Star.
London, England, 1825-12-28 00:00:00

ITALIAN BANDITS.

The following circumstances, respecting the tragical
end of Targhini and Montanari, are from a private letter
from Rome. Targhini had the audacity to interrupt
the imisekr from reading his sentence of death, saying,
he had those sort of things at his fingers' ends. Mon-
tanari, on his side, began to sing, and told him he gave
himself needless trouble. These two criminals having
been conducted to the chapel ardente three days before,
their execution, Targhini vented himself in horrid im-
precations against his ciatfessor, whom he reproached
with having deceived him into a confession of his crimes
under a promise of pardon. " I declare to you, besides,"
added he, " that I h.ive told you only a pack of lies."
He then addressed himself to the other ecclesia,tics,
who had ccine to offer him the comforts of religion,
and told them they were all children of the devil. In
fact, his conduct was so outrageous, that he was
obliged to be conducted to his dungeon. Alontanari
was more calm, but he woted pay no attenti .n to the
exhortations of the holy fathers, and burst into re-
peated shouts of laughter at their pious exhortations.
Executions generally take place here after sunset, but
the Government, in order to make a mire public ex-
ample of these hardened criminals, caused them to be
executed at one o'clock in the afternoon, on the Grande
Place de Giulia, from whence they could be observed
by a numerous multitude, as this spot is overlooked by
mount Pincio. The two prisone:s did nothing but
laugh and sing while on the road to the place of exe-
cution, and saluted the Ladies who were assembled at
the windows on the road through which they were to
pass. Targhini was first led to the scaffold, and when
on the point of being executed, exclaimed, " I die in•
nocent, but I die a Carbonari." The drums began
beating, and interrupted the rest being heard. Mon-
tana:i beheld the ex cution of his companion with a
smiling countenance, and whilst the executioner was
cutting his hair, and the attendant priests offered him
in vain the comforts of religion, he declared, " Sir,
let me alone, you only annoy mt.." Having placed
his head under the fatal knile, and the priest desiring
from him one act of religion, he exclaimed, " Execu-
tioner, cut the cord, I am weary of so much prating."
An universal stupor prevai:ed over the by-standers, and
the priest availed himself of the occasion to harangue
them, and incite them to meditate on the Unhappy end
of the two ci iminals.

We have received the Singapore Chronicle of the 4th
of August. An expedition had been sent by order of
the Government at Singapore, for the purpose of taking
formal possessi, n, as it was understood, of several ad-
jacent islands ceded to the English by the late treaty
with the SULTAN of Singapore. Although the cii cora-
ference of Singapore is not great, yet the small islands
to be landed upon are numerous and little known, and
the objects of the expedition would therefore occupy a
considerable time in accomplishing. According to ac-
counts from Penang, received at Singapore, Captain H.
BURNILY had been appointed as Envoy of the Governor-
General, to proceed on a mission to Siam, should a fit
opportunity offer for opening a negotiation with the
people of that country, extremely jealous of any inter-
course with foreigners, and therefore difficult of access.
SPECULATION.—A letter from Norwich says—We
have heard of some Capitalists purchasing all the tal-
low in the country, others buying up all the oil, and yes
terday a female speculator attempted to monopolize all
the turhies in the market ! She failed, however, for
want of funds ; the run upon her was greater than she
could sustain !

Ilussasins.—Love so, that you may be feared; rule
so, that you may be honoured ; be not too diffident, lest
you teach her to deceive you ; nor too suspicious, lest
looa teach her to abuse you ; if you see a fault, let your
ve hide it; if she continue in it, let your wisdom re-
prove it ; reprove her not openly, lest she grow bold ;
tchuke her not tauntingly, lest she grow spiteful; pro-
claim not her beauty, lest she grow proud ; boast not
of her wisdom, lest you be thought foolish ; let her not
see your imperfections, lest she disdain you. An un-
derstanding husband makes a discreet wife, and she a
happy husbaud.

C/IRISTENINGS AND BURIALS.
WITHIN THS CITY OF LONSON AND BILLS 01 MOBTA• 1
LITT, ISOM inc. 14, 1124, TO DSC. 15, 1825:
Christened in the ninety-seven Parishes within the Walls, 975 ;
buried, 1,116.
Christened in the seventeen Parishes without the' Walls, 4749;
burled, 3,942.
Christened in the twenty-nine Out-Parishes in Middlesex and
Surrey, 11.695; buried, 11,906.
Christened in the ten Parishes in the City and Liberties of West-
minster 4,117 ; buried, 4,062.
Christened—Males 12,915; Females 12,719; in all 25,634.—
Burled—Males 10,825; Females 10,201 ;is all 21,026. Whereof
have died—Under two years of age 6,419 ; between two and bye
2,061 ; five and ten 867; ten and twenty 877; twenty and thirty
1,485; thirty and forty 1,693; forty and fifty 1,831 ; fifty and sixty
1,746 ; sixty and seventy 1,772 ; seventy and eighty 1,568 ; eighty
and ninety 622 ; ninety and a hundred 78 ; a hundred 1 ; a hun-
dred and one 1. Increase in the burials this year 781.
There have been executed within the Bills of Mortality 14, only
four have been reported as such.