The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-17 00:00:00

DOE DEM. NASH V. JOHNSONS AND OTHERS.

This was an action of ejectment brought to recover some
property under these circumstances :—John Nash, in 1815,
made his will, leaving his property to be divided among
his wife, and his two suns and two daughters, with
a proviso, that if the sons died without issue, their
share was to be given to the daughters, and in the
Lime manner the sons were to have the daugh-
ters' share if they died without issue. He died in
October, 1817, and the will having been proved by the
widow, as no executors had been named, the property
was distributed in the manner pointed out by the testator.
Iu 1828 the deceased's eldest b,on died, and the plaintiff,
James Nash, then claimed the whole of his father's pro-
perty, as heir at law, on the ground that the signature
of Matthew Clarke, one of the attesting witnesses to the
will, was a forgery. The plaintiff's sisters are both dead,
one having left two and the other three children. The
charge of forgery, if established, would have the effect of
rendering the will void, and the plaintiff, James Nash,
would, as heir at law, be entitled to take possession of the
whole of his father's property.
The Jury, after hearing several contradictory state-
ments, returned a verdict for the defendants, thereby es-
tablishing the validity of the will.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK.

The French papers, received this morning, have anti-
cipated the arriv 1 of the New York papers of the 20th of
July, by a ship arrived at Havre, which bring accounts
from Tampico of the 20th June. Santa Anna's squadron,
composed of a brig and three goelettes, has left that port
with 300 troops, said to be destined for Soto la Marina
or Mattarneras, as these two places were still in the power
of the Government troops; it is said that some of Santa
Anna's troops were proceeding by land to act in concert
with them.

Accounts from Brussels state that an extraordinary
courier had arrived there from London, bringing de—
spatches from General Goblet. It is asserted that new
modifications are required : this has caused the greatest
anxiety to the public. It is also stated that the King will
not convoke the Chamber,, but will ratify the conditions
of the Conference without consulting any person, even
without the advice of his Ministers. It is believed that
on the arrival of King Leopold the Ministry will he
changed. Another courier has arrived from Vienna, with
despatches from Count Lalaing, who still continues to be
most favourably received by the Emperor of Austria.
According to accounts from Palau, a Russian fleet of
23 sail was seen off the heights of Gottenburg.
The New Yolk packet ship is off Liverpool, of the 20th
July: letters and papers not as yet received.
No fresh arrivals from Portugal.

A Leeward Island mail has-arrived by his Majesty's
brig Renard: sailed from St. Thomas's the 10th July.

THE FUNDS.

The chief topic of conversation this morning relates to
the Speech of his Majesty to both Houses of Parliament,
which is viewed in two different ways by the City politi-
cians and speculators. The Bears say it is ambiguouq,
and requires explanation. The Bulls are satisfied with it,
with the exception respecting Ireland ; but they are par-
ticularly satisfied with the latter part of the Speech,
which states—" through the intimate union which sub-
sists between me and my allies, to the preservation of
general peace." Upon the whole it has not had any effect
on the Funds this morning, and Consols opened at the
same price they left off at yesterday, 84 to for the Ac-
count.

It being a holiday at Paris no price of the French
Rentes have been received by the French estafette.
The only business doing in the Foreign Market was a
purchase of 100,000 Dutch Stock.

HALF-PAST ONE.
We have received Jamaica papers to the 24th of June,
but they are not of an interesting nature.
Sir Arthur Farquhar, Commodore at Jamaica, has given
notice that the Government of New Grenada has issued a
decree of five articles, to prevent the exportation of gold,
i❑ bars or dust, and naming the penalties to which the
captains of vessels are subject.
BARBADOES. —We rejoice to find by the late accounts
from St. Kitt'g, that his Majesty'a ship Racehorse bad
proce,ded to Bermuda in a healthy state. Of the 24 cases
of cholera previously reported not one had proved fatal.
Consols have improved since the morning from 84 to
844 for the account, owing to a report that the King of
France is going to interfere with King Leopold to settle
the business with the Dutch.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing. Portuguese
Scrip 3 to 21 discount.

THREE 0' CL 0 CS.
Consols for account, 84H.

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the death of this exemplary minister, and highly respected
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past the Rev, gentleman has been severely indisposed, dif-
ferentti fno:frutt several
causevnset er"alliiintelligence
months
of his
hnoi"sf
dea h, but we can state, upon undoubted authority, that
this afflicting event took place in consequence of a sudden
attack of the malignant epidemic so prevalent in this
town. About six o'clock on Monday morning the Doctor
felt himself rather unwell from a slight seizure in the
bowels, but unfortunately no medical assistance was
sought. About 10 o'clock Mr. DERRY happened to call
in order to see a child of the Doctor's who was unwell,
and being made acquainted with the circumstance, he im-
mediately advised his retiring to bed. Dr. YONGE, was
shortly after c tiled in, hut, notwithstanding all their
ifeni(giiDnve:EiruAuraeilirg.
efforts, the disease continued to increase until nearly half
past two on Thursday morning, at which time the Rev.
gentleman expired. The following morning he was in-
terred in a vault in the new burial place belonging to the
church of which he had been the beloved and respected
pastor, his own being the first funeral which has taken
place in the new ground.—Plymouth Journal.

Upon an occasion when a large issue of
bank-notes was required, a clerk of the Bank of England
signed his name, consisting of seven letters, including the
initial of his Christian name, 5,300 times during eleven
working hours ; and he also arranged the notes he had
signed in parcels of 50 each.•—Babbage's Economy of
Machinery and Manufactures.

LITERATURE.

FINNELLY'S LAW OF REFORM.

THE ACTS, 2(1 WILLIAM IV. CAP. 45, TO AMEND
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE; AND
2d WILLIAM IV. CAP. 64, TO SETTLE AND DE.
SCRIBE THE DIVISIONS OF COUNTIES, AND
BOUNDARIES OF CITIES AND BOROUGHS, IN
ENGLAND AND WALES, &C. BY WILLIAM FIN.
NELLY, ESQ. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BAR.
RISTER AT LAW. MAXWELL.

Parliament is now prorogued, and we have
now time to redeem the pledge we gave in
noticing " Griffiths's Electoral Guide," to bring
before our readers a work upon the same subject,
of somewhat greater pretensions. That which
we have selected comprises both the Reform and
Boundary Acts, edited by Mr. Finnelly, already
favourably known to the public by previous
works on election law. An analysis is prefixed
to the Acts, showing in what respect they affect
the law and practice of elections as they now
exist, in a manner which must prevent the possi-
bility of mistake. A most copious index, with-
out which it is impossible for unprofessional per-
sons to thread their way through the labyrinth of
clauses and provisions of two such unavoidably
lengthened acts, closes the work. Before giving
the extracts we have marked for quotation, we
cannot forbear again expressing our deep regret
at what must be called the criminal neglect to
qualify themselves, which has been displayed by
electors throughout the country. We fear that
it is for the most part Reformers who have to
bear the blame of this neglect ; and that whilst
they have been fiddling and feasting over their
conquest of the outwork, their opponents have
been strengthening themselves in the main body
of the citadel ; for never let it be forgotten that
Reform is a means not an end,—that as lan-
guages are not knowledge, but the keys to
knowledge, so Reform in the representation is
neither economy in our finances, retrenchment in
our expenditure, a diminution of our burdens, a
more equal division of them, or any of the other
numerous benefits we look forward to as result-
ing from it, but only the arm by which we must
utterly annihilate the power of the corruptionists
in their strong hold—the Legislature. Have
not the Reformers, we say, been asleep or feast-
ing whilst their opponents have been qualifying
themselves, and exerting their utmost energies
to maintain their position in the House of Com-
mons ? We fear that in parts of the country
such has been too much the case. We pray
Heaven that the accounts we receive may prove
to be exaggerated, and that the Reformers will
not have to show themselves in the light of
children who have asked for that of which they
know not the use, or are unworthy to use.
The following extracts from Mr. Finnelly's
book will serve to give an idea of the plan of the
original matter introduced into it :

CLASSES OF PERSONS WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, AND NOT TO BE REGISTERED.
Aliens, idiots, lunatics, minors, and females.
British Peers, Ministers of State, Lords Lieutenants,
and Governors of Counties.

Persons convicted of perjury and bribery, or subornation
of perjury.
Felons convict under sentence of punishment.
Persons excommunicated in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
Outlaws in criminal proceedings.
Persons holding no religious belief.
Bankrupts and insolvents, in certain circumstances.
Receivers of alms, within a year, in cities and boroughs.
Persons who receive parochial relief, ditto, ditto.
Commissioners, collectors, supervisors, gaugers, or other
officers employed in collecting the excise duties.
Commissioners, collectors, comptrollers, searchers, or
other officers employed in collecting the customs duties.
Commissioners, officers, diet, ibutors, or other persons
employed in collecting the stamp duties.
Commissioners, officers, or other persons employed in
collecting the duties on salt.

Surveyor•, collectors, comptrollers, inspectors, or other
persons employed in collecting the window and house
duties.

Postmaster-general, postmasters or deputies, or other
persons employed in collecting the post-office revenue.
Captains, masters, or mates of ships or packets em-
ployed by the postmaster i❑ conveying the mails.
Justices, receivers, and all other persons belonging to
the London police, are excluded from the franchise in the
counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent,
and from Westminster, Southwark, and the new boroughs
in the metropolitan districts.

Counsel and all agents of candidates at elections, for
fee or reward, are excluded from voting at the same, but
not from being registered.
Mortgagees and trustees, not in poss ssion of the
estate, or in receipt of the rents and profits.
All these, and such others as were excluded by the
former laws, are excluded under the new Act, the 75th
section of which declares all former election laws to be in
full force, and applicable to all cases, except where they
are repealed, altered, or superseded by that Act.

VOTERS IN COUNTY ELECTIONS.

The following classes of persons are entitled to be regis-
tered as voters in elections fur counties, ridings, parts, or
divisions of counties, if they duly claim in right of land or
tenements therein respectively situated, and be not subject
to any of the legal incapacities mentioned in the last Table.

1. - Seised of freeholils of inheritance of theyeTriyQUe
of 40s. above rent and charges—occupied by them or not.
2. Seised of freeholds for live or lives, of the yearly
value of 10/. above rent and charges—occupied by them
or not.

3. Seised of freeholds for life or lives, of the yearly value
of 40s. above rents and charges--occupied by them.
4. Seised of like freeholds of like value, and which,
though not occupied, would have given them rights of
voting o
5. Seised
the
isedo7fth olikef Je, 1832.
fruenehoids
of
like value, acquired after
that day by marriage, marriage settlement, devise, promo-
tion to a benefice or office.

In one or other of the four last classes are included the
following :
Freeholders in right of marriage, as tenants by the cur-
teey, tenants in tail after possibility of issue extinct, hus-
bands of coparceners and of women entitled to dower.
Freeholders, in right of ecclesiastical benefices, being
sole corporators, as deans, archdeacons, prebendaries, par-
sons, and vicars.

, .
Freeholders by office, as dissenting ministers, school-
masters, parish clerks, sextons, and other officers ap-
pointed generally or for life, or during their good beha-
viour, and whose emoluments arise out of lands annexed
to their offices.
gable rivers, canals, and bridges.
These differenturreunhtas charges,
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annuities
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above
in
only in lands, benefices, and offices, but also in tithes, fee-
s are severally entitled to be registered, and
ts or
fslft aaroheurajemvdrhoo;rents,ditxnsete epurchased
aaaavrtnaei
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tely.

_ .
1. In right of copyholds of inheritance, or for life or
lives, of de yearly value of 101. above rents and charges.
2. Under the head of copyholders may be named cus-
tomary freeholders, or tenants by copy of court roll, by the
verge or tenant right, tenants in ancient demesne, charter
tenants, &c.

3. Equitable copyholds, as heirs, devisees, &c., accord-
ing to the custom of the manor, before admission.
1, The original lessee of lands or tenements of the yearly
value of 101. above rents and charges, for any term not
less, when created, than sixty years, whether in his occu-
pation or not.

2. The original lessee of lands or tenements of the yearly
value of 50/ above rents and charges, fur any term not
less, when created, than twenty years, whether in his oc-
cupation or not.
3. The assignee of any unexpired residue of either of
those terms, whether in his occupation or not.
4. The sub-lessee or assignee of an under-lease of any
unexpired residue of either of those terms, in his own oc•
cupstion.

5. Persons occupying m tenants any lands or tenements
liable to the yearly rent of 501. or more.
_ _

Equitable owners...as mortgagors and mortgageos

i

vendors and vendees,cestui que trust, and trustees in pos•
session of any of the above qualifying estates, subject to
the restrictions applicable to the same.
In order to be registered, it is required of freeholders
and copyholders to be six calendar months, and of lease-
holders and occupiers to be twelve calendtr months, next
previous to the Ist of July in each year of registration, in
the receipt of the rents and profits, or in actual occupation
of their respective estates, as the case may be, except by
descent, succession, marriage, marriage settlement, devise,
o. r promotion to any benefice or church, or to any office,
In which cases they are admitted to put their names on
the list then next to be made out and to vote at the election.

VOTERS IN CITIES AND BOROUGHS.

The following classes of persons are to be registered as
voters in elections for cities and boroughs, if they be
not subject to any of the legal incapacities mentioned in
Table I.
Ist, As owners or tenants of any house, warehouse,
counting-house, shop, or other building, within the new
.boundaries of the city or borough, or place sharing with it
In the election, of the clear yearly value of 101.
2nd, Occupiers of any house, warehouse, &c., which,
.together with land, also in their occupation, as owners, or
If as tenants, then under the same landlord of whom the
house is held, of the yearly value of 101.
3rd, Occupiers of such premises in immediate succes-
sion within the year.
4th, Joint occupiers as owners or tenants of the like
Premises being of such clear yearly value as shall when di-
vided give 101. for each occupier ; if of less value, none of
them are to be registered.
Occupation of the premises, single or in succession, for
twelve, and residence for six, calendar months next previ-
ous to the last day of July in the year of registration, in
the city or borough, or in the place sharing with it in the
election, or within seven miles of either, are required.
The premises are to be assessed to the poor's-rate,
Where there are rates, during the year's occupation, and
such rates and the assessed taxes payable out of them, up
to the 6th of April next preceding, are to be paid on or
before the 20th duly.
Occupiers, if not rated, may claim to be, and upon
Claim made, and payment or tender of these rates, their
mimes are to be put on the rate by the overseers, or for
beglect, or refusal, they are to be deemed rated from the
tlrau of claim made.
This class is admitted to vote under the New Act in all
Places, cities and boroughs in England and Wales ; and in
the new boroughs they are to be the only voters, except in
the borough of Swansea and its contributary districts,
Where freemen are to vote.
1. As inhabitants paying scot and lot.
2. Inhabitants householders, and potwallers legally
settled.

3. Inhabitant householders and potwallers.
4. Inhabitants generally, resident within the city or
borough.
To all those the right of voting is still reserved as long
as their qualification continues, according to the former
laws and customs, if they had a right to vote at the passing
of this Act (7th June, 1822). To be registered, they
must be entitled to vote on the last day of July in the year
of registration, as fully as if that were the day of election and
this Act had not passed ; and must have resided six calen-
dar months next previous to that day within the city or
borough, or within seven miles from the place where the
poll for it was usually aken. In the boroughs of Wales,
residence is required for the same time in any of the con-
tributary places, or within seven miles thereof iu case the
qualification be in such place. Omission of the names
from the register for two successive years is an absolute
disqualification, unless occasioned by receipt of parochial re-
lief, or absence in his Majesty's service in the navy or army.
Freemen or burgesses, or freemen being liverymen of the
city of London, having a right to vote at the passing of
the new Act. In order to be registered they must be
qualified to vote on the last day of July in the year of re-
gistration as fully as if that were the day of election and
this Act had not been passed : the residence required is
the same as of the last class.
Burgesses or freemen made or admitted since the Ist
March, 1831, or even after, in any other right than by
birth or servitude, or in respect of birth, unless the right
be derived from one who was, or was entitled to be, a free.
Ines before that day, or from one who since that day has
or hereafter shall become a freeman by servitude, are not
entitled to be registered : to be like voters in cities and
borough,.
_ In right of burgage tenements or freeholds acquired be-
fore the second day of March, 1831, or coming after that
day
and before the eighth day of June, 1832, by descent,
succession, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, promo-
tion to a benefice or office.
This franchise cannot be now acquired in cities and
boroughs which are not counties of themselves : all that
bail been said of the class of « inhabitants, &c." in respect
to the requisites for registration applies to these.
VOTERS IN CITIES AND TOWNS, COUNTIES OF THEMSELVES.
The classes of persons entitled to he registered as voters
in cities and towns being counties of themselves, are
The five classes described in the table of county voters,
with the like limitations of annual value, and like restric-
tions and exceptions as to actual possession and time of
Possession,
In right of hurgage tenements or freeholds, with or
without any superadded qualifications, within the new
boundaries of these corporate counties: of these is re-
quired, in order to be registered, possession or receipt of
the rents and profits for twelve calendar months, unless
the qualification came by descent, succession, marriage,
marriage settlement, devise, or promotion to a benefice or
Office ; and residence for six calendar months next previous
to the last day of July in the year of registration within
such city or borough or seven statute miles thereof.
This class differs in no respect from those described
under the same head in other cities and boroughs, except
that in the latter they are not to be continued, but they are
to be permanent voters in these corporate counties.
I All the classes of occupiers that have been described in
the table of voters for other cities and towns, subject to
the like limitations and restrictions as to annual value, oc-
cupation, and residence.
All those that are described as inhabitants in the
second table of voters for other cities and boroughs, sub-
ject to the like restrictions and conditions.
Under the several restrictions and conditions as in other
cities and boroughs.
a * • • • a
To this analysis of the various rights of voting,
whether already existing and newly modified, or now im-
parted for the first time, it may be useful to add a further
notice of the principal requisites of the statute, which are,
as has been already observed, property of a certain value,
possession, and residence. In the franchise for the coun-
ties, whether freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, the statute
requires that the voter's property should be of a certain
annual value, above all rents and charges, and what those
charges are not to include, it has also declared. There is
110 deduction of that sort from the value of the qualifica-
tion required in cities and boroughs. There being no
provision in the statute for ascertaining the value in
either case, the best rule that 'can be adopted by those
officers whose duty it will now become to decide upon
,such questions as may arise on the point, is that which was
'aid down by the Committee on the Bedfordshire election.
1e that case the following resolution was adopted : That
the value of the freehold, in right of which the owner
votes, is the rent which a tenant would give for it, and
sot what the owner occupying it himself may possibly
acquire from it.' The same principle is applied in the
rating of property to the poor's rate, and it may not be an
Unfair rule of value here also, the inquiry not being what
the value of the property may be to the voter himself, but
Whether is comes up to the general standard of value esta-
hlieheal by the Legislature. A bona fide rent may be con-
sidered a fair criterion of value, though it is not conclu-
sive. Personal chattels on an estate cannot be considered
as constituting part of its value, but when the value of the
land is raised by the amount of things erected on it, or to
~ Connected therewith as in legal contemplation to fall within
the meaning of a tenement, then they do form part of the
value.
+s, The Bedfordshire Committee also resolved that a mort-
gage on a freehold shall be considered to invalidate a vote
if the interest paid by the voter reduces the value of the
freehold below 40s. per annum ; and the Middlesex Elec-
tion Committee concurred in that resolution. These rule,
and resolutions may, in the absence of better, be safely
adopted in judging of the value of the qualification under
the new Act, and they are applicable to voters in boroughs
as well as counties. If the amount of value is to be made
UP from different buildings, or from buildings and land
jointly, both must be held under the same landlord, or the
voter must be owner of one or both. The actual value is
babe regared in all cases, and in boroughs the overseers
~ power (sec. 51) to inspect tax assessments and
poor-rates, and may use them to as.ist them in forming
their judgment. These, however, are not always safe
guides, as the standard of rating and assessment varies in
different parishes and townships.
The receipt of parochial relief or other alms which
4are been heretofore held to disqualify a voter in a city or
boroughborough is continued. by the 36th section as a ground of
imqualification, in the same cases in which the existing
''tv's and usages of Parliament held it. The decisions on
that subject of disqualification are various and conflicting,
(I the best rule of ascertaining who is and who is not
fqufiell, is Which necessarily implies indigence, d those a par-
' leipation in which no such inference can be drawn, In

some cases it has been held, that the relief, to disqualify a
voter, must have been afforded for the purpose of supplying
him with the ordinary means of subsistence. If afforded
on occasions of public calamity, as in the case of a pesti-
lence, or of inevitable accident, the relief will not d;squa-
lily. When derived from private charities, the relief has
been held to disqualify only where the charity has formed
part of the parish funds for the relief of the poor, and has
been al inaged by the parish officers, and applied to the
purposes of the parochial poor, in the same manner as the
poor rate itself. Relief given to the families of militia
men during the time of actual service does not disqualify.
In no case Is the franchise destroyed by parochial relief or
other alms—it is only suspended, and is restored as soon
as the voter recovers the capacity to exercise it indepen-
dently. This was not at any time held a disqualification
in a county voter, whilst the freeholder—the only voter
beford the Act 2 W. IV., c. 45—continued in possession
of his freehold of the yearly value of 405., nor does the
statute extend it now to any class of county voters.
The terms " owner," " holder," " occupier," " pos.
session," " actual possession," and " actual and bona
,fide
occupation," mentioned in the statute, may occasion not
a little difficulty in some cases. The owner, as applied in
the 26th section, means the freeholder in fee, or in tail,
or other proprietor of an estate, which he may neither
hold nor occupy, but out of which he receives rents and
profits. The holder seems here to apply to copyholder,
or may mean him who holds under the owner, and in
whose possession the estate is, although he does not occupy
it. lie who occupies may be the owner and holder also,
or a third person, different from either. The words ac-
tual possession and actual occupation may be generally un-
derstood to mean the same thing. The latter occurs in
the 18th section, to define more strongly the corporeal
possession there meant. The words there exclude all in-
corporeal freeholds, which exclusion would not be effected
by the words actual possession, as they might be construed
to designate an estate in possession, contrasted with an es-
tate in remainder or reversion. The nature of the several
estates of the voters being defined in sections IS, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23,24, and 25, the eighteenth enacting that no
person shall be entitled to vote except he is in actual oc-
cupation, the 26th enacts that no person shall be registered
unless he is in actual possession r r receipt of the rents and
profits, &c. The words actual possession are here used in
a more general sense than actual occupation.

POLICE OUTRAGE-THREE PERSONS

WOUNDED.

(From the Kilhenny Journal.)

On Friday evening, about six o'clock, in Castlecomer,
and after the greater part of the people who attended the
fair on that day had left the town, another slaughtering
match of the people by the police took place. The fol-
lowing are the circumstances, as collected by a person
from our office :

The town had been perfectly tranquil all day, till about
six o'clock, when a drunken Wexford man, who had a
cheese-standing in the fair, went up to a door at which
five police from Websborough were standing, and said
something, it is thought abusive, to them. The police
went in, and closed down the door. The drunken man
knocked at it with a stick, and immediately one of the
police opened it, and knocked hint down. The man arose,
and knocked down the policeman, and the other four
police in the house then came out, again knocked down the
man, and commenced beating bias with the heavy ends of
their bayonets, but made no attempt to take him prisoner.
While thus engaged, another policeman, acting as Co-
lonel Osborne's servant, ran to the spot with a musquet
and bayonet, which he had raised in the act of stab-
bing the man, when Mr. M'Loughlan, the post-mas-
ter, seized the gun, and called on him to desist, remark-
ing that the gun was cocked.—" Yes, by J—," said
the ruffian who held it, " and loaded, too." Up to this
time, none but those mentioned took part in the transac-
tion ; but a crowd now collected, and two women in it
threw stones at the police, who were beating the man,
and immediately a Sergeant Ne►bitt, of the Castlecomer
police, ran up, seized a gun, rushed towards the crowd,
which bad returned back, struck the first per'on he met,
and immediately fired ! Another policeman then pur-
sued for several yards a man who was running away,
overtook and struck him several times with his gun, and,
fired at him ; while a second policeman, named Foster,
who came up, was beating him on the bead with a pistol ! A
fourth policeman was seen to fire his gun at an empty-hand-
ed man; and, so close, that the persons who noticed it
thought the man must have been killed. Seven or eight
shots were fired in all, after which the police party made
a general charge with bayonets, cleared the streets, pursued
the people, and, in two instances, made attempts to stab a
boy and a woman who would not tell them in what direc-
tion persons ran whom they were pursuing, and one of
whom, a boy named Ryan, had been dangerously wounded
above the hip. Two other persons were wounded also ;
one by a ball passing through his wrist ; and the other an
idiot child named Connolly, five years old, by a ball, in the
foot. Two balls entered the window of a public house,
traversed a room which had been filled with people not
five minutes before, but from which the proprietor bad
fortunately sent them, when he perceived the disturbance
commencing.

Mr. Turkey held an investigation next day, at which
some of the policemen and one military sergeant were exa-
mined.

SALE OF THE GARRICK THEATRE.-
ICsterday, at the Mart in the city, by the direction of the
assignees, under a decision of the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, the Garrick theatre was submitted to public com-
petition. This establishment was erected in 1531, near
to the spot where GARRICK immortalized himself as the
hero of SHAKSPEARE'S heroes nearly a century since.
The theatre occupies a considerable space of ground as a
leasehold for 20 years from Christmas last, at 701. annual
rent. It contains eight private boxes; the public boxes
will accommod.te 250 persons, the pit 700, and the gal-
lery 400 ; the stage is 30 feet deep by 37 wide ; and there
are five chandeliers, lighted by gas from gas meters on the
premises; together with scenery, wardrobe, and dressing
rooms, saloons, &c.—the property, scenery, and fittings
included in the purchase. The first bidding for this pro-
perty was only 5001., and so great is the depreciation of
theatrical property, that the Garrick Theatre was knocktd
down for 900 guineas.

Letters from Modon state, that " On the 25th
of June, about eleven o'clock at night, several violent
shocks of an earthquake were felt in that town ; the vi-
brations lasted thirty seconds ; candlesticks and Limps
were upset, and the beams of a room inhabited by a
French officer fell in, but the latter, who was in bed, for-
tunately escaped unhurt. Some persons fled into the streets
almost naked, and the soldiers quitted their barracks. The
sky was serene, and the sea calm ; but on the preceding
day, at the same hour, a storm raged, although storms are
extremely rare at this season. The same earthquake was
felt at Navarino."

CHOLERA.—We regret to announce that this
awful malady has at length appeared at Taunton. A va-
grant from Exeter was seized with the symptoms of the
disease, in a house in Shuttern, at midnight, on Wednes-
day last. Medical aid was not procured until 9 o'clock
the following morning ; the usual remedies were applied,
and a temporary revival took place--but the patient gra-
dually sunk, and died on Tuesday. He was buried within
24 hours. This case has, of course, occasioned great
alarm.— Sherborne Journal.

GROUSE.—The sportsmen who have visited
the moors in the Peak of Derbyshire, for the purpose of
grouse shooting, have been very successful, and scarcely
any tolerably good shots have been disappointed in produc-
ing a respectable bag of game. The birds are very for-
ward and strong, and more numerous than have been wit-
nessed for many seasons past. We are glad to hear that
the moors set apart by Lis Grace the Duke of DEVON..
SHIRE, at Buxton, for the accommodation of gentleme❑
visiting that salubrious watering-place, are likely in future
to produce a good supply of grouse, as it is intended that
the utmost attention shall be paid to their breed and pre-
servation.—Derby Reporter.

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An extraordinary " lusus nature" has offered
itself to our nstice within the past week. At the residence
of Thomas Patton, Esq., at Bishop's Hull. A rat of a light
grey colour, with long soft fur, has lately become so domes-
ticated as to come from its place of concealment and pick
up the crumbs under the servants' table. A day or two
since it unfortunately fell into the claws of a cat, from
which it was with some difficulty rescued, but the animal
was dead, and is now in the possession of the above-named
gentleman, stuffed.—Sherborne Journal.

On Tuesday RICHARD CARTNIALE, a
horse-breaker, and who had frequently met with severe
accidents, met his death in a singular manner. In riding
a young horse down the entry of the Castle Inn, in
Market. street, Lichfield, which he persisted in doing, not-
withstandinz this remonstrance of the landlord, 111 r. Cox,
he struck his forehead violently against the top of the door
frame, which is Very low ; the horse was startled, and
CARTMALE, who was an excellent rider, fell. The ver-
tebt x ntar to the neck were dislocated, and the spinal chord
seriously injured. He lingered for nearly two days, and
then died. It was one of the peculiarities of this case,
that life having ceased in his legs, the 'poor suffe-er died
in the belief that they were broken.—Staffordshire Ad
vertiser.