Star.
London, England, 1829-07-30 00:00:00

COLLECTANEA.

MARRIAGE. —Look at the great mans of marriages
which take place over the whole world; what poor, coutemptihk,
commonplace air.irs they are ! A few soft looks, a w ilk, a 44111 Cr,
a sq of the hand, a pupping of the que.tion, a purchasing of
a certain number of yard. ut white satin, a ring, a clergyman, a
stage or two in a hired carriage, a night at a country lam, and the
whole matter is uver. Fur five or sit weeks, two sheepish-looking
persons are seen dangling about on each other's arm, looking a:
waterfalls, or making morning calls, and guzzling wane and cake ;
then every thing falls into the most monotonous routine ; the wafe
sits at one side of the hearth, the husband at the other, and little
quarrels, little pleasures, little cares, and little children, gradually
gather round them. This is what ninety-nine out of a hundred
find to be the delights of love and matrimony.—Ediriburgla Lamers
Journal. _ _ _

COMPRESSED WAISTS.— The voting ladies of Me-
dina county (United States), among other means of preventing
the too frequent use of ardent spirits, have resolved, that they will
not receive the addressees of any young gentleman who is in the
habit of using spirituous liquors. Tne y sung gentlemen in the
same neighbourhood, by way of retaliation, have resolved that
they will not seriously pay their addresses to any young lady who
wears corsets. If whiskey has slain its thousands, corsets have
slain their tens of thousands.—afeterican Paper.
TIIE KELLOCIISY DE GRACE. ate following is pre-
served traditionally as the grace of the farms-r of Kelluchsysie„ or
Killochayde, in Clydesdale :-0 lean, we're ay ganging, and we're
ay getting. We solid ay be coming to thee, but we're ay target.
ting. We Icier in thy gude milieu us'Kelloch.yelet, suppan shy
good peisie Kale, puir sinfou NOM of a...... that we are. klui.y
mercies we receive, gond truwth ; and we're little thankfte fur
them, gude Nth. Janet, rax by the Islamics; and aw praise and
glory shall be thine. Amen —Am's" Advertiser. 1
ROYALTY IN DISGRACE.—We are concerned to,
state that an illustrious and royal personage, long in high favour
here, bas been treated with a degree of indignity which must
afflict every good citizen. Will it be believed that certain persons,
dressed in a little brief authority, have presumed to lay hands on
the sacred person, as Lady Margaret Ballenden'would ay. of his
Majesty King Charles, and have actually sent his Majesty to jail?
For some years his Majesty, owing to his own growing infirmities,
and those of his liucephalus, has withdrawn from public life, and
his proprr station in the l'arliament Square, (to the great mortifi-
cation of loyalgreenhorns from the country,) given up equestrian
honours, and retired, as many a pious man did of old, into the
odours of sanctity ; that is to say, took up his residence amidst
the damps of St.Giles's cathedral. Certain persons, however,
under pretence of executing what they call imptovements, have
encroached upon his cell, and not content wilt turning him out of
it, have laid him in limbo. The story, to use Byron's phrase, •• is
trite, as any truth has been of late." The equestrian statue of
Charles the Second, which erst stood proudly on its pedestal in the
Parliament Square, was recently lodged in a booth on the south
side of the cathedral, and this having been taken down, the thought
it semi, struck the person in authority to send the statue to such
a tenement as nothing royal, it is to be hoped, ever lodged in be-
fore—to Bridewril! The governor, a prudent man, being at a loss
bow to treat such a prisoner, perhaps having the terrors of the sta.
tute-bouk before his eyes, and not brio; sure whether some portion
of the divinity that dothhedge a living king, might not attach to
his leaden representative, refused to take in the figure without a
written order from a magistrate. The magistrates, we may WO..
pose, had their misgivings, and were too wary to commit them-
selves. The order was not forthcoming ! and as a derider resort
the statue was sent to the jail, the governor of which, it may be
presumed, was found to be a less scrupulous man titan he of the
neighbouring alifice.--Edinisirgh Paper.