Star.
London, England, 1829-09-22 00:00:00

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Cif IN NON S I:N S L—htoriglsers, or the *U,
who are not burn in Chin., are represented in one of the Books of
the Akhymist Taos; Kea, the foilowers of /diestkenn, as an accursed
race, " with b Id heath, or shut t hair, deep eyes, long noses, and
frowsy, filthy bodies, all of which circumstances, and the unfa-
vourable place of their birth, are in consequence of having, in a
former life, killed living creatures, been lewd, and disbelievers of
a future retribution."
CON Ft' lANS. A ( ;email book itiv aiipeareol, la-
titled" Allgemeine Kirschetizeitung," dividing th • population of
the earth according to different religions. The initaboants ot the
globe are presented in two grand divisions called Monotheists,
worshippers of one (ion, and Polytheists, worshippers ot many
gods, or idolaturs. Among the Monteheists are insetted Con-
fuel ins, five mi lions. Now, in the first place, there is a difficulty
in caking the Confucians Monotheists; and, in the Hest place. it they
be Monotheists, why confine them to the number 01 five millions?
For. generally speaking, all the people ot China, neatly tw
hundred millions, profess to be Coniutians. But rigid Como-
clans can scarcely be called Theists at all; because they worship
not a person, but the frame of nature, the visible heavens, the earth
they tread on, stars and constellations, the spit its of hills and rivets,
&c. Tbat this is the fact is indisputable. Now, how can this he
called Theism? and still less can it be called Motiotheisni. 1k sides,
the Confucians ot China, learned and unlearned, all join in the
worship of deified men and women—such is their gild of war
Ewan-too-me ; and the goddess Kwan•yin, &c. It is, there-
fore, a melancholy fact that, instead of five millions of Confucians
being numbered with the Monotheists, the whole population of
China, with very few exceptions, are Polytheistic idolators.
A late Newhaven Paper says :—" We understand that
Mr. Parkins, formerly Sheriff ot London, who passed through
this place last week, has ordered a beautiful monument to be
erected to the memory of the regicides, Gaffe, Whalley, and Dix-
well, who lie buried is the old burial yard, and whine graves are
now marked by small rude stones of common trap. life monu.
mot is to be erected at the rear of the Centre Church. and will
bear,we know not, what radical inscription."—On the above par.-
graph the New York Daily Advertiser makes the following remarks .
We are not disposed to discourage Mr. Perkins in this
display of his feelings in favour of the regicides: but we
very much doubt the accuracy of the remark that Guile
and Whalley lie buried in Newhaven. 'first one, at least,
of them does not, there is very satisfactory evidence, Those
men were concealed many years in the house of the Rev. Mr.
Russell, at Hadley. in the State of Massachusetts ; and it was sup-
posed they died there. it is not many years since that house was
taken down, and in removing the materials of which the chimney
was made, outside the wall, the remains ot a human skeleton were
found. They were unquestionably the bones of one of the IteA-
eides. We have never seen any proof that either of them was
buried at Newhaven."
Mr. Laing, the Magistrate of Hatton-garden Office,
was violently assaulted on Saturday night, whilst proceeding from
the Office to his own residence. A mendicant, whe had been re-
fused relief (upon what grounds does not appear), followed the
Magistrate, as be left the Office. about half-past eight o'clock,
until be reached Lamb's Conduit-strew. Here the mendicant re-
iterated his demands, and would nut allow the Magistrate to pro-
ceed. At length the fellow struck Mr. Laing, who returned
the blow by levelling the offender to the ground with his
umbrella. Some of the spectators, who imply saw a
part of the affair, raised a report that the Magistrate had
wantonly struck the man down. A mob soon assembled round
the spot, who evinced the most exasperated feeling towards the
Magistrate; o much se, that he Was obliged to retreat into the
shop of Mr. Dickson, the tea dealer. in the above street, with the
loss of his hat and umbrella, and his dress much damaged. The
number of persons collected at this time aniounted to upwards of
300, who continued to surround the shop, and the Magistrate was
obliged to effect his escape at the back of the premises. A party
of Bow-street patrol, at length, with much difficulty, dispersed the
mob, the offender having disappeared amidst the crowd.
Wisii Lit V I J.L F..—The remains of this singular man
and celebrated printer, alter an exhumation of seven years, have
beets buried once more at Cradley Chapel, near Birmingham, the
property of the Ilaskerville property. We ate informed that,
although fifty years have elapsed sake the death of Mr. If. all his
teeth, with the exception of a doub:e one in the lower jaw, were
in excellent preservations
Sunday, the Rev. Richardson, Curate of St.
John, Wapping. was interrupted three or four tinks by an odd
kind of shout from a person in the body of the Church. An ex
traorditiary looking sailor was observed before the service to
stroll into the Church, and take his seat m a pew next the
Churchwarden's. Ile continued quiet until the commencement nE
the sermon, when he suddenly raised himself bolt stpri;ht and ex
claimed, in a voice loud enough to be heard upon the royal yards,
" Pulpit ahoy ! give us a good one for the love of COSIST !'"Phis
interruption, although it disconcered the congregation not a
little, passed unnoticed, until in a few minutes atter the sailor
bellowed " Parson, ahoy ! hurrah ! you're a good one." This
was too much; the younger portion of the congregation audibly
tittered, and the sailor laughed outright, while the venerable and
more grave pact of the auditory looked aghast at the sad profana-
tion of the intruder. The beadles, Judd and Wood. approached
him just as he exclaimed " hurrah ! success to the saint+ and the
Bible !" when Judd beckoned him out, with a hint that a glass of
grog was in readiness; this was done to prevent any disturbance
by a scuffle in the church. The sailor jumped top, made bow to :he
Churchwarden, and, with a " good bye my hearties," departed,
saying the beadle was the" most jolly saint of them aIL"
The Journal des U. beds continues its tirades against
the Duke of .Wellington, and what it conceives to be indubitable
symptoms of the political decay ot England, alleging that in 1e37
it was usual fur diplomatists to say—" roeided Ervielisd ogress,"
whilst in Inn, the phrase is universally alluded to, "'sheik_?
England chooses or met." The boldest members of the Opposition
would not have advanced a hypothesis that the south side of
the Black Sea would be garrisoned by Russians; that the
Turkish capital+ in Europe and Asia would lir threatened, or
the Cossacks come in sight of the Dardanelles; yet all these
dreams have been realized, without any appeal to British pride,
honour, national power, and foreign influence. It jeers English
politicians for calling, on their knees, as much for mercy on the
equilibrium of Europe, as the Turk+ dot tut a suspension oil hostili-
ties to these same Russians on whom they previously invoked fa-
mine and the plague. Was it for this that the Duke was called to
the helm, and that he pacified Ireland by Catholic Ematicipatitil ?
The 'nulls may ask the Sultan what be did with the Standard of
the Prophet ; but Englishmen may bring the Duke or Wellittron
to as severe an account respecting what he has done with the Stan-
dard of Old England. Is this the winding up of his ? (asks
the French Journalist)—and them exclaims sneeringly, How
strangely dash Pacerioevics often sport with the astot deep-laid
plans of man!" and concludes by a charge on the new French
ministry.

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