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~:.. 7.* - LAW INTELLIGENCE :RAC. •. •• • 'OUT OP CHANCERY, BAsvaDmr, MAT S. • it t • win MAST • INDIA COMPAII f Irp., OF 10•Drroill. N. TEE ASIIOISUS • CAMPBELL AND MESENs. BAZETT AND CO. r. t rINDALL moved that his Loidthip would • Atte it - a new trial to take place in this c a s e , on t h e :rfound of improper conduct on the part of the . Jury who had formerly tried the cake. The pro. perty at issue was Ett chests. of indigo, which were 14imed by three different lets of persons, namely, he East India Company, as the assignees of Copt • • .iatinstone. and theassigness or a Mr. Campbell, and tileasrs. Bazett and CO. Tire cause came before ' he Jury, upon an issue directed to he tried by the Vice-Chaucellor, -on the 13th of January last, in •faler to ascertain to which of the shove parties • . goods belonged. The Learned Counsel ob -erred, that it would not be oecerseitry for him state the whole of the facts of the case, !rut he would merely lay before the Court the ;pounds of his present application. Aft-r the evidence had betas Irene through on the, trial, the iry retired to consider their verdict. They had oeen out of Court for some time, when three of the jury returned. The officer of the Court very - 21npierly called upon them to answer to their names, when they replied that he need not do so, because they had not agreed upon their verdict, tnit hail come to ask the Judge how they were to . net. They told his Lordship that they hail constr. .!reed the case is every pos-itsle point of view, hot eould not come to any dr cicoit upon it. The J•idge replied, thst lie could mot permit them to 'emirate till they had given a verdict. One of the • !ne e jurystivn then observed, that, in similar cases, pasties sometimes agreed to withdraw a juror. Upon this the Judge directed the solicitors fur the ...pecttve parties to withdraw and consult %she•. • then they would adopt the suggestion of the Jury man or not. The Solicitors accordingly withdrew ; but Mr. Spur, the Solicitor fur the Monad', refused t withdraw a Juror. Pending these consultations, the Jury repeatedly sent to request Mr. Spur to sgree to the proposal, and the exprissiois used Ly the messenger on one of these occasions was, 't fiat Mr. noriowilale, one of the Jury, was very angry with him (Mr. Spin) for refusiog to accede itiereto. Shortly after the last massage the Jury seturoed to Court, and found a verdict for the De fendants. The Learned Counsel did not mean to say that the Jury had acted Punt corrupt motives, ill coining to the condemn' to which they had ar rived, but it was one of those cases where 14 Jury, 'finding it difficult to come to a decision, might be supposed to have felt irritated against the party who relosed to 1•00111•11 t to allow them the means of ex riveting themselves fr Voir embairassinent, and therefore gave u terdict egaiust him. Ile reinem liered a case where the Jury, after being confined ideether all slight, in consequence of bring unable to come to ally drctsion, at lust agreed to put the 'natio s of the parties in • hat, and let the verdict depot's! on the event of the toss. The Plaintiff had th- gsod fortune to win the verdict in that case, but the Court riftervards directed a new trial to take place. He trusted that the Court would also direct 14 11110 11 . 1,1 10 take place ill the present on the grout's! of improper conduct on the part of the Jary, even though it should appear that it did not • proceed from corrupt motives. Mr. EVANS followed 011 t h e same 614. Mr. WINGFIELD Wit, heard at considerable length against the nudism. 11P-contended that the paring been closeted Cir half an hour sifter the itair when they had deputed three of their number to state their einbarrasting situation to the Court, it might reasnitably- be presumed that 'eel had conic to a fair end deliberate conclusion according to the evidence. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that this was not merely a question of corruption on the part of the Jury. As the issue had bre° directed by the Court of Chancery, if the verdict was not each :is would satisfy the Court to make the de cleration of fact winch the Jury had made, it would not do. If it were to be taken as a litct that the Jury, at one period, did not know how to dispose of their verdict, end yet came to a decision in half an hour after, the question was, whether the Court could be satisfied that they had sofbeiently cousi tiered their verdict. Mr. WINGFIELD was of opinion the Jury, when they were sent back the second time, having pre viously considered all the evidence, and brought it to a point, and haring wished only to be relieved frcru drawing a conclusion on that point, might, w twit they found it was necessary fur themselves to remove any embarrassment under which they might suppose they laboured, have come to a deliberate dicision within half au hour. It was rot by any means a complicated case on which they were to decide, but merely a question of ctiug testimony. He ridiculed the idea that Mr. Borrowdole, who was a merchant of the first respectability in the city of London, could be in. euruced in giving his verdict by may feelings of irritation ageism the Plaintiff fot not comentiug to withdraw a juror. He believed that the Jury bed • acted from the most conscientious' motives; arid Loping that the Court would be of the same opi aiont trusted that it would reject the application. Mr. RusE was also heard in opposition to the oration. Mr. TINDALL shortly replied. Attending to what Al.. Wingfield had said re.prebnp: the nature of the qu•stion winds the Jury ....eat- called upo.i to decide, It: a quesitim of ronflicting testimony was p.ecisrly that upon which it was necessary fur a Jury to be more than usually careful. The Lonu CHANCELLOR said, there was thistfif ference between a Couit of Law aid a Court of Equity ; in the former a jury might decide a mat ter of tact against the opmiou of the Judge, but it was 'tat so in a Court oh E q uity. When the court of Chancery directed au issue to be tried, the conscience of' the Court must be satisfied. lie would lest trouble himself to ascertain whether the jury had been out of Court ail hour, or otilv ball hour; uor did he think it necessary to you soder whether they bad returned their verdict against the Plaintiff, because lie wotdd not coment to, withdraw a Juryman ; but luakiog at the car 4211ThitiLlICeir of the July coining into Court, rad stating they could 1114 agree to their verdict, said at their continuing of the saute opinion up to the Lime of the last message to Mr. Spur (for that was the conclusion he must draw from that message), which was only ten ininutes before they delivered their veeiNct. it was impossible for him to be sr tisfied with • the decision of the Jury. His *hip therefore directed that a he w tr ia l sh ou ld tisk", place. COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Aran. 5. (Sittings before Easier Term.) The Court was occupied until one o'clock on a case from the Western Circuit, of no public inte rest whatever. At that hour, there being no Counsel in attendance to argue any other cr-e in the new trial paper, the Court was obliged t o r d. jowl). In most of the remaining cases the Junior Counsel engaged were ah-ent at Sessions. The CHIEF JUSTICE, however, announced, that on Mondry the Court would go through the paper, and, if Counsel slid Hot intetid, the causes would be struck out, unless some good COMIC was assign ed for their absence. The Court will not sit on Thursday, as the Guildhall will on that day be wantrd for some busi ness connected • woh the City of Westminster. Wednesday is the first day of E islet Term. t. torr,ll J • • POLICK. V • a l V s!. now-g Tar [T. On Salnrilay fl'illions Pawls was brought to the (Mice s,y Vickery the °Meer, •nd underwent an ea immation before George Minahull, Esq. the sitting Magistrate, charged with maliciously shooting at, with intent to murder, IVilliam Wright. It appeared that the Prisoner and Prosecutor were both sawyers, and worked at Lir, rimed, where, some in:stabs since, they sod a number of other sawyers entered tow combination and struck for an advance of wages Wright being of a peaceable dispasiiion, won became diagosted with the violent proceedingsof those concerned to the combitiation; he was content to work at 11,54,4 Edmondson's, the principal eabitiet-masinfariwy to Oldham-street, Liverpool, where the Prisoner wrist one evening white %Villi.im • IVright w•s at his work about three months slate, and io lime most daring amid unprovoked manner presi wed • loaded pistol at Wright while he was at his work, and discharged it al hint. Fortunately the contents dill nut cuter Isis bully, or he moat have been killed on the spot, but the shots entered one of his legs and be f.ll. The at tack and dischaige of a pistol being so unexpected and in stiimmi•nenor, and li bring dash, great contusion /unfold; the cousequence was Davis, the • Prisoner, escaped fro... the premises. The horrid deed caused great alarm in Lirrrpwl, especially as she assassin was at liege. A surgeon was sent for, who discoverer{ that %Wight was acrionsly wolflike', awl the cunseqnence was the poor minuffending Elkin nits oldiged tu undergo the amputaton of his kg, and it is yet very unc.rtain whether Le will live, although it it three mouths since the olTence was committid. The p•stul ass strongly loaded, amid in the discharge it hoist, and Slier, was no doubt but it hid %/winded Davis is the fleshy part of Isis thumb, and the trace of has bleed ing in his escape from the Messrs. Edmondson's pre mises was traced fur some distance. The circus/vileness of thr rase being particularly aggravated, Mr. the su perintendent of the police there, was particularly active In his exerliiihs to apprehend Davis, the Prisoner charged with the henifius offnce, tilt theme M 24 110 doubt but that lie had made his escape out of Ida, rpoul; but no trace could be made of the course or road he had taken, till it was nt length sow, (led that he head uncoiled Loudon, information of w Welt was in consequence scid to the above office, ard %%awry, the officer. has since been exertitig himself to bud hint, and fortunately succeed ed in discovering him am NAtiiiilvy at %sulk as a sawyer at a timber-pod In Paul-acres I, Filisbuoy-spirke. Ile surrco dered without any resistance, and a• kolowledged himself as described, hut denied harisig committed the offence. He has* scar tin his thumb, suppo•• I to be the remit ius of the wound lie received when the pistol bust. He was committed fur a week to give the wit in Li verpool au oppor• unity Its arrive in lAst)110U to identify him. conoNAlor /NQUESTS. An Impend was held on soiurday evening al the louden Hospital, uss the body of --- Spriggs, a labourer in icier of the Last India Company's. whareliouses, uhu died there ill cousequence of teeing ly burned in a fire that broke out oil Friday Hight iu the house of Mr. swift, No 19, Gloucester street, Commercial road. The deceased was per fectly collected immediately before his death, aid stared that the fire was caused by the caulk being 111.1eP.1 isear the curtain when he went In bed. Tao elsildrin were with great difficulty saved from the fiances. Ou Saturday night an Inquest ass held at the Bart. y Mow, fillount•street, Grosvenurrequare, before Mr. Higgs, Coruver, on the body of a man, name uuknnwu , found drowned in the Serpeutine Hirer, Hyde Park, •,ii that morning. Thomas Russell deposed, that he is a servant out of place, and a coachman, with whom he was acquainted, being ont with the family, late on Friday night, he stayed up with _ Isom to clean the horses and the carriage till four o'clock iu the mooning , at which lima he was going through th e Park, when he ob served a gentleman and a buy looking at some_ thing iu the Serpeutine resembling a hat; he came up to thew, and he hit the hat with a stone, when the body of the d. ceased was turned over in the water; they isifurnied the boatman belonging to the Humane Society, acid he took the body ou shore. . . RicLsrd Eglestone, the boatman, deposed, that he went to the liver to take up some eel-lines he had art or the night before, when, observing last witness and whets, he went to them, acd could see plainly it was • human body they weir thruwing the stones at; be got the body out; lie seemed to be a man about 40 years of age, wore a good blue coat clearly buttoned sup, a btark waistcoat, dark grey trousers, white slur kings, and shoes, a fine frilled shit t marked 11. C. Nu. I, end Nu.t ; a idairt.pm; he had a Rocket liandkerchlef walked E. Faye! in red silk, a pocket-book, two small keys, a solver watch, with a chain, and two small seals, and a key attached, maker's name ".Crippii„ of Bath, No. 12,055;" be wore a pair of gloves, and ilk hat was very tick on the herd ; he bad nu money or p Teri about inns ; I hes C Wt I , 110 masks of violence on the body, but a hen take u out of the wa ter he bled freely from the mouth old nme. The Coroner nod Jury thought lLe probil.ility was, that the deceased drowned Inntaelf, and is. :hr absence of alow. hole evidence of !bat fact, seturtn d a vt fillet of " Fuuud drowned." On Saturday afternoon another inquest was heti et the Cruse Keys, Long scar, on the body of a geiolentait, whittle name it appeared was Price, ego look a tied their on Thurs day. He complained of being loosen liming the evening. and requested Me. Clarke, the Isoillork, 141 take down his wife's eddies., lest any thieg bamwsied to him, whirls he gave, '• Mrs. Prier, Readiug, Barks." He weal to bed at nine o'clock. and wheu a person meat to call bias up to breakfast about tone o'clock next day, he ass found lying across the bed. There was a box of pill., and a paper of powder., coned in the room, but a surgeon who was sent tor, said they euutatned nothing deleterious. The body was (opened, and the heart was found so snitch that it Wile cam. jrciura d he died irons from natural Verdict—" Hied by the visitation of God." At iVindror Quartet Sessions on Fiidsy, Cooper was teed fur Itte:11111.4 elm phink tinut Fitiginore, the property id Ii r Ihty4l Ilightte the Print:ere A lA/MITA. (.oilty.—Tramportuitun for pewee) years. A few days since it fox enteral a form-yard in Compton Pauticeloot. and seized 11.11 a hen which 11V411 following her ch.i. kriir, which being perceived by a !owe cock, he flew at the intrutter in tine style, and with one blow of his *plus killed the lus ia.tautitheourly !—(Skretosottry (hroaicle.) IRELAND:. DUBLIN, APRIL _3O. Osborne Markham, E,q. Comproller of the Barrark De . pariment of &who'd, has arrived in Dublin, to ascertain • what redaction ran be effected in the establishment in this estuary, which it is reported will be cuusolidateil with the esesitibusi al Depastairm. The fAstrquis of Waterford has sent front London ortleis to prepare Curraehuntre House fur the reception of his Ma jesty —(fraferfurd ifirror.) The Pairiog contains an acrount of the annual dinner giren by the Lord Lieutenant to the Corporation of that City, on Flitlay, with a lust of the tomt... After the cloth was removed, it•cluding, be-ides the ususl loyal mid constitutiOnul musts tunes, the following party ones : The Glorious Memory-0.4 Rattle of the Boyne." The Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin—" Protestant Dot's." The Yeomanry of Ireland—" Croppies lie down." Oti S4tuttlay last, at two o'clock the Commission of Oyer mid Tertnitn.r wars opened before the Itight lion. the Lord Mayor, the Non. lUr. Justice Jebb, and the Hon. Ni s . J ust i ce B ur t on . . . Judge Jebh, in his charge to the Grand Juries, announced a communication front Government, reeounneoding, with the advice of the Judges, two additiosial co ninissions, to he held on every year, making th.e whole six •ainually, instead of four. Him Lordship oiled that this i,volamentlattflll on the 'part of the Judges did not proceed from • necessity occasioned by wood) of crime, but from a wish that trial should follow committal as speedily as possible. The Junes roiled, 21111 111 about an hour sent doge true bill"; against several Prlsotters. Bridget [bitterly mid Bridget E were reigued fur the murder • f Mary Ball's, otherwise: Thompson, and Iso the rubbely t.f . Captain Peck's house, in Portlsnol Place, on the 28th of March last : on their beits4 issle.l by the Clerk of tl e Crown, H o w sa y y,,u, Guilty or not Guilty ?" Brof t rct 1 . /utterly answered, in feebl . ! voice, " I tun guilty of the rubbery." Elions tepeseett the saute word.. The Clerk of the Crown informed them that t h ey were arraigned fur the der otoly, on which they pleaded !lot t.uilim. They were then arraigned for both entities, rod pleaded Aui Ilniterly looked very we-di, snit seriortl really to Ism.. She nawititsp.rd a rtiivt stlroce clueing the slay ; sat on the f'..or of the dock, in a comer apart front all the other pn,oners, and never nosed her head but whilst are '‘ u . 0 E4' 1 1 . 1 . She was drcssod with newness, wine a urw cap, and a large grey beaver cloak. Slur kept a handkerchief cL se to her fact. , and seemed aosions 10 avoid the gaze or :he vr. y tilt •IsrsOllS 1111110ml'. who Ili.taelited Mitch cuts 'witty tit oblmiii vlrw of her countenance. Ennis alopeared bold, confident, in pod spirits, and subsist health. CLOMMIL, MAY 2. DESPERATE ASSAULT. We have deep regret in stating, tint on %fordo, las , Richard Herold:ill, Esq. tier sr oriby Sub•SlMriff, r wools tem, a seri 0000 and ouiregeSSlSS A. 1.21111 its the XV1....11U11 of his dot) , ; these hens: strum matins at liiicati between Mr. Connell O'Counsll, ■ttu.ney, and William butler, of Willistustowsi, farmer. near Killcuulcy , HIM U 11.1011110( Lie bounds .•f the county 'Kilkenny, the latter drove the stock of the former, alleging that rent was 'due: Mr. O'Connell resorted to repievin, and bent the Sheriff to the lands of Williamstown, who, with seven or tight assistants, pro ceeded to recover t h e stock ; this was re o i ttt dby • tumul tuous party previously arrayed Got a desperate enterprise— shots wort• fired at the Sheriff, the fist of these by a fel low of the name of Brown, a collier, and a tenant on the Kilcooley estate ; the Sheriff's assistants were fiercely at tacked fur obeying hie orders ; one of them, of the name of Pallier, being wounded and knocked clowts by the blow of spade ; the She. iff declared if soother blow was struck lie would tire on any non wha would attempt it—neverths a fellow of the name of l'orkl.y, loving proceeds d to di s. palr h Parker with a spade, the Sheriff fired• shut throur,rls his body, and he fell, boot soon after was seen to unite himself up and Iran nziiiist a hedge; this Buckley, however, in supposed •to lore died, riot Inswing been since found. Immedistrly on liuekley being shut, Ow Sheriff was kuorkesl shown, his I. ft us ru broken its two plates, and five dreg ruts 1111n1C1td 011 his head—but being • powerful man, he made his way to his horse, un whirls he was placed by James King, constable, arid escaped further injury One of lois assistants, of the name of Steeps, was also severely beaten, as well as Parker bef o re mentioned—but we are glad to say barb these men are likely to do wi ll. The Sheriff has since remained at the house of Mr. Gorges Walsh, near Kilkeroly, where he is fast recovering from the effects of his wounds. Informations have been sworn against eighteen persons, not our of shuns could be found on the lauds t.fSissies.- lows' or neighbourhood, harlog all fled, except a man of Ike 'lrmo , . of Kelly, found iu Butler's house, and who has siuee loon cumulated so Classed gaol—(Cismar: Paper.) The fall of lambs has, this season, been in some districts very great ; upon a form its Essex, eighty. onoo sheep produced one hundred and fifty-tight lambs, one !mooched and fifty of which are now shire. The sheep were purchased at Ipswich fair in ISIS, sod were of the stock of the Right 1100. Lord 'toys; Mr lambs were bred of Norfolk ewes by Leicester tops. There was a very superior exhibition of horses at the skew fair at Heading on Moolohey last, both as to quality and number, and the demand for them appeared equally Inisk: one rennet k.bfy fine hunter obtained as high as iOO guineas; beat nags were sold at from 50/. to 801.; and some tine out horses the London dealers purchased at from 40/. to 70/. ; indeed, such was the eagercess to buy those of any quality, that on the following day there was scarcely it good horse for sale. Cows and calves on Totesday we-o:t oft at loom 8/. to la; graziets 5/. to 10/.; yeao hog., 4/. There is a singular circumstance attending the death of the Cliia r ae who was klleol by the fifth mate of the East ludic Cotaipien ) 'i ship fondue. It appears that Ilse mats was shut by the Euglish officer by arcldrail, wliiist rui t chged iti a boar hunt, sod there exists ati old Chinese law, which has been universally pat to practice amon g th e 'lroise, a wl generally exercised AgiOto4 foreigners, requiring the life of 'Mother individual in exptation for the one so destroyed, whether by accident or otherwise. It was its the execution of this law that the Covert,- meta of China laid an embargo on all the ships iii I the harbour, and some very arriotes•iiiisiiiiderstaiirlin,y; might loner arisen; for the alop's company were de termined not to suffer the life of a messinate to he sacrificed, had they soot, on their return to their vessel, found that one of the crew, who was ensl• drained to undergo some severe punishment, had pot a period to his existence by hanging himself. The body of the seaman was offered to the ftiends of the deceased Chinese, sad accepted by them, sod thus the affair ended. T11(,74D , 1ER STOR.)L!. .• Yesterday xe'unight, about OOP after a forenoon unusually sultry for the west's, several very heavy showers of rain fell in Liverpool awl its viciety, itcreimpassied by hoed elame of thunder. During ,use of these showers, the electric fluid was observed Sum pass along the south end of Edge Hall. In its progrest it knocked down I work meu, one of whom was so Violently affected in the back of the head, that fir relief he had recourse to bleeding; and • girl in a garden haul her arm suddenly lifted up by its effect, and felt it benumbed for sonie time after; a coachman ' was struck tits the arm whilst on the box, bet wee merely stunned ; • lady, near Islington, whir was sewing ■t the time, felt in the fingers iu contact with the needle, a sensation erten:Oiling that of a slight elect: i^ spark. The electric fluid entered the house of Mex. Clare, in Edge Vale, where its progress was not less nl•rming to tho its males, thou destructive to the premiers. It appears pro bable, that, attracted by the iron railing in front of dee house, it entered the wall on one side of the door, where it has shattered the bricks, tutu to pieces the wood soul brick work between the duor•pillar and the archway of the door; lifted the boards .011 the top, al k the fan-light to piece., burning a part of the frame, and leavit., a black front us, the p•iut work; theme it passed through time archway t•f the dour, splitting the bricks stud the stone at this bottom of the middle wordow,.the glass of which was phoneme, to pieces, and she wbule frame dislodgmd and furced into the house. Over the wiudow it forced, in its way to the roof, a large hole, above which the soot appear. exactly PS if flame had Issued front it. Its course appears met to have beets leeward* the chimney; the cans were shattered to pie cee ; the ridge-moms displaced ; ninny bricks and note!' cement torn from time wall; and the lead in many places fee red up: in the lower room, the stucco, plaster, tool paper are in ri semi places broken, and the fluid scorched She editing of the chimney glass awl peeled the sop oruartecul•, Lit did nut disturb the polished tire-nuns just below. Six eroiares of east were driven moo in tide room. In the room above, in one Collier stood a bundle of rods, to which it entitle its way, perhaps, from the chimney, he. toren the lathing and the wall, as it forced off the plaster, and shit a ors:toile of it against a chest of drawers 11 or 12 feet distant, evidently with amazing force. In this 100:11 a polite lady wasrianding. Sht• felt a. if her head were pressed by a weight to her shoulder, hid received nn further injury than Ih•I ref ultine from ahem at the lodge of the fluid in its paassee, which resembled l'atlooo, an.l fil'ed the room (and indeed the whole house) wills a solplorreous smoke. Ois tog to the dour, she found it fast, the bolt having been famed, ad if it were pertly locked, plot/ably from it• having attract ed the fluid. A young lady. a het wax using • pair of sei was struck down, and deprived, for a short lime, of the use of our of her legs; she was seriously hurt, but is mover. iug. A female servant was driven to one end of the kitchen, tool a nail in she dune, suit which her bonnet was hung, was drawn out, avid the boom t turn to pieces. The house ap. peereel to lw fluted oil!' vivid flame anti smoke. Two into and • tiny, who had taken shelter at the cud of she house, were throws 15 or 20 feel tram the spot se he re they stood ; one of them was talon up inseustlele, but is now recovering. The breast arid hack of she buy are severely scorched In red breeching etrire a, es if produced by the blows of a switch. In the nixt bonne, in a room. the door sited windows of which were eloseil, time frame of a large pier glass was per. (orated as if by a pistol hall; round which, as from a cen tre, the gilding was iegolarly streaked with soot ; the glass was not broken. A prestos was iu the lat , lll, but was not aware of the circumstance when it happened. The greater part of the ceding of • room above was also stripped off.--e ( Liverpool Mercury.] On Tuesday toed Wednesday week this city and neigh. Iseurhoud was %kited by several tremeneiout thunder-storm•, ■cruuipasird by [teary rain, and hail stones of a great size. The lightning was very vivid. Much damage has been dime in the steielthourhood of Tenon, Hatidley, and other rota east of Chester, by the hail. The hot-houses at Al. dericy Ball, were nearly di•airmeja d, and the damage ass tamed is very considerable; it is estimated at upwards of one hundred pouuds. 'Farporley ■oil Nendwiels were also visited. It is said that malty of the hail-stemes which fell at Nantwich euesseicil shout four inches and stud a half iu circumference. A pe.iton (ruin uur office who was at Natitwich an Tharsdey, saw a hail•atoue which at that time measured three inches its eircumfereoce, wutwitb. standing what it must have lost of its magnitude by having lain from the day preceding. Coosidelahle damage has ate. cessarily been dune iu the country. Mr. Tonikissiote, of Doefuld 11.11 , we underitand, has sustained a loss it, the glass of his hut-houses sed flames of not less than 90/. The loos sustained by Mr. Gray, of Ashton Hers, is estimated at 1001. to 15U/. Mr. Curliest, of D•ruold flan, Mr. •1' kin -114111, of !teas Heath, Mr. &hillock, of Nantwich, and mummy cohere, have suffered hi a rou•rlcrable amount. Indeed die damage done betwixt the destruction of glass, and of fruit I trees, and of INu rising garden crops, is not easily to be cal. related. Several uptight aiuduws of shops and hollers in Nauteich were bruhem, and had had it not been that the wind was calm, much more damage must have accrued.— (Chester Guardian ) (IVILOM A CORRESPONDENT 3 AI about half•past a. sal', p.m. on Thursday last, the town of Denbigh was visited by an usual thunderstorm; there be. lug a gentle breeze fluor the north, and the sky appearing much overcast to the south-cast, as if silently collecting its vpialerfel 'fur • subsequent intonation, which, though at some ilistauce suuu became perceptible, and gradually convinced us of the near approach and explosion of the electric matter. As near eight o'clock as possible the thuoiler.storni was at its highest, and to every appearance directly vortical, threatening iu its mad career destruction to the frightened inhabitants, who were all busy either in closing oi opening their windows just as their fancies sug. gested. Flaoh succeeding flash in rapid succession, made it truly awful scarcely haul the loud rolling peal ceased, ere another snore dreadful than the previous one followed, as if all the combustible matter io nature had determined upon • war iii the vast field of aerial fluid. At some periods it was really ularmisig ; no ■owner had the broad vivid flame shut across the sight than it was succeeded by an iusteutaneons display of must brilliant light •aceud inF; with a rapidity scarcely conceivable. Two or three SAIiOUS might have been counted in the intervening time, when an awful shrill clap succeeded; added to these, the transient darkness of the circomambient 'lonosphere, made the prene at once terrible and sublime; these intonations euuttsioed •fifteen or twenty pulsations. Ii was near half after right before there was an apparent ces sation of hottilitics, when the noise gradually subsided in a westerly direction. As night came en the display of lights, which had now taken • position nearly south, be came beautiful in the extreme; at one iustant dieting from hehind a cloud in the horizon, then with an undulatory mo. thou, a seeming concentratiou waosuccreded by the brightest darts conceivable; the whole sky to the seat hecuashig ignited and appearing fur a moment its a blaze. These may lw amid to have occurred at an average of two or three each minute. Some idea of the loightness of these explosions may be formed, when the trews, their branches, the ruins of the castle, dm were perfectly and distinctly visible; even persona going slung the streets were distinctly visible. About eleven the thunder was again hoard, bat at a groat When there fell two slight ►howers of rain. Thus it lasted near five hours with little iuterooission until mid. night, at which period the lightning inclined towards the west. lam happy to add, nu damage has twee dour, with the taco-wisest of a tiro which was shivered very near the towll. The most remarkable hailstorm visited Runcorn and the ori4h6oudo .. un Weduesilsy .e'uuiKii, that Wail 11:Ver re munbi mA by the oldest inhabitant. The Lill of hail was 111,111.11.11 and trsiiiemloos; all She pausal of glass in the l:ut.huuses and skylights were broken; at Nuiton reinry the damage iii this way was supposed to amount lo 2001.; the hailstones measured from three inches to four inches and a half nt rirrunsfereisee. A lady, while running fur shelter had her bonnet beaten to Muria; even pants .1 bull-eyed glass were broken in exposed windows. The !AIMS were as plenti fully skewed will. gn•en I.avxsea they usually ore with faded ones io auloulii. %Ye are assured that 16e hailstones were of the above diiii.msions; and that some whirb full at Faro. worth, where censidcrable damage war done, were fuur inches ia circumfereuct. TIIE ARMY. The 2d and 3d battalions of the Royal Veteran• art on tbsir passage from Ireland to England, to be disbanded : the fumer will land at Portsmnath, the latter at Plymouth. The 77th regiment, now quartered at Stockport, is about to march for Portsmouth garrison. WATIMFORD, MAT 2. Last evening arrived from Bristol the Mars, Thomism, Ann Giza, Agruoria, Catherine, F.dward, Rover, Concord. Muller, and Thomas, with the 6th, or Carabinerr Dragooa Guards. The regiment is 640 strong, under Lientensist- Colonel Rinsch, and was last quartered et Binning!int The rrgienciii replaces, on the Isiah establishment, the 2il .I.sgeollS, nr Cents Greys, who embark here this morning fo: Bristol in the transports that hare (nought the Carabinecrs. The Carabineers, upon landing, marched towards Cork and Limerick. [TAME THE DUBLIN FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.] The fltd regimeut of rout, staliuued at the bile of prance for the haat two years, has been ordered to proceed to Roos , ' or Ceylon, to relieve some reriments returoieg w F..tr. ; ., The 82i1 will be replaced by the Ist Royal Scots oow Armagh.. _ _ _ The 2.1 dragoon guards, or Queen's Bays, were reviewed on Merrion Strand, on Saturday last, by the Commander of the Fume.. His Excellency she Lord Lieutenant, with the Earl of Meath and lord Manners, were present, and ex pressed great admiration at the perfection of the discipline of thin regiment, as well as the amazing velocity with which they wade the lofts cat charges. 'flu , lath its at Caber and Its cantonment', sup posed to be destined for India, have as yet recei►ed no ufficial orders on that subject. FIRE. Saturday morning, morning, shout nine o'clock, a fire broke ont in one of the new unfinished buildings in Regent-street, Oxford. street, immediately adjoining the Argyl Rooms, and em ployed as a sort of a depot frir the benches, scenery, Ike. of that splendid • otniiindiment. At one period the Rooms themselvea were in intiniuent danger; but by a fortunate shi,st of the ►ind ro the south, and a speedy supply of water, the tire was gut snider without any other damage that. the dr. struction of the roof and interior of the house *here it com menced. It is conjectured that the workmen employed in ormolus.; the Concert Room fur the Bedford Charity, in re moving lbe•hruehea into the house, might bare lift a light burning, and have thus occasioned the accident. The valu able premises of the Royal llarmouie Institution have fur. tuustely escaped without the least injury. AAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4. Arrived the Sapph.., Lamb, from Cowes, mad nailed again for die Cape of Good Hope. rimisouTn. MAY 3. Arrived off this port the Tobago, Baigrie, from Tulnign for London ; and the American brig Anu, from Peteriburgli for Cowes. near., MAY 4 Arrived and sail,d for the River, the Amelia, Sauuderi, from Naplra. Came down from the River and sailed the C roci pch., Hell, and Dash, Nickels for Naples; Tantvr, Beer, for R. so Janeiro; Itanzrr. Cativo-, for Bermuda; Nereid, Kull, fur the South Sean; Fortiluile Increased, Manning, fur St. lisif.; Pmerewi, Holt, for brghorn ; and Boone Brunelle, fur Ruuen. The Mary, Monteith, which was run on shore, has been towed this morifing into the harbour. Ou her passage frum New Orleans she lost her rudder, and took a pilot front Cape Clear fur Kinsale to refit but uvritig to a thick fog sl.e struck on the rerf of rocks westward of the Old Head, on which the Lord Melville and Borodino transports were lost in 1816; she continued beating front four amt. to One:. where, with the ii.sistance of boats, she was got off, h.' much damaged, and the pumps constantly at work. Tfild is the only instance we can recollect of a vessel and cargo driven uu those rucks being savtd. MEETINGS OP CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL TO-MORROW. ..„ —.....- K. N. J. Burk land, Newcastle-street, carpenter J. W. Treherne, late of St. Alartin's.street, victualler 2 11 E. T. Palmer, Bedford, draper .. It. Ritchie and J. Bigsby, Deptford, brewrto ... J. Scaipter, Old-strect-road, Hume-mastou 2 11 J. Holiis. Goewell-striet t-road, stone-mason A. Macrae, Devousbire.strect, jeweller 0 10 J. Mulligan, Bath, silk-mercer.. M. Essex, Coventry, Warwick, and Wood-street, silk manufacturer. 2 1 T. D. Menke, late of Primrose-street, merchant.. 2 11 B. Glover, Watling -street, warehouseman 1 h.) T. Croft, late of Chatham, hair-dresser. J. Welch, High Holborn, master-mariner 1 10 DIVIDENDS. J. Consists, Sinners Town, theesemonger N. W. and %V. Bowers, Cannoti.strect, comb-makers II B. Glasseott, Cheapside, jeweller .1. Barker, Strand, busier J. Perkins, Tiverton. timber-merchant lO W. Davies, Caerphilly, woollen-manufacture► „.. 11 ('ERTI FICATES. J. Grethi in, hie of London, upholsterer.— T. Hughes, of Rennet-street, St. James, Middlesex, wkly. •Iler.—B. Dmltry, of Rawcliffe, Yoek , farmer.—J. P. Drummond, of Loudon-street, London, and of Demerara, West ladies, mercliane.—T. Rouse, of Liverpool, Latics::_ ler, optician.—R &dwell, of Bath, Somerset, shoe-maker. —IL Ralph and W. Knit, of Ipswich, Suffolk, maltsters.— .1. Hatfield, of Edward-strcel, Cavendish-square, Middlesex. suricyor.—W. Wilkinson, of Blackburn, Laiscaster,ootiou manufacturer. HIRT Fl g. On Monday, in Dover-street, London, the Lady of Wil liam Minims Pitt, Esq. M.P. for Dorsetsbirr, of • sun and heir. (Mt Saturday •e'uniglt, at Bishop's Stoke, the Lady of t'.e Rev. T. Giaruser, of • daughter. MARRIAGES. On the Ist Inst. Lieut. Wm. I:glutton, 84th regiment of Nit, to 1.41411.41 Maria, second daughter of George Layr, Etri. Batraek-estaster at Fort Cumberland, and niece to Cycle's( Lase, H . A ._ _ Sahvday s.:`iinicht, in St Peter's church, Duhr n, the Gun. George William Massy, briitlirr to Lord Masay, to second daughter of the late Jams Hugh Smith Barry, Esq. of Marbury Hull, Cheshire, mut Fumy, county Cork. On the 26th ut February, at Floe. nre, iu tile hutute. , f t, • Excellency Ltail ri.h, Tllll4lll of the Eit..l of Charlerine, to Mi•i Se-tujoli. rally third iloighter of the late Colonel Campbeil, of Mena- d, and niece to the Duke of Argyll. DEATH. On rriJny the 4th inet at Runehnrrh, in the Isle of it of a deep &cline, Lady Maria Gory, almond daughter to t t•e Earl of Stanifind-atidAVars inputs. 111011 WATER THIS DAT AT toKpos nxiDGE. •her Q. Everillit 71 *hi/ 6. PRICE 01: A I'OCKS ON SA lURUIT. Batik Stuck ' l3l I 11.tak 1.. Alto.. lii 0-161 3 per lent . “lid • •• .7 I 1.• dill Bonds "44 43 3 per Cl. Cuot.. 7ti 73 I Ex. 11 11.. 2.. 4ti pr. Lott, ty Tickt t. 14/. 14 . 4 per 'reits....•.9oi 90 I Calm. t'r Ace 6 itvr Ct. N. Au. I 73k 73 Pritetrd and hiblishod as THE HRITISH PRES%aa.I TH I" Gl.tliiE Oniee, slr.ud by C. etnifilt ELI., of die F:raud.