Star.
London, England, 1830-07-09 00:00:00

SCINTILLA!.

The King and his Prime Minister must be at least at
Issue on one point—we mean the battle of Navarino, which the one
is known to conside► as one of the most brilliant achlevesnems ef
the last reign; the other the most "untoward."
It has been said of the celebrated Beaumarchais, the
author of Floor°, that he was the most fortunate man that ever
lived, having buried two wives and pined three lawsuits before he
was 30!
There are said to be 7,904 Dissenting congregations
in England and Wales; which is above two-thirds of the number
of churches. _ _ _

Bishop Fleetwood was never displeased at any position
of his being controverted. " I write my own sense," said he. "as
well as I can : if it Is right, it wW support itself; if it will not, It
is At it should sink."—Spirit of Literature.
Sir Robert Walpole was fond of playing at billiards, at,
whkit his friend, Dr. Mousey, excelled him. "How happens it,.
," said Sir Robert, "that nobody beats me at billiards, =co me, but you ?" " The solution is easy," said Mowry t
" I want neither places nor from you. Perhaps, if I did, 1
aboold be as grata bungler at bi liards as you am."
POT-WA LLOPERS.-A Cortendent of do Herald
asks--" Will you, or one of your intelligent composilots, have
the goodness to say what is meant by pot-avalispies "Ming P' It
was mentioned by Mr. Hume in the Bonn sI Osemssos lot sight
I have looked Into several dietionaries—viv. Its PeTra, Walker's,

Nib" and Johnises. but I cannot
.11nrakisissalitins.“ The
Nita of dis Herald ,resew--" ' Pet. .1•0160» in
those boroughs whore the elective freocides pie Wing a
pot in a teams* withht the lienits of the Met.
to whom she manse question seems to be pr i.g
hie real pi:fi-
lled osionbog to the blackEanul term : Walls'," says he, "is
me ill Mill* word, signi ing to boil (by the way It h thl sus.
smog of a noble family, mouth, which has been move than
UM 111 hot water): and in a few Cornish and Devonshire boroughs
is elective hint:him is given to all the inhabitants who have ob-
Vied a legal settlement, and boil their own pet—that hi, who pro.
Ms lar themselves. These electors are called pot-walloper."
KIAXGSI PROVENCE.--Tbe Hoakune, or President
of Literati in this Province, having sold degrees clandestinely, a se.
ern aspen was seat to the Emperor, and he ordered two Commis-
sion:es se premed forthwith and starch Foksbin the President's
bons& They found a hoard, amounting to 400.000 tads, a sum
whist a doctor of hum could not have inquired by any fair mean.
'dinned, disgraced, and beggared, poor Fokshin went and hanged
himself. What a pity the laws of China extend not to some of ow
northern universities, who make rich—m lawysrs do—by degrees!
Pawohroking is carried to s very great extant in
China. The system seems divided into two parts. one basalt:al
fording aid to then in the very inferior walks :4 Eh, witobiolp
confined so very small advances ; the other mating Isms elm ilk
posits of higher valor, and contsponding with the *nibs esishlA.
mats in England ; these are authorized by the geveneemelle NS
there am others we are informed. that exist whhostAlisimsetieli.
and are directed' to the relief of the atemantile IN Thome op.
dmilate very nearly to the lase repot In Lorin of on Repshabilt
Lem Com Anny, making mivisoar sr and hop der*. if
Oasis. Thom Worm as ast &deed, by us
alp &o ink wa ourelsopo llegletsi see by the these=
Brae easier they billets the am demobs st ehmee es •
curdat repsety, we wilt seelessoi es tegr. ?FIN yean are
se xis $ nith a iloweDrsoln. , mons Hey.
Allioshos the lit bet. most sincerely lamented by his family
siti.blendle, Ws. Deem, 1611A.citt. Lesnard's Hill, Perks. On
Monday lan, mei a, Sir T. Lipid, Bart. of GoMertgl;
opium of York, Copt. in the Royal Navy.—At
P. incise, En. after na Own et a few houreJa his
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