Star.
London, England, 1824-01-28 00:00:00

STOCK-JOBEING.—RAWLINGc V. HALL.

This was action to recover the amount or a bill of
exchange, accepted by the .Iclendant. The defence set
up on the trial was, that the bill was vitiated by the
corrupt and illegal nature of the transaction out of
which it arose, viz. the settling the difference of an ac-
count in certain time-bargains in the public funds.—
The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sarjeant VAUGIIAN now moved for a Rule to
shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside and
a nonsuit entered. The grounds of his motion were,
the illegality of the original transaction, and also, that
one of the witnesses on the trial (the braker employed

in the transaction) had refused to answer certain- ques-
tions which were put to him, or to produce his book.
The Learned Serjeant referred to and relied upon Sir
J. Barnard's Act (the Stock•jobbing Act), and the 46th
Geo. HI. cap. 47, in both of which it was declared, that
a witness under such circumstances could not refuse to
answer the questions put to him, even though he should
be exposed to a civil suit in consequence of his answers ;
that he would only do so when there was danger of ex-
posing himself thereby to penalty and forfeiture.
The Lord Chief Justice GIFFORD said he considered
the point a very nice one, and without giving any deci-
sion on the construction of the Acts referred to, would
grant a Rule to shew eause.—Rule granted.

NEW STRELITZ, JANUARY 12.—Yesterday, at nine
o'clock, to the great joy of the GRAND Duce, the Court, and the
whole Country, her Royal Highness the GRAND DUt.HESS was srfely
delivered of a Prince, who, with the august mother, is as well as
can be desired.
Yesterday letters were received in London from the
Queen of WURTEMBERG, addressed to most of the Royal Family,&c.
His Grace the Archbishop of DUBLIN entertained his
Excellency the Loao LIEUTKNANT and a numerous party at dinner,
on Friday last.
Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of ILssrturom
gave a grand ban and supper at Ilamilton Palace, on Wednesday
the 14th instant. The gaieties of the evening commenced with a
children's ball, where the young Marquis of DouorAs and his beau-
tiful sister, Lady Susan IlAsiti.rus. appeared. The dancing was
kept up with spirit till a late hour. The following were among the
number present, viz.—The Earl of Aboyne, Earl aud Countess of
Dunmore, Lord and Lady Belhaven, Lady Mary Ross :Ind Miss
Ross, Lord Eincastle, Lerd A. Hamilton, Sir Willimt Elliot, Bart.
Sir William and Lady Maxwell, Sir Charles M. Lockhart, 13irt.
Sir Charles Ross, Bart. Hon. Charles Murray, Major D'Este, C).•
10110 Oswald, Mr. Kith, Mr. and Lady Eleanor Campbell, and
Misses Campbell, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Hamilton, &c. &c. besides the
principal fbanilies in the neighbourhood.
Extract of a letter dated Copenhagen, January 13
41 The private affairs of the late Minister Rosencrantz
have been left in a state of great derangement, in con-
sequence of which the King has granted a pension of
2,000 dollars to his widow. Public opinion does not
run very highly in favour of the three new Ministers of
State, as there is no man of energy among them, with
the exception of Count Moltke, who is, however, sub-
ject to a temporary distraction, which sometimes inca-
pacitates him for business for several days together. M.
Schestadt would be more fit for any other post than that
of Minister ; and M. Mailing is an old good-natured
man, who willingly agrees to anything that may he
proposed, and who has probably only received this dis-
tingaished honour as a compliment to him at the clo,e
of his political career."
The death of the Spanish Prime Minister M. de Casa
Immo was accelerated, if not wholly occasioned, by a
calamity of a domestic nature—the loss of an only son,
who was lately killed in a duel. Tire influence of this
Minister was greatly counteracted by that of the Clergy,
who regarded him as a person too mach inclined to the
doctrines of the Liberal School. This opposition, how-
ever, was not certainly of so violent and har.v.siag a
nature as to break the health of the Minister ; but he
sank under the affliction abovementioned.
Letters from Brody state, that Lord STRANGFORD,
after receiving dispatches from Malta, intimated to the
Divan the measures taken by the English Government
against Tunis, adding, that this wcerld not affect the
good understanding between England and Turkey. It
is added, that the SULTAN has s.mt orders to Tunis to
comply with the demands of England, and to release
the Greek slaves forcibly taken from the English ship,
and deliver them to the Engli.ll Consul. It is, there-
fOre, believed at Constantinople, that the good under-
standing between England and Tunis w ill soon be re-
stored.—Brussels Paper.
According to recent accounts from Wurtzburg, the
number of persons arrested as making part of the hand
of robbers lately discovered, has become so numerous
that the prisons of Amberg and Zalzbach are not suffi-
cient to lodge them separately. Measures have, there•
fore, been taken to fit up 13 chambers in the Ca,tle of
Rotenburg, to receive the same number of prisoners,
who will be removed from Amberg. More members
of this band are arrested daily.
Private letters from the Lie of France, dated last
May, give a very favourable account of that
They state it to be the tr,a est place in that par t of the
world—two French operas being performed every week,
and assemblies and visiting parties filling up tine re•
mainder of the time. I'revisUins, For ever, repre-
sented as being very dear. Ships entering the port were
compelled to submit to examination by the su:-gcon of
the place, and to perform quarantine, which wits tery
strictly exacted on account of the ;lulu° morbus, which
having been brought there some. time back, had carried
off great nunibet.: et the iahauitant.s.