Star. — London, England, 1821-09-11 00:00:00

THE ARMY. T h e 86 t h, or Connaught Rangers, under the command of Noel Faaorsox, landed at Dublin, from England, 021 Tues rtey appeared in the offing just as his illarisre erribarked, as , bad the honour of firing a faa de joie, as a response to the ro yal salute, and to the grateful and honourable feelings of their s etrymen on Shore. l a ke 91st Regiment, at present in the Barracks at Glasgow, 2re o der orders for Jamaica. It is not known on what day day will march; but they will embark at Cork in the first lot h o f October. They are to be relieved by the 77th, now is Sonderland. yesterday ' the 19th Regiment marched from W eedon. and Northampton for Hull and Scarborough. The Royal M o nmouthshire Regiment of Militia is to assemble st Monmouth on the 18th instant, for twenty-one days' training and exercise. In consequence of the reductions in the 2d battalion of the 3d C o mb at the Tower, the guards at the Mint and the Depot of 111ilitary n ot hing in Toolerstreet, which used to be fu ished (ram the Tower, arc now supplied from the Brigade of Guards in Westminster. 'Monday se'nnight, the 91st Reentent, and ree squadrons of the 3d Dragoon Guards, were i n in s the Green, at Glasgow, by Major-General Sir T. Bassaroan. A party of Dying Artillery attended, with two field-pieces. A large crowd assembled to witness the evolutions. When the inspection was over, the General declared himself highly satis fi ed with the ex cellent discipline and neat soldier-like appearance of the troopa. As the 91st Regiment are to sail for the West Indies, the Ge neral was pkased to order that a number of the men be indulged with short furloughs. It is but justice to this fine Regiment to mention, that their conduct since their arrival in Glasgow has been everything that could be wished. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE'. The undermentioned Fast India Company's ships arrived as follow, vit. the Dunira, off the Isle of Wight, on the Bth instant the Marquis of Huntly, off the Start, the Bth instant; and the Lady Melville, off the isle of Wight, the 9th instant. The Moira and Marquis of Huntly passed through the Downs on Sunday, for the River. The Dunira was dispatched from China on the loth March. The blarquis of Huntly and Lady Mel ville left China on the 26th of March, and St. Helena on the !9th of July. The lemma, of 18 guns, is ordered to be commissioned at Portsmouth, and fitted for he home station. Eastman, Sam 9.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Orozimbo, Stow, for London. The undermentioned packets will sail this afternoon, should the wkid come round to the Eastward : Staurner, for Liabon . Lady Mary Pelham, for the Mediterra nean; and Francis Fretting, for the Brazils. Powesusurti, Sam 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived his Ma jt.stf, ships 'U L M}, from the Cuaat of Africa and Jamaica; and Saussear, from the West Indies • also the Cambetiand, MAT %son, from Commie; Pyrennees;CLAßK, from the Downs for ' Jamaica; Rosalyn Castle, HeT111:104, from ditto for New Snips. wick; Isabella, Nscums, from ditto for the Cape of Good Hope ; and the Williams, SMITH, from Lisbon. Sailed his Ma jesty's ship Tess, for the West Indies. Deal, Sept. to.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Lady Melville, Stawaer, bum China; Seam, itiONAIDIS i from Jamaica; Harmony, Goat', from. Oporto; Ranger, MAT, from the South SEM . (a full ship); apd Timandra. Pars, from Bengal—Came down front the River and remain, the Langford, Artnimre, for Babice; Chewy Chace ' Imam* for Liverpool; and several mots .-- Sailed the Ann, Lim*, for Bull. . .• Hearten, Saes. 10.-- Antra the Castlereagh _packet, from Cuxhaven; sod Princess ClharilaYte , ditto, frau Holland; each with a Mail; also the HelMeelsald; ,May, friwn Ghtietiana, writhe the lens of two anchors ands:able: Tbklietvini Sauer., front lieweastk, has been brought in here by a ! salage smack, Haley. Yautourn, Sam 10.—The Albion, (eons bliramichi, spoke the crew of the British Qoeen, going np tea Quebec with their boats and stores, the vessel having been lost on the Island of Audeosti. Catotsalousz, Sat. 10.—Ships Entered Inwards Crown, from Aboeira; Geestriud from Rotterdam ; Ceres, from Sierra Leone; Mary,hom Hamburgh ; Lady Juliana, from St. John's; Lastre,fromQodec ; Adenoa, from Jamaica; Lord Cranstonn, from ditto; Aldberough, from Calais ; Unioni, from Quebec.; John, from St. John's; Susannah, from blogadore P • Rose Hill, from St. Kitt's; Ann, front Naples ; Arethusa, from Montserrat ; Nary, from Rotterdam; Cyrene, from Trinidad; Phrenix, from New Orleans; Qennie, from the Greenland Fishery. Entered Ootwards: - Iblianee, for Hantburgh; Inclination, for Bremen; Coromandel, for Jamaica ; Hutton, for Buenos Ayres. Cleared Petuards Frederick, for Cadiz ' • Lively, for Elsinore ; lier, for Dublin; Nelson , front the South Sea Whale Fishery. harven—At St. Helena, the Lady Kennaway, —; tatedes,—; and Asia, Lindsay, from Bengal; Friendship,. 'leek, from Batavia; Lyra,sWipslose; and the Ranger, - May, korialator.' At Buenos Ayres, Frances, Whytock, from Lon don. At Jamaica, Countess or. Chichester packet, front Fal b:mi. At Barbadoes, Irlam, Higgins, from. Liverpool ; George Balaton, from Cork ; Alligator, CoultOrr ; • and Mar, pret, —, from Halifax ; also the Mary Ann, Corey, froni St. Jeka's (N. B.) At St: Vincent's, Foundling, —, from the Clyde; Louisa, —, from St. John's (N. B .) ; Ma deira, Bo? bets, from Liverpool (N. S.) Polygon, Morris ; Elizabeth and Ether, Sallower, and Francis, Russell, from Newfoundland; also the Mary, front Quebec. Anommearts.—Lieutenant William Hobson, to the Tyne ; Lieutenant Andrew Baird, to the Fly; lieutenants Victor and Fyinnote, B.M. to the Sybille and Tamar, at Jamaica; Mr. Valise Welt, surgeon, to the Tyne. A letter from Stockholm, of the 28th of August, mentions another instance of the bold and independent spirit that influences the Diet of Norway. The Upper Monte of that Assembly have caused proceedings to be instituted in the Court of the States, against two of & Ministers, for mul-administration, viz. Count . Wtari-Joutunuao, Head of the Finance Depart ment, and Count FASTING, Chief.of the Department for the Navy. - FASHIONABLE CHANGES. L Dondas, nun Richmond, in Yorkshire , fir Mush borough. Aall Mr. Francis Neardigate r from' Coventry for Great Malvern, Bareestarddre. ix Lid Middles froon uait 4 toni Wolloton House, in Nottinghamshire, e, Birdsall, near Yorkshire fdsoel and. Mrs. in . from Brighton for Toy Cottage, bap & Mr. Charles Wynn, for Lima, nest .carry' y Dndtboo, in Bo* Wales. from PillheiT• lord Binning, from Worthing for Penrorth, in Sussex. &Wand Antrobus, from Brigbtonon a tour. kir. and Miss Montague, from Brighton for Ramsgate. &r Francis Wines, Ban . for Cockerhatch, Hens. lb. Wm. Peel,Trom Ramsgate for Tamwoith, Staffordshire. Ilss Metcalfe, from Hampton, near Bury St. Edmund's, for llhdkrough.row, Brighton. DEPARTURES. laly Falmouth, for Kingston Hall, Donetshire. ...lost Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square :—llis Grace the mote of Hamilton, for Scotland. /Na t he St. James's Hotel,Jermyn-street :—Edward Croker, lllir* seat, Croome Castle, Scotland. ,mathe Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-squge :—Prince !limbs Bsterhazy and suite, Prince Metternich, and Chera w' at Reset, for the Continent. • „ i l i um Bates Hotel :—Mr. and Mrs. Williams ; Mr. and Mrs. " a mas itr Bath; John Taylor, Esq. for Dublin. ARRIVALS. At &Brunswick House Hotel :—Lord and Lady Burghersh, flora Bsighton. At the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—Lord Thomas Ce ti sod the H on . B. Watson, from Brignton; Montague Gore, aid Paul Fitzsimons, Esqrs. from Paris. - At tie St. James's Hotel—Capt. Hamilton, R. N. from a tour. Sir Mark and Lady Sykes, from the Continent. At the Sew Saughter's :—Sir Thos. licade,_ for St: Helena. At Bates Hotel :—Si r G eorge an d L a dy Wood and family ; betas and Mrs. Fitton, from Paris. As early as five o'clock this morning the Borough was crowded with vehicles of every description, going to Crawley, in order to see the milling match between the -'`lngiareil and the Mader of ti Rats—RANDALL ;ad :klasnxi FIRE IN GiIACECRURCIPSTREETt ADDITIONAL PARTICULAR& - ------- - - --- At five o'clock yesterday morning, the whole of the houses between Messrs. ATTIVOOD and Seommit's, No. 27, and the house Nn. 31, Gracechurch-street, Were one complete mass of ruins, and the whole of White Hart-court appears utterly destroyed. The scene presented about noon yesterday passed descrip tion : an area of upwards of one hundred yards square is made by the devouring element; and on a spot that was on Saturday crowded with buildings, and overflowing with population, not one stone is left upon another. It is difficult, and indeed impossible, in this scene of confusion and distress, to ascertain accurately the number of houses destroyed. Three houses fronting Gracechurch-street, in the occupation of Messrs. Low and PEwrons, Mr. RYAN, and Messrs. Fossicx and Co. are completely levelled with the ground, independently of the dreadful de vastation in the court. The unfortunate man, named Itlun, who was on Sunday conveyed to the Hospi tal dreadfully injured, is said to have expired yester day morning; and it is certain that Perkins, belong ing to the London Assurance, and the turncock of the New River Company (the keys belonging to whom have been found), are buried in the rums. The loss sustained is immense, but it is impossible to ascertain, for the present, anything like the amount. The firemen were yesterday busily engaged in dig ging for the bodies of their unfortunate companions, but hitherto without success. The engines continued playing on the ruins; the fire was completely got under. In addition to the fireman and the assistant turncock, two of Mr. RYAN'S shopmen are missing, and great fears are entertained that many others have lost their lives by the falling of the house, as many persons were seen actively employed in saving pro perty a few seconds before the fall., WILLIAM ALLEN and Co. having seen, with much surprise, in the STAR Paper for this day, k report that some gunpowder was upon their premises when the fire in Gracechurch-street broke out, think it ne cessary to state that there was no foundation what ever for the report, as they have not at any time received the article into their premises; and further, that so far from being " filled with combustibles," as the same report erroneously say s,thei► premises in town, for the last sixteen years, have been rendered parti cularly safe, by making a laboratory in the country the manufactory and store for certain preparations deemed objectionable. Plough Court, Loatbard-street, 10th of 9th Month, 1921. When the KING presented a superb whip to the Duke of LEINSTER, at the Curragh Royal Meeting, his MAJirrry turned to Captain BROWNE, the Ranger, and was pleased to express himself in the following gracious manner: • . " Mr. Bums; I intend this Whip to be presented to the owner of the best horse in Ireland, weight for age ; and I wish you to fix the weights, and draw up an Article, according to which it is to be run for ; and in addition to this Whip, which is to be run for every year, I give a Stakes of One Hundred Gui neas annually. As I wish to encourage the breed of strong Horses in 'this country, you will take care to make the weights vefy heavy, and that no horse younger than four years shall be permitted to run for it." In these few words the Reader will recognize not only a very handsome compliment to the Gentlemen of the Turf, but an instance of his MAJESTY'S earnest feelings to promote the interest of the country ; for there is no doubt that the breed of such a noble ani mal as the horse, successfully and judiciously at tended to, would serve very materially to advance that interest. At Exeter Races, the gold cup, value 100 guineas, was won by . Mr. FaaQuirmisoN's Spindle, heating two othert.—The County Members plate of £5O was won by Mr. GA RDINER'S Imo,gene ; as was the City Members' plate of fifty pounds by Mr. FARQUIIA R SON'S Spinetta. We are happy to state, that Mr. COKE has per fectly recovered his health. We hear with pleasure that the Grand Musical Fes tival which is to take place in the city of Bath, next month (and for which CATALAN! and Mrs. Sausiox are engaged), has excited so much interest among the neighbouring fashionables, thpt several scientific Gen tlemen Amateurs have offered their assistance in the orchestra on the occasion; and that Sir C. NV. BAMP• FYLDE, Bart. is named as one of the performers on the violincello. As a completion to the arrangements of the week, we hear that a Grand Ball will take place at the Upper Rooms, on the evening of the last performance, under the patronage of some Ladies and Gentlemen of the first distinction. Monday se'nnight, a bird of the eagle kind, called the Osprey, was killed in Stoke's Bay, by Mr. JEANS, son of the Rev. Dr. JEANS, of Egham, now residing at that place, measuring, from the tip of the bill to the tip of the tail, two feet, and the expanse of the wings, five feet nine inches; the talons one inch, very crooked, sharp, and black, and the claws an inch and a half long. The head is dark brown, approaching to black, mixed with white; back, wings, and tail, dark brown, with the ends of the feathers white ; the covert wing feathers white, some barred ; inside of the wing . dirty .white, barred ; belly quite white; throat like the head, rather whiter; bill black; the roots of the under mandible are greenish sky-blue ; thighs white ; legs naked, and of a greenish sky-blue; the eye is rather large, with a large circle of yellow. In shape it is somewhat like a goshawk ; the bill, thick, strong, and very crooked ; the five outward wing feathers are of a good shape, but with a re markable increase of size in the middle; The bird is remarkably fat for one of the rapacious kind ; the legs are of immense size and strength, and though both its wings were broken, and hit in different parts of the body and head, yet no dog would venture in after it when it fell in the water. Tuesday last, a boy of Mr. MARK, hatter, at Rom ford, coming home from school, swallowed some fly water, which he mistook for sugar and water; and, though assistance was immediately procured him, the child died on the following morning. The water had been placed in the parlour window by his mother till she answered somebody in the shop, and during her temporary absence the fatal draught was taken. A melancholy accident occurred at Redcar on Sunday last. A young man, groom to Colonel MURRAY, went down to the sea to bathe, it being rough, and the tide ebbing, he swam out beyond the breakers ; but, from the strong out-set of the tide, he was unable to reach the shore. lie was seen struggling I tome Lite,i and then sunk to rise no more. LA COURT OF CHANCERY, SEPTEMBER B. INADEQUATE PURCHASE. STILLWELL V. WILKINS ANA ANOTHER. -------- ---- A short time Suite application was made to his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, to appoint a receiver of the rents and profits of an estate, claimed 'by the heir at law of a poor sailor, of weak intellects, who had been induced to part with his property, worth nearly £2OO a-year to his father-in.lw, for £250 and an annuity o f £5 O. The Vice-Chancelltir addressed himself to the transaction in terms of sevire reprobation —expressed his belief that the plaintiff must ultimately prevail in his suit, and therefore granted the receiver to take care of the property in the meantime. The defendants were dissatisfied with the judgment pronounced by his Honour, and ap pealed to the Lord Chancellor, before whom the whole case was r e -h e a r d. Hi s ordship, after consi dering the arguments of Counsel, and looking into the pleadings, expressed himself to this effect :- 4 4 This is an application to discharge an order made by the Vice-Chancellor, appointing a receiver. It is a case in which the plaintiff states himself to be the heir at law of a man who had been a sailor, and en titled to a real estate, which was bought of him by a person of the name of Collier, his father-in-law.— The estate is represented to be of the clear yearly value of £lBO. The amount of the purchase money was 250 guineas, and an annuity of 50 guineas for life, which may be valued at six or seven years pur chase; so that the consideration for the estate was about £650, the ordinary value of a fee simple estate being twenty years purchase. This motion was made by Mr. Ilan. He represented it as a case which brought forward the dry question, whether inade quacy of price was sufficient to set aside a sale and purchase? That the Court is with difficulty pre vailed upon to do it is most certain; but that there may be such an inadequacy of price—an inadequacy so enormously great as to induce the Court to grant a receiver, I take to be clear. This is a very hard case upon the defendants, upon whom there is no possibility of imputing anything that can affect their honour and character, for they took it under a devise in the will of the person who purchased the property in 1801. Yet it is impossible to deny that he had procured a purchase from a person utterly unable to judge for himself—a common sailor on board a King's ship, dealing upon terms with the nature of which he was unacquainted, and the purchaser perfectly Iknowing the value of the property. The degree of inadequacy isgreater than in any purchase lever knew or heard of. Six or seven years purchase for £lBO alear, is a very inadequate price indeed. I cannot agree with Mr. Hart that inadequacy of price is the only circumstance in this case. The bill charges many other circumstances, which will be very mate rial when the cause comes to a hearing. The de fendants have put in an answer, stating that they are ignorant of all these circumstances; but they do not go the length of stating that they do not believe them to be true, or that they have endeavoured to inform themselves of them. It does not appear that they have sought for information or knowledge of the circumstances that are extremely material. The question that struck me was of a different kind, and that was, whether a Court, in the case of a bill to set aside a purchase fraudulently obtained (I repeat it, not by these defendants), had the power, or ought to appoint a receiver prior to the hearing of the cause; that is, whether it should take the possession of the estate from those who have the present right to the possession, or leave the parties to struggle for it ? I put it to Mr. Roupel to tell me whether he could find a single instance where it had been done? I have looked, with a view to see whether the money paid to the grantor had been satisfied by the rents and profits received; for if not, at any rate those who bought the estate would be incumbrancers for so much of the purchase money as had not been re ceived back by the perception of the rents and profits. But this latter ground fails; for I understand that the amount of the rents and profits must have been more than the 250 guineas, if they were ever paid, and the £5O annuity, which most probably was paid, because I observe the representative of the deceased has received the 50 guineas for the last year. I admit that I cannot recollect a single case in which a receiver has been so appointed ; but the question is, whether there may not be a case in which such re ceiver should be appointed? If the case stated is true, and it is more than probable it is, the inade quacy of value is so monstrous, and the state of in tellect of the young man who sold it was such, that it is hardly possible to suppose the transaction can stand ; and I think, upon the whole, that such an order may be made, though it is not the general practice. I will therefore, not disturb the Vice-Chan cellor's judgment." LAWYERS' FELL In the course of a motion for reviewing the taxa tion of a Solicitor's bill of costs, the circumstances of which we are not disposed to enter into, a discussion incidentally arose upon the subject of the fees paid to Counsel. It appeared, by the statement of Mr. Agar, that, for some years past, a practice had pre vailed, which was wholly at variance with anything of which the Lord Chancellor, when he was at the bar, had any notion. It seems that Counsel, instead of being paid their fees instanter, upon the delivery of their briefs, and more particularly with their in• structions to draw bills, answers, and the various matters of pleading, are obliged to give credit to their clients—that a great part of the business of their clerks is the keeping running accounts with the Solicitors. " Generally, said Itir. Agar, " when the Counsels demand reached a certain amount, they received regularly, from the more respect able class of Solicitors, drafts upon their Bankers for the money ; but in many instances they were never paid at all." This .had happened to himself to a very considerable amount, and he was sure the same had taken place with regard to many of his learned Friends. The LORD CHANCELLOR appeared to be perfectly surprised at hearing this statement. He had no idea that anything of the kind prevailed; he thought it a very improper practice. He recollected, when he was a very young man, one of the first fees which he , ought to have received was for signing a plea.- 1 Having signed it, the Attorney put his hand in his pocket, and, feeling about, expressed his regret at having forgot to bring any money with him ; but from that day to the present he had never seen either [the Attorney or the lee. Generally speaking, no . , ... . • teottiv.el in his time ever thonglit himself retained tin he had actually received his fee; and, As an iostance of this, he recollected the circumstance of a brief having been delivered to Serjeant Davy; WithoUt any Indorsement of the fee that should have accompanied it. Same short time after, the client called ti l on the Learned Serjeant, and asked him what he thought of his case ? Think of your case!" replied the Ser jeant, drily, Why, to tell you the truth, I stave never been able to look any farther into it than here" —taking up the brief, and pointing to the place where the fee ought to have made its appearance. Mr. ROAR said, the practice had got to an extent beyond anything his Lordship could imagine. The fact was, it was in a great measure unavoidable. The Masters, in taxing the costs, allowed the Counsels' fees according to the length of the proceedings they had drawn ; so that the Solicitors could not always knew what Counsel were entitled to. That practice had a most mischievous consequence with regard to the suitors, and made the proceedingi of a Chancery suit unnecessarily expensive; for, if a Counsel, em ploying his utmost ability, compressed a voluminous mass of matter into a very small compass, as he often might do by imposing upon himself additional la bour, he would only receive, for drawing a bill, per haps, two guineas • whereas, if he recited and de= tailed, unnecessarily, a quantity of deeds and docu ments, swelling .the record to an immoderate length, he would perhaps be allowed sixteen or twenty gui neas. That was one of the rules in the Master's office. In truth, the Masters in Chancery exercised no talent whatever themselves; they generally left the business to be transacted by their clerks. The whole practice of the Court had been altered : formerly, the Solid torsadrew the bills, answers, and pleadings, them selves, and laid them before Counsel to peruse and settle; but now the entire labour of drawing plead ings of every description devolved upon the Gentle men without the Bar, the Solicitors themselves doing little or nothing but laying the instructions and pa pers before them. When Lnrd Erskine increased the fees of the Solicitors, it was an increase given for what they did not do. Formerly, they had sixpence a folio for drawing the pleadings themselves—now they had a shilling a folio for doing nothing; the whole duty fell on the Bar. Ile threw out these ob servations in the confident hope that they would, at some time hereafter, meet with the consideration of his Lordship and the other Judges of the Court. The Loan CHANCELLOR observed, that when he was at the Bar, he had paid more to the law-stationer for copying many of the bills he had drawn than the amount of the fees he had received for draw ing them. ATTORNIES...-BRICHENO V. THORPE. This was a case somewhat of a singular and novel nature. A solicitor of the name - of Day had served his clerkship with a Mr. Fisher, who was employed as attorney for the plaintiff in the above cause; and in the course of his duty he had occasion to copy come of the proceedings and documents in the cause, and consequently acquired a general knowledge of the plaintiff's case. Upon his coming out of his clerkship, and setting .up for himself, he was en gaged as the Solicitor for the defendant; and the mo non now made was, that he should not be permitted to act as the defendant's Solicitor, on the ground that as clerk to the plaintiff's Solicitor, he had obtained that sort of information of which he might enable his client to avail himself in consequence of his previous situation in the office of his adversary's Solicitor. The matter having been heard on both sides, The Loan CHANCELLOR refused to grant the prayer of the motion. He would not make a rule imperative upon one branch of the profession which did not apply to another. Every one knew that Counsel, after having been engaged in a cause on one side, were frequently retained and obliged to give their services to the other. He had himself been. placed in that situation. During a period of his prac tising at the Chancery Bar, it was his habit to attend the Circuit, and whenever he - had been engaged in a Chancery suit, which subsequently became the sub ject of litigation, by an issue or otherwise, upon the Circuit, he uniformly applied to the Solicitor of the party whose Counsel he had been in the Court of Chancery, desiring to know whether it was intended to retain him in the Court below ? If he was not sd retained, then, rather than not be in the cause at all, he felt himself at liberty to take a brief from the other party. Mr. AGAR informed his Lordship that no such de licacy prevailed now. A retainer in an original cause was not considered as a retainer in any interlocutory motions or subsequent proceedings. On the con trary, by the universally prevalent custom of the Bar, Counsel were obliged to take a brief from the Solici tor who, in the particular stages of the proceeding, first offered it. This imposed upon them very pain ful and unpleasant duties. It often happened that a Counsel, who had originally advised proceedings, was called upon to argue against the interest of the client by whom he had in the first instance been env. ployed. The practice, to the extent it prevailed at present, had originated in a famous cause—in which one of the parties retained all the leading Counsel, so that the junior Counsel held all the briefs for the other side in every future proceeding in the suit : it was, therefore, now a rule to take the first brief that offered upon any distinct proceeding, though the Counsel had been engaged adversely on some prior occasion. _ _ The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his astonish ment at this system. He thought it was a situation of difficulty in which Counsel ought not to allow themselves to be placed. With regard to the present motion, for the reason he had stated, that he would not make a distinction between Solicitors and Coun sel, he should refuse the application. Sunday, one of the Turnham-green coaches broke down in Piccadilly. The passengers escaped without any severe contusions, but their habiliments, from the dirty state of the street, were tetribly disfigut ed. Tuesday evening, a travelling jeweller, from Edin burgh, was stopped on the Renfrew road, near Glas gow, a little to the west of Braehead, by three men, and immediately eased of his pack, containing five gold watches, eleven silver ones, with go'd neck.. chains, watch-chains, seals, keys, &c. to tt:e atnout.t of £126. From his pocket th 4 took his own si lver watch, and pocket-book, which was opened, and Di• 2 in notes taken from it. The book, with its other con tents, was thrown away. The box was after.vards found in the grounds at Draeltead.