Star.
London, England, 1830-10-27 00:00:00

SCINTILL4f.

Tuz Btwoa,L ANNUAL.—Annuals, which were in shell
infancy but two or three years ago, are now old enough to enter on s
grand tour of the world, which they seem inclined to punue through uii
the signs of the zodiac.. The" Bengal Annual" comes from about on,
Antipodes--from the Calcutta Press, and is printed upon India paper.
It would be well if the Eastern character had entered a little more into
its contents. The majority of its articles, however, are unconnected
with Orient lore and are devoted to those miscellaneous subjects upon
which so many imaginations and pens of our veteran literati are alread
employed at home. This was ill-judged in our Bengal friends, to in-
trude upon our lions in their desert, and leave their own well-stocked
wilds, over which they could roam without fear of rivalry. What ma-
terials for an agreeable variety of the " Annual " are there in the man-
ners and histories of the Hindoo, Persian, Arab, Turk, Tartar or citi-
zen, of the celestial empire! Here we have a lengthy tale touching the
superstitions of the Scotch Highlanders (quounue 9) With all due re-
verence for the venerable " noli me tangere," whose odour and beauty
salutes us from every hedge, we should, on the present occasion, have
pteferred to have had our senses regaled even with a blossom of the
gm)) of flowers, Irons whence Ferdousi distilled into the ear of the
King of Kings the Attar gul of Perak poesy. Most of the versification
in the work is very readable and creditable to the civil and military
amateurs from whom it has proceeded. The dramatic illustrations of
Shakspeare's " Seven Ages ' is: very spirited, and worthy of our
" Forget-tne-Nots," , Gems," &e. The most interesting article in
the book is the translation of the Persian Abbas Kooly Khan's account
of his capture and detention by the Wahabee pirates. This has an
amusing tincture of Asiatic style.—Herald.
A Roman silver coin of Trajan was found in a garden in
Boughton, one day last week It was struck in the year 98. On the
obverse is the bead of Trajan, in a fine state of preservation. Legend
Imp. Trajanus, &c. On the reverse, a captive sitting upon a shield.
Legend Cos. V•P•S•P•Q•it• Optimo Primo. It is now in the . -
lion of Mr. J. Twemlow, Black Lion, Boughton.-8( ;field
Courier.

A recent visite: to St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, states
the usual service there to be performed, unlike those in all or most of
our English cathedrals, in a style of magnificence only excelled at our
musical festivals. An interchange of duty with the sleepy choristers
and lay Vicars of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey might infuse
Into the latter what they much want, the spirit both of harmony
and devotion.

The late King, when Prince of Wales, attending Lewea
races, one day, when a drenching rain kept away the greater part of the
expected attendants, en its being observed how few of the Nobility had
hien upon the Course, "1 beg pardon," said the Prince, "I think 1
saw a very handsome sprinkling of the Nobility."
A new provincial journal contains the following pleasing
specimen of editorial naivete:—" How to multiply the friends o::!
paper. Speak and write of i s kading facts to your friends ; try to :.ui.-
tnent the number of its subscribers among your acquaintances ;
niece to its editor all the valuable information in your own immediale
neighbourhood; and, whew they arc good for any thing, the line-
brations of your own ttiends !"
Sin Ht;)lPli asv y.—A marble tablet, three feet six
inches long, two feet six inches high, and about three inches thick, a
thing which two men might readily lift, has just been put up to his
memory in Westminster Abbey ; and the Chapter, to show the raise
at which they rate Sir Ilumpbry's genius. have charged 1201. as a fiat
(so they call it) fur leave to put it up- Nor is this all—as a punish-
ment on his lady, for allowing him to die and be buried in a foreign
land, they have charged 221. as half-burial fees. It is otherwise
abroad : so little was his body looked upon as a mater of amour* and
value price at Geneva, that the simple Calvinists told Lady Davy she
might inter his body free of all expense. The Dian and Chapter of
Westminster knew better the worth of him of the wonderful lamp, and
made 1421. by a draft on Druniniond's--out of n body which, to the
simple Church of Geneva, was not worth a penny.—Athatioatm
SAMrst►x AG ON rs.—The new beer houses are termed
barm-houres, whistling.shops. and Toni anti Jerry houses. Sampson
Green, a man much esteemed for potent *is, keeps one of these houses
on Biddulph Moor, near Congleton. About six o'clock on Saturday
evening last, the man, Sampson, nailed his domicile somewhat Cocchi
plexus, and finding two men sitting by his fire-aids and drinking nei-
ther his " Rack-the-head, middle-draught, nor taper•down,"—that is
to say, beer at' d. 4d. or 6d. per quart—lie, in his wrath, pronounced
them to be drunk, and tattered them out of his house. The wan,
thinking the saddle was placed or. the wrong horse, retorted upon Saint-
son ; be, forthwith, like another Agonises, stripped, and blows en-
sued. Finally, Sampson the strong, was overpowered and punished
severely. It is not, however, true, as has been rumoured, that one of
the beer-drinkers bit off the nose of the barn-seller. The said WWI"
cis still remains attached to its owner's face, but somewhat scarified.—
iiaecilcsfield Courier.

BIRTH.
The 20th curt. at Ike Bank, the Lady of Sir John Gordon of Fads-
ton, Bart. of a son.

MARRIED.
At Bombay, on the 22d May, Lieutenant George Deck, of the rvyal
engineers, to Harriett, daughter of the Rev. F. Grant, Rector of Wrab-
ness and Incision.

DIED.
At Edinburgh, Mr. Jarr.es J. 0. Congdon, aged 24 years, the second
son of Mr. Joseph Congdon, of that city.—At Edinburgh, on tilt 13th
curt. William Braidwood, Eng. aged seventy-nine.
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