Star.
London, England, 1828-10-14 00:00:00

TRUTH AND YOUNG ROMANCE.

Young Romance, through rows straying,
Saw old Truth trudge lamely on;
• One in pleasure's light was playing,
The other sighed for pkasures gone :
Cries Romance, " 0 rest a minute,

And discuss our views of Earth:
Your. mar have most prudence in it,

But in mine is all the mirth !"
" Ah!" says Truth, " this world disclose!
Nought but vain delusive wiles;
Thorns are under all your roses,
Sadness follows all your smiles r'
Cries Romance, " Perhaps I often

Colour life with tints too warm;
Yet my warmth a shade may soften,

While your coldness chills a charm !"
" What is Love?" the sage then asks him,
" Love in summer hours so sweet ?
Wintry weather soon unmasks him,
And your Idol proves a cheat !"
." Love !" the youth replies, " 0 sever
Real Love from vain deceits ;
Constant Love brings hours that never
• Lose their sunshine or their sweets!"
" Friendship too, you call a treasure !
But," says Truth, " it is a tie
Loosely worn 'mid scenes of pleasure,
•And when Fortune frowns—thrown by."
" Friendship," he replies, " possesses
Worth which no dark change destroys,
Seeking, soothing our distresses,
Sharing, doubling all our joys !"
" Go," says Truth, "'tis plain we never
Can such hostile thoughts combine;
Folly is your guide for ever,
While dull sense must still be mine !"
Cries the boy—" Frown on, no matter,
Mortals love my merry glance;
E'en in Truth's own path they scatter
Roses snatched from young Romance!"

EDINBURGH, OCT. 10.

Friday se'nnight a most distressing accident took
place at Mr. Stewart's distillery, Saucel, Paisley. At
a quarter to ten in the evening, John Adams, while en-
gaged hooking on filled bags to a block and tackle
wrought by machinery, for raising them to an upper
flat, had one of his sleeves caught by the hook, and
after being lifted to a considerable height, the clothes
gave way, by which he was thrown into the mash tun,
which was so deep as to take him up to about the neck.
His fellow-workmen ran to his assistance with all the
speed pos-ible, but when they had got him nearly our,
their hold gave way, and he was precipitated a second
time into the burning liquid. After being taken out he
was carried to the house of recovery, but was burned in
such a shocking manner, that the greater. part of his
skin came off with his clothes. He expired next day at
twelve o'clock, having lingered till that time in great
distress: he was a pensioner. and has left a wife and
family, who ate mostly grown up.
Tuesday an old man of the name of Robertson, em-
ployed abt,ut the salt works at Charlestown, met with
a shocking death. It appeals that he had fallen asleep
near a pan, between an interval of labour, and on a
person suddenly calling him, he started up, and being
in a contused state, he inadvertently walked or fell
into the boiling liquid, by which he was ►o dreadfully
scalded that he expired in a short time alter being
taken out.

Sunday se'nnight, about eight o'clock, as the brigan-
tine Pandora, Captain Scott, had arrived outside Dun-
dee harbour, from Revel, Alexander Dewar, an un-
married man, one cf the clew, whilst engaged in stowing
the maintop sail, fell from the yard to the deck, and
died instantaneously.
On the evening of Tuesday last, a man of the name
of William Souness was murdered while on bis way
from Gifford Fair. He had left tbe fair in the evening
with a cow and 281. of money, as is supposed, and was
fennd ne4r Spindleford quite dead, his. head mangled
in a shocking manner, his pockets turned inside out,
'and his money gone. At a.shott distance from the body
a horse was discovered gning at large, which had been
rode that day by a person residing at Meadow-mill, who
bas since been apprehended. As he gave the most
vague and unsatisfactory statements respecting the loss
of his horse, and other relative citcumstances, he has
been committed to' Iladdington gaol. The deceased
was upwards ti eighty years f age; he had been a
farmer in his youth, undo r Mr. Fletcher, of Saltoun,
but latterly subsisted by dealing in cattle. A strict in-
vestigation is going on, and it is to be hoped that the
perpetrators of this horrid crime will not long escape
the punishment they deserve.—Scotsman.