Star.
London, England, 1831-06-16 00:00:00

CAUTION TO PARENTS.

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We have been obliged by order with the follow-
ing letter from Mr. Professor Davy, which was read
at the last meeting of the Dublin Society
" Royal Dublin Society's Laboratory, !Day 31. IC3I.
" SlR—Last evening 1 observed in a little child's hand,
some alike peppermint sugar drops, having bright red spots
cn dom. suspecting they were c.oloured with a substance
improper for children, I was induced to examine them,
and I found that their colouring matter Is red lead. These
drops me, I understand, commonly sold in our streets on slips
of paper.

" As the combinations of lead are known to be poisonous,
and the habitual use of peppermint drops containing red
lead, may lay the foundation of inveterate diseases in chil-
dren, such a pernicious application of this pigment, ought,
of course, to be made known to the public, and if possible,
prevented. I remain, Sir, your most obedient s.-rvant,_

E DAVY."
E. Madman, Esq. Assistant Secretary, Royal Dublin
Socit ty."

UNEDUCATiD POETS.
(From the last Number of the Atheneum).

There is not, never were, and never can be,
such people in existvuce Men who really deserve
Cie name of poets are, whatever their degree, the
best educated men iu the v orld, for one and all
educate themselves It is an error to suppose that
the mind, any more than the body, is benefited by
over-feeding, over-carefulness, or over-cultivation :
cuinparatively few of the men and women who
have reached the true distinction in literature, have
travelled on a rail, or even Macadamized road;
very few have been indebted to splendid connexions,
luxurious libraries, or expensive literary aids of any
kind. They have generally been men and women
of disadvantages—men and women who worked
for themselves, fagged out their diplomas, and
fought their own way to estimation. The majority
of minds that really accomplish aught, are gene-
rally thrown on their own resources ; and it makes
little difference whether the rank be high or low,
for the minds in higher life as often neglect their
advantages as use them, and the minds in lower
life do without, or rather create them. Education
is an excellent thing both for man and beast, as
Dandle Dinmont says ; but it does must for medi-
ocrity—the stupid or the merely clever are the
prime pets of the schoolmaster : from their ranks
come forth the " accomplished scholars," the men
of " attainments," the people eho know every
thing that every body has said in looks, and who
know nothing more— the recipients of ideas, but
not the originators—the appliers of theories, but
not the inventors—the masons of literature, but
not the architects.

The title, " uneducated poet," or uneducated
man of genius of any kind, is a solecism; he may
not be a man of schools, or of rules, of many books,
or of many literary fi lends ; but, inasmuch as he is
a true poet, or a man of true genius, he is nut un-
educated. He has only been hie own schoolmas-
ter and taught himself, by making oppoltunities in-
stead of finding them ready made—by doing witsi
books and people as Burns s.id he Lad to do with
money, •' make three guineas do the work of five"
—by looking for, and finding instruction hi things
that others pus over—by basing a ninon alive to
influences that others me heedless of. An praise
and honour be to ,
eveiy kind of school, college,
system, and institute, tl.st purports to put know-

ledge into the human head—for the majority of
human heads are only made to bold just what is pa
into them, and never to go in quest of more,
still less to originate for other heads. All
praise and honour be also to the said heads that
passively receive whatsoever is put into them,
and docilely believing wbatsoe:er is propounded
to them, dogmatically (in after days) declare, to
others the selfsame things in the selfsame words—
the generation of worthy, honest, patient, unques-
tioning. unoriginating—LEAaNEsts. It is not op-
portunity, but application—not advantages, but
energy—not being helped, but being helpful, that
makes the chief difference between man and
man ; between the man of one degree of mind and
the man of two. All the education in the world
would not have made Bloomfield a Burns ; and
all the dssadvantages in the world would not have
made Burns a Bloomfield : it would have been
equally impossible to raise one and keep down the
other. Every era has its privileged quantity of
good-sort-of-genius that is encouraged, or, it is
said, ought to be encouraged, but which, with all
the encouragement, dies, or settles down in a kind
of living mediocrity. If poets, they are pretty,
pleasing—and no more; if scientific, ingenious,
laborious—and no more ; if politicians, business-
like, useful, and " worky-day, ' but still no more.
Intellectual competence is theirs ; but the wealth
and honours of genius are not for them.
We do not admire Burns because he was a
ploughman, or Byron, because he was a peer, but
because each in his department is a master spirit,
who carries us on the wings of genius into a
world of enjoyment. We never remember either
Harrow or plough —we totally forget the literary
advantages which were showered upon the one, and
which were withheld from the
_other; we feel our-
selves equally in the grasp of a giant; and because
we do so, are careless by what culture either at-
tained his strength and beauty. It would be dif-
ferent if, in the place of Burns, we were reading
Mrs. Yearsley, or Stephen Duck; then we should
carefully remember their origin, calling, and dis-
advantages ; and the doing so, and the being
ready to cry, " how wonderful, considering;"—
would be a proof that neither are wonders; for
if they were, we should be unable to think of
these minor matters. That is a fine expression.
Talent and cleverness may be crushed, may " blush
unseen," may " waste their sweetness," but
GENIUS never. Sooner or later we see it
" co•uing forth, and rejoicing like a strong man to '
run a race—having its going forth from the end of
the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it, and I
nothing hid from the heat thereof."
We do not mean to assert that every man of
genius obtains his due : the men may be injured,
kept down, rendered wretched, may die unho- •
poured ; but their memorial does not perish with
them ; their genius has a resurrectioaary power,
and, like their spirits, walks the earth unseen.—
Their time of triumph comes—long, perhaps, after 1
date,—but still it comes : other men of genius
arise—by whom the departed ones are under-
stood ; and honoured, defended, loved, and
mourned.

Neither in high life nor in low, neither by edu-
cation nor by patronage, is 1 ble to bring up
prodigies. Genius cannot, Bite pumpkins, be
reared under a bell-glass.
The only real good effected by patronage—the
only effectual way of *hosting patronage--is by
giving a man of genius an opportunity of showing
what he can do—is by clearing the course, and
leaving him to himielf. When Burns WWI exhi-
bited in Edinburgh, what sustained and stamped
hiin as a roil marvel—a 'giant ofttatUral growth-.
it man possessing an tx.riitaer that dazzled
without being dazzled in return—that overtopped
and overshadowed others without being overtopped
or overshadowed by others? Neither professors,
nor fair ladies, nor poets (so called),—but himself
and his own strength. To call Burns an " un-
educated poet," is a self-evident absurdity ; he
knew more (exclusive perhaps of scholastic terms),
than one half of the people round him, to whom
literature and science had been household gods
from their youth : he saw deeper into the springs
of thought and feeling, into character, and into the
world. His letters, and, still more, the memoranda
in his Reliques,' mark the extraordinary vigour
of his understanding, the general culture of his in-
tellect, far more palpably than his poetry does. We
may miss knowledge in its scholastic forms, but
we have it in the essential spirit ; and his remarks
are more pungent, coming straight from his own
mind, than if they had been elaborated by argu-
ment, or rounded off by learned allusions.

On Tuesd.ty night a large game cover near
Proc., belonging to Sir ft. Hill, Bart, was sat firs
to by some incendiary ; it was with groat difficulty
the Gates were subdued, after consuming about an
acre of trees and underwood. A reward of 100
guineas is offered for the detection of the incen-
diary.

In 1429, au important change was made as to the
qualifications of the voter. for knights of the shire.
These were obliged to prove themselves worth 40s.
per annum. Before this every freeholder might
vote, and the vast concourse of electors brought on
riots and murders. Seventy pounds would, in
modern days, be barely an equivalent fur our an-
cestors 404. The freeholders were, at the same
time. directed to choose two of the fittest and most
discreet knights, resident iu their county ; or, if
none could be found, notable esquires, gentlemen
by birth, and qualified to be made knights ; but no
yeoman or persons of inferior rank.
Nouw ace Po RT.—A new harbour has been fur
some tine forming at the entrance of Lake Lothing,
below Norwich, by means of which that ancient
city will become a sea-port. On Friday, the 34
instant, the first vessel, the Ruby yacht, of 50
tons, entered the Lake through the lock from the
sea. Some of the circumstances attending the ad-
mission of the sea-water into the lake were parti-
cularly striking. The salt water entered the lake
with a strong under-current, over which the fresh
ran out to the sea. The fresh water was gradually
raised to the sur.ace, and the entire body of water
iu the lake aas elevated above its former level. At
a short distance from the lock, in the lake, there
was a clearly defined line, where the salt water
ight be taken up in one band, and the fresh in the
other. The admission of the sea-water proved
fatal to thousands of the inhabitants of the lake,
and It. surface was seen covered with dead pike,
carp, perch, bream, roach, and dace. It is a sinl
gula: fact that a pike, of about 20 pounds weight.
was taken up .dead, in the stomach of which a
was found entire.

PAyORAHA OF THE BRITISH

EMPIRE.

MANCHESTER ADV ERTIZER
BILL TO 11ZONLATI Lasoun IN COTTON AND °VIVI
FACTOklte.—tbk bill, which will be introduced in the new
parliament. limits the boors of work, for all under 21 years,
between half-pest five and half past eight ; there seder
licit to work more than twelve hours a day, nor more than
nine hours on Saturday—out of which an hour and a half to
be allowed for meals. In the event of the mills cawing from
want of water, such mills may be worked at night, provided
the whole time exceed not the above stated hours. Children
not to be employed at all under nine years of age. A'° time
book" is to be kept 10 every factory tote&er the time
during which the mill or steam-engine works each day.
The act affixes a penalty to all transgressions against its
clauses

POPULATION OP SALFOILIL—From the mums for this
I township, it appears that it contains 19,433 males. and
21,27.1 females, making a total of 40.715. In 1821 tbe po-
I Pallid= was 25,7;2, showing an incream when compared
with the census then taken, of 14,933.
POPULATION OF MANCHISTEIL-11111 returns for this
, township have just been made. The number of males is
67.645, and of femaks, 74,181, total 142,028. In the year
1821, when the last census was taken, the population was
108,018, shelving an increase of 34,010.
POPULATION or CUZILTHATI.—The returns of Cheetham
have been just made, from which It appears that the num-
ber of male inhabitants of that township, of all ages, is
1,820, and of females 2,205, making a total of 4,026. At
the census in 1801 the' number of Inhabitants was 762; In
1811, it was 1,170; anti In 1821, it was 2,027; the increase
since the last period has been nearly double.
POPULATION OP Buse.-11 appean from the mums Just
made that the number of males in this township is 7,439,
and of females 7,647; total 15,088. l 0 1821 the total
number of inhabitants was 10,583, showing an name of
4,503.

Sot:rms.—Tau Witten R,,ri.s.—Two of the Wigan
rioters wen apprehended on Friday, the 3d inst. with a
quandty of plate in their pommies the pmperty of J. H.
Learsley, Esq. M.P. They were taken to Wigan, and cow-
mkted to Lenosatev on Toesday, to take their trial at the
assizes fur the offence.
Ditsmactroz Exuturrtow.—On Tuesday, a monster
In beaten shape, sold his wife at Tong bloor-gate, for
3s. 6d. and a gallon of ale. The purchaser was a brute who
lodged in the house. On Wednesday, she was delivered up
by the husband according to the contract, and on Thursday
morning, the bell.man announced that her husband would
sat be answerable for any debts Witch she might in future
coatrect.

Of the seven siserships granted at the Dublin University,
is Wednesday week, the first was obtained by a student
earned Hamilton, who has been blind from his birth.
CIICZET M•TC11....011 Monday last, the Oftleefs of the
10th Hussars, 43d Foot. and 80th Bine% played a grand
match at Cricket with the Manchester Club, on the ground
opposite the Crescent, Salford. The day being unmet-
meetly fine, added to the attractions of a band of music,
and a commodious tent, erected by Mr. Dean, of the
Bush Inn, containing every delicacy which hls famed
&Usti* 4 cuisine sad well-famished cellars never fall to
produce, a goodly number of our fashionable. were drawn
I thither to witness the sport. The equality in skill of the
rival parties protracted the match to a late hour ; it wee
at length decided in favour of the dub. A return match
will be played, we understand, on the same ground, next
Monday. The following is the result of the match
Go MOIL 3fratkeskr.
• First Innings 63
Second Innings 6B
Leaving a majority of 2 in favour of the Manchester Club.
Three ezteasive failures occurred in Belfast during the
last week; one, in the cotton trade, for about 80,0001. one
in the grocery, for about 8,0001. and another for about
70,0001.

ILLICIT DurrieLaelow.—On Saturday last, two men,
named Ward and Lloyd, were brought up at the New
tngbefure Mr. Foster, for having been found, on the
day, working a private still, in Foundry.street,
George's toad. Junes, one of the police oaten, produced
an iron stanchion, with which he saw Ward strike one of
the excise officers repeatedly. Ward was convicted in the
penalty of 601. and Lloyd 301. and in default, the tamer was '
tommitted for six months, and the latter for three months.
Yesterday. Ige old woman, mooed Sarah Macfarlane, was ego-
victed in the mitigated penalty of 261. for hawking illicit
whiskey; and in delimit was also committed for three
'months.
Tut tare Monona at Ssocitroar.—We are sorry to
Sad that oo informatics, at least such as is likely to lead to
'his apptehensioa, has been obtained of Goulden, ouron
Implicated in the horrid case of murder, detailed in bet.
Amongst the on d its, since his departure, it has been stated
by one of his rortaidergrial friends, that within the last two
months no less than 37 females have been assisted.
Wacertst.e.--We have a good snivel of Wheat to this
day's market, but the supply of other grain is moderate.
Fine fresh samples of Wheat were taken off upon much the
same terms as last week but it was Impossible to make
sales of any other description, and the trade ruled eueed.
lingly dull.
Good healing Oats are scarce, sad fully support our
former quotations ; but Shelling met a heavy saU We
note no alteration in the value of Beans. Wheat per qr. of
®Gibs per bushel. Norfolk and Suffolk, red 68. to 725.
Ditto. ditto 63. to 68a. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, ditto,
63e to 68s. Ditto, white, Iffis to 68s. Foreign, red, 013 s to
715. Ditto, white. 68a to 71s.
Ltvitarooz. Coax Excwawse. hart 7.—Throughout
the past week we have experienced a preuy steady demand
foe Wheat and American Flour, at very full prices, and as
the long continued drought is beginning to have consider.
able baluence upon the holders of Spring Cora, we have
this week bad an Increased demand for most articles. Fins
Oats have advanced 2. per bushel, and Oatmeal 2s per load.
Some large sacs of Indian Corn were reported at an advance
oils per quarter, and grinding Barley, (which had for some
time been neglected,) has met with a better sale, at rather
higher prices. At this day's market them was a good at.
gendarme of both town and country dealers, who purchased
tine Wheat to a moderate extent at full the prices of this
day week; there was also a fair busines dune in American
riusir, at an advance of Old per barrel. Outs were in fair
request, and fully supported the advance obtained
during the week. The advance in oatmeal, since last Tues-
day, my be considered full 2s 6d per load. Indian corn was
held for an inatam of 2s per quarter.
IMPORT OF GRAIN AT LIVISPOOL fur the week ending
Julie 6.—Wheat, 18,46:1 g Oats. 7.910 ; Barley, 431 quar-
ters; Oatmeal, 11,361 loads; Flour, 1,208 sacks, 28,229
bag rels.

MARRIED.--Mr. Robert Higginbotham, of Huhn*, to
Bliss Sarah Edwards, meow' daughter of Mr Thomas Be-
verley, of Chorhon Row—Mr. John Harrison, of Worsley,
to bliss Swale. eWest daughter of Geo. Timpaley; Esq. of
Bolton.—At Coins, Mr. Baldwin, to Isabella, only daugh-
ter of Mr. Harg eaves. of Prime' Bridge.—Al t. John Coates,
of Chotho.i.ruw, merchant, w Mias Harriett* Louisa Ro-
binpon.

DIED.—Mr. Samuel Waptsff, 62. of Godley, having
only survived his with a tew weeks—,At TWee. John
Flynn, Lsq. proprietor and editor of the Trs:e• Aferroure.
—At Broughton, Margaret, 63, wife of Joseph Finned', of
the Society of Frientis.—Ann, ante of John Fieidea, Req. of
Todniorden, an excellent wife and mother.—Mr. Thomas
Ryder, 63, of Chalice Row, formerly of Northwich.—.lllr.
John Richmond. 63, formerly of Preston, and late of this
town ; and, oe the following da Heater, his wife.
MACCLESFIELD COURIER.
NORTH or ST•ROADGIIIRE.—.This district la still In aa
unsettled state, from the great mess of the colliers obsti.
namly adhering . to 't the Unita'," Me masters being deter.
mined to employ only time, who have entirely abandoned it.
It is, huviever, a pleasure for us to add that., shies our last,
no breach of the peace has taken place, and Indeed the mi-
litary force which is stationed at Newcastle, will, doubtless,
be a preventative of any evil of that kind, which otherwise
might have atisen. h was not considered requisite to keep
the Yeomanry Cavalry on duty beyond Ssiurday, they were
there-hire dismissed on that day. with orders to be In readiness
at a moment's notice. The 10th Hussars have also left, Om
the 16th Humus and the 434 Light Infantry, continue in
Newcastle, and are expected to remain until this affair is set at
rest. We hear that some few colliers have effected a reconcilia-
tion with their masters, and that in the minds of many others
feats are arising lest they should altogether lose their erns
lomeat and the home to which they have been accustom.
infancy. and be forced to ;ea subsistence for diem-
osiers and &initial in some other part of the kingdom. 'Feel.
Lags of this kind have been strengthened by signeof.exhatui.
don in the funds of the Union, in peas( af which we am am.
Adeptly informed. that at Goldenlhilkon Saturday.
the toms-ant experienced the bitter disappointment of a
suspension of the weekly allowance, and were obliged tq
rattle to tl.e!r &Friars without 'supplies. To make up be

iiisiency, she " Unionists" were impala to ask alms
of die tredenplen Tanga en bleuday ; and in those
homes in they were refused, or were remonstrated
slat, they ebbed the parties " Knob-sticks. The work.
Iowa" are espousing the cause of the min as; and, at a
=of delegates of the different branches of the business
the Golden Lion, Hanky, it was resolved that a
suh.gulggse should be entered Into, to mein the miners
"in tbdr present struggle,—.in defame of their just
rights ."
It is well known that the athletic exercises-et running
and jumping, are favourite sports In the Potteries. The
amateurs in the letter line, at Lane End were favoured with
an exhibition to their minds on Tuesday last. when a
match, for 61. a side, was made between W. Woman of that
town, a famous jumper, and a man from Lonswiare. The
LaneLthire man best Weston one yard and six bias, be-
sides a yard given in. The distance accomplished by the
winner, in the ten jumps, was thirty-eight yards is inches.
—Siarardshire Advertiger
RZTSIL BEZI Houses.—At the Police Cow, yester.
day, a person named Clapham, the keeper of • retail beer
shop, appeared to a summons obtained by William Button,
a police officer, for offending a second time against the pro.
visions of this act, in so far as respects that clause relative
to the hours for retailing beer or suffering it to be consumed
upon the premises. George Burgess deposed, that on Thurs.
day night, the 2d of June, about twenty minutes past
eleven o'clock, he was passing the house when he saw
three persons come out of It. Being thus induced to
go in, he found two other persons In the tap-room
and saw a jug and glass with some liquor in them, and
which Mrs. Clapham, on observing him, emptied
into the 6n-plate. This witness, is his cross-examination
by Mr. Grimsditch, said that be could not swear that the
Divot was either beer or cider, as he did not taste it, but it
was of the same colour as beer.; A person named Stafford,
the manager of the works of the Macclesfield Coal Com.
pony, and one of these who left the house as Burgess en- I
twed ; another named Brocklebarst, end another named
Chadwick, who remained in the house, swore positively
that no liquor was either drawn or consumed in the house
after half-past Dint o'clock; that there was none loft lx
the jug or glass after that time ; and that none was thrown
in the fire-place. The Magistrates dismissed the com-
plaint.
Mr. Littleton's Bill to prevent the payment of wages in ,
goods, (or Truck as ft is generally called,) has been singu.
larly unfortunate. After innumerable obstacles in the early
stages of the business, the demise of George the Fourth
suspended its progress, just when it was on the eve of being ,
read a third time in the Parliament then sitting, and it had
scarcely passed the last House of Cummons a week when the
dissolutiontook place. It has. therefore, to wow is W I
OO
before the new Parliament. Be this, however, as It may,
the measure will doubtless be urged on the attention of the
Legislature at the earliest moment, and the following are the
principal features of the Bill, as amended by the Com-
mittee

Ist.—That any agreement respecting the place where, or
the time when, or the manner in which, ur the person with
whom, any part of the wages of the workman shall be laid
out, shall rends his contract of service void.

t`nd.—That the entire amount of the workman's wages
shall be actually paid him in the current coin of the realm,
without any deduction or stoppage being made therefrom on
any account whatever ; and that every payment otherwise
shall be void.

3/11.—That the workman may recover the whole or any
put of his wages not actually paid him in money.
dth.—That in any proceedings by the workman for reco-
very of wftes, the master shall nut he allowed to make a set-
off for goods, wares or merchandise had or taken by the
workman on account of his wages or labour.
litb.—That no employer of a workman shall he entitled
to maintain any action against the workman, " for or In re-
spect of any goods, wares or merchandise sold, delivered, or
supplied to any artificer by any such employer," whether on
account of wages or not.

Mau. Coacw oicanars.—On Friday morning, on the ar.
rival of the ilaucherter mail at the Hotel, Wolverhampton,
the coachman, as usual, threw down the reins, but before
he had descended from Ids seat, the hones, from some nn.
known cause, were alarmed, and started off at full gallop. The
coachman sprang orate vehicle without injury, leavingoa the
outside two gendemen, we believe foreigners. When s little
below Me Lion Hotel, in Nonb.street, one of the gentlemen
jumped from his seat, and by his fall to the grouted broke one
of his legs, and greatly injured his shoulder, and serval
other parts of his body. The other gentleman, we are happy
to say, clung fast to the km rail oa the top, and escaped
without the slightest injury. Oa arriving at the coma of
Craddock's Walk, the laden ran against a projecting wall
and such was the violent:cot the coneumion, that meet them
was killed on the spot, and the other a good deal hurt. The
coach was not upset. The bones did not attempt to pro.
cud further, sad the restainiao outside pa stager alighted
in safety front that situation, which had bten a minute before
one of extrema ward. We team that the gentleman who
suffered the fracture was obligati to undergo the opera,* of
amputation of the broken limb.
ALVOURD.—At Maschater, J. WWiamson' E. of
Over,
to Miss Betley.--At Si. Michael's, Ashton. J.
ham, Esq. of Stalybridge, to bliss Emma Reyner, daughter
of the late Reyna, kis. of Bank Top.-8. Peyote, Eaq.
to Nary. only daughter of the late C. Evans, Esq. of Cramp.
too, near Wolverhampton.
DlED.—Clualoste, wife of Dlr. C. Higginbotham, of
High-street, Illacclestield...- bliss Owen, of the Ladies Board.
log School, Poyntoo, 84 —Elisabeth, wife of the Rev. CJs.
meet Leigh, M.A. Rector of Newcastlo.under-Lyme,
b 8
Isabella, wife of Mr. R. Bindloss, of Haverbrack, io West.
marelond, GI.