Star.
London, England, 1826-03-21 00:00:00

A HAUNCH OF WILD BOAR.

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Mr. H. a Gentleman well known in the monied world, was
mule a present. some time since, of a haunch of wild boar. On
the day that he received it, he happened to meet the Marquis of
11. in Meeadilly, to whom be mentioned the circumstance, expres-
sing at the same time his regret that bis cook dad not know how to
dress it wooden arena. " Let that be no trouble to you," said
his Lordship, "My cook 'mows how to do is.; so send it over to
him on the day you want it, and be will prepare it for you."
The Marquis was thanked, and the offer accepted. A large party
was asked by the Banker to share so recherche a dish. The Mar-
.quis's cook was punctual to the moment, and the haunch made its
appearance as it came from his scientific hands. The dinner, like
all things sublunary, passed away, and was as the dinners before
the flood.

In a few days afterwards, the Peer again met the man of money.
" Well, H." said he," how did your haunch succeed ? Did you and
your friends like it?"
" Only passably, my Lord," said H." wq voted it devilish hard;
and, besides, your cook sent it to us cold, which was rather odd."
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" Cold!" said the Marquis; "that was odd. 1 must ask bim
what he meant by it."
.Asked the cook accordingly was.—" Why," sed he," My Lord, I
just deed Tot I was beed. I deed dress do boar for blisters H. as
I deed dress it for your Lordship; and yen his man came, deed
keeve it to bins ready for de boil."
" What !" said the alarmed banker, on whom the truth now
lashed, "was it to have been boiled?'
" Eels," said the Frenchman, " who could eat raw boar ?4'
" H. I perceive has," said his master, • and I do nut wonder he
found it a bar indeed."

It was even so. The Marquises cook had imagined that the
mere mechasleal culinary process was to have been executed by the
plebeian cook of the banker, and had sent it unboUed ; in which
state Mr. 11.'s party ne dusihtfuund it hard enough. It is seedless
to say, adopting a pun already sported, Mr. 11. did not find the
h aunch itself a more decided hone than the story of its adventures.

The happy rallery in s. hicn the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER noticed the grumbling of MALACHI
MALAGRoWTHER, in his speech on the Budget, was
much cheered in the House of Commons, and it is even
noticed with approbation in some of the Scotch news-
papers. The Caledonian Mercury, alluding to the
subject, says—
" The Minister makes an attack on Malachi Malagrowther,
whom he rakes rather successfully with the cross fire of his wit.
The truth is, that MaLtchi's zeal prompted him to diverge rather
too much into general discussion. As long as he held to the point
in. hand, his reasonings were all powerful ; hut he wished to prove
too much; and that his scheme for abolishing the one-pound notes
was part of a general system of innovation on the national institu-
tions of the country ; and to make out something like a case lie was
obliged to press into his service the unfortunate topic of the late
reforms in the Boards of Excise and Customs, which, in place of
being any encroachment on the rights of Scotland, were most judi-
-1 dons and wholesome retrenchments, for which the Minister deserve
praise. We greatly mistake the character of our countrymen is
they think it an honour to pay people for doing nothing, or that the
national dignity is any way wounded by the abolition of useless
offices, however long tbey may have existed."
By a Parliamentary paper it appears, that the pay and
allowances of the disembodied Militia of Great Britain
amount to 191,4231. and those of Ireland to 95,9481.—.
On the Militia Establishment of Great Britain are 615
Lietitenants, 143 Ensigns, 89 Adjutants, and 84 Pay-
masters. In. Ireland, 912 Lieutenants, 169 Ensigns,
88 Adjutants, and 98 Paymasters.
The expense
,of the re-co;riTe of the copper coin - of
Ireland is estimated at 61 23(1. It is calculated at 750
tons in circulation and in the Bank of Ireland.
Accounts from Cologne say, that the society of spe-
culators in wool, at B,llin, have formed a fund of
three millions and a half of fix dollars, for the rut-pose
of as-isting the owners of flocks, and keeping up the
price of that article.

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The ititiasiiskapei7sPeer tieli iilEi
Altkorfe, Northamptonshire, for the helydays. ,
The Earl pa Counteis of Sefton, and the Ladlei liolitietii; tea
town yesterday, for their Seat. Stoke #arro, for the holydayi.
The Earl of Arran left rosin ye3terday, for his nit, Arrii Lodge;
Sussex. • . „
Lord Althorpe left town yesterday, for his sett, Wtcefon Hall;
Yorkshire.

The Earl And Countess of &Judi, and the Ladies Hiney;
Ted yesterday, at their bouve !n Sr. James square. from Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Darlington and f;.ntily bate arrived at
their seat, Newton lipase; Yorkshire. from itahy Castle, Durham.
Lord Molyneuz left town yesterday, for Stoke Faim,
Lord Arden left to*n yesterday, for Sri W. ileztheotes, Bart:
seat, Hursley, Hants, Tni the Ifolydays.
The Bari of firecknoek left town yesterday, for Bath.
Sir G. Woombwell, Bart. arrived its tort yesterday, from MI
seat, in Yorkshire.
Mrs. Marsharn left town yesterday, for der seat, Bosley-house;
near Maidstone.

Lord and Lady Berwick and family arrived yesterday, at their
house in Bryan ten square, from their seat, Huttinshant HaU, near
Shrewsbury.

STOCK EXCHANGE SPECULATIONS.

The demoralizing name of the atmosphere of the
Stock Exchange cannot be more strikingly evinced than
in the fact of its members making that a subject nj
gambling speculaion which every nind, rightly c,,u-
stituted, views with feelings of ttoxie:y and alarm—we
mean the state of his MAJRSTY'S health. What would
be thought in private life, were the members of a large
family assembled round the sick couch of their father,
to make the probable result of his illness the subject of
bets and speculation? Much the same want of decency
must influence those who can make the visitation of
PROVIDJINCE upon the Krim, their common parent, a
topic of gambling contest, in that arena from which the
feelings of nature and of shame are thus ItiP owedly
expelled. But, whatever may be the want of feeling
exhibited by people whose ambition it seems to be, on
this and on all occasions, to show that they have none,
we are sure that we speak the sense of the greet bulk
of the community, of all ranks, opinions, and persua ions,
when we say, that there never was a period when the
painful situation of the Monarch more firmly rivetted
the warm feelings of his subjects than that of our present
KING. Our readers know that we are not in the habit
of rendering this paper the vehicle of fulsome panegyric
or of party feelings; and they will therefore the more
readily go along with us, and give us credit when we
affirm, that no Monarch ever occupied this throne,whose
whole public conduct has been more justly calculat d to
endear him to his subjects, than that of his present
MAJWITY. And not only at home is his MAJZITY'S
life and reign a topic of general interest and applause,
but throughout every foreign state, in which the name
of the British Government is known and recognized,
we will venture to say, that the personal conduct and
character of the KING is held in a degree of.respect and
admiration, which insures to his subjects the blessings
of peace upon the surest foundation. In the choice of
his Ministers, the. Km° has been both fortunate and
consistent ; but we greatly err if his MaJnszy's personal
character has not been, from the. time of his accession
to the throne, the great bond of union at home, and of
respect and confidence abroad. To all the qualities
(and they are not few) which unite to form the character
of a gentleman, the KING adds that excellentivadiness
of understanding, and firmness and consistency of pur-
pose, which leave none 'Aho come about Hip in any
way his superior. Respect for him is not derived from
a sense pf his station alone, but from qualities- which
chew how that station is filled and adorned; and we are,
therefore, sure that we express only the feelings of every
right-judging man in the k ngdam, when we say, chat
the anxious wishes of the whole n ttion can be but a;
those of one man—that the life of his Mauve may
long be spared to adorn the kii gly office, and w benefit
the peiple lie reigns over.—[horning Neia d.

Saturday night (the l lth inst.) the house of Denis
Sheehan, a farmer olthe better class, at Monanimmy,
near the village of Killavullen, was attacked by robbers,
one of whom effected an entrance by forcing open the
kitchen window with stones, and afterwards opened the
door for two of his companioni, while a fourth kept
watch outside the door; two of those who entered had
their faces coloured ; they proceeded to light a candle
at the fire, threatening destruction to the servant ma d,
and a small boy who slept in the kitchen.- S:reehan,
who was in bed with his wife in the room adjcining, on
hearing the noise, immediately got up, and seizes a spit
which was near his bed side, and in the most determined
manner resisted their entrance, by defending the doer
of the bed-room fur a considerable time, until he unfor-
tunately received a stab in the left breast from a bayonet
which one of the ruts ins had fixed on a pole, throueh
an opening in the door, which killed him ; a`ter this
they attacked .the wife, and beat her with the end of a
pole in the most cruel manner, and nearly broke one of
her arms, calling out to her to give the money; the
poor woman pointed to where the box lay, from which
the robbers took 171. being the price of a horse which
her husband had sold a few days before at Millstrert
fair, of which, it is supposed, they were aware, ::a they
said they knew the money was in the house. Ehmhan
was a most powerful man, of excelent character, n 1
made a gallant resistance. He has left s;s young chil-
dren. An Inquest was held before Mr. O'Brien, one of
the Coroners fur the county, and a verdict returned of
Wilful Murder against some persons unknown. One of
the ruffian received a wound in the lip, which bled
profusely, from the spit with which Sheehan defended
hinrself.—Cork Paper.
The body of Lieutenant Frederick Close, of the 86th
Regiment, who has been missing since the 26th ultimo,
was on Wednesday bound in the river Suir, about a
mile and a half from Clonmell. According to son e
statements, there were several marks of violence upon
the body, sufficient to lead to the belief that the unfor-
tunate Gentleman had been basely murdered by some
atrocious ruffians. It is right, however, to remark, that
,a letter, which we have seen, merely states the finding
of the body, without saying anything of the appearance
above mentioned. No traces have yet been discovered
of the young Lady who disappeared at the same time
with Lieutenant Close; but there is too much reason to
fear bat she has shared his melancholy fa-e.—Wekr.
ford Chronicle.

A desperate contest b .tween an armed party of smug-
glers and the Blockade seamen took place At D)
church, about four o'clock in the nun mng of the 16th,
and two seamen were very severely, And f•tle petty otfi-
'er slightly wounded, A ith slog shots. The smugglers
exceeded 100 in number, and were ;An be no douut but
that some of them Also must have been either killed or
wounded; they, lioaever, succeeded in working the
goods, excepting two tub', and their eleven chriel
galley, A h ch were Atud.

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