the other 5,970 francs—these two sums
forming half the capital which it appeared the offenders
had embarked in their usurious pursnitr.
The Commune of Gallneukirken has obtained (ions
the Emperor of AUSTRIA permission to pass to the
Protestant Church, after having received a legal in-
struction. In 1824, a Commune of the Grand Duchy
of Baden demanded and obtained this authority.
The following notice was posted by some of the
midnight Legislators, on the door of a peaceable and
industrious individual, in 13 ,linagur, convenient to
Crossmolina, in Ireland :
Notice given to all heretics in our land by our Loia the Pope,
who will reign in our land for ever, and the Orange Fox who in
those years past has threatened us by his law., but w 2 will have
none of his members at all in our land, at the year of our Lord
1825, and those who thought to cut us off on those past years,
whidi is the damnable yeomen of Crossmolina and Balinagur,
het we will soon end them, with our glorious number, we will,
these nights will be your doom, this is from headstrong Itock,l
that fears no Sock, but will kill all that comes before hinA and we
wi:l give them no warning, as they gave us none, but will come
to them at the hour of midnight. Balinagur is to suffer as much
as Suddom in its time, there is two lads that shall suffer as much
as all the rest. (Signed) " CAPTAIN flocs."
At a masked ball recently given in Venice, by the
Marquis of MuRIGANu, several valuable articles of
plate were missing. The circumstance was communi-
cated to the Marquis, who, at the moment, was in ear-
nest conversation with one of the Venetian Judges. The
latter irsisted that the sole direction of the discovery of
the thieves should be intrusted to his vigilance. He
sent for the head butler, and ordered him to proceed to
the kitchen and assemble the cooks and scullions, taking
care that they should be armed with their carving.
knives, and prevent any person from enteting or leaving
the Palace. These orders were strictly followed. A
scullion, endeavouring to glide between two quadrilles
that were dancing, fell against one of the persons
masked in the character of Punchinello, and hurt his
head against the party-columed hump. This curious
characteristic of Punch is genes ally filled with wool,.
but on this occasion was sufficiently hard to inflict a
black eye on the unlucky scullion. The Judge, being.
apprised of the circumstance, ordered all the Punch'.
nelios to be arrested. The intrepid scullions brought
thirty-four of them before the Judge, who ordered all
the humps to be cut off, and to the astonishment of
the company, the stolen plate was discovered, and
also many valuable articles of female attire. Previ-
ously to this discovery, and during the confusion arising
from the examination, several persons had been seized
by the Marquis's set rants, and underwent a scrutiny.
The minor thefts that bad been committed were innu-
merable. A lawyer, masked as a Clown, had filled the
capacious pockets of his trowsers with sugar-plums and
A person in the costume of a Financier, had
snugly deposited half a turkey in the bottom of his
cocked hat. A Scaramouch was detected, having in his
possession two neat's tongues. But, the discovery that
caused the greatest merriment, was the miniature por-
trait of a French Officer, found upon the person of a
beautiful Countess, who had only been married two
month,. She was masked as a Nun, and the Judge
who had been so active in the business of the night, to
his infinite vexation, discovered the beautiful vestal to
be his own cora sposa. The runchinellos are fully com-
mitted to prison.
Ttie WORD " Dux."—Some erroneously suppose
rh,it it comes from the French word downer, to give, im-
plying a demand ; but the true origin of this word, too
ficgtiesitly used, is from one Jo/u: Dun, a itintous
bailiff, or Sheriff's officer, of the town of Lincoln, so
extteme!y active and dexterous at the management of
his rough business, that it became a proverb, when a
man refused or perhaps could not pay his debts—
Why don't you Dun him ?" that is, why do )ou not
send Dan to arrest him? Hence it became a custom
and a ilaverb, and is as old as the days of Henry VII.
Bat the word Dun is not merely confined to demand-
ing payment with importunity, bat to any other thing
cieirmilded in a similar manner.
We copy the following advertisement from the Plaits-
butTli Intelligeocer, an American paper
hi.orestwr.—Whereas my husband, Jesse Norris, has eloped
my bed anti board, without any just cause; this is therefore
to caution all persons against harbouring the said Jesse Norris, as
I am fi•ly determined not to Hquidate any debts of his contracting.
.1— N—, if you hid as many friends as foes,
" You might light your pipe and warm your nose;
" So now I think I've done my duty,
" And you have neithts wit nor beauty.
• " Lcvnta NORilis"
al November 23,1824.