Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-07

| Among the, decorations of St. James Church Greenfield, on Christmas Eve, was a large beautiful Star of the East set some forty feet above th pulpit and lighted by a fluid lamp. In the mids | of Rev. Mir. Flint's sermon the star took fire an, the evergreens blazed up in a most startling man her. Seeing that the star could not immediatel, be reached and unwilling to loose his congregatio, MT. Flint continued his discourse, when suddenly the burning mass gave way and fell upon the Rev gentleman. But the fire was happily extinguishet before any damage was done.
 | "A letter from Calcutta, dated Nov. Ist, give. a different view of the Indian War from tha given in the BritisI, papers.
 'sCertaH i, is. that It looks at the present as gloomy as ever. The relieved army has throwr itself into Lucknow, and rumors in the bazaar say they are dead one and all Other accounts say that the army have been living upon horseaesh fo long tme.
 A YoUNG PRIsoNER-Singular Naratire A boy who gave his name as William c Johnson, and age as It. years, was arrested for breaking into the store of MT. Seth Stcd dard, New Haven, on Monday night We learn that he voluntarily gave himself in GUS 1 tody of policeman, and had committed tke burglary and robbery for the purpose of get ting home He was born in London, and from his infancy he was allowed his own way and subssted principally by pilfering. In tht country he has been engaged in the same way until within two weeks, when he committed the crime above stated to get a home in the State Reform School. He says he desires tt learn, and thinks if he had some one to care for him and provide him with food he coull reform and make man of respectability His story if true shows that an abandoned course is frequently pursued rather from habit anl ignorance than from deliberate choice
 January 4th.
 Toronto, Jan. 4.-Weathe fine and clear, Kingston, Ca.,-Beautiful morning and yer, mild.
 Rockville, Ca.-Fine. clear, and warm.
 Ottawa City, Ca.-Weather clear and mild.
 Montrea.- fine sunny morning, and not a all cold. The river is easily crossed in batteaux
 Quebec-Weather mild and foggy. Crossing the river middIing good in canoes.
 Burlington, Vt-Wea,her mild and clear
 Troy. N, Y,-Weather clear and pleasant
 Rutland Vt-Weather clear and mild, no snow on the ground.
 The Board of Aldermen of N. Y. City have agreed to the sale of the lower end of the Park to the U. s. Government, for Post Office. It is said if the Council passes the resolution that Mayor Wood will veto it The P. M General has decided that ii he cannot get this site for the sum offered New York will go without Post Office, and the money revert to the Treasury The opposition to the meas ure in N. Y. City comes from those who have sites to sell.
 ISAAC M1LNER.--At Cambridge, as we'll as at other colleges, the sizar students were or account of certain pecuniary privileges, expect ed to perform various offices of a menal char acter, such as ringing the chapel be serving up the first dish to the college fellows in the dining hall, etc These services have now for many years been dispensed with in all the col. leges. In the youth of Isaac Milner, however afterwards dean of Queens College he had, as poor scholar toiling Oh to eminence by painful denial, to perform the office of sizar. It is recorded of him. that in waiting at din ner upon the heads of the college, the young student let fall tureen full of soup, to the DO small disappointment doubtless of the appetiz- ed guests. A smart rebuke was administered to him for his carcessness. "When I am in power, will abolish this nuisance, gentlemen , was the reply. A hearty laugh was the result so unlikely did it seem that the raw, uncouth, blundering Yorkshire lad should ever rise to be vice-chancellor of his university. Ye in few years he did attain that eminence, as well as the honor of incomparabiIs attached to his de gree. He had the satisfaction of fulfilling his boyish declsration, and relieved the sizar stu dents from the unoaI!ed.for burden which he in his own youth had borne.