Star.
London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

WIEMAR,MAY IS.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Maria, betrothed
to Prince Charles of Prussia, has just received from the
Emperor of Russia a fine suite of diamonds, and also a
splendid Cachemire -sha aI, • valued at 39 000 ruble..
The Empress Mother has sent to the Princess a carriage,
and °Act inaznifiLant ctchts.

What the* makes you bounce from bed, as If your bolster Weft
made of whim, at the first cock crow? The pat, pattering of rain
on your window facing the south ! Beautiful misty clouds, all in a
state of pregnancy I Earth glitters to the new risen rays, and after
meridian there will not be an hour till sunset without its rainbow.
Breakfast! You would no more wait for breakfast than for a post.
letter informing you of the issue of a Chancery-suit. You careless,/
drop a quartern loaf into your pouch, along with the cheese-whang
and the leathern bottle, and off like a hart to the running brooks.
Oh! we feel that we are subject to the diegliausuks. We would
not give up the prospect of this day's sport to be First Lord of the
Treasury. Nothing drumly about the sweet Tweed this morning....
no pool the colour of porter, with barmy foam,—but the deeps a
black blue, and the shallows a dark green, covered with foam bells
that break beneath the breezes warm—breathing from the south.
south-west, the Anglers's darling airt. Yes—.
" Of a' the airts the wind can blew,
0` I dearly lo'e the west !"—Boars. •

Burn-trout begin to feed in March, if the weather Is fine for
the season, and continue till Michaelmas: soon after which time
they spawn. April and May are probably the best months for
bottom fishing, fewer flies being then on the water, and the fish
feeding most at bottom of the 'cowers and shallows. In June, the
fly-line, and rod, and daintier-tackle must he used, and much skill
in our art and knowledge of the riven we fish, as well as judge-
ment as to the time and weather most favourable, will be paramount
appliances. In the summer mouths, says the Author of the An.
gler's Guide," You cannot be too early or late in fishing for trout,
as they seldom feed in the day, unless after a flood, or in dark wes.
titer, accompanied with a -good breeze of wind." Of perch, we
would say that the best time for their biting is when the spring is
over, and before the intense heats of summer come on. With
good management, taking especial care to book his fish well, to
which purpose time to gorge must be given, the angler may take at
one standing the greater part of all that are in one hole. Minnows,
frogs, and the brandling-worm web scoured, are excellent baits.
From eight to ten A.M. and from three to six P.M. are the more
likely hours to obtain sport with perch.
In cold weather you may as well. attempt to draw a sluggard
from his bed at ten in the morning, as a carp from his retreats;
and it is at most periods necessary to entice him to your lure by pre.
'Wady baiting the ground with a coarse paste, or lob-worms cut in
pieces. The toasted cheese for the mouse-trap, or the scattered
corn to the bird-toil is net more requisite than these allurements.
A number nine book, running tackle, a line, strong but fine, and a
paste of new bread dipped in honey, and worked together till of a
proper consistency to bind upon the kook, are among the necessary
implements for carp-fishing.
We conclude with a matchless illustration of patience and perse-
verance under disappointment. A Gentleman, who was allowed
to be one of the greatest and most philosophical anglers of the age,
passing from Islington to London, as was his daily custom, fre-
quently saw a brother sportsman planted on a particular spot of the
New River. Being jealous to think be should engross the spot,
he prepared his red and line, and the rest of his angling apparatus,
and repairing to it, remained uninterrupted for a considerable time,
bat without success. At length the original occupier of this envied
spot appeared; when the Gentleman exclaimed, " Egad, Sir, I
know not how you manage it, but I have been angling here these
three hours, and have caught nothing." " Ob. Sir," replied the
other, " what's that compared with me? Why, I have bees angling
here these time years, and never caught a fish yet:"