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DRURY-LANE THEATRE. After the Comedy of The School for Scandal, a new Musical katce, called A Trip to Weirs, (from the pen of ‘l.r. PARRY), WAS produced at this Theatre last night.— The plot turnc thus : Sir Morgan Jones (Dorton), an enthusiastic admirer of Shake. spear, invites Sr George and Frank Stanley (Yousos and Honest') to pass a month at his seat in the Vale of Clwyd. Both the young Gentlemen are attached to Ellen (Miss Gammon), Sir Morgan's daughter, hut Fronk is her favourite. On their arrival, Frank tautions Ellen to pay more apparent attention to his brother than to him ; Sr George by wily insinuations prejudices Sir Mogan against his brother, and gains his consent to pay his addresses to Ellen, but she cannot brook him, which irritates him so much that be is determined to carry her of. Atkins (1-immar), a domestic in the Stanley family, assuming a demure appearance, frequently hints to Fronk that he is in possession of a secret in which his Interest is much concerned; Frank employs Ater Peppercorn (Bowls), Under Gardener to Sir Morgan, to make Pilkins tipsy ; this is effected in the garden with So Morgan's strong ale. Pilkins opens his heart to Ater, and tells hint that the late Sr George had left his personal property, which was very considerable in equal shares between the two brothers, but that Sir George and Old Squabs, a Steward, had contrived to render poor Frank dependent on his brother. Frank writes this disclosure down, unseen by Patio, then commands him to sign the paper. He then goes in search of his brother, who has enticed Ellen to walk out with him, and was on the pcOnt of carrying her off, when she is rescued by Freak, and brought safe to her father, who, when he finds out the perfidy of . Or George, gives his daughter in marriage to Frank.—But there are so many ludicrous scenes interwoven with the plot, all, in one way or other, connected with it, that the Farce must be seen to enter properly into its merits. D3WTON'S part of the enthusiast did not seem to be understood by the audience, and his constant and ludi crous misapplication of the finest passages from the works of the immortal Bard, which is the whim of the character, did not therefore tell with effect. HARLEY has a drunken scene, which was played with his broadest humour, and excited much laughter and applause. EDWIN, as the gardener, a part written in the style of KNIGHT, gave another decided proof that he possesses talent which will render him worthy to succeed that excellent actor. He sang a song, The good-natured Lad, in a good, useful, rough voice, and with correct ear ; it was loudly applauded and encored. Miss GRADDON has two or three songs, which are all pretty and effective airs. One, in which she danced The bells were ringing merrily, called down an unanimous encore. The same honour was bestowed upon a Comic Duett between HARLEY and Mrs. ORGRR, called Peggy Wilkins, 01 The whole of the music, indeed, is of a very pleasing character—the Ovei ture, in particular, which consisted chiefly of beautiful Welch Melodies, introduced with much taste, and with Hunting Me Hare, as a rondo. All the music is calculated for popular performance, and will, no doubt, come into general favour. BRITISH ANNUITY COMPANY. A Court of Proprietors was held yesterday to receive the Report of a Committee of Shareholders, appointed on the Ist of June last to investigate the concerns of the Company. This Report was read by the Secretary, Dr. Mir mud., and agreed to unanimously. It recommended that the expenditure of the establishment be reduced from 3,0001. to 1,0001. per annum ; that the capital be increased to 260,0004 and the number of D.rectors decreased. On the motion of bk. Wor.va, it was then agreed that the number of Directors should be reduced from 19 to 12; that their right of pre-emption should be abolished, and that two-thirds of ahem should have the power to suspend any one of their body whose conduct should bring discredit on the Company. THE, ANNUITY-ACT OF LAST SESSION. A memorial of an annuity was required by the 53d Geo. 111. c. 141, to contain the names and residencesof the witnesses. An annuity was set aside because the memorial did not state the residence of the witnesses.— " Darwin v. Lincoln and Lock," 5 Barn. and Alderson, R. 444. The 3d Geo. IV. c. 92, passed to explain the 53d Geo. 111. by which the Lames of the witnesses was declared to be sufficient. Since that act passed, an annuity was set aside, be cause the memorial contained only the initial letter of the Christian name as the witness.—" Check e. Jeffreys," S Dowling and Ryland. Many other cases followed this decision. The act of the last session, 7 Geo. IV. c. 75, passed to meet this last objection, ani to explain (not the 3d of the King, but) the 53d of Geo. 111. which bad been so recently explained in the very same section, by which it is enacted, that it shall be sufficient to insert in the memorial the names of•th• witnesses as they appear in their attestations to the deeds, and that so the said act of the 53d Geo. 111. shall be construed, &c. That this last has passed without the ordinary pre caution, is evident, by comparing it with the 3d of the King. In the act of the 3d of the King, there is a provision to prevent its operation upon previous decisions, or upon cases pending previous to a day therein men tioned, which is quite correct. But in the last act there is no sort of protection whatsoever afforded to the previous decisions of the Courts, nor to cases existing (and there are now many cases existing), which it is submitted is very wrong. Look at the consequence if this act be suffered to exist. A decision under the 53d George III: acted upon and acquiesced in by the parties, may now be set aside by writ of error; for the Court of error, it is conceived, would be bound by the act, if it can be permitted to exist, so long as to allow a writ of error to be brought and prosecuted to judgment. That the judgment of the Courts at Westminster, founded on the statute law of the realm, should be set . aside upon a writ of error, founded upon this es post facto law, would present a novelty, certainly, of no very creditable kind. If the act be suffered to exist after the meeting of the next Parliament, it is to be hoped that an act will be in troduced to protect previous decisions from its opera- tion, and also to exclude from its operation such ques tions as may be in progress before the Courts at the time when the act WAS first introduced into the house, similar to the clause found in the 3d Geo. IV. Thursday se'nnight, W. F. Bftowtr, Esq. late. Captain in the Enniskillen Dragoons, when on his way from Edinburgh to North Berwick by the Linton road, was accosted by a fellow who deman led his money. Upon getting a denial he fired a pistol at the Captain, which fortunately missed bins, but wounded the mare on which he Lode in the neck. • The Melrose Chain Bridge, which fill' some time pan has been erecting across the Tweed, at Melrose, has just been completed, wnd is now open to the public. It has been built by private subscription, and is intended to form a communication from Melrose to the village of Gattonsitie and the surrounding country on that side of the Tweed. It is a very handsome structure, and forms altogether a new and interesting feature in the scenery of the vale of Melrose. It is chiefly intended for foot passengers, although it is also calculated to admit horses. LAW REPORT. . „ um _ COURT OF CHANCERY, Novas= 10. IX Cal MAMA Or LADY 011PLM Mr. HART moved that the commission which had been issued' to inquire into the state of Lady Gresley's mind should be supeisedeal. He said that Sir Roger Gresley, at whose instance the proceedings had been commenced, was now convinced that he had been mistaken, and was desirous that no further steps should be taken. Mr. Spans appeared for Sir Roger Gresley, and said that he was ready to consent to the motion which had been made. He was not instructed to concur with the statement made by Mr. Hart, that Sit Roger Gresley had been mistaken; but he wished it to be understood, that his client had had several interviews with his mo ther, and that, in consequence of those interviews, he wished the commission to be no-further proceeded with. The order was therefore pronounced as prayed. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Ntwassata 10. wawa:vim R. WASTRIMAN AND 0111TRS. A person named Merceron, who was a Magistrate and Treasurer to the parish of Si. Matthew, Bethnal green, had embezzled certain sums of the parish funds, and was prosecuted to conviction. A vestry meeting had been held on the 20th of August, 1818, at which the proceedings in the prosecution were approved, and a resolution was adopted for deiraying the expenses by the parish, and another resolution, of the same nature, was passed for prosecuting some other patties as abettors of the wrong. At'a subsequent meeting of the church wardens, trustees of the poor, and one Bumford, making' six in all, the resolutions of the vestry were confirmed, and Bumford was appointed to direct the proceedings. He did so, and the ittornies. Messr s . Kni g h t an d Free man, too k the case into the Court of King s Bench. The Lord Chief Justice recommended reconciliation, and ad vised the immediate termination of the suit. In com pliance with this advice, no evidence was offered, and the accused was acquitted. The attornies sued for their costs, not against Bumford. who was in difficulties, but against the present plaintiff, Wrightson. The defence to that action was, that it was a joint liability, if any ; but that it ought to be brought against the parish in general. The Lord Chief Justice held that thesis parties so appearing and directing the proceedings were seve rally liable, and the plaintiffs obtained a verdict. The present bill was brought to recover the contributions of the other parties who shared in this liability. Mr. HART and Mr. WILBRAIRAIII appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. TEED, for the present defendant, maintained that the parish was collectively liable. It fell particularly hard upon his client, who was in the minority of 41 against 196, at the vestry meeting, and had only ratified those proceedings at the meeting of the parish officers in his official capacity. There was, however, a more fatal objection to the bill, which was the want of parties, because all those who voted at the vestry must be liable. Mr. Withamsaw pointed out the di/faculty of Winging so many as 196 defendants before the Court. The Vigo CHANCELLOR said, that the number of the parties could be no objection on that account merely; but it was for those who objected to a want of parties to state who those parties ought to be. Mr. Tam admitted that he was not prepared with the descrip tion of the patties wanting. . Mr. HEALD, on behalf of • Brown, another of the churchwardens, objected to the separate liability of the parish officers. In the action brought by the solicitors against the plaintiff he had neglected to plead in abate ment ; and having quitted that which might have been a tenable defence, he sought. by this bill compensation. for that which in all probability was the consequence of his own neglect. Mr. How for another of the defendants, contended that the pa rish having ordered those proceedings by a resolution of the vestry, were bound to pay the expenses of them. The VICE CHANCELLOR judged thAt the signing of the parish officers, asserted co have been done in their official capacity, bad no connection either in form or subject with their official duties; and that they must be held individually liable for the expenses of proceedings which, individually, they had ordered their agents to institute. As to the liability of the parties forming the vestry meeting, they had no power to institute proceed ings by a course of this nature. An Act of Parliament had been quoted to skew that they had such a power ; but it would be seen by one clause °lithe Act, that such proceedings as might be instituted by a vestry meeting must be conducted by the vestry-clerk. His Honour gave judgment for the plaintiff, with costs against all the defendants except Bumford. lIODOULINVIMI 111ADIUSIN In this case,. a Mr. Buller had bequeathed to one Mary Tatham 1,5001. with remainder to her children, and in failure of issue to herself, to dispose of at will." The plaintiffs were residuary legatees ; and Mary Tatham having at her decease disposed of the legacy otherwise than by is a will," to which method they con tended that she was confined by the words of the first named bequest, they claimed to succeed to it. The Vzcz Cmancztton was clearly of opinion that Mary Tatham was by no means bound to make a will in the sense taken by the plaintiffs, but that she was to have the money eventually, on failure of her own issue, at her sole will and dispssal.—Judgment for the defendant with costs. COURT OF KING'S 'BENCH, WKSTKAISTER, Nov. IL WILLIAMS P. LIVE This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a lodging house-keeper, against the defendant, a sheriff's officer, for trespass, in entering his house to arrest his lodger, Colonel Macerone: It appeared from the evidence, that , the defendant forced his way into the bedroom of the plaintiff's daughter, dragged the clothes from off the bed in which she was lying, and conducted himielf in other respects in a very violent manner. The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. with lOW. damages. Mr. GUMMY now moved for a rule to set aside the verdict, on the ground-that the damages were excessive, considered in relation to the pecuniary circumstances of the defendant. Mr. Justice BATLZY said, that the damages were certainly large; bat at the same time it was necessary that officers should be taught to conduct them:electric. corously.—Rule refused. MASSA. CORPUS. Mr. BRODERICK moved for a writ of habeas corpus, directing the keeper of Newington gaol to bring up the body, of a:person named Leftwich, at present confined there under suspicion of having received stolen property. The motion was made upon an affidavit, which stated that the prisoner, being a baker by trade, purchased the property, Asome flour) which he was accused of having received from a person named DJuglas openly and at a fair price. He attended as a witness against Diuglas at the police office, on the 4th of September, and again on two subsequent occasions. The Loan Cuter Jusucz—And ultimately, I suppose, Douglas became evidence against him Mr. Bacimmxriris n , my Lord, sad Leftwichirmimyt I. reined 20 days in finement widesit evidence •beergien ef ficient to justify his mittaL The LOAD Cam Junws—You may take a rule to shew cause. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 10. WOLLASTON •ND ANOTHER P. . TRUMAN. This was an action brought to recover the lon that had arisen in the resale of a quantity of Surat cotton. The cause had come on for trial at Guildhall, at the Sittings before the present Term, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. On the 25th of May, 1825, plaintiff put op a quantity of Surat cottons for sale at the Commercial Sale Rooms, in Mincing Lane; the defendant, a sworn broker, became the purchaser, paid the necessary deposit, and not having given in the name of a principal, was considered as the real purchaser by the plaintiffs. A few days before the prompt became due, however, he wrote a letter to the auctioneer who had sold the cottons, giving the name of a person whom he stated to be his principal, and added, that he would be unable to pay on the day the prompt became due, and requested a further enension of credit. The plain• tiffs, however, did not accede to this proposal, and the money not being paid, they had resold the cottons, con. sidering defendant the purchaser, as he had not given reasonable notice of his principal. Mr. SergeantVAuouAK now-moved to obtain a rule to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, on the ground that the conditions on which the cottons had been sold did not stipulate, that in case of the prompt being unpaid when it became due, there should be a resale. He contended, that if the plaintiffs considered the defendant the purchaser,' they had no right to resell the gOods. 1 The Judges consulted together for a short time, and granted a rule to shew cause. LIMY v. BUITZIRWORIN. This was an action of trespass brought by the plaintiff, who resides in Serjeants' Inn, Fleet -street, against the parish officer of St. Dunstan's in the West, who had seized sundry goods and chattels belonging to the plain tiff for non-payment of poor's rate. The case was tried before the Lord Chief Justice at Guildhall, during the Sittings previous to the present Term, and a verdict was returned for 'the plaintiff. The question was, whe ther the house situated in Serjeants' Inn, Fleet-street,was part and parcel of the parish of St. Dunstan's in the West? The evidence on this point was very contra dictory, and it was on this . ground that Mr. Sergeant Wilde now moved to obtain a rule to chew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted? Th. LORD CHIRP' Juzycz said, that the evidence had clearly proved that since the reign of Queen Eliza beth the inhabitants of Serjeants' Inn had never been called on to pay rates. Persons who had purchased property in that part had given a much larger sum for it, under the idea that no rates could be demanded. He was decidedly of opinion that this property was extra parochial, consequently was not subject to parates to the parish of St. Dunstan's in the West. Hewas per fectly satisfied with the verdict that had been returned on the trial. The rest of the Court concurred with his Lordship, mud refused to grant a rule to show cause. CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 10. TIMM e. IlasassAys. In this suit, which related to soquestion of tithes, Dr. 'Jesse ADDAMS moved the Court to dismiss his client, Mr. Merchant, from further prosecution of the suit. He had resisted the claim of the Rev. Mr. Young, his vicar, to the tithes of the whole of his estate, consisting of 163 acres, but had tendered the tithes of 36 acres, which the vicar had elought proper to accept. He trusted the Court would dismiss the suit without imposing costs, or at least the whole costs upon his party. Dr. LUSHINGTOII I for the vicar, observed that the application. as it respected the costs, was extraordinary. The vicar had, indeed, consented to receive part of his claim, on account of the difficulty of adducing proof that the other part of the estate was not demesne land ; for, although the endowment existed, it was, perhaps, incapable of being legally established. But the tender made by the opposite party was invalid, because it was unaccompanied with the offer of costs ) conformably to the universal rule. Ifcosts were refused, the Clergyman might expect to be vexed with a suit every year; and the tithes would be worthless ; if the costs were to be paid out of them. After some discoed' s between the Court and the parties, Dr. Lusuntownt offered to take half the costa, whatever they might be, by an order of Court for an allowance, matins 'possums/ which offa Dr. Anwasofter some hesitation, accepted. Mr. BOADEN'S Memoirs of our great Tragic Actress, Mrs. SIMONS, are expected in a few days. This Work Is intended u a companion to the Author's " Life of Mr. Kutun," with which it is printed uniformly. It is Dedicated, by Permission, to his Munn- ' and will be illustrated by a remarkably fine Portrait, engraved byTessze, from a Picture by Sir Thames Lowanses. A few days ego, a proof occurred of the wretched manner in which houses are erected about town. The Building Act, as it now stands, can have no effect upon the present mode of raising houses, as . it does not require that the materials should be good, although it requires that a certain quantity of materials should be used—quantity being, in the opinion of those who framed the act, the only thing necessary. The specu lators in this sort of trade avail themselves of this over sight in the legislature, and run up a house by accu-. mulating the very worst rubbish. Some of the wretched walls which they order to be raised by this standard, fall while the unfortunate men ate engaged in the work, and some when the inhabitants think they are secure in a new house, the walls of which are as thick as the most cautious surveyors can require. The houses which were built 50 years ago are considered to be erected upon a plan of too permancit a nature to answer the changes of fashion ; a company may dance in one of the rooms, while persons may be fast asleep in all the others ; but in the houses of recent manufacture, so perishable are the materials, that the landlord frequently thinks it necessary to insert a clauskin,the lease, by which the tenant is prohibited from dancing in the rooms. Several poor workmen very narrowly escaped death a few days ago, in the neighbotirhood of the Metropolis, where building is going forward. • They were raising a wall of proper proportions, when down fell two of the intended' habitations. The frequency of accidents of this sort, if those things can be called accidents which are obviously inevitable, will, it is to be hoped, cause an early revi sion of the Building Act. The fasting woman at Trowbridge continues to refuse food, with the exception that on Sunday the drank a small cup of tea and about a pint of cold water, and ate an apple. Some attempts were made in the early part of the last week to force her to drink; but it is supposed that sh'e did not receive a table spocinful into her sto m4ch. She Mai till lately a very stout, fat woman ; -but within the last ten days she bas greatly waned, and .her voice is scarcely audible. - - CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. —rot— . . CA MBR IDGE. Nommen. O. Saturday. the Rev. Christopher Wordswath, D.D. Master of Trinity College, was elected Vice-Chancellor of this University for the year ensuing. The following Gentlemen were ordained at Ely, on Sunday, the Stb instant, by the Bishop of Ely. Deacon—J. Birkett, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cam. bridge; James Bowstead, B.A. /know of Corpus Christi College, Cambr.dge ; C. •H. Maturin, M.A. Fellow of Ying's College, Cambridge • Wm. Jones, RA. Emmanuel College , Cambridge; Frederick Cambridge; B.A. St. Peter's Coll. Cambridge; Fitzgerald Wintour, RA. Magdalene Coll. Cambridge; George H. Eyre, R.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge; Edward Medley, Queen's College, Cambridge; George A. Warde, Brizennose Cell. (Oxford. Patems—Eabert Cory, M.A. Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; J. F. Isaacson, B.A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; Henry John Rose, M.A. Fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambridge; Sydney Gedge, RA. Fellow of Catharine Hall, Cam bridge; W. H. Walker, M.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Camb. W. Crawley, B.A. Fellow of Magdahne Cull. Cambridge; Ste phen 'Davies, S.C.L. Queens Coll. Camb. David Morton, RA. Trinity Coll. Camb. Wm. Brow n J ames , B.A. Jesus Coll . Comb. At an Ordination of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, held in Wells Cathedral on Sinday last, tbs. following Gentlemen were admitted Into Holy Orders, viz. 4 , Dzacoxs--Wm. Tierney Elton, B.A. Worcester Coll. Oxford ; James H. Gregg, B.A. St. John's Coll. 'Cambridge; John Rawes, B.A. Corpus Christi , Coll. Comb. Thomas Riddell, B.A. St Ed mund Hall, Oxford ; Hugh Speke, B.A. Emmanuel Coll. Camb. Fronds C. Alderman, B.A. Exeter Coll. Oxford; Wm. Dann Harrison, RA. Worcester Coll. Oxford ; Wm. Le Lime, B.A. St. John's Coll. Cambridge; William North, B.A. Clare Hall. Cambridge ; Matthew Robert Scott, B.A. Exeter CoIL Oxford ; Henry Taylor, B. A. Worcester Coll. Oxford; Robert Aliwood, RA. Caius Coll. Cambridge; C. G. F. Viuck, B.A. St. Mary Magdalen Hall, Oxford. Paszszs--James Galloway, M.A. Exeter Coll. Oxford ; Edward Bower ' RA. Jesus Coll. Cambridge ; John C. C o ll in , B.A: St. John's Coll. Cambridge; Edward Browne Everard, B.A. Banjul Coll. Oxford; William Louth, RA. Christ Church Call. Oxford; Simeon Loyd Pope, B.A. Trinity Coll. Oxford; William Qorkett, B.A. St. John's Coll. Cambridge; James Anthony Savage, RA. Trinity Coll. Oxford; William George Sawyer, B.A. Balboa Col lege, Oxford. OXFORD, Novngsza 10. Rev. Charles Atmore Ogilvie, M.A. and Fellow of BAMaI Col. lege, has been nominated and approved in Catenation a Delo. gate of Accounts, in 'the room of the Very Rev. the Dean of Chester, resigned. Yesterday, Charles John Boyle, Esq. was admitted Founder's Kin Fellow of All Sends' College. The Rev. Thomas Tunstall Haverileld, B. D. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has been presented to the Rectory of God. itigtoo, Oxford, by the President, Fellows, and Scholars of that Society. A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Rev. Henry Cripps, M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, Vicar of Preston, Gloucestershire, and Chaplain to the Lord Carteret, to hold the Vicarage of Stonehouse, in the same county. The Very Rev. James Hook, D.CI4. of St. Mary Hall, and Dean of Worcester, to the Mastership of St. Oswald's Hospital, 111 the Suburbs of that city, void by the promotion of Dr. Jenkinson to the Bishoprick of St. David's. The Rev. Ruben Farquhar Hook, M.A. Student of Christ Church, Oxford, to the Perpetual Curacy of Moseley, Worcester. shire, void by the death of the Rev. Rdwafd Palmer, on the wal -1 natio n of the very Rev. the Dean of Worcester, in right of his Vicarage of Bromspove. The Rev. Thomas Wilde, M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, to the Rectory of St. Andrew's, Worcester, void by the resignation of the Rev. William Faulkner. The Rev. Thomas Whitfield, R D. Fellow of Sc. John's College, Oxford, is presented to the Using of Winterbourne, Gloucester. shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Samuel Parker. , LCeLausTical, rlOatArioNs. Rev. Wm. Wood, M.A. to the Rectory of Staplegrove, on the presentation of Vincent Stuckey, Esq. Rev. G. R. Orchard, to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Road. Somersetshire : Patron, the Venerable the Archdettan of Sarum. Rev. M. Alford has been elected Master of the Free Grammar School at Bideford, io the room of the Rev. F. Hutton, M.A. resigned. Dispatches were sent ott yesterdisy, from 6e Foreign Mite, to the Right Hoe. Meru Wessanser, our Ambassador to the Court of Vienna. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial Department, from Governor Sir TUOIII4II J. Cocnsama, at New. foundland. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the undermentioned ships were thus timed, viz Warren Hastings, Princess Charlotte of Wales, and Minerva, for Madras and Bengal, to be afloat 47th March, sail to Gravesend llth April, stay there 30 days, and be in the- Downs 14th May, 14127. Marquis of Wellington, and Thomas Grenville, for Bengal direct l to be afloat 2Sth April, sail to Gravesend 10th M a y, s t a y t h ere 3 0 days, and be in the Downs 13th June, 1527. Last night. about six o'cleck, as 0 Lady and Gentle. man were driving in Great Russell -street. in a horse and gig, the horse took fright ; and. extricating himself from the gig, ran away through Red Lion-square into Bed. Ford-row, where two or three men attempted to stop him ; to avoid thens,he leapt on,therailings at the corner of Great James -street, when three of the railings passed through his back, and one out at his shoulder. After banging about half an hour, an- end was lilt to his misery by cutting, his throat. MURDIR OF POOR OLD MR. GLOVER, AT ASHFORD. suar.—lt will be fresh in the recollection of ourteaeers, how inhumanly this aged individual (who resided in a lone cottage at Ashfordbury, in this county,) was mur. dered by some ruffians on the night of the 16th March, 1825. Soon after the diabolical transaction took plate, two suspicions characters, named Brown and Jasson, were apprehended, and underwent several examinations before our County Magistrates; but as the crime could not be brought home to either of them, they were libe rated. Since that period, the Magistrates have been molt indefatigable in their endeavours to trace out the perpetrators of the foul deed, but no clue whatever 'could be obtained. In consequence, however, of infor citation given by a person in the employ of Mr. Wilson, brick-maker in this town, corroborated by other testi-. monies, a warrant was granted for the reapprehension of Wm. Brown, and he was taken into custody by Unwin and Dent, on donday last, at Over - Broughton. Brown underwent an examination on Tuesday, and was re 4 mended to the County gaol. At present, we should not be warranted in giving further publicity to this affair ; but from the evidence already obtained,'we trust the matter will no longer remain a mystery. Jasson, the companion of Brown, was transported for felony, last Midsummer Sessions, and is now on board the Hulks, where an investigation as - to his participation in the crime will take place.—Lekesta Journal, Nov.lo. HUNTING. Ilbe Old Berkeley Hounds meet on Monday at the Kennel ; Wednesday at Bessellsleidt ; and Saturday at Bibury Greve; each day at half-past ten o'clock. PEDESTRIANISM. Lieut. Partner started yesterday morning on the Vauxhall road, to run four hundred yards in 48 seconds, for ten sovereigns, and to keep on and complete the quarter of a mile in three seconds less than a minute for another ten. The pedestrian started off at full speed, but he, however, lost the race by about two seconds ; and the second wager was very closely contested, so mach so, that the empires with diSculty came to an agreement. It wet, however, finally decided that the race was won. THE GREAT TROTTING MATCH. Yesterday morning this grand trotting match took Piave o ver a seven-mile piece of ground on the Colchester road, between Capt. Han se n' s favourite mare and Mr. Bouverie's Eclipse. The much was made a month ago, for SOO sovereigns aside. The distance agreed on was sixty miles, and each horse to start at different ends of the ground. The horse was rather the favourite. The distance was accomplished by the horse in live hours, 48 minutes, and 31 I Secoads — die mare in litehours, 53 minutes, an d 58 seconds. The ground was well contested; both weft much exhausted, as they baked one hour only during the nu. 136