Star.
London, England, 1824-11-19 00:00:00

HATTON-OA ROHN.

Yesterday was the day appointed Ca the 7.l:.sirtrates giving their
ludgment in the important decision of the Tithe Question, in the
Parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and at an early hour the Office
was crowded to recess.

Mr. Griffith, the vestry clerk, on the part of the Rector, vend
Mr. I farmer, for the parish; appeared.
Serjeant SILLON, in a speech of considerable length and ability,
took a review of the argumeets advanced on both sides of the
question, and give his objections to the claim set up, upon three
distinct grounds:—
. I. That by the 2d and 3d of Edward VI. personal tithe must he
considered as abolished, for previous to the passing of that •Act, it
was recovered by forcing the party :o fwear to the profits of his
trade, which having led t.) much perjury, the oath was done away
with, and, of course, the remedy for the recovery.
2d. The same Act also conlines all claims for Tithes of any kind
to be such as can he traced hack forty years previous to its passing
—nam-ly. 1508, which cmnot be d. ze in the present case, as the
records produ.etl only go As tar bac,. as 1643.
•Sd. The records themselves bore internal evidence they were
meant as describing the" Easter Gifts." After dv.•elling on these
?obits. and illustrating them with extracts from numerous authori-
ties, be gave it as %is decided opinion, that the Parish were entitled to
resist the claim.

Mr. Rotmas fully conetirrel with the Learned SLrjeant.
Mr. LAING, bowevee, exv-elstct his stisseur ; hut as the majo-
rity of the Itench was in favour of the l'atish, this lung agitated
question is now at rest.
IkI.III.LBOPOUGH-STREET.

, An Hibernian, named Clouser, was charged with having
stolen a quandry of lead from Apsley House, the residence of his
Grace the Duke of Weil.vgioli.
During the last week his Grace's establishment has been under-
going repair, and Mr.'Whitebeail, the stone-mason, who is in the
employ of his Grace, had taken);in some extra bands to alter an
area at the back part of the house, amongst whom was the prisoner.
On Wednesday last, he was observed leaving the place with a quan-
tity of sheet lead, which he said had been given to him by one of
the masons to take home, but on the individual being qutstioned,
he positively denied ever having given him such instructions, but
had inertly told him to carry it up stairs to the workmen. lie was
taken into custody, when 111 r. Whitehead, the Clerk of the Works,
and other persons, attended to give evidence, but none of them
could swear positively to the lead being that which was taken from
Apsley House.
Sir GEORGE FAIIRANT, in the absence of evidence to identify the
lead, could not coonnit the prisuri,:r to take his trial, but had it in
his power to convict Lim under an Act of Parliament for having
lead in his possession, supposed to be stolen, for which he could not
satisfactorily account.

The prist,nezdenied having had the ii.tention ofrtealing the lead,
but said the mason had given it to him. _ _ _

The mason swore positively that this was not the fact. He merely
requested Lain to carry it up stairs for the workmen.
Sir 0. FARRANT asked him if he had 405 to pay ?
The prisoner replied that he had not.
Sir G. 1:A1 A:sr— Well, then, you must go to prison for 40 days.
--The Magistrate informed the pri'.ener that he had mitigated the
penalty from .51. to V. and he was empowered, in default of pay-
ment, to commit him fur three months; but, on considering his
case, he would only commit bim for one month,
Yesterday, Jens Burn, the pugilist, was charged with an assault
do a Mr. Manning, of Chesterfield-street, Mary-la-bonne, and or-
dered to find bail.