Star.
London, England, 1820-01-04 00:00:00

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The•sports of the dealikutitpre kept up with great
spirit at this villa, by a sigejtparty. of Rtslrioisables.
Lord (......1•••••-•.-11 amused Weisel( In•erangini a puede- may
of the worldi England he Wired toperturep.; at which Mr.
C.A.N.O Laughed heartily. •••
Mr. Van---=.l played with. much itreettis at beats r
neighbour.
Lord Es—x, at potionet,bet could not complete his snits. .
The wake of proposed Awes, but was called to
order, as that noble game, cannot be /hayed without checking
the Ring. • •
Lord Stn--n spun huge knotty brag grata4." made a t 0.0.-1
dismal noise: Lord grotty hint that he I
was among friends, and -*mil resenfellastotersis4 foi public1
occasions.
Some one unhappily proposed pop is !let cotnell upon Whielt
Lady Le-ctr and several others manifested-symptoms of alarm,
and protested against violence, observing, that-the company could
not be ignorant of the inveterate enmity cats bore.tovrards.their
race. -Lord En-ox and remarked, that though he doubted
whethei one well-fed rat was a match for puss, yet he droned
'there was security:in a whole Warren
.lant• this opinion "cassis
be considered as palely extra judicial.
Mr. had been,. entertained- by seeing Leia-!
chipping the angular points off England, to make
her look. like Turkey, 'now namedieepfreg : but Lord
objected to thefundamental feature of the gam,e, and declared
he would suffer no man to
.ktsy ore, his hard.
Mr. .
suggeste& chucklatthing; whereitpOn Mr.
begged him, in the, present. scarcity of spec* to
content himself with dumps/ Nr. Ca• 41111 took oCcasidi to
observe; that he ltad once as great•a command of Irma us any
man, but that the frequent calls of .ifdlninistration bad so drained
him, that he could now offer BO assistance. A round game was
at length agreed on, and every voice cried 'keg, which met the
taste and habits of the whole party, and concluded the enter-
tainments of the evening.

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By a recent order of the Board of Excise, the auc- ,
tion duty on coal mines, ironstone, and other mine—
rals, is relinquished ; those articles being deemed ex-
emi:t by a recent coOstrOctiOn of the' JCL.
Some of the tamers in Paisley, who"; *ln conse-
quence of tile non-employment of the weavers, have
nothing to do in their own trade; have diricted their
attention to the fabricado:llsf toys, and have out-
done-the Muth artists. • , -
Mr. 'inlay, of Trees, The parish of Neilston,
has bestoWed between 50 and GO carts of coals on the
poor in the villages of that parish; and Messrs. John
Wilson and Sons, of Hurlit, have given a donation
Of 175 carts of coals, to the poorest inhahitants of
Barrhead, and of the south east part of
.the Abbey
Parish of Paisley. Great. quantities of these coati
have been carted by farmers, free of expense.. .
The day before Christmas, a,fine fat ox was.distri.
bated by ROBERT J. J. Noallois, Esq. among fifty
poor families, in the neighbourhood of DavOlulme
Hall, near Manchester.

The Dean and Chapter of Winchester, in addition
to their usual donation of coals, have given to fifty of
the poorest and most deserving, families of
either blankets or. sheets; a's the necessity of
the case required. ... . .
On St. Thomas's -DaY*, were *distributed among
the poor of St. LaWrence ‘Vosittoo, nearly forty score
of prime beef, also blankets-to ten of the larger fami-
lies, the annual benes7qTenegift of H,atfix Bigg
Cher, Esq. of ManydOwn. • • , , •
'The following curious OticutniitiO, -"t
logy, occurrednt 'Annan, ' a' few sio‘
anan, obiervinga redbreast near her 440i;gailie the
ctommenciment vorni in tin44llktif tbiew-
ing a few crumbs Out for its tulisistei* 11$111i4 the
last fall of snow, she Wit Miiisited 10:-;ste_"Robin
make his appearant4 with something ***4aP-
itarently, much fatigued, Which; on inviection. proved
to be the dead carcase of another of its own species,
which he easefully carded tQthe trisinbie and seemed
disappointed when it would.not eat.. . •
• CURIOUS Occuattittitalt'.. few die ago was
shot, near the .entrance.Of Kakeitifhai sr, a large
sea-fowl, hiving through its. itect an arrow, such as
those described by Captain Coa.to.hsaiseill by the
natives of the islands of thaacific Ocean. The shaft
of the. arrow, which is about 0114--inehes leng,,is of
a kind 'of wood resembling bone, And .is rudely
bearded with iron. The beard and shirt shot at least
four inches through the:neck; and the ifesh round the
shaft is not only healed, but perfectly hard and callous.
One day last, week, 'a wedding was tn_ haye taken
place between -a worthy CettOg of Tinibrell7sfreet,,
Trowbridge, who had 'for vine months or 'more, car-
ried on a successful courtship. The fitling was
killed, friends.were ipvited,.tlie ditinisiwas prepared,
and nothing remained tObidene lint* tying of the
Gordian knot; and they were about to sally forth, to
Hymen's altar, when young Johnny,•-thi sort made
`his appearance in an entire state of naft:o,l absolute)/
without shirt, hat-, bieecbei, or shoes ! and being
stranger they had none.of theta ever seen er expected,
and understanding that he Was come ti spend his
Christmas holidays, they ind it necessary to put off
the wedding, till his mother should recover from the
fright into which- She was thrown by the bat's prat
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mature appear:Meal -
Paisley ;Opting* in a itate:a considerable agita-
tion. There lie so Many out of employ, and so
many evil spirits ever ready to lake advantage of any
tumult, that 'the smallest, incident, cr the least dis-
turbance on the public -itieets, soon makes a for-
midable appearance, nit account of the get numbers
who assemble either tO .witneis or :Let the scene :
there are so irnatiy.disagreeable reports perpetually
' circulating, which, whether true or false, are equally
calculated-to arrest the attention: cases of individual
suffering of persons arreited, and of the most exten-
sive preparatiOns =long. the diiiffected to attempt
some political' change, are among. the most promi-
nent of these stories. 'A notion
.appears to prevail'
among the most ardent Reformers, that something
will soon transpite'which will lead.to thrOfinal attain-
ment of their Wishes. The most astonishing delusion.
has become triumphant Onthis head that eyer
For some time past speculation and rittoour would
make each succeeding week to, be the last wzek of
existence in:a tranquil state. ',Another week passes
by, and the tame deception is still fostered and pro- ,
pagated. bowevtt, like an insurrection is
to •o&ur.. , Any attack on the 'tart of. a disor-
ganised rabritle; *mild only be productive of instan-
t:animus degrnitiois themselves. . 4yery genuine
:philanthropist must:feel' for the,sufferings of the poor;
, and it is' undoultedly the incumbent s. of all,who
possew.the meani,to Orrick
.ipr .t4a-fr cants but
every attempt at.laWlarstOnfusicas must be pit dawn
at an.eiiet cOst:' .