The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-02 00:00:00

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" What do you think I did, (said Nanny) why I ran round the hay stack nine times on a St. Mark's Eve, with a ring in my hand, crying here's the knife, and where's the sheep ?—(A laugh.)—Whilst going the 9th round, I thought Mr. Barker, who was at Beverley, came home, he did not come home—but he was brought home next morning from the Blue Bell, at Beverley."—(Laughter.)—Whe ther the will alluded to by the plaintiff ever existed, and if so, whether it contained the limitations under which he claimed. An issue was also directed to try, whether he was legitimate. The trial took place at the Yorkshire Assizes, when the Jury found that such. did at one time exist, but they were unable to speak as to its contents. Thus negativing the plain tiff's claim; they however found, that the plaintiff's father was legitimate. The Court, in directing . the issues on the consideration.of costs, said it was princi pally with reference to`that question, that the cause would come before the Court. Mr. SHADWELL and Mr. DUCKWORTH, for the de fendants, argued, 'that as the plaintiff had entirely failed in making out his claim, or in fixing the de fendants with having wilfully suppressed the will, the bill ought to be dismissed with costs. Mr: HEALD, on the other hand, contended that the only question for the Court to decide was whe ther there bad been originally a probable cause of li tigation, or whether the plaintiff's claim was purely vexatious. It would be hard towards his client if he were to pay the expence of all the irrelevant and ponsensical trash which the defendant's had thought prope r to put in evidence in the cause; he would defy any gentleman, however great his experience, to point out an instance in which like evidence had ther the going round the hay-stack, and the coming home next morning, brought , the mar riage about . ; it was not for the Learned Gentleman to say, but at all events the Jury had found that the marriage took place. The Learned Gentleman, in conclusion, submitted that it would be unjust to saddle his client with the costs on such evidence. The VICE-CHANCELLOR felt puzzled as to the principle which ought to govern the costs in this case; but before he gave his opinion, he would carefully examine the deposition. It was clear that an heir-at-law was entitled to. a discovery of the title by which parties held property prima facie belonging to him ' • but the plaintiff here was merely a co ll atera l relation seeking to throw aside the heir at law ; and although the heir at law did not pay the costs of the discovery, it did not follow that the plaintiff should be exempt. His Honour would, in examining the record, see what of the depositions were irrelevant, and would take care that each party .should himself bear the expense of any matter of 'that description introduced by him. With respect to the costs of the trial at law, they must follow the ordinary rule, and be defrayed by the plaintiff, as he had failed. Mr. BICKERSTETH reminded his Honour that the plaintiff bad so far succeeded to establish his father's, and of course his own legitimacy, which are denied. The VICE-CHANCELLOR thought the heir-at-law had a right to know the title of any person claiming against him ; besides, in the present case, there was, perhaps, some doubt, as some of the children were clearly not born in wedlock. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. PRACTICE OF THE COURT. • In the case of Mr. Bean, an attorney, against whom a rule was obtained to show cause why his name should not be struck off the Rolls of the Court, for allowing a clerk, named Jones, to take money from an insolvent, which money was applied by Jones to his own use, Mr. COOKE, on behalf of Mr. Bean, now put in an affidavit, stating, that the officer had taxed Mr. Bean's bill of costs, and that the balance received by James in Mr. Bean's name, was paid into Court to be refunded to theinsolvent. , Mr. HEATH, who appeared for the insolvent, said he had nothing further to say. Commissioner HARRIS hoped this case would be a lesson to attornies in this Court, not to lend their names pr employ persons, whose conduct was likely to bring on them the severe animadversion of the Court, as well as subject them to the payment of large sums of money. In future, if any case came before the Court, where such misconduct was brought home to an attorney, the Conrt would have no hesitation in ordering his name to be struck off the rolls.—Rule discharged. Robert Cook, an insolvent, whose petition was heard on a former day, was now called up for Judgment. Commissioner HARRIS said, that it had clearly aPpeared, on the investigation, that the insolvent was arrested at his own desire; for it was proved that he had offered to pay any creditor money who would arrest him. It also appeared that he had made away with 3101., which was not satisfactorily accounted for. He had also infringed a clause in the Act of Parliament, by favouring some of his er h e a d r i e t . or s by which others were deprived of their fair s creditor s , those circumstances, the judgment of the Court was, that the insolvent should not be en titled to his discharge until he had been six calendar months in prison. An elephant's tusk was lately discovered, four feet deep, imbedded in a lime quarry at-King's Newnham, near Coventry. —Bath Chronicle. An action has been commenced against Sir bonrAzir WEBSTRER, by the drapers at Chichester, for rib bons supplied during the late election.—Brighton Gazette. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SHEERNESS.-A most destructive fire broke out on Tuesday night, in Blue Town, Sheerness, which consumed between forty and fifty houses before it could be got under. The houses were chiefly of wood ; but the loss of property has been very great. We believe that it bad been in contemplation some time since, to pull down the greater part of Blue Town, for the purpose of adding to the extent of the Naval Yard; and that an Act of Parliament had authorised the pur chase of the property in question. The calamitous fire which has happened ; may, therefore, probably facilitate the intended improvements. ADDERs.—About a fortnight ago, while Capt a i n Rusiel and his servant were training their 'dogs on Lo r d Stair's grounds, in the neighbourhood of Ballantrae, on e of the pointers set at a grouse. Captain Russel, of course, kept his eye on the dog, and while moving. on.. w ards, was surprised to see him first start back, and then tPparently snap at, something. But his surprise 'was very much increased when, ; on reaching the spot, he observed a very large adder in the attitude of giving battle to the dog, and which only retreated when he and his servant came in sight. The pointer commenced licking one of his legs, and it was soon evident that a wound had been inflicted. Though bit in the extremities, the poison entered the circulation so speedily, that his whole frame became vio lently convulsed. The servant carried him home in his arms, and though nursed with the greatest care for a fort night, he is only at this moment gradually recovering.— Capt. Russell determined to be upsides, if possible, with the adder, and with this view provided himself with a cleft-stick the next time he ascended the heights of Ballantrae.— After a little search, he discovered the reptile lurking pretty near its old den, seized it by the middle, and held it up in the air, while his servant lashed it smartly with a switch. — While thus assailed, the reptile coiled and actually wounded it s own tail ; and Captain Russell being curious to know the result, desired his servant immediately to desist. He did so, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the adder Welled to a great size, to all appearance from having ab r"nrbed a portion of that poison which, though perfectly h armless when concealed within its tusk, is attended with ver y different effects, when communicated to any other part of its own body. The reptile, when killed, measured four feet one inch, and was in other respects, one of the largest a d der , ever seen on the coast of Ayrshire.—Dum fries Courier._ SUMMER ASSIZES. WE STERN CIRCUIT. —SA LI SB URY, AUG. 1. • (RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) John Richmond Seymour, Esq. and Henry Macklin, a footman formerly in that gentleman's service, were put to the bar at ten o'clock this morning, capitally indicted for an offence which is not of a, nature that can be men tioned. At half-past seven o'clock, Mr. Seymour and Macklin were acquitted, Mr. Coleridge, after the evidence of two servants, not wishing to press for a conviction. There is an indictment for the misdemeanour, removed by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench, and there fore not to be tried this Assize. The Crown business pressing so very heavily on the CHIEF JUSTICE, owing to the extraordinary length of the trial of Mr. Seymour, Mr. Justice BURROUGH satin the Nisi Prins Court to try criminal cases. SAMPLE OF A COUNTRY GENIUS. Charles Kelow, a dogged, ill-favoured looking lad, about 16 or 17, was indicted for having feloniously stolen a pair of shoes from the shop of Henry Stepney, afWar minster. Mr. Justice BURROUGH was desirous of knowing whe the the prisoner actually took the shoes before the wit ness's (a young brother of the prosecutor's) face, on which the following interrogatory took place. Mr. Justice BURROUGH—Where were you when the prisoner took the shoes?—l was standing in the door. What did lie come in for ?—To tell me that he had threepence. That he had threepence! I don't undertand you. What about the threepence ?—He said that he was going to buy a pint of beer. Beer ! Do you sell beer at your shop ?.--No, we don't ; but he (lid it to fill, the shop with a lot of his companions. How could his having threepence fill the shop ? Why, when he saw that I would not believe that he had three pence ; he called in another man to be witness that he had. Well, well, never mind that, tell me abOut his taking the shoes. Where were you at the time? Oh, we were all in Warminster. Stupid fellow ! What part of the shop were you in.? I was at the counter. What, when he took the shoes ? Oh, no ; not then—at another time. How can the boy be so stupid ! Wheri he took the shoes ? I was in the door way. And how near was the prisoner to you? He was close to the shoes. Well, where were the shoes? In the window. The Counsel for the prosecution here put in a query— " How far was the window from the door ?" "Three or four inches ;" and thus the locality was settled, after a dozen questions. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Learned Judge sentenced him to be transported for seven years. Mr. Serjeant Bustras, although the junior Sergeant on this Circuit, filled the judicial chair, in the absence of Mr. Justice BURROUGH. MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT HADLEY, NEAR BARNET. , During the whole of yesterday the neighbourhood of Hadley, Barnet, and parts adjacent, was in the highest state of alarm and consternation, in consequence of a re port that a barbarous and most mysterious murder had been committed at Hadley Green, in which a lady of re spectability and her daughter had fallen victims to the steel of a midnight assassin. The circumstances of the dreadful transaction, as far as at present known, ar•e as follows : Mrs. Mary Spencer, a widow lady, upwards of 70 years of age, with her daughter, who was rather over 40, and a fe male domestic, have, for a very lengthened period, resided on Hadley Green, and were very generally respected. About ten o'clock on the night preceding the horrid catas trophe the servant retired to bed, leaving her two mistresses in their sitting-room, immediately adjoining their bed chamber. They were then conversing cheerfully, and ap parently preparing to retire for the night. Not the slightest noise or disturbance was heard during the night; and in the morning the servant arose about the usual hour. After some time spent in the necessary household duties, she proceeded to her mistresses' bed-room, and was much astonished at perceiving no person in the room, and the bed in the same state she had left it the•preceding evening. A sense of something terrible immediately crossed her mind, and, for an instant, her• senses forsook her; but, re covering herself; she ventured to the apartment where she had last seen her mistresses, and there a most appalling spectacle met her sight. The two unfortunate ladies lying on the floor, weltering in their blood, with which their clothes and the floor of the apaitment were saturated, and their throats cut and mangled in the most frightful man ner: An alarm was immediately given, and several per sons proceeded to the scene of this dreadful tragedy; the further circumstances connected with -which, at present, ap pear shrouded in the deepest mystery, but not the slightest clue could be discovered to throw any light on the transac tion. The doors and windows were free from any marks of violence, and every article of property safe and un moved ; and the only circumstance that would have indi cated violence was the disordered state of their dresses, and the position of the chairs and table at which they had been left the night before. From the appearance of the bodies, it was evident that life had been extinct several hours ; and their not having undressed themselves is evident proof that the deed must have been perpetrated soon after they were left alone. No instrument by which the wounds could be inflicted was found in the apartment, although strict search was made. Various rumours are afloat in the neighbour hood, which it would, at present, be imprudent to mention, as every circumstance will undergo the investigation of a Coroner's Jury, which is summoned for to-morrow. FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS. WINDSOR, AUG. I.—Yesterday the KING arrived at Virginia Water , at three o'clock. After dinner, his MAJESTY proceeded to ti-e Fishing Temple, where he partook of coffee, and enjoyed the amusement of angling, and returned to the Royal Lodge at nine o'clock, This day the Queen of WIJ,RTEMBERG and her Royal Sisters, Prinoess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, will dine with his MAJESTY at Virginia Water. On Monday, Mt. CANNING arrived at the Royal Lodge, and had a long audience of hie MAJESTY. The Duchess of.kENT, accompanied by the Princess VICTORIA and FEODORE, and the Prince of LEI NINGEN, and attended by the Baroness de SPAEDTH, Mis s lATZIN, and Captain CONROY, left leer apartments in the King's Palace at Kensington, about one o'clock yesterday afternoon for Tunbridge Wells. The Royal Duchess and her suite went in three carriages and four. Prince LEOPOLD left his residence, Marl borough-house, Pall-mall, yesterday morning, for his scat at Claremont. Mr. PHILLIPS, the new Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, attended at the Home Office on Tuesday, and entered on his official duties. Mr. HoexousE, the late Under Secretary, also attended, and delivered to Mr. Pnimars the books and official documents attached to his department in the office. Sir HERBERt TAYLOR, after transacting, official business for some hours yesterday at the Com mander-in-Chief's Office in the Horse Guards, left town about three o'clock in the afternoon, to attend the KING at his Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. ViSCOMIt PALMERSTON held a levee yester day at the Office of the Commander-in-Chief in the Horse Guards, which was attended by near thirty military officers. The Right Hon. Sir CHARLES STUART had an interview yesterday with Viscount GODERICH. Sir JOHN WYLDE, Chief Justice of the Cape of Good Hope, transacted business with the Noble Viscount yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Earl of CARLISLE and Viscount PAL MERSTON transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Lieutenant-Colonel JAMES LAW LEAMINGTON took the usual oath and his seat as a Director, in the room of EDWARD PARRY, Esq. deceased. ADDRESS TO LORD MANNERS.--.The Cor poration of Dublin have voted a complimentary Address to Lord Manners on the occasion of his retirement from office. Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, the Duke of PORTLAND, family, and suite, Lord H. BENTINCK, Lady BAGOT, and several other persons of distinction, embarked on board the Earl of Liverpool steam-packet for Ostend. Several letters from the country mention that the gold circulation is disappearing, and that sovereigns are becoming scarce, particularly in Yorkshire tend Lancashire. THE DEATH OF A CHILD ATTEMPTED BY STARVATION AND CRUELTY BY ITS PARENTS. A man named Taylor, and a woman named Diacon, with whom he cohabited, were brought to Hatton-garden Police Office last night, in the custody of Hatt, the Found ling watch-h . ouse keeper, followed by at least 500 people, charged by a Mr. Wolfe, an undertaker, of 28, Brighton street, Cromer-street, St. Pancras., with starving and cruelly treating a young child, named James Taylor, be tween three and four years of age, the offspring of the male prisoner. The child was mined to the Office by Mr. Wolfe; and was shown to Mr. Sergeant Sellon, the presiding Magis trate. Its appearance was most frightful. In figure it was not as large as a baby of seven months. The head was flattened on one side; the face was elongated, pale, rueful, and'distorted; the eyes leaping from their sockets, with a wild expression ; the mouth small and compressed,• with lips thin and feverish. The breast bone of the infant was thrown out into the form of a how. The several joints of the body and limbs were exceedingly swelled, and in many parts ulcerated. On different parts of its body were marks of severe chastisement. Its little wrists were also cut, as if from a rope having been tied round them. It could not speak, but made use of a discordant sound to announce itf , wants. _ _ Mr. Wolfe stated, that some months since the prisoners, who lived as man and wife, came to lodge at No. 1, Brighton-street, in the house of a man named Pavett, which was exactly opposite to his house. The apartment they occupied was the front kitchen. They were in the habit of going out in the morning and not returning until very late at night. Upon many occasions some of the children and women in the neighbourhood heard cries and screams issuing from the kitchen, as if from an infant in distress. A woman who lived in the same house, named Caldwell, thinking that the cries must have proceeded from hunger, frequently put pieces of bread under the door, which for some moments would have the effect of stopping the cries. The infant was, however, never seen, as it was never brought out to take the air, and. every thing respecting it Ival mere .conjecture. One of his (Mr. Wolffe's) daughters, however,' by some chance got a glimpse of it, and the account she gave him of it was so frightful, that he .determined upon taking some means to see it, and adopting the course he that day did, if the representation made to him was correct. He accordingly had the woman, taken into custody by a street-keeper, and did the like by the man when he came in. It was then he learned that the child was not the off spring of both the parties, but of the man's by a former wife. He sent for a medical gentleman named Walford, of Judd-street, who examined the child, and said; that al though the child was in a dedining state, yet there were marks upon the body that did not proceed from any malady but were the marks of seveie chastisement—the marks of a rope being quite perceptible on different parts of the body. A number of witnesses here came forward who bore out all the facts stated by Mr. Wolfe. Amongst others, Mrs. Caldwell, who.deposed to the most piteous cries having issued from the kitchen, in consequence of which she fre quently put victuals under the door, and saw the infant crawl over and eat them. The woman in her defence said, that she always treated the child with as much kindness as if it had been her own. Mr. Sergeant SELLON, in remanding the prisoners until Friday at one o'clock, said that much thanks were due to Mr. Wolfe, for his exertions in the case. The prisoners were then taken from the bar, and con veyed by a private way to the New Prison, to save them from the indignation of the assemblage of people that crowded round the office door, until a late hour last night. The child was given to the care of Mr. Wolfe until Fri day, who conveyed it home, had it washed, and every ne cessary care taken of it. ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION. Bishop, the old and active officer of Bow street, returned a,few days since from assisting in a long and laborious investigation in which the Magistrates of Canterbury have been en gaged, in endeavouring to bring to justice the authors of a daring and deliberate attempt to as sassinate a respectable individual some dine ago in the neighbourhood of that city. There is a place about two miles from Canterbury; on the road to the village of Chartham, called Cocker- , ine. b -bottom, situated between two hills, and bor dered partially by a wood—a spot, perhaps, of all others, most peculiarly calculated for the com mission of an act of the kind we are recording, from its very retired situation, and the facility afforded for escape by the wood. Cockering bottom, when highway-robberies were more fre quent than they are now, was famous as the scene of acts of violence, and several murders have been committed there many years ago. On the evening of Saturday, the 12th of May, about half -past nine o'clock, Mr. James Ashenden, a miller at Chartham, and an overseer of that place, was returning home on horseback from Canter bury market, and as he approached Cockering bottom, he saw two men standing by the bank side of the turnpike-road. Feeling somewhat ap prehensive that they were there for some evil purpose, he spurred his horse into a -brisk pace, a circumstance which, perhaps, saved his life, for, as he was passing them, one of them presented a shed gun or blunderbuss at him, fired, and wounded him in the left arm, which Mr. Ashenden had instinctively raised when he saw the piece levelled. In a moment after the other villain fired a pistol at him, but without effect. Such an atrocious act of course created a great sensation in the neighbourhood, and an investigation commenced immediately be fore the Canterbury Magistrates. Several per sons were apprehended on suspicion at different times, but no decisive proof could be obtained, and they were discharged. After a lapse of some weeks Bishop was sent for from Bow-street, and he, in the course of his inquiries, came to a eon elusion that murder only must have been the in tention of the villains, as he was informed by Mr. Ashenden that one of the men was near enough to him to have seized his bridle, and could easily have stopped him without firing.--• The officer learned that two men named Smith, father and son, labourers, and men of loose and daring character, at Chartham, had quarrelled. with Mr. A sliendcii, in his capacity of over seer of the poor. He went t o their house, and found a short gun concealed in a curious place, seemingly made on purpose, and that gun was pronounced 'by Mr. Ashenden to resemble closely the one discharged at him. Upon further inquiry it was ascertained that the barrel of the gun had been shortened not long before the act, and that subsequent to it one of the Smiths went to a gunsmith and wanted him to lengthen the barrel again, and to endeavour to do it so that it would not be easily perceived.— Bishop apprehended these two men, and they underwent several examinations, in the course of' which suspicion strengthened materially against them. They were remanded to St. Augustin's gaol fior a week, on the last occasion, and in the course of that week the father put an end to his life, by hanging himself to a bolt in his cell. No decisive evidence could be obtained against the son, and he was discharged. On Friday last Sir Richard Birnie received a letter from the Canterbury magistrates, thanking him for sending Bishop to their aid, and speaking in high terms of the exertions of that officer. The occurrence has had such an effect•upon Mr. Ashenden, that he has, expressed his determination to sell his property, •and retire altogether from that part of the country. HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE.—The new Sus pension Bridge at Hammersmith, will be opened it is said for passengers towards the end of the present month. The platform, which is nearly finished, consists of fir planks three inches thick. It was in contemplation a few days since to erect a mansion on the road a short distance be yond Hammersmith, for her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kan. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.-(Ai ST. JA t per Load of 36 Trusses.) MESS. '• .E. a. L. s Z. a. Z. s.' Lowland Mead. Hay 3 sto 4 5 Clover Hay 4 15 to 7 0 Upland Ditto 4lO 515 Oat Straw ll4 118 Rye-grass Hay 4lO 515 Wheat Ditto iIS 2.5 New Meadow Hay 3 5 4 5 A good supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted SMITHFIELD. £. s. £. s. Lowland 'Mead. Hay 3 10to 4 10 Upland Ditto ....... 415 515 Rye-grass Hay 415 515 New Meadow Hay 4 0 410 Supply good, trade dull s. X. 6. Cloy. Hay generally 4 15 to R 10 Do. extra tine 0 0 0 Oat Straw 1 18 2 2 Wheat Ditto 2 2 2 8 I, and prices stationary. FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE. This day's market exhibited a good supply of fish.— The following were the prices:— Prime Turbot, each los. Od. to I.ls. Od. Ditto small 5 0 S (1 Finest Salmon, per lb. 1 0 12 ) Ditto Grilse. 0 0 0 9 fialmon Trout 0 9 0 10 Fine Whitings, per 15 2 6 a 0 Brill, each Brighton Soles, per three pairs 0 0 3 6 Haddocks, per dozen 8 0 10 0 Live Flounders, per quartern Live Eels, per 51b. -- per draught 0 0 14 0 Shrimps, per gallon 2 0 • 3 0 In the prices of other,kinds of fish little alteration. SPORTING-(RECEIVED THIS DAY). KNUTSFORD RACES.—TUESDAY, JULY 31. CORNWALL LEGH and R. WARBURTON, Esq. Stewards. The Produce Stakes of 50 sous. each, h. ft. for colts, Bst. 51b. fillies, fist. 21b. Two miles. Lord Grosvenor's b. f. Burlesque 1 Lord Grosvenor's b. c. Gros de Naples 2 Blr. Clifton's h. Pat Eight paid.—Wou easy. An Elegant Piece of Plate, value 100 sovs. added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. Three miles. The owner of the second horse to receive 20 sovs. Sir W. Wynne's Signorina, 5 yrs Sir T. Stanley's br. h. Dr. Faustus, 5 yrs 2 Fifteen paid.—Won easy. Sweepstakes of 60 sous. eacb,,h. ft. for three-yr-old colts, Bst. 31b. fillies, Bst. Two miles. The owner of the second horse to withdraw his stake. Sir W. Wynne's Sabrina walked over. Three paid. Match-50 sovs. h. ft., Sat. 41b. each. Peover Course. Lord Derby's Necromancer 1 Lord Grosvenor's Mavrocordato 2 A good race. A Maiden Plate of 501.. Heats, two miles. Sir W. Wynne's Lattitat, 4 yrs 1 1 Mr. Taylor's b. c. by Ambo 0 Mr. Clifton's Pat, 8 yrs 2 ' 3 Mr. Hooley's b. h. Logic, 5 yrs 0 dr One drawn.—Won easy. DERBY RACES.-TUESDAY, JULY 31 Sixty Guineas given by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, for maiden horses, &c. Two mile heats. Mr. Houldsworth's bl. c. Raven, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b. 1 1 Lord Rancliffe's gr. c. Play or. Pay, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b. 2 bd Mr. Statham's b. f. by Magistrate, 3 yq, 7st 3 bd The Gold Cup, value 100 gs., the rest in specie, a Sweep stakes of 10gs. each, for all ages. Three miles. Mr. Giffard's Leviathan, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b 1 Duke of Devonshire's Chesterfield, 4 yrs, Bst. 21h 2 The Devonshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., for three yr-old colts, Bst. 71b. fillies, Bst. 41b. Once round and a distance. Earl of Chesterfield's ch. c. Pantaloon, Bst. 71b. I Mr. Beardsworth's Loraine, Bst. '7lb. Three paid. Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for two-yr-old colts, Sst. 21b, fillies, Bst. Half a mile. (6 Subs.) _ Mr. Ilouldsworth's ch. c. Vanish, Bst. 21b 1 Mr. Yates's ch. f. Mermaid, Bst. 2 Mr. Beardsworth's h. c. by Master Henry, Set. 21b. 3 Mr. Platell's b. c. Projectile, Set. 21b 4 One paid. BRIGHTON RACES.—TUESDAY, JULY 31. As the account we gave yesterday of the Town Plate of 50/. was incorrect, owing to the confusion which existed during the running, the course being so badly kept that the horses could not know their ground, and all ran out, most people thought that the Plate had been won by Mr. Scaith's, but the correct running is thus : Mr..Caulftelii's b. f. Whimper, 3 yrs .... 2 1 1 Mr. Scaith'S b. c. by Octavius, 3 yrs .... 1 2 dr Lord Egremont's b. c. Porpoise, 3 yrs ... die. WEDNESDAY.—The Sussex Plate of 501., for all ages. Heats, two miles. The winner to be sold for 250/. Mr. Caulfield's b. f. Whimper, 3 yrs .... 3 1 1 Mr. T. Jones's gr. h. 'Br. to Richmond 1 2 2 Mr. Brown's b. m. Maid of Kent, aged... 2 dr The Scrub Stakes. The Duke of Richmond's Gulnare, which was entered in Captain Berkeley's name, received forfeit from Mr. Gre-' ville's Maria (belonging to his Majesty), Lord Egremont's b. c. by Whalebone, and Mr. Scott Stonehewer's Theorem, consequently. ,there was no race. The weather was delightful both days.—lt bad been expe#ed that several of the King's horses would run here, but they were, we understand, sent to Southampton Races, and could not be brought to Brighton in time. The Races have certainly gone off more flatly, and brought less com pany than in former years, but we hope this will not be the case again ; and, indeed, we believe arrangements have already been made to ensure good Stakes for next year. We know that a gentleman has guaranteed 300/. to the leading noblemen who patronise the sports here, request ing them to arrange the several Plates in such a manner as may prove most satisfactory to those who have horses to run.—Brighton Gazette. MAZE RACES (IRELAND).—TUESDAY, Jutx 24. Match, Heats. Mr. Savage's Independence Mr. Battersby's Seaford Independence was, during the second heat, evidently kept in rein, for the purpose of winning the race. Wennitspi.v.—King's Plate of 1001. for Irish-bred horses, not exceeding six years old, carrying 9st. 71b. each. Heats, four miles. Mr. Kelly's Miss Foot Mr. Blake's Polydore 1 2 After the second heat Polydore gave in. Betting at starting 2 to .1 is favour of Miss Foot ; after the first heat, 2to lon Polydore. Betting ran high, and it is said that so fine a race has not been witnessed on the Maze Course since the brightest days of Abbot's performance. DOGGETT'S ANNUAL COAT AND BADGE. Yesterday being the Ist of August, the Coat and Badge, willed by the Comedian Doggett, of facetious memory, was contested for by six watermen, whose apprenticeship has expired within the last twelve months. The accession of the Brunswick Family to the Throne gave rise to the be quest, which loyal e xample was followed by Sir W. Joh litre, who was a Liveryman of the Fishmongers' Company, and who added the sum of eight pounds one shilling, to be divided in the following proportions : viz. to the se cond man, 4/. 7s. 6d ; to the third 2/. 12s. 6d. ; and a guinea to be spent amongst the other three boatmen. 1. Ebenezer Payne T ower -st a irs. 2. James Boss Fountai n .-stairs, London Docks. 3. John Bly g h 4. James Cripps Richmond. b. Thomas Hough Summers Quay. 6. John Phelps Fulham. About two o'clock the competitors started from the Old Swan at London Bridge, for the Swan at Chelsea; there could not, however, be any thing like an opinion as to who would become the favourite, until they reached Vaux hall Bridge, when Ross, availing himself of the second and third boats, thwarting each other, took the lead, and maintained it during the contest, being twelve or fourteen boats' lengths a-head of his competitors, the second boat Phelps, third Oliver, fourth Hough, • fifth Payne, sixth Cripps, who was completely distanced, although, at start ing, from his muscular strength and height, he was a fa vourite among the aquatic cognoscenti. MAD DOGS.--As these animals are as much to be dreaded at the present time as venomous serpents, every man should take the greatest precautions for his safety. Animals in this state mostly attack the leg, and light WELLINGTON BOOTS are, perhaps, the best safe guard. The beat of this description are now making, to measure, at One Guinea the pair, by SALE and Co., Mk, Strand, and who are confident that one trial will sufficiently convince every purchaser that he cannot find in any other establishment, boots superior to the above, even at double the price. The herring fishery has improved very greatly for some nights past to the westward of Ayr. Between twenty and thirty boats are usually employed in the fishery, and on Wednesday night, each boat had from 300 to 700. The fish are of a good size, and excellent in quality.. — .Edinburgh Advertiser. THE COLISEUM, REGENT'S-PARK. This very novel and interesting undertaking, which has alreally occupied the projector, and a 'host of artists employed upon it, more than four years, is now rapidly advancing towards comple tion, and is expected to be opened to the public in the course of the next spring. The scale of cost upon, which all its details have preceded, is unparalleled in England ; in fact, we know of no enterprise in the way of public exhibition in Eu rope, that, in splendour, and expense, at all ap proaches it. The Panorama alone which is to be first exhibited—London, as seen from the top of St. Paul's—in point of extent, is forty times larger than the panoramas ordinarily produced. ft_shows not merely every principal street in the city, and every public edifice, but some section or portion of every house, unless of those which are so completely concealed by higher buildings round as to be accessible to nothing short of a directly vertical view ; and beyond' this, in the back ground of the picture, extends a prospect of the whole country surrounding the metropolis ; embracing all the leading objects, in some directions, to an extent exceeding thirty miles. This picture has been the chief cause of the length of time which has already been oc cupied in the undertaking. From its great ex tent, and the vast number of objects contained in it, added to the mathematical precision with which it was necessary to the inventor's purpose that every point should be executed, it has been found necessary absolutely to educate most of the artists who are employed., The architectural painters, of skill or eminence, accustomed to paint in oil colour, are not numerous ; and of these many became speedily_ disheartened by the great magnitude and slaw progresi of the work, joined to the troublesome accuracy, both of de sign and colouring, necessary to its performance; while others, of considerable talent as landscape and scene painters, have been found (from the different character of the works to which they were accustomed) incompetent to the task.— some idea may be formed of the scale upon which the design proceeds, from the fact that one single building represented—the New Post ()fee —contains near 300 square feet of paint ing ; and the whole executed with such exactness that not a frieze, or even the plinth of a column; is omitted. The mode in which the Panorama is to be presented to the spectator, is convenient and ingenious. As the building is of great height (more than a hundred and fifty feet) and different views, at different stages, are given, it would be a work of considerable labour to ascend a staircase from bottom to top. To avoid the neces sity for this exertion, the room in which the spectators are placed to see the picture, .is raised ; by one effort, visitors and all; from the level of the foundation of the structure to the first platform or gallery, a height exceeding that of tall four-storied houses, equal to those •of Grosvenor-square or Portland-place. The ma chinery which performs this elevation is infallible ; but very simple. The power employed is that of water ; so contrived as to, proportion it: strength to the number of persons—few or many —who may be in the chamber at the time when it is to be raised : each individual that enters ; adding, involuntarily, as he passes through the door, a force to the raising power, equivalent tc his own weight. At a given signal, the apart ment then rises : the panorama 'being all the while invisible to the 'spectator ; until, At length, - arriving at the first platform, he seems to stand on what is called the " iron gallery of St. Pad:. Cathedral ;" with the great dome, the turrets, and all those parts of the church which are. visible from such a position, immediately below him ; and the city of London, with its various great features, the river, the bridges, squares, the suburbs, &c., spreading on all sides, and in every direction around ! This is a view, which (look ing to the accuracy with which its details are painted) will not be merely highly interesting both to Englishmen and to foreigners, but -is also a view which there are no means from any other point, of obtaining ; for the prospect from the cathedral itself is always dimmed and obscured by the smoke and vapour that hangs ' over the city, except at those very early hours- (shortly after day-break) in the morning, when access cannot be obtained to it. The great size of the picture, added to the number of objects contained in it, gives it in• deed the effect rather of a model, on a gigantic scale, than of a panorama : and the first impres sion that strikes the spectator is, how little he knows of the great outline of the city in which perhaps he habitually resides ! From this first stage, however, the visiter proceeds by a spiral staircase to a second gallery, placed about thirty feet above the first, the ascent to which is so managed, that he appears to be mounting by a scaffolding erected round the lantern of the ca thedral, and he actually passes round the real " ball" and " cross," removed at the time of the late repairs from the top of the building,—two relics which, among many other strange and va luable memoranda, Mr. Homer has preserved. At this stage, a second view of the picture is given ; and still higher up, if we recollect right, there is a third ; and from thence, winding still higher, the stranger suddenly emerges in an ex tensive gallery, built round the exterior of the summit of the building ; where it is no longer a piCture which is before him, but a living pano rama of the whole west and north ends of Lon don ; with the Regent's-park, the whole of the new improvements, &c., immediately - under him; and the hills of Highgate and Hampstead, one way, and St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, the other, in the distance ; this feature alone forming an exhibition which thousands of per sons in the metropolis would be content to pay a consideration to see. Very interesting and elaborate, however, all this appears, it is by no means upon his pa norama alone that Mr. Horner has relied for success ; and, in fact, he has surrounded it with so many curious adjuncts, that the attention rum some chance to be distracted from the principai feature. The ground contained within the wall ed enclosure round the Coliseum, a space of es• sentially not more than four acres, has been con. verted by some very peculiar and ingenious cir cumstances in the way of arrangement, into landscape and ornamental garden, of apparently very considerable extent. By a combination ol real objects, with optical contrivances and illu sions, and by raising lofty embankments in some situations, and excavating the ground to a grew depth in others, an appearance (and in some measure a reality) of extent is produced, which, within the superficial compass, would seem to . be scarcely possible. High sloping banks, runninc to a depth far below the natural level, are divided into terraces, and clothed with exotic plants and flowers of the most choice and costly description. Tall trees are so managed as to take their root from a height even with the top of the walls that surround the building ; so as at once to inclose the garden from view and to shut out all exter ternal objects. In one quarter of a winding ane, artificial valley, the spectator, finds himself sud denly entering a spacious and splendid conserva tory ; the upper part of which, rising into a dome of glass, is covered with trees and foliage, filled with every variety of scarce and beautiful foreign birds; while, in the centre, a fountain plays, sin - rounded with beds of flowers, within which some fanciful and emblematic machinery is to be exhis bited. In another place, conducted through a subterraneous passage, laid out as a series of grottoes or caverns, and • enriched with shells; rock coral, sea-tree, and variety of marine and geological specimens, he arrives before a Swiss cottage, built in the most correct as well as pic turesque style, and completely furnished within, after the fashion of the country. Beyond which a cascade falls over rocks from an actual height exceeding 50 feet ; the apparent descent (from the manner in which the view is arranged) being very largely greater. These works, however, which are now nearly completed, are only those originally devised by . Mr. Horner ; and it gives us great pleasure to state, that circumstances have enabled him to ex tend the plan upon which he set out; A piece of ground, fourteen acres in extent, has been ob.: tabled in front of the Coliseum, which will be connected by an under-ground avenue with the gardens within ,the walls of the building : and laid but as an ornamental shrubbery, with foun tains, aviaries, temples, &c., upon the same plan with those already described. The whole exhi bition, excepting only the picture, will be occa , siotsally opened at night; and on these occasions the fancy garden will by splendidly illuminated ; and music given, of a novel and highly delightful description, produced from an instrinnent which will not be last among the curious and entertain- Hong novelties with which the exhibition will abound. A variety of other interesting features, and many which the exhibition presents even in its unfinished state, we must be content to pass with= out referring to. The flowers, plants, ores, arid various natural curiosities, employed iu the course of the decoration, are not merely of a showy, but of a really rare and recherche character. — The Panorama is so managed, that the light upon it, as the spectator gazes, is constantly changing ; and these varieties are not confined to any given list, but go on multiplying ad ins finitum. A refectory is constructed near the top of the building, which will be supplied by the aid of a little machinery, with ices, &c., brought up from the cool cellars below the level of the foundation ; and the most entire attention is to be paid to the style and quality ofthe re-. freshments provided,—a circumstance, in our places of entertainment in general, very heinously neglected. Beyond this, some means will be adopted to show the power of an echo within the ,building, which is of extraordinary force : re peating the voice more than twenty times. rn the night exhibitions, a light as strong as that of day will be thrown. upon the gardens, &c. i without a single lamp or candle being visible the intention is, that the light shall proceed from the beds of flowers, so as to be invisible them selves, while they illuminate every object rosind. And in order to be as independent as possible in his evening exhibitions of all uncertainty of. weather, the projector intends to construct above. the building—a moon of his own ! This last proposition might, under some circumstances, appear a little staggering; but, judging from that which is already done, if it svers " an atmosphere and a sun," instead of a moon, we should feel bound 'to be perfectly confident of its being aca complished. This notice has already extended itself to such length, that we must defer making any comment upon the building itself ; except to observe that, both as to correct taste, and solidity of execu tion, it appears throughout to do high credit to the architect. All 'the interior points of warm ing and ventilation have been attended to with great ingenuity and judgment ; and one feature of the exterior—the great entrance-door under the portico—will be, when it is finished, one of the handsomest objects of the kind that ever was produced. Besides this, several striking circumstances will be introduced in the arrange-. went of the piece of ground in front of the edifice ; and hopes are entertained of a distinct entrance into the Park being granted, for the- purpose of making a handsome approach to it. ft may be as well here to notice a report that is understood to have gone forth in some di-, sections, that this production was the device of various artists, and that the money ' was' fur nished by capitalists, who had felt some doubt about advancing the requisite funds as it pro ceeded. No part of this story, we believe, has any foundation in truth ; the entire control of the undertaking has devolved upon Mr. Hor ner, with whom also all the various circumstances of the design have originated ; and the length of time occupied has been merely occasioned by his fixed determination to have the work executed throughout with the same accuracy and, excel lence with which it was commenced. To have completed a building only, however, of ouch ex- tent and solidity as the Coliseum, very rapidly, under any circumstances, would hardly have been possible. In conclusion, we are but doing scanty justice to Mr. Homer when we say, that in those parts which are already completed of his undertaking, he has exhibited the possession of such faculties and such resources as fall to the lot public, of e asoon very ooisotgifil give vi aw c es tdistinction. i his m.exhibition aH individuals sr i yw i oh i de ri kg high d owt an : Inle and ds as cannot fail, beforenec olay less d e exs thet; i tf n eni t l e d' resting as a production of art, than as an ex hibition to astonish and gratify the senses ; and great as the outlay h a s been in its cons t r u c ti on , we have p not a question that the expense will be' largely and rapidly repaid. ACT Or BRUTALITY.--Between five and six o'clock yesterday evening, as some children were playing on the foot-pavement in Shoe-lane, close to the wooden partition which separates the space intended for the new market, one of the stone-masons working within the enclosure wantonly struck a fine boy about 12 years of age, with his mallet, through a hole at the bottom of the boards, upon the allele, and the blow caused m a t itaiitic: without e d idat h - t, i tot i e l , humattpstuhtcoe the poor boy instantly to fall to the ground. Some of the neighbours immediately carried the lad to the house of his parents, in Richard's buildings, opposite. The agony and cries of the t h e t r the e ( fa blow,r 1 n a a a d d dI made preg nancy) to go into strong hysterics, from which she was with considerable difficulty recovered. e c w a ict S th e s o,i e s c n i v e s e h e . r d e a t l il ntiAehipo. compelled rbtorireblnidilbaloerc,mevi poor man o i selary w s,wba o godo r iuv k ydl e i de n iNdlv g d,a, close to the spot boy Nfo It o l h i his es inflictedm neighbourso knew iss et ill who ooasttae l l l yoh t a re d t 1 3nin i oa n i bun fl lst i et e: t e tu, : et walk, and a gentleman present recommended that he should he taken to St. Bartholomew's Hos pital; where the, extent of the• injury would be ascertained, and proper remedies applied.