Star.
London, England, 1826-07-25 00:00:00

GREEK SONG.

Well fill the goblet till the Wave
Dances above the golden rim,
Sparkling as if a thousand stars
Were floating on the purple brim !
Were is a rose, sweet as if Spring
• Had yielded her first love-sigh there ;
o's lip. • •—•

And ihit i3as fatten' from her hair!
A>fh 2h crimson leaves to &sat.
!Ake kisses, on the sunny wine ;
Ballow it with thy maiden's name—
Drink thou thy pledge—l will drink mine !
here drink I to proud Marathon—
Here drink I to our own blue skies—
Here drink I to the Crescent's f4U—
Here drink I to the Cross's rise—
I drink to the red-pine of War,
And to the ollre•green of Peace---•
Iltre's to Greece and its memoir,
And here is to the hopes of Greece!

&rat. break the cup, no meaner pledge
This sacred goblet must profane;
And may its fragments ernble4 thoie
Predestin'd to the Moslem chain!

TILL' CUSTOM HOUSE.

It has been found necessary to prop up this building,
in the erection of which there have been such egregious'
blunders.—Application has been made to the Lord
Mayor to block up Thames-street, in order to enable the
scot krnen to proceed with the work of underpinning the
edifice, to which it will be necessary to have a math
deeper foundation.
To this application, the Lord Mayor said, he was
compelled to give a denial, in consequence of the inv..;
parable injury which the stopping up of such a thorough-'
tare WAS calculated to do to trade. His Lordship, hAv-
ever, expresied his readiness to adopt, for the purpose
of facilitating the work, any course which appeared not
to he at such variance with public convenience.
Mr. Acton, who attended officially as Surveyor of
the Sewers, stated the necessity that existed for under-
pinning the Custom-house, and that the time occupied
would probably not be less than six months.
The of the building is to be underpinned, and
piles are to be driven 14 feet below the present foun-
dation, which has been proved to be so ticklish a one.
The shores to support the building to be of earrmous
strength, projecting 26 feet from the front, and in-
closed by a board, two hundred and eighty fee. in length,
for the protection of the public. The space left by this
plan will be sufficient to admit two carriages to pass in
the middle. The board to begin at the west wing of the
building ; and, as soon as that end is finished, another
board to be erected at the east wing, leaving a passage
for one carriage. 'This project of making a foundation
for. an irtimens! building, sibich has been raised upon a
bad fotindation, is considered very bold. The whole of
thefront of.the Custom-house will be hanging upon the
shores while the workmen are driving the piles, which
are, to copstitute tbcfuttrre foundation.

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When tyre rich M. FARQUHAR first came to Eng-
land from the East Indies, he took lodging. at the bowie of one of
the beadles of Mary-la-bonne parish. His apartments consisted of
two rooms, one of which contained his boxes: his rent wskeight
shilderrs week. But Mr. FAstikumAa, though rich, was not to be
dune, and he insisted that five ,billings and sixpence was quite
enough for such accommodation. The beadle, however, refused
to reduce his rent a fraction, and Mr. FARQUHAIIt removed Isis
boxes to another place. The first speculation that Mr. FAMISH/a
engaged in was the purchase of about six carcass houses, that had
stood a long time at the extremity of Gloucester-place, near theNew-
road. These Mr. Farquhar hoed up and disposed of. He was moss
attentive to the workmen, and from sun-rise to sun-set was to be seen
is a shabby coat, with a carpenter's rule in his hand, attending to
what was going on upon the premixes. Those who came to par-
chase or rent the houses were shown the premises by Mr. FA SQUItAII
in person; and little could they imagine from his appearance that
they were bargaining with a rich East Indian, worth more than a
million sterling. When Ur. Rooms% a Surveyor, died, Mr. Eta-
WalllA purchased his small house, which is isolated by a little garden,
and stands in contiguity to the north-east corner of the New Church
of Se. Mat y.la-Bonne. A hatchnteut is now upon the front of this
house, in honour of the deceased.
Sunday, a parish pauper of Sr. Leonard's. Eastcbeap,
named Richard Mon is, 33 years of age, farmed at Mr.
Millis worced manufactory, Lombard-street, Mint,
Southwark, It tying been permitted the usual liberty of
going out on Satuiday afternoon last, remained out all
night, returning on Sunday morning at nine o'clock in
a state of intoxication, and conducted himself in so re-
fractory a mariner, that it became necessary at 12, for
the well being of the other inmates, and the discipline
of the house, to confine him in the room set apart for
that purpose, wherelw continued his unruly conduct for
several hours, and fiona whence he attempted to
escape through a hole in the wooden partition, to
which he raised himself by getting upon a stool, and
it is concluded had passed his head through; and in the
endeavour to force a passage for his body, unintention-
ally kicked the stool from tattier his feet, and thus fen-
cited nimble to withdraw Mislead, rt mained Suspended
stifrom the pillory, and in that situation was found dead
by the boy sent to close the window shutters in the
evening. The wretched man had long been a slave to
the vice which brought him to so singular an end. •
AN ENGLISH GENTLEM A N.—The Duke of had a
favourite horse. Re-grew .old..and unfit fur service.--
"He must be sold " said a prudept groom. "He shall
not. be sold, said his Grace, "but shall live all the rest
of his days in that stable and that enclOsure," pointing
to a stable and park which he had set apart for the re-
ception of 'such worthy and superannuated veterans.—
Thegroom grew old, and unfit for service. "He must
be dbimissed, said a sagacious steward. " He shall not
be dismissed," sari his Grace; "nor you, either, when
you grow stiff and hoary.- Shall I protect the old age
of a deserving hotse, and not provide for the infirmities
of a deserving servant ? o He has accordingly a number
of neat cottages on the side of a pleasant field, which
serves them as
.a sort of common. Every cottage, with
its adjoining garden..his a male or female inhabitant,
and evety inhabitant has a suitable annuity. They ate
invited occa ionally to the mansion-house, when any
prosperuus event in the family, such as a birth or mar-
riage, justifies uncommon festivity ; and occupying such
seats as suited their farmer situation, either in the stew-
ard's room or in the servants' hall, their cheerfulness
proves an incitement to the care and integrity of their
successors. Churlish must that person be who sees
them walking aieund l'o.eir field in a slimmer evening,
talking about the events that happined long ago at the
c-sole, and " what a sprigirly, go:ad-lit:Monied boy
Veit' master was when at school or college," very churl
isle Must he be who disdains or does not enter into their
joy I.—Sporting Alczaziw.

EDINIgURGH, JULY 22.

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Yesterdayafternocin.a fire brake 'oat in the workshop
of Mr. Neil, 614 et maker, 3S. Dandas-street, which,
with its coritent46was•completelY destroyed. By the
`timely and able assistake of The firemen tle flunes
were confines to the shop, without injuring the adjoin-
ing property.
No branch of trade is suffeiing more at present than
that of printing. In Edinburgh, at this moment, there
is not one third of the usual amount of work, and but
for the Session Papers, it would have been still worse.
Monday, the foundation stone of an elegant and
commodious Church, flit. the use of the United Asso-
ciate congregation, St. Andrew's•street, Leith, was laid
at the Wcst end rif Leith Links.