Star.
London, England, 1829-08-11 00:00:00

COLLECTANEA.

AMERICAN LIBERTY.—WO copy the following ad-
vertisement from the naltiasore C.osette, though by no means an
uncommon specimen of the " goods en sale " in America, so fre-
quently held forth as the land of pure freedom ; which. however,
fully it may be possessed by the white inhabitants, cannot be greatly
enjoyed by the poor natives of Africa, wLeo a female is offered ter
sale with or ssithesd her infant child --" For sale, an excellent plain
cook, about MS or 30 years of age, slave for life. She may be
bought with or without her male child, about six months old."
FLYING !—lt in stated, in a letter from Vienna, that
a Frenchman is now in that dry who has really brought to perfec.
dos the long-desired art of lying in the air. He is said to have
reached, is his last essay, a height of more than nine hundred
feet, and to have then proceeded, with perfect ease, for a great
distance, horizontally. No particulars are given, to enable us to
judge of the merits of this pretended inventloo, a r is it stated
when the experiment in question was performed.—Lit. Castile.
ST. AY aria's. following agreement was pre-
pared, and mutually emend intik by the subscribets, two itinerant
desists im lace : We bearhie agre to accept of catch sober as
Ural man and wit, and &deg oursalvis to sekaanise the bounds of
mange with all dew dispatch—R. Newm.. G. Tam." Before
the happy pair had carried their agreement into effect, however,
an lasurmountable obstacle presented itself in the shape of a dealer
in japanned goods, who claimed the fair one as his spouse.
Chagrined by &appointment and enraged at his affianced bride
for the deceit she had practised upon him, the vender of lace posted
the agreement at the butter market here, and subjoined the decla-
ration, that " no woman shall ever beguile me assn: --Dindredho.

How TO CATCH, AND HOW TO CURE A COLD.—At
this time of the year. says a Correspondent, colds are easily caught.
and dlillcuh to cure. The followirg will be found effectual :—After
a quick walk in the evenly', sit in the draught to cool ; the conse-
quence will be a severe cold. attended, perhaps, with cough ; the
neat day hoarseness. short breath, and much eapectorati.m. In
the evening, at amen, go to a well-frequented tavern, and drink
three or fosr glasses of strong punch, or stiff rum and water ; stay
till eleven or twelve o'clock. walk booze cony, and go to bed.-
-Yea seed not get up the ant day, but send for the apothecary ;
the following day you west send for the physician, and the third
day Toot/Fins& will send for the undertaker. You will never feel
the effects of an autumnal cold afterwards.

Mk/ CHESTiIt is reported to have left the stage for
ever. In addition to her house in Sseotk•place, she bas built a
very pretty cottage in the nelghboorlsood of the Great Park, Dear
Windsor, when she generally resides.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

As a proof of the rapid manner in which the question
respecting free trade with India is forcing itself on the attention of
all classes of the community, since the commencenteut of Mr.
Enekingbam's tour through the country for the purpose of awaken-
ing the public mind to a due sense of its importance, we may men-
tion that the College of Glasgow has proposed for a Prise Essay,
the following subject " The probable effects, both is England and
in India, of removing an existing restrictions on the commerce
between the two countries."

There is a general complaint among the legal frater-
nity of the want of business in the Courts of Law. This, with
other circumstances, shows the poverty of the times, for they west
indeed be very bad when lkigious individuals cannot tied money to
ge is law; or else they are deterred from doing no in consequence
of the poverty of their neighbours, who are not worth attacking.
Even rapacious attitudes have become cantinas in inducing frivo-
lous actions to be brought with a view of obtaining their expenses,
as where there is no prey the sharks do not assemble.

The Warrens, -arrived in the River from the South
Seas, left at the Maid of Owyher, on the I Sth of November, the
Logan, of New Bedford, with $OO barrels of sperm oil, to leave in
ten days, on a cruise. Left at Otaleite, on the 23d of March, the
Sir James Cockburn, with 2,000 barrels of sperm oil, to sail in six
dap, en t cruise; and the Foxhound, fun, to sail for London in
en weeks.

CORK, AUGUST 7.—The Henry Hayle, from Leg-
burn for Cork, was in company on the 13th of July with the Nary
Bibby, and was about to pot into Gibraltar to repair damage,
having lost bowsprit, fore and main-topmast, ate. on the 27th June.
In a commercial letter from Paris it is stated that an
English house of some note has been making marine insurances
there to a considerable amount, induced by the superior advan-
tages attached in that capital mooch transactions, which, in France,
are not encumbered with any tax to the government.
It appears by letters received from Archangel, that very
large shipments were making there of eau is this country. This
is probably a speculation founded en the general expectation here,
previous to the late rains. that the oat crop most faiL
We have to inform his Grace the Duke of Wellington,
open the authority of one of the Alai, most wealthy, and expert-
anted cone Merchants in Scotland, or perhaps in Britain, that the
cawing harvest will be deficient. let the weather be what it may—
Mat since we received this information the weather in this pan of
the world has been dreadful for the crops, which are alma* all laid,
and laid not to rise again. Now we feel that we have a right to
I give the Doke of Wellington this warning; for, with every good
feeling, and every kind intention, we warned Ma against
his monetary measures unaccompanied with a prodigious
reduction' in the taxes, such as be could not venture to thisk
of without having a reformed House of Commons to
support him, and, therefore. we urged this measure upon his
consideration. We warned him against the ignorance or wilful
deception of the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the subject
of
the use-pound notes. We wanted him against continuing the
1" free trade" project after he had got rid of it, arch-apostle in the
manly and hianoarahle manner in which be did ; and we warned
him against • that measure by which we foretold he would give
such unpardonable airenee without doing the least good to himself
or any body else, and which has now disgusted the generality of
Catholics as well as Protestants; and, it is said and believed, thel
King himself. The Duke may depend ern it that it will be dit-
con enough to save the &ate. mad that It is not to be done by isy
of those manoeuvres with which he is acquainted. The country fC-
quires a man of Lard Eidoe'sisimite experience, and, what is more,l
I at one who has gives each proofs of self denial, unostentatious de-
pecilibillt, rudest, and even utionenntouly careful management
his Own aftv. We give this warning to his Grace in to spirit of
esinday, we do assure him; and under a Inn belief that with all his
eecerage tie has not the courage to survive the shipwreck of
country ; but if ever we law any Wog clearly in our mind's eyrwe
see the crown of England, to which we would fain ding, as we
would to a real House of Cannons and a Home of Lords,-rep
wood, as of old, to live epos the bread and taxes of the people. 'We
tell the Duke (and it le with grief aid dismay we say it) that we
see eke crown et Sashed at OW utettsent tottering spa the brow
-tal his royatnneter.—lfOrawegb Ilmossimr.