Star.
London, England, 1825-11-15 00:00:00

THE INFANT ANGEL.

PROM DOWNING'S SPECIMENS OF THE DUTCH POETS.

Infant fairest—beauty rarest—
Who repairest from above;
Whose sweet smiling, woe-beguiling,
Light us with a heavenly love !
Mother ! mourn not—l return not—
Wherefore learn nut to be blest?
Ileaven's my borne now, where I roam now—
I—an Angel, am at rest!
Why distress thee? Still I bless thee
Still caress thee, though I'm fled;
Cheer life's dulness—pour Heaven's fulness
Of bright glory on thy bead !
Leave behind thee, thoughts that bled thee—
Dreams that blind thee in their glare;
Look before thee, round thee, o'er thee—
Heaven invites thee—l am there!

The King's Bench Prison is at this time unprece-
dentedly crowde.l. On the first day of Term there
were no less than ninety-one renders in discharge of bail.
DISSOLUTION OF THREE MORE CCMPANIES.—Yester.
day the deposits were paid off upon the shares in the
following Companies :—The Antwerp Steam Naviga-
tion Company, the Dieppe Steam Navigation Company,
and the Havre de Grace Steam Navigation Company.
The house-proprietors in Dublin are about to petition
Parliament, fur the suppression of the nefarious prac-
tice of levelling.
The difficulties that stood in the way of the transfer
of the late Mr. Fauntleroy's banking-house have been
removed, and the sale for 4,000 guineas completed,
which purchase-money is exclusive of a ground-rent of
between 501. and 601. for a forty years lease, of the
fixtures, 6:c. Mrs. Fauntleroy, the mother, by virtue,
of some settlement on her husband, received one-fifth ;
and her claim of all the fixtures, which stood in the way
of completing the transfer, she agreed, by her son, the
late Fauntleroy's brother, an attorney, who attended in
her behalf, to submit to the decision of arbitration.
The house in Berners-street, or rather double house,
which is immensely large and very commodious, and
was superbly fitted up- by its late occupier, is to be
converted into a hotel; the place is now filled with
workmen. It is stated, that in dividing the purchase-
money of the house into fifths, there was a payment of
some 1501. made to Fauntletoy's widow, but on what
account did not appea.—ller.akl.
We understand that there are letters in Dublin from
Rome, beating date the 15th of October: at that time
the POPE had been ie.tated perfectly to health, and
packets were dispatched throughout the whole Chris-
tian world, communicating the indulgencies, conditions,
and regulatit,l, of the approaching jubilee.
We he.tr from a private source, upon which we caw
place the most implicit reliance, that the President of
the Black Republic of Hayti has again made an appli-
cation to the British Government to recognize the inde-
pendence of that new State, offeting, as the condition of
such a boon, to place the British tradeupon the original
footing, and to extend to Great Britain the advantages
possessed by France under the new system.--Itiocdes-
Reid Herald.
Monday se'nnight a valuable mare was killed,,and
nine cows houghed, and their tails cut off, at Old Bawn,
near Tallaght. The mare and cows were the property
of Captain Colwell, who cannot assign any other reason
for this terrible proceeding than his having dispossessed
a non-paying tenant.
A reduction of one shilling per piece, on the weaving
of plaids and camlets, took place in Leeds on Wednesday
last. The weavers, of whom there are about 1,000,
naturally enough demurred against this reduction ; but
when it was explained to them that the present state of
the trade rendered it absolutely necessary, and that the
option would be either to take that price or to go
without work, they submitted to the former as the less
evil of the two.
A paragraph appears in The Shrewsbury Chronicle,
which, if it be correct, exhibits the Game Laws in the
most frightful colours. A man, who has lost both arms'
above the elbows, is stated to have been committed to
il
the House of Correction for six months, for killing a
hare. This dangerous personage, it is stated, had been
accompanied by a terrier dog, which accidentally',
pounced upon a hare and killed it. As this is the
account of the convict himself, it may or may not be
correct ; but taking the offence in its worst light, is
there not something dreadfully disproportionate in such
a punishment for such a crime?. The offence of kill-
ing a hare, if punished at all, would have been visited
upon a rich man, or one moderately wealthy, by al
pecuniary punishment, scarcely felt by the delinquent;
but this unfortunate being, whose family is said to
depend on him for a scanty addition to the parish al-
lowance, is called upon to pay a fine, just as impossible
for him to pay as the whole amount of the National
Debt, and in default committed to prison fur sic months.
Mr. G. Lawn, the author of the Castle Spectre, on
the decease of his lathe!, went to Jamaica. His slaves,
were much *mused with the representation of the,
Castk Spectre; and presuming on his indulgence, they
petitioned him to emancipate them. lie gave ti em a
solemn promise, that at his death they should have
their freedom. On his passage homeward he died;
and, as it is said, by poison administered to him by
three of his favourite black brethren, who thought they
should gain their promised liberty by terminating his
existence.—Kellys Reminiscences.