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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING ROOM, OCTOBER 25. DM!. 11 to 1 apt c. nut of Sycorax 13 to 1 apt Marcella, 12 to 1 apt c. out of Land- 18 to 1 apt Plover c. scups 20 to 1 apt c. out of Paw n. OA/LO. la to 1 apt f. out of Reserve 12 to 1 apt f. out of Tipplty -10 to 1 apt Major Wilson witchet 12 to 1 agst f. out of Pope Joan blittalis.--6 to 4 Mr. Crockford's beats Cudinal York. 7 to 4 Gustavus beats Pashaw. S to 4 Tressilian beats North Wester. HUNTING. The Melton Mowbray Fox-hounds are killing everything this season. They are so much improved by purchasing the best of various other packs that nothing can escape them. H. Jolliffe, Esq.'s Fox-hounds meet on Tuesday nett at Chip stead Church, and on Friday at Selwood Common. The Surrey Hounds meet on Monday at Foiley Hatch ; on Thursday at Addington Village ; an d Saturda y at Godstone. The Harriers Meet on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday next, at Kennel. About the beginning of July last year, a female weasel, of the largest species, was taken alive in a field at Craigie, near Perth. The person who caught it amused himself by taming this little animal. In a few weeks the weasel appealed to be perfectly recon ciled to the narrow bounds of the house, through which it was allowed to range, and became so fami liar with its host, as to eat out of his hand, climb round his person, and go into his pockets in search of food. In the month of December, this animal was delisiered of four young ones, which were also treated with all possible care by the owner of the house. The weather having become very cold, the dam one night removed her tender family from the floor to the bed, and lodged them safely under the blanket at her host's feet. On seeing this, he took one of them, and kept it in his hand on the pillow. The dam appeared alarmed, and ran about him, making a plaintive noise"; but seemingly assured that no harm was to be done its young, she brought the other three, one by one, and laid them on his hand. The parent weasel has since been killed by accident. The substantial residence now building for Mr. BARING, in Piccadilly, proceedi with great rapidity. It is partly covered in. Behind the great drawing room will be a saloon dedicated to the Fine Arts. This apartment will be at least thirty feet high, and be lighted by a glass dome from the roof. Yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, an old house, coiner of Maddox-street, Regent-street, which had been formerly well-known by the name of the Swallow-street eating-house, fell with a tre mendous crash, by which a woman, named Glanville, With her infant, a fine child about 18 months old, were killed. The husband of Mrs. Glanville was a carpenter employed in building the new houses in Regent-street, and lived with his family in the house which fell, for convenience. He had paid no rent for some time past, as the house was condemned. On Friday morning some person told them it would fall in twenty-four hours, and they made up their minds to quit it yesterday morning. The husband was at Work, and at the time above - menti oned it was ob served that the walls were giving way. Mrs. Glan ville heard a creak, and her eldest son, 14 years old, in , tantly ran out; she seiked the infant and another chili two years old to follow, but she only reached the door when. the house fell, biurjing herself and the infant in the ruins. The other child was pitched into the street, and was taken to Mr. Brookes s, by Gook, the constable, when it was found lie had received no serious injury. Giok and Westbrook, an officer of Marl!)orctigh-street, procured some men who dug oat the dead bodies of Mrs. Glanville and her infant. • While they were engaged in so doing, a Gentleman, named Cassamajor, who was accidentally passing, and observing them in a perilous situation under the party-wall, which was on the point of falling gave the officers a guinea to procure more men to prop it up, which was immediately done. A melancholy occurrence took place on the Ilinck • ley-road, Worcestershire, on Friday night. As Mr. Corbett, a farmer, was riding towards the Red Cow, he overtook a waggon going at a furious rate. On expostulating with the driver, who was sitting upon the shafts, on the impropriety of going so fast, high words ensued between them. Arriving at the above house, Mr. Corbett got off his horse, and a scuffle ensued, when both fell, and the horses taking fright, they were both run over. The unfortunate wa b •rgoner, whose name was Cooke, then getting up, walked or rather staggered a few paces, and fell again, and was carried into the public-house, where he immediately expired. The wheal of the waggon had passed over his breast, and come in contact with the shoulder of Mr. Corbett, who was also much bruised. An Inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of Accidental Death returned. The deceased has left a wife and six or seven children. Yesterday an Inquisition was taken at the Unicorn, Covent-Garden, before 'l'. litcca, Esq. Deputy Coro ner, on the body of a fine male child, found dead the preceding evening in Covent-Garden Market. Mr. Morris, of Chandos-street, who had examined the child, deposed that it appeared to have been born about 18 or 20 days. There were blows on the body, .which, in his opinion, caused its death ; they were six in number, and had been inflicted with a red hot poker. Verdict—Wilful Murder, against some per son or persons unknown. - . On the 12th August, a dreadful fire broke out at Fredericksham (Finland), which, in the space of six hours, reduced nearly the whole town to ashes. Two Churches, 110 houses, the Town House, and several public buildings, were destroyed. Only ten houses were saved. The unfortunate inhabitants saved no thing but their lives. Sunday night the village of Yeasly was put into much alarm by a fire which broke out in the stable of Mr. BEN WELL, a farmer, and in a few minutes the whole yard was is a blaze; a farm-yard on each side next caught fire, and the whole of the out-buildings, and eight ricks were destroyed, but it did not reach the houses ; three horses were burnt. It was occa sioned by a boy in the stable racking up, when he carelessly set fire to the straw loft. Tuesday evening, at dusk, as William Franks, setts want to Mr. SzalTl4, Strand, was conveying a valuable parcel, near the entrance of the Green . -Park, Hyde- Park-corner, be was attacked by two men, who knocked him down; he keeping fast hold of his parcel, he fell upon it, and on his callinikfor assistance, the robbers made off s taking with them his ujnbrella only. LAN INTELLIGENCE. COURT, OF KING'S BENCH, OCTOBER. 24. VAUGHAN, CLERK V. GARDNER, D.D. This was an action for dilapidations in the Recto rial premises of Hope Bagot, in the county of Salop. The question involved was of considerable import ance to the Clergy of this county, namely, whether the defendant, Dr. Gardner, the late incumbent of the living of Hope Bagot, was liable to the plaintiff, his successor, to rebuild a barn, which had existed• on the Rectory, but had hien suffered to go into a state lof dilapidation long before the Doctor became the, incumbent. It was admitted, that the defendant was' liable to repair the Rectorial-house, in respect of which the Jury had given certain damages. The other point was intended to have been agitated as a gene ral question interesting to the Church ; but The Counr intimated to Mr. Campbell, the plain tiff's Counsel, for the purpose of putting a stop to farther litigation, the expediency of entering a verdict for £lOO, being 1:114 less than the Jury had found. The Learned Counsel was disposed to adopt the sug gestion of the Court; but, Mr. PULLER, for the defendant, said, he could not, without the concurrence of his client, accede to the proposition, it being a matter of great importance to " the Church in general, that the question should be set at rest by a decision of the Court. The only mo tive of the Doctor in defending the action, was to try the question for the benefit of his Reverend brethren, and not from any pecuniary motives. As the defend ant was not in town, the Learned Counsel craved leave to consult with his client before the matter proceeded. The Counr said, there were a great many diffi culties in the question, and if they decided in favour of the defendant, the case must go to a new trial, which would entail very considerable expense, and the plaintiff must, at all events, have a verdict in re spect of the Rectorial house.—The matter stood over to a future day. LANURIUGE AND OTHERS V. DORVILLE AND OTHERS. This was an action of assumpsit upon a written un dertaking by the defendants, to pay a suns not ex ceeding £lBO, for the damage done to a Norwegian ship, called the Caroline Matilda (for the owners of which the plaintiffs were agents), by the ship Zeno. bin (for the owners of which the defendants were agenls), in running foul of her in the river Thames, in the month of December, 1819. The piincipal point in the cause depended upon the construction of the Pilot Act, 52 Geo. 111. c. 39, s. 30, the Zenobia having a Trinity House Pilot on board at the time the accident happened. As a decision in the plain tiffs' favour would involve a case decided in the Com mon Pleas upon nearly the same point, and another in the Court of Admiralty, The COURT (the Chief Justice being absent at the Old Bailey) thought it right that the case should stand over until all the Judges were present. OCTOBER 25. OGDEN AND OTIIERS V. WADDINGTON AND OTHERS. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the direction of the Vice-Chancellor, for nmey had and received by the defendants to the plaintiffs use.— The question involved was one of considerable im portance, namely, whether the plaintiffs, as natural born subjects of the United States of-America, could recover troni the defendants, British subjects, the proceeds of certain merchandise shipped to this coun try to the defendants for sale, for the plaintiffs' ac count, during the late American war, the proceeds having come to the defendants' hands after Prelimi naries of Peace had been signed between this country and the United States. The case stated being de fective in some material and disputed facts, the Court declined entering into the argument until the case was ripe for decision, and therefore directed it to be amended. SOLLET V. WHIT:HOME. This was an action upon a policy of insurance upon the ship Seaman, at and from Hull to her port of lading in the Baltic, with permission to touch at Elsinore, Dantzic, uud Palau, which last was her port of lading. At the trial before the LORD CHIEF JusTicz at Guildhall, in the Sittings after last Hilary Term, a verdict was found for the plaintiff, subject to the opi- nion of the Court upon a cam. The question for the opinion of the Court was, whether, under the general terms of the policy, the ship was at liberty to go to Elsinore and Dantzic for the purpose merely of unloading, and calling at those places on her way to Pillau, her port of lading, be fore she reached which the total loss had been sustained ? The Court were of opinion, that the general words in the policy, " any port or place whatever," did not give tEe vessel a privilege to touch at any of the abovementioned ports; the policy being " at and fr om her port of lading:" and consequently judgment was given for the defendant. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday, E. 11111, aged seventeen, was indicted for stealing a £5 note, and several articles el jewel ler.(, the property of J. B. Monis. . The prosecutor is a surgeon in Mary-la"-Bonne, and the prisoner was his servant. For some time he con ducted himself with integrity ; at length, however, Mr. Morris found that valuable articles were conti nually missing, and among other things a £5 note, and suspected the prisoner. Among other property was a quantity of spirits, which were taken at dif ferent times from the sideboard. A warrant was pro cured to search the house of the prisoner's father, and there a quantity of rum, brandy, Sic. were found. — Being anxious to secure the more valuable portion of the property, Mr. Monis promised he would not pro secute the prisoner, if he informed him where he had deposited the jewellery. Upon this promise he con fessed that he had stolen a pair of valuable ear-rings, and some other articles of inferior amount. These were found at the shops of different pawnbrokers, and which he declared were all he had taken ; but Mr. Morris, convinced that he had robbed him to a much greater amount, made farther inquiry, and dis covered that he had disposed of a gold chain, of ten feet long, a seal, some silk stockings, and numerous other articles at different shops, and upon farther search of his father's house, a purse containing a 17s. in money, and several gold buttons, were found under a stair-case. The father found these things and brought them to Mr. Morris, who identified the but tons and purse. He then gave the prisoner in custody. By the testimony of a boy named Hargreave, it appeared that the prisoner was in ale habit of dis. posing of articles at the shops of Jew salesmen and pawnbrokers; and that he several times employed witness to sell things for him. The prisoner did not deny his own guilt, but ac cused a respectable tradesman, who had given evi dence against him, of having excited him to rob his master. This the tradesman solemnly denied. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty—Death—bot recommended him to mercy on account of his youth. Mary Anne Sullivan, Anne Turner, Rachad Sim mons, and Eliza Kelly, were indicted for assaulting and robbing Lewis Baptiste. The prosecutor and another man accompanied Turner and Sullivan to a house in Swan-yard, Strand, kept by Simmons, where they had only been a few moments, when they were assaulted by all the prisoners, and the prosecutor was robbed of 14s. 6d. • The assault was accompanied by threats to murder the prosecutor, and throw him out of the window. He and his friend at length escaped, and gave information at Bow-street, and in a few minutes after the prisoners were taken into custody. The prosecutor's friend, on attempting to go to his assistance, was seized - by the throat by Kelly, who swore if he attempted to stir she would tear his liver out. Four witnesses were called to give Mrs. Simmons a character, and they all concurred in swearing that she was a very honest, upright woman !!! Mr. Justice PARKR, in summing up, said it was really painful to the feelings of the Court—it was a melancholy consideration—that four men could be found to come upon their solemn oaths to declare a woman to be a fair and honest character, who, by her own confession, was the keeper of a common brothel, and was living upon the wages of iniquity, earned by the prostitution of the unhappy young creatures now at the Bar with her. The Jury found Turner and Sullivan Guilty, and acquitted Simmons and Kelly.. The Jury begged strongly to recommend the two convicts to mercy, on account of their extreme youth (sixteen years), and the bad example held out to them by the other pri soners, especially Simmons. T. French, for stealing in the dwelling-house of Ann Sitzler, several articles of wearing apparel, was also capitally convicted. The following were convicted of felonies, viz. A. Donnell, for stealing a watch; I. Penn, for stealing a gold se l ; T. Cook, for stealing a metal watch ; Rebecca Bissell, for stealing four tea spoons ; Barbara lianinwnd, for stealing 9s. 6d. .1. Lane, for stealing 561bs. of paper ; J. Smith, for stealing a silk handkerchief; Clutton, for stealing 50 ounces of tea; J. Fenner, for stealing a pair of shoes ; J. King, for stealing a cloth coat ; W. Francis and J. !goring, fur stealing an umbrella; J. llopkins, for stealing nine yarL • of nankeen ; and G. Green, for embezzling is. ld. The following were acquitted, viz. W. 111A%on, J. Weedon, Mary Williams, Ann Gordon, T. Ramsay, and S. Hall. SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday, John Crick, agent for the coaches at the Elephant and Castle, was charged with having stolen a (l() note, four sovereigns, and some wearing appa rel, the property of W. Brown. The prosecutor, who is a sailor, was about to'pro ceed to Brighton to join his ship, but alighted at the Elephant and Castle. The prisoner offered his ser vices to carry his bundle, which was accepted. When they an ived at a public-house in the vicinity the pro secutol- gave a £lO note to the landlord, through the hands of the prisoner, to take care of tor hint. After drinking fer a short time they left the house together, and the latter conducted the former to a house of ill fame, where he left him with a girl, and returned to the house of the publican, and represented himself as the brother-in-law of the prosecutor, who, he said, wanted his bundle and money. The landlord, who had not the slightest suspicion, delivered them to the prisoner, who mask off with them. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Cour sentenced him to be transported for seven years. William Griffiths 'was charged with having stolen a coat, the property of W. Lowe; and a hat, the pro perty of W. Barsford, in the gallery of Astley's Thea tre.—Guilty.—To be transported for seven years. Charles Watts was charged with stealing a trunk. On the night of the 16th inst. Baurne, one of the dis mounted Bow. street patrol, was on duty with a com panion, in the kent-road, when he saw the prisoner get out of a ditch. On proceeding to the spot, he perceived a large trunk in the ditch. Suspecting the l i prisoner had stolen it, he pursued and overtook him. 1t was found that the ttunk had been cut off the car riage of Lady Watke, and that a patent chain which fastened it had been wrenched in two. The trunk was found locked. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Chair man sentenced him to be transported for seven years. PE MATE THEATRICA L5...--CURIOUS EJECTMENT, UsioN-HALL.—Yesterday Richard Hughes, J. Mor. ton, J. Spencer, IV. Morris, W. Collard, and five other boys, the eldest of whom is not more than 16 years of age, were brought before the Magistrate, charged with having caused a very great disturbance in Gaywood court, Prospect-place, St. George's-fields, in the yro gress of exhibiting to their friends and the Public, a theatrical performance called The Miller and his Men. It appeared from the statement of Loyd the officer, that though the theatrical establishment of those young gentlemen was quite in its infancy, the neigh bourhood in which it was carried on had already been greatly disturbed by the proprietors and visitors. He had received information that the theatre, which had been christened the Regency Theatre, the arena of which was confined to a room in a small house, No. 5, Gaywood-court, Prospect-place, was not un frequently the rendezvous, at the hours of perform ance, of some of the worst characters. Upon going to the door of admission he saw the prisoner Hughes officiating as check-taker. Above the head of this officer of the theatre was written upon the wall the following notification, " Chen taken hear!" The check-taker, the moment he saw the officer, ran into the theatre, and immediately an extraordinary scene of confusion took place. A large assemblage of young men and women had collected together, and the curtain (an old blanket) had st been raised, or rather pushed aside, to disclose " Wolfe and his gang of robbers" preparing for plunder, when the affrighted check-taker put in his head, and cried " tsar-hawk." The word was enough. The few candles with which this place was illuminated were soon extinguished. and all the audience part of the theatre ran towards the stage, and mingled with " Wolle and the :other robbers." The of fi cer had, before he proceeded to disturb this hopeful assembly, obtained the assistance of a man in the neighbourhood who had suffered something from the amusements with which sync of those stage-struck heroes thought proper to 0 f • 1 0 , up their more refined speculations ; and ther e 1,66, a watch by this means both within and witho ot . ten prisoners were apprehended and lodged • m t h e watch-house, where the constable told th em the were at full liberty to rehearse their nest p er f, . ri f ance, although he could not supply them 1.1 1 ;“ . propriate scenery. The Magistrate tlt. C nAl t ztl f - Esq.) said that the most effectual toad to ruin was perhaps that in which the prisoners had commenced their career. He should take care that th ey s h ould all receive punishment —Some of th e p r i soners sai d that they were merely spectators, and had paid thei r money, twopence a-piece, " to see the acting." %be prisoner Hughes said he was out of ernpi er " . " ment, and in his anxiety to make a little mo n ey h, nestly had undertaken to take the checks at the door, He had never played, and hoped they would net ' take him for a thief because he happe ne d L to hav e something to do with a theatre.—The th eatre had, it appeared, opened for the first time on Monday night. —A Mr. Hawkins, the proprietor of the House which had been converted into the Regency Th ea ., tre," said that two young men, of respectable app ear „ ance, had about ten days ago called upon him, an d asked him to let the tenement, No. 5, Gavwn e d, emit, to their mother, who was to be in town i n few days. Mr. Hawkins agreed to take ss. a we e k, but had no idea that his house was to be converted into a theatre. He gave possession of it to the yo ung men but upon finding what " goingt on" were i a his tenement, he determined, as the best way ofg et . ting back his possession, to have the whole gang,; ;; , turbed in the way described. —The I,risoners wee most of them loudly deploring their situati n darin g this statement. They begged for GOD'S sake to be discharged, and promised never more to act r 10,1 at actors again as long as they lived. The parem of some of them also begged hard, Litt the Nligis trate declared that every one of them should god the Howe of Correction. Hughes was sent to &iv ton for three months, and the rest for one month eaei. Wednesday IV. Moore, for stealing a quantity cf harness ; S. Dennis, for stealing two clarionets fron t sleeping musician at Peckham Fair; and IV. Chuly, and R. Haydon, for stealing a piece of oil cloth, te l . victed at the last Southwark Se.simic, undement a severe public flogging in the Borough Compter yard The house of the Earl of SHREWSBURY was pre. vented from being robbed by a poor woman, on Met. day evening, who observing two men breaking is a a window at the back of the premises, ?,.tre an Aare, which obliged them to make a precipitate retrea leaving behind them one of their implemenu house-breaking. The villains afterwards came e? with the poor woman in Pat k-line, when they knocked her down, and beat her in a most brutal and lock ing manner. She was discovered lying in the tas.t by Jefferys, one of the Bow-street patted, who tai her for dead, but on perceiving some sli;;lit anima. tion in her, he immediately procured assistance, all had her conveyed to the Hospital. She qui:led t yesterday to go to her family, being much recoreiti The Steward of the Earl of SHREWSBURY has se! properly endeavoured to find her out, for the pupa of making her recompense, but without success. A most wanton and shameful outrage was com• mitted a few nights ago in the Parish of Rabe, in the County of Westmeath : a banditft of mEhans went to the Baptist Meeting-house, which has stood there upwards of a century unmolested, and is attendedby a most respectable congregation ; where, after forcing an entrance by breaking the outside gate, they de molished all the windows and shutters of the hat. EXECUTION.—Saturday se'nnight IV. Janus, aria Big IVill, left for execution at Cardigan, undetet the dreadful sentence of the law, in the meserad an immense concourse of people, who seemed et much affected at the sight, no execution havinglq pened there for twenty years. He ascended the led with a firm step, and prayed for upwards of the quarters of an hour in a manly voice, and seri* fecting manner.* He acknowledged the justice ofb punishment, and confessed that he stole four has from the County of Cardigan, but from whom Oct. 14, at Cult Manse, Elizabeth Hunter, wife of Thomas Gillespie, Minister of Cult. Oct. 17, at Fraserburgh, aged 32, Lieutenant IVm. Green, R.N. -- -------- t 5. 4 MAID THIS DAY.—ARR. DM : Dublin 1 0 Li sbon 0 s• 1 0 Waterford 1 0 France 0 9 I s Guernsey and Jersey 0 1 Hamburgh Holland 0 1 Gottenbureh 0 i I Flanders 0 0 Leeward Wands 0 1 Malta 0 1 Jamaica HIGH-W ATER at LONDON ilal I) G E TO-240110 More - - $3 minutei ifte _:.-- 3 Afternoon • LONDON : reined and published by Loa Mr , • ' elai.c, Toiyir-33.4. could not tell. His inducement for cOming , Cardiganshire to steal was, he said, because a form. teller had shewn him in a glass the Church hews . to be buried at, which had a spire ; and, as no Ch in the County of Cardigan answered that d • tion, his mind was satisfied that he should not there. He made three desperate attempts to btu prison ; when he found he could not get off, he • to be penitent, and, through the attention of Clergyman, he became very resigned and religis and declated that he had been guilty of almost ere! 1 crime except murder. • ' BIRTHS. Thursday se'nnight, in Harcourt-street, Dublin, the Cane of Errol, of a daughter. At Tamerton, the Lady of Col. Sir E. K. Williams, H.Clii a daughter. Thursday se night, in George-street, Plymouth, the L 1 ' of Capt. Warrand, R.N. of a son. Oct. 15, at Aberdeen, the Lady of Major Hendenonik i Engineers, of a son. MARRIED. Oet. 15, at Old Aberdeen, Captain George Thomas flr's , of the Hon. East India Company's Light Cavalry, Ur i' Bombay Establishment, to Margaret Catherine, youndegt",._ ter of the late Roderick Macleod, D.D. Pruatipil aq' College, Aberdeen. . Oct. 20, J. Clipperton, Esq. Solicitor, of Norwich, to OA daughter of G. Bayne, Esq. of Nottinghanlanke• DIED. ' Yesterday morning, at his house in Queen Ann-stretti.: • ral Sir William Young, G.C.B. and Vke-Admits! F Britain. Sir William Young was a most distinguished Officer, and had.the command of the fleet off Flushing 1 the most rigorous enforcement of the Milan Decrees 1 10 ' 1 far advanced in years. C 0110.3 2 Oct. 19, in his 78th year, Mr. W. Rhodes , of the e Tavern, Fountain-court, Strand. . Oct. 19, in her 60th year, Henrietta, wife of the Hodson, of Thornham, Kent. • _ _ -• 1.f...00r wife of t'