Star.
London, England, 1822-04-19 00:00:00

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Yesterdaya meeting was held et th lbyee*.com
patois, in Holborn, preparatory to St .nend 'meet.
sng of thanhabitant Householders of tbe Pal islteser
St. Andrew, Holborn, St. Gles, and Bt. Geotve,
Bloomsbury, and Mary-la-Bonne, . on. the subsict
the Middlesex County Court. At about five o'ciock
Mr.- SAWA( 'tvaig called to the (hair,l Who stated at
some length the object for wiric. the meeting wes
cr.lled. Ile complained that the fees taken by the
Conroy Clerk were greater than he was entitled toby
Act of Parliament, and that the Juries were Apt tfa
proper description. After some desultory converse.
tion, a future general meeting was agresed upon, and
a subscription entered into to pay the expense ofit.

Tuesday se'nnight, a very respectable druggist
Sheffield, was fined in the mitigated penalty of Es;
10s. for having sold to a victualler
.a mixture of li-
quorice, ginger, and pepper—art'cles which, hoe.
ever far from being deleterious in themselves, at
Legislature has thought fit to forbid in the manuLc-
ture of malt liquor, under the heavy penalty of £5OO.
The Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry
on Courts of Justice in Ireland has been printed. It embracft
the Equity side of the Court of Exchequer, of which it dets
the duties of the several °Ricers, and their salaries and fees, with •
great minuteness, points out several defects, and suggests in.
provements. The Report, which is of great length, comprisint,
with the evidence, 362 folio pages, commences with the race a
Chief Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer, held by patent

;bee 17117 by the Marquis WIILLIMLET. The rev enio.l of this
altce was- further granted by patent, in 180 n, to Itienauto
"Viants.s.zr, Esq. for his life.. The office is a sinecure, its deli,"
imeing delegated to a deputy appointL:l by the patentee : t!.
Wary, £69.1 ts. 2d. ; gross amount of fees, £4532. 10s.
diebbnements, £7BB. 10s. Id. ; net income, 43813. I is. td.—
Deputy Chief Rtraembrancer:—salary r o e ; gross amount of
fees, £3740; disbursements, £550; net income, £ZI9O.

The present number of Roman , Catholic Peers is
eight English, nine Irish, and two Scotch—in all 19.
CATHOLIC QUESTION.—The office of sexton for the
parish of Islington was some years since c nferred by
the parishioners on the destitute widow of a 0. an who
held the office at the time of his death The number
of burials in that populous parish obliged tie poor
woman to retain in her employment several operative
delvers ; and being smitten by the personal charm-,
or more probably, by the frugal and indus; rious habit,
of one of these gravediggers, she lately conttacted
with him a lawful and public matrimonial alliance.
Unfortunately, this second husband and joint partner
in the office of sexton, had been brought up in the
comnfunion of the Church of Rome ; and that cir-
cumstance soon becoming known, some of the pa-
rishioners conceived that their chances of a happy re-
surrection would be much diminished if their graves
should be dug, and their Protestant bodies ea.-thei
over, by the foul hands of the unconscious Papist!—
Prejudice and bigotry were forthwith called into
zealous activity : a parish vestry was convened : an
at its meeting, on Monday last, the poor woman and
her newly made husband were formally dismissed
from the office of sexton, and their successor enj, fined
to ascertain the creed of any labourer whom he migitt
find occasion to call to his assistance, lest the soil of
the church-yard should be again polluted by the spade
of a Catholie!!

Hodie mini; cras circumstance of a ve7v
extraordinary nature •lately occurred in Pembroke-
shire. DANIEL EVANS, of Llannwthan, near
guard, impelled by a herrn:de:it Nsish of provi•ling
coffin for the interment of his wife (who was the:i con-
sidered dangerously ill, but is now in a fair way of
recovery), went to the above town for that purpose;
but, so narrow and imperfect is human foresight, that,
after having completed the bargain, he became i::-
toxicated, returned home that evening, and at ten
o'clock the following morning, he himself stood is
need of the same article which was kindly intenJa
for his beloved spouse.
Thursday. se'nnight, one of •the preventive wator-
guards, of the name of Kearns, belonging to the
Clogher station, went into Mr. Martin's public-house,
at Laurence's-gate, when, after drinking a small
quantity of spirits, he•betathe quite unruly; he drew
a small swords *llO he flourished through the house,
and. slightly wounded Mr. Martin's servant-woman :
a decent, industrious old man, named Campbell, by
trade a carpenter, and well known in this town, who
was present, entreated in the most conciliating man-
ner that Kearns would put up his sword, when the
ruffian made three stabs at the unfortunate man, one
of which entered the left breast and perforated the
lungs ; and he now lies in a most precarious state,
attended by two Medical. Gentlemen. The fellow
was immediately secured, and upon the necessary in-
formations being sworn before the Mayor, he was
fully committed to take his trial for the offence.—
Drogheda Journal.

B I RTH S.
April 9, at Edinburgh, the Lady of Captain Hint, of a
daughter.
April 17, the Lady of John Walter, Eaq. of a eon.