Star.
London, England, 1831-09-01 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY.—( us DAY.)

The LORD CII 4/4 CELLOR sat this morning, and
delivered judgment in several Appeal cases. After
which, his Lordship enquired if any Counsel had
any thing to move ? on being answered in the
negative, his Lordship, at great length, addressed
the bar. He went into a detail of the business
that had been transacted since he presided over the
Court. Since he had taken the Great Seal
120 Appeals bad been entered, all of which,
with the exception of one, had been heard and
decided. All motions had been heard, and every
petition presented had been answered. His Lord-
ship then added that ho contemplated an ar-
rangement, by which he should be able to
hear the business set down before the Vice-
Chancellor; and he hoped, at no distant period,
that that branch of the Court would be
abolished altogether. The present Master of
the Rolls, and Sir Samuel Romilly, stated in
Parliament, that the creation of that court would
be followed with inconvenience, expense, and de-
, lay, and the result had fully corroborated the truth
of their opinion ; for out of 108 decisions of
his Hononr,64 had been appealed against. His Lord-
ship concluded by stating, that in all cases en-
tered for the Vice-Chancellor's Court, involving
points of doubt and difficulty, be should order to
be removed into his Court, and on the hearing
of which he should obtain the assistance of
the Vice-Chancellor and the Master of the
Rolls. His Lordship should sit every Saturday'
morning, at nine o'clock, to hear pressing motions
and motions by consent; and every other day in
the week in the House of Lords, to hear appeals.
His Lordship again thanked the Gentlemen of the
Bar for their kind attention, and retired.

This day the usual weekly despatches from our
Ambassadors at Paris, Belgium, and the Hague,
were received at the Foreign Office, in Downing-
street.

Some miserable intrigues are said to have been
afoot among the rump of the PITT faction in the
City of London ; and persons, wholly ignorant of
the temper and feelings of the Livery of London,
have been weak enough to insinuate, that some-
thing might be gained to their rotten cause by a
Common-Hall. None of these parties would, how-
ever, have ventured to shew their faces on the hust-
ings; and as to their voices, they would be drowned
in a roar as deafening as the falls of Niagara.
We have received letters from Sydney down to
the middle of April, and it appears that discontent
at that place has arrived at the highest pitch,
owing to the extravagance and profusion of pa-
tronage, and the partiality exemplified in the adju-
dication of lands. No subject presses more urgently
for the interference of Parliament.

The " Lord of the Isles" has, with his family,
been residing for the last two months at Annadale Canle,
the family mansion, in Skye, where he will remain till Oc-
tober. Since his accession to the property, Lord *Donald
has taken a warm interest in the condition of his people, and
during his present sojourn, has, we understand, visited the
whole of his tenantry in Skye and North Ole.

On Saturday morning about ten o'clock, the
neighbourhood of Bonham was greatly alarmed by the
cries of fin. In a few minutes it was discovered to he a
large bans filled with wheat and oats, belonging to Mr.
Bellingham. Every exertion vu made to extinguish the
Mimes, but in vain. Mr. B. had only finished harvest the
night preceding • and a waggon loaded with oats was placed
in the barn, which, with a hog, were totally consumed. It
is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.—Brighton
Guardian.
JOINT-STOCK-COM PAN Y BOOK. -- A literary
publication is projected at Paris, to be formed of the contri-
butions of a hundred and one of the principal authors of
Paris, who have each signed a resolution, pledging
themselves to write at least two chapters each of a
book, to be called " Paris. or Manners as they are," to
be presented to M. Ladvocat, the bookseller,
testimony of their respect for him, and u a species of recom-
pense to him forthe losses which he hays ustained during the
past year. Among those who have signed this beneficent
resolution we find the names of A. de Lamartine, V. Cowin,
C. Duple, A. Villemain, Jouy, Keratry. Magendie, Ch.
Nailer, Victor Hugo, Outset, Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Clavier,
Lebrun, Tiosot' Barthelemi, Pieault-Lebrun, Casimir Dela-
vigne, Eugene Helmick, and Victor Ducange. Three or
the number, Mesas. Nodiu, de Latooche, and Amnia Pi-
, ehot, have been selected to superinted the printing of the
Joint-Stock Company" Book, and the classification of the
chapters. Neither Chateaubriend, &ranee, Scribe, or Be.
ranger, is at present in France, or doubtless their names
would be also affixed to the resolution.
The Austrian Observer of the 18th August, an-
nounces the appearance of the cholera at Rohran and
at Hollern. The first of these places is 12 leagues
from Vienna ; and, according to the Barna Elates
Gazette of 21st, the cholera was at Custrin,which is
also 12 leagues from Berlin. A private Jetties from
Frankfort, dated August 23, informs us that on the
previous day, after the arrival of a courier, the ru-
mour of the death of the Emperor Nicholas was
again spread. Private letters from St. Petetaburgh
say that the health of his Majesty was in great
danger.

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