Star.
London, England, 1827-10-04 00:00:00

fortnight or ten d.ys.

A novel circunt,ra, ce recurred in the cattle market
on Wednesday. Ab ut a score of stron; Highland
bullocks, better used to nature', carpet of Lerlrage or
heath than the pay ior's one of hard uneven stones, and
quite ignorant of the navigation of the NO. descended
the steps at Bridge-street, and entered the wafer neatly
opposite to Mr. Rankine's shop door. In place of wading
' to cool their cloots, they were over bead and errs in a
moment, and plunged and spluttered, and splutt r, d and
plunged, with their heads pointed up the stream. Some
of then after a ter able tug got oat, not far from the place
where they entered, but the greater part were huts ied by
the flood to the edge of the Caul, and one or them after
going right through the Gullet door plunge., inter the
powerful eddy below, amidst sheets of sprit'', fitted to
choke an elephant in place of a bullock. The remainder
stuck for a moment on thetop of the Jam head, and
rously co..tendectagaiost their fate; but it would not des ;
comparing small things withgreat,the stream at this point
was nearly as resistless as the falls of Niagara ; and over,
the whole in succession went, performing more than
une sumer set before they gathered their four feet and
got into rather smoother water. Even then only shouts
and horns were seen, and the novelty of the sight was,
if possible, hei thtened by the swimming prowess of a.
hay mlesspig,which had some how or other got afloat too,
and which the spectators cheered on its wale. y course by
r peatedlysesclaiming weel done wee thing—hard on,
and you fl beat tbein re." Some got out below die mills,
schaurrat Assesiblpstreet, and some so far 'down as the
luirse pooll and strange as it may appear, not a cl ‘ot
was Cut, .nor a bone broken. But Highland cattle have
much practice in swimming. while being Rowed from
one island to another, and we suspect le r! •Qalloways
would have escaped drowning if placed in psectsely the
same circumstances.

St. Bride's clock Iras undergone great improvements.
One can now plainly see " what's o'clock."

The Shetiffof Lanarkshire has appointe,l Tuesday.
the 16th of October for the election of a Member for
the County.

Such mothers as would wish their boys to have hand-
some legs and neLks. must never suffer them to wear
boots, or anything whatever round the throat.
ALARMING MORTALIry.—For .some time past a
fearful mortality has prevailed in. the neighbourhood
of Woolwich, Plurnstead. and Erith, in Kent, more
particularly in the parts which lie adjaceat to, and
immediately adjoin the banks of the River Thames.
The nature of the complaint in its origin is an ague,
which in all cases of the kind is accompanied with a
low intermitting fever ; after the lapse of aboyt ,even
days, the lever increases, and assumes highly inflam-
matory symptoms, which shortly after turn to a state
nearly similar to the last stage of the typhus fever,
exhibiting and terminating in a morbid putrescency ;
in seven cases out of ten, the persons attacked ar e cart ir d
,off -by the disease. In the small village of Plumstead,
which does not contain more than 100 inhabitants, the
burials for the last mon.h. have averaged five and six a
week, and in the more populous and adjoining parishes
of Woolwich and Eriih, the number of burials have beta
p °pardonably greater.

POETRY.

HOME-A SONO.

When the Dove from the ark by the Patriarch was sent,
Still fluttering, and circling, and fearing she went
Dot brisk best her pinions,, as backward she came,
And straight was her course, for it led to her hams !
Around her the waters invitingly lay;
They lush'd to the sunbeants, and courted her stay;
Yet she turo'd her, nought lingering, the road that she came,
Pee all was unstable and cauld but her haute !
0, tame ! blest Name ! has•uature or art
A sound like that ward that saes straight to the heart?
All grandeur, all glory, how tasteless! how tame !
To the sober delights of my sin quiet !same !
There my griefs, when I glieve, are still patiently heard;
There my joys, when I joy, are still ►indliest shard;
In poortith, in wealth, In reproach, or In fame,
The dear smile of welcome aye waits me at haute! R.K.D.