Star. — 1822-10-29 (London, England)

TRIAL OF STRENGTII. Wednesday a man, by way of exhibiting his Ittength to several of his companions, placed his shoulder against a bleach cart, as it was passing up Park-row, Nottingham, with intent to stop its progress, when his foot slipped, and he fell with one leg under the wheel, which passing over it, fractured the bone, and was obliged to be amputated.  Some one stole Lord CHATHAM'S large gouty shoes: his servant not finding them, began to curse the thief. " Never mind," said his Lordship, " all the harm I wish the rogue, is, that the shoes may fit him !" The following Lines were, it is said, writtetrby the celebrated Mr. Ai--E, beneath a frontispiece to a copy of MILTON'S Paradise Lost, presented to him by a certain Secretary, in which Satan appears in the act of offering an apple to Eve: " With equal good-nature, rood grace, and good blots, a The Devil gives apples and C—t—a gives books!'  A sailor, at the battle of Trafalgar, who was ac,I tively employed at one of the guns on the quarterdeck of the BRITANNIA, had his leg shot off a little below the knee, and observing an Officer, who was ordering him to be conveyed to the cock-pit said— " That's but a shilling touch, your Honour, an inch higher, and I should have my eighteen-pence for it !" alluding to the scale of pensions allowed for wounds, which, of course, increase according to their severity. 1 The same resolute fellow, as they were lifting him on a brother tar's shoulders, said to one of his friends— " I say, Bob, take a look for my leg, and give me the silver buckle out of my shoe—l'll do as much for you another time!" . The number of English residing at Lausanne and its environs, at the beginning of the present month, was estimated at 1,500. The fashionable season had just commenced. Lady DuNnAs and her three amiable daughters gave the first grand Ball. The evening following, Madame VAVASEVIt gave a magnifi- . cent Ball, to which all the English were invited. Mr. Jona KEMBLE occupies a beautiful villa, called Beausite, adjoining the town, and bordering on the ' Lake, surrounded chiefly by vineyards; he is visited almost daily by the most distinguished personages, and he frequently entertains select parties. The following paragraph, so disgraceful to the inhabitants of Newnham, is extracted from the Kent Herald. We give it further publicity, in the hopes that it will meet with an early contradiction :—" Last week, as two poor men were travelling through Newt:ham, one of them was takes seriously ill - his companion made ineffectual applications to the neigh' bours and Parish Officers for relief, and, gaining none, the poor wretch crawled to ii hovel, where, after grievous sufferings, be expired." A person, named Auguste-Narcisse Cuingnet charged with the murder of his own mother, has been arraigned for the crime before the Court of Assize at Douay. The trial lasted several hours. The defence of the accused !rested opon ao attempt to probe that at that time he bad fallen under the visitation of insanity. A trial being had upon the spot upon this collaterailssue,' the plea was negatived, and the Jury then found 'hint guilty of the crime of parricide. He vtaa sentenced to be led to the square o: Odle, with his feet naked, le his shirt, and his bend cotarred with a black veil, *Ere to undergo the pw44nuest of Goa awl man'opon bis dreadful cringe.