Star.
London, England, 1829-11-02 00:00:00

FOR THE STAR.

PROPRIETY OF TITLES.—" Once," said a Quaker,
in a dispute concerning the propriety of titles, " I had
the honour to be in company with an Excellence and a
Highness. His Excellency was the most ignorant and
brutal of his species, and his Highness measured just
four feet eight inches without his shoes"
PRICE OF MAKING A PARK A GARDEN.—QCEEN
CAROLINE spoke of shutting up St. James's Park, and
converting it into a noble garden for the Palace of That
name. She asked my father what it might probably cost ;
who replied, " Only THREE CROWNS." Walpoliana.'
A PARASITE NOBLY REPROVED.—When COLONEL
EDMUNDS, a gallant officer who had fought his way to
military rank and distinction, was with the army in the
Low Countries, there came to him a Scotchman, who to
ensure himself a good reception thus accosted him in the
presence of a great many brother officers,—" My Lord
your father, and all the knights and gentlemen, your
cousins, and kinsmen, are in excellent health." " Gen-
tlemen," said the Colonel, " believe not a word he says ;
my father is but a poor barber in Edinburgh, whom this
knave would make a Lord to curry favour with me, and
make you believe I am a great man born, when there is
no such matter." _ _ _

ROYAL GENTLEMAN.—We are told that upon one
occasion, our late revered Sovereign GEORGE 111. signed
himself " a gentleman of Berkshire."
PULLING DOWN, AND BUILDING up.—When the
Archbishop of ROUEN was about to pull down the archi-
episcopal palace, and rebuild it on a grander scale, FEN E-
LON endeavoured to dissuade him.—" Esperez vuus trou-
ver le bonheur et la pain du cceur dans ces pierres en-
tasses ?"

ENTHUSIASM OF GENIUS.—DONATELLO, a cele-
brated sculptor, when he was giving the last stroke with
his mallet, called out to the statue " Speak !"
HEROISM.—In the battle of Waterloo, a French offi-
cer mounted upon a powerful charger, rode up to Colonel
HERVEY, whom he was about to strike to the ground,
when perceiving that the Colonel had lost his right arm,
he saluted him, turned aside his horse, and galloped off.
—' The Broad Stone of Honor.'
A TIMEIST "--is a noun-adjective of the present tense.
He hath no more of a conscience than fear; and his reli-
gion is not his, but the Prince's. He reverences a cour-
tier's servant's servant; is siallis-Own slave, and then
whosoever looketh big. When he gives he curseth, and
when he sells he worships. He strains to talk wisely,
and his modesty would serve a bride. He is gravity from
the head to the foot, but not from the head to the heart :
you may find what place he affecteth, for he creeps as
near it as may be, and as passionately courts it. If at
any times his hopes are effected, he swelleth with them,
and they burst out too good for the vessel. In a word,
he danceth to the tune of fortune, and studies nothing
but to keep the time.—Sir Thos. Overbury's Characters.
H I NM—A new convert to the Government to be sus-
pected. Half the world bullied by Captain Dawson,
and Captain Dawson bullied by half the world.—Tom
Brown's Short Amusements.

RELIOION.—We have just religion enough to make
us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.—
Swifts Thoughts on Various Subjects.
•4. A thne.serger, a turncoat or Vicar of Bray," in the eld
interpretation—" a Leading Journalist" in the new.