Star.
London, England, 1823-05-26 00:00:00

PUNS ON SURNAMES.
The following is a curious, because a very grave
pun, upon names, extracted from Fuller's Grave
Thoughts, and cited by Mr. Southey, in his Life of.
Wesley When worthy Master Henn, famous for
his living, preaching, and writing, lay on his death-
bed (rich only in goodness and children), his wife
latade such womanish lamentations, what should be-
et•ine of her little ones ? Peace, sweetheart I' said
be; that GOD who feedeth the Ravens will not'
starve the Herns: A speech censured as light by
some, observed by others all prophetical; as, indeed,
it came to pass that they were all well disposed of."
On the rumoured resignation of the Russian Ad-
miral Puke, while the Archduke Constantine presided
at the Admiralty :
44 I am sick of the service—so tell the Orard Duke
- • • 'l've thrown up my commisssion—your servant,
" lons Pot-t"
The following being said to be written by a Peer,
(or spoke extempore as report goes), he must be an-
swerable for any penalties attaching to the crime of
Scandaluns Magnatum :
On being told that the Bishop of Carlisle (Des'
Goodenougli), was appointed to prmtch before the
House of Peers—
'Tts swR enough that Goodeseugh
Before the Lordasbould preach;
For sure =fa they're bad ems*
He undertake es to teach:" •
When the above most respectable Prelate was made
Bishop of Carlisle, a certain Dignitary, whom the
Public expected to get the appointment, being asked
by a friend how he came not to be the new Bishop ?
replied, " Because I was not Goodenough I"
A person, whose.name was Gun, complaining to a
friend that his Attorney, in his bill, had nit iet him
If easily, that is no wonder," answered his 'friend,
" as he charged you too high!"
Another pun on this subject occurs to oaf:I-One
Alexander Gun, who belonged to the Cudr*ns, at
Edinburgh, was dismissed for improper conduct.
The entry opposite to his name in the books stood
thus :—" A gun, discharged for making a fillse report!"
An old gentleman, of the name of CAndd, having
married a very young wife, wrote a poetical epistle'
to a friend, to inform him of it, and conclUded it thus:
" So you see, my dear Sir, though I'm eighty years old,
" A girl of eighteen is in love Pith old dould f"
To which his friend replied,
u A girl of eighteen may love oxalis, It is atm;
" But beams me, dear Sir, it is Gold without Cr
Though not, perhaps, to be reckoned amongst puns,
yet the names of things, as well as persons. are liable
to very odd perversion% Ido not like the name of
our gold coin the Sovereign, on this account. We
need be careful of not incurring the charge of MO
'treason, by our common expressions concerning at.
How strangely the following mast sound to any
loyal ear:
' I have got a tiros sitar iodßovereign.
I with I could dew my Sovereign.
4 I am sue the Sovereign I UV* goels not teeth 110-aillingi.
I have bit bat, 'a Sovereign.'
And how many of his Majesty's most devoted sub-
jects, if they were to speek their minds freely, Must
cordially and daily wish to have, store Sovereigns
than one. . . •

To console, however, the friends of Moaarchy, we
may be just as certain that every person of his Ma-
jesty's dominions would rather have dee than now,

MY BIRTH:BAIL
IT most al. moods; NM.
64 My Birth-der—what a* different sound
That ward bad in mp youthfil ears !
And bow, each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark abuts!'
When first our scanty years err told;
It seems like pastime to vowel/4
And, as Tooth•cosseb **IMMO' Ras
That Time around him binds who,
Pleas'd with the task, be little thinks
How hat d that chain will press at lad !
•
Vain was the than,and false as raid;
Who said•;.." ere he oedabilletersh
Hisiong career of.life split,
" He would deal that he hat dour'
Ah ! not thus the voice that dwells
• In sober birth-days speaks to Ole;
Far otherwise—of time it tells
Invisled unwisely, eareleskiy—..
Of counsel inock'd, .of talents made
Haply for high and pure designs,
•
But oft, like Israel's intense; laid
Upon unholy, atm*
Of nursing many a smog &Aro—
Of wandering tier Love ten far,
And taking every mete* Are
That erqu'd my patii-traylpe Welt t
All this it tells : sad, oosild I team •
Th' imperfect pletaro-o'N spin,
With power to add, mooch.. effaces
The lights and shades, the jot, and pain, -
How little of the past would stay !-
How quickly all shod& melt away—
All, but that Freedom of doodads
Which path been more than wealth to me;
Those friendships in say boyhood twited,
And kept till noW unchangingly ;
And that dear home, that saving ark, •
Where Love's true Mgba.M.Laat-reet bond,
Cheering within, when all grows dark,
And comfortless, and stormy round!
• Fonteoelle.—" jY, f e rocusseenfais sou carrierr, jeferai tad le
guejsifait."

Tire A RTS.-A numerous and respectable body of
Artists metal the Freemasons' Tavern, Queen-street,
oa Wednesday evening, to consider the most eligible
means of erecting an extetesive suite of rooms• for the
exhibition aad sale of the works of British Artists in
every department of Art--Painting, Sculpture, Archi-
tecture, and Engraving—when a Society was insti-
tuted, and Resolutions passed declarstory of their
'determination to proceed on broad and liberal prin-
ciples ; their object being to give to the rising, as well
as the rncee advanced Artists, the means ofdisplirying
their works lbr sale daring the season when the opu-
lent patrons of Art are aurally resident in the Ne-
i desideasawm which has long• been re-
quired,. rind' whids the limited resources of the exist-
ing establishments, togetlser with the increasing matt
bei of professors, have reudeted higlJy desirable.

POLICE.

Mr. ak.l AO'S' dirndl.
Mow&lds, was charred be Richard hlaesa
r to his horses, which offence rendered lit
ers. conformably to the Act of Parliament: -
said the law dwelt; he oforeeds, otherwise it eiria
to frame Acts of PatMame*. The case was fulleproveds
be convicted the defendant in the. penalty of 2os. and costs.
• lisreox-Gmuseit—Saturday Richard Barnett was ehirged,
under Mr. Martin's Act, with unmereffully loading a jackass, by
which the poor animal', back was broken, and it was obliged to
be slaoehtered. He was tardered to pay a fine o( 15s.
lbw-Senera—Fousew Exasautartois or Gorrs.—Saturday
being the day listed for the fourth examination of this man, who ,
is ehargedwith having set his house or: fire in 1811, the Office
was again crowded- almost to suffocation. Shortly after one
oltiock Mr. ADOLPHUS entered the Justice-room, when Gage
Was plead at the bar. • Airs. Gibbs and several other witttesees
smelt also present.—The evidence of Elizabeth Brooker was
slain read over to her, which she confirmed.
Mary Nown stared, that she was the daughter of the last wit-
ness, and though only 12 years of age at the time in question, she
remembered the most material points as detailed by her mother.
Neither of these witnesses could, however, identify Joseph Sab-
berton, the lad in the house with Gotte at the time of the fire,
and who had previously been articled to him.
Joseph Sabberton was called, and stated that be Was articled
to the prisoner and his partner, when they lived at Shadwell;
that after serving his time he left them, and saw no more of the
prisooer until shortly before the bre in Whiseeross-street ; that,
three or four days before that event, the prisoner took him into
his bed.ruom ; that the window was barricadoed with iron bars,
and the witness said it looked like a prison, to which Gotte re-
plied-4 Yes, it does; and if a fire happens, a person may be
burnt to death by not being able to get out, and therefore I
will take out two of the bars." On the night of the firs the pri-
soner sent for him to come and assist him in baking the next
morning; he accordingly went and slept there; they went to
bed together about 11, and between 12 and one o'clock the wit.
ness was awoke by the barking of a dog, and thinking there were
thieves iu the house' he called to Gotte and told him his suspi-
cions; presently he heard the cracking as of fire, and directly
aroused Gotte, who went to the door, and on opening it, the fire
appeared rushing up stairs like a furnace. Ile directlyclosed
the door, and told the witness he was near the window, and to
get out. He accordingly went to the window, and found that
some of the iron bats had been removed, so that he could get,
out without difficulty into a shed,aud from thence into the yard.
.Gotte then threw out a box, which they afterwards took to a
eeighbour's. About a fortnight ago Mrs. Gotte came to the
witness, and told him her husband was in custody, and took hint
to Mr. Illacklow, her attorney, by whorls be was questioned.
The witness was examined at some length as to the situation,
&c. but nothing appeared to criminate his testimony. He had
been in the service of Gotte after the fire of 1811.
Mr. and Mrs. Tuck were called for, but as they were unable
to attend, the case was adjourned to Wednesday next.
Wuotassts iloase-srsausee—The Magistrates were occu-
pied several hours on Saturday in the investigation of one of the
most extraordinary cues of hone-stealing that has come before
them for a great length of time. Nosey Payer, a wheelwright,
et Peatkr's End, and 4)11. Xbyser, his sister-in-law were placed
at the bar, charged on suspicion of having .felonio4sly disposed
of a number of stolen horses.—lt appeared by the evidence,
(which was very voluminous, that Thomas Porter, husband of
-tbe r Ann, and another brother, named William, have re-
ly been committed to Derby Jail on various charges of horse-
stealing, and that since their committal several of the hones they
had stolen have been traced, by the exertions of Bishop and Up-
ton, of this Once; to' the possession of the prisoners, Henry and
Ann Peyser, who-bave been disposing of them since their rela-
tives were apprehended. Four other valuable horses, stolen by
Tbonias end Williani, have also been found in possession of
another brother, a respectable farmer, near Enfield Cbase but
he having instantly given them up, end there being no reason to
believe that be knew them to be stolen, he has been admitted to
bail in a large amount for his future appearance, if necessary.
- Mr. Samuel Lawley, of Needwood Forest, had a dark cheento
mare and a grey colt stolen from him on the 4th of July, 1821;
and the grey colt was found in the possession of Ann Poyser, at
Chioeford, at the time of her apprehension.
The prisoners were both remanded for further examination.=
Saturday next. •
Gesuastau..—Seturday Flerairtg was charged with stealing
411 watch, and A Relive with pledging it. A son of Mrs. Bits.
Wood, of the Cooper's Arms, in Wood street, on Monday last.
I:l,:rtewatch in a box in his sleeping-room. The next morning,
r, it disappeared. without any suspicion who was the
thief. Fleshing, who uses this house, and formerly lodged in it,
ott. Thursday left bin coat with a Mrs. Legge, of Winchester-,
Wort, aod-semPafter a bundle of duplicates were found lying in
,the paseage, supposed to have fallen from the coat, and among
thins that of young soswood's watch, which Mrs. Legge imme-
&mai communicated to his mother. The watch was produces,
Welk Bwo was apprehended on the information of the pawn-
—Fleming offered no defence ; Rowe denied the pledg-
jag; but it appearing he was an intimate companion of the for-
ties., they were both committed.
11huisteeffireere.--Saturday, a seaman appeared melds Offiee,
lb anakeaffidavit of a charge of murder ; he stated that, about
lean age, whilst on board the merchant ship Aleuts-
. , at' p4rna buce, the Mate of the ship (Mr. Waren) struck
tesseorthe-crew, named Griffiths, so violent a blow as to cause
r.bledeeth. Having seen Waters:a few days dnoeln London, he
lodged this information against him, in consequence of which he
was apprehended. The accused, who denied. the alleged Act,
was remanded until further evidence could be obtained.

hosts giastOtz.-,-A certain Irish Nobleman
accidentally. passing along one of the streets in London
inhabited by the lower order Of the Irish, expressed
his surprise tb see fewer boys' than he formerly hid
occasion to observe about the place. On being told
4-might be in consequence of a school established for
the poor children, his Lordship entered the school,
and was so much pleased with the binefits resulting'
from it, that he gave ao to its support.
Lamm Ottrw.tarsh.--We copy from a German
Paper the following fact, which occurred lately at
Warsaw:- -A Jew, tho proprietor of an hotel in that
city, was entrusted with a casket containing valuable
property to the amount of £50,000, belonging.to an
Narwhals:San, who gave it to his host for greater se-
, corky. Whet! the Englishman asked for his property,
.the Jew
Inposiiiiely denied having received any such •
thing.despair the Englishman proceeded to the
Archduke Constantine, who summoned the hotel-
!keeper before him. This Prince used his utmost ef-
forts to induce the Jew to surrender the casket, but
;in vain. Pardon was even offered, but to no purpose.
The Jew persisted in the denial. His Imperidl fligh-
tless then turned the conversation to some other
'subject, and, after some minutes drew out his watch,
and on looking at it, said--..” I belipee if' is ;mit
right; let me see what it. is o'clock hp yOurs."l---
Then seeming to take a fancy to itaho Gr.:ad Duke
asked the Jew to exchange' watchv;to whiCh the Jew,
unsuspicious of 'any design, readily consented. The
Prince then withdrew into his cabinet, and dispatched
a trusty messenger with the exchanged watch to the
hotel, desiring him to tell the landlady, On the part
'of her husband, to send the casket immediately, 4s
he wanted it much. in order to arrangisoniebusineSsl
with the Grand Duke. The landlady, on seeing her
husband's watch, suspected' nothing, and instantly
gave the casket to the Duke's. valet. The Grand
Duke, wheohe had' received the casket, oared full
pardon to the rascal provided he would admit his
having received it; but the Jew denied ell knowledge
oci: the casket, and even swiire o the truth 'of his de:
,seal. Ho was. then, by.order of the Pritkes•tanded
lowa So she• Military Tribututloyhosenteneed him to
ba gift by twenty Jews; Tile latter ficaseTer,cate-'
lentEdillOseritence so badlytthittlecelprft so/fere:POD.'
cruciating agoily.ror two (tei t0e166.'

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