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- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, JUNI 11. Very little was done, but in the Oatlands to be run for this day. at Ascot, for which b: is right to state that neither Memnon net RI Dorado will start. The King's Plate will also be run for today, by the following borses--Chateau, Margaux, Dirrvise, Leeway, Hobgoblin, and Nigel. One of the parties stated by us to have absented himself last week, has not yet appeared ; ha pronases to settle in October, but we are of opinion that he will never pay, and this opinion is v..ry general. The following are the odds—. Tea Amer OATIAWDI. 3 to 1 apt Denise 8 to 1 apt Syntax 5 to 1 apt !Wells' 8 to 1 agst Monarch 7 to 1 apt C. lO to 1 agst Black Swan 7 to 1 apt Royal Oak 10 to 1 apt Upas JOLT STA OW • , , i to 2 on the Field. Doescurzaa Sc. Leuze. 9 to 1 apt Granby 20 to 1 apt Louth 10 to 1 apt blameluke 20 to 1 apt Clenartney 10 to I agst Nonplus 20 to 1 apt Malek 10 to I apt Reviewer s 5 to 1 apt Pedlar 10 to 1 agst Matilda No others mentioned. THE THAMES TUNNNEL. The level pressure frame has not been re-sunk, nor has the second untoward event been overcome, as re ported, though nothing continues to be left undone to accelerate it by Mr. Brunel, who continues, with due caution, to proceed on his own plan, to the great mor tification of the projectors of the thousand and one me thods which have been submitted to him. The engine is at work every ebb tide to diminish the upward pressure, but the water has not subsided to any degree from which a reduction of the calamity can be asserted to have taken place; upwards of a hundred men have been dis charged, but the number now employed in lading the clay, and emptying it from the barges, still presents a very busy scene; the archways of the tunnel, from the recent examinations, are declared to be uninjured; of this there may be no doubt ; brick-Work well bonded, and bedded in Roman cement, may eodose for ages, and contain water like a lead cistern. The level frame is expected to be sunk - by the middle of this week. TRII4ITY MONDAY. Yesterday, the annual ceremony of the distribution of the alms, the result and appropriation of former times and years, caused the town of Deptford to be thronged at ie tidy beer, by erMrds of elegantly dressed per sons. It was understood that his Royal Highness the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL would appear and preside . over the usual observances at the Trinity House ; but an apology reached the Masters of the Trinity House, excusing the absence of his Royal Highness, and the interesting ceremony was performed with melancholy regret upon the recollection, that at the last occasion the Earl of LIVERPOOL superintended the distribution. The barges of the Victualling-Office, the Admiralty, the Officers of the Trinity, and others, left the Toiver Stairs at eleven o'clock, and before twelve o'clock ap peared off.Deptford. The shores were lined, end the ships In the amain displayed their Bags in precut ar ray, While their crews Manned the yaids and rigging and cheered the advance of those appointed to carry into effect the contracts of ancient benevolence. The Officers and Masters of the Trinity landed at the water gate, and immediately the discharge of artillery from both sides of the river commenced, and shouts rent the air. • Such a noise arose As the shrouds make at sea In a stiff tempest. As loud, and to as many tunes. Hata, cloaks, flew op ; and lad their faces Been loose, this day they had bees loot. Such joy I never saw before." At the stairs the venerable inhabitants of Greenwich Hospital attended, dl many as could manage to walk so far, with their Officers, met the Masters of the Tri nity House, and led the procession through Deptford Green, and an avenue of small flags, each bearing an inscription either of henevol , nee, or of some motto pe culiar to the " Corporation of Deptford Strand." A party of Bow-street police, under the direetion of the principal officers of that establishment, and the local constables, under the superintendence of Crotieh and Partram, cleared thi way to the Trinity House, which was crowded almost tti Suffixation by a fashitinably dressed company. The Deputy Master having ad dressed the auditory upon the nature of the ceremony, and the grants of former times, from which originated the fine InAitution in which they then were, the " scramble" commenced for the farhous biscuits' pre pared for the occasion, andehe confusion having some what Subsided, ale in silver vessels was handed round to the Ladies; after which the Trinity Masters disposed of the particular duties allotted to them, and then re turned nearly In the same manner to St. Nicholas' Church, where they beard Divine Service; and about half-pa:a two o'clock the Corporation returned to their boats, and departed for town. The Deptford Fair commenced its amusing varieties about twelve o'clock, and its entertainments were cer tainly ot a most superior description, and exceedingly Well regulated. The amusements of the day were of a very exended character, and did not terminate until a late hour. Saturday night, Mrs. prund r , the landlady of the Red Lion public-house, inTleansgate, was laughing at the jokes of a Setjeant of Manors ;hat lodged at her house, when she suddenly fell down, apparently in a fix. The serjeant took her in Ms arms, and foun d that she had breathed her last. A few hoots after this 'melancholy event, Mrs. Heaton, residing at the corner of Wood. street, lleansgate, suddenly fell down and expired. She had pre viously been in a weak state of health. — Manchester Courier. HYENA'S CAVE, NEAR MAIDSTONE .— A short time since, s:snie workmen, employed in digging stone, at Boughton Hall, the seat Of BaAonocx, Esq. near Maidstone, discovered the bones and teeth of several animals, some of which the proprietor of the estate transmitted to the Geological Society. As they were found to be those of the hyena, considerable inttrest was, in consequence, excited, and it was determined that some of the Fellows should examine the quarry, as there seemed reason to conclude that a cave might be found there, like that of Kirkdale, in Yorkshire. Ac cordingly, Dr. BUCLAND, Mr. Livist.L, and several other scientific Gentlemen, visited Boughton, on Tues, day last, when it was discovered that the bones in gores-. Lion had been found in a fissure iodic rock, wbidh bad. evidently been filled sip by •dilnvial actioe. The bones of at least two hyenas, of the extinct Kirkdale. speciev, were found, together with bones and teeth of the horse, rat, &c.; but the 'fissure extended so deeply in the solid rock, that it 'could not be traced to the bottom, and it will not he vssibie to ascer tain whether it leads to a cave, formerly inhabited by hyenas, or is merely a fissure filled up by the effects of deluge, until the quarry is considerably enlarged. The fact, however, of the bones of a race of eitirim hyenas having been found so far southward, is higMy taat.—Lewes Popes'. ropori *4. ..#, • LAW INTELLIGENCE. —..... 1 Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, Were the Right Ron. Sir WILLIAM Marta Hoag. blight, Lord f Justice of Ma Majest•fs Curt of Comm*,lssas at W , , Lt tad after Trinity Term, 1827. rm recur. ' BODDLEIIII4 .. , Loirdow. Wednesday, June 20. 'Thursday, June 81. ~ Tursday, J one as. Friday, June 29. ATTICS rent/. 101101.11111 S. LOIIDOII. Thursday, July S. I Frisky, July 6. N.B. The Court will sit at one o'cbck on June the loth Wit list; aud at half-past tine precisely on each of the other days. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jogs 11. 1111 ; 111NO v. W. WONTRIOU, °KRT. This was an indictment against an Attorney of this Coate, fee supposed perjury, assigned upon his answers to certain interrogatories administered to him in Chan cery, touching the airs of Mr. George Ball, an ale brewer, who, in 1812, had married the widow of Mr. Webb, with whom he had been in co-partnership. As soon as the case for the prosecution was closed, The LORD CHIME JUSTICE was of opinion that the case had failed; and without calling on the othht side, directed the defendant to be acquitted. Verdict—Not Guilty. PHIL KING V. RICHARD DOWNING RICRARDS. This was an information against the defendant as the printer, publisher, and sole proprietor of The Age News paper, for an alleged libel on Lord Glengall, in that Paper, on the 29th October last. The ATTORNZT-GINRRAL (with whom was lirr,J: L. ADOLPHUS) stated the case for the prosecution. The information, which was now brought to trial, had been granted at the prayer of Lord Glengall, last Michaelmas Term. The particulars of the case were then fully disclosed. The alleged libel imputed to the prosecutor that he had originated a Military Inquiry respecting a report in circulation that Lord William Lenox (an Officer in the Orford Blues) was connected with the defendant's Paper; that Lord Glengall wiui himself connected w,ith an obscure Newspaper, which was in the practice of publishing the most scandalous and infamous libels, to which his Lordship was not only privy, but of which he was the most active in the circulation ; and that he had connected himself' with a sweep, named Molloy, who had catered scan dalous libels, to be published in the Paper in Which his Lordship was connected. It spoke of his Lordship as " a dirty Lord;' charged him with being one of the greatest liars in England; Called hini a " blinking puppy," who was in the habit of betraying his own pri vate friends, traducing every woman in whose company he had ever had the happiness of being; and spoke of him in other offensive and vituperative terms. The ATTORNRY.GINSRAL stated, alit this newspa per had commenced its career by publishing a series of libels on private character, add had thus brought itself into notice. This was not an attempt to restrain the li ,betty of the press, but to repress italicentionsiess, which elms the province of the Jury. by their verdict, to ef fectuate. All attempts on the part of the defendant or Isis counsel, even to insinuate that there was a testicle Of truth in the libel in question, must be rendered iiter.i live from the course which Lord Gleisgall had taken on the present occasion. In applying to the Court Of King's Bench for a criminal information, his Lordship had negatived on affidavit the truth of the slanderous matter contained in the libel. The defendant had had an opportunity of shewing, by affidavit, that what he had published was true. In his affidavits, however, no attempt of that kind had been made; and, therefore, he was now precluded from suggesting, even by insinua tion, that there was a particle of truth in whaa-riad been published. The libel having been put in and read, . * Mr. BROUGHAM, in an ingenious speech toilitiJory, read over the libel paragraph by paragraph, and en deavoured to persuade them that there was nothing li bellous in the publication. Lord TINTIRDIN shortly summed up the easier the Jury, and put it to them as reasonable men to say, wt.., ' the they could doubt of the libelous tendency of a pub-. lication which imputed to the prosecutor that be was himself the disseminator of scandalous libels; that he was the betrayer of friendship; that be was the greatest liar iu all England; and that he was the traducer of every woman's character in whose society he had bad the happiness of being? The Jury without hesitation found the defendant . Guilty: TIM RING 9. IL D. RICHASIOS. this - wail another information against tite lime de fendant, for a libel in The Age of the lit October, 1826, on Jelin Easthope, Esq. M.P. for St. Alban's, imputing that he, as a 'stock-broker, had sent into the market Chs lian bonds for sale, after he knew froin Messrs. Hal lett, Brothers, and Co. (Aginxs for the Chilian Loan), that the Chiiian Government was unable to pay thedi vidends. The paiticulars of this case also were disclosed at tilt time the motion was rAade for a criminal information in Michaelmas Term. The ATTORiIEY-GSNERAL, Mr. BROUGHAM. and Mr. KAY*, conducted the prosecution.. Mr. DINMAN ap peared fbr the defendant. After the case for the prosecution was closed, Mr. DRNMAN, on the part of the defendant, said, he must yield to a verdict of Guilty, and reserve for a future occasion such topics of mitigation as he should be able to present to the Court. dren. He is an agricultural labourer, and in common, • with others of the class, thought himself entitles] to re ceive from the parish a certain sum independently of any thing that he or his family might be enabled to get from other sources. He claimed not only' the -payment of his original allowance, but all the arrests. CHA prisoner, what have you to say, For this violent conduct? The Pauper—Say why that it *as his fault. He put use in a passion, by refusing me my sights, and I threw down my stick, and swore I'd be d--.d if I went .*ay till I had 'em. Was'nt I justified in doing so ? I did not threaten his life. Though he is an Overseer, I'd no more hurt him, than I would one of my children; so I hope you'll look over it this time. The Cover ordered him to be kept in piton until be found sureties to the amount of 201. to keep the peace. Three men were sentenced to be transported during seven years, for stealing goods from dwelling-houses. They belonged to a considerable gang of thieves, who have committed extensive depredations in Bermondsey , Two young men, J. Marston and W. Sadler, the hour a costermonger, were charged with having en tered a dwelling•house belonging to Mrs. Foote, at Barnes, and stolen a quantity of wearing apparel. They had been seen together in the course of the morning of the 4th May. Sadler was seen to go twice into the house where the prosecutriz resided, the door having incautiously been left open. On the first time he brought out a bundle, which he gave to Maraton. l On the second time sat alarm was given as be wasnak off with a second bundle. Both were pursued, and taken. A great number of witnesses gave Sadler a high cha: ratter; most of them were respectable tradesmen, who had known him from his infancy. They considered that he must have been unhappily misled by' some bad characters —The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty, but recommended them to mercy. ARCHES COURT, IcritsH., This being the first day of 'Trinity Tenn for the Ecclesiastical and Maritime Coons, the Dean of the Arches, the Advocates, and Proctors, assembled in full costume; and after prayers in an adjoining room, the Court was publicly opened in theusual form.No business of any moment occurred, aad the Court tose early. SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday these Sessions commenced before J. Han- ham the next morning, and havin g discovered where GER, Esq. Chairman, and a full Beach of Magistrates. there was to be a large dinner patty in the evening, he William Mellish, an overseer of the parish of Fern- found a willing chapman for the dainty fish, at 3s. 6d. ham, appeared to prefer articles of the peace againft a pound. A servant on horseback was accordingly Charles Crosby, a peeper of she parish. The articles dispatched.in haste to Tewkesbury: on his arrival, the St forth that the prisoner came and demanded relief fish was hauled into the boat, and the" knock upon the in a violent manner; and on Abe deponent refusing to bead," which had heretofore served as the deathblow to lateede to his demands to their extent, took a stick arid thousands of the Army tribe, being given, the poor cap. struck at him. Re swore that he would have his tive was drawn forth, for the purpose of being placed le -rig lit s," and that if they (that is to say, the amount in a basket, which stood ready to receive him, when, lo! alrelief which he had demanded) were not.given to it was found that the blow he received had failed of him, it should be worse for the deponent. lie the desired effect; for, with a sudden spring, the salmon had on the 23d of April previous, when his usual al- jumped fiom their hands, and in a twinkling found lowance was dis Continued, in consequence of the retutn himself at large in his native element ; while the poor of work, taken out a knife, and threatened the depo- fishermen stood almost as much aghast as did the Denis life. The prisoner, it appeased further, had beta founder of the feast, at which be was to have been de in the habit of receivieg 9.. per week from the parish valued, whets the servant returned to Cheltenham with for the maintenance of himself, a w i de, and three chit- the (Maul news!—Glouccster Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCt V - GUILDHALL. Yesterday, Catherine Orrery, a mi.erable looking eteitire, ahssr frftryears of age, was brought before the Alderman upon attars; whea the following dialogue took place— Mr. Alderman Amax—What is your name / -Wee Doddridge, your Worship. uts—Well, what charge have you to make Vibe Doddridge—Why, Sir, the fiats, I bave - euhabited with butte *me 'law, and— Mr. ALKIIIIKKIN—,But WI as what your charge is; we deal ward to bear at your cohabitations. Deu r rdie......W.B, Sir, I charge her with being disarderly. Imo born La the habit of Coming to my house at all bound dor tilillitianedesitting a disturbance. She tame this morning a d am kieldidto sit brake all my windows. I don' t wa rn ke to, n # eft ineepapie with ber. . A i agtigA N --Well, she's discharged, and yea may take yew.: pita we t lialese ore sit here for moral purposes, sad sot to heti ram stacauset shisisbitations. astaridde, alter this very nnezpeetrd salutation from She wwity Aidashis, was very glad to take the shortest way oat of the Dr See, which be did in the men mortified and angered reamer. 111•0110.2. In men Mr. *Lau la Woman? Yesterday a raw-hdesolsent Otr" -- owsOW of an Irishman, •ye* ,ks. Neils*, with one eye, and-Without those un-Irish articles spat or stockings, was charged by W. Reeve, a sagacious -looking c os . amble, Of Kensington, with baying on Sunday last ferociossly an. soyed taw • respectable females of that neighbourhood. He had Ire mired them for alma, and then, very unlike the gallantry .1 his comutrysean, abused thews for refusing bin. "So much so, yore Worship, said Mr. Reeve, " that he made the turnpikeman Mak to hear him" _ _ _ Haus remarked, that such conduct mutt indeed have beet bad, soil asked if the parties were present to nuke the charge ? " Why, Yee secs Yaw Warship," continued the constable, " what is every body's Union Is nobody's, and, after le tt i ng ate h are son a *ask to take bins, they bavn't come forward to per Wm." The prisoner, in bled/fence, said, that he had been drinking at the time, and might have been abusive • that he was an Liebman, and had Dot the respectability of a settled habitation, but w or k e d irks be could get it, and drank when he could get it, " without," as b e said, " telling any lies about it;' and looking at the handculfs, and two or three curios bruises co hie sleeveless arm, he complaint sorely of the constable's activity : to which the latter answered, that he was so hard of persuasion, he could hardly manage He was thenteriinanded, and discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. • • Yesterday, IHl.Ceery was charged with stabbing B. Cateser.... Z:Nt ea rattles eirs. high labourers, and formerly lodged In the soma OA llesiby the prosecutor was found by the prisoner Mak. nog MO his wife at a public.kouse in Knightsbridge, *km he ammonite() beinedbeely ordered home ; and, on her departs% flow s Nita, and stabbed the prosecutor in the arm and ank— h' Moe% he sahl the prosecutor had often taken Ithertin with his Wilk, and Iledleetliess together on Sunday night, he was im. eased, and snob et him, but denied using a knife.—The wounds. however, of onsidainant proved the contrary; arid the ninon vas committed under Lord Elleaborough's Act. MARY.LA-BONNET. John Brows and Clarks Seeman, drunken tailors, were charged *kb obtrudine diet:netters into the house of Dr. Anderson, in Fri. repatreet, on Sunday night. While the footman was diseharging a hackney-coach at the door, these dissipated Knights of the Tn.ankie walked deliberately down the kitchen stairs. In excuse, they sail they mistook the house fur an ale - house , without lacking for a figa. board. They were fined ss. each for being drunk, and gale &each to the OSee poor-box. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday the Office was crowded with members of the • Sow of Peace" Benefit Society, held it Tottenham. An article sI ths Society provides that every member refusing to seen en the Con mittee shall be lined is. In filling up the Committee last gurus, the list of intobers was read through again and spin with out success, a fine of la. each being recorded every time till 100 kal been fined les. oda, and GO more its. A member who refund* pay these fides, and was suspended, sow appealed to the Mein/ran who decided that may a 'Ogle Ina of se. could be erfecced, sd ' the inspessici lint be abandoned. Thursday evening, about nine o'clock, a Gentleman walking with a Lady, was dodged by two nototions thieves, and intercepted three or four times, in his pro gress, who no doubt, in the first instance, had a design upon his watch. Perceiving they were observed by the , Gentleman near Wellington -street, in the Strand, they separated, but made their appearance at Temple Bar, where they again obstructed him, and seeing him determined to make resistance, they stain separated; , but soon after having joined in Pleet•street, they sod denly snatched at his brooch and darted off with it. BIRTH& On the 7tb instant, at Buhingen, je pm de Calais. I France, Ms Lady of David Hunter, of a Am Thursday se'nuight, a woman residing in Lyon's Gout, Cam gate, Edinburgh ; was delivered of three children. Two of Men,' boy and a girl, with the mother, are doing well; the third, a boy. was still bora. MARRIED. Rem W. Woo Mouse Robison, ILA. CMOs of Rechford, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, te Catharine, daughter of the lan Joseph &resting, Baq. of Stognnsey, near Bridgewater. DIED. Aged IL the Rev. William Beauchamp, 32 years Rector of Sump. ford Ccuutenay, Devon. At Nant, wear Carmarthen, the Rev. John Joss, Vicar of ilingennor. Rev. John Stoddart, for more than 30 years Head Maws of de Grammar School, and nine years Curate of All Saints' and Ali* den, Neethemptonahlre. At Gunton, Leicestershire, after two days' illness, aged 67, de Rev. J. Cragg, Vicar of Owston.cum-Witheote, and of Cashl. near Spalding. At Great Watley, Rues, the Rev. B. W. Allis, Rector .1 di parish. aged 57. . NEWOATIL *ND LEADENHALL MARKETS, JIIIIII Beef.. ss 44 to 4s 44 I Veal 44 03,1 to 33 ad MUMS 3s 44 to 4s 4cl I Pork 4s Od to Ss Lamb 44 44 to Ss fid. PRICES or HAY Asa STRAW YESTERDAY. ay. WRITSCIMPEL. Hay 51 as Od to 71 Os od Hay 41 4s to 61 Os Ol Clover A 5s Od to 71 los Od Clover 51 os to 71 04 al Straw A Os Od to SI 6s Id Straw 11 36 co 41 4s M IF HI _ cvi r. eh,a U. italir rocztri. . 1111 W SAO. Kent 147 s to 1110 s Kent ... "" t o " S 2. Sussex ...... 135 s to 1 64 1 Sussex ...... IWs CO i''' Essex ...... 147$ to 172. Essex ...... 190 s to 147$ Farnham tine 200 s to 224s—Secoodp. 1405 to 122 s 01d Duty laid at £55,000• PRICE OF LEATHER. Best Dressing Hides l3ld to 156 Comnsob Ditto.... ........... Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting Ditto 45 to 501bs 154 CO 17d Calf Skins, 36 to 401bs lBd to 24d Ditto 50 to 701bs Ditto 70 to solbs ......... wid to etia Small Seals, Green1and).......... ...... ... 1 8 d to 20d Tanned Horse Hides ......... ...........• 13d to 164 Spaniab Horse Hides... •-• ........ ..... 14d to 214 ---- COAL MARKET, Jas. 11. !Nice. Mr at Marltet. Ships Sold. Ps Od to SP IN 48 Newcastle 9.01 54, 04 to 5 054 14 Sunderland 11 -----• MAILS—THIS DAY. ♦aa. MI. Dublin 1 0 Waterford 1 0 Goernse. and Jersey 1 0 Lisbon 0 0 Donagbadee 0 0 Buenos Ayres tiolland ass. alb Prams 1 0 Hamburg 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Sweden I 0 Brazil 0 U Leeward Islands 0 0 o 0 Jamaica ----- O 0 O 0 • HI G W ATIR at. LON DON-BILIDG IC TO 110 Morning • 411 mint,mt iat• 1 Y (miaow: Printed and Pubito aL the Sue Orrlcs„ • 0 dist A 04, o.M WI Bey • • 10 !Yuma... atter 4 • tsliell by Jour Ni•% Ng, the I'mpriciet 11,. 1, I'tckLtt•?l,.p t Tounf;ii.l 34l ' _ • HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARt, ND ntsvaaa. Wednesday last the Court heard an argument on the relevant,' of the indictment raised against John Craw, gamekeeper to the Earl of Home, who is accused of murder, in so far as he loaded and set, in his Lordship's plantations at Hirst', a spring gun, by the discharged which a man lost his life. _ _ _ Mr. Jutaav, for the panel, maintained the innocency of the practice, which, he contended, had been in use beyond the memory of man, and this was the first at tempt to make it criminal. The . practice tras so ge neral, that if the panel was guilty, so must half the No. bility and Gentry in Scotland: for notices of man traps and spring guns had appeared, with the knowledge of all Procurator Fiscal; of the Advocate Deputes travel ling the Circuit, and of their Lord:tips also, in thou sands of instances. Those who entered en closures in opposition to such warnings, had themselves only to blame if accident occurred. The Souctiroa-Ganzaer., in reply, argued that this was a cue which could only be judged of by the broad principles of right and wrong. In the loading of that put, did pot the panel contemplate that it was to la. ore the unfortunate person who should come in con tact with it? and, by his doing so, whether for the pro- tection of property or not, he made himself answerable for the consequences. Whether the protection of the property legalised the act ? was another question. The intention to injure was as much contemplated when the gun was placed, as if be had deliberately shot a poacher who had entered the grounds in broaddaplistt. There might not be any intention , to injure a particular indi vidual, but that did not make the act the less illegal; for it was quite enough that the purpose of death was in view to infer malicious intent. Upon the whole, be had no doubt but the act of setting a spring gun in ferred a charge of murder, or, at all events, culpable homicide. As it was a ease of so much importance, the Judges delayed delivering their opinions till Monday week. The late Dr. 13zonowes ascertained that butchers, *ho live mitre on animal food than any other men, are rarely, if ever, liable'to the disease of the lungs termed pulinonary consumption. Mr. FARQUHAR'S WILL.—•A considerable sensation has been excited here for some dam by the prevalence of a rumour that a will of the great Mr. FARQUHAR (who was supposed to have died intestate) had just been brought from India, by which he destined his property to the support of the parochial schoolmasters of Scot land. We can no further satisfy the public curiosity, than by stating what we have heard, namely, that a will, of the tenour stated, has arrived from India, where Mr. FARQUHAR left it; that he brought a dupli cate of the same to this country; which duplicate he I cancelled and annulled in the presence of several of his relatives ; and that the opinion of some of the most emi nent Counsel at the English bar has been had, that such cancelling (as shelving the intent and meaning of else testator) amounts to a revocation of the deed, snslltl* copies thereof which may be in existence. Outhis different opinions are entertained; and the question well in all probability be determined in the Conn of Paw cary.—Aborders Journal. • 1 Friday night three convicts, named Roam, Brown, and Birch, made their escape from the ship Regalia, while at anchor off Oldhaven. It appears that they bad contrived to get away from New South Wales, by concealing themselves in the hold of the ship on a homeward-bound voyage; and, on the night mention. ed, having managed to free themselves from the irons in which they were confined, got overboard, and then swam ashore. Some fishermen at Tewkesbury having, a Sunday evening or two since, caught a fine salmon in the Se vern, weighing above 'bibs. determined to detain their prize in the water until they could find a liberal pur chaser : a man was accordion ley dispatched to Chelien-