Star.
London, England, 1827-10-13 00:00:00

THE FANCY.

CURT IS /MD Ttsnata.--Yesterday the bade money was given up
to the Pet. At Tom Belcher 's, in the evening, the betting was sti
to 1 on O'Neal against Burn.

It has become a very common practice at Crowland,
when any thing has been stolen, for the batman (who has a power-
ful voice) co announce to the inhabitants the following—" Whoever
has stolen—., and will bring it to the mei.. shall receive a gallon
of ale, and no questions will be asked them."—Reasforit Nero.
DeATH CA NDLZII. ln many parts of Walesa the most
extraordinary superstitious still prevail, and seem $ defy the power
of civilisation. Among these, the most cut ious, perhaps, are them
which relate to the presages and signs of death. When an indivi-
dual is about to quit this world, at a certain period previous tolls
departure, and always in the night time, a phantom curdy resem-
bling the dev..ted person, is thought to issue from the sick chamber,
with a small pale taper in kis hand, and to proceed through the
road over which the funeral Is to pass, to the churchyard. After
entering the sacred edifice, the phantom issues out again, the candle
still burning, and proceeds to the spot where the grave is to be
opened; and there this fearful apparition of phantom end candle
descends into the earth and disappeeseespthet Weeks Paiste,
!soot HASSAN, late Persian Ambassador to the
English Court, observed to Lord RADSTOMI, that,
among many customs of this country which' he ap-
proved, he adinired none more than that of not suffering
the servants to remain in the room when their services
were not wanted. He added, that he was endeavouring
to introduce this excellent custom into his own family;'
and for that purpose, was for ever driving his servants
out of the room, but that they returned like fleas, in
spite of all he could do.

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Evert fishinlitg he feet, the first thing Mr: klurrill_
prays for ie'tbb- speedy enticement of a French law to
punish cruelty to animals.' .The following fait, '
has just occurred, will alotiOnac4slea of the
there is for such a law Manyry having d
vend thrt Mr. the °wad. ral.the Telegraph costal,
which plies between Calais and Boulogne, had Caused •
an old blind horse to be fired all fours (as the term in
farriery runs), and that the wretched anienal in that
[ mete of tortore had been immediately put to work, re•
quested the owner to allow some repose to his bored
nun The scars might have time to heal. y The horse
is mine, not yoUrs—Gentlemen should mind tbtir own
concerns, and not meddle in what does not regard them,'
was the owner's answer. In consequence of.this replyi
and seeing polite admonition was vain,. Mr. Martin
conttitred to collect a number of the most respectable
persons of rank and fortune in this wan to examine
the appearance of the poor bone as he returned
from Calais with limbs weaning with blood and pants
[ lug with anguish. The Gentlemen and Ladies [Tactic
felt as human beings ought on the occasion, and agreed
to request that the proprietor would not allow the horse
[ to be worked for at least two months, the time which
Mr. Martin supposed necessary to recover the horse.
Lord Ormond and his Isey, Trean Punsonly, and the
Hon. and Rev. Mr. Mitered were present, and ell
wi.hed that some law existed in France to prevent.
cruelty to animals.

CHINESE PUNISHMENT.

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An unjust Judge is beheaded. He who in tithe of
warts guilty of embetzlement, or of Malpractices with
respect to the supply of the troops, is strangled, as is
thief who steals to the athount of about 40/. sterling;
the stealing ora smaller sum is punished with a severe'
bastinado, and the criminal is obliged be-ides to make
restitution: if he has not the means; he is condemned
with his wife and children, td hard labour for the
Government. Mandarins,. of a supeiior tank, cons
victed of neglect in their dut,y, are degraded twO
degrees, and lose two years salary. Whoevel
fells pees, mows hay, sows corn, dr feeds cattle, id
places where the Emperor, Princes, and other diming
guished persons are buried, receives eighty blows with
a stick. A deserter from the army in the field, if ad
officer, receives a •hundred blows: a prate stiffen
death t be who takes the place of anthb r when thd
army is on its march, is beaten without mercy: a dies
anissed Mandarin who meddles in the affairs of Gower,.
anent has eighty blows, and pays a fi ,e of two pounds
whoof silver. Superiors recommend the promotion of
* man without merit, in preference to one entire
'worthy, receive eighty blows, Delays in executing the
'business of Government are punished with ten blows
every day, op to; eighty blows. A physician who
writes a prescription improperly gets a hundred bloin.
A servant who makes a noise in the Imperial Palace,
and does not behave with decorum, is punished with
a hundred blows, and his master With fifty. Salt
being a public monopoly, if a woman buys or
sells it clandestinely, her husband cr her son are
beaten; if the husb.nd be at a distance, or the son a
minor, she receives a hundred blows, and pays a fine in
money. The Chinese use for tt,e ii.Ricmion of corporal
punishment bamboo canes at least four or five feet
long, and about two inches thick. L-ss serious of-
fences are punished by bete: on the ear, at number
of which is prescribed by law, but it depends on the
executioner to render this strange mode of punish.
ment more or less painful, in proportion to the
bribe which he receives. Severe, however, as these
punishments may appear, great facilities are afforded
f.r compounding them by the payment of money;
for instance, a person condemned to receive from 60 to
100 blows pays from four to seven ounces of silver,
and from nine to fifteen measures of wheat; a year's
hard labour and 60 blows, may be bought off for about
14 ounces of silver, and about SO measures of corn;
very old persons, minors, and cripples, pay about the
value of sixpence for ten blows. Females guilty of
prostitution are not allowed to compound for money,
but must suffer the infliction prescribed. It is a cus-
tom permitted among the Chinese for a condemned
person to pay another to undergo punishment in his
stead ; this extends even to the penalty of death.