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London, England, 1822-10-18 00:00:00

DERRY TRIENNIA L MUSICAL 17STIFA L.

Nothing can be looked for of a higher character
Than the musical perfoimsnces at this late Festival,
and every meeting suggests some improvement
which may be made on previous arrangement.:.
The Triennial Festivals will, no doubt, not only be
regularly held, hut that every succeeding meeting
will be marked by an increased interest in them,
as opportunities of rational and social enjoyment,
and us the mean, by which the cause of a must use-
ful institution any be succes►fully aided.
Among the company, which included all the
principal families of the town and neighbourhood,
we noticed particularly—
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, his Grace the Duke of
Devonshire, Earl of Surrey, Alatchiouesa of Waierfoid,
Lady Georgians Morpeth, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl HUMP,
Cuuoiers Howe, Laity Sarah Beresford, Lady Georgia's
West, Lady Emma Brudeoell, Viseouut Tarnuorib, Viscount
Isigesirie, Lady Scarsdale, Lady Vernon, Hun. Elizabeth
Corson, Hon. Aliases Howard, ILin. and Rev. Thos. Coven-
try, Hon. Major Finch, Hoe. Francis Stanbnpe, Hon. Alm.
Stanhope, Hon. Seyllloof BelhU/Sli M.P, He.. Feline Cur-
zon, Hon. George Vernon, lion. Miss Vanua, lion. Colonel
Cavendish, Hon. Mrs. Phillips, Hon. Catherine catesidirh,
Has. Mrs. Curkayne, Hun. Mrs. Brullq, Hun. Admiral
Curzon, Hon. °imam Cnraun, R.N., Hun. sod Rev. Ft,
derick Corson, Hon. Alfred Curzon, Hou. From. is Ciargna.
Hon. Henry Vernon, Hun. Abs. Henry Vinson, Ilon. and
Rev. Juhn Vernon, Hun. James Abercrumhy, ALP, Sir
Horn Greeley, Bart., Sir Charles Palmer, !Ina. and Lady
Palmer, Sir G•nrge Crewe, Bart. and Lady Crewe, Sir Ro-
bert Wilmot, But. and Lady Weimar, Sir Oswald Mosley,
Bart. and Lady Musky, Sir Henry Fitzherberi, Bari. and
I.ady Fiisheelbert, Sir George Sitwell, But, and Lady So-
well, Dowager l.sdy Sitwell, Admiral Sir Richard Keats,
G.C.B. and Lady Keats, Sir George Score', K.C.B. sad
Lady Seovel, Su Charles Colville, Sir George Smart, E. J.
Likleton, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. I.llilrton, W. Coke, E..q.
M.P.. George Phillips, Faq. ALP., %V. Erasr, Esq. JI.Y.,
and J. W. Russell, F.aq. M.P.

A letter from Brighton, dated October 15, tare
" We have at length the satisfaction to announce the
return of the Duke of CA SIBRIDOR and suite to
the Pavilion. His Royal Highness came in at three
quarters post seven o'clock this evening, Irom the
mean of our County Member, WALTER BURRELL.
E.g. at West Grinstead, where for several dace hr
had again been enjoying the seasonable diversion of
shooting. Ilia Royal Highness is in excellent health
■Hd spirits."
On Wednesday evening the Duchess of KFNT,
accompanied by the Prince of LEININGFS, the
Princess FEO DO RE, and Ihr fialiniiss SPAETH.
lionourvil Covent-gulden Theslre with her prrseuve
to sitiirss the play of The Jealous Wife.
Departures from %Vat ren's Hotel, Conduit.
street : _ _

Mr. ■nd Mr.. Muktolz:r for Worthing ; E Gored. r
and C.pn•n Gahanio fur Lrirrsirrriorr ; and Mr. •ud
314000,1 d lor

The following are amongst the !taut wits!: at
Clfrltenharn
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Dowager Lady Moly, Lady Greeley, Lady and Mr.
Fitch, Lady and MI.SI Toihili, Str IValtans and
I.
Sur and Lady heir Goant, Su 11
Majos Coin I Airs, Cul
Ittown, and Mrs. Doc •w4t".4.2.1!y, c..tur• I Ih ktt,
M jor Stantot.m, Major and MIL Diann, 111. j in 1 ,
Captain Milri il, R.N , Captain Bat b.rr, Captain Hatt.,
Ctpt•ns 11134 ood, Capt.int Bone", Calll3lll Smith, Rr,
VV. and %Its. liluudrll, lirr Mr. Roberta, kc.

The Queen of SPAIN. who ban been so Intely fi
presented in a ihnegt rows +tote of hennb,
nerd by to of the yneteett Princesses, IVII•
nt the opening of the Session of the C‘twortlitavy
Cortex.
The yellow frver carried 11r. NIATIIFIVs from
hoarse to Ann nen, and it is Itkeiv to se ad tutu l
Ilr dud aunt 1113ke Ins 'lrina nt Nrn Y
31% be lilt tlldt.d. It ottenrs it the
Gazette tient :11,. ,‘lATiiiws is u, nl:lke his tr.:
aibpc4iruilier en lialteatute. 'lhr Theater Orrrs C.:
the i9LI two.

‘ STEAM, ma she STitl is,- S is is Al 41(i It:.

TO THE EDITOR.
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Stz—An ingeniot►' and speculatine acquaintance
of mine having lately put forth • project for pro-
inning cornier. by steam, I come, Mr. Editor, to
a little project of my own, in which I will venture
to wine myself of your approbation and outshine,.
Why should the application of steam, as an its-
pulse, be confined to wheel carriages ? Why
should not steam-horses—horses on is herls—he coo.
tiived ? I do most devoutly believe, Mr. Editor,
that the thing will happen. Ido most confidently
anticipate that • Sunday will arrive, when the
spruce clerk in Roger...row slisll sport ■ palfrey
(I mean literal)), of neither hone nor blood ; when
blacksmiths shall take the sir upon copper fillies"
of their own creation, each quadruped, like Don
Quixote's Clorelino, carrying flames and brimstone
in his belly! Can any obstacle, I inik, be even
stated to such • consummation ? Would not such
horses stand pre-eminent in metal as in fire IP
Would they not best, as to bottom. the best hoofs
of Arabia? They would est nothing, drink uo-.
thing, sod want very little grooming; their riders,
now too liable to be smoked themselves, would
the• be in a situation to smoke every body else;
their shying, biting, kicking, or taking fright,
would be casualties, of course, no longer to he ap-
prehended ; and breaking, instead of being as at
present s necessary ceremony, would, on the con-
trary, be • practise as much as possible to be de-
precated.
My fancy, Mr. Editor, takes fire. A cloud (of
steam) is rising before my eyes, through which
groups of strange objets present themselves. I see
these fiery barbs of my imagination, these Pepsi !
(fee there will be pegs in them) petted, patronised,
pampered ! I hear of matches among the Fancy.
Stem against Time, and Steam the fa►ourite. I
shall read in time to come-11 Epsom Races ; se-
court day; sweepstakes of 50 guineas, for high-
pressure horses, commuting their own smoke, to
burn not more than a bushel of coals within the
hour—one heat. Three horses started; Mr. Stoke•
hole's .Explosion, Mr. Ash's Skyrocket, and Mr.
Cokes Tirtelerbo.r. The race was won with some
difficulty by Pa-plosion. Skyrocket blew op about
100 yards from the winning.post ; the remains of
his rider have not yet been found." Are not these
things to hearken to, Mr. Editor ?—things catching?
And yet what are even these efforts to some which
I anticipate ? see this invention (as yet in its
childhood) rendering England, in future wars, tri-
ntephing above the world. As ear frigate., in
dead calms, shall run leo knots an hour against the
ships of our enemies, so do I see the collected
Bower of all the cavalry in Europe flying discern.
Aged before steam-chargers, with British lancers
upon their backs. I see more, Mr. Editor, even
more that. all this, I are fire-horses constructed as
we have seen fire-ships ! I see them freighted more
formidably esen than the famous horse of Troy !
or, rather, what was the horse of Troy but such a
horse as I am talking of ? lined, allrgoricelly,
with living warriors; but. in reality, stuffed with
bomb-shells, petards, and Cong►eve rockets ? I see
sprint squadron of these cattle that 1 wot of. The
Arm earth rings beneath their brazen hoofs, and the
blue arch of heaven is rent with their stiortings! I
see them dash forward in front of our English lines !
I see them thundering amidst the hostile ranks!
I see then, making their wry like mad bulls on a
Mooday ! I see—what do I are? Or what,rather,
do I not see ? I most leave to the slow but certain
hand of time the further developrment of these
greet woiks that shall be : the world is not yet in •
tonditiou to comprehend them.
But • few seutences snore, Mr. Editor, and I
have done. The advantages which I have a.resdy
opened as arising out of my friend's plan are among
the smallest of those which must follow its adoption.
Dispensing with the necessity (except at Astley's)
of real horses, what a mine of fresh subsistence du
1 not opeti to the humor race! Millions of acres
now devoted to the growth of oats will be laid
down into wheat land, or employed in the cultiva-
tion of barley, until bread shall be sold at three far-
things the pound, and the mere cheapness of malt
'hall tempt brewers to make their beer of it. Then
Mermen,' which will accrue at all points in the ge-
trial cost of locosseeteices. What • relief will it be
't; apothecaries, port-slurs of music and of dancing,
solo now keep a carriage, with one horse, to be able
2o ;,pep one :ill no horse at all. Is it nothing to

vriswitV, and at the same time tlimitsialtthe
• Would it be a trifle to invent steam
pck.ra)et. and to render the ill-treatment of
Avirnak' Act a dead letter ?

1 em, Sir, yours,
A STEAMER.

NTIRACIMOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.--On
Tornio): last, a carpenter, of the name of LAW•
!mutt, who was at work sin the intesiair roof of the
va church in the parish of St. Luke's, Old-street,
by stantluig on the end of a board that projected a
1,1!e beyond the scaffold. was precipitated to the
bottom, a depth of upwards of sixty feet; in his
he fell from one scaffold to another, and it
w•i% thought he was daybed to pieces. His fellow-
workmen, seeing the accident, ran to pick him up,
tieliae they could get i 0 him, lie was on his
hosing received no other injury than a trifling
"ou.ion on his shoulder and neck. A surgeon was
smt for, but he 'Jolted to be bled, and returned to
t work in the same place.

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LAW ityroti.mpittflt.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH. %Ternimsfut,

TUURIDAY, Oc l7.

Before the Loom Clem Jevvicr. and Common Juries.

WPST rl WADE.

The Plaintiff tar a.• a tailor, end the
Doi hr.llZllt .V.IIIIISI D.Tr1111))11t. who is
the willow of 11,1 oil cer in lite army, who a' the
time oC his ile.iils was eng..g.d so trade as a manu-
facturer at t!..4t period W4ll indented
to the Plaintiff for clothes fitrni•lied in hum ; soli.
begarnt in that mot the Plniit.ff clothes
to the children far ni..urning, amounting to 131.,
and obtains-II from Ihr manufactory a quantity of
Paine, rinntt thug to 9/. 5.. Ile afterwards arrest.d
the Defendant riot only for the 131 for the
drew.' chthee, but also for the debt due in the life.
time of her late hushand. The Defendant paid
31. 144. into Court, which with the 9f. Ss. for the
paint -made the' sum of 13!., being all which she
coneeiv.d herself liable to pay.
From the evidence of the shOnman of the De.
fesidmit, it appeared that when she WRY informed
the Plaintiff had hail the nowt, she eapreased her
regret, its she could have Bold it to another person
for money ; mid this, she added, "is all on the poor
Colonel's accoueit, end I shall' not receive • fare
thine."

The evidence pradneed for the Defendant spoke
to a conversation which the witness had with the
Plaintiff, when being reproached for having arrested
the Wend:int, Plaiiitiff said, " he expected the
paint wax to go against the old account."
The Loan CHIC? Justice told the Jury their
verdict twist depend on the construelion which
they would put upon the conversations spoken to.
as die Defendant could not be liable for the debt
due hi her husband's lifetime. except she had mime-
goodly agreed to become liable. The speei.h of
the Defendant. that it was all " on account of the
poor Colonel," might mean that it was for the
mourning had fur his death ; for in that view of it
she would not " receive a farthing." The other
evidence neither contradicted nor confirmed that
view, and it was for the Jury to decide on what
was before them.

The Jury. ufter a short deliberation. found a ver-
dict fur the Defendant.

EWINGTON S. PARKINS.

M►. OURNEY stated that this was an action no-
minally against the Shred, but substantially against
the officers, Hopwood and Layer. The Plaintiff,
as eadouree of a bill of exchange, ted • per.oa
named White, and in the bail-bond which was
taken the officers had inserted as Plaintiff the name
first of Arabella Hazard, which was obliterated, and
afterwards the name of Joseph Wincrsye, which
was also obliterated, and tl►e name of the Isreaeit
Plaintiff now appeared interlined. The Planr►fl
afterwards proceeded against the bail, and on
the truul it came out that when the bail-bond
was executed the name of Joseph Wingraire
stood as Plaintiff, and the consequence was, that
the Plaintiff was nonruited, and paid not only
costs to the amount of 1481. 4a., but also Inst his
original dtbt of 10/. ; f.►r Whose. who was then in
good credit, and only wanted a little time, had
since betorne insolvent : so that tt appeared there
was a practice among Sheriff.' officers of making
one bail-bond serve io two or three actions, by
which the pr.-sent loss had accrued, fur which► the
Plaintiff now sought compensation at the hands of
the Jury.
Prudence was called which 'hewed that the name
of Wingrave was nn the bail bond when it was ►s-
couted, and that the name of the Plaintiff had been
subseqiienily inserted by the Sheriff.' off►ce,..

Mr. 1-101,T cane.' no witnesses, bat addressed
the Jury for !lope/mid and Laver, who were the real
Defendants in the case, contending, that the
take was on innocent one un their part, of which
the oilman advantage had been taken by the Plain-
tiff's attorney, in order to carve out a handsome bill
of costa.

The LORD CHIEF JusTics censured the irregu-
lar mode in which the Defendant• had endeavoured
to remedy the error which they had committed.
The iwy found a verdict for the Plaint 4, 1.)0
MIWe,. 15El. 44.—..ithject to n reduction by the
Mastet's taxation of the attorney's bill of costa.