Star.
London, England, 1824-10-11 00:00:00

breast-plates, chains of the same metal, and solid lumps
of roclogold, of the weight, perhaps, of a pound or' ike
each. The royal messengers stood behind the Sove-
reign, shouldering by the blades large crooked sabres,
the emblems of their offices, and displaying the reversed
hilts, cased in thin gold sheathing. In another po-
sition, at the back of the King's chair, p select few stood
erect, as guards, add were armed with common English
muskets in gold casing, and habited in grotesque ap-
parel
The author then describes at great length the dress
of the guards and other attendants, and then that of
the King.
" He was modestly habited in a large cloth or hayk
of figured cotton, cast off from both shoulders, and rest-
ing negligently in loose folds upon the loins and thighf.'
From his naked shoulder was suspended a thick silk
plait or cord, to which were attached a string of amu-
lets cased in gold, silver, and silk. A massive gold
chain ercircled his waist, in the form of a zone, below
the navel; and a variety of clumsy gold rings covered
his fingers, thumbs, and toes. On the left knee he wore
a band-age,kor fillet of silk, and plaited weed, interwoven
with gold beads and amulets, terminating with a taste-
ful tassel, that hung at low as the calf of the leg."

A one•pound Chertsey note, one of those stolen from
the Buckingham coach, has been returned to' Messrs.
Bartlett and Co. A person attempted to pass it at
Croydon Fair, who, on being asked of whom he had
received it, pretended to go, accompanied by an Officer,
to tied the person ; but when in the midst of a crowd
he contrived to make his escape, and was not again seen.

INCREASE OF STEAM VESSELS.--Four steam-boats
now ply from Rotterdam into the interior of Holland,
and a fifth is to ply to Hamburg. A vessel built of iron
and to move by steam, is building, to go between Rot-
terdam and Cologne; she is constructing on the plan of
the English steam-boats which go between Rotterdam
and London.

An unfortunate accident occurred the week before last,
at Radcliff-on•Trent, about five miles from Nottingham :
a boat was proceeding to that town, on board of which,
amongst other passengers, were a man and his son, a
youth about seventeen years of age, going to the fair
with goods from Yorkshire ; the young man sat on the
side of the vessel, then under a press of sail, when the
mast fell upon his head, and it is supposed instantly
killed him, as he fell overboard into the river, and never
arose to the surface ; neither had his body been found
so late as Tuesday last.

On travelling in Iceland, an Englishman would almost
be tempted is believe that all the Clergymen are Baro-
nets, as the names Sira John, Sins Thomas, Sirs Mar-
cus, &c. are constantly ringing in his ears ; but in an-
cient Scottish writings we not only find " Sir," or
Schir," prefixed to the names of persons of different
ranks, but it appears to have been given as a title to
ordinary Priests, till after the period of the Reforma-
tion. We find the same addition given to Clergymen
in England in Sbakspeare's time.
French notes, explanatory of the text of an English
author, are sometimes highly diverting. In this we
have an instance of a note upon a work in which the
words " purlieus of St.Giles's" occur, which the French
translator explains, by saying that they signify " Cer-
taiga terres dessembries de fords royaks, d stir ksguelks
k proprietaire a droit de chasse."—(" Certain lands dis-
membered from the royal forests, and on which the
proprietor has right of chase." The translator has found
the word purlieus so explained in some old dictionary.
The word was originally confined to the sense which the
Frenchman ascribed to it.

A Collar.—ln the month of July, a Comet was dis-
covered by M. POWs, at Manly, which there is strong
reason to believe is the same that he ob served in 1802.
Signor CATOCClssecond astronomer at the Royal Obser-
vatory, and Signor Dir. Re, a Student at the same
Observatory, have made the following observations on
this Comet in September:
CAPOCCL
Passage to the Perihelion 29 deg. at Ima
Perihelion distance 1051
The San's distance pan

Du. Rs.
50 deg. at 10.eas,
1'036

the Earth being Unity ;
Longitude of the bound-
big Node - • 279 deg. 19 min. 279 deg. 42 min.
Inclination of the Orbit 54 41 53 42
Place of the Perihelion
in the Orbit - 4 24 5 45
Further observations continue to be made, with a view
to ascertain the identity of this Comet with that of
1802, registered in the third vol. of DelantLre's Astro-
momy. Several circumstances concur to render it pro-
bable that they are the same; particularly the small
degree of light which they both possess, the indistinct-
ness of nucleus, and the nebulosity so very thin, as to
chew through it stars of the 9th or 10th magnitude,
with little, if any, diminution of their lustre.

EAITHQUAUL—At San Pidro in Bagno, in the
Grand Duchy of Tuscany, several earthquakes of minor
importance have been lately felt. Between the morning
of the 12th and that of the 13th of August, not less
than 20 shocks were distinctly perceived. Three, to-
lerably strong, occurred about seven o'clock, which
made the Church bells ring. At Selvapiana, which
was the spot most affected, a wall was thrown down,
but happily without injuring any person. During the
following day and night, the earthquakes continued,
but with trifling effect. A haziness of the atmosphere
and a particular kind of obscurity about the Sun were
the phenomena remarked immediately previous to these
convulsions of Nature.

King James came in progress to the house of Sir
William Pope, Knight, where his Lady had lately been
delivered of a daughter. The babe was presented to
the King, with a paper of verses in her hand, of which
the following is a copy, with which his Majesty was
greatly pleased.
" See, this little mistress here
Did never sit in Peter's chair,
Or a triple crown did wear,
And yet she is a Pope!
No benefice sbe ever sold,
Nor did dispense with sins for gold,
She hardly is a se'nnight old,
And yet she is a Pope!
No King her feet did ever kiss,
Or had irons her worse look than this,
Nor did she ever hope
To saint one with a rope,
And yet she is a Popel—
A female Pope, you'll say—a second Joan;
No, sure—she is fte hissocentror none !"
Mr. Martin, of Galway, upon the eve of a former
general election, was asked. 4, Who were the candidates
likely to be returned?' .4 Why," said Mr. Martin,
ig there are three of us. Daly, I think, is safe. The
other two are Kirwan and myself." ss And which of
you will be the other succes4ul candidate?" said the
qucrist. "Why, the survivor, to be sure!" replied Mr.
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