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London, England, 1838-08-08 00:00:00

day later than those which came to hand yesterday. They
state as the ground of the quarrel between ESPARTERO
and the Ministry that the latter in their wisdom thought
proper to order the Commander-in-Chief not to attack
Estella before receiving a reinforcement of 10,000 men
from General ORAA. We are not surprised that ESPAR-
TERO should have felt insulted by such an order. To re-
commend delay to such a military tortoise was to pronounce
the severest satire upon his whole career as General-in-
Chief of her Majesty's armies.

CHANCERY-COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DUPREE.

The arguments in this case which were commenced yesterday, were re.
sinned today. The case came before the Court upon petition praying a
reference to the Master to determine whether it would be right that an
application should be made to Parliament for an Act to regulate the Free
Grammar School at Berkhampstead. The Charity in question was
founded by Henry the Bth., far the instruction of youth in grammar
only. That Charity had entirely fell into disuse, as, for many years,
there had been only two or three, and sometimes, no boys at all in the
school. The income of the Charity was increasing every day, and the
petitioners, therefore, considered that a new and more enlarged system
of education should be adopted.

The arguments were proceeding when our Reporter left.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

RANGER V. TAE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY

The case came before the Court upon motion, and also upon a de
murrer put in by the defendants to the bill of the plaintiff. From the
statements of Mr. Knight Bruce, with whom was Mr. Jacob and Mr.
Stevens, it appeared that the plaintiff, who was a large contractor with
the Great Western Railway Company, had filed his bill against: them
to obtain relief from certain contracts he had entered into with the
Company, on the ground that the course pursued by the Company was
wholly unjustifiable, they having, as they alleged, in consequence of the
non-performance of the contract, seized the whole of the plant, works,
and materials of the plaintiff: To the bill of the plaintiff the defen-
dants had put in a demurrer for multifariousness and want of equity.
Mr. Knight Bruce, Mr. Jacob, and Mr. Stevens. were heard in sup.
port of the demurrer, and
Mr. Sergeant WILDLY to-day addressed the Court on behalf of the
plaintiff: The Learned Counsel had not concluded when we left.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.-WORCESTER, AUG. 1.
—We have this week had an opportunity of conversing with a gentleman
who had made a tour through a great part of this district; and he as-
sures us that the late cold weather has decided the question as to

whether we shall have hops or not. There ca❑ be but few, and the
duty for the district is estimated at about 6,0001. Some grounds a short
time ago were looking more healthy, and held out a prospect of recovery;

these, if there be any difference in appearance, are now looking worse
than those which at that time held out no prospect whatever. In our

market on Saturday there was but little business ; but prices were from
2s. to 3s. in advance upon our last week's quotation. Weighed 50

pockets.—Worcester Journal.

TILE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The British
Association, which is appointed to assemble at Newcastle on Monday,
the ‘2oth of August, bids fair to be a meeting of great interest, and to

be more numerously attended than any former meeting of that body.

A room, which will hold 4,000 persons, is now fitting up for the
evening meetings, and a dining-room that will accommodate 900.
Already 1,000 local members are enrolled, which exceeds by above 300
either of the two last meetings at Bristol and Liverpool, and more than
2,5001. has been obtained by local subscriptions. One thousand ladies'
tickets are to be issued, and they will be admitted to two of the sec-
tions. There is to be an exhibition of models, philosophical instru-
ments, and products of national industry, which will consist of two
parts :—Specimens connected with the arts and the development of
national industry. 1. Local.—Articles manufactured in the district,
showing, the nature of the prcducts of local industry, the present
state of the manufactures, specimens illustrating the improvements or
progress of the several branches. 2. General.—Products of industry
from all parts of the kingdom, specimens illustrating the different steps
from the raw material to the finished article, and raw materials of a
less common kind, which are or may be applied to useful purposes in
the arts. Mechanical and philosophical, consisting of models of ma-
chines, or parts of machines, old, new, or improved ; or illustrating the
gradual progress of invention ; models of working in mines, philoso-
phical instruments, remarkable minerals, interesting geological sec-
tions, fossils, rare or curious specimens in any branches of natural his.
tory.—Newcastle Paper.
HORRIBLE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—At Castle-
wellan, a few days ago, a case of suicide was attempted, accompanied
with circumstances of rather a horrible description. Charles Flood,
who, three or four years back, came from Mourne, had settled in the
town as a servant, but, as his character was bad, he subsequently worked
wherever he could. Having gone to the wood north-east of the town,
provided with an old hacked razor, he mangled his throat in a shocking
manner, without, however, the attempt being fatal. A short time
after doing so he was discovered by two worsen, whom he cursed when
he saw, and, bloody as he was, chased with stones. He then ran to
one of Mr. Murland's mill-dams, contiguous, and threw himself in.
From this he was immediately rescued, and conveyed to the town, but

so great was the horror in the minds of the people, no person was willing
to admit him into his house. In consequence of this, he was carried
into the market house, an individual procured to take care of him dur-
ing the night, and, after a subscription from a few respectable people in
town, he was sent off next clay to the Infirmary at Downpatrick.

There can be no satisfactory reason assigned for his resorting to this
action. The opinion of those who saw him was, that he had been
drunk ; that even when he was in the act of being carried up, after he
had been discovered, he was heard making some attempts to sing. On
being asked, however, on the following day, by the person who drove
the car conveying him to Downpatrick, why he attempted suicide, he
replied that leis mother was dead, and whatever means of living he pre.
vicinity had were gone.-73elfast News Letter.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.--A new melodrama,
entitled the Emigrant's Daughter•—a Tale of the Neutral Ground, was
produced last night at this theatre. It is based upon an incident, w he.
they real or imaginary does not appear, which I: supposed to have oc-
curred in the great struggle for American independence, and, in part,
bears close resemblance to the case of the ❑nfortunate Major Andre,
from which, we doubt not, it is in reality borrowed. The catastrophe,
however, is less sanguinary, and has doubtless been altered fur stage
effect. It is but an indifferent piece, anti therefore we will not enter

into any lengthened description of the plot. Walter and Charles Ra
ger (Baker and Brindal) are cousins, and officers in the British service
The life of the latter has been saved by De Leslie (Halford), a French
emigrant, to whose daughter Caroline (Miss L. Melville) he pays the
most assiduous attentions, and for which, as he avows they are directed
with no ultimate object, Walter severely catechises him. They part in
anger, Walter to resume his military duties, and Charles to visit his
enamorato on " the neutral ground," whither he is watched by
Diedrike Kidd (Arian), a Dutch trooper, who, with his banditti
(" skinners," as they are called) apprehends him, and is about to
inflict upon him, and also De Leslie, the summary punishment
of death—from which impending fate they are happily rescued by
the timely arrival of the King's troops led by Walter, at which Caroline,
who, meanwhile, had gone most orthodoxly stark-staring-mad" in white
muslin,"—suddenly recovers her " wits," and the piece, somewhat
abruptly, though happily, ends in the reconciliation of " the cousins,"
&c., and the " historical" laughter of the lucky Charles. The per-
formers, abating that some were not quite so perfect as they might have
been, did their utmost for the success of the piece. Compton supplied
the comic, whilst Baker, Brindall, and M'lan, did their utmost for their
respective characters, and we must congratulate Miss L. Melville on the
animation which she imparted to this, above all parts that we have, as
yet, seen her in. There was a very full house.
IRELAND.—The Irish papers received to-day con-
tain but little intelligence of interest. We learn, with some disgust,
from our private correspondent at Dublin, that the crusade against the
liberty of the press anti the free expression of public opinion in this
country is going bravely on. The Tuani Herald, one of the eldest and
most useful papers in the pros ince of Connaught, has just had a verdict
of 501. damages and fid. costs given against it for some observations upon
the conduct of a magistrate, written at a time when two men were lying
dead in the town, having been shot by the police under his command.
In reference to the recent Orange outrage he remarks :—" It will pro.
bably be in the recollection of your readers, that the Catholic chapel of
Tartarahan was wrecked some few weeks ago by some unknown parties,
and that the verazious ..tandard insisted, upon the authority of some
document, purporting to be the resolutions of certain Masters of Orange
Lodges, that the outrage was not committed by Orangemen! Never.
theless, at the Armagh Assizes two men, named George and Edward
Henderson, were indicted, tried, and found guilty of this offence; and
these men are known Orangemen ! Further Orange pranks have been
latterly played off in the north. The Monaghan Grand Jury having
refused (for reasons best known te themselves) to find bills against the
Orangemen, who were arrested by a stipendiary Magistrate for walking
in procession on the Ist of July, they (the Orangemen) assembled in
large numbers in the neighbourhood of the assize town, where the
Judges were sitting, and lighted a bonfire, played military music, fired
shots, yelled in a fearful manner, and disturbed the public peace by vas
rious other outrageous deinuearations of triumph. So much for the
peaceably disposed Orangemen of Ulster!"
MANSLAUGHTER.—Last evening an adjourned
inquest was held at the London Hospital, before Mr. Baker, the Co.
roller, on the remains of James Ginns, aged 76 years. From the evi-
dence of a number of witnesses it appeared that, on the 20th of June
last, the deceased was at the Crooked Billet public-house, at Walt hare-
stow, Essex, taking a pint of beer, when a ruffianly fellow, named
William Law, without any provocation, struck him two or three vio-
lent blows, and afterwards tripped him up, and fractured the hone of
his left thigh. The poor man was removed to the Hospital, where he
lingered until the sth kist., when he died from the effect of the inju-
ries. An inspector of the Walthamstow police deposed that, on appre-
hending Law, he said that he had frequently been in prison, but he
hoped that this job would transport him. The Jury, without hesita-
tion, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Law, who has been in
custody since the commission of the outrage, and the Coroner made out a
warrant:for his commitment to Newgate for trial.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—An inquest was held last
night, in St. Martin's, on the body of a glass.cutter named Carr, who fell
down in a fit in Pantos-street and instantly expired, cm leaving the Hay.
market Theatre, on Monday night. The deceased had been drinking
rather freely in the course of the day. Verdict—" Died by the visitation
of God." Another inquest was held, at the same time and place, on the
body of John Wilson, late of Rupert-street, Soho, who expired imme.
diately on entering the shop of Mr. Hayes, of St. Martin's.lane, whither
he had gone to be cupped, having been troubled by an overflow of blood
to the head for several days previously. The inquiry in this case was
adjourned in order that a post mortem examination might take place.
ACCIDENT BY FlRE.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, as a respectable married woman, named
Martin, living in William-street, Pentonville, was preparing the family
breakfast, her clothes accidentally caught fire, and before the flames
could be extinguished she was burned in so dreadful a manner that it
was necessary to remove her immediately to the University College
Hospital.
Mr. Bannerman, M.P., in a letter to Provost Milne
of Aberdeen, says, " Our Speaker is going on a tour to Invereshire, and
is determined to see Aberdeen, where he has not been for forty years."
In the same letter, Mr. Bannerman also notices the anxiety expressed
by her Majesty to visit Ireland and Scotland. and says there is a probabi.
lity of her being in Edinburgh next year. —Abet deen Herald.
IV' AIDST ON E.—HoPs.—The heavy showers of
last week have tended to increase the mould, and the blues, although
fast coming in burr, bear an unfavourable appearance. IniTicehurst and
the neighbouring parishes the hops have been much battered by the late
gales, and come but slowly id burr. But rarely a branch of hops is to
oe found; but there is no mould worth mentioning.
THE BLYTON MURDER.---The neighbourhood of
Blyton has been in a state of excitement during the week in conse-
quence of the various reports which have been in citculation. The
child has been disinterred, and a number of gentlemen and magistrates
have been inspecting the fields and lanes connected with this shocking
affair,but all is kept in the most profound secrecy. Report slys that the
prisoner Bell has been re.apprehended in consequence of something he
said to the man who had him in custody during the time the coroner's
inquest was held at Blyton. He underwent a final examination at Kir-
ton on Saturday, and is fully committed to Lincoln to take his trial at
the next March Assizes,—Lincoln Gazette.