Star.
London, England, 1826-01-03 00:00:00

IN LOVE.

:EOM THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Tom Templeton follows the law as an attorney and
solicitor in G-ay's Inn. He may generally be seen also
on the fourth bench of the pit at the Opera-house,
counting from the orchestra. He touches the viulon•
cello, and in singing rather piques himself upon his
falsetto. Jane Brockman is the daughter of Mr.. Giles
Brockman, a policy-broker, living in one of those re-
., mote squares (i think they call it Mecklenburg), that.
according to the most recent discoveries; lie in 'a duets:,
like a., many Cyclades, northward of the British
Museum. "I om Templeton and Jane Brockman wi nt,
withstheir respective parents to Broadstairs. Tom and
Jane met. every day, at one or other of the two Nina-
ries. Upon these occasions they conversed frequently
on the colour of the .ocean,.whicln.as t!ley have since
confess:A, appeared to them " sometimes smoot'i and
sometimes rough," •as *Mr. Diznorn used to say
in No Song no Supper. Tney would sorn,..times look at
the boundless expanse of waters, and find it suddenly
darkened as though a cl ud was passing over it (per-
haps a cloud WAS passing over it) ; uptn which o:ctir-
rence Tons would take occasion to say, that it reminded'
him t.f the shadows Oa: darken the sunshine of bk.:—
a sentiment which Jane would embody in her green,
morocco-b tund Album with a gilt padlock, the key
whereof was appendant to her necklace. At other
times Tom would enact deputy donkey-driver, and
urge Jane's long-eared quadruped along the cliffs to-
wards Rantsgate, in a narrow path, bounded by a,
hedge on its right, and the edge of the cliff on its
This recreation, however, was stopped by the following,
catastrophe. Miss Brockman, notwithstanding her
education at a very polite Ladies' academy within three
doors of the Parr's Head, at Camberwell, could not, in
speaking, avoid a whim she had of cutting off the letter
H from its natural position, and transplanting it in
front of one of the five vowels. Thus, according to
her, a hat was an att, an app'e a happle, an otter a hot-
ter, and an owl a howl. Miss Brockman was one
morning riding on her Jerusalem pony, in her nankeen
pelisse and green veil, Tom following with whipcord,
when slie thought that her swain was driving bet
radars- perilously towards the ocean. " Nearer the
edge l" exclaimed Miss Brockman; " you are too near
the hedge." TOM Templeton believing that the Lady
expressed her real sentiments, and nut dreaming that
she meant him to seek the hedge, and eschew the edge,
drove the donkey so close to the brow of the cliff, that
the ground actually began to crack landward of the
lovers ; and had not the quadruped's seperior wisdom
induced him to swerve inward, the whole party would
have made a most abrupt descent upon the heads of the
shell-picking urchins on the shote. This catastrophe
drove the parties in future, to the bead', where they
would stand for hours together with a telescope, under
an impending rock, or in an excavation a few paces
further on, *have they communed in a sort of Dido
and iEneas fashion ; the looking through the glass, and
woneei ing whet? er the vessel which she beheld in the
hotizon was coming from Madrid or Vienna, and he
patting the sand with his right foot until it assumed the
moisture and consistence of a bread-pudding. Gun►
powder like this could not long remain without explod-
ing. Accordingly Thomas Templeton and Jane Brock-
man fell in love. Broadstairs is, in fact, a capital station
for falling in loie.

Davay•LaNs.—The Pantomime this season is quite
a kit, to use a theatrical term. The introduction of
Ir. DIAN' Lo ANTON' the extraordinary rope vaulter,
from Turin, is a piece of good geneialship in the ma-,
nagerial department.' It is quite impossible to -give
any adequate notion of what lie achieves on the slack
rope. The jugglers are also exceedingly clever.
The Surrey Christmas Ball, at the White Hart Inn,
Guild ird, on Thursday, pre•ented a most numerous
and Itrilliant display of the beauty and rank of that
el:flinty. PAINE'S band was in attendance, and dancing
continoe.l till one o'clock, when the elegant assemblage
adjourned to the supper room, which was embellished
in a style consistent with the usual accommodations of
the White Hart. Dancing was resumed after supper,
and kept up with great spirit.
The Marlow Ball, which took place at the Town
Hall on Tuesday last, was very numerously attended
by the principal families in the neighbourhood. Lady
E. TALBOT and Lady G. titnancr are to act as PA-
troneuci at the text Ball.

The Carlow Morning Post says," It gives us extreme
collect n to find committed within, or tion the Confitifs
of our county, one of those inhuman barbarities at
hich the mnd sickens. The following is an extract
of a le.tLr directed to Brigade.M.ijor BEZVOR
Norrovnizazar, Dec.
" I am sorry to inform you, that a most atrocious outrage was
committed au Saturday night last, in this neighbourhood, near
G. Warren's, at Ryland, on the body of a man named H. Hughes,
who was inhumanly murdered about nine o'clock. An Inquest
was held yesterday. I have been on the Coroner's Jury, and a
verdict of 4 Wilful Murder' has been given against N. Jordan and'
S. Cowman, They have both Bed the country." •
The late Rev. Mr. —. of 1)--. Aberdeenshire',
vr,ts toad of his friend and bottle: I.e sAcriticed so often
and so freely to the jolly god, that the Pie.lrytet-y could
no longer :net look such proccetlinAs, and summoned
his before them, that he might answer for his conduct.
One of his-elders, and con,tant companion in his social
hours, was ci;ei as a witness against him. "Well,
J hn," (says one of the Plesbytery to the elder), "did
you ever see the Rev. Mr. C the worse of
drink ?" 44 Weed I wat, no: I've mony time seen him
Vie better o't, but I ne'er saw him the waur o't."—
" But did you never see hint drunk?" "That's what
I'll ne'er see, for, before he be half slocken'd, I'm aye
blind fu." ,

One day during winter, the Duchess of Maz.sattrz
conceived the idea of giving a free champetre at her
splendid mansion in Paris. She assembledan immense
crowd in her .alert, then just demi, and dazzling with
mirrors, which covered the walls of the apartment from
the ceiling to the floor. At the extremity of the salsa
was a cabinet full of foliage and &rivers, and on open.
in:4 if gate a transparency was to appear, shewing a
rem il,ck of sheep, very white and well washed, de-
filing in the woodland, and led by a sitepherdes., a
dancer from the Opera. Whilst this ingenious scene
was preparing, and the company were dancing in the
saloon, the imprisoned sheep escaped, it. is not known
how, and without dog or shepherdess, burst into the
saloon, dispersed the dancers, and began butting their
heads against the mirrors. The leaps and bleating! of
the affrighted flock, the noise they made in breaking
the mirrors to pieces, the cries and flight of the women,
the roars of laughter from the dancers, formed.* much
more arnusinc s.-ene, than that of the pastoral:which
the compe-v .4% %%,., tbt. accident,--Pradame a'a