Star.
London, England, 1830-05-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Diligence, from Virginia, has arrived off tuakar.
Thus, May 17.—Wind W.S.W.--Arrived and sailed for the
River. the Duke of Bedford, Bowen, from Bengal.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 17.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived off the port,
the Hope, Dalrymple, from Madeira.
Pia-mourn, May 16.—Wind W.—Arrived off the port, the
Norden, Bird, from China—sailed the 24 'unary. from the Cape
11th March, and from St. Helena the 25th, bonW to Hamburgh.
Fautount, May 15.—Wind W. to N.W. light..—Arrived the
Camden packet, from Bermuda—sailed 3d ult. and from Halifax
the 25th ; and Shamrock, —, from Philadelphia.
Cowes, May 17.—Arrived the Vittoria. Andrews, from Manilla
—sailed from the Cape 11th March. and St. Helena 25th.
Power, May 16.—Arrived off the port, the Royal Saxon,
Petrie, from Bengal—sailed the 24 January, and from the Cape of
Good Hope 20th March.
LITTIZOOL, May 16.—Arrived the Arethusa, Spence, from
Barbados.; Splendid, Lee, from New Orleans; Harmony.Pringle,
from I:obile ; James Cropper, Carey, from Viirginia ; Mary and
Susan, Candler, and Nimrod, Atkins, from Charleston; William,
Ashton, from St. John's, (N. 8.); Syren, Roe, from Palermo;
Diana, Morrison, from Seville; Ellen, Coster, from Santander;
and Adventure, Adamson, from Rostock.

The Duke of CUM/MALAN D came to town yesterday
from his residence at Kew.

The Princess A trc USTA, the Duchess ofGLuUCESTEit,
and the Princess SOPHIA, took an airing :;esterday in
the Parks.

The Duke of WELLINGTON and the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER visited Sir ROBERT PEEL yesterday.
The French and Russian Ambassadors had interviews
with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Foreign-
office.

THE Jaws.—A singular omission has been made in
the report of the debate last night, in the House of
Commons, on the presentation of the Loudon Petition iu
favour of the Jews. Some of the Morning Papers omit
a speech altogether, while others report it as given by
" a MEMUER, whose Name we could not learn." That
MENDER was Mr. Ewitwr, who expressed his concur-
rence in the prayer of the petition, and observed that
there was this difference between the petitions presented
this year and the last that this year they were all on one
' side. There seemed, 0.4 far as the House could vet
judge, to be only one feeling amongst the people on *the
subject of the present bill, and that was favourable to it.
The honourable and gallant member opposite (Central
GASCOY NO thought it would be a difficult task to prove
that the admission of the Jews would promote the prie-
r.
mple of Christianity. Now he thought it would be a
'still more difficult task to show that that adraieion wte.ld
be repugnant to Christian principles.
"THE LAYS OF A WANDERER." This is a
lightful work ; a kind of charm pervades it throughout,
introduced, as it is especially, by " the Fairy Queen.'
It is a gem—a curiosity, and, like a beautiful bouquet,
fit for the ladies. There is, to be sure, " the Tippler : "
—well, the ladies will perhaps smile, and so much lose
their very proper and becoming reserve as to be excited,
I even to merriment—and why not ? Theme i 4 nothing
that we can see either offensive or disagreeable in this
piece of original gaiety more than the name ; and a work
of thie kind must not be judged of by any other than the
very favourable one which it will soon acquire. To be
serious, the work is a very complete one in every par-
ticular. There is feeling, taste, pathos, and genius, dis-
played in these compositions, and a talent which we vi ish
to see encouraged by the patrons and patronesses of
music. There are very beautiful illustrations to each
song, designed and executed by the Author.

SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET, MAT 18.
Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, sell 5.. to IS 15% Useful
Meadow Hay, slo3 Ss. to 15s. Fin. Upland Meadow' and
Rye Grass Hay. 813 13s to ite 13s. (lover Hay, generally, d!3 Os.
to 41•4 15s. Extraordinary line ditto, 43 10s. Oat Straw, is 3..
to £2 10s. Wheat Straw, £2 10s. to .02 ies. per load 030 trusses.
There was a good supplyat market.

ST. JAMES'S HAT-MARKET. Mav IS.
Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £ is. to di lOU. Useful
ditto, .22 16a. to .113 10a. Floe Upland Meadow and Rye Grass
Hay, .63 15a. to .14 15a. Clover Hay, 43 JO& to 45 Sat Oat
Straw, £2 is. to £2l4a. Wheat &raw, Ai 10s. to 42 las. per load
of 36 tresses.

NEW FARRINODON MARKET, Mew Is.
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MVLLIYS V. TOWNSEND.

This was an appeal from a decision of the Court of
Exchequer in Ireland, under the following circum-
stances :

Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, who died in
1779, without having any issue, devised his real estates
to trustees, for the use of his wife for her life, remainder
re Richard Boyle Townsend for life, remainder to his
first and other sons intail male, remainder to R. B.
Townsend in fee. with power to settle a jointure on any
wife he should marry, and to charge the estate with pro-
vision= for the younger children : the testator left his per-
ronal property to his wife, and appointed her sole execu-
trix. Richard Boyle Townsend married in 1784, having
charged the estates in question with a jointure for his
mifr, and provision for his younger children. The eldest
son of the marriage was born in 1785, and died in 1805,
ithout leaving issue. The respondent, who was the
second son, was born in 1786. In 1779 the late Lord
Ventry filed a bill in Chancery, setting forth judgments
for debts against the estates of the testator, and praying
account and payment of said debts. In 1783 a decree
was pronounced for the payment of all the debts claimed
within six months, or in default thereof, that a competent
part of the estates should be sold for that purpose. In
accordance with this decree the lands were sold in 1786
for 5,0501. and the sale was confirmed by an order
of Court. It appeared that the lands were purchased
by a friend of Lord Ventry's, who conveyed them to
his Lordship after the peachiest, had been completed. The
testator's widow died in 1809. In 1808, the respondent
filed a bill in equity, stating that the proceedings on be-
half of Lord Ventry, with respect to the sale of the es-
tates, were grounded on fraud and collusion,—that the
estates had been sold for half their value,—that the trus-
tees of the testator's will had not been made a party to
the suits in equity respecting the sale of those estates,—
and that the testator had left personal property sufficient
to discharge his debts, and praying that the sale of the es-
tates should be declared to be void as against the respon-
dent, the heir male of the testator. Lord Ventry put in
an answer, and no further proceedings were taken in the
cause until 1823, when the respondent obtained an order
to amend the original bill. Lord Ventry died in 1824,
without having answered the bill, and the respondent ex-
hibited a bill of reviver against the appellant, Lord Ven-
try's representative. After several hearings the Court
decreed, in 1827, that the decrees of 1782 and 1783,
respecting the sale of the estates, were erroneous, inas-
much as all the parties were not before the court, and as
proper accounts were not directed—that the sale of the
estates was improperly conducted, and should be set aside
as against the respondent—and that the respondent was
entitled to the rents and profits of these lands from the
period of the death of his father in 1826, on payment of
5,0501. the original purchase money.
From this decree, an appeal was made to the House
of Lords, where the case came on to be argued this day,
when Mr. PEPYS, on behalf of the appellant, contended,
that as the respondent had not been born until after the
decrees respecting the sale of the estate were pro-
nounced, he was bound thereby, as the person in whom
the first estate of inheritance was vested had been be-
fore the court ; that it was contrary to the practice
of the Court of Chancery to declare that decrees ought to
be deemed erroneous, because all proper parties were not
before the court, upon the application of persons who
were parties to the suits in which such decrees were
made, or whose interests were properly represented
therein. That there was no evidence of fraud or collu-
sion on the part of Lord Ventry which could form any
just grounds for invalidating the sale. That the re-
spondent had acquiesced in the propriety of that sale,
having adopted no proceedings to set it aside from the
year 1808, when he originally filed his bill, until 1823.
Under all the circumstances of the case, the learned
counsel submitted that the decree of the Court of Chan-
cery in Ireland should be reversed.

The further consideration of the case was then ad-
journed until Monday (this day), when Mr. O'Connell
will be heard on the same side.

MAY having been intimated by some of the
parties in this case, on Friday, that Mr. O'Connell would
take a part in the proceedings this day, an unusual num-
ber of the gentlemen of the bar attended in the house, in
expectation of hearing him, but that learned counsel did
nut appear.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (with whom was Mr.
Knight), on behalf of the respondent, .contended that
the decree of the Court below should be sustained. The
decree of 1793 was erroneous, inasmuch as the trustees of
the testator, and those of an outstanding term of years,
were not present, and the sale consequent on that
decree, could not be maintained against the respon-
dent, because his elder brother, who was entitled to
the first estate of inheritance, and who was born pre-
viously to that decree, was not made a party to the
proceedings by a supplemental bill. There were strong
grounds to infer fraud and collusion in the transac-
tion, from the fact of no previous inquiry having been
instituted respecting what portion of the estate it was
necessary to sell for the discharge of the incumbrances,
and from the excess of the purchase-money above
the debts having been paid to Lady Anne Fitzgerald, the
testator's widow, tenant for life of the estates, whereby
an inducement was held out to her to concur in the sale
of more lands than were necessary for the purposes of the
decree. The learned counsel further objected that in-
terest had been charged on the bill of costs from the time
that the decree had been pronounced, and also on the
judgment debts from the death of the testator down to the
period of the sale, all of which the testator's widow, who
had been in the receipt of the profits of the land, should
have paid, instead of it being charged on the estate at the
expense of the heir. Lord Ventry was not only vender
and purchaser, but, what was conclusive of fraud on his
part, he entered into a private agreement with Richard
Boyle Townsend, the tenant for life, to pay 6001. as an
inducement to abandon an application which had been
made to set the sole aside, whereby he was enabled to
carry his fraudulent purpose into execution in the absence
of the proper parties. The learned counsel, in conclusion,
submitted that the decree of the Court below should be
maintained, as the decrees of 1782 and 1783 were ob
tamed by a fraud on the Court.
Mr. PaPYB replied; and the LORD CHANCELLOR
said that he should consider the case before he should
give judgment.

• DUEL PREVEKTED.-At Bow-street office, yester-
day, Douglass Cooper, Esq. a Captain in the 90th
Regiment, upon the information of a Mr. Christie, was
brought up in the custody of Ledbetter, the officer,
charged with sending a challenge to Burt, Esq. to
fight a duel. The cause of the quarrel did not transpire.
• The Captain was ordered to find bail, and Ledbetter was
directed to bring Mr. Burt forward for the same purpose
as soon as possible.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MAT 17.

His HON OUR heard motions only during the day, made
chiefly by Counsel behind the bar, relative to points of
practice.

WELLESLEY V. TILE DUKE OW BEAUFORT.

Mr. ROLFE said this was an application for a reference
to the Master relative to a reduction of rents upon these
estates, and there was no objection to the order.
His HONOUR granted the motion.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 17.
Sittings in Banco.
EX-PA RTE WHA RTON.

The time of the Court was occupied during the whole
of the morning in hearing an application to set aside an
annuity of 5,0001. granted by Mr. Wharton, for his life,
in consideration of 49,0001. on the ground of irregularity
in the transaction.—Judgment deferred.

linings at Nisi Prius, before Lord TENTERDEN and Common
Juries.)
COACH ACCIDENT.
COOPER V. PAGG AND OTIIERS

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an inn-
keeper at Inglefield, in Surrey, against the defendants,l
the proprietors of the Davonport mail, to recover com-
pensation in damages for an injury sustained by the plain-1
tiff, in consequence of his gig having been upset by the
defendant's coach, on the 25th of June, 1828. The
plaintiff, on the way to London, stopped at the Bedfont
toll-gate to pay his toll, but, perceiving the mail coming
up at a rapid rate, he said he would move aside and pay
when it should have passed. He accordingly moved to
the right, but the mail wheel in passing caught the wheel
of the gig, and lifted it up, so that the plaintiff was thrown
out, and, pitching on his shoulder, had it dislocated ; and
Mr. Denman, the plaintiff's Counsel, said, that if the
plaintiff's horse had not been a very steady one the con-
sequences would have been fatal. As it was, he had been
exposed to severe suffering by the accident; had been
confined to his bed for a fortnight, and had his arm in a
sling for three months, and was obliged to expend a con-
siderable sum for medical attendance.

The keeper of the toll-gate, Mr. Furnival (a surgeon
at Egham,) and a daughter of the plaintiff, were
called to prove his case. The daughter stated that
her father had gone to Brighton for the benefit of his
health, where he used the shampoo-bath, and paid 9s.
each time.

The ATTORREY-GENLRAL, for the defendants, ob-
served, that the question here was, not whether there had
been an accident, for that was admitted ; but whether
that accident happened through any misconduct of the
servants of the defendants. The action was brought a
very long time after the accident, and the reason was,
that the plaintiff was conscious that he had no good
ground for complaint against the defendants, and had
only been induced to proceed at last by the advice of some
solicitor. The real fact was, that the accident was oc-
casioned entirely by the backing of the plaintiff's horse,
without the least fault of the defendants' servants ; and
he would prove that the plaintiff acknowledged that the
accident wits occasioned through his own fault.
Witnesses were called, who proved the case as stated
for the defendants. Verdict for the defendants.

NEWTON V. HORNET'.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to reco-
ver a sum of 211. due to him for his expenses in attend-
ing as a witness before the Committee on the East Ret-
ford Election, 1827. The defendant was the local agent
of Sir Henry Wright Wilson, one of the candidates at
the East Retford election in 1826, and it appeared that
the plaintiff had intended to give in his charge to Sir H.
Wright Wilson, but was dissuaded from it by the de-
fendant, who stated that it had been, or would be, given
in in his general account with Sir H. W. Wilson, and
that when he received tha money he would be answerable
to the plaintiff. The plaintiff refrained accordingly, but
defendant refused to pay. Verdict for the plaintiff for
Twenty-one Pounds.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAT 17.
LIBEL.CLARKSON V. LAWSON AND OTHERS.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Clark-
son, a Proctor of Doctors' Commons, against the defen-
dants, the proprietors of the Times newspaper, to recover
from them a compensation in damages for the injury he
had sustained in consequence of the publication of a li-
bellous article in the Times newspaper, calculated to in-
jure him in his business of a Proctor. The libel in
question stated, that the plaintiff had been three times
suspended by Sir John Nichol, the judge of the court,
in which the plaintiff practised as a proctor, for extortion.
The defendants had pleaded, as a justification, that the
plaintiff had been suspended once, but omitted to say
that was for extortion, or what was the cause of his sus-
pension.

Mr. Sergeant CROSS (the plaintiff having demurred
to the defendants' plea,) now appeared on the part of the
plaintiff, to argue the demurrer, and he contended that
the plea was bad. It was no justification of the libel for
the defendants, who had charged the plaintiff with hav-
ing been suspended thrice for extorting money, to plead
that he had been once suspended, for no offence at all ;
and, therefore, the plea must be struck out as insuffi-
cient.

The Court called upon the counsel on the part of the
defendants to reply to the argument of Mr. Sergeant
Cross ; and, on being informed that Mr. Sergeant
Wilde was engaged for the defendants, but was unavoid-
ably absent till Wednesday next, the case was postponed
till that day.

A certain Prince beheld in a dream three rats—the one
fat, the other lean, and the third blind. He sent for a
celebrated Legal Authority to ask the explanation of
this singular dream. " The fat rat," said he, is your
Prime Minister, the lean rat is your people, and the
blind rat, my Prince, is yourself."
" Where will a note find you, my dear ?" whispered
the pennyleas Captain K— to Madame V--, with
whom he ardently desired a tote-d-tite. " A fifty pound
note do you mean ! " replied the syren sarcastically ;
" but if I tell you, dear captain, pray where will you
find a note? " Thia was " a receipt in full " for the
poor captain; a sort of thing he is not often (say his
tailors) in the habit of suiting himself with.

A man named Solomon Solomon, who described him-
'self as a general dealer, late of Birmingham, was opposed
yesterday, in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, by several
creditors residing in Birmingham. It appeared that be-
tween July and December last the insolvent obtained
from various creditors about 1301. worth of property ; a
portion of it he said he sold to a person named Twisden
for 921. 4s. 6d. and took his note for payment. The
remainder he said he sold to several other persons.
Twisden's note he gave up to the Court, but when Twis-
den attended by direction of the Court, he declared that
Ihe had not accepted it for the insolvent, but for the ac-
commodation of another person named Solomon Solo-
'mons, and received a " bottle of wine and a steak" for
his trouble. The insolvent was unable to give any fur-
ther account of the disposition of his 'property,—.Th
Court then sentenced him to 15 months' imprisonment.

MELANCHOLY CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.

Last night an Inquest was held at St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, in the Borough, on .the body of William Charles,
a youth between 16 and 17 years of age, whose death
was caused by the bite of a dog, which was in a rabid
state.

The Jury viewed the body of the deceased, which was
lying in the dead-house. The features were very much
distorted, and there was an expression of horror in the
countenance that was shocking to behold.
Thomas Keeves, of Salisbury-place, Lock's-fields,
Southwark, a coal-dealer, was the first witness. He
stated that the deceased was in his employ, as a porter,
in December last. On the day after Christmas Day,
which he remembered because it was " Boxing Day,"
the deceased had been out with coals, and had re-
ceived some presents from the customers. Some of
them had given him liquor, and he appeared in a state
of intoxication. When he came home he brought a
little terrier-dog with him, which he said he had picked
up in the street. He shut up the dog in a shed, in
the back yard, and in a short time afterwards the
dog growled and barked very loud, and endeavoured
to get out by gnawing the pannel of the door, in
which there was a hole. Witness told the deceased that
he could not be annoyed by the dog, and the deceased
replied that he would soon quit him. The deceased went
to the shed, and in a few minutes he came into the
house with one of his hands bleeding, and he stated that
the dog had bitten him; witness poured some warm water
into a basin, and the deceased washed his hand, after
which there appeared to be very little injury done to his
hand ; witness drove the dog with a broom handle into
the street; the dog bit at the broom handle, but witness
had no idea the dog was mad. The deceased had de-
livered some coals at the house of a customer on another
occasion, and when he came home he complained that a
dog had bitten him on the leg ; both dogs were now alive.
The Jury instructed the witness to see that both dogs
were killed.

Mrs. Owen, a married woman, said that the deceased
came into her husband's employ in February last, about
a week after be left Mr. Reeves ; on Wednesday last he
had been to the river side to deliver some coals, and
was affected by the sight of the water : when he re
turned home he complained of his head, and also of a
dreadful pain in one of his arms ; he had been very un-
well for a month, and was during that period constantly
inclined to drowsiness ; in the course of Wednesday
evening he grew worse, and at last became so outrageous
that he was obliged to be restrained, and on the follow-
ing day he was quite mad, and was sent to the hospital ;
on the Wednesday night, in a fit of delirium, he took up
a poker and tried to kill his sister.
Mr. Leete, a pupil at St. Thomas's Hospital under Dr.
Rootes, a physician of that establishment, said that the
deceased was placed under his care on Thursday, about
one o'clock in the afternoon. At that time he refused
any kind of liquid that was offered him, and at the sight
of it was much excited, and suffered severely from spurns.
Upon the least disturbance the paroxysm were dreadful.
When the paroxysms were over he became calm and
rational, and conversed in a very sensible manner. He
was asked if he had been bitten by a dog, and he replied
that he had no recollection of such a circumstance. Dr.
Rootes examined the deceased, and prescribed for him.
He observed that it was a decided case of hydrophobia.
Means were resorted to that were recommended by Dr.
Rootes.—Juror: What means were...they ?

Witness—They administered a South American re-
medy against the bite of serpents and other poisonous
animals, called Mikinia Guaco, which acted as a nar-
cotic, and appeared to relieve the deceased for a con-
siderable period. Part was injected into the bowels, and
part was poured down the deceased's throat ; a short
time before he died, he begged that he might be strapped
down to the bed, as he was afraid he should do them mis-
chief; witness went out of the room to fetch a strait
waistcoat, and during his absence the deceased leaped out
of bed, and squirted the contents of a syringe, which was
lying on the table, into the face of Mr. Benn, a gentle
man who assisted witness; and the deceased also threw
the saliva from his mouth into Mr. B.'s face. Mr. Benn
ran out of the room, and the deceased locked the door
and leaped about the room and threw everything about.
Witness got in at the window, and a strait waistcoat hav-
ing been put on the deceased, he survived for about two
hours afterwards.

Mr. Benn confirmed the evidence of the last witness,
and spoke of the appearance of the brain and other parts
lof the body of the deceased, on a post mortem examina-
tion. He was of the same opinion as last witness—that
the deceased died from the bite of a mad dog.
The Jury having obtained a pledge from the first wit-
ness that the dogs, which are still alive and apparently
well, should be destroyed, they returned a verdict that
the deceased died from the bite of a dog which was in a
rabid state.