Star.
London, England, 1831-08-04 00:00:00

SCINTILLIE.

In the course of a trial which occurred at Exeter
Assizes, Mr. Cockburn asked a whams under examination,
what direction the priseser (who had left the road In ruler
to escape pursuit) took ? " North-west, Sir," sits the re.
ply. The learned gentleman said that was not whet he
meant—did the prisoner go from the road at a right angle '!
14 NO, Sir, was the happy answer of the deponent-- Fe
went at a 14,11 angle—'.was the left-hand side he went off at
SONGS IN THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.—It is not
generally known that the first song, " The modes of die
Court," was written by Lord Chesterfield,—" Virgins me
like the fair flower in its lustre," by Sir Charles Rather/
Williams,—" When you censure the age." by Swift,--
Gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike by Mr. Fir
rescue, Master of the Rolls.—Ga'l'a Lioss of the Papers.
QUITE A DILEMMA.mmA, DAR the other die,
speaking of the backwardness of the spring, mid, " We
shall never have warm weather m bog as the snow continues
on the mountains—and I'm certain the snow wW news get
off the mountains until it is warm weather."—lfasitirigko
Telegraph.
Victor Hugo is arranging his popular romance
of Noire Dame de Paris in a dramatic form. It is to be a
grand opera, to be pertinned at the Academic Royal de
14Iusique. Rossini is to compose the music. Preparation,
on the most liberal scale are making far the production of a
work which, it is expected, will be the rage. Tsglionia to
play the part of Esnsertalda, the heroine of the piece.
A Tory dictionary and a Whig one are at pre-
sent going through the press. The Tory dictionary explains
thus—, Radical, having the properties of a 'broom; or be-
som—a sweeping ropensity. .11 Radical, a political scs-
venget—a leveller of established institutions—a serf, of
mean person, who pays taxes, and applies sweeping ICMC•
dies to every abuse ennobled by time. Radicalseas, a ten•
deny to sedition, or incurable love for practical reform--in
patbolm, radicalism' is a non-epidemical disease, sal.
garly called Huntinn. The Whig dictimary gives lu
definitions thus—' Radical, the preservative principle of
animal and vegetable substances. A Radical—a patriot, a
man of sound understanding, a lover epistle*, and hater of
iniquity. Radicalina, the essence of truth and purity,--
the love of reforming abuses in church and masa.
Fridayy, two officers went out to Elderslie,
and apprehending a man foe a debt of dl. 10s. On metitiog
Pah*, to show there was no bad feeling la the am, they
west Into a tavern to have a casalketablesbus issasbar. Bet
glass Mewed glass la nth merry sad sapdysiaNnioN that
the tletihnos of the °Mangan. way—shslabs pod warm'
sunk Inti oblivion. Two strangers tads( a dram at the
same table, saw bow matters Wood, and, Warn. the poor
debtor fees his seeable, lighted theirglpes with the Tor-
rent. Whee mkt she Akan do widows *Aroma?
convenient Huh illetadmuse Mame& the Wad* yen/ a
mum to the The true state of the ease To,
seen dimmed, it she sureldas specs of *ideal, when
diasessit ishe kid slaw of she sionsist, sod she two strin-
gers who lighted their Opa with kora. MY bond for the
debt.,

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The Mb ult. Mn. Sarah Donnelly, aged 1, wife of t"
L.Donnelly, a Richmond, Surrey.

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