Star.
London, England, 1830-10-23 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday, an inquest was hold at the Marquis of Wel-
lington, South-street, Lambeth, to enquire into the death of Mr. R.
Bolam, tailor, residing in the same street. The deceased. accompanied
by a friend, was proceeding down the river in a lighter ; when near
Southwark-bridge, the deceased, in stepping from one end of the vessel
to the other, staggered and fell overboard. Ile was promptly rescued
from his perilous situation, and taken to Ow nearest public-house, where
the necessary assistance was afforded him. and he was on Sunday re-
moved to his residence, where he expired on 31onday morning. The
jury returned a verdict of Died by the visitation of Bon.

An inquest was on Saturday last held at .harden, Wilt-
shire, before W. ADYL, Esq. on the body of 3lary Evens. The
deceased was a widow, about 43 years of age her husband haying
died a few years since' leaving her with four children. Since his
death, however, she has had one illegitimate child, and within a short
time was expeaed to give birth to a second : feelings of remorse at
her immoral conduct, it is supposed, urged her to the com.
minion of the crime of self-destruction. The woman with
whom she lived deposed in substance as follows :—The deceased
called me from my bed on Wednesday night, and told me that
she was seriously W, and repeatedly said " that she was sure she
should die." 1 asked her if she had taken any thing, and after a
little hesitation, she acknowledged that she had swallowed poison. She
vomited violently for some time, and died in the greatest agony. She
had eaten a hearty supper, and went to bed in perfect health. Before
going to bed, she caressed her youngest child in a very unusual manner,
and wished me " good night," which she was not in the habit of doing.
A respectable surgeon examined the stomach, the coats of which were
entirely destroyed by arsenic; and a quantity of pills containing arsenic
were found under the pillow of the deceased, with the word " patio"
written upon it. It appeared that she had never exhibited the slightest
indication of insanity, or of mental aberration. The Jury, in muse-
quence, renamed a verdict of " Felo de se," and the Carotin issued his
warrant to the clergyman, to cause the body to be interred at ten o'clock
at night, without the usual burial service.

SCIINTILLE.
A FEW Wol‘.—.'lrs3 CROWS.
'• We'll pluck a crow together."-3eaHPEAIE.
It seems that England Is a more favourite residence for crows that.
some other countries, as Linnaeus mentions that he never knew .1,,,fc
than one crow to be shot in Sweden.

During the reign of Henry VIII. crows were so numerous, 1.11;
thought to do so much mischief to the farmer, that an act was pa 55,.,,,,
by Which every village was sompelled to furnish crow-nets for ten yen',
and the villagers to assemble at stated periods for the purpose of d(
itrZettinfroM PLUTARCH (p. 1079 of HOLLAND'S tramilatioh„
that ft was the opinion of Hesiod, that " the prating crow lives as loa,;
as nine men ;" and If we take the life of a man at ninety.six, which is
the term specified by Awning, the translator of Hesiod, we shall tine.
according to this account, that the crow lives eight hundred and aim.
four years ! Even PLixtr, b. 7. c. 48, considered this statement
fabulous.

While the Greeks were celebrating the Isthmian games, a herAi,
announced that T. Q. Flamininus had vanquished the 31;cedonisr.
whereupon the people set up so great a shout that crows, which ha
pened at that time to be eying over their beads, fell down into
theatre. PLUTARCH', Lirce, vol. 3. p. 44. VAL. MAXIMUS, iv. 1
relates the same fact; and a similar instance is recorded by Plutarch r
his life of Pompey, vol. 4. p. 15e.
Both Laxnr in his Description of the Feroe Islam*, and Le.
=creature in his View of the Zeeland Islands, mention those singuh•
assemblies, known by the name of crow-courts. As soon as they ar
all arrived, which sometimes is not the use before the expiration of
couple of days, a very general noise ensues, and shortly after the whol
fall upon one or two individuals, and put them to datth : when tip
execution has been performed, they quietly disperse.
Sec the 4th vol. of the New Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Se,.
emcee of Berlin, for some learned and curious observations on • rip:-
crow that was killed at Potsdam, in 1773.
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WILLUORBY, in his Or nifittiogiar, b. 3, says the crow can be tangs •
to speak very distinctly. J. J. IV.
A FEW WORDS ON DEVILS.

" The black Prince, Sir, alias the prince of darkness, alim the Devil.

SHAESPEAIRE.

Why painted Mack. " The devils used often to appear to the monk-
In the figure of iEthioplan boys or men, and thence probably the paint.
ere learned to make the devil black."—Jonwtw's Remarks on Rules:-
astkal flirt. pot. 3, p. 20.
His names. The Editor of Bourne says, he has heard the name
of old Harry given to the devil, perhaps from the verb to harrie, to la)
waste, destroy, &c." The defter take you : this expression, according
to St. Augustin, is derived from Dusius, a kind of demon or devil
among the Gault, a very perpetrator of all that was unchaste
Called Satan first in the book of Job. It is a Persian word, and n'rr'
critics have asserted that Job himself was of that country.
Not dumb. This singular fact we derive from Captain Knox, wir•
published an account of Ceylon in 1681. At p. 78 he has the
sensible passage : " This for certain 1 can affirm that oftentimes tb
devil doth cry with an audible voice in the night : it is very
almost like the barking of a dog. This I have often heard myself, he-
never heard that he did any harm."
/Flay and when he possessed a tail. Vicyra, in his sermons, say
that it grew at his fall, as an outward and visible sign that he had his:
the rank of an angel, and was fallen to the level of a brute.
Consulted as to a Greek word. " ilerniolaus is said to have raists:
the devil, in order to learn the true meaning of the word Entekehie
employed by Aristotle in his treatise on the soul. Had he read thi
commentary of Simplicius on that treatise, he would have known tit,
real meaning of that word much better than he did by the devil that it
raised." TAYLOI., Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, p.
418,a work in which the physical and metaphysical dogmas of Aristotl•
are most luminously unfolded. PLINY also informs us, b. 2, c.
that Appian the Grammarian raised the devil for the purpose of save.
tamping the birth place of Homer.
A marplot.—That the devil is a marplot, we discover by Guy
Fawkes, of gunpowder memory, who gave the devil his due, at least ;
for he says "that GOD would have concealed the plot, but the dol.'
discovered it."
Teaches the Sciences.—Platina. the papal biographer, asserts that
Pope Sylvester 11. a very learned man, on his death-bed owned whit
frankness, that his great progress in the sciences had been brought about
by the interference of Satan. On this account, by way of penance, be
ordered his own body to be quartered, and put Into a cart, drawn by
two horses, without a driver, and that where they should stop shoald
be his place of burial. The horses fortunately stayed their course at
St. John de Lateran, and there his remains were Interred.
A Poet.—Mathew Paris tells us of one:Gilbert Follot, afterwards
bishop of London, celebrated for his rhyming contest with the prince ot
darkness • who onenight, while the prelate was revolving matters rath,. -
political lan religious, roared in his ears :
0 Oilberte Foliot !

Dum revolvis tot et tot
Deus tuns est =tarot.
To whom the intrepid pries; answered, with more truth the::
civility :
Mentirls Demon ! Qui at Deus
Sabbaoth ; est file meus.
The lairrer's patron. Saint Hymns, a lawyer of Britain, went %
Rome to entreat the Pope to gibe the lawyers a patron ; the Pope %-
plied, that he knew of no saint not disposed of to some other profession.
His Holiness proposed, however, to Saint Evora, that he should go
round the church of.r.t. Giovanni de Laterano, blindfold, and after say-
ing a certain number of atve-marias, the first saint he laid his
band on should be his patron. This the good old lawyer readily un-
dertook, and at the end of his ave-maria, stopped at the altar of St-
Michael, where he laid hold, not of the saint, but unfortunately-of the
devil, under the saint's feet, crying out, this is our saint, let himebe our
patron !
Causes expectoration. Mr. Pennant, speaking of the ancient reli-
gious customs of the Welch, adds that, " iu church, at the name of th,
devil, an universal spitting seized the congregation, as if in cmtempt c'
the evil spirit."
A Whig. According to Dr. Johnson the devil was the first whig.
It is well for the tory doctor that he did not live E. the days of a whig
attorney general!
A great and diligent preacher. "There is one who is the most diligent
prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will
tell you. It is the Devil. He is newts out of his benefice, he is never
out of his parish • call on him, and you will always find him at home :
he Is never from his plough. The Devil bath also caused patrons t..
sell their benifices; yea more, he gets himself to the University, and
causeth great men and esquires to send their sons thither, and put out
poor scholars that should be divines; for their parents intend not that
they should be preachers, but have a showof learning." Bishop L.
TIMER'S &MON of the Plough, IMB.
Royal dinner for thelDevil.—King James professed, that were he t;
invite the devil to dinner, he should have these three dishes ; 1, a pig ,
2, a poll of ling and mustard ; 3, a pipe of tobacco for digestion.-
-ripothevou of James, 1608.
A surname.—lt is noted in the Menai/arta, that the sturran. c:
Devil has bees borne by several persons.
I His many and power. One of the most singsLir chapt.rs in that
most singular work, BERTON'S Anatomy of iielaitehtriy, is enti:led
the nature of devils, see vol. 1, p. 65-77.
Dethroned, and by whons.—" Never has there been a more univass'
empire than that of the devil. What has dethroned him ?—liesson." •
VOLTAIRE'S Philosophical Dictionary, vol. 4, p. 144.
J. J. W.

The London brewers, it is said, are now for the first time
about to brew strong beer. It is high time ; fur much of the',
trash has, as far as malt and hops are concerned, hitherto Iwo!
weak enough.
MARCH or POLITENESS IN AMERICA.—The proprietor
of a tea-garden in Philadelphia, after enumerating varioas attractior•
which they possess, says " The public may rely upon being served to
polite waiters, and the ladies can at all times be furnished with r.ost-
gays of the rarest kinds and the richest hues."

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SAGACITY OF A HORSE.—A correspondent informs u`
that on K'ednesday last, as a horse kept for drawing stones, &c. to th'
works at the Sunderland Pier, was passing along the rail-way, a child
not more than four or five years of age got directly in the way of the
horse, when the animal took it up in its mouth, and lifted it off ti t
road !—Typie Mercury.
A PROPHETIC TERHiNATIoR.—A canal proprietor,
attended by three cr four friends, was inspecting the work, then ne3l4
completed, and giving his orders on horseback, at the same time com-
plaining what a ruinous spec it was likely to prove. On a sudden
horse plunges, rears up on end, and the inspector is flung into the
stream. All this in a " twinkling," felon lo Arise. As they dreg
him to land, one of the friends wished him joy an the change his 51131 P
had so happily taken; " for," said he, " I Mkt you the WWI would
one day jilt your pockets !"

BlK'fH.
The 20th inst. at his house in Clarges4tteet, the lady of A. if
Spearman. Eaq. at a daughter.

MARKIEU.
The 20th inst. at Congersbury, W. Long, Esq. son of the late B.
Long, Esq. of Coombe, Surrey, and nephew of Lord Farnborough, It'
Chatlowe Eleanore M. Poore, daughter of the late E. Poore. Tut.+ 3
sister of Sir E. Poore, Bart. Anshan, Wilts.—The 16th inst. at Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, J. Oreatorex, Esq. Royal Engineers. to Marl, tIrlY
daughter of the late W. Wilders. Esq. of that place.

DIED.
The 21st inst. aged 9 years, Adolph Henry, youngest son of A. la•
Pfeil, k./11 of Dulwieh.aimmon.—Th 16th inst. at Woolwich, Elisa
Wilson Louis, daughter of the late N. Hornsby, resident serste/4 Or-
dinance Medical Department.

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