Star.
London, England, 1831-06-16 00:00:00

SCINTILLA.

Some time ago a weaver at Anton, (France)
being hastily called out, kit one of his children in a room
with a fire, and on his ratans found it burnt to death. A
short time afterwards, being again called from home, be
shut up his little grand-daughter where there was no lire,
but on coming back found her drowned in a pail of water
inadvertently left in the chamber.
BeatrT.—Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny ; Plato, a privilege of nature ; neophrastus, a
silent chest; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Cane.
*des, • solitary kingdom ; Domitian said that nothing was
mere grateful ; Aristotle maimed that beauty was better
i than all the letters of recommendation in the world ; Ho.
OM, that it was a glorious gift of nature ; Ovid, alluding
to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods.
FINE WORDS.—A weekly periodical (Gazette)
la • review of a new edition of " Herodotus," states it as
" well calculated to brush up the memories of the oblivious,
and resuscitate the faculties of tetrad= ;" and, in the same
sheet, in a letter on the natural history of the toad, the
animal is described as feeding on ants " with the most
laughable rslosity."—Berkdoes Globe.
A young gentleman who had quarrelled with a
lady to whom be bed paid his addresses, was so impudent
as to threaten that he would publish the letters she had
written him. " That,' she replied, " would be fluty vex-
atious, for though I need not be ashamed of the contents,
I certainly ought to be ashamed of their direction !"
Tug War TO Succssa.—Tbe way to success
in life is to wink at the vices of the age, to be climy of Its
errors of thought and practice, to agree with it, to walk side
by side with it. The world, like a man with the gout, can-
not endure rough usage ' • hence those have always been In
best repute as moralists and men of sense, who have treated
it with knity and forbearance. To walk with the world with
an orthodox steady pace, neither hastening before, nor lag.
ging behind it, is, in nine cases out of ten, to ensure its fa-
vour ; but to step forward like a foilsman from the ranks of
society, no matter bow just be one's claim to such distinc-
tion, is at once to rem, tint, the world's a.tention—next,
its envy, and lastly, its bitter, inextinguishable hatred.—
Buroadoes Wok.

A FAST TROTTER.—A Vermontese owned a
very fine tro.ter, whose extraordinary speed he illustrated by
the following anecdote:_" I was driving him one day in a
dearborn," said he, " and I overtook a stranger who was
walking the same way, and I asked him to get in and ride
with me ; so he got in, and I just spoke to my hone, and
be started of at a middling trot. Presently the stronger
asked what grave-yea it was we were passing through
Oh! (said I), it is nothing but mile stones.—Ameriron
PaP•••
The natives of New Zealand make excellent
seamen, and are much employed in the whale fishery from
Sydney. There ere now many ships from 120 to 150 tons
burthen employed in that trade, which is very lucrative.
The New Zealanders are a hardy and intelligent race ; the
flax which they raise is purchased by the Sydney merchants,
for muskets and goopowder, which is sal to be a lucrative
Wane, as a large quantity is now brought to Sydney.
The fire-insurance offices are sometimes plagued
with applications hose insurers of a certain class, who are
determined to have the worth of their money. Claims are
frequently made for the accidental tumbling of clothes into
the fire; and it was not long since a claim was made for the
value of the dress of a little girl who was burned to death.
An elderly gentleman, who was Insured in the Eagle Fire
Insuranc •• Office a few years ago. produced his hat, with a
man hole burned in it, at the office, and said he considered
himself entitled to the sum of SSA:, the price it originally
cost him. " Why," said the actuary, " you have wont it
for several years, and it is worth little or nothing." "To
me," aid the insurer," it was of great value, for I esteem.
ed it es an old friend, and would never have parted with it
while it covered my head." " But how," said the actuary,
"did you burn the hole in it ? Any one may burn a bole
la en old hat to get a new one." " I did It by accident,"
I cried the claimant ; " I was reading the account of a victory
In a newspaper, and I really knew nothing of the matter till
I hand my bead on Ore." The establishment edged hits
whether he thought a guinea would not be a recomposes en.
der the cluemstances, and he consented to take it. Upon
another =salon, ala demanded the value of a quantity
of beautiful curls which she worts—" The skull that bred
them in the sepulchre." It happened that she nodded ova
a Prwr book, and the candle caught let locks end en them
in a Maze. Her claim was immeJiatelv allowed.
The Duke of kodenu,t:cording to the French
journals, in order to manifest his hatred towards
the people of France, has forbidden the teaching
of the French language in the public colleges, and
In the military school of Reggio.
The action for assault and false imprisonment,
"Thomas v. the Marquis of tondonderry,"arising
out of the fracas at Holderneas House, respecting
the Queen's douceur, is appointed for trial, and
ice expected to come on for hearing is a few days
at Westminster Hall.

The cholera morbus is exciting some alarm at
Paris ; and as epidemical malady, which is raging
in the hospital of the Bickre, has been converted
by buy rumour into that terrible disease. M.
Pros, the physician of the BiciAre, states, how-
ever, that the epedentic is not of the nature of
cholera, but a catauxhal affection, hatiag its mai
in the Rasa/ foam and is the chest, sad arising
solely from the variable state of the atmosphere.
During the last eight days more than 150 old men
have been attacked by it ; but. M. Prus " hopes
that the disease will not be attended by any very
considerable mortality.
GROWTH or MR. RC T.—ln seven years, ending
in 1756, there were 428 capital convictions in
London and Middletex ; 306 were executed.—
When George 111. began to reign, one half the
convicted suffered death. In the reign of William
IV. the proportion of sufferers to the amount of
convictions is as one to eleven. In the reign of
Henry VIII. 2000 was not above the number of
victims sacrificed in yearly holocaust to the sangui-
nary fiend, capital punishment. And even ula s
as the reign of Charles I. thirteen persons
were executed at one Assize, for associating with
gip les.

The 11th inst. at the hoax of her father. in ne-walk.
Chelsea, the lady of Lieut. C. 0. Duda, R. N. of a daugh-
ter —The lath inst. in Cornwall.tence, Regest's-park, the
lady of W. Paynter, R.q. of a son.--The 16th last. at Nye.
I park, Northaw, Hens, ►lrs. Page, of a daughter.

DJAItRIEU.
The 14th last. at Clapham Church, Mr. R. Ova. of
Haverfordueso4 to Martha Hall Stevenson, third olsoillteert
and NI r. R. Wollaston, of Clapham, to Jane Soevetrese.
yeti ipat daughter of the late• (1. Sieveoesta, Ky. d Cht
hano.--The 15th inst.ott Trinity Church. Merfkbole. t".
B. Elliott, Biol. of tbe,Borpl Civil Service, and of Ousel
Coll -50 Cambridge,to Emily Gertrude, daughter of the
late J. bougan, Be+ one of his Alajeety's special seounu•
skaters in the West Indies.

At Portland, near WeyineOtli, on &Way, the 14th lost.
at the ago of Bares Neigh's, son of the late Boon
man years the favoured Envoy ExtrestdisarY
and Nitiistn Plonipotenthry at this Court of hie Blajest7
Gummi Adolphus, the late Ring of Sweden.—The Lit
at Valli*:Po, West Hunt; Ewes, Elisabeth, wife of
I. Tult.--The lath lost: Joseph Agee, }.:4. of Fehted.
-.—At sea, ea dee Ade Inst. on his postage from An-
5e...23 C. Couseele,El second ran of J. C. Coe.
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