Star. — London, England, 1824-03-29 00:00:00

-1 11Now'' LENT ASSIZES, KINGSTON. John Ratelifwas indicted for breaking into the dia ell house of John Akehurst, in the day time, atFetcham, and stealing from the person of Elizabeth Haynes, against her will, 12s. or 13s. in silver. ' It appeared from the evidence, that Elizabeth Haynes is servant to the prosecutor, both these persons being at the advanced age of 80. About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 7th of March, the prisoner opened the door of Mr. Akehurses house, walked in, and meeting Elizabeth Haynes in the first room he entered, he told her he hrd been at work in the village, and wanted to see her master ; after remaining 'a short time with the pr is,iner, Haynes proceeded up stairs to her master's room, who was then lying ill in• bed, die prisoner fpl-, lowing her, with a bill-hook in his hand. On gaining the room, the prisoner told Mr. Akehurst that lie came for money, and' was determined to have it. Ile war told there was no money in the house, upon this he ifushed the prosecutor down in the. bed, and threatened much, if he did not get money. Haynes seeing this, and being teiriged beyond' measure, implored him not to hurt them, and that she would give him all the money she had, which, in effect, she produced to about 13s. 'Laing gilt this, the prisoner broke open a box belong ing to Haynes with his bill-hook, but finding nothing of consequence in it, he went down stairs, and, taking the key of the door, went our, and locAing the door, he thus prevented the two frightened inmates from giving the alarm. The prisoner was taken up that afternoon. Elizabeth Haynes swore most positively to the Wen-' tity of the prisoner, and the Jury returned a verdict of Gailty. • Mr. Justice Best then passed sentence of Dcath, and gave'the prisoner no hopes of its being altered. SIR wiLLLAM CURTIS, BART. AND ANOTIIER V. TIIE IN , _HABIT %NTS OT Tilt HUNDRED OF GoDLEY-BURST. This was an action on the Black Act, 9 Geo.l. c. 22. to recover a compensation in damages against the Hun dred fpr the felonious destruction, by fire, of 160,000 fir trees, of mole than the value of WC!. by some per son or persons unknown. Mr. MARRYATT (with Whom was Mr. CHITTY) stated the case. The plaintiffs were T: ustees of the late Mr. Timothy Curtis, who had purchased a quantity of waste land on Frimley Common, which he had planted with fir trees, for profit, about twenty years since. By his will, the plaintiff's were made his ti ustees and executors. By the will, he devised his Frimley estate, and the trees iii question, to his grand - children. The woods had been placed under ttre of an - authorized agent, who resided at Frimley. On the flth of May last; a great .destruction of the wood had taken place by fire, which was wilfully kindled by some person or persons unknown. It was concluded to be intentional, inasmuch as two unsuccessful attempts had been made to destroy the wood in like manner,within the preceding fortnight. Mr. BOLLAND, for the defendants, submitted that the plaintiff's remedy, it any, should have been founded not on the 9th Geo. I. called the Black Act, but on the Ist and Gth Geo. I. which make the inhabitants of the next contiguous parish, arid not the Hundred, liable for damage of this description. He called the attention of the Learned Judge to the provisions of these latter staLres, and to those of the 29th Geo. 11/upon which he argued with great ingenuity, and submitted that the plaintiffs must be nonsuited. Mr. MARRYATT and Mr. CHITTY were beard contra, ccntsnding . that the damage by fine *as.a damage within the meaning of the Black Act, for which the Hundred was liable. The Loan Cum BARON said he would reserve the point for the Court above. - • Mr. BOLLAND then contended that the evidence for the plaintiff was insufficient to justify them in coming to the conclusion that the fire complained of was oc casioned under such circumstances as would bring the case within the Black Act, so as to make the Hundred liable. There was no evidence, he submitted, to shew that the woods in question wei e wilfully, maliciously, and feloniously set on fire. The cause of the file was mere matter of conjecture. It might have been •occa sioned by some mischievous boy—some tramper or gipsey lighting his fire, and accidentally igniting the neighbouring plantation. Being so le.ft in doubt, the Jury would be slow in making the defendants, who were perfectly free lions any blame, liable for the damage which the plaintiffs had sustained. The same cattainty of proof required to support an indictment on the Black A ct, was requisite to sustain this action against the Hundred. No such evidence was adducett and therefore the verdict ought to be for the defendants. The LORD CDIEF BARON summed up the evidence for the Jury, and left them to consider whether the in jury complained of was occasioned by the wilful and malicious act of some unknown incendiary. The evi dence upon this point was certainly loose and vague, but it was for the Jury to decide that question in the plain tiff's favour before they a ould be justified in finding.a verdict against the defendants.—The Jury found a ver dict for the defendants. THETFORD. James Reeve. William 'Marlow, Janes Roberts, Robert Roberts, and Edward Lack, were indicted 16r a rape, committed on the person of Mary Relton, on the 28th of September last. This was a case of very great atro city : it was committed by the prisoners, and three or Emir others not apprehended. The prusecutrix was a servant girl, who went on the 27th of September to I),,wnhans Petty Sessions to hire herself ; she remained at the Sessions till the evening, when she went to a dance at the Queen's Head, where she remained till be tween twelve and one o'clock on the following morning . with bet sweetheart ; she left the Queen's head with him, and was proceeding to a lodging which was pro vided for her, but iiiher way there she was interrupted by a disturbance' in the street, and was separated from Ler sweetheart ; she tan down a yard to get 'Tom the riot, and on coming out of the yard, a young man of feted to protect her, stating where he lived ; that he tot k hold of her hand, and they ran away together down the street, and some men, who had before inter rupted her, ran after her; she got about a tnile and a half towatds Oetwell before they cane up to her, the young man who was with her turning out to be one of the party ; th:.y immediately proceeded to the grossest acts of indecency, and two of them accomplitired their purpose, while the others held down her head, Arms, and legs. Thurlow•attempted to prove an night, but felled ; anal Reeve, by means of a gi, I who had been in corn poly with the proseentrix, attempted to impeach het veracity. Lad: called a witness to prove his age, which %. as not 14 when the fact was comrai T:ie Learned Judge summed up the evidence with great perspicuity, and the Jury cc:turned a verdict of ;My against all the - prisoners, recommending Lack and the two Roberts's to mercy on account of their youth. His Lordship immediately piocieded to pass the awful s.neence of the law on Thurlow and Reeve: he gave them no IK.)pe of mercy, but exhorted them to prepare for eternity: The other prisoners were then called up, and admo nished by his Lordship, who stated that it was merely on account of their youth that their lives were spared. `• CA3ItiFtIDGF. John Lane, aged 25, was indicted for violating the person of Charlotte Ransom, in the parish of Cheerley, on the 17th of August last. It appeared from the state. ment given by the prosecutrix (a pretty, modest-looking l ottng woman, only 15 years of age), that having ob tained the consent of ber mistress (Miss Pickering) who ! resided at Newmarket, to visit her aunt at Cheveley, she proceeded from her house, and in passing down Wellington-laue she met the prisoner. He inquired if I site was going to take a walk ? She replied she was, and passed him for Cheveley. She had proceeded about a quarter of a mile, when he again overtook her, and, walking by her side, asked her to take his arras. She refused to. do so,' when he seized, her round the waist, and accomplished his purpose. On the road to Cheve• Icy she met a woman and a shepherd, to whom she related the outrage ; and the prisoner was apprehended the - same day. When called on for his defence, he said, that owing to his long illness in prison, he had not been able to make one; but it was evident this prosecution was from motives of jealousy. The Jury immediately found him Guilty, but recom mended him to - mercy on account of his youth. The Learned JUDGE, in 'passing sentence of death, gave him no hopes of mercy. YORK. Edmund. Smith was indicted for feloniously killing, and slaying George Sergeant and Edward Barker Lloyd, two preachers in the Methodist connection, on the 28th of July last. Stephen Wilson sworn.—l am a Wesleyan preacher. The '2Bth of July last I travelled on the coach from Huddersfield to Hatifai. The prisoner drove it on that d: , y. Mr. George Sergeant, the deceased, was an out side passenger with me. There were eight outside and five inside passengers, and a great quantity of luggage on the roof. When we reached Shelley-bank-hill the prisoner drove at a pretty brisk rate. When we got to the top of the hill, one of the passengers, a Mr. Picars, desired the prisoner to lock the wheel, but he said it was not necessary. He then drove down the hill with the greatest rapidity, whipping the horses at a great rate. I could not see whether they were galloping or not.•-:- Being much alarmed, I held by the iron, and bad my side turned to the horses. • He must have been going at the rate of 14 or 15 miles an hour. When he reached the bottom of the hill there was a turn in the road lead ing to the bridge, and the coach was there upset. I was thrown against the battlements of the bridge, and was rendered insensible for some time. Mr. Sergeant, the deceased, was taken into a neighbouring house, appa rently in the greatest bodily pain. The coach was put to rights in about half an hour, and the whole party, with the exception of Mr. Sergeant and Mr. Lloyd, proceeded on their journey. . In cross-examination, the witness said that there was a jetty or break in the road to carry off rain, a little before they came to the turn on the road. Ttk o other Methodist preachers, who were also pro , ceeding to the Conference at Sheffield, corroborated the 'testimony of last witness, and attributed the overthrow of the coach to the intempetate haste with which the coachman drove it. - A surgeon, who attended Mr. George Sergeant, stated the injury which he sustained, and attributed his death to that cause.—This was the case for the prosecution. The prisoner put in a written statement, which was read in his defence. He expressed his regret at the ac cident, and attributed it to one of his horses .getting restive in going down the hill. He stated that he and his father had been reduced to beggary from a state of comparative affluence, in order to make compensation to the individuals injured by the accident. The following witnesses were called for the defence: Edward Vickers—l was a passenger on the outside of the Huddersfield coach on the day in question. I rode on the coach-bor with the prisoner. The Shelley-bank hill is not very steep. The prisoner was sober, and drove most carefully until he came to the bill. When going down the hill cne of the wheelers made a false step.— The coach wheel then got into a gap. The coach was jerked out, and went on two wheels until it was over thrown. Just after we passed the gap, the prisoner said, " Take care of yourselves—we shall soon be over." I was much hurt, but I must say that I did not see any thing to blame in the conduct of the driver. • I anti bored the accident to the coach being top heavy. Several other witnesses were called, who stated that it was not usual for any coachman to lock the wheel on going down the hill. Mr. Justice Hotnovri summed up the, evidence most impartially, and left the contradictory statements of the witnesses to the decision of the Jury.—After a consul tation of two hours, the Jury returned with a verdict of Arland. ACTION OP TRW/ V. DOBSON. The defendant was in the habit of coursing on the plaintiff's ground, which became so disagreeable to him, that be had a notice served on the defendant to desist. Evidence was given of his Slav in.,' entered the plaintiff's lands after this notice, and killing a hare thereon.—Verdi:t, is. damages. Mr. Justice Earner said he felt it imperative on him to certify fon the costs in this action. £NNIS -MR. A. BLACK V. THE REV. JAMES GA RDNER. The plaintiff sought to recover damages from the de fendant for the seduction of his daughter. Tue defen dant was a Presbyterian Clergyman at Clare, near Tan deragee ; the plaintiff was a member of his congrega tion. The young lady is about - 22 years of age, and of interesting► appearance. Baron NP(2l,t.t.a.No having called on the Professional Gentlemen concerned in this cause, stated, that he bad read over the declaration, the plea entered, &c. and, after deliberation, he would recommend a reference of the,case to three of the Jury, who would assess the , aniount of damages. In doing this, his Lordship said he thought he best consulted the interests of religion and public morals, and, indeed, of the parties. 'The Counsel, after confer; ing'together a few minutes, expressed their concurrence in his Lordship's recom ' inendation ; and Messrs. Leonard Dobbin and David Cuppage, of Armagh, and Mr. Boyd, of Lurgan, were appointed the assessoi s. These Gentlemen, with Counsellor MURRAY presiding, met in the private chamber on Saturday morning, when, h.tving hrarti the evidence, strictly opt secret, they awards :d 1001. damages to plaintiff, and 6d. costs. POLKT I.VTRLLIGE4 CE. • BOW-STREET. Jolley, alias ;Penny was charged with burglary in a house in New -.treat, Covent -G ar den, And robbing the - shops of Mr. Ryan, perfumer, sad Mr. Joyce, tobacconlit. The offictrk found in his lodgings some combs and a bottle of Macassar Oil, bei&ging to Mr. Ryan, and five amber segar tubes, and some fine Turkish tobacco belongiog.to Mr. Joyce. Mr. Joyce deposed that he missed Bibs. of snuff, 30 snuff boxes,. 30lbs of agars, I Vbs. of Tonquin beans, four silverspoons, and other articles. The robber might have got in at the staircase window, which was secured with iron hat's, and with a padlock. Mrs. Joyce swore, that on the day previous, the prisoner, from whose father her husband held the house, asked her for the key of the padlock to inspect the roof, which she gave him. On retiring to rest the same night, she 'observed the padlock was on the bars, but whether locked or not,she could not tell. None of the glass was broken, so that it was corichicled he ha& left it unlocked. Mr. Ryan swore that the perfumery found in the prisoner's aPart tnent was his, and.that his loss amounted to setto.. Mr. At.i.xr said, there was no burglary, as no lock was broken; but Sir R. 1111tN/C held that lifting a latch consituted a burglary, and the prisoner was. fully committed. THY RAVE or ?HZ FIDDLL—One Peter Burton, a youth whose bands are little betterthan mere" pickers and stealers," was charged with stealing from the persOn of a Mr. Louis Litolff, a fiddle and fiddlestick, and their case—to wit, a gem n baize bag. Mr. Louis Litolff is a native of Germany, and a dancing-master by profession, but being blessed with more children than pwpils, he has been constrained to become, what he termed a peripatetic mu sician—in plain terms, he has been reduced to fiddle for his bread in the public streets. The other night, soon after twelve o'clock, he was returning home from a fiddling speculation in the City., with unfortunately more gin in his head than money in his pocket, but still he was very well able to keep his perpendicular, to hod the nearest way home, and to know that his fiddle was safe and sound under his arm. In this way he had walked as far as Somerset House ; but he had scarcely passed that building when he missed his fiddle--u and of course, when I missed it," said lie, " I was conscious it was gone !" So he turned- himself round about to see if he could see where it was gone, and he saw a young man running with it towards Catherine-street; and he did not lose " von single moment" in running after him, crying " shtor thief ! so loud as I could ;" until he was stopped by "some vare Lind shentilmen at the top of that street, but he bad thrown away the fiddel, and broke it vare moth ;" and whether the young man at Ow bar was the thief or not he could not tell, fortheftddel took up all his attention; besides, he did not wish to hurt theToung man now he had got his fiddle again, and - had glued it together, so that it would still do for &vet music. Unluckily for I'ettr Burton, however, the watchman saw him running, and saw him throw the fiddle away, and saw him stopped; and so Peter Burton Was asked what he had to say for himself?— He replied, that he knew nothing at all about it ; and the Magi*. .strate committed him for further examination, ist order that Mr. Litolf might produce the fiddle. AN I IQUITI4S. A few days since, as some workmen were employed in digging on land belonging to Alr. Creed, adjoining the turnpike-road at Wootton, near Gloucester, they discovered, two feet beloW the surface of the earth, a stone, about four feet long, and three feet wide, on which is carved, in alto Mien, a representation of an an cient warrior on horseback, with a legionary Roman sword by his side, and a spear in his hand, in the act of striking at a Briton, who lies prostrate on the ground, and who is. defending himself with a sword of a different description at the top of the stone Is fixed the statue of a female between two lions. It appears to have been originally a raised monument, as two pedestals on which k stood, ornamented with mouldings, were found near it. On the lower part of the stone is an inscription, of which the following is a copy : 1110$ ETA =WU CllO VI TaACUIt AM ZL STIP XXII 11111101DiS Z.ll GilllE L 41r9: The following is an Ab,tract of the Rill (24 amende by the Ccimmittee) to amend the Laws furthe Plesstre.. tion of GAme : Cl ruse I. tpezln certain parts of former Acts reTatiegto Game. 2. Vests the property in Game in owners of inclosed land within which such Game may he found, and in Lords of Manors in eases of Game being found in uninclosed lands. 3. Certain pees - nos may reserve right of sporting ever lard demised. 4. Persons possessifig certain qualifications may authorise others to sport over lands be longing so such persons. 5. Restrains persons from sporting, dur ing certain seasons, and also unless they have taken out Game Cer. tifieate for the current fear. 6. Enacts a penalty from .C 1 to st.; on persons trespassing on lands for.the purpose of sporting, er kill. ing hares, rabbits, pheasants, partridges, grouse, black game, heatit or moor game, teal, or widgeon, bustard, woodcock, quail, land rail, wild duck. 7. Trespassers refusing to-quit land may be ap prehended. S. Enacts a penalty of £lO on trespassers refuting to , give their names, Fee. 9. Enacts the punishment' of night poacher!. 10. Convictions to be registered and stated, as to being the second, or third offence. 11. Certain persons may appoint games keepers. 12. No persons (except game-keepers) to have snares,. &c. 10. No person to deal in Game unless licensed . 14. Justice s may grant licenses to d e al in Game. 15. Persons entitled to the property in Game may sell it to licensed persons; and any person May purchase Game of such licensed person. 16. Licensed sons may buy and sell Game under certain restrictions. 17. Not to extend to Game prohibited at certain seasons. 18. Power to stexas licensed persons, and their premises. 19: Prohibits game-keepers front dealing in Game, except with permission. 20. Penalty of .C 5 on Innkeepers dealing in Game, for every head. 2 . 1. Penalty of .e 5 for destroying Game nests or eggs. 22. Enacts that the word Game shall be deemed and taken to include and mean, bares, partridges, pheasants, *blaAt game, grouse, heath and moor ganics 25. Relates to recovery and application of pen.lties. 24. Justices empowered to administer oaths. 2S. Admits right of appeal. f`6. Enacts a penalty of 40s. on witnesses refusing to attend when sum moned. 27. Proceedings not to be removed by Certiorari. 28. Saving of flights. 29. This Act not toextend to Scotland or Ireland. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TEST s ctras.vs is s lc Which may be translated, " Rufus* Sha, of the Sixth Cohort of Thracian Cavalry, aged forty, had served twenty-two years. His heirs caused this to be made according to his will. bet this be sacred." A great number of coins bave been found in the fields adjoining at different times, chiefly of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, and also of other Emperors. Another monument has since been discovered, but in a very mu tilated state; also a great many urns of Roman pottery, filled with ashes and burnt bones. This monument contains the following inscription : XX SLIIII SAITZNINI XIII ORVM XXXI% The read adjoining to which these remains of antiquity were found, was the Mermen, or Irmin-street of the Romans, caUed by a Saxon word equivalent to the Latin " win issifisaris," which Smite, ley says, " was made in the reign of Nero, and extended from the Southern Ocean, through London, to the utmost bounds of Scot land." In the Bishop of Cloyne's communications to Messrs. Lysons, it is states that "the Irmin-street, coming from Cricklade, through Preston to Cirencester, proceedelrom thence, forming the turnpike-road to _Gloucester, between firimsfield and Cowley, through I3rockworth and Barnwood." A small piece of very hard red tile, about two inches square; has been picked up on the shore near Crombie Point. On it are the lower part of the figures of two females in relief, the tile being broken off below the breasts. Upon one is_the date " 1100," and on the other " 3 - 4 ;" the word 4, Blddendem" running along the bot- tom. It is conjectured to have - once belonged to the burial place 'of some ancient family near the coast of Fife. Down to the'year 1817, only 4000 publications had appeared in Russia, a number merely equal to what is produced in an annual fair at Leißsic. In 1820 the library of the Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh contained nearly 3000 national works, among which were 150 romances; at present there are more than 8000 publica tions in the Russian language. At Moscow are nine libraries and ten printing offices; at l'etersburgh, seven libtaries and fifteen printing o ffi ces; at Wilna, une library and five printing offices; in the towns of Revel, Dorpat, and Kbalkow, respectively, are one' library and two printing offices ; and in the inspire at large are eight or nine foundries of types. • Rufus *as a common name among the Romans. •" Quicquid agit Rufus - nihil est nisi Nsvia ltufo."—Maartat.. An individual who had written abusive words against the King of France on the snow in the gardens of the Tuilleries, the Sunday before last, has been sentenced • to six months imprisonment, and to pay a fine of five hundred francs. STATE OF THE BAR AT CALCUTTAaME• Ferguson, the Provisional Advocate-General of Calcutta, was to leave it the first week in October, and proceed overland towards England. The Attornies of Calcutta voted hint a piece of-gold plate, valued 5,000 sicea rupees, and a diaper. The liar voted him a piece of silver plate, valued 2400 steel rupees, and a dinner. Mr. Compton, the Advocate-General of Madras, was appointed Provisional Advocate- General at Calcutta, and a ship was sent for him. If this appoint ment should rot be confirmed at home, Mr. Compton would not return to Madras, bat continue as a Barrister at Calcutta, Madras not agreeing *itk his health. ( Mr. Pearson has been appointed Advocate-General, but this, of course, was nut knows at Calcutta.) There were eight Barristers at Calcutta; Ferguson; Wheatley,. Money, Morrell, Turton, O'Dowdal, Clarke, and Pemberton ; so that, should Compflon's appointment not be confirmed, they would have nine Barristers and 64 Attorniea, about 20 of whom contrive to live, and the others hire tin insetves out as clerks to their richer brethren. There are not mote than four Banisters who can main tain themselves by their profession. OTAHEITE.—A-letter, doted Otaheite, jhe 13th of May last, contains the following statement: " The Isle of Otaheite is now so different from what it was in the time of Captain Cook, in I Tti7, that it is impossible for me to give you a complete idea in ►e short a letter, written iu all haste.— This Missionaries have totally changed the direction of the morals and customs of the inhabitants. Idolatry exists no longer; Chris tianity is generally adopted. The women now behave with extra ordinary reserve; they no longer go on board the ships; and even on land it is Impossible to form wi:h them the least connection, the least attachment. Marriages are contracted as hi Europe ; even the King, at present, can have but one wife. The prktice or destroying children, and human sacrifices, no longer takes lace;p almost all the inhabitants can write and read; they all have religious books, written in their language, and printed in the island. Sixty-six :nag nificent Churches have been built, and twice a week the people go' it: great devotion en bear the preacher. Individuals are often seen taking notes with pencil and paper, of the most interesting pass.tges of the Sermon. The Missionaries yearly. convoke at Paparo the whole of the population, which amounts to 7,690 souls. This As sembly ts at present boldest. There is cow a disc t,,ion going on respecting a new cede of laws, and the principal Chiefs of the na tion ascend the tribune, and speak for whole hours with a vehe mence traly extraordinary. About two months ago the Isle of Otaheite declared itself intlependeut of England ; it only recognise► her Missionaries, A red flag, with a white star in the upper corner, is note mounted ou the point Which cook hauled Point Venus." HUNTING.. His Majesty's stag-hounds rspea on Friday, at Iver Reath. The Wanipshire Hunt, to-ntorrow, at Huntley kennel ; and Wednesday, at Farley Church. • aftlalM—The Brighton 1111;J dosed their diversion for the season, on Friday; and to mark which occasion. a doe was turned nut in the morning, at the DeVil'i Dyke, but which. contrary to hope and expectation, produced no sport; the animal, in fact, tv fustd to seek safety in flight, consequently the dogs were not put on. Friday se'onight, a scene, unprecedented in the annals of fqx hunting, presented itself at Chaffcombe Wood (belonging to Earl Poulett), near Chard. It having been previously announced that Mr, Farquharson's celebrated fox-hounds intentitd draWing Chat': combe Covert, at half-past ten o'clock, a conceibrie of persons as sembled, mounted and dismounted, to the number of between ten anti eleven hundred, for the purpose of enjoying the treat thus alio: Jed 'them. To distinguish even the leading characters of this sporting group would be inapossitle ; suffice it to say, that it bore the appearance as if all the fox hunters and break-neck riders in the four western counties had congregated at this spbt. Amidst all this piety and confusion, just as the hounds were on the point of bels4 thrown into the coven, the greatest consternation prevailed from bond 'hacks and a general cry of ‘4 Where's a Doctor? Where's a Doctorr—A Gentleman sszs killed in jumping injudi ciously over a fence. It having, however, been ascertained that the accident was not likely to prove fatal, the alarm subsided, and the work of the day commenced without further interruption. Ben'i soft and s atelmlio4s tones r atcontpanied by solemn and shrill and be. witching notes, and-Robert's overpowering snuck of the whip, made the woods most enchantingly echo,so as to fill every hegrt with es tasy, till at length Reynard broke covert, and the scene that ensued is pastaU description. In pasting the Crewkerne turnpike-road, the rush was truly awful and terrific; a mass of between three and four hundred horsemen extended for more- than a quarter of a tittle at full speed, literally threatening destruction to all who impeded them in their heedless career, and must fortunate was it that at this criti: cal period the road was clear of travellers. The crowd of pedes trians, men, women, and children, was so great, that poor Ras nard became mobbed, and fell a victim to the devouring enemy, amidst the cheers and waving of handkerchiefs of countless numbers of the fair sex, who formed a pyramid of lovelirfess on the round of the Warren. Many distinguished individuals then adjourned to Hinton House. where they experienced the greatest hospitality and kindness front the Noble Earl Poulett and his amiable Countess, and Elie .evening was spent in the utmost conviviality. BOX It ICS. • Among the depurates of great men from London, is that of Langan, the Irish Chanipien, with his friend Reynolds, for Ireland, by special invitation. He has not visited home since the Worcester fight, and a hundred or two is bid for him there, to aA,ist in making up his money, five hundred, to fight Spring , on the Bth of June.— There was a good deal of betting at 6 to 4 at the end of last week. Three to two may be quoted as the odds on Josh. Hudson, in his approaching fight with the Birminzham Youth; but so g,toott is the confidence ui tie amateurs in the John Bull fighter, that Ate odds have but few takers. .. Barney Aaron, who is matched :o fight Peter Warren, on Tues— day, April 6, is the favourite. Slane, §he Worcester Youth, or his Secretary, has written an epistle to Cavannagh, him to fight. We do not know whether Cavanoagh can write or not, but he is very capable of making his mark, should he light Me. Mane. ECCLRSI4STICAL PROMOTIONS. A dispensation has been granted to the Rev. George West, A.M. Rector of Stoke next Guildford, Surrey, and Chaplain to the Earl of Orford, to had the augmented perpetual Curacy of Seale near Farnham, in the same County ; to which he has been nominated by the Very Rev. the Archdeacon of Surrey. The Rev. John Kate, D. D. has been presented by the Dan and Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, to the Rectory et Hartley Westpall, in the county of Hants, vacant by the death of • the Hon. and Rev.. Thernas Alfred Harris. The Rev. Jonmhati Asbridge has been presented by Sir .leha Cope, Dart. of Bramshill Park, Hants, to the Rectory of Averfley, • vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Peter Debary. Nine freehold houses in the Strand and its neigh bourhood, producing a rental of f r. 465 per annum, were sold at Garraway's on niday, by 'Messrs. Squibb, for £16,510 88 years purchase. Siturday se'nnight, Robert M.Leod, one of the work men at Loeherbridge Quarry, near Dumfries, while returning ; home, between nine and ten o'clock, accompanied by his wife son, a fine little boy about seven years of zge, whom be either le4 in his band or carried its his arms, had incautiously kept too Dear the edge of liallislay's quarry, and, by missing his footing, was pre.: cipitated in an instant to a perpendicular depth of forty feet. The unfortunate man was killed on the spot,, and, the poor little boy, who was found lying on the corpse of his father, was taken up,in a state of insensibility, but is now expected to recover. Thy reader may easily judge of the feelings of Mrs. 51`1..c0d, far from help, rnveluped in darkoess, and un4ble eve❑ to ascerta;n the fate of those who returned no answer to het di,tracted shrieks. Coors.—Soak the feet well ill is water, mixed with bran. 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