Star. — London, England, 1821-06-14 00:00:00

SPARRING. ITVES COURT. The Champion of England, the gallant Ton Canna, took his Benefit hero yesterday it was the most crowded ever known— a just tribute to his superior pfawess in the ring, and the pro priety of his conducE as a citizen in private life. At three o'clock the Court actually overflowed with company, including many Gentlemen of distinction, Antateurs'of the Polite Art, and the whole School of Professors and Students. The sports commenced with the exhibition of some minor scradars, among whom young Gas and the Bristol lad afforded the greatest promise. It appears that young Gas is of the sane gasometer as old Gas, and he certainly shews a kindred spirit, and an evident disposition to form himself upon the style of that striking genius. The veterans then succeeded to the arena. Several fine speci mens of the art were given. Shelton and Crawley excited great approbation. A set-to.hetween Randall and Ditt.,n also deserves particular notice. Randall, though not looking well, knocked about his adversary in grand style. The quickness and impetuosity of loin assaults were irrodstib:e. . The amusement of the day concluded with a grand duct be tween Cribb himself and Spring. The latter was in fine condi tion, but he often found it convenient to spring away from the boring strength of the Champion. Their attitudes displayed great taste and science, and their muscular appearance inspired a grand Idea of their extraordinary powers of execution. On the conclusion of the scene, Mr. Cribb returned thanks, and made his bow, amid loud cheering. Tout Belcher mounted the stage, just before the sparring was finished, and, in a feding speech, announced a Benefit for poor • Turner, whom he described as having dome terse than a bent• sup!, from the unfortunate issue of his coltest with the Master of MC Rols. Martin, who seemed in high condition, and nothing the worse from his late battle with Turner, challenged Randall, for Five Hundred Guineas, which was immediately accepted by the Nonpareil—the battle to take place within three months. — Betting even—Martin for choice. The most unlucky speculators at the late Epsom Meeting were, it seems, two brothers of the Turf, who lost " to the tune" of Twenty-six Thousand Pounds ; but who have since handsomely paid their ." debts of honour." Lord and Lady GEORGE CAVENDISH gave an ele ant Entertainment on Mohday, at Burlington House , Piccadilly, to Prince LEOPOLD. The party to meet his Royal Highness were— The Marquis of Tichfield, Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl of Rosslyn, Lord and Lady W. Bentinck, Mr. and Lady Louisa Macdonald, Lord Fitzroy, Colonel Upton, and Mr. and Mrs. Abercrcmby. In the evening her Ladyship gave a splendid Rout. The elegant and spacious suit of apartments, six in number, on the drawing-room floor, were thrown open, which were most brilliantly illuminated, and were decorated with a profusion of pots of the choicest flowers, shrubs, &c. Them were present nearly four bundre.! distinguished Fashionahles. • Lady DUCIE oPened her elegant mansion in Dover 'street, on Monday evening, to the 'taut ton, with a grand Rout, which was attended by upwards of four hundred persons of the first distinction and fashion. The three drawing-rooms were fitted up with un common splendour and elegance. The principal dining-parlour was appropriated. for refreshments, which consisted of every delicacy of the season, with • fruits, wines, &c. of the choicest description. Amang other distinguishce, fashionables present were— His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Rutland, Marquis Graham, the Marchioness of Hertford, the MirchiOness and the Ladies Cormvallis, Earl and Countess Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Normation, Lady Manners, Lord and Lady Henley, the Ladies Petre, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and the Ladies Herbert, Lord Porchester, Lord Folkestone, Lady Filenborough and the Misses Law, Lady blildmay, Sir Edwavi and Lady Codrington, Lord C. and G. Somerset, Sir A. Hume, Lady Warburton, Lady Pringle, the Countess of Mansfield, the Ladies Murray, &c. &c. A letter from Batavia, of the 21st of January, states that two young Englishmen, established there with credit as merchants, have been banished the island of Java, for the abduction of a young female slave, the property of one of the native planters. They have repaired to Europe for the purpose of appealing to the Government of the Netherlands against the sen tence of the Governor of Java. Intelligence bas been received from Mogadore of the recent date of the 10th of May. The contest which agitated the empire of Morocco has entirely ceased; and the surrender of Tetuan, the last place that held out against his authority, has reinstated the old Em peror, MULEV SOLIMAN, in all his original power and the undisturbed possession of the Throne. A letter from Berlin, dated May the 26th, says, ge We hear that the King of Great Britain while he is on the Continent, will also pay a visit to our Court. Political visionaries already pretend to give particu lar importance to this visit, as connected with the present state of Moldavia and Walachia." Accounts from Hamburgh say—" Among the de. cisions of the Assembly of Citizens, on the 19th of May, the most important, and which is also interest ing to foreign merchants, is a resolution that the pre sent system of our Custom-house laws, shall cease at the end of the year, and that in drawing up the new tables of duties, particular regard shall be had to di minish the duties on importation. A Committee, consisting of ten merchants, was immediately ap pointed to draw tip the new tariff. The Portuguese President, Chevalier Correa, well known by his pro-. tests against the new order of things in Portugal, who left the city a considerable time ago, as was ge nerally believed to go to Brazil, but who has re mained all this time in England, has returned to this place, but we do not know in what quality." • According to private accounts from Switzerland. foreign travellers who have no public character, and who desite to prolong their stay in Switzerland, either for pleasure or for business, find, under the present circumstances, universal difficulties in obtain. ing from the Governments permission for that pur pose. This is chiefly caused by the frequent repre sentations of the Sardinian Ambassador, by which the Governments are placed under the necessity of exercising greater vigilance towards strangers than they have been accustomed to do. In his last official note the Minister desired this measure as demanded by imperious necessity to secure Piedmont against new disorders. In this note he speaks also with par ticular disapprobation of a pamphlet, stated to have been printed at Geneva, and published by a booksel ler of that city. In this pamphlet the Chiefs of the late Constitutional Army attempted, while they jus tified themselves, to cast au imputation on the con duct of Count de la Torre, though the General, on the contrary, acted so openly and frankly towards them, that in order to convince them of the impos sibility of executing their pursose, he communicated to them the letter written to him by Count Bubna, in which the latter gives notice, that:if the rebels should direct their march towards Novara, the Austrian; would immediately pass the Ticina. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 13. TENNISON V. MACKINTOSH AND CO. This was an action to recover the proceeds of cer tain goods shipped by the plaintiff to Calcutta, on board the Stockton, of which he was part owner, it being suggested that the goods in question were sold at a loss, contrary to the plaintiff's orders. The only question was, whether the plaintiff was a party to the arrangement which the defendants had made, with a view to what they considered for the advantage of the parties interested ? The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found their verdict for the defendants. BROOKES V. HAUGHTON. The plaintiff, a poor man, by trade a twine spin ner, brought his action against the defendant, who keeps the Black Dog, at Mile-end, to recover a com pensation in damages for a serious assault. It ap peared that the plaintiff went to the defendant's house in November last, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, in company With a person named Smi thers. The defendant demanded a shilling which he said Smithers was indebted to him ; the money was refused on the ground that it was due from another man named Martin. Brookes said he was a witness that Martin lost the shilling playing at skittles. The; defendant then ordered Brookes to leave his house, and finally seized him by the collar, threw him against the settle, and broke one or more of his ribs. The defence was, that the plaintiff was making a dis turbance in the house, and on his refusal to go away, the defendant turned him out. Witnesses were also called to prove the plaintiff received the injury in consequence of two of his companions pulling him' back at the time the defendant was pulling him out of the house. . The Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £3O. Costs 40s. WILLIAMS V. RICE. This was an action for wages due. The defend.' ant is an attorney in London, and the plaintiff lived with him as housemaid. Some time since Mr. Rice's house was robbed of property to a very considerable amount ; Mr. Rice discovered, that on the night of the accident, his housemaid had admitted a man, named Gowdry, formerly his clerk, to sleep with her, and he caused both the maid and the clerk to be taken into custody. Nothing appearing to fix them with the theft, the sleepers were subsequently liberated ; but Mr. kite, in discharging the plaintiff from his service, refused to pay £5 4s. arrears of wages due to her.—Evidence was given of the service of ‘Vil hams, and also of the amount of stipend due to her. Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, stated that the plaintiff was a yearly servant at the rate of ten gui neas per annum, and contended, upon the authority of decided cases, that having quitted her service be fore the expiration of the year, she was not entitled to recover. Mr. GURNEY.—WC quitted because you dis charged us. Mr. SCARLETT.—Yes; when you let people into our house to sleep with you! The Learned Gentle man then cited a case decided by Lord Ellenbo rough ; the case of " Spain v. Arnold," in Starkie's Reports; and a second case, decided by Lord Ken yon, the case of " Robinson v. Windgate," Ist Espi nesse. The first of these decisions was in an action by a servant for service performed. The plaintiff was hired by the year ; and it was the custom of the family to breakfast at five in the morning, and to dine at two in the afternoon. One day, when dinnel• was ready, the defendant ordered his servant to take some horses to " the marsh," (a place about a mile distant) ; the plaintiff refused to go until he had dined, and his master discharged him. Lord Ellen borough said, " the contract being for a year's set• vice, the year must be completed before any wages can be demanded. If the servant refuses to obey his master's order, the master is justified in turning him away : this may seem to be hard upon a servant ; but it would be much harder if a servant could be al lowed to set himself up against his master in house hold duties and regulations." In the second case, the action was brought by a servant suddenly dis charged, to recover a month's wages in default of warning. The defendant's answer was, that the ser vant's conduct was habitually negligent, and that he frequently slept out. Lord Kenyon said, " this is a sufficient cause of discharge. If the plaintiff had been sent away without justifiable cause, he would have been entitled to recover; but if he misconducts him self, his master has a right to get rid of him, and he can claim no notice at all." Mr. Scarlett concluded by submitting that, in the present case, the plaintiff's conduct had justified her master in dismissing her. Mr. GURNEY replied, that the plaintiff in " Spain v. Arnold" had been a husbandry servant. A hus bandry servant hired by the year was not allowed to recover his wages until the year was complete, be cause, by quitting his employer at the close of the winter, he would be enabled to obtain higher wages for the ensuing summer: the same rule could, by no analogy, apply to the case of a household servant, who was always understood to be engaged at a month's wages or a month's warning. The claim of Windgate, in the case before Lord Kenyon, went for service not actually performed, and was there. fore clearly distinguished from the plaintiff's claim in the present action. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that the plaintiff could not recover. Mr. READER submitted that a household servant, although hired at a certain annual stipend, could not be taken to be a yearly servant; The wages of sucl servants were commonly paid quarterly. The - LORD CHIEF JUSTICE did not know that fact. Such payment must be the subject of especial agree •ment. If a house were taken by the year, no th ing could be recovered until the year's end, unless there was an especial covenant for quarterly payments.— Plaintiff nonsuited. KITTINGHAM V. TOPHAM. This was an action of assault. The defendant in sulted a young Lady, and the young Lady flung a pot of water in his face : the defendant then beat the young Lady ; the plaintiff interfered, and. he beat him too.—The Jury gave one shilling. A respectable young Lady, of Newark, paid the mitigated penalty of t 2 before the Magistrates of that borough, for. giving evasiveanswe rs to the Overseers, when taking down die populAtion on the 28th ult. iii compliance with a late Act of Parlhuneuti OLD BAILEY. Yesterday Richard Luck and John Quittenden were+ capitally indicted for stealing a gelding and a mare, the property of James Taylor, a farmer, at High tham, in Kent. On the evening of the 18th ult. Thomas Croucher, servant of Mr. Taylor, turned four horses into a field. That same afternoon Croucher had seen two strangers loitering near the field. The following morning two of the four horses were missed, and a part of the fence destroyed. About four o'clock the prisoners were seen in Norton Falgate, with the animals, by a man who suspected that they had stolen them, and gave information to the Worship-street Officers. The latter traced them to the Basing-house, in Kingsland road, where they met Quittenden coming out of the parlour, and one of them said to him "you brought two horses to town this morning." He replied, " No; it was the man in the parlour who brought them." They wept in and saw Luck, whom they taxed with stealing the horses, and he did not deay it. One of the Officers then ran out after Quittenden, who was running off; and a cry of " Stop thief !" being raised, several persons attempted to stop him, but he knocked two or three of them down with a stick before he was secured. They were committed to Clerkenwell Prison, where Croucher, the next day, identified them as the men he had seen near his master's house in the afternoon of the 18th May. The horses were found in the stables of the Basing-house. They made no defence ; and the Jury found them . Guilty—Death. Aged 32 and 21. Isabella lVylie was indicted for stealing a quantity • of silk, value about £5, in the dwelling-house of James Barton ; and Samuel IVheatly, alias Keatl . ;, was charged with receiving the property, knowing at to have been stolen. The prosecutor, it appeared, is a silk-manufacturer, residing at Bethnal-green, and previous to the 18th of April last the female prisoner was employed in his warehouse. In consequence of having missed a quan tity of silk, he suspected the female prisoner, and she was taken into custody. She then confessed the rob bery, and said that she had taken it to the male pri soner, in Spicer-street, Bishepsgate street. A search warrant was obtained, the prisoner's lodgings were searched, and the prosecutor's silk was found. While the Officers were there the prisoner came home; but learning that a search was going on in his lodgings, he ran off as fast as he could. The prisoner was' afterwards taken at Nuneaton, in Warwickshire; and' when he saw the Officer, he said—" Oh, I suppose you are come about the girl and the silk?" The Officer knew the prisoner well before this time. Having told him that he was come to apprehend him for that purpose, the prisoner added—" Well, if you'll behave' like a man, I'll go along with you like a man." On the road to town the prisoner said—" I suppose I shall have a twelvemonth for this." Neither of the prisoners said anything in their defence ; but a great number of witnesses were called to the character of the male prisoner, some of whom had known him upwards of twenty years. The COMMON SERJEANT, in summing up to the Jury, observeJ, that although this was a capital charge against the female prisoner for stealing in a dwelling house above 40s. yet, inasmuch as there was no dis tinct evidence that the silk was all taken at one and the, same time, the capital charge was not made out. —As to the male prisoner, the evidence, he thought, was clear and decisive; and, as he was the receiver, he deserved, perhaps, the larger punishment. • The Jury returned a vei diet, after a short consider ation, against the female prisoner, Guilty of s:ealing to the value of 395. only ; and against the male pri soner, Guilty generally. The COMMON SERJEA NT then passed sentence upon . Samuel Wheatly, of transportation for 14 years. • John Morgan was convicted of stealing a quantity of linen and wearing apparel, the property of a poor woman named Smith, into whose apartment he got. admission by means of a false key. When asked if he had anything to say in his defence, he said he had not, and that he would be very much obliged to the Court to send him out of the country, for he could get 'no honest employment here. Mr. ARABIN—The Court will not accommodate you by a sentence of transportation. Some ether mode of punishment will be found for you. John Ryan, for breaking and entering the dwelling house of William Morris, and stealing a gown, and various other articles, value 30s. and Sarah G illian, for stealing in the dwelling-house of Thomas Reeve and John Bonnell, two silk shawls, their property, ' were also capitally convicteki. The Sessions at the Old Bailey were adjourned for want of the attendance of an Alderinan. Mr. Alder man ANSLEY left the Court about two o'clock, and another Alderman promised to sit an hour for him ; he, however, did not return, and after waiting a con siderable time, and sending in all directions in order to obtain the attendance of an Alderman, about half. past five o'clock the COMMON SERJEANT was obliged to adjourn the Court. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday James Robinson was found Guilty of snatching and funning away with a lady's ridicule, in the street. The CHAIRMAN said the offence was a highway robbery, for which the prisoner might have been in dicted capitally, and probably hanged. He was sen tenced to be transported for seven years. Timothy Driscoll was found Guilty of picking a gentleman's pocket of a silk handkerchief. Thepri- soner was a very young man ; but, as appeared by the account g►ven by the Officers, an old offender. The CHAIRMAN said, the most effectual means or saving him from the gallows, was to transport him for lice, which sentence was accordingly passed. Edward Hammond was found Guilty of an attempt to rob a lady of her shawl, by pulling it off her per son in the street. He was sentenced to three months imps isonment. Charles Allen, a sturdy beggar, was found Guilty of beating two Officers of the Mendicity Society, who attempted to apprehend him, and was sentenced to three months imprisonment. Qtrems-sonazz.—Yesterday, Trimble, the pugilist, and ano ther man, wore fully committed fur snatching a bundle, contain ing a suit of clothes, from the wife of a tradesman, whilst passing through Struttoo-gronnd, Westminster, ost Saturday evening. SURRENDER OP MR. DISNEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sm—As no doubt you would not - intentionally injure anyi e . dividual, by the insertion of what is entirely untrue, I an t d o sired to make you aware of the injurious statement of facts as t• the trial of Mr. Mawr, at the Old Batley, on the Bth of J est last. In Tax Smaa Paper, you say Coates, the constable, 4, posed to apprehending the'Prisoner, and make much distinct' s% in your method of naming Mr. PATMORIC, &c. Now Mr. Dinar surrendered himself, exactly the same as .11 t . PATIEOZZ : there was no prosecutor at all. Not oae eircuA stance of evidence was even offered but from Dawsonows. out of a few words, contradicted herself most plainly. Mr. Maar was never called on fur any defence. Four medical men swore that A. Banning died in eliild-bei from epidemic disease, totally unconnected with any m eted violence; also, that A. Banting went to the Workhous e ec pauper, in perfect health, the end of October, and ailed nuthi us till taken in labour the 15th of November. Mr. Baron Gaazolv then, in the strongest terms, condemns,' the sending such a charge by a Coroner's Jury, and a n i i , l4 , vented still more severely upon the means resorted to—of lent prejudice, and the grossest ignorance, to attempt su c k act ,. diet in thefnce of such medical evidence ! 13, Old Fish-street. F. IL A man aged seventy. eight, has married, at Brogue a damsel of seventy-four, and the Clergyman united them was eighty-eight! BERRY, many years a comic favourite in th ; northern Theatres, is now a wretched inmate in the Infirmary at Edinburgh ; and his wife, an actre%sof some merit, is confined in a mad-house. The Mastei lrp of the Ceremonies at Weymcuth, now vacant, although not near so productive as the same office at Bath, Brighton, and Cheltenham, is, however, worth full £3OO per annum. Beautiful hot-house grapes were sold yesterJay i 2 Covent-garden marker a:. four shillings a pouch', others, of a smaller size, at lialf-acrown. Yesterday morning, at TothilfrAds Fair, whilst some young men and women were amusing then. selves in a swing, which was going with great vela city, a young woman was pitched headforemot frau tie machine. She was taken up in a state of insen sibility, and carried to the hospital, where it was di s . covered that her shoulder was dislocated, and her arm and collar-bone broken. She remains in the' hospital in a very dangerous state; and about the • same time, a young man who was passing by one d those dangerous playthings, was struck on the eye ' with great force, by which die eye was completely forced out of the socket, and be was rendered ;men. Bible for a long time. He was also carved to the hospital. A few minutes before nine o'clock on Tuesday evening, as Mrs. HARDEN, of Chichester -street, Bar. tholomew Hospital, in company with another Lady, was passing along Holborn, a fellow came unper. ceived behind her, and stabbed her in the thigh with , a sharp instrument, which cut through all her clothes and inflicted a deep wound ; the pain made her scream out, and the villain turned back and ran off; but a young man, who happened at the time to be coming out of a public-house, pursued him with the cry of " Stop thief!" others joined in the chase, and he was secured at the corner of Red Lion-street, having dropped the instrument with which he com mitted the diabolical act, which was licked up by a , man who saw him drop it : it had a wooden handle, and the blade was about Eve inches long, like the prong of a fork. He was taken to Lagle-street watch-house, where he gave his name John Rifler, ; and said he was a cahinet-raker by trade; that tit instrument was a marking-awl, which he had in his hand, and that be ran accidentally against the Lady; hearing her scream he ran await, and finding he was pursued, he dropped it. The wound, though deep, I is not considered dangerous. Several other Ladies, within these few nights, have been similarly treated. Roam, MAY 12.—The day before yesterday, about three o'clock, seventeen brigands scaled the walls of the garden of Camaldules, at Frascati, and entering the Convent, carried off seven Monks with them to the mountains, leaving behind only those who welt infirm. Two other Monks were sent by the banditti to Rome, to make known the sum that they required for their ransom—the enormous sum of seventy thou sand crowns. It is reported that eighteen thousand have already been offered. n appears that his Emi nence the Cardinal PACCA, who is generally atYras cati, had only quitted the Convent a few hours pin vious, or he would probably have experienced the same fate. It is supposed that the object cd the rob bers was to carry him off also. RARE INSTANCE OF CLERICAL LIBERALITY.—Th Rev. HENRY HEAP, the present Vicar of Bradford, in. Yorkshire, on entering lately upon his living, sent word to all his parishioners, who are Quakers, that he should never enforce his tithesfrom them; adding, that " what they could not conscientiously pay, he could not conscientiously receive." BIRTHS. • . June 5, at Maize-hill, Greenwich, the Lady of Capt. Debts Macbean, Royal Artillery, of a son. December 26, at Bombay, the Lady of John Worthy, gut 9th Regiment Native Infantry, of a daughter. MARRIED. June 5, by special licence, at Gloster, in the King's Coatis the seat of John Lloyd, Esq. Henry King, Esq. to Miss Lioid , youngest daughter of John Lloyd, Esq. of Gloster. Lately, Fdward S. Lees, Esq. Secretary to the General Post' office, Dublin, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late 09 3111 Clarke, 40th H .giment. DIED. Sunday, in Baker -street, in the 89. d year of her age, Mrs , / 36- gough, relict of the late Alderman Bengough, of Brbtsi , Tuesday, in St. James's-place , aged 11 years, Lids nar". second daughter of Sir C. Monck, of Belsay, Northullibmr.., Sunday, at Rowley, aged 34, of inflammation of dm= after four days' ilium, Rebecca, wife of John fleystib dome, Esq. surgeon. MAILS TIM DAlrellll. MIL AS& I. Dublin 1 0 Lisbon 01. Waterford 1 0 France I Guernsey and Jersey o 0 Hamburgh 0 Holland 0 0 Gottenburgh '0 • • 0 Flanders 0 ' I 0 Leeward Islam's . Malta 0 0 , New York__ l 1° ` Ships at Market. 22h Newcastle Si Sunderland COAL MARllitJon 13. . • Ships Sold. 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