Star.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

HAYMARKET 2'HEArRE.

A new petite comedy was produced at this Theatre
last night. Its title is Roses and Thorns ; or, Tiro
Houses under one Roof.
The story of the Piece represents Sir Hilary Heartsease (Livros),
and Sir Valentine Terjuice (Fusels), two brothers, to be living is
one house, according to a condition specified in their mother's
and upon which they hold her estate. The one is blbssed with&
temper which nothing can sour; and the other, an old Naval OQr
car, has no delight in the world save that of being crabbed. The
former has a daughter, Julia Ilaartstose (Mrs. T. Hat.), and Frs.
deride Fisasheys (Vilma), is the nephew of the latter. These
young petiple are destined foe each other by the old ones, but, as
it generally happens in such eases, they have made other dales
for themselves. Ittarinyst hie eloped with Ross Appkton(Mhs P.
Glossa), the daughter of a. ptiee sasehanie, and plated bee b a
cottage law his unties teildence; and Alin bus Ulan is love with
her tame, Mr. lliondessir (Raman). .Upon the lay applaud
for the marrligi Of the eve* designed for wedlock by the btu
then. they are applied to in their. capacity of Jude,., by Mph
Appleton (Pm), the father of Rosa, who has discovered his
daughter, and brim her before them, claiming justice against bit
seducer. Rosa sees litanies", faints, and is taken away teasels&
The latter has conducted his intrigue under the name of Bleaukera
and now gets his not to deny the charges until he has time to aver
the storm of his uncle's rage. In the meantime a certain CM uer
antieron (limitary), helps them to a stratagem which gads tis
affair. This is merely the exchange of the drama the taro Ladies,
which saccessfully imposes upon Sir Valentine, and the consent at
both the uncles is then obtained to the doable onkel elate keen.
We need scarcely say that this •plot is neither re-
markably original nor strikingly dramatic. It is upon
the effect of character that the author has depended.
and be has certainly done .1b with no ntean_success.—
The contrast of the two Knights is well hit riff, and the
dialogue in which they share, .particularly- that of the
first act,.is lively and pointed. Both Ltsvou and Fame
Hex exerted their best powers, but the latter his de-
cidedly the superior part. HAntris. the:meter, tore-
ther with others given to Mrs. Gums, WIMAAMS. and
WONT, have nothing to do with the storyk, and ate evi-
dently introduced` only for the sake of employing 44 the
strength .of the Company."
The Ant Act was favoured with repeated applause: the weed
was mare tedious, bet no disapprobation was evinced until neatly
the close of the third. There was considerable, but not unmixed
applause at the falling of the curtain. It was given out for repel.
tion by Mr. Lunn, whose announcement was followed by an up-
roar of plaudits and hissing; the former were, however, predomi-
nant; and we have no doubt but that a judicious curtailment of woe
of the latter same% will give the Piece considerable popularity.

•
The Count de VtrzaLs gave a grand dinner on Fri-
day last, to the Duke of War UMMOX and other distinguiskrd
personages.
His Royal Highness the Prince of ORAIIOII has ar-
rived at Brussels from et. Petersburgh. HIS august consortia ex.
petted on the mut of this month.
N. M. ROTHSCHILD, Esq. gives a Eland dinner and
fete this day, at his country seat, when be nal be honoured with
the presence of Prince Bremer v, the Rambo Andoeseedoe, she
Spanish Ambassador, and several other persons of diselsotion, is
coat meat to his uthete, the Barons.
The Russian Senator, Tanacnars, has arrived at
Vienna, from Carlsbad.

Mr. Kaman, a merchant of Stockholm, has asked
and obtained leave from the Government, to establish
a post like the twopenny post in Landon.
GALLANT BON Mov.—A fitshionableCoantess, stk.
int a at Nobleman which be dies& she peril/Kilowatt. no"
Of tulips? replied, with gnat galtiomy, Tear Lady'
My lips Wore all the roes, la the wield."
In the proiince of Paraguay, by an-order of the Go.
Lvernor, all convents have been suppressed.

LAW REPORT.
COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST U.
is-PARTE WESTON IN RE RAINIY, A ISANICRUPT:
In this case a person named Bousfield (the party
really interested) hid purchased a vessel (the Ocean),
which he let in 1809, to Messrs. Eastman and Hunter,
whereby they became indebted to him to a consider.
able amount. After the bankruptcy of Eastman and
Co. an order of this Court was made in August, 1819,
directing the Commissioners to inquire whether there
was a joint estate of Eastman and Hunter? The
Commissioners reported that there was no joint estate,
unless a sum of 4611. due from Robert Rainey, could
be so considered. This report gave no information as
to the value of tte proof. Upon another reference to
the-Commissioners, they reported, in August, 1821,
that the estate of Hunter and Co. was likely to make
dividend. When the matter came before the Courr,
the dividend had not been made, and his Lordship
thought that Mr. Bousfield was not obliged to wait
an indefinite time. The probability was unsubstantial.
Another que•tion then arose. It was stated that Mr.
Bourfield was not entitled to prove against the sepa-
rate estate, because there was a joint estate in his own
pocket. The-fact was, that Bousfield bad chartered
a ship to Eastman and Hunter, who were to pay a
tonnage rate ; he had, therefore, it was alleged, a de.
maid on them Pr. the hire only. Mr. Bousfield also
• put some part of the cargo on board. The persons
who thus put the cargo on board the ship, it was al-
leged, became indebted to Eastman and Hunter for
freight ; but the owner had a right to say, that no
part of the cargo should be delivered until his tonnage
was paid, which amounted to more than the freight.
It was clear that Bousfield had received a considerable
sum in payment for freight of goods. This was said
not to be due, but that Botvfield ought to be paid
by Eastman and Co. But Bousfield had a lien tin
the cargo for what was due to him for the use of the
ship, and he received the motuy by virtue of it, in
discharge of his debt. It had been decided in many
cases, that if a person grants, lets, or demises a ship,
he parts with the possession of it: but in the last deci-
sion urn this doctrine in the Court of Common Pleas,
three of the Judges differed from Lord Chief Justice
Dallas, thinking the Court of King's Bench wrong in
preceding decisions. It was understood that when a
similar case came before the latter Court again, the
dcctrine would be reconsidered. His Lordship, there-
f're, whiled that a case 'should be prepared for argu-
ment; or, if the parties liked it better, he would tn.
form himself of the opinion of the Judges.
AGAR asked his Lordship to decide the question.
The Lo:to Cuabes‘Lens—Theu you shall bare the opinion of
the nine Judges.
KI-PAATE LELAND IN RE SILL AND WATSON,
BANKRUPTS.

US LORDSHIP observed, that this case was not only
important in respect to the amount of money involved,
but one of the most complicated that ever came before
the Court in bankruptcy. Every description of paper
credit known in metcantile transactions formed part
of the care to be considered. The Commis;ioners had
arranged the various species of bills in classes, and left
his Lordship to decide, in cases which could not be da
tided till the matter was fully argued. His Lordship
allowed parties the option of letting the petition
stand over till the rconl dry of next Term, in order
that arguments from one Counsel of a side might be
beard; or of referring it back to the ComnaissiJners.
IN RE TOWNSEND.
Just as his Lnrciship was rising, the bankrupt ad-
dressed she Court respe:ting his case. His Lordship,
as upon former occasions, pointed out to him the ne-
cessity cf deciding whether he would subm't to or
cone t Isis commission ? For a full halt hour his Lord-
ship listened to and answered the remarks of the bank-
mist with great patience and affability. Upon Mr.
Townsend's calling upon his Lordship for justice, as a
Judge, in the hard circumstances of his case,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was bound to do
justice to all ; and he could not suffer the bankrupt
to put the assignees to a serious expense, after he had
done what in fact amoucted to a recognition of his
commission.

Alter much difficulty, Mr. Townsend consented to submit ;
the Registrar recorded his submission and his Lordship declared
the matter should be one of the kit be would dispose of after his
return from the country.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS.

ST. PAUL'S.
There is at last a hope that this magnificent edifice,
the second in grandeur in the whole world, may be
rescued from the comparative obscurity in which it has
hitherto been kept by its situation. Cooped up on all'
sides by buildings placed without the slightest regard
• to symmetry, or even regularity, there ts no possible
approach by which a view of this national temple can
be obtained. A Company, we rejoice to find, has been
formed, to throw its magnificence open to public view
as it ought to be. For this purpose it is intended, should
the plan succeed, an we sincerely hope it will, to open
three grand streets ; one commencing at the bank of the
rivet, and terminating sit the southern entrance; the
other from the north entrance, cutting through Pater-
• - •nister-rovi and Newgate-street, in a northern direction:
• and the third from the western entrance, in a direct line
to Bridge-street.
• TEMPLE BAB.
A plan has recently been submitted to the Paving
Board of the parish of St. Clement Danes, for the ins-
'
prooement of the neighbourhood of Temple Bar, by
pulling clown a vast mass of old buildings, situated
between the Strand and Carey-street, and erecting a
• fine street of buildings, fire proof, for chambers for
professional Gentlemen. The projector, it seems, (Mr.
Burton, the architect,) has had this object in contem-
plation upwards of thirty years ; and indeed it is a little
wonderful, that so large a space of valuable ground
should have been allowed to remain so meanly occupied
• for so long a period. The city of London once had
the subject under consideration, and subsequently the
parish -of St. Clement Danes; but both abandoned in
The present spirited projector, it is hoped, will fint.
sufficient encouragement to perfect his plans; and if, id
addition to this new street, the London Law Institutiau
should erect their new building (the subscription for
which is in great progress) on a contiguous spot, the
whole of a disteputakk neighbourhood may be changed
from a place of wretchedness--the resort of the wont,
most abandoned, and most pitiable of society, to a use
ful, connecting. and elegant thoroughfare, honourable
the projectors, and ornamental to the Metropolis.
Lim piswiaTisebstildiug of the Law institution is to comptise a
it6/4 'large room or hall, in the nature of an exchange, a
„ library, coffeehouse, and various suites of apartments
la, the general accommodation of all Gentlemen con-
t.czted with the'profession.—Literary Chronicle.

£dST IND!4 3Alpihilva,

. .
Yesterday a Court of Directors was-Ilea at the East .India Holes.
when thelbflowing drips were tab= np, and this stationed, vit.
nCastle Handy. Captain If. A. Drummond; and Marquis of
anny .
Captain J. S. IL Fraser, foi Madras and China. •
New Ship, Captain John Blies; and New Ship, Captain IL 11..
Da:, for Bombay and Chios (early).
Thomas Coutoi Captain A. Christie; and Duchess of Athol;
Captain R. M. Daniell, for Bombay and China. •
New Ship, Captain Charles Steward, for St. Helena, Bombay;
and China.
Marquis Camden, Captain G. B. Fox, for St. Helena, Prhitii.of
Wales Island, Singapore, and China.
Berwickshire, Captain J. Shepherd; and Thames, Captain W.
Haviside, for Bengal and China (early).
Earl of Balcarras, Captain P. Cameron ; Sir David Scott, Cap-
tarn W. Banter; Macqueen, Captain J. Walker; Dunira, Captain
M. Hamilton; Lady Melville, Captain R. Clifford ; and New Ship,
Captain T. W. Barrow. for Bengal and China.
William Fairlie, Captain T. Blair; Orwell, Captain W. E. Far.'
rer ; London. Captain J. B. Sotheby; and Canning, Captain B.
Broughton, for China direct.

SUMMER ASSIZISS.
LANCASTER, AUGUST 22.
MANSLAUGHTER.
Robert Nutta was indicted for killing and slaying
William Lupton;. the prisoner was tried upon the
Corona's Inquisition ; the Grand Jury
.having. thrown
out the bill preferred'against him. •
Mr. STAMM stated, that fllis was a case of a very
peculiar nature, and called for their most serious atten-
tion. It would be proved to them, that the prisoner at
the bar had administered poison to the deceased. It
would be for them to consider the circumstances, and
with what motives it was so adrninisteled. They would
weigh all the facia of the case, in order to decide
whelier the deleterious drug was administered for the
purpose of producing a beneficial and salutary effect;
or for other more dangerous purposes ? In the one case
they must find the p. ironer guilty of murder; in the
other, it would amount only to manslaughter. He
hoped that this trial would prove a salutary warning iv,
those individuals who tampered with the lives of their
fellow-creatures without possessing the sligh.cst know-
ledge of medicine.
William Lupton, a boy of six years old, sori of the
deceased, was called and examined as to his knowledge
of the obligations of an oath. He having been found
to understand it perfectly, he was examined, and went
on to state that he remembered when his father died ;
he died on a Sunday; he went to bed about eight
o'clock on the evening before ; Nuttall was in the house
on that evening. Witness was then in Led in a room
on the same floor with his father ; he could clearly see
what was passing in his father's room; he saw Nuttull
holding a paper of pills in his hand ; the paper also
contained seine white ptividers • he did not hear the
prisoner say anything to his alter. On the following,
morning his father mixed one of the powders in a cup
and took it. There were pills, and arsenic mixed up in
the cup; his father did not take tbe-pills.
Cross•examined : He knew it to be arsenic, because
his mother told him so.
John Howett said, he saw the prisoner at Coke
Fair on the Bth of March ; he told witness .thati.upton
was very 111, and troubled with worms, and that it he
cured him, he was to have fif een shillings for the job.
He called upon witness in about a week; and asked
him if he had not got some
_pills from John Blakey for
the worms? Witntss said' he• had. Prisoner, upon
looking upon them, said he could make pills, like them.
Ile did not say why be wished to look at the pills.
Two druggists deposed, that a day or two before thel
death of the deceased, the prisoner bought two penny-
worth of white mercury, which he was told was poison,
and which he desired to have wrapt up in three
separate papers; be got in another paper two penny-
worth of jalap.
Nancy Brown and Sarah Lupton were called. They
proved that the prisoner and the deceased were seen
together on the night in question, and that the deceased
had taken the powders which-the prisoner bad brought
him; that he became violently ill iu consequence of
taking them, and that he died the-following day.
Mr. Petty, a surgeon, said he opened the body ; he
found in the stomach a quantity of brown liquid,
weighing nearly a pound and a hall'; the coats of the
stomach were much injured by it. • Another surgeon
had analysed the liquid, and had discovered a quantity
of arsenic in it.. The stomach was in a situation which
indicated the reception of mineral or vegetable poison.
Dr. Lester was called, but did not appear.
Mr. Justice BMW, in summing up, dwelt upon the very tender
age of the witness upon whose testimony the case rested.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty.
Mr. Justice BATLEY told the prisoner he had had a very Nar-
row escape, and cautioned him against meddling with medicine
in future, The prisoner said he would take his Lordship's advice,
and was discharged. •
CHANG' OT VIOLATION.
George Garnett Thompson was indicted for having
assaulted Mary Teasdall, at Bolton-by-the-Hind, with
intent to violate her person. The witness deposed to
the prisoner having attempted to commit the offence
charged, but, upon her cross-examination, it appeared
that she had lived in the same service with the prisoner,
who was a married man, and who repeatedly attempted
to take libertiei with her.
Mr. Jude. Basun stopped the cis., and asked, If after such
liberties having hem totes. the Cassel chewed it right to pro-
ceed? The Counsel did not wish to go -further ; and the prisoner
was Acquitted.

FATAL At:comm.—Tuesday last, Enw. Gosmoo,
Esq. of No. 2, Brunswick-square, was amusing himself
by gathering mulberries from a tree, in the orchard of
his country residence, attended by his footman, when
the branch on which Mr.G. was standing, gave way,
and the unfortunate Gentleman was precipitated to the
'ground, where he lay apparently lifeless ; and on the
footman raising him up, he found that his right leg
eras dreadfully fractured. Surgical aid was promptly
called in, but a mortification instantly ensued, and
terminated his eistence last night. The unfortunate
Gentleman has lift a wife and family to deplore his loss,
lIRLIAST, AUGUST 20.—Arrived in our harbour on
Sunday, the Swedish ship Tetterhed (or Bravery), of
74 guns, from Carlscrona ; she encountered the heavy
(gale of Saturday, off Lough Swilly, and being found
leaky, bore up fk r this port. Sunday, whibt a boat be-
longing to his Majesty's ship NIMROD, now lying in
Beltast Lough, was proceeding towards the Swedish
ship of war, Tetterhed, 74 guns, she was upset in a
(squall. She had on board Lieutenant Evaasnn, a
Midshipman, and six seamen. We regret to add, that
IMr. EVERARD, and three seamen, were drowned. The
Midshipman, and the other three seamen, were picked
.up; much exhausted. The names of the seamen who are
lost are Toon, BOYD, and HINDIIRSOS. Mr. ETZR-
*RDS loss is. deeply deplored by his brother Officers.
Tke. *Engineer employed by the Canterbury and
Sandwich Navigatinaeneapany, is now engaged in nabs oat the
works kW the.isawliarboor from Sandwich to the sea.