The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-13 00:00:00

SCOTLAND. F,Dis nun n n, Nov. 9.—On Tuesday evening a fri gilt /el accident happened in the menagerie exhibiting at the bottom of Leith Walk. A working man, with a ef:ild in his arms, was, among other spectators, ad s-A ring a fine Zebra, whose e,age Is next to that of one of the lions. The latter animal, with one of his paws, made a snatch at the child, and pulling it oat or its father's arms, got its bead within the bars of his cage. The poor man, on perceiving the danger of his infant, fainted away. Some of the bystanders in stantly attacked the ferocious animal with sticks, and succeeding in rescuing its intended victim, but not before the poor child was dreadfully lacerated about the bead and face. Some nights previous, a lady, in teutiously standing two close to the same animal's cage. bad a shawl torn from her shoulders, but forma stately sustained no personal injury. On Thursday night between the hones of ten and eleven o'clock, the large Scribbling and Fulling Mill, le Eceleshill, the property of Messrs. Graves, Thorn ton and Co. was discovered to be on fire, and in a few minutes the flames burst forth in every direction, and in little more than an hour, the whole of this loge building was burnt M the ground. So rapid was the progress of the fire, that two of the workmen who were in one of the chambers when the lire began, found it impossible to escape by the staircase, and were obliged to precipitate themselves out of the win dow; fortunately, however, they did not receive any serious injury. We are happy to state, that no lives were lost. 'The old man formerly noticed for carrying through de country a heavy load of useless articles, made his appearance yesterday in the Saltmarket, His uncouth looks, together with the size and variety of his hur tles, brought round him such a crowd, that the police thought it prudent to conduct him to the office, where he still remains. His burden was so large, that he bad to be disencumbered of part of it before lie could get up the oflllll4oStair. It consists of Iv broken tea kettle, severaitideces of old iron, broken sickles, old tin pans, old shoes, bare-,skins, old rags of all de scriptions and colours, and an endless variety of soft and hard articles, put up in parcels. To a variety of questions he answered, "My name's Francis Scott ; some say I belsng to the south of Scotland ; I am now about four-seore, and I ha'e travelled the touns and countries for sixty years, wi' my wee pickle things; I'm unto fond o' making money, whur I can do't honestly; but I ba'e been mackle wranged. I liee suffered stir sair in my bargains wi' baith misters and servants. Sometifes I gang about a bale week and dis'na mak a Ammo ; but I'm no dear for my keeping. I ba'e cooked na'e warm meat for mysel for forty years. I never bide tang in au' house, and I carry by bed about wi' me." He was lying on the cold damp floor, whisk be bad preferred to the wooden bench in the apartment.—(Glasgow Chronicle.) Sri ClDE.—According to as account, which has been published of the number of suicides during the seve ral months of the last ten years lathe City and Liberty of Westminster, it appears that the saying commonly Applied to " the gloomy month of November" is not verified by observation. The average on the whole is nearly 19. per month. The average of the several months as follows :—Nov. 17 ; Dee.l7 ; January 21; February, 20 ; in March, 24 ; is April. 16 ; May, 14 ; June, 25; July, 30; August, 15; September, 15; October, 12. Of the above, 163 were, males (includ ing four of fclo de se,) and 63 were females, DEATH OF A liftsza.—Mr. M. Piper, whose death, at Whitehaven, we lately announced, had amassed a fortune of above 30,0001. Abstemiousness. self-de nial, and inflexible perseverance in the attainment of leis object marked the whole tenour of his conduct ; and these are only virtues so far as their object is a la u dable one ; but his object was, exclusively the hoarding up riches, and on this his whole heart and soul were invariably fixed. At the sordid shrine of Plains he sacrificed every generous principle, every humalfe and charitable feeling, and not these only. but rven his own cooforts. He began the world literally . with nothing ! In early life he was a seaman, and, when on board, descended to the most servile of fices for the meanest sailor for the sake of a penny. Till within a short period of his long-expected demise, he boarded at the rate of Bs. a-week. a sum which he always paid with heartfelt reluctance, and which be usually endeavoured to diminish by some petty set off. If he happened to dine or drink tea abroad, he carefully calculated the proportionate expense and • deducted it from his board wages. He sometimes went • a fishing, and the value of the fish which he caught and made use of was deducted in the same way ; but most commonly be obliged his landlady to take the fish at the highest market price. By the various deaths which from time to time took place among the colla teral branches of his family, he acquired seine addi tions to his property ; and with the exception of thesis • and his own parsimonins savings, time and compond interest did all the rest. His drese bespoke the pa • nnry of bis disposition, one suit lasting away years.— As to shirts be had but two, which were latterly worn to tatters, insomuch that the poorest mendicant would have sold them for rags. To keep them together de • lied the power of the washer-woman, who, to her own defence, bad them mended with a little fresh linen, for which, on presenting her account. he generously gave her a half-penny ! In him the " ruling passion" was " strong as death." A little before his dissolution. 'being very faint, be actually refused a little brandy on account of its expense, yet so long as he had any strength remaining, be partook freely of any refresh ment which was offered as a gift, saying " the neigh• hours are very good to one." And thus be acted through life, being fond of good eating and drinking, at his neighbour's expense. He took much credit to himself for bis posthumous beneficence; but was never known to give one penny to the poor. Agreeably to a wish ke had expressed whilst living, his remains w re depoiited within the Nationol School in Kendal, which mill now, in consequence of his decease, come . into the disencumbered possession of 20001. To si• miler institutions in Whitehaven and Lancaster, the like sum was given on the same condition, of paying so him during life. the full interest of that sum.— (eorlisle Journal.) The Isaac Todd, from Londe. to Quebec, and two ether vessels, were wrecked moor Gaspe*. Crews avid. The Grace, frost Easter to Melds, pit into Hall tbe 6th inst., with leas of maloatast. EL THE . ._WrAi LAW INTELLIOILATCIL COURT OF CHANCERY, Now. HI. CONTEMPT OF COURT. ICALRB V. BARLOW. The LORD CHANCELLOR — " 1 have read the affidavits in this ease, Mr. Ching, and as it respects Joseph Bar- • lowe, the person not committed, I do not see that yogi have given me jurisdiction ; as you have not named hie in the Petition, he was not enjoined by the order of the Master of the Rolls from conversing with the infant, trd his having dens so cannot be considered a contempt Of Court. You must present another Petition, naming the actual contempt committed by him. When I am Aired to send a man to gaol the actual offence must be ex pressly stated on the face of the Petition, to give the party accused an opportunity of answering it. Mr. Caput said, he would follow the course pointed out by the Court. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose at one o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 12. THE KING V. DAVID RIDGEWAY. Mr. BROUGHAM moved for a DOW trial in this cases Ilk stated that it was an indictment ler • libel, tried it Vie' last Assizes for the county of Lancaster, before Ur. Jea. tice Holroyd, when a verdict was found for the Crown. The prosecution was instituted by a Society knorjelly the nameof the '• Bridge-street Association," for pre tended seditious libel. The evidence, and the onlY evi _ deuce for the prosecution was that of • boy, or young man, aged IS, of the name of Evan Millar, who was clerk to an attorney named Nadin, one of the attorneys of Manchester—a well-known name to some persons. This was Nadia the younger ; for old Nadin, the 'lief taker, had retired to live in the country as a private gen tleman ; the attorney Nadin was his son. The Witness deposed .that he had called at the house of David Ridge way, who is a fustian-cutter by trade, in the town of Mancheiter, carrying on his business in the upper part of the house, whilst his wife sold various :Micky such as sand, potatoes, checks, children.' books, one or two of which had been specified as "Jack the Giant Killer," and " Mother Shipton's Tales," and various trifling ar ticles of that sort, in a small room in the lower part of the house. It was material to observe, that in this case the witness did not pretend to have bad any pre vious acquaintance with or knowledge of the defend ant. The defendant was not produced in Court, or pointed out so that be might be identified. This was not the case of a common informer witness, for, in fact, he might wort properly be called an accomplice in the alleged libel. As the defendant was not produced, it became necessary, upon the subject of identity, that the witness, in order to give credit to his testimony, should mention such facts and circumstances as should leave no doubt that the shop at which he bought the pamphlet was the shop of the defendant, and that Da vid Ridgeway was the identical individual of whom the pamphlet bad been purchased. The wititiat aided that be went to the shop of the Aefendant (sad it ipsold appear presestly bow heCedeavisuretrysjbew that it was the defendant 's shops; whetrim window, pasted upon one of the pannels, this advertise ment in writing:—" An Address to the Rilformers of Great Britain." That he then went in, anll asked the man whom he saw there, to sell him "The New Year's Address to the Reformers of Great Britain; that the man told him he bad sot got it. Mr. Justice Houtovn—He said be saw the defend ant himself. Mr.-Bsoconam—Certainly he said the but the reason be gave for identifying the shop is, witat I am upon at present. The CHIEF .lu:ince—Was the defendant ih Court ? Mr. BROIMIAK — He was in Lancaster, bit I do not know whether he was in Court. He the. said, that the defendant told him that he bad it met, but he was writing to town, and should send . for it, and that lie should have it at the end of that week ; the witness then said he should call again at the time speci fied; that on Saturday be called a second time o end asked for it, when the defendant told him be bad sot got it; that he called once or twice more, add, in short. called four times. That on the Tuesday following he did get it. He also swore, that on one of these occasions the defendant had said, that be bad sold some copies of that pamphlet before, " The New Year's Address." lire. He further deposed, that be also bought of the defendant one of those Addresses which bad been ad vertised in the window. Under these circumstances the Learned Counsel bad submitted, that there being no other proof of the defendant's knowledge of the nature of what he was selling, thei4i wee nothing to ground a verdict of guilty, more especially as the only pamphlet indicted had been purchased by the defendant, at the witeess's own special request and procuration ; for as to the other pamphlet, there was no pretence for saying it was libellous, or,. no doubt, it would have been inflicted. But that *which he chiefly wished to call the attention of -the Court was the statement which this young outs, had mode at as induremeat on the part of the Atsp. to be lieve him, when be stated, that he bombs the al leged libel of the defendant. In the coarse of, of his examination, he said , 0 This was pa ;be 27th of March, and it may be proper to observe, that there was a sign over the defeodat's door. ' David Ridgeway, dealer in tea, coffee, tobaccoisugar," Now, this was the part of the ease with respect to which he addressed his motion for a new tr:al, be cause it tended to allow that this young man was wholly unworthy of credit, as he bad motitended at the trial. He was provided with the affidavits of the defendant himself, of Mr. John Daniel, sad Maria his willikof Mr. James Murdock and asother respect able pecans, all of whom deposed meet solemnly that the sign alluded to had been taken down in the regi ons month of October, and had serve beam put up again from that time to this. So that. this Bean Millar, the *ldr-witness for the prosectules, was expressly cootredieted by the defendant and fear disinterested persons, in the most. wiamOd plat of his evidence, which west to imps& 401 whole ere dil ref his story. The reason Irby she.. persona Were set called at the trial were Nest obviate. — This falsehood of Millar came wpm 'be dsfeerdases Counsel by surprise, and they bid so mesas ekes we contradicting him. Is oddities to. `this there was the positive affidavit of the delhadast himself, that he never bad to his knowledge airy &elk* ort tram amiss with thisx Hulse, sad that to hisArsowledge he never sold hint the pamphlet is questiesi. Us- donbtecily at the trial the defendant's Counsel bad se means of shaking the witness's testimony upon the question of identity, for at that time they could not an ticipate what he would venture to state. But now be ing prepared with so palpable a contradiction, the jus tice of the ease demanded that the defindant should at least have a new trial. Mr. Justice HOLROTD having read his notes of the evidence; which confirmed Mr. Breoghar's statement of what occurred at the trial, The Court granted a rule to chew cause. TUX MOOR' &C. OF faIIZZNROROUGU, V. °ARRINGTON ♦ND OTHERS. This was a case of considerhble importance to the free oyster dredgers of Queenborough. The plaintiffs declared in trespasr as a corporation, created within the time of legal memory, for breaking and entering their several fisheries. The defendants pleaded their right to fish therein as members of a prescriptive car poration, before the plaintiffs' charter of incorporation; and also an ancient usage to fish for their own benefit is the plaintiffs' fishery. The plaintiffs took issue on the usage, and denied the immemoriality of the cor poration by protestando. At the trial before Mr. Baron Wood, at the last Assizes for the county of Kent, it was held that the plaintiffs might give evi nce on those pleadings, tp shew that the corporation was of modern creation, though no issue was taken thereon. It was also held that the plaintiffs declaring as the Mayor, Junta, and pailiffs, of Queenborough, might maintain trespass against the freemen of the borough, for acts done in violation of their property in the oyster fishery, and that as such they could not be considered as tenants ip common ; and it was fur ther held, that a corporation may prescribe for a se parate fishery granted in an arm of the sea, since the time of Hen. IL The plaintiffs had a verdict at the Assizes, and now Mr. Serjesnt LAWISS 0004 to set aside that ver dict, and obtain a new trial; and after bringing the points above mentioned under consideration, The Courr were clearly of opinion that they were well decided at the Assizes, and therefore—Refused the Rule. MURRAY V. HUTCHINSON. This was an action by an innkeeper at Whitebavea, to recover the amount of his bill for entertaining tbe l friends of the defendant, who attended his father's re mains to the ' °Tare. The sum detnande 4 was 21. Ss. part of which was composed of a seta of Ss. for spi rituous lienors'supplied to the mourners on the melan choly occasion. At the trial before Mr. Justice Bay ley, at the last Assizes for the county of Cumberland, the plaintiff recovered only the sum of 11. 155., the Learned Judge being of opinion that the plaintiff could not recover the Bs. for the spirits, being con trary to the letter of the 24th 0,0.11. c. 40, s. 12, which declares that no person or persons whatsoever shall be entitled to maintain any action to recover any demand on account of the sale of any spirituous li quors, mama the debt shall be contracted at one time, and shall amount to the sum of 20s. Of upwards. Mr. D. T. JoNze now moved to enter the vei for, , with a view to costs, and made two po . in his house, and charging for the spirituous drank, was not within the contemplation of the Act, which clearly bad reference only to retailers of spirits to the lower orders ; and, 2, that as the spirits were not supplied to the defendant himself, who was not present at the funeral, the case was not within the stw tote. He brought the case of Jackson v. Attrill ; Peakes N. P. C. 180. Scott v. Uillmore, 3 Taunt. 226. Spencer v. Smith, 3 Campl. 9. And Gilpin v. Rendle, Selw. N. P. 71. under the review of the Court. The COURT were clearly of opinion that the case being within the express words as well as spirit of the Act, the verdict ought nor to be increased.---Rule re fused. • TIE ICING V. NAST ANN CARLILE. In thrs case Mr. 11. Cowin' obtained time until to morrow, I. move for a new trial on behalf of the de• fendant. SWATTNIN P. TA PLIN. This was an action in the case of libel and defame, tioit—pleas, the general Issue and justification. The tattoo was tried beim Baron Darrow, at the last As signs for Oxford, and a verdict taken for the plaintiff for SOL It appeared that the plaintiff was nursery-maid to the defendant, who is a Magistrate of the county of No r thampton, and that upon her referring to him for a I character when she Lad left hini and was getting ano ther place, be *rote a letter, in which he painted her as the vilest of women. He concluded by saying that instances of her misconduct were easily capable of proof. At the trial he endeavoured to prove these in stances of misconduct on the plaintiff's part, but totally failed. The Jury therefori gave tire verdict against him. Mr. Caoss moved to set laid the verdict, on the ironed that malice whit sot proved against the de fendant. The Learned Counsel was proceeding with Me argesrent, wires he was interrupted by the Court, who said they were summoned to another place. ,The argument stands over fur to-morrow. Their Lordships at two o'clock proceeded to the Coen of Btreberpter, to assist in the choice of Sheriffs be the wanting year.. A Novi'. Seamusov Orrexcz.—ln the night of lut Wednesday some evil disposed person opened the doors of a barn belonging to Mr. John Catt, fanner, of Westfield, Susses, and let in three va luable cart hones to feed on some vilest which the thresher had cleaned up, and left in a heap on the barn's floor. Of this the horses ate freely, having, it Is supposed, conerned about a bushel and a half, after which they were tomatoes, and the doors of the barn again closed by some miscreant, aware, no doubt, of the offsets which the wheat wosid produce on the poor salsas, who all died on the following day, to the great Injury and loss of Mr. Ca I.—Quere, in this uses, what panidoment would follow the conliction of the offender ? • " BISa sold them ilk" This is4he wind-up of all Advertisemeats. When alluding_to the Three Thirty Thousands of a former Lottery, it was " litsu sold them all I" and mentioning the Capitals above 2001. drawn last Tuesday week. it was " Bun sold them all!" In fact, as Bralgroddery says Ii the play. This —o has got the philosopher's stone," for be has mid. the only 30,0001. draws this Lottery. sad the odds are more than urn (as gportimen would my) that hell bag the ethos tam mmimimir POLICE. Bow-IrraseT:—Last night, as Sir R. &axle its about to leave the Office, a smartly dress e d youitt man, calling bimielf ssiti James Hawkins, w as brought 40 i n th e cus t o dy of Botid, a con s t a bl e , c h arged robbing Mr. Thomas, a silversmith, in the Strati, e t his pocket-book, in Drury-lone. Theatre, a few w eeks before.—Sir R. Blame said, be knew the pris oner ti be the Captain of a desperate gang of thieves in Bri c k. lane, Whitechapcl, and his apprehension was a ew e . rial benefit to the public. He was filly co r m for trial. UNtox-HALL.—Thn. Bayley, a baeknepcoath ou. *was charged by his master, Th omas Jackson , 3 64, ney-coacb proprietor, with having embezzled th e e i of 206.—The prisoner, it was stated, left thotee e k: yard on Friday morning, and did not return all Nigh On Saturday at half-past three o'clock be was le te i lying. drunk under the wall of the King's Bea t h p i. son, and the coach and horses standing near him. TM horses were quite jaded, and the coach much isis ta i The prisoner acknowledged that he bad tate*. men on Friday night to a church-yard at Foole tt and that he had received the regula r fa re . No iskt than 12s. were found in his possession. The coacbmaster said, that having been f defrauded by his men, he was detera►ined to ode* example of the prisoner, who bad not only ilit u dd, him, but owlet unworthily employed his prisoner was fully committed. The temperature of the atmosphere has bees easel* favourable in this district for ripening autumnal Woo . Chaumontall, and Cresan Peers, in a western ashy and.the Beery de ltov in an (astern, have bon is. thered in perfection, equal to those produced la de southern counties in the utast favourable mum -11 a garden on the hanks of the Tyne, five mikets lll west of this town, the red Alpine and Roseberry stow berries were gathered the last week in October, up tu taste, size, and quantity, to those taken, fro** plan's the last week in June. The Reuben, variety, lately hr ught into this neighourhood, bed .ts prolific quality, seems to repay well the Milks Avert to the cultivation of that wholesome fish.-. (Nerceavile Courant.) LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.—On Sunday morning lad, se were visited by a dreadful gale of wind from the meths west. Two tremendous gusts, in particular, were ape rienced ; one, about two o'clock; the other, bewail Ire and six o'clock. Some idea of the violence of the Use pest may be derived from the circumstance; dwell tie vessels at the north end of King's Dock weredrives fres their fastenings (one ship parted a strong iron W4O and the whole were dashed together in confusion, std. far end of the dock; and nearly all more or ha do malted. One skip lost her bowsprit; another, her igen head ; and one brig, getting entangled, lost her fire. topmast. Several walls and chimnies were blows den; and the Duke's Warehouse, the upper doors sal sit dews of which were open for ventilation, was so elm pletely filled by the subtile element, that largo patche s Iltdshttal 7 1 , 1 . Urted fr9P44 6 41-Xl Ol . Wire driven on shore in the river, and etts li t li erf the harbour. The Waterloo, steam-packet, from 's*, for this port, was also driven on shore near cft,, but was got off without sustaining much danisga A Isere ship was also driven on shore at the same phi bet has since been got off. An Irish brig, cattle ikt and a sloop with slates, were also stranded near Ilst lasay, and were lightened of their cargoes, in oder is be got off. On Monday morning, we uncle/stud, s bolt, with three boatmen, from Liverpool, who id gone to assist, was drifted accidentally from the b 4 into the surf; and the men leaping out to gals tab beach, one of them (a man with a wooden leg) was 110 fortunately drawn back by the violence of the um, and drowned. At six o'clock on Sunday morning, see was the force of the wind (accompanied with hail)* the river; that a spectator represents it as dashed he froth, and having the appearance of an immense lisid d agitated snow. The roof of a Dutch bars, is NA Derby, was lifted up by the violence of the wild; mi incredible is it may appear, carried a distal'ss d a yards: several people were eye witnesses of this ezteet. dinary spectacle. We are afraid that we shall haw lit lancholy accounts of its effects on the shipping ei ti coast. In our paper of Friday.last, we gave an moat kill imposition practised on a poor man named Ceek lig resides in the parish of St. Minver, in this eselerilf which, under pretence of enabling him to dimmable den treasure, some Gipsies contrived to rob him if* sum of 31/. 6s. 6d. which he was to carry *beet his fir a certain time, and the greater part of which be 'hi borrowed for.the purpose. The poor man Ostia( Ski a rrty . of these wanderers had made their a ir this neighbourhood, (Truro) camikbere iiriZl4 them, on Tuesday last. Having applied to c i o ttirk, be obtained the assistance of some active tr longing to the parish of Kenwyn, in whishallkij! last seen, and set out in pursuit of the mareedekt 71 having got information that they 'were silly _' " ' looked after, struck their teat and set fete1m1"...,2. 2 1 . 0 t ing march across the country ; which At wog closed. They were closely pursued, saes . he on Wednesday morning encamped on a past St * 4 IS tensive moor which lies between Truro sail Si. and in the vicinity of the. latter place. TM vbille ' consisting of two men and two women, with Mr,. dreg, were made prisoners, and with the edit 0 low baggage, fonr horses, a colt and two awesome* into this place. However, to the great of poor Cock, be speedily d i til rovered, this not the persons who had do . Ji, and he lull much chagrined at his seeon •IWppontaieet. etw day the gipsies were brought before L , S*. one of our Magistrates, at the Town-halt, tied k bliag proved that one of the women had been telling she was committed to the counter prison. ne * the others were dieebarged.....— ( Briten,Noo4 MARRIED. At EtWhores.** Tuesday last. Cap u t ,* Abseil , 0 4 . doo. R. N., to Mary Elisabeth, o&y daagMer 1119 Sir Smut Gordoa4 Bert., of • DIED. NM* At lidluburgb, ea Thursday msevelnr. 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