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PR DESTRIA Nniar.
A gentlsellp if Imamate of ,Ildimemalms • • r„,
a beCof tSO mamas, to go on foot dfty miles a day, 'Paha•
twelve hours, Cif ten am-testier Jays. :Ho itedidmi it over
a roar mile piece of gronoil, et "."4.opley, in Surrey. The
dertskiag was etowtheiteed on Woolley morning, and the
pedestri.ei unveiled at the rate of Mile* so hour, and did
his ground ii. twenty .1 width, his time, halting toot
'hour. He is backed at 6to 11 to'wrio.
Ci/RON 'RS' INQUESTS.
ACCI DENT IN ST. PAUL'S.
Oa Sfanday night the adjourned Inquest ane Henry Coney,
who was unfortunately killed by "albeit bout a scaffold in Si.
PaarsCalthedral, took place in the Boe.'rd Room at St. Bar-
tbolomew's Hospital.
After the Jary were empannelled and swore, they priaeterl-
ed with Mr.,Sheitou the Coroner le view the scaffold from
which the unfortunate man had fallen. They were tout by
the Architect. theSoperniteatkots, cod Clerks of the Works,
who politely conducted them all neer the vatic", end pointed
out set only the scaffold in ipsestioa for their iospection,lost
•Il the other irafoldiagbeloating to the betiding, and afibm
wards returned to the jory•toom.
Oak of the wino sees who was examiarol befemuomonerewe
re-egansimed as In .be precise siteatiam of the madliddieliter
the aceident ciiearred,•ud •Iso the scaffold he waikkpodfaiw
at the time. He said that some additional tiespiplahlbasw
pieced or the latter, 'shies he last saw it, owl othembliff-616a•
token off the former previowaly to the accident am Thermally
morning—some of these might beta sailed to the lower
scaffold.
John Linderbaek, residing at N 0.16, Wnottstreet, West.
minder, stated that be is by trade a bricklayer and plasterer,
• and was employe.' by Mr. Moodily in repairing fit Paul's
Church. He wee there 'ottoman of • gang of maffoldere, sad
it was by his direction that the scaffold from +hien the de.
reward had fallen was built. The cavity or gangway in the
'nsiokfle wss lbw Meer where the men carried up the colours.
He sew the deceased Mich some eoloors on the enfold, and
whew in the set of an doing his head struck against the coy-
*ice, and he was thrown backward into the uprising in the
odd precipitated to the ground. He had himself re.
moved one of the planks before, without inatnietiolos so to
efp, which was placed in a eituation to preveot his falling.
ni Caroller observed, that in such perilous situations there
should always by • second seaffoldieg erected to catch any
thing which might fall from the upper one.
The Architect said,that the greatest pains had been taken
to prevent secideuis, sod that the scaffolding mold have been
pat up at half the expense if taken he comma—some of

the peruses empleyeriweressilsra, end gloried to genie( upos
the most elevated sad dangerous places.
The Coroner raid that was the very masa why the utmost
precaution should be tate* by those whose duty it was so put
up the scaffolding. He hoped so more lives would be lost in
this busbies,. The scaffold in question was the most late-
en,* of any one in the buildiug, and ha thought there was
not dot pretest ion like..
The Jury said they bad seen the scaffold, and were of opi-
okra there wss some want of proper precarlion.—Verdict,
Accidental Death, with the forfeiture of the Scatfuld."
An inquest was held on Saturday at she Crows Keys Ti-
erra. Tbrobald'sroad, upon the body of Sarah Juby, who
sea found dead in her lodgings at No. 42, Throbakfasoa.l,
us Saturday last.
It appeared in evidesce that the deceased, who was about
forty years of age, had lived as servant for many years in
several families or distinction in the west cad of the town,
sad bad left her last place preparatory to her being married
to a man of some property who had paid his addresses to
bar, but who, after apartments, household furniture, &e. were
provided for she purpose,. bad proved faithless and deserted
bee. This ernel disappolatment produced despoudeney, sod
from two empty phials footed at her bedside, it was in-
frried that she had polarised herself. She had bees dead
several days before the body was discovered; Verdsct
Insanity.
. .wegestllPPO

IRELAND. ..eitti

LIMERICK, WEDNIVIDAy, NOVERKER 14.
Government have ordered the 6th Entissid-
lepers into the diEurbed distriets, and this week
detachments are to arrive at Kilmallock, Bruff,
Ballyporeen, Mitchelatown, Doneraile, l'allisgr.en,
add Emly. Parties are oho to be stationed at
•Casbel,in the town of •ripperary. and Clogheen.
'ln consequence of disturbance iu the neighbour.
'hood of Mallow. the inhabitants of that town have
formed an armed association for the protection of
their property.
The yeomanry corps in that town are all under
arms, and perform me nightly duty of patroling
she roads; sentinels are also placed at different
points..
OnSunday Captain Gann end thirty of the
93d fitghlanders marched henCe for Bruff, to re-
place a detachment of 33d, ordered to Buttrvant,
whence they they will proceed to Cove, to
.embark for the %Vest Indies, on the arrival of the
t,srlt font from Portsmouth.
CORK. NOVEMBER 16.
The rumours that were so general in this city, on
nedneeday, of the houses of General Berry, Cap-
tain Cones, and G. Monignmery, Esq. being tit-
le( Iced, turn ont to be as unfounded as several others,
which the credulity, design. or fears of many put into
daily circulation ; but a sufficient number of noc-
turnal outrages are disclosed beyond the possibility
of contradiction, to induce us to lament that the
peasantry can be so Wind to their interest, and so
lust to all moral and religious feeling, as to -Con.
Inoue in the mad career they have adopted.
WATERFORD, NOVEMBER 17.
Yesterday two companies of the 86th left this for
Calomel, two for Kilkenny, one for Wexford, sod
one fur Duncannon.

TAAL'S. NOVEMBER 14.
On Monday night a large party of frllo*trattack-
ed the honse of Lieutenant Moriarty, ft.N. at Dun-
kerron, county of Kerry ; they were completely re-
pulsed by Lieutenant Non. R.N. (the only mule
parson in the house.) One of the villain' it 'op-
posed to be mortally wounded.

The low grown& in the vici ii ia y of the metropolis
have been overflooded in consequence of the heavy
.rain which fell on Friday night. We regret to add,
that several fetid accidents have happened. A
little child playing at. its mother's door, near flag.
was carried away auto the open bt.V10.1.,
lts 1.4(11111044 sass perceived by its mother, who
le•prti into the current, and made a snat-li at it,
it escaped her grasp, and wa, carried f her
ii.faiiisett ryes into the arched part of the vier,
where it perished. A matt with o horse and cait
no..ed his way on the road, winch was use flooded,
in the neightioul hood of Harwell. A fler the water
stibndeil hr was lottail drowned.

A tremendous bail-storm, accompanied ibith
lira%y 1.4•»k of thuatdrr and the roost v 4 id lightning,
v,iner: this city, on Friday, about seven o'clock irr
: it tvss of shun duration, mid quite
kcal, a. in the surrGnitriing neighbourhood, r•sir-
'illy, it was not hrant to the cact!ut ur welly wiles.
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MAT AF COANCIIIO/.
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TINE ATTORNEY-DENERAL o. THE cooreas`
COMPANY AND DR. JEANS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR itirret•l that the Com-
pony should semi in a scheme to the Master for the
regulation of the school at Egham, apd that Dr.
Jeans should be at liberty to send in an *mewled
scheme to the Master for the some purpmw ; that
the Master should inquire whet necessary repairs
had been done so the building by Dr. Jeans. and
to report for the further consider mon of the Court,
as the Court would nut permit the intension of the
donor to be altered for the convenience of a school-
master ; for the 3,1a-ter to inquire into the forego-
log surplus rents of the charity, and also of the
present surplus rents, and to distribute them
amongst the object. of the charity—bearing in mind
livid the schnnlintster was one of it. objects, and
that.he was eitteil-r1 to au increase of salary, if the
fonds would sdinit of it. He (the Lord Chancel-
Ito) recommended in the Cooper.' Company to
allow Dr. Jeans sa liberal a salary us 'Possible, con-
sistent with the objects to be provided for by the
charity funds. As to the vestrymen of the parish
of Egham, they had moiling to do with it, and they
had no right to interfere. He could not for a
moment listen to the proposition of Dr, Jeans, for
the admission of girls of poor parents in the parish
of Egham into the school, us it was incompatible
with the intention of the founder of the charity.
Reterved to the Master.
THE •TTORNBY-GENBRAL O. THE unmans'
COMPANY.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL resumed his ergo-
meta of yesterday, and contended, that' the Skin-
ners' Company were barred by their tern declara-
tion Rout she surplus rents in the Acts of the 14th
and 314 of Elizabeth, that the Grammar School
at Tunbridge were entitled to the whole estates
purchased by Sir Andrew Judd from Messrs.
Gates slid Therogood, and that they were only the
trustees of the charity. By this means she will of
Sir A. Judd was established, and the devise dud
not depend on the Act of the 43d of Elizabeth,
declaring that all bequests to Corporatism. so trust
for charitable purposes, bequeathed previous to the
passing of the Act. should be valid.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" In my opinion the
intention of the Act of the 43d of Elizabeth, is
opt perfectly understood ; as I understand it, it was'
parsed to assimilate the law on the subject of bequests
to corporate bodies for charitable uses in Courts of
Equity and Low—for the latter. before the passing
of the Act, held they were invalid and contrary to
the,law, and in the lormer Courts they ware in the
habit of decreeing that they were valid, contrary
to the existing law of the land."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in continuation, said.
that throughout his argument lie had abstained
from casting any reflection on the Skinners' Com-
pany; he did not doubt but they acted from a
conviction that they were doing tight; if he dif-
fered ill opinion front them, and left the question
of right or wrong to the decision of the Court, it
'could not be raid that he reflected on the conduct
of the Company. He believed them to be as honour.
able a Complus), as any in the City of London, and
did nut feast more; but it was his duty, as his Ma-
jesty's Attorney-Geweral, to prevent their doing so
on funds that ought to go for the maintenance
and support of the grammar-school at Ton.
bridge. It was necessary for him to reply to the
observation of his Learned Friend. Mr. Sogden,
" That it was very extraordinary that no question
should have arisen with respect to the charity funds
for two centuries and a half, until the Commission-
ers of Education made their circuit through the
kiligdoin." He would tell him, that after the great
labours of the Commissioners, there were but very
few instances where they found there was a minp-
plicatiou of the Funds of a charity. Then it was not
likely, as had been stated by his Learned Friend,
that every corporation in the kingdom would he
brought into trouble, however proper their conduct
might have been. He concluded by contending
that the decree of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor
was right, and ought not to be disturbed.
Mr. HART and Mr. Tstowat followed on the
sate aide. The latter Learned Counsel had not
concluded his argument wheu the Court ruse at
three o'cluck.

. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Warrunrtna,
TUESDAY, NOVltallnil W.

The Court was occup►ed all day with the special
paper. Nuthiug af public juiciest took place.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Werrmuserci,
TIMIIO,6T, NOVINIIIIII tO.

HUDSON. r. HARRISON.
This was so action brought by the Plaintiff to
recover the amount of the sum underwritten for lit,
the Defendant in a policy of insurance on the cargo
of the "hip Swallow. froto the Cape of Good Hope
to iliritttok; Liverpool, and Dublin, under the follow-
ing circumstance. :—The ship railed with a cargo
consisting of 241 pipes end 71 half-pipes of wine,
on which insurance was effected to the amouist of
7,900/. and on her artivel in the Brovol Outline! on
the Ist of December, 1819, she struck upou is rock,
Iwhere she lay for many Oa,. with • hole in her side,
in such a situation that for nine boors of every tide
she was filled with salt water, which entirely covered
the cargo, and for some time it was uncertain
whether the whole wits not entirely perished.;
utu-
tnately, however, 71 pipes and 43 4mlf-i)jpr• Hi the
'cargo were saved ; of the remainder, some were brand
to be entirely filled with salt water, some were
stove, and the rest were till (1411119 V d in • grrater or
les, degree by the initiator of cult Miler with tier
wore. The Plaintiff, ado, was an tondos., tor hear-
ing of the circurnststices, on the 23(1 of Ds crusher,
gave cOlice to the tintierrirrteri sit ultroolutirtreot as
for a total loss ; and on Ili; 28th of December a
ineelitig of the underwiiters was called at Lloyd's
Coffre !loose, at which only three of thero rtl tend-
ed,lty whom an *weld we. resit dowii to take charge
of the cargo, without iii•trocttous to jortived its
dispose of it to the Ilt OIL tolvaiitAge, and io the
cattle onnitier as motet tire crtcuritilooves would
be derived must advisable if too now:incest all had
ever been rffectest. to .cuosetitietitce of these to-
structious a sole of the cargo was *dm need to take

place at Bristol. ind on the tlt reffroary, 11140.
tile present Defendant wetter to the PlauutitJ re.
finsieg to uccept the abatitionmeut. misl also gave 1,
notice to the parties to the mine effect to prevent
the sale. The sale, however, was proceeded in,
and the cargo dial/cased of at a heavy Inas. .A err-
diet was entered for the Plsintiff, subject to the
opinion of the Court. on a special case, which now
came on for argument. us to whether, under the
circonistaiscea. the *soured lied a right to abendon
as for a total Ithni, mid whether the insurer wits
bound by the notice of abandonment, a part of the
cargo having been saved.
Mr. Serjrbint TARDY now addressed the Court
at considerable length on behalf of the Defendant,
cotitending that the Plaintiff had no right to aban-
don as for R total loss, inasmuch as hr had it it, his
power to take that part of the cargo which was
saved and tend it on to Dublin in a v-mel hired for
the purpose, where it might have been sold pur-
eunnt to its original destinviion. That with respect
to the notice of abandonment. it had Iltl'ff been
accepted by the Dele..dant, and although he load
delayed for twit wombs to make any objection to it,
vet that objectiois was grad and valid, inasmuch Its
his notice had been given in sufficient time to pre-
relit the sale of the cargo; and with respect to the
proceedings tinder the direction of the other un-
derwriter*, he had neither attended the meeting,
Her acquiesced in their arrangements, sod therefore
he could not he hound by them.
Mr. Serjeant flot..t.ocx, in reply, contended,
that under the circumstances the Plaintiff liad, in
the first instance, a right to abandon, and had given
doe notice of his intention to exercise that right
within the prol,er reasonable time; and that if the
Defendant intended to object to that right, and to
refuse to accept the abando ttttt ent, it was his duty
to have given an early intimatiou of hoe intention,
amid not to stiffer so large • portion of time to elapse
without offering any objection, or taking any no-
tice either of the Plaiiitifrs letter or of the pro-
ceedings of the other underwiners, in which lie
must be taken by such delay to have acquiesced.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, in giving hit minium, said,
that under what corcuinstrocre the assured hail a
right to vbitiolon, so as to form a rule which should
apply to all case., was a matter of extensive coml.
titration, and extremely difficult to determine.
The °Fissions of writers on the subject were much
at variance, and the 'practice also varied much in
different c.,untritra, and at different periods. The
rule laid down by some was, that where the damage
amounted to the loss of one-half, the motored had a
right to abandon; the rule by the commercial law
of France was: that a lose of one-third gave the
right to abandon. Lord Mansfield had adopted the
rule, that damage to the extent of our-half carried
the right ; and a later authority, of great eminence,
the late Lord Ellenborosigh, held a different opi-
nion. In a mutter, therefore, of such magnitude,
and on which so much difference of opinion lad
prevailed. it was satisfactory to him that lie was out
called upon. in the present instance, to decide
upon the general question. Here he had merely
to consider the point which arose out of the cis.
cumstances of this particular case, which was, whit
ther the Defendant had become bound by the
Plaintiff's notice of abandonment or not. The
Plaintiff, it appeared, had given his notice as early
as possible, and the Defendant ought to have said
whether he accepted•Or that notice or mint. By
neglecting for the space of two months to intimate
his refusal of the shaudonment, lie hid passively
assented to it; and, therefore, he was of opinion.
looking atoll the circumstances of the case, that
the Plaintiff had a right to a total lots.
Mr. Justice PARK said, there being an obliga-
tion on the assured to give notice as soon as possi-
ble of his intention to abandon, surely there must
be an equal obligation on the insurer of equal
promptitude and celerity it, saying whether he ac-
cepted of the abandonment or not ; and looking to
the whole of this case, he thought enough appeared
on the free of it 10 .hew an acquiescence on the
part of the underwriters in the abandonment.
Mr. Justice BURROUGH said, the neglect of the
underwriter to retrounce the •bandonmenr, or to
give timely notice of his objection to it, eapecially
under the circumstances of • turtling of the un-
derwriters having beet, publicly advertised for a
particular day, at the established place for the set-
tlement of such business, *hewed an acquiescence
in the abandonment, at least for a time. mud lie
thought the Defendant was bound by that ac-
quiescence.
Mr. Justice RICHARDSON concurred with the
rest of the Court in the opinion, that under the core
cumattnices of this case. the Plaintiff was entitled
to recover as for a total los..

After the judgment of the Court had been
Chief Justice DALLAS said, of course be-di :
not mean ID allude to any living authority, but
only to dead writers, pith many of wham it had
been a boast that the law of insurance was wholly
free from uncertainty. In observing upon this
boast of the test-writers, the Lord Chancellor had
said he was per.usoled that if the subject were folly
and impartially examined, the law of insurance
would be found to hr quite as uncertain as any other
branch of law ; and ot the correctness of that opi.
mon, he (the ChiefJusticr) could not but think that
the ptoceedinga of that day were a striking in- •
itlill11:r.

01) Monday the Recorder made is report to Iris
Majesty of the convicts under 'potence of Death
in Neat:ate, who were condemned at the Isla Oc-
tober Sergio'is, when the following were ordered to
undergo the awful sentence of the low on Tuesday
next, the 271 h iii-tfielt, viz.—Joseph s9mth, aged
16, fur uttering n forged 101. mute of the Ilcik of
England ; Samuel Haywood, aged '25, (or burg-
lary ; John %,ri. for highway rubbery;
Amy Merle and /Inn Norris, for strafing in a
ilwellisig.lionye. The other% were minted during
pleasure. The own female convicts are the aban-
doned women who enticed a man into their apart-
ments in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, where,
assisted by others, they robbed, stripped, arid
cruelly b, at the prosecutor.
On Sunday n Lady in the Steeple Church had
her pocket Cat white among the people at
the riotrisocr to the tables where the Lord's Sup.
per was aduniusleied.The unprincipled vagabond
was, however, deprived of reward, for the Laity
lionised nothing from her pooket.—(Dundee
Ad-
scrliser./