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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1827.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY 14,
wiLics V. LORD PALMERSTON AND OTHERS.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR was occupied all day in
hearing this cause, which was adjourned till Monday
(this day), in consequence of the absence of Sir C.
Wetherell, who was engaged at the Cockpit.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 14,
THE EJ' V. HALLETT AND OTHERS.

This was an indictment for a conspiracy against
William Hallett, Thomas Oliver, Zachariah Thomp-
son and Robert Edward Richardson. The first
count alleged that Charles Robert Henderson issued
a writ of execution against the defendant Hallett and
his partner Charles Henderson, to recover a debt
due from them, and that Hallett, to deprive Mr.
Henderson of the means of obtaining the debt, con-
spired with the three other defendants to sue out a
fraudulent commission of bankrupt against the firm
of Hallett and Henderson. The second count
alleged that the obiectS of the defendants was to
prevent Charles Henderson from receiving an equal
share of the partnership effects.
Mr. ERSKINE opened the pleadings.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that in conse-
quence of some disclosures which the defendant
Richardson, who had been Hallett's clerk, had made,
the prosecutor did not wish to proceed against him.
He was not sure the prosecutor stood in need of
Richardson's evidence, but perhaps they might have
occasion to call him.

The COMMON SERGEANT said, he appeared for all
the defendants, and he certainly could have no ob-
jection to his client being acquitted.
Lord TENTERDEN directed the jury to acquit
Richardson, as no evidence was to be offered against
him. He was acquitted accordingly.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the defendant
Hallett was an attorney, in Northumberland-street,
New-road, in partnership with Mr. Charles Hender-
son. They had each put 250/. into the business,
but as they wanted more money, they borrowed of
Charles Robert Henderson, the father of Charles
Henderson, 6004, upon a joint warrant of attorney.
The business was chiefly managed by Hallett, and
was very profitable, but the parties did not agree;
and Henderson desiring a dissolution, his father pro-
posed to dissolve the partnership on certain condi-
tions, to which Hallett refused to accede. He offered
to return the 250/. Henderson had put into the
business, and also to pay off the 6001. out of the
partnership effects ; but he refused to do any thing
more. As the parties could come to no agreement,
Henderson, senior, on the 23d of last December, put
an execution under the warrant of attorney into the
house of Hallett, where the business was carried on.
Hallett, to defeat this execution, endeavoured to pro-
cure a commission of bankruptcy to be issued against
himself and partner; but as the business had been
very prosperous, and as all the debts, exclusive of the
600/. due from the firm, did not amount to 100/. he
foundit extremely difficult to procure a petitiopingcre-
ditor. lie made several attempts to procure one with
the assistance of Richardson his clerk, but to no
purpose, until at last he, prevailed upon the de-
fendant Thompson to draw a bill for 100/. upon the
firm, to whom at the time he was a debtor, and this
bill, Hallett, in the name of the firm, and as a part.
nership transaction, accepted. It was drawn on the
29th of December, the very day it-appeared to fell
due, for it was dated the 26th of October, and was
payable two months after date. Thompson endorsed
the bill to Oliver, who was also a debtor to the firm,
and Hallett procured a tailor of the name of
Menzies, to present it for payment. The parties
were denied, and Oliver immediately struck a
docket against Hallett and Henderson, relying upon
the denial as proof of an act of bankruptcy. When
Henderson became aware of the matter, he attended
before the Commissioners, and the commission was
not proceeded in. A separate commission was then
sued out against Hallett, but as it appeared that he
had told several people that he did not owe 20/. in
the world, and as the business, instead of being a
losing concern, had been very profitable, it was quite
clear that the bankruptcies were concerted, and the
present prosecution was in consequence instituted.
Charles Henderson, examined by Mr. GURNEY---••
Witness became partner with Mr. Hallett in June,
1825. Their office was in Northumberland-street; 111
Marylebone, where Hallett lived. Witness lived in
Chapel-place, Oxford-street. They had articles of
partnership ; each brought 2501. into the business.
After they had been partners about two months,
they found their capital was not sufficient for their
business ; whereupon witness applied to his father,
who lent Hallett and himself 6001. upon their joint
warrant of attorney. Witness left town in June,
1826, through illness, and did not return till August.
When he left town there was 256/. in their bankers'
hand; but when he returned he found the account
overdrawn. Witness was taken ill again in Novem-
ber, and wished to go out of town. His father had
given notice that he should call in his 600/. Wit-
ness went with his father to Haliett, who said he
could not manage to pay more than half the 600/. by
February, when it was to be paid. His father then
proposed a dissolution of the partnership. Hal-
lett said he should have no objection if they
could agree upon the terms ; and that they had
better take an account of the partnership effects. This
was assented to. On the following Tuesday they
met again. Witness then produced an account of
the debts due to the firm, they amounted to 3,3761.
Hallett admitted it to be correct, and that nearly the
whole could be collected. He also said that what
they owed, with the exception of the 600/., did not
amount to 1001., and he made out a list which only
amounted to 581. Witness and his father then
spoke about dissolving the partnership, but Hallett
refused to dissolve. Witness's father Shortly after
issued an execution against the partnership effects,
and the sheriff's officer put a man in possession.
There were then some meetings to effect a dissolu-.
tion, and they met on the 30th of December, at a
public-house near the office, when witness proposed
to take 1,000/. out of the partnership effects, and to
discharge his father's debt out of it. This ffer was
refused. Witness then set down the names of se-
veral persons who he thought were indebted to them.
Hallett said, he had received some of those debts,
to the amount of 350/. Witness's father said he
would listen to no arrangement, unless that 3501.
was paid in part of the debt due to him, but would
remove the goods, and have them sold under the
execution. Hallett said, " You may do your best,
a commission of bankruptcy has been sued out."
Witness said ," There was no bankruptcy." Hallett
said, " You'll see that." The defendant Oliver, who
was at the meeting, then left the room. We had
done business for him. He owed us 1501. We had
his acceptances to two bills, one for 1001., and the
other for 50/. ,The 100/. bill had been paid to our
bankers. The other bill witness had. Witness pro-
duced it. They went from the public-house to the 111
office, when a notice signed by Richardson, who was
our clerk, was, by Hallett's direction, served upon
The notice was warning the
tshheer maniff no in t
the goods, as a commission of
possession.
remove ssion.
bankrupt had been sued out by a Mr. Hiscox against
Hallett and witness. Witness went to the Bank-
rupt-office, and found a docket had been struck. He
attended with counsel a meeting of commissioners.
Oliver, Richardson, and Hallett, were there; wit-
ness also attended all the meetings under a separate
commission of bankruptcy, which was afterwards
issued against Hallett alone, Thompson was a plas-

terer in Devonshire-street, New-road, and owed the
firm about 3001. for business.

Charles Robert Henderson proved the partnership
between Hallett and his son. He was subscribing
witness to the articles.

The warrant of attorney, and the judgment upon it
which was entered upon the 23d of September,
1826, were proved, and the petition for the com-
mission of bankrupt against Hallett and Henderson,
the bond and the affidavit of Oliver, the petitioning
creditor, were produced from the Bankrupt-office.
A ekrk from the public-office proved that. the
affidavit was duly sworn by Oliver. Richardson ap-
peared to be a subscribing witness to the proceed-
ings.
The commission of bankruptcy was also produced,
as was
,also a separate commission against Hallett
alma e.

John Hiscox.—Witness was an attorney at Croy-
don.. Richardson, who was his clerk about eleven
years ago, came with Hallett, last December, to his
house t.t Croydon. He did not know Hallet until
Richardcon introduced him. Hallett said he wanted
a docket struck against Henderson and himself, and
asked witness to strike it. Witness was surprised,
and asked the reason. Hallett said because an exe-
cution had been issued on the warrant of attorney.
Witness asked who would be the petitioning credi-
tor. Hallett said he hoped witness would, and pro-
posed that witness should draw a bill for 100/.,
which he would accept for the firm, and for which
witness was to give a draught. Witness declined.
Cross-examined--The conversation might have
lasted three or four hours. Mrs. Hiscox was present.

Ed-.-,ard Smith Bigg—Witness was a solicitor.
He went with Mr. Henderson, sen. to Hallett to
propose a dissolution. Hallett had no objection.
Witness asked if the account of 3,376/. as the assets
of the firm was correct. Hallett said it was, and
added, that the firm did not owe as much as 100/.
beyond the 6001. Witness sketched out proposals
for the dissolution, and left them with Hallett. He
called a day or two afterwards, when Hallett de-
clined them, and said he would allow Henderson
856/, which was to include the 600/. due to his
father. This was objected to, and witness told Hal-
lett that other measures would be resorted to. Hal-
lett then said, " Something will happen that will
put an end to the business altogether." Witness
said, " What ! do you mean to have a bankruptcy?".
Hallett answered, " I do."

George Cobb proved that Hallett told witness
that his (Hallett's) partner was going out of town
for a day or two, and he added, " if he could get
him into the country for a month, he would have his
own way, for he hadgot a thing ready to sweep the
whole away." Hallett called on witness on the 23d
of December, and told him that he had got a cus-
tomer for 6501. Witness said he wished he could
get such a customer to take away part of his stock.
Hallett then said his partner's father had put a per-
son in for 6501. Witness answered that he should
not like such a customer as that. Witness advised
Hallett to accede to the proposals that had been
made to him. Hallett refused, and wished witness
to give him money for a bill of 100/., but he declined.
Hallett then said he would have a bankruptcy, and
that he would go to somebody else. Witness ad-
vised him not. The next time witness saw Hallett
Richardsoß was with him. They were then going
to Croydon. Hallett said that " Charley," mean-
ing his partner, " had better have taken the 8501.,
for be would make him a good boy before he was
done with him."

John Heslop, a tailor, owed the firm 152/. 11s.
6d., which he paid Hallett on the 27th of Decem-
ber last.

William Menzies, a tailor, proved that Hallett
called upon him to request he would present a bill at
Hallett's house for payment. Witness agreed to do
so, and he received afterwards from Oliver the bill
he was to present, and a notice he was to leave at
the house upon the parties being denied to him.
Witness presented the bill, Hallett and Henderson
were denied to him, and he left the notice. Oliver
was to have called upon him the next morning for
the bill, but as he did not come, witness took it to
Hallett's house, where he saw the three defendants,
Hallett, Thomson, and Oliver. Witness said to
Oliver, " You did not call as you promised." Oli-
ver answered, " No, we have altered our plans."

The bill and notice were put in and read. The
body of the bill, with its acceptance, was in Hallett's
hand-writing. It was dated the 26th of October,
1826, and was for 1001., payable at two months
date, drawn by Thompson upon Hallett and Hen-
derson, accepted in the name of the firm, and en-
dorsed by Thompson.

Henryßurridie, a clerk of Hallett and Henderson,
proved that the clerks were writing the depositions
in the office. Hallett desired witness to swear to
the denial of Hallett and Henderson, but he refused.
Witness went before the Commissioners, and saw
some of the depositions sworn to, which bad been
prepared in the office.
Robert Crib.—Witness received a note from
Hallett on the 23d of December, that he wanted
money to take up a bill, and witness thereupon paid
him 601. due to the firm from a Mr. Williams.

William Bailey Fox, a grocer, proved a debt under
the commission against Hallett, who was very much
offended with him for desiring to know who the
petitioning creditor was. Witness asked Hallett if
he really owed 1001. to any one of the people about
him—meaning the defendants. Hallett answered
that he did not owe 20/. in the world.
Mr. Squires proved that the firm kept cash in the
house of Ransom and Co., and Mr. Edwards proved
that Oliver's acceptance for the 100/. was taken up
before it was due.

Edward Robert Richardson proved that the de-
fendants agreed together to draw the bill upon the
firm, and that it should be endorsed to Oliver, for
the purpose of issuing the commission. The bill,
though dated the 26th of October, was actually
drawn on the 29th of December•. All the defend-
ants were present at the meeting before the com-
missioners.

The Jury immediately found the defendants Guilty.
Application was made to commit the defendants,
who were all called upon their recognizances, but did
not appear. They afterwards, however, came into
Court, and were committed to Newgate until next
term, when they are to be brought up to receive the
sentence of the Court.
The Court, at rising, adjourned until the 29th of
October.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 14.
SCOTT AND WIFE D. LAWSON.
After some discussion in this case, a verdict was
agreed to be taken for the plaintiff on all the issues
generally.—Damages one farthing.

A valuable discovery was made the other day
in Westminster Abbey. It had become neces-
sary to make repairs near the tomb of Edward
the Confessor, when, by removing a portion of
the pavement, an exquisitely beautiful piece of
carved work, which had originally formed part of
the shrine of Edward's tomb, was discovered.
This fine relic (the work of the eleventh or
twelfth century), appears to have been studded
with precious stones ; and the presumption is,
that during the civil wars it was taken down for
the purpose of plunder, and after the gems were
taken out, buried under the ground, very near
the surface of the earth: to avoid detection.

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND NAPOLEON.

The appearance of the History of Napoleon
by Sir Walter Scott, is an event which has
created some sensation at Faris, and of which
we must say something to our readers. We
have cast our eyes over the first volumes, and we
have observed the greatest incorrectness in many
parts, and a want of talent in the execution,
which has excited some surprise in us on the
part of a writer like Sir Walter Scott. He has
also consulted the English Journals which were
written during the late war, and he has faithfully
collected all the 'diatribes and calumnies against
France with which they were filled. This work
may perhaps be read with pleasure in the taverns
of London, but among us it will excite only
disgust,
Sir Walter Scott is not sufficiently penetrated
with the duties of an historian, the principal of
which is to consult official documents—to com•
pare testimonies—to throw light on obscure facts
by impartial criticism, and to popular
reports. The Scottish Author has spared him-
self this trouble. Events the best known are
disfigured ; he writes under the inspiration of
those national dislikes, which happily, are grow-
ing weaker every day, and are retreating among
the least enlightened classes of society. We did
s.
expect better of Sir Walter Scott, in spite of
Paul's Letters, and we have been, as our neigh-
bours express it, completely disappointed.
We do not see even with what object he has
connected himself with the popular prejudices of
his country. The two nations are at peace ;
there is no longer any motive for exciting na-
tional antipathy, and the example of some French
authors might have taught him urbanity, respect
for the usages of society, and respect for truth.
Napoleon is now a great historical figure, of
which it does not belong to all historians to mea-
sure the dimensions. His passage over the
earth has left deep traces ; and his history, writ-
ten with impartiality and talent, would be a mo-
nument of long duration. It is not Sir Walter
Scott who will raise it ; let him return to his
Highland Chiefs ; there he is in his element.
That Napoleon has done great things ; that
he gave to French industry a salutary impulse ;
and that he carried to the highest point the glory
of our arms, is not contested by his enemies.
If all this is only introduced imperfectly into a
history, and to it palpable errors are united, this
history will not obtain any rank among the
literary productions of the period, and will be
speedily forgotten. This is the fate with which
the new work of Sir Walter Scott is threatened ;
even those who admire him as a novel writer
will neglect him as a historian.
This is only a preliminary judgment, the fruit
of a first impression : we will hereafter justifS,
both the one and the other by elaborate articles.
—Constitutionnel.

HORRID ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND

ROBBERY.

(From the Kentigh Gazette.)

On the night of Tuesday last, about half-past ten,
two men knocked at the door of Mr. William Buck-
hurst, at Binney Farm, Allhallows, in the hundred
of Hoo, and on the maid-servant inquiring who they
were, they replied that they had a letter for her
master from Mr. Richard Knight, on which she
opened the door, when they rushed in, and taking
the candle from her, one of them proceeded up stairs,
while the other remained below, threatening that if
she made asiy noise he would silence her. At the
instant they entered the house, the girl gave a loud
shriek, which aroused her master, who was in bed,
and asleep at the time, and he immediately arose;
on opening his bed-room door, he encountered a man
having his face blackened, and holding a candle in
one hand, and a bludgeon in the other. Mr. Buck-
hurst immediately closed with the villain, end
seis-
ing him round the neck, endeavoured to push him
down the stairs; in the scuffle the stick was dropped,
and Mr. Buckhurst having forced the fellow near to
a door of his man-servant's bed-room, called to him
to come to his assistance; instead of which the man,
alarmed at what he heard, secured the door and re-
mained inside his room; in the mean time, Mr.
Buckhurst was knocked down, and the villain re-
covering his stick, after beating him about the
head with it, threw him down stairs. Here he
was severely beaten about the head by both the
fellows, and they then attempted to tie his hands,
but notwithstanding the cruel treatment he had re-
ceived, he still retained strength and presence
of mind sufficient to struggle with them, and ulti-
mately escaped from the house into an adjoining mea-
dow, followed by these diabolical villains, one of
whom appears to have thrust the rugged point of
his bludgeon into a deep wound previously inflicted
at the back of his head. In this meadow they over-
powered their victim, and after a further beating
trampled on him and left him for dead. In the
mean time, the man-servant came down stairs, and
brought the dog in from the back of the house, for
the protection of himself and the servant-girl, con-
cluding that his master was murdered, and that the
thieves would return.
Mr. Buckhurst came back to the house, and en-
deavoured to gain an entrance, but was unable to
speak, and the servants when they heard him grop-
ing about the door, supposed it to be his assailants,
and he remained outside until his sisters, on their
return home from Stoke, found him faint from
loss of blood, leaning against the garden fence.
He spoke to them in a low tone of voice, and
as they concluded all were murdered within
the house, they led him to the village, being a
distance of three quarters of a mile. The ap-
proach of this part of the family is supposed to
have induced the parties to decamp. The servant
girl describes the blows which were inflicted
on her master after he was thrown down stairs
as dreadful, any one of which seemed sufficient
to deprive him of his existence. It is greatly
to be lamented that the man did not come
to the assistance of his master at the moment
when he had nearly overpowered his first assailant,
as in that case there can be no doubt that he might
have been secured. The men are described as being
dressed in dark-coloured clothes, one of them tall
and slender, the other of the middle size ; their
faces and hands were black, and each wore a cap
made from light-coloured cotton hose; their shoes
apparently of light make, with iron heel-specks, one
of the specks half an inch shorter on one side than
the other. The following articles were left by
them :—The two caps above described, the bludgeons
(a blackthorn hedge-stake cut in two), a small tin
pot containing charcoal, three pieces of dark cloth,
from a coat or jacket, with a gun pick, and " John
Allan" scratched on the handle. A reward of 30/.
has been offered for the discovery of the offenders.
Mr. Buckhurst lies in a dangerous GUILE, but hopes
are entertained of his recovery.

An Irish gentleman at cards, having
on in-
spection found the pool deficient, exclaimed,
Here's a shilling short, who put it in ?"

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 14.—This morning the
Duke of. York steam-Teasel returned to this Bart; •
from Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Lisbon, with fifty-two
passengers, among whom are his Excellency Count
Villa Real, the new Portuguese Ambassador to this
country, and Captain Waller, A.D.C. to Governor
Sir Gene Don, charged with dispatches from that
officer, from Sir W. Clinton, and from Sir W.
A'Court. The Duke of York left Gibraltar the
28th ult., and Lisbon on the 3d inst. The Fran Ii
squadron at Cadiz had made a movement; two of
the ships were cruizing off the Port, two remained
at the anchorage, and the rest had sailed for Algiers..
Our squadron at Lisbon, except the Genoa, were
lying at single anchor off Belem, waiting for orders,
from England. The Spartiate and Albion had been
provisioned for ten months. Lord Amelius
Beauclerc had shifted his flag into the Genoa. All
was quiet both in Portugal and Spain. The Spanish
troops had been withdrawn fiom the Portuguese
frontiers. The rebellion of the Marquess Chaves was
almost forgotten. The British troops remained in
their former quarters. The Dryad frigate, Hon. Capt.
Crofton, was to leave Gibraltar for England, on the
Ist inst. A Colombian privateer had burnt a Spanish
vessel, of Ceuta, and had taken another
.prize off
the Reck, which was retaken by a Spanish gun-
boat, and the Colombian beaten off, after a long en-
zagement. The Colombian was peremptorily or-
dered away from Gibraltar for disorderly conduct—,
The Ellas-gowan, in passing. Ceuta, was fired at by
!he Spaniards, who mistook her for a privateer, and
the first shot striking her ballast port, she sunk ; she
had English colours flying. The Duke of York had
strong easterly gales until she had half-way crossed
the Bay of Biscay, when it became moderate; she
was not able to seta can all the pa cage. • She
took shelter two days in Cireubion (a few wiles
from Finisterre harbour) ; it is a spacious landlocked
harbour; it is surpriiing that our transports over-
looked it during the whole of the Peninsular war.
The brig Atalanta, from Jersey, laden with pota-
toes, had lost her masts in a squall off Cape Finis-
terre, and had put into one of the small ports there..
The Duke of York landed her Bristol passengers at
Dartmouth.

The Primrose, 18, Capt. Octarius Vernon, sailed
from Vera Crux on the Bth of May, for Tampico
and England.
The Medina, 18, Captain W. B. Green, was paid
off yesterday into a state of ordinary.
His Majesty's ships Jupiter and Alligator arrived
at Halifax, from Bermuda, June 19; and the Ring-
dove, 18, from St. John's, N.B. June 16.

PROMOTlON.—Commander the Hon. C. L. Irby
to the rank of Captain.
A letter from an officer of his Majesty's ship
Challenger (one of the experimental squadron),
dated the 4th instant, states—" As yet the weather
has been light, and water smooth. The Columbine
has generally been the headmost and weathermost
ship at the end of the day's sail, and about a mile
generally from the Challenger, which latter ship has
not in any way lost her former good qualities. Both
these ships head and weather the Galatea. The
Sapphire is not improved by the alterations she un-
derwent. The Wolf, Acorn, and Satellite, are on a.
par; the Tyne and Alert are the worst sailers."
The Lord Bishop of Calcutta (the Rev. De.
James), Mrs. James, and Miss Jane Ommanney,
daughter of Sir F. Ommanney, will sail to-morrow,
in the ship Mary Anne, for the Cape of Good Hope
and Calcutta. The Catherine, Mackintosh, for Cal-
cutta, will sail on Monday.
The 87th Regiment, which lately returned from
twenty-one years' service in the East Indies, arrived
at Albany Barracks yesterday.
On Wednesday the ship Frederick, Legge, which
embarked horses at this port, sailed for Van Diernan's
Land; her cargo consists of live stock, for that
settlement.

His Royal Highness tke Lord High Admiral went
past this port on Sunday last, at 4 p.m., in the Royal
Sovereign yacht. The Badger, Capt. C. Crowdy,
stood out to sea, and saluted the flag; on doing
which the Lord High Admiral made the signal for
the Badger to part company, and return to her station.
This morning the Badger sailed for Cork.
The Marquis of Anglesey, in the Pearl yacht, and
his brother, Admiral the Honourable Sir Charles
Paget, in the Emerald yacht, went to the westward
on Thursday, it is supposed to attend his Royal
Highness the Lord High Admiral on his Welch
visit, the ancient Isle of Mona being almost the sole
property of the Gallant Marquis.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, with
the Princess Alexandrine Victoria (heiress presump-
tive to the Throne of England), and the Princess
Carlotta, with their household, will pass through
this place, in a few days, for Ryde, where a large
house has been taken for their reception. Our
yacht visiters increase but slowly ; the latest acces.
sion comprises the Marquis and Marchioness of
Donegal, Earls Ilchester, Carrie, Belfast, and Surrey,
—Hampshire Telegraph_

DISCHARGE OF SALT WATER.--To the
westward of Warwick-lodge, upon the beach,
exactly where the cavity has been dug, there has
been discovered a curious salt-water spring,
which flows continually, resembling in appear-
ance the boiling springs of Switzerland. The
discharge of water is considerable, and what
makes it no less singular, although it is within
the sea-mark, it is a good deal above the level
of the low tide. The only probable conjecture
that can be formed is, that there must be some
filledgr
great excavation
owsitog still
onfeatrheer
tide,th eshaoorde,thwhich
iis.
charges itself at the opening which has been made
in forming the cavity. We may also notice a num-
ber of piles of wood, much decayed, which have
been dug up a good distance from the surface.
We have heard, but it is merely a report, that
about 200 years ago coal was dug for at the
same spot, but whether they have been placed
there at that time, or whether a small pier has
existed at this place, it is impossible to say. At
present search is making for coal, and already
partial quantities have been found immediately
beneath the shelving rocks at the surface of the
ground.—Scotsman.

Btruanyi v. BoATvm.—The following whim-
sical circumstance occurred at Painswick,
Gloucestershire, last week :--An old weather-
beaten tar entered the village with a ship fastened
upon his head, and singing, in a very lugubrious
style—
Ye gentlemen of England as livesat
he m
Domeat
All little does you think upon the dangers of the seas.
And little did poor Jack think of
scarcelythe
dangers
which awaited him on land ; he
got
loadedhalf-way
witht hro usgt ho
stone,
e drawnvillage , b wheny
a bull, whose
nervous system was so irritated, either by the
ease,eta cart
sound which the tar uttered or the sight he ex..
hibited, that he made a pause—then a rush—.
Jack did not stop to hail—but crowded all sail—
and made off with his frigate ; the bull followed
in his wake, but did not gain upon him, having
a heavy tender in tow ; in the eaaerness of the
chase, however, the cables broke, and the tender
was left behind ;
and
now Boatum found Bullum
gaining so fast upon him, that he made a tack,
hoping to out-manmuvre the enemy—but the
bull tacked too, and the chase became severer
than ever—happily for the sailor a port was at
hand (a public-honse), into which he steered
without performing quarantine, and the bull not
daring to venture farther, Jack saved himself
and the frigate he had in tow. Though the
poor fellow was really in some danger, the scene
was so irresistibly comic, that the gravest of the
spectators lost their gravity,— Worcester Journal.