Star. — London, England, 1825-11-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLiGtga. ,:rived off Dover, the Harriet, KINDLIT, from Campeachy, in 70 d a ys. On the Ist October, in the Gulf of Florida, experienced evert hurricane, and lost ber bulwarks, boats, &c. 4 ' ld Dartmouth, the Trent, 51• Catt, from Quebec. tiff Dover. the Lusitania, Gilman% from Oporto. I.'o/GUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind variable, light breetek.— Arrived the liosicitis, from London. Sailed the Enchantress, p ow f o r Rio de Janeiro; and Leslie Alexander, Aloaats, for , tdoe• Off the port. the Ardent, Borax, from Loudon for Bel- Ise , with damage, having been run foul of. I'Lrourin, Nov 15.—Wind N.—Arrived the Sealatlt, Waa os , from Malaga ; Fanny, TAYLOR, from Cadiz ; Vittoria trans. rit, l3,,,uni, from Portsmouth for Cadiz; and the Argus, Forma, frost PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 16.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Hope, and Favourite, Duce, from Waterford. Tows, morn Quebcc - ; Drat, Nov.. 16.—w Wind N.W. light breezes, and hazy.— irl oed and sailed for the River, the Sisters, Bases, from Catania; Eleanor, from. the Mediterranean. The Alert, from Meilitertanean, remains for orders. Two American ships, and g b al k, have come in from the westward this evening, and remain, ones unknown. larearuot., yov. 15.—Wind N.—Arrived the packet ship bh , was, from New York—sailed the 24th October ; spoke, on ;,,st h, the Silas Richards, for New York ; Balolutha, SALMON, ( 7 ,n, Oporto; and Hardware, —, from Lisbon. FIRE AND HURRICANE AT MIRAMICHI. KINGSTON FAIR. The Fair at Kingston•on-Thanes commenced on Monday last, A d was very numerously attended by those interested in the pur chase and sale of cattle, of all kinds of which there was a great daplay. Rut the attraction of the day to the fashionable part of t h e neighbourhood, was the sale, for charitable purposes, of a choice collection of fancy articles, (which was conducted in a room m u d for the occasion) by the Misses FrrzcLaistricc, and some other young Ladies in the immediate vicinity. Their Royal H i ghnesses the Duke and Duchess of O.IIIIMM and the Princess ACGLATA, honoured this temporary Bazaar with their presence, and rernai:md there for a considerable time. We have reason to !there that the sale was very productive, and we tru,t the fair ( undue:ors of it will have the satisfaction of finding, that the pleas of relief at their disposal, will greatly exceed their anti e;,.tions. FURTHER PARTICULARS. DIIRAbIiCIII, (kronen it. Yawn the magnitude of the fire, and the dreadful v io \cute of the winds, it is almost impossible to form an ac curate idea of the extent of the loss of lives or property. The remote settlements, from the entrance of the river to the extreme of it, present the eye the dreadful ha lo: of this calamitous event, particularly those of the r nith-west branch, the Baltibog and Narpan, some of have scarcely a place of habitation lett ; and the lives that were lost are innumerable; the shores at al most every change of wind exhibiting dreadful spec wits of the burnt and drowned. In some parts of the country the cattle have all been destroyed or suffered greatly, and the very soil in many placeshas been parched and burnt up, and no ariicle of srovisions to speak of has been rescued from the flames, either at Newcastle, where almost every important mer cantile establishment pet ished, or at Douglastown. • The hut ricane raged with such dreadful violence, that Inge bodies of timber, on fire, as also trees from the forest, and parts of the flaming houses and stores wete carried to the rivers with amazing velocity, to such an extent, an] affecting the water in such a manner, as to occasion large quantities of salmon and other fish to resort to the land ; hundreds of which were scattered on the shores of the North and South West branches. Chatham at present contains about three hundred of the unfortunate sufferers, who have resorted to it for iebef, and are experiencing some partial assistance, and almost every hour brings with it great numbers from the brck settlements, burnt, wounded, or in the most abject state of distress, and it is reported that nearly Two hundred bodies have been actually dis :over ed. At this scene tire heart sickens to see the vsidoss•s, widowers, and orphans, that are without clothing, hones, or the means of subsistence; and it is impos sible at this early period to say how many hundreds Nye been added to the dead, or have survived to know that a father, mother, sister, or brother has been de rosred by the flames, or perished by the wave, not i.nly from the circumstance of numerous families in the back settlements not being yet heard of, but also horn the waist of information regarding the fate of Ipge lumbering pnriei in the interior of the woods, oho it is feared have fallen victims to the flames. EXTRACT OE A LETTER. • LIST Or LIVES LOST, PISSONALLY natowat. David Lockhart, his father. mother, sister, and two children. William. Kilpatrick, sen. his wife, son and daughter. Hobert Scott, wife and four children. James Lyon's wife and child. Duncan Stewart's child and his wife lie apparently hopeless. David Goodfellow ' wife and daughter. tad Newlands and nephew. I:igkteen of the above Mr. J. Gilmour superintended the inter ment of yesterday, and when he came out of the woods, saw other tight can ying to the grave. ESCATIM Matthew Lamont, mason, with his wife, son, and daughter, crossed the river on three logs. A girl who wal long in our service crossed on a single log; a man win was with her on another, perished. Captain Duncanson, who chanced to be at our place, and actively aided and assisted in handing our books, tic. from my hands into the boat, had afterwards to betake himself to a single log, upon which he reached a vessel, arid was providentially saved. The boat in which Captain Alexander, of the Genet al Graham, and Allan, conveyed away the books, licc. in the dark, drove foul of a drift of timber, and before reaching the Mary, of London, was in the act of sinking. Captain Alex ander got slung by a rope's end to the ship, and assisted Allan in handing them up. The whole was as wet as water could make them, and some indeed we find are missing. Captain Mitchell, of the Mars, says, that one hundred people lay auuned in the house of Gilmour, Itanken, and Co. Much serious damage occurred in the town and neighbourhood of Ringwood. drib( the absurd and mischievons commemoration of Guy Fatties, ea the sth inst. The Government •has twenty acres of ground near Norwood, in Middlesex, between Hounslow and the lJrbridge.road, wholly converted to the purpose of brick -making. The " Company's" Coaches have produced some re duction in the Bristol and Bath coach fares; besides, as iar as their own coaches are concerned, putting an end to fees to coachmen, guards, and waiters. Before the Company's coaches started, the fares were generally 21. U r !mo o guineas inside, and 11. Bs. outside ; now there are bills along the Western road, announcing that coaches will take for IL inside and 10s. outside, a re• duction of more than one half! The distance is 120 wiles. Tons the fares are now less than those to Brighton, which is a distance of fifty miles; the Brighton fares for those fifty miles are 11. Is. inside, and 12s. outside; while thorn to Bristol ale, for 120 miles, 11. inside, and 10s. outside, according to the Placards along e road. it-ix-Dow, Nov. 15.—Wind varial ,b e llosancs, from London as D 0 ,, 0r Rio de Janeiro; and Leal , f t• t, ,don. Off the port. the Ardent, B fast w ith damage, having been run fon l''Ll•muctu, Nov 15.—Wind N.- 0 ., from Malaga ; Fanny, TAYLOR, 1 port, J3aow', front Portsmouth for Cat ' t iconkliratnichi. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 16.—Wind N. and Favourite Te n" " r " 4 " bec " ; Nov . N.W. 1 DIAL, • • ✓ Waved and sailed for the River, the Eleanor, from. the Medic M e diterranean, remains for order, ,bark, have come in from the westwa ones unknown. lorsruot., yov. 15.—Wind N., 14 , was, from New York—sailed t ::th, the Ma, Richards, for New f7u „, Oporto; and Hardware, KINGSTON • The Fair at Kingston.on-Thanses A d was very numerously attended by chase and sale of cattle, of all kinds o display. that the attraction of the dir the neighbourhood, was the sale, ft choice collection of fancy articles, (wh toed fur the occasion) by the I other young Ladies in the immed 9 Highnesses :he Duke and Duchess of ACCUSTR, honoured this temporary and remaissed there for a considerab' Irlirve that the sale was very prods s f ondue:ors of it will have the sat • means of relief at their disposal, w c;;.tions. FIRE AND HURRICANE Ett PA RTI MIRAMICHL, 0 hrom the magnitude of the fi e e \cute of the winds, it is almost i curate idea of the extent of the The remote settlements, from to the extreme of it, present t•, so: of this calamitous event, p ,f :milt-west branch, the Baltibos tr SbiC' , have scarcely a place of e lives that were lost are innurn , most every change of wind ea It c wits of the burnt and drowned In some parts of the country destroyed or suffered greatly, a' 11 places has been parched and bu srovisions to speak of has been • either at Newcastle, where alms • cantile estabkithMent pet i shed, 4 The hurricane raged with suc d Urge bodies of timber, on fire isforest, and pat ts of the flaming carried to the rivers with amaz extent, an] affecting the water occasion large quantities of sa resort to the land ;_ hundreds of the shores of the North and Sot Chatham at present contai tithe unfortunate sufferers, wi relief, and are experiencing son almost every hour brings with the bock settlements, burnt, n abject state of distress, and it two hundred bodies have been At this scene the heart sicl widowers, and orphans, that • hones, or the means of subsi sible at this early period to sa; have been added to the dead, o that a father, mother, sister, c voued by the flames, or peel imfy from the circumstance the back settlements not being front the waist of informatim o Ipge lumbering parries in tit • alto it is feared have fallen Tit )ITRACT OP A LIST OP LIM LOST, PEI David Lockhart, his father. MOths William Kilpatrick, sen. his wife, Hobert Scob, wife and four childrt Jaws Lyon's wife and child. Duncan Stewart's child and his w a David Goodfellow wife and daug 4 /54Newlands an d nephew. al )eighteen of the above kir. J. Gil men, of yesterday, and when he can tight can ying to the grave. r ESCAPE Matthew Lamont, mason, with crossed the riv er on t h ree l ox : A girl who was long in our servics wh's was with her on another, perisl Captain Duncanson, who c and actively aided and assist tic. from my hands into the betake himself to a single lo) • a vessel, and was providenti which Captain Alexander, of Allan, conveyed away the bo foul of a drift of timber, and of London, was in the act of • ander got slung by a rope's er a Allan in handing them up. • water could make them, a 1 ate missing. Captain Mitchell, of the Mars, I maimed in the house of Gilmour, Much serious damage o n eighbourhood of Ringwood, dud a c ommemoration of Guy Fatties, cm The Government bas Iv Sp Norwood, in Middlesex, b lhbridge.road, wholly coo brick -Making. The is Company's" Coact • duction in the Bristol and if e Ear as their own coaches are to lees to coachmen, guards, Is Company's coaches started, / o r WO guineas inside, and are bills along the Weste coaches will take for IL in :y duction of more than one ra in•les. Thus the fares art Brighton, which is a di 4 Brighton fares for those fif and 12s. outside; while th miles, 11. inside, and 10s. Placards along the road. THE milli. It affords us great plea#ure to be enabled to announce that Lieu tenant-General Futtia,. the Colonel of this fine Corps, has re ceived an account of the safe arrival at Bermuda, of the three Di ;visions of the Regiment that had embarked at Halifax, on board the Speke, Arab, and Joseph Green transpOris. This Corps has, through the con, etertioni of its Officers, completed its augmentation -t-- ' A detachment belonging.to the td Regiment of Dragoon Guardi, Marched yesterday, from Westminster for Dorchester. Detachments belonging to the 53d, 67th, and 90th Regiments of Infantry, marched yesterday. from Westminster fur Portsmouth. A detachment belonging to the 70th Regiment of Foot,marched yesterday, from Westminster for Winchester. Detachments belonging to the 35th Regiment of Infantry, and the Royal African Colonial Corps, marched yesterday, from West minster for Albany Bairacks. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Last night a new Comedy, entitled "Love's Victory; or, a Schoolfor Pride," was represented at this House. The story is taken from a Spanish production, called " The Prince against the Princess," a story that has been so great a favourite with the dramatists of the Continent, as to have caused it to be freely used by the play% rights of Germany, France, and Italy. It is now adapted to our stage; but though the author (Mr. HYDE, who has also produced a tragedy called Alphonsits) may have resorted to the Spanish story for the leading features of his plot, the merit of the finished and ani mated dialogue must be considered as his own. The composition is of a very superior character. The first two acts, in particular, demand the highest praise, for elegance of composition, pointedness of wit, and smart ness of repartee. They equal some of the best and most polished specimens of the old school of distin guished comedy ; and many poitions of the remaining acts deserve high enconiums—but there was not always the same smartness of dialogue. We cannot gn into the minute incidents of the play, Dv' Jut we must notice with our warmest approbation the really comic scene in which the merry roguery of Perrin, pretending to be on the side of the Ps incess, is playing the game of Don Ccesar. The laughable mis conception which he produces, and its consequences, were in the highest iiegree comic, and afforded a situ ation in which the powers of Mr. C. KESIBLE, Mr. JONES, and Miss LACY, were seen to the greatest pos sible advant4ge. All the pertormers seemed to exert themselves most anxiously to sustain the Comedy ; they did so most effectively. The badinage of Mr. C. KEMBLE, and the haughtiness, vexation, and agitation of Diana, by Miss LACY, were excellent. Mr. JONES, as the mer curial Perrin, was quite at home. The fourth act, for want of sufficient incident, proceeded rather heavily, as compared with the spirited progress of other divisions of the Comedy, more particularly of the first and second acts : but, on the whole, the Comedy played admirably, and was justly received with loud and unmixed applause at the dropping of the curtain and at its announcement for repetition. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF OF KING'S BENCH, Novanasit 16. THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF DEVON. This was an indictment against the county of Devon, for not increasing the width of a !midge over the Dart. Mr. Wituases, in a very learned argument, con tended that the county was liable not only by one of the provisions of Magna Charta, but the common law, to make a bridge, which is too narrow for the highway, wider. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, giving judgment, said— In a case which came from Lincoln we were impressed with an opinion that we could not compel a county to make a bridge wider. Many bridges, formerly wide enough for the little traffic carried on, are not now wide enough: for increased traffic, but there is no case in which the Court has compelled the inhabitants to make it wider. If we are to lay down the precedent that the inhabitants of a county are liable to widen a bridge, we must also say the inhabitants of a parish must widen highways. In the absence of all authority on the sub ject, it is not in the power of the Court to say the inha bitants of Devon are liable to widen this bridge. l‘fr. Justice BA TEXT, and the other Judges, were of the same opinion.—Judgment for the defendants. HABEAS CORPUS.—moomt V. FITZGIBBON. Mr. ADOLPHUS, on a former day, obtained a writ of Habeas Corpus, which was directed to a person who had the custody of an infant, in order that it might be brought into Court, to be delivered to Mr. Moore, the father. The Learned Counsel moved this day, that the return to the said writ be received. The return was accordingly handed to the Bench, and read. The person to whom the writ: was directed returned, that the child is ill of the meas!es, and that he could not obey the writ. He was, however, ready to obey any further order the Court might make. Mr. ScsaLerr then moved the child be delivered to the father. The COMMON SERJEANT opposed the motion. He said he had difficulties to contend with in this instance. He did not mean to say a father was not entitled by law to have the custody of his son, but it had been decided by the Lord Chancellor, in the case of 1 , De Mandeville," that a child was not to be delivered to the father, if the object which the father had in view was injurious to the child. The present case was one which wonld justify the Court in refusing to deliver the infant. The Common Serjeant read the affidavits of Lord Brandon and Lord Kilwarden,which were detailed some time since in the Court of Chancery, upon an ap plication to make the child a ward of Court. The inference drawn from those affidavits was, that Mr. Moore wished to get possession of the child from a vindictive motive. It was also contended, that 60001. had been expended by Colonel Fitzgibbon, as damages in an action of cries. con. by way of compro. mice, and on condition that Mr. Moore should allow the children (Florence and Henry) to remain with their mother, who, in cons..quence of a divorce, is now the wife of Col. Fitzgibbon. Mr. Baoroaa.x and Mr. Cairn were heard on the same side. Alt. SCARLITT read the affidavit of Mr. Moore, which denied the principal allegations in the affidavits made in behalf of Cul. Fi:zgibbon. He described Mr. Moore to be a person who had really an aff.:ction fur his son, and as one who had settled his fortune upon him.— There was no pretence for saying Mr. Moore ought not to have the custody of his son. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said—There can be no doubt but we are bound to confider Mr. Moore the father of the child, nor is there on the law that a father' is entitled to the custody of his son. We are bound to give him the benefit of the law. 1 do not say if it ap peared to the Court that the general interest of the son would be injured by giving him up to the father i that we . . should not be at liberty to refute the delivery; but I am clearly of opinion nothing of that sort appears. As to the compromise; it seems *e ought, on the attcla v its, to leave that entirely Out of consideratiOn. then hr.* is it to be inferred thit the child would be injured in the hands of this Gentleman? If be is delivered over to the father, he will be brought tip as legitimate; but if he remains with the mother, he will be brought, up as illegitimate. It seems to me, Upon the whole, view of thi s case , t h at we are promoting the . interest of the child by giving him to his father. We, there fore, give a rule of Court that the parties who make this return shall retain the child in custody until he is sufficiently recovered from indisposition, to be safely delivered over to the father. Mr. Justice BAYLICY concurred in the judgmient of the Chief Justice.—lt was then agreed that the child shall be delivered a soon as the medical men can report that he is well. COURT OF COMMON PLEAJ, Nov. 16. In one of the undefended causes, a young lad appear ed as witness, who rejoiced in the whimsical bacchanal name and sirname of _ 44 Port Wine," which, from his . _ waterish aspect, was clearly not "sown ab re inditum." CONSISTORY COURT, NOVEMBER 16. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMEATH v. THE MARCHIONESS OF WISTM EA TM. Dr. Losttixcerosr sated, that in this matter the Mar. quiz of Westmeath originally promoted a cause of res titutein of conjugal rights against the Marchioness; and the citation in that cause was returned into Court in June, 1821. On behalf of the M irchioness the mar riage was confessed; and an allegation given in, in an swer to the libel on the part of the Marquis. That alle gation, to which there were ten exhibits annexed, pleaded the marriage of the parties in May, 1812, their coha bitation, and the birth of two children—Lady Rosa, who was born in May, 1814 , , and a son, born in Novem ber, 1818, but since dead ; that in the month of August, 1812, during the residence of these parties at the Black-rock, near Dublin, Lord Westmeath treated his Lady with great cruelty ; that in the year 1813, while they were living together at the house of the Marquis of Salisbury (the father of Lady Westmeath), his Lordship again cmducted himself towards her with great impropriety and violence; but that Lady West meath, being desirous of concealing from her family the nature of his conduct, did not on that occasion complain to her relations about it; that in the year 1813, Lord Westmeath again went to Ireland, and there detained her Ladyship's pin-money; that he refused to satisfy any of her pecuniary wants, behaved to her with extreme cruelty, swore at her, -called her " a d—d b—h," said he " would kick her to h-11," and treated her with such violence, and struck her so forcibly, that she was severely bruised, and her health became se riously affected ; that one night, happening in the month of —, 1814, after they had retired to bed, Lady Westmeath being then pregnant with her daughter, Lord Westmeath struck her with his clenched fist a vio lent blow, so that her exclamations called up her ser vant, Sarah Mackenzie, in whose presence he acknow ledged that be had so struck her. In consequence of this ill-usage, Lady Westmeath became very ill, and experienced much cruelty from him again. in May, 1815, while she lay in with her daughter. Among other things, he threatened to settle all his property on the Hon. Thomas Nugent, his brother ; and that he would cut off his daughter without a shilling; this conduct, also, he acknowledged to his friend Mr. Wend.— It was further pleaded that Lord Westmeath would not allow his wife to have a wet nurse, observing in an angry way, that •' he wondered why the d-1 she could not nurse the child herself;" that in July, 1815, they went 'to live for some time at Leinster-house, where some quarrel having arisen be tween them, about going to the play, he struck Lady Westmeath a blow on the head, from which she suffered very severely ; and that on the same night, after em ploying the most angry language, he attempted to smother her with a pillow, but her cries brought the domestics to her assistance. The Learned Advocate proceeded to detail a lengthened series of cruelties, quer rellings, and reconciliations, which ended in a final separation in 1819, since which time, Lady Westmeath has lived entirely apart from her husband. Several cases of alleged adultery were also cited against the Marquis, upon two of which only the Advoc ate relied. By way of answer to the charges contained in these allegations, Lord Westmeath had himself given in an allegation consisting of forty-seven articles, in which he set forth, that so far from treating his wife with vio lence or cruelty, his behaviour to her had been uni formly kind and affectionate ; that what disagree ment ensued, and what occasional warm language was interchanged between them, were principally from the reproaches with which the Marchioness was con stantly assailing him, on account of two natural children which the Marquis had had before his marriage. The remainder of this allegation comprised a minute denial of all the facts of cruelty, adultery, and ill-usage imputed to his Lordship; on one article alone, thirteen witnesses were examined ; and several o her witnesses on the remainder. This plea also set forth the practices of one Macguire, an Irish attorney, who, with several other persons whom he had procured (as was alleged) to give evidence against Lord Westmeath, had been indicted for perjury at Dublin ; when all them, with the exception of Macguire, were found guilty and convicted. The Learned Counsel concluded his opening by inti mating, that.when the evidence should be read, and the argument proceeded with, he should move the Court not only to dismiss Lady Westmeath from the suit of restitution promoted against her, but to sign such a sentence as should entitle her to the separation for which she prayed. Dr. JENNER, on behalf of the Marquis of Westmeath, briefly opened the several articles which his Learned Friend had declined either to trouble the Court with, or to depend upon; because he, (Dr. Jenner) felt, that in this way alone, by comparing and estimating every fact adduced in the cause, could the Court form an accurate judgment of the sort of case which it had been attempted to set up against L - ard Westmeath. The Learned Coun sel then adverted particularly to the conspiracy set on foot by parties who had been Lady Westmeath's agents, to obtain witnesses against the Marquis; and after sheaving that the whole of the charges in her Ladyship's pleas were contradicted by the plea asserted in behalf of his Lordship, declared that be should call upon the Court, to direct Lady Westmeath to return to coha bitation with her husband. In the Marquis's allegation, it was pleaded, that in order to suppress the angry and vehement tone in which, on the occasion referred to (in July, 1815) in Lady Westmeath's plea, her Ladyship was venting her re roaches against him, and unwilling that her taunting llanguage should be heard by the domestics in the house, be (Lord Westmeath) placed a pillow over her mouth, • a ?11, f d oi ng and v iol ence; but without the slighteAtintention or and much lesi of sninthering her". . : The reading of the eitidenee, Ste. was 'then goof i . ntt4 preparatory to the argument of Counsel, and was not completed when the Court broke up. . , ' LISMORk V LISMORE., • lit •' • • This is a case in which a suit of divorce was. in: • - stituteci hy.Lord Lismore against his Lody, by reasorl of adultery. The particulars of the ca e )c.et) fully detailed. It was contended, that the adultery by Lady Lismore bad nit been sufficiently proved ; and even ib iugh it had, that LOrd Lismore 's condi 'ct wards his w ife was such as to preclude him fron redress: On the sitting of the Court this morning, S;r CHltitTOPtitft ROBINSIII pronounced judgment: He said that this was a cause of divorce instituted by Lismore against Lady Lismore, by reason of adultery. .The libel set forth the solemnization and consummation of a marriage between the parties ill 1808, a cohabitation till 1819, the birth of several children now living, and the separation of the parties in 1821, on account of some differences, the nature of which art not speCifically stated. It then sets forth a long course of adulterous intertonrse between Lady Lismore and Mr. Bingham (son to Lord Lucan), prin cipally at Naples and Paris, and one occurrence at Rome, in 1822. It also pleads a confessiOn made in this country by Lady Lismore. Six witnesses had been examined, three of whom speak to the fact of the mmiage, and other circumstances which require no observation ; but the principal merits of the case are to 'be found in the evidence of a female servant,..Miss Paty, Davis, the footman, and Mr. Butler, who, he presumed, was a relation of the fam ly. No plea had been put in on behalf of Lady Lismore, denying the fact, or detail ing. circumstances to influence the judgment of the Court. Her Ladyship had rested her defence on the evidence appearing on the face of the libel, and the observations of her Learned Counsel ; and the substance of their argument on her behalf was, that the adultery had not been sufficiently proved ; and even admitting the sufficiency of the proof, that Lord Lismore had, by his neglect of his wife, precluded himself from redress in these Courts. The Learned Judge then detailed the evidence in support of the accusation, and said, that if the witnesses were to be believed, there could be no doubt of the adultery ; and after a full examination, he saw no substantial grounds for im peaching their test mony. W,th respect to the second part of the defence, he was of opinion there was no ground for the charge of criminal neglect or connivance, and he saw no re.tsen why Lord Lismore should be deprived of the usual remedy in these cases. The Court, therefore, admitted the libel, and pronouc ed the sentence of Divorce. EAS I' INDIA SHIPPING. Yesterday a Court of Direttori was held at the East India House, when the following Captains were sworn into the command of their respective ships: Captain James Walker, of the Macqueen ; Captain William Ha viside, Thames, for Bengal and China ; Captain Edward Maxwell Daniell, Duchess of AthoU; and Captain Alexander Chrysde, Thomas Coutts, for Bombay and China. The undermentioned ships were thus timed, viz. The Prince Regent, Captain Henry Hosmer ; Rose, Captain Thomas Marquis ; and the Marchioness of Ely, Captain Oaarles Edward Mangles, for Madras and Bengal —to be afloat 22d Feb. sail to Gravesend Bth March, stay there thirty days, and be in the Downs lltb May. The Asia, Captain Thomas Francis Balderston, for Bengal direct, to be afloat 21st April, sail to Gravesend 6th May, stay there thirty days, and be in the Downs 9th June. The Faune, Gezenac, from the Mauritius, arrived at Marseilles November S. Nsw Sturm WALIII, May 24.—The Lady East, Talbert, sailed from Sydney 24th May for Bombay, and was all well 21st June. in lat. 11. 3. S. long. 120. 54. E. 7he Lady EAU was in company with the Hooghley through the Straits of Torres, when the latter got on a reef near li.df.way Island, but was got of without damage. The Royal Charlotte, Corbyn, was to convey troops from New South Wales to Madras. ACCIDENTS... The body of a man named Rirhard Warmsby, a master mea suring porter, was taken out of the River at the City Quay, Dublin, on Thursday last. The body of a boy, named Jas. Graham, was also taken out of the Royal Canal. • _ _ Yesterday, as a little girl, 11 years of age, named Mary Kates, residing in Hartshorn-place, Barbican, was draining the water off some potatoes, her pinafore caught fire, and before the flames could be extinguished, her frock and under garments were totally con sumed, and the poor child dreadfully burnt under the arms and breast. She was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she now lies, without the least hope of recovery. Monday night a Gentleman of the name of Frimley, with his wife and a little boy, returning home from Wingfield, Berks, in a single horse chaise, got out of the track of the heath, near the Serpent public-house, and the chaise and horse went down a precipice of fifteeen feet and upwards. Mrs. Frimley was killed on the spot ; the boy had his arm broken, and the chaise was dashed to pieces, but 111 r. Frimley escaped unhurt... At Higham , t he seat of Francis Bentworth, Esq. near Ashby-de la 'touch, as Mr. Hointrough was passing through a small gate, the trigger of his gun was struck by a projecting piece of the latch, and the contents lodged in his head. lie expired before he could be taken back to the house. He had just been appointed to a lu crative situ,iticn in South A nserica,and had not been married a week. A poor woman, named Ann Mulvany, was run over by a carman at the corner of Hawkins-street, Dublin, on Thursday night last, and was severely crushed. LlvaaPooL, Nov. I4.—The subscription for the suf ferers by thefire at Miramichi, already amounts to above sel,ooo. M. CHARLES DUPATY, Member of the French Insti tute, died a few days ago. ' • A French paper asserts, that the Greeks have ceded to the Americans the small island of Aussa, near Faros, for a naval station. This we much doubt. In consequence of a requisition from the Jury who sat on the body of Ann Ashley, when the horrible state of the watch-house of Bethnal-green was exposed, a meeting of the Watch Committee took place yesterday, at St. Matthew's Church, to take into consideration the expediency of levelling the present building, and erect ing a new one in a different situation. After some delibetation a resolution was passed for carrying the measure into effect. The night constable and officers, who were in the watch-house when the poor woman was brought in there, were suspended until the next meeting of the Board. At the dinner of the Livery of the Founders' Com pany, at the Albion Tavern, on Tuesday, Mr. BORRO D A ILI (the father of the Company), proposed the health . of Mr. Alderman Thompson, and hinted the probability of his soliciting the honour of representing his fellow. citizens in Parliament. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, in returning thanks said, his friend had hinted at his desire to become one of their Representatives in Parlia ment ; he certainly did aspire to that high honour, and, as it was well-known there would be one vacancy at least, he hoped he should be successful. He begged to assure them of his adherence to those political opinions which had placed hint in the high office he already held ; and assured them, that front his inttmate connection with the trading and commercial interests, they would always find him ready to bring forward any measure for their benefit. I