Star. — London, England, 1825-02-08 00:00:00

11It All" the - k i nk ittliblint Isaa rete= "— d Orders be In readiness to gepsids from Gosport, ea the 14th inst. to Chatham% preparatory to their einbmkadon for Ceylon. Prids n ,Ma General Sir Hamm tenuous and Lieut.-Colonel of the 'Omen's Royals, gave a farewell dinner to their Of fen", in the bas{-roost of the Bull Inn, Rochester. Saturday, the pint Division of the Regiment marched from Chatham, and em barked hie Botiihay, 9p board the KeUie Castle, at Nortlifieet, in the highest spirits. Sir Ilesav Tolman accompanied his ism, and was pleased to express his great admiration at the ttMMrUte manner in which the embarkation was peafornsed.— The Second Division, under the command of Major Jcinanona, is to embark on nesday next, in the Inglis, where they wilt be met by their diatinguisbed Colonel. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The bib* and lkichess Of Bedford and family are expected in town to-niortow for the season, from their seat, Woburn._ The Duke of Devonshire has left Chatsworth for the Duke of Euttand's Belvoir Castle; on his way to town. The ilowager Duchess ef itutland has left Melton Mowbray, for Belvoir Castle. Dowager Lady Anson has arrived at ker house is Curzon-street, from the seat of Mr. Coke, in Norfolk. Lord ',Word has left town for Lilford I louse. Northamptonshire. T. Bundling, Esq. M.P. has arrived in town from Yorkshire. Lord Churchill arrived in town yesterday, from Oxfordshire. Henry Seymour, Esq. hu arrived in town, from Bedfordshire. W. Merton, Esq. M.P. haearrived at his house in St. James's square. from his seat, Toccoa Park, Cheshire. Sir Wm. Rowley, Bart. M.P. has arrived at his house iu Lower Grusissuor-street, from his seat, Tendring Hall, Suifolk. The Earl of Cardigan has arrived in town from his seat, Dean Park, Northamptonshire. Dowager Lady Gresley has arrived ir. Conduit-sine, from a tour. Bic G e or g e Nugent, Dart. has left Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his seat in Bucks, Arrivals at Niarren's Hotel, Regent-street—Countess de Sails, from Balk; Mr. and Mrs. North, and-1.. Foster,Esq. from Ireland. Arrival at Hotei, Jermyn.street—Lord Somers, for a tour. Departure.—The Bishop of Chichester, for Chichester. Arrivals at Fenton's Ilotel—N. Wyvill, Esq. M.P. from York shire; and T. Page, Esq. from Cobham. Arrivals at Jordan's Hotel, St. Janics's-street : Gooch, F.sq. Whitmore, Esq. 1.P.3 DitURY-LANE THEATRE. Mr. KEAN resumed the character of Macbeth last bight. The House was but thinly attended, and there was scarcely one Lady in the dress boxes. His performance was marked by the same circum stances as on his -previous appearance in this part. There was a good deal of partial interruption ; but as the audience was generally favourable, the interruption was put down by a reference to the strength of the op posing factions. The dagger scene was heard through out, as were the other leading scenes in the Tragedy, Considerable apPause, indeed, ittended the triumphant Actor in vie ions parts of his pet formance. In other resp--qs, the scene which the House presented greatly resembled those which accompanied his former ap pearances. At the conclusion of the Play, a loud cry was raised for " KEAN r This continued till the rising of the curtain for the _Ballet, Le liossignol ; shortly after the commencement of which Mr. ELLirroN came forwat d. He remained for some time on the stage without being able to obtain a hearing. He at length procured a bearing,when he spoke to the following effect: " LADIZS ♦ND Gssercewas—No one can feel more than Mr. Kean cioes the kindness of his friends. He has come forward twice during his present engagement, to express his sentiments to that effect. He deems it unnecessary to appear again, and quits the Theatre as soon as his part is finished. In saying this, I do not wish to mix up my opinions with those of Mr. Kean. lam a str ewn of the Public, and as long as I possess their favour, I shall always exert myself to give them satisfaction." _ _ At the conclusion of the speech, the Pit rose, and ut tered the most clamourous applause. The liou-,e gra- dually subsided into calmness, and the Ballet and Pantomime were allowed to proceed. ATAPAi nirELLYCSIvck. - *Oft the Aseat to Lloyd': altrrokhaven, da4d February i " The new ship Clio, girt, with timber, for Liverpool; was this day broirght in here by me; she was first hoitifed by myself, whilit Hang In the breakers, at the Point of the itlizen Head, ababdoned by all the crew. The only living thing on board (strange to say) was a for. I was obliged to slip the chain and cut the stream cable to clear rocks." • • The Neptune, Aim?, from Petersburgh to Bristol, was driven on shore near Kirkwall the 27th ult. The Maxwell, i3uaorms, front Waterford to Leaden; was driven on shore near Stranraer, the 2d inst. but expected to be got off. The Stanmore, Gear, from South America, has arrived at Ben gal. The Rover, --., from London, with the Brazilian Loan, has arrived safe at Rio Janeiro. Paomarrons—Commander Adolphus Fitzelarence, of the Brisk, to the rank of Captain ; and Mr. Richard Tapper, of the Victory to be Lieutenant. Areonnrmisers--Mr. Higgs, Master, to the Hyperion ; Mr. Armstrong, Master, to the Brisk ; Mr. Trivick, Master, to the Tribune, at Plymouth; and Mr. Sidney, Master, to the Starling. Mr. Ellis, Surgeon, to the Champion, vice Madden, gone to sick quarters; and Mr. William Klaiber, to be Purser of the Ferret. FALMOUTH, FEL 6.—Wiad N.—Arrived the Robert, Foos, from Plymouth, for South America ; Neptune, BsLam.z, from Cette, in twenty-six days—on the 31st ult. spoke the John Hayes, from Liverpool for Barbadoes, in lat. 42. long. 16. orst six days. Sailed the Cygnet packet, for the Mediterranean; Lucy Davison, Wriatami, for Rio Janeiro ; Portland, Jusr, for Jamaica ; and Ariadne, Per; for Naples. PORTSMOUTH, Fez. 6.—Wind N. by F..—His Majesty's frigate A gamut, arrived from South America, spoke the Ogle Castle, bound to India, on the Equator—all well. Arrived front the Downs, the Sarah, Muse, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Cambria, COOK, for Jamaica; and Trinity, DAT, for New York. Fri. 7.-A gale at S.W. Arrived his Majesty's ships Owen GLeenowza and PuArron, from the Eastward ; Tranhy, DAT, from Shields for New York. Sailed the Brothers, Most.sr, for Rotterdam. Drat., Fes. 6.—Wind Nortberly.—Sailed the Amity, Josonsos, for Bombay; George the Fourth, Masora ; Somersetsbire, Ross; Caledonia, Cnaurie ; Delfien, Hoct.AND; and transport, N0..12, with most of the outward bound. The Martha, for Sierra Leone, remains. The John, for Jamaica, and several others f r o nt. Mimi gate, are now passing, wind about N. W. moderate and clear. Fes. 7.—Wind W.S. W. fresh breezes.—The wind shifted to the S.W. in the course of last night, and it is not expected the outward bound that sailed yesterday are further westward than &achy Head. The homeward bound sailed for the River this morning. The Mar tha, for Sierra Leone, and two brigs remain. Ilaawscn, Frs. 7.—Wind S. W.—The brig Josephine, of Gefie, front Gottenburgh, was spoken on the 30th ult. by the England, Srerster4son arrived herb ; she was then bearing up for. Norway, Flambro' Head bearing W. by N. distant about twelve leagues. The Agile, Luce, has arrived here, with assistance • she struck the Shecpwash Sand, after losing her anchors near the West Rocks. She has not received much damage. blin.ropta, Fes. 6.—Arrived the brig Picton, Ross, from Naples, last from Waterford, bound to the Clyde; all well. This vessel, althouph regularly liberated front quarantine in Waterford', and reported at the Customs, is again put under quarantine—the Irish Board, as stated by our Officers, having no jurisdiction here. SCAAIGROUGN, heavy gale from the N.N. W. to N. N.E. visited this place on the 3d inst. and being spring tides, the water in the harbour was at least 3ii feet above its ordinary height, front which the ship-builders and others have sustained consider able injury. Two vessels belonging to Mr. Gro. Rrunr, builder, were washed off the stocks, and have received great damage. The framing futtocks, and some floor-timbers of a vessel building for Mr. W. Maser and others, have been washed down, and a quan tity of timber belonging to the ship-builders, has been driven out of the harbour; and the cellars and rooms of some houses at the lower part of the town completely Sited with water. NAST INDIA SIIIPPING. The Brothers, Motley, arrived at Portsmouth, bound to Rotter dam, having sailed from Sydney the Ist July, 1824, from Batavia t►e 25th September, and from St. Helena the 11th December. BATAVIA Roaos—The Jupiter, Young, from Singapore, was in Batavia Reads the Bth October. ARRIVALS AT ST. lIRLRNA—The Resolution, Cordon', from Ben gal the Ist December, and sailed the 3d for Lisbon; the Franklin, Welsh, front Sumatra the 6th Dec. and sailed the 17th for Boston. SAILINOS yaws ST. lIRLINA—The Antelope, Munning, for Lon don, the 7th December; and the St. Helena, Fairfax, for th e Cape of Good Hope, the 9th December. CUSTOM / HOUSE, FEBRUARY 7. - SHIPS EXPIRED INWARDS—The Blikabeth, front Quebec; Sta pler, from Hamborgh ; Twee Jimk, from Worcum • Anne, froth' Trieste ; Friendschaft, from Dantzie ; Jane, from Se Seville ; Susan, from Lisbon ; Jane, from Palermo; Albion, from Memel ; Bertha, from Stettin ; Triton, and Hebe, from Messina. Ettvrazo Ouswaans— The Nymph, for Smyrna; Hope, for Buenos Ayres; and Hawk, for New York. CLUILING Ourwaane--X.L. for Hamburgh ; Vrlendschap, for Rotterdam; Mary, for the Cape of Good Hope; Lynx, for La guira • Kent, Scaleby Castle, and Inglis, for India; and Kellie Castle, for Bombay. ADELPHI THEATRE. I , s it t- by ret, This convenient-sized Theatre overflowed last night. The entertainments were the Life of an .Ador, and the new Pantomime. Mr. REEVE performed the Manager is the original and excellent manner with which he usually ponrtrays characters of that description. The Leader of the Band was well sustained by Mr. SALTER there is a good deal of quaint humour in this Actor Mr. WILKINSON% dry, self-satisfied mannerism, in the part of Burnaby Parsnip, we were auch amused with. The Manager of this Theatre has very judiciously in troduced several interesting little female dancers, who, with wands in their hands, went through a variety of pretty dances. This is the most pleasing part of the Pantomime. Mr. PAULO is an excellent Clown—se cond now to Young GRIMALDI only. Mrs. SEARLE makes an interesting Columbine. The Paris Papers of Saturday state, that letters had been received at Bordeaux from Buenos Ayres, dated the 14th of November, confirming the intelligence of the complete defeat of CANTRRAC by BOLIVAR. The news had reached Buenos Ayres by express. The Lords of the Privy Council have appointed Sa turday, the 19th of this month, as the day for hearing Counsel in support of the petition of Mr. Serjeant Ronan, late President of Demerara, against General MOIRA; late Governor of that Colony. Friday, the election of a Member for the Borough of Cambridge took place, when the Marquis GRAHAM, Pon of the Duke of MONTROSE was duly elected. The Lords who have t a k en ihe oaths and their seats this Session, are Lord NAPIER, as a Peer of Scotland, in the room of the late Marquis of LOTHIAN ; the Bishoptof DOWN and Comma, and CHRSTIR ; Viscount Sreancuroao an being created Baron Penshurst, and Lord DALHOUSIR. CATHOLIC Rest HI LoNnow.—Sunday evening the fifth Meeting of the friends 'of the Roman Catholic Rent in London cook place at the Catholic School-room, Dean -street, Soho. Mr. Rosson, the Chancery Bar rister, was called to the Chair. After the usual routine business of the evening was gone through, the Chair man stated, that last Friday, 291. 17s. 7d. was paid into his hands as Receiver-General of the Rent in this Country, and he announced the receipts of the present Meeting to be 101. 9s. 7d. including a handsome do nation of 51. from their excellent friend Mr. Sweetman. The Meeting adjourned about half-past nine o'cloct. ll ,DIUL FIRE AT 13111MONDSCY.—Yesterday af , about two o'clock, a fire broke nut in the pre- 1 of Mr. Flockton, turpentine manufacturer, in, Spa - road, Bermondsey. The manufactory was With pitch, tar, turpentine, and other combusti-- old notwithstanding every exertion, the whole of ilding and its conten:s were soon reduced to Mr. Flockton's premises were situated close by Bermondsey Spa, and, from the closeness of ighbourbood, the utmost alarm prevailed for safety. The promptness, however, of the en with the fiserarn, confined the flanies to ,operty of Mr. Flockton; and the supply of , considerilig the situation, was abunclitt.. itlo serious accident ()centred ; but it could not be :ertained how the fire originated. DRILL ter noon ) raises of the Spa tilled wit Wes, an( the buil( ruins. 1 the late the neig their sa .ines the pro f water, c s - other set a►certait MR. O'CONNELL. The following portrait Mr. O'Connell is given in a letter from Dublin. Mr. O'Connell is the last man to be a Bolivar, notwithstanding the broad hint in his speech. In England he is thonght a revolutionist, and he wishes to be thought so. But though his personal courage is undoubted, he is one of the last men who would hazard an infringement of the 25th Ed. 111. Mr. O'Connell is at this moment in his element, and if once taken out of it, he would politically mirk*. Vanity is a universal passion here; and he shares it' to excess. His rage for distinction is a disease, eves 'to the exclusion' of all views, promoting his own for. L tnnes or his personal ambition, in its ordinary sense. He has not enough of system or consistency to pursue any scheme of personal aggrandizement. Ever study ing to collect upon himself exclusively the public gaze, he loses all discretion in the consciousness that he is seen ; and frets, and bustles, and declaims, scarcely knowing what he is about—lest, by appearing idle, he should appear insignificant. He fancies himself leading the people, when he is but the instrument of the priests, and the driver of the populace. He is cursed with the melancholy visitation of mediocre minds—the desire of shining in whatever is popular and distinguished at the moment—but wants taste and also scholarship to ap proach or imitate the happy brilliancies of other men, which he rudely plagiarizes. With strong sense, still stronger nerves, and the coarsest taste, he is an efficient' Nisi prius lawyer. But his political capability is less than mediocre. His eloquence consists in happily fallipg in with vulgar sympathies. The fire •of true eloquence 'alone car electrify and enlighten a people. But if Mr. O'Ccunell's speeches have roused a spirit among the Catholics, it is only because a heated conception, with the mere habit of public speaking, will communicate itself kit means of the passions, where men's minds have a feverish predisposition to receive it. This is the secret of the public effect of his speeches, and of his dominion over the populace. -DREADFUL CIRCUMSTANCE. —This morning, at an early hour, the attention of the passengers in Duke street, Bloomsbury, was attracted by a man in his shirt traversing the parapet of No. 22, in that street. They instantly, in a state of great alarm, called out and knocked at the door, and this had the effect, it seemed, of quickening the unfortunate man's pace, but he did not appear to regard any of the persons in the street ; at length some person having. from a window, touched him with a broom, in order to stop him, as is supposed, he started, and uttering a shriek, tumbled headlong into' the street and was literally dashed to pieces. His body was taken up, and he was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital. His name, on inquiry, we ascertained to be ItWes. He had been subject to walking in his sleep, agil leis wife had only left him in bed about half an hour before the catastrophe. 9 tAW itkivizh COURT OF COMMOIt PLEAS E FEB. FIRDOI3I7.DItAiNIAN AND AN6TIIBIt. This was an action of trespass and false imprisonment, . to which the defendant pleaded the general issue, and several other special pleas, which stated that the de. fendant Chapman, having lost a horse-, and findiq it in the stable of the plaintiff, ordered the other defendant Cousins, a police officer, to take the plaintiff into custody on a charge of felony. In the execution of this order the plaintiff resisted,when the defendant Cousins ordered Chapman to assist him ; a scuffle ensued, and the plaintiff was ultimately taken before a Justice of the Peace. For this the plaintiff brought his action, and on his demur ring to the special pleas of the defendants, it now came before the Court in the form of a speeial argument on that demurrer, and the question was, whether the defen dant Chapman was not justified in assisting in the ap prehension of.he plaintiff, at the desire nt Corivits, the officer; and whether, under such circumstances, he would be liable to an action of trespass and false imptisonment? The case WAS argued at some length on both sides, the details of which were totally devoid of interest. The Counr held it as an established and wise idle of law, that whether a felony was committed or not, an officer taking a person into custody by the order of another person, could not be held liable for so doing, and that on the broad ground of public policy; for it Officers were to be liable, many a felon would escape with impunity; but the case was different with a pri vate intyvidual, who could not take, or assist to take a person i o custody on the mere suspicion of felony, un less be s the felony committed, or knew that it had taken p 1 .' The defendant Chapman, by his s p ecial and joint pleas, did not shew a justification, therebeing no averment - in his pleas that a felony had been ci m• mitted, the pleas were therefore bad in substance, arid being joint pleas, they only justifying one and not both, they justified neither, and therefote judgment should be for the plaintiff. Judgment for the plaintiff. MOODY V. KING. This was an issue directed by the Vrce•Chancellor to take the opinion of this Court as to the law in this case, and the question for the Court to decide was, whether or not the plaintiff, who was the wife of a per son named Frost (deceased) was entitled to dower out of an estate, of which the husband Frost was seised in fee,subject to an executory devise,which had taken effect? The COURT said it would take time to consider before it granted a certificate. PREROGATIVE COURT, FEBRUARY 7. ROLLS AND OTHERS V. ROLLS. Dr. ADAMS said an allegation was offered to the Court' foi the purpose of obtaining its opinion as to the effect of certain alterations which the deceased had made in' his will with pencil. The deceased had, long previous to his death, intimated his intention to several persons of altering his will, and he did so alter it. The Learned . Counsel prayed, under these circumstances ; for probate on the will as altered by the deceased. • Dr. Jamas opposed the allegation. The will wa; l of considerable length, bearing date in the . year 1815, and was regularly and formally execute& The de ceased died ..tddenly in July, 1824, having the will in his own posset:ion until then, when it was found that several pencil marks were on the face of it which seemed to alter the original legacies. There was a legacy to John Rolls, his nephew, of 5004 which, with a pencil, was altered t 0.1,0001. to Samuel Sars 501. which, by the same method, was increased to 1001. and to his wi dow the sum of 8,0001. which was increased to 9,0001. these alterations were pleaded to be in the deceased's. hand-writing. Now, in order to raise any queition to the validity of those alterations, it became necessary to plead certain collateral circumstances to shew the deceased's intentions to effect them ; it was therefosi pleaded, that the deceased had expressed great affection for the persons whose legacies had been augmented, 'and bad declared to his wife in December, 1823, his intention to alter his will, and make a greater provision for his nephews and nieces • and that he then wrote something with his pencil. Those alterations, Dr. Jen . - nee contended, were not the deceased intentions completed; they most be taken as an intention to do something; but,not having a fixed and determined mind, he did not conclude his testamentary intentions. This was a regulary-attested will, and it was most unlikely that the deceased would have made those alterations with l an intention to give effect to them as they then stood.l The bequest of 8,0001. to his wife occurred three times in the course of the will, and yet the alteration to 9,0004 I occurred only once. Looking at the whole of the al- terations, it was impossible the Court could give effect Ito those alterations, imperfect as they were, with the full knowledge that the deceased lived seven months afterwards, daring which he might have formally ful filled his intentions if he bad been so inclined. Dr. LUBHINGTON followed on the same side, and contended that the alterations were a mere deliberative act, and although they might shew that the deceased wished to make further provisions for some of the par ties, yet he had not accomplished all his intentions. Dr. ADAMS replied on behalf of the allegation pro pounding the will with the alterations, and contended that it was evident the deceased did with to make some further disposition of his property in favour of his rela tives, and although he lived for seven months after wards, he was suddenly seized with death before he had completed them. Dr. Just ADAMS followed Dr. Addams. . Sir J. NICHOL said, the case first came before him in the shape of a motion, praying for probate on the will with the pencil marks, but he had thought proper to put the party on the proof of the deceased's intentions, and his opinion was not now altered—that the deceased did not intend those alterations to be a complete and full testamentary disposition of his property. On the face of the will there were 4 variety of marks, which denoted more the appearance of a person taking op his will and making some memorandums which occurred to him at the time, with an intention probably, at some future time, of making more formal alterations, but what the effect of his ultimate disposition might have been, there was no arriving at. Betides the alterations alluded to in the allegation, there were several others which bore similar appearances, and many words and names were underscored, as if they were mere memo randums. He would be doing a great injustice to the general principles of the Court if lie were.to admit such an allegation under those circumstances, and he there fore declared probate of the will in its i\riginal state, and decreed the costs to-be defrayed out of the estate. The Theatre Royal, in the Haymarket, will open on the 15th of April, aided by the admirable talents of LISTON, and a long list of personages from the country, wbo have conspicuously figured as kings sod heroes of the mimic scene during the last year. 4' r • itponriAtt list.iiikEkt 1 —....._ : ititniG.itoom, TAtiIutSALL I / 4 1,Inti. f. , The Room to-day was tolerably attended, and sOnts heavy sa mem cuts were entered ban for the St. Uri; Mach excited tine most attention. The Odds are as follow ; bsaar. 8 to 1 apt Muleteer tid to 1 apt beinnie ;O to 1 apt Rufus 30 to I lig matte 12 to 1 apt Bolero 30 to I apt Oberon 14 til agst Parisot SS to 1 apt Nigel - in to I.agst Webb 40 to 1 apt Jenny 20 to 1 agst Canvas 46 to 1 agst Mittimus SID to 1 apt Legacy 50 to 1 apt Mims to Neekit es to 1 apt Spermaceti 25 to 1 apt Gobaniii ba ic 60 1 5. 4 . 1: :: i ag aist . : It Citaw— alt. i . As en laps First Fli 20 to apt Pipylinn 30 to Apt Shovellik so to apt 2uleiki 11 to 2 apt Aline 9 to 1 agst Soccer) , 10 to 1 agst Tontine' 11 to 1 agAt Attica 12 to 1 agst Pastime sr. 9 to I agst Memnon 12-m 1 agst Cleveland 14 to 1 agst-ltedgauntlet 90 to 1 agst Androgeus 25 to I apt Homer 50 to 1 apt Cow Uoy 30 to 1 agst . 3luleteer 30 to 1 agst Brigand HUNTING. The tatl of Darlington's Fes Hetindspieet tin Friday, at Lang; ton Village. . , The Lambton Fox Hounds ni t er . = Thursday, at Holdfortli Bridge; Saturday, at Emblem& The Ilurworth Fox Hounds iiieet on Fiklat, it Dalton Wood: The Hampshire Hunt meet on Thandat, it RoChetfield Park; Saturday, at Abbotadon Down. The Ilambledon Hounds meet to-mofiow, at Presliam House; Friday, at Fair Oak. Last week the Northumberland fot bounds had One of the most brilliant runs ever remembered in that county. They roan& t Hare Deen, immediately on throwing into cover. A most gallait fox broke away to the south, up the bill toward] Stanton, passed the lime kilns to Ashfieid's W oo d ; from thence he turned north wards over Longborsley Moor, leaving Ruffslaw plantatiotii to the hit: He kept that line, painting towards Oarret t L ee W o od an d Todburn, till he reached Southend Edge; here he turned west• ward over the Reeburn Moor and Dancer's Know, and skirtiog the New Park Wood, at Netberwitten, ran through Park Wall whin Cover to Dixon's Wood, through which, and Galloehaw Wood, he pressed to the south, across the Font; thence, }gavial; Longsbaw's MW to the left, he ran through Longshaw's Weed, past 13tickshaw,and across the top of the Nun Barn, where he tVallt • a direction to the right, passed Needless Hail, and Temple There. ton ; then& through Meldon Park, and across the WaNsbosk, sotithwards over Angerton Pastures, by Howlett Hall, Oallow Hill, and Foulmart Law, through the fir plantation at Belsay Like to Bitchheld Boundary. Here he turned to the west, try)ng to gain the main earths at Belsay Craggs, when the bounds ran into and killed him in the open field, within 100 yards of the wear, after a run of two hours and five minutes. rasa. 35 to apt Crew/talc • 40 to 1 apt His Tate 40 to I agst The Iderinad 40 to 1 apt Daredevil 1000 tp to asst Diana (taken). 17 to I apt Lard Ltit Mr. Thornhill was offered 3,800 guineas for Sailor, winner Of the Derby, in 1820. He rtfused, and shortly afterwards the horse broke a blood vessel, and died.—Mr. Gulley offered Mr. Batson 3,020 guineas for Serab, winner of the Newmarket Stakes, 1824. It was refused, and two days before the Derby was run for, Serab, who was first favourite, caught a cold. He has nev er run well siace.-.-The Doke of heeds refused 1,500 guineas for Mercurio, winner of the Gold Cap at Doncaster, 1824. A feW days after wards Mercado died of inflammation. SHOOTING PARTY AT STRATH"IELDSAYE Among the distinguished guests entertained by his Orace the Duke of Wellington, at his recent shooting party, were his Royal Highness the. Duke of York, Earl of Westmorland, Lord Frederick Cholmondeley, Lord Palmerston Marquis of Salisbury, Sir John Shelley and Lady, the Honourabl e Charles Arbuthnot, his Lady and two daughters, Colonel Ponsonby, and C. S. Lefevre, Esq. They were out leer days, and enjoyed most excellent spoil., as will be seen by the annexed return of .the neither of bit ds; . killed. First day, at Micheal+, 78 pheasants, i woodcocks, ' hams, fourteen rabbits ' • total, 119. dewed day, at Strathfieklsayeo 119 pheasants, 4 woodcocks, 101 hares. 39 rabbits; total, Third day, at Hecitileld,l24 pheasants, 3 partridges. S woodcocks, is hares, 38 rabbits ; total, 201. Fourth day, at Risell, 93 phea sants, S woodcocks, 71 hares, 51 rabbits,4 wipes; total 924—Grand total for the four days, 887. A large portion of the guise was distri buted among the tenantry of each place. GREAT FOOT-RACE, The thatch for 500 sovereigns, after two months training, bee tween Captain Owen Osbaldeston apd 'reeling, the Staffordshire. man, took place in the presence of Many hundreds of persons; over two mike and a half of prepared groind, at Hnowle P4tk-line, near Daveatrf, on Thursday morning. The distake war Site miles, and Captain Osbaldeston received five miles at the start,. it opposite ends of the ground. The Captain won thetnitchi He' was backed at 2 to 1 after going the drat to miles. PEDESTRIANISAL . Malcolm, the famous Scotch walker, 'started t estettlay akimbo . two miles on the Watford road, to walk toe and heel twelve miler • in two hours, for twenty sovereigns. He had performed* six Wes and a half in one hour before he had left Scotland, and 'be did the same distance in something less than the same time ups* thienceer sion ; but his speed began to sleeken in the eighth mile. and at the close of the ninib,jte had half an hour left to. do the other three miles in. The two' hours had expired when the pedestrian war more than half a mile from home. Sir ROBERT WILSON, after stopping twenty days at Ostend, embarked for Londor, with his two sons, on the 3d last, SACRILEGE.-Information vfas this morning received at the Mary-la-bonne Police Office, of the Chapel in Shouldham• street having been list night plundered of every portable article of value by some persons, who contrived to secrete themselves in the Chapel at the close of the preceding evening's service. It appears that, after removing every valuable article from the body of the Chapel, they. broke into the Vestry, and stole there from the service of plate employed in the administra lion of the Sacrament, also a quantity of wine which was kept for the same purpose, and part of which they drank betore quitting the place. With these and many othei articles of value, they finally made their escape, by un screwing the door-fastenings, and letting tht mselves out: The crime of horse-stealing appears to be tali on the increase, information having been this morning received at Mary-la-bonne Police Office of two valuable brood mares having been last night stolen from the stables of W. BURGESS, Esq. at Aperton, near Harrow. Letters and papers have been received from Jamaica. They are not so late as the accounts by the packet, but they furnish the intermediate dates 'which were want ing. The Gazelle of the 11th of December contains an extract from an Act of the Assembly, authorizing I, Loan of 500,0001. for the island, to be contracted for in England, at or ender the rate of six per cent. interest per annum. Commissioners are now appointed to carry the Act into exception. The purposes for which the Loan are to be applied are the building of Churches ; the making of roads into the interior, to in• troduce settlers in the mountainous districts, for which purposes grants of lands would be given. Advices of the 14th ult. from Odessa, state that the Emperor ALEXANDER and the Russian Cabinet had been much pleased at the manner in which M. Min stactv had been received at Constantinople, and felt less disposed than they had done befor e to interfere, even in the way of mediation, between the Gr ruthless enemies. • .144 , . - • • : .p. 1 Frankfort Papers to the Ist inst. contain from Missolonghi to the 6th January, wt . that the civil broils in the Morea Fere quelled, and that general tr anquillity was 4 . _ ;reeks and their itain inteMzence vhich announces rere completely ras restored. -i I . •• .. 1 ,