Star.
London, England, 1830-08-19 00:00:00

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TABLE BEER.—The following announcement is to be
seen at the window of a house in Exeter-street, Salisbury :—" Tabel
Bear Sold Hear." A wag, upon reading it, observed, that he sup.
posed the Bear must be the man's own Bruin (brewing.)
CORRECT TRANSLATION.—On the arrival of the late
important news from Paris, the light-heeled Metcuries, ear flying
stationers, obtained from the usual sources In Manchester, a supply
of " full, true, and particular accounts," which were printed with
the usual accuracy of such publications. In the newspapers the
French mob were made to exclaim, "A bas les Bourbons! A bag lee
despoliques !" But the talented editor of one of these "catch-
penny men" transformed the sentence Into the following shape--
" A Madam Bourbons ! A bastes dispolier !"
PRINCE DE POLIGNAC.—It may not be generally
known that this individual is an illegitimate son of the ex-King of
France—still less that he lived a considerable time in Edinburgh.
His mother, Madame de Polignac, mistress of the Comte d'Artois,
when he resided at Holyrood-house, lived in that small whits villa at
the south end of the lane called Croft-an-righ, and fronting into the
King's Park, about fifty yards from the Palace. Here also lived
Louis de Polignae, then only known as a wild French boy, attend.
ing the High School. We have been told by a lady who attended
Madame Rossignol's dancing academy—ye Powers ! it was in
Bailie Fyfe's close, up three stairs—that Louis de Polignac used to
come to the bottom of the stair every day with his tutor, or other at.
tendant, and kiss the young ladies attending the school as the
descended, the said attendant assisting him to catch them, and see
that no one escaped. The same youth afterwards forma a matri-
monial connection with an Edinburgh lady, of the name of Camp-
bell, who, however, is since dead. The lively manners of young
Polignac are still well remembered by many persons living in Fdin-
burgh.—Caletionlan Mercury.
CURIOUS FACT.—There is an historical coincidence in
the fall of Charles X. which,owing to existing circumstances,strikes
every body in France as singular. Thrice has the crown of the Ca.
pets fallen from the elder to the younger branch, and the consecu-
tive reigns of three brothers have always preceded that change in the
reigning family. After Philip le Bel followed the reign of the bro-
thers Louis le Hutin, Philip lc Long, and Charles le Bel, then the
sceptre fell into the bands of the family of Valois. The three bro-
thers—Francis 11. Charles IX. and Henry 111. finished the career
of that branch of the Royal Family, and called the Bourbons to the
throne. Louis XVI. Louis XVIII. and Charles X. terminate the
list of the Monarchs of that family, and the House of Orleans rises
in the midst of a tempest.
JuNOT.—The following anecdote of Junot is in Con-
stant's Akmoires of Buonaparte :—" Junot, on his return from
Egypt, happening to pus through Montbard, where he had spent
his days of boyhood, took especial pains to discover his old school.
fellows and playmates, with whom he chatted gaily on the theme of
his youthful pranks. His next step was to visit the respective loca-
lities in company with his quondam associates in mischief. In the
public square Junot observed a grave-looking old gentleman, walk.
ing majestically along, an ivory-headed cane supporting his steps.
Without further ceremony, the General ran up to him, threw him.
self upon his neck, and embraced him with a vehemence of cordia-
lity nearly sufficient to stifle him. The Professor, disengaging him-
self with difficulty from the close hug, and ignorant of the motive
attach warmth, contemplated the General with every symptom of
stupefaction. What !' cried the latter, do you not know me ?'—
' Citizen General, pray excuse me, but I have no recollection.'—
Zounds! Doctor, have you forgotten the most idle, goon-for-nothing,
inntractable dog that ever tried the patience of a pedagogue ?r: I beg
a thousand pardons, but have I the honour of addressing M. Junot?'
'You have,' said the General, renewing his overwhelming endear.
menus, and bursting into a loud laugh (in which his friends joined,)
at the singular signs and tokens by which the man of learning hail
so easily recognized his graceless pupil."
KNIFE-GRINDER'S ASTIIMA.—Dr. Knight, of Shef-
field, has contributed a paper to the " North of England Medical
and Surgical Journal," in which he shows the fatal effects of reeciv.
ing metallic dust in the lungs. " The articles," he says, "ground
in this neighbourhood are forks, awl-blades, fire-irons, razors, scis-
sors. pen-knives, table-knives, large pocket-knives, files, joiners'
tools, saws, sickles, and scythes. Some of these are ground on dry
grindstones, others on wet, hence the grinders are divided in two
classes, the dry and the wet grinders—and there is a third class,
who grind both wet and dry—altogether they amount to about two
thousand five hundred ; of this number about one hundred and fifty,
viz. eight men and seventy boys, are fork grinders—these grind dry,
and die from 28 to 32 years of age. The razor grinders grind both
wet and dry, and they die from 40 to 43 years of age. The table-
knife.grinders work on wet stones, and they live to between 40 and
80 years of age. So general has this destructive malady become of
late years, that the result of some inquiries, made in 1822, showed
Ithat out of two thousand five hundred grinders, there were not 35
who had strived at the age of 50, and perhaps not double that num.
bet who had reached the age of 45; and out of more than 80 fork
grinders, exclusive of boys, it was reported that there was not a
single individual thirty six years old !"
ICOLsocILL.—Mr. Rae Wilson has been successful
in making discoveries in Icolmkill. After working, with others,
among the ruins, for several days, and removing cart loads of rub-
bish, he discovered a fine altar in the chapel of the nunnery; also
several tombs that have been under these for ages. This was a
spot exclusively set apart for the interment of the nuns; many
tombs hear the effigy of the Virgin Mary, the abbesses, &c. and, in
particular, one beautiful piece of sculpture found was the decapita-
tion of John the Baptist, as perfect as if executed yesterday; the
head is in the act of falling; the sword, char, saint, and person
who accomplished the object. Mr. Wilson Us besides cleared ot
weeds and rubbish all the grave-stones, erected to the memory of
the Norwegian and Scottish Kings, and gigantic Chieftains, and
brought many inscriptions to light, which have hitherto been buried.
It appears, from opening one tomb, that the nuns were buried within
One inch of the surface. The discoveries made by this gentlemen
cannot fail to make lona still more interesting to the traveller and

antiquarian.
A VORACIOUS EEL.--Last week, a large eel was
caught in a stake-net at Loch Staffio, in Skye. On brining it
ashore, ha stomach was observed to be very much distended; and
when it was cut up, it was found to contain a very fine grilse, be-
tween four and five pounds weight ! and so fresh and entire, that
the fishermen boiled it, and declared that they had never eaten better
fish in their lives !
A NICE POI NT.—At the Shropshire Assizes John
Burrows was Indicted for the manslaughter of Thomas Wilcox. at
The prisoner was one of a body of musicians, who.
MOhs evening the unfortunate accident occurred, had been spending
swat time at a party in the neighbouring town. In returning they
met the unfortunate old man riding on an ass, and in a frolic the
prisoner took hold of the collar of his coat, and snatching it sud-
denly, the old man fell to the ground, and so Injured his spine that
he died the second day afterwards The widow of the deceased said.
that when in immediate expectation of death, he expressed his
conviction that tiOD would forgive the prisoner, who, he was certain
had no intention to do him an injury. The commission of the
crime could not be traced fully to the prisoner, and he was Requtt.
ted. In this case a curious objection was started to the correctness
of the indictment ; it was there laid that the offence had been com-
mitted " against the peace of our late Lord the King ;" and the in-
dictment went on to state that the blow which caused death was
given in the last reign, whilst death did not take place till the com-
mencement of the present; and the question was--whether does the
blow, or the consequence of that blow—namely, death--constitute
the offence? If the death of the person constituted the offence.
then the indictment was bad, inasmuch as it ought to have been laid
as against the peace of his present Majesty. Counsel were eagerly
debating this point, when it was hinted that even conviction in the
present ease would be followed by a trifling punishment, and the
prisoner's counsel waived the objection.—Mr. Justice Park stated
' that while at the bar, he had to draw an indictment against a pri-
soner for an offence committed at half-past eight o'clock on the
morning that King George 111. died at 25 minutes past eight. It
was with some difficulty, and by laying the offence under three
different counts, that he obtained a conviction. The first count laid
the offence under the late King, the second under the present, and
• the third in the reign of the then reigning Sovereign.
HYDROPHOBIA. • The following case of hydrophobia.
cured by the application of mercurial ointment, is selected out it
three, recorded in the ilibliotheque Unirerselle, for March, 1820,
a literary and scientific journal, published at Geneva. In 1809.
Mr. J. Blacends, a physician at Naples, was requested to attend
the gardener of the Duke of Casoli, at St. Torio, a young man 2U
years of age, who had been bitten in the right hand by a house dog
20 days before. The dog bad been ascertained to be in a rabid
state, and had accordingly been destroyed. The wounds were three
in number, and the marks apparent. Mr. Maccada prescribed mer-
curial frictions, 20 drachms pee dose, daily. On the 40th day af-
ter the bite, viz. the 20th of the cure, the patient was csavulsed.ana
exhibited slight symptoms of hydrophobia. Mr. Maccada ordered
him immediately to be bled, and placed in a bath ; this operation
was repeated three times, after which the patient became calm. The
mercurial frictions were persevered in, and, after eight ounces had
been used, the cure was completed.

DIED.
At Leamington, on the list inst. John Armstrong, E!9• Chef"
Valley, county Antrim.—ln Calais, on the 14th inst. Susan Ati-
ney, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Adney, Rector of ITplowrnst!d
Sandford, Peva% In the county of Devonshire.—At Fn „''hip
Estate, St. Elisabeth's, Jamaica, cm the 9th bby last, MO 24,
Joseph James Robinson, M. D. eldeet son of the late John Robert-
son, Esq. of Belmont Estate, In the same perbh.—At Leith, on the
4th inst. William Campbell, liaq. Mid

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