Star.
London, England, 1824-10-30 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 29.

William Clifford, who has been in prison for the last
three months, for having refused to enter into his own
recngnisances to keep the peace, was brought up, and,
having declared his consent to comply with the order
of the Court, was discharged.
sEAFOIID V. COBBETT.
This was an appeal against a convic inn of Mr. Min.
shill], on an in:Carnation of Mr. Cobbett, jun. again-t
the tell-keeper of Queen's Elm-gate, for taking 41.1.
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stead of Bd. for a market cart, on the 1 October.
1823. The information was laid on the 13th Se,.teru-
ber, Inc and Mr. Minshull convicted the tall-keeper
in 51. penalty.
W. ADOLPHUS, Mr. BOLLAND, and Mr. Law, sup-.
ported the appeal, on the ground that the Magistrate
.convicted on a section of the old'Act 53d Geo. 111. an
not on the new Act 4th Geo. IV. which they contended
was wrong.
Mr. Cobbett, jun. submitted that the conviction:
should stand, because the Act of Parliament had, in
both cases, exempted market-carts.
The CHAJRMAN had no doubt that Mr. CAsbett.
would be right if the old Act had not been repealed ;.
but that being the case, and the conviction being framed
on the old, while the penalty was granted on the new,
the conviction must be quashed.
Appeal allowed.—The only point on which this case hinged, was
the words one Act being demand and take, and in the other
only take.

According to the calculations of astronomers, the
splendid cornet, commonly called Dr. HALLEY'S comet.
will return to astonish the world by its splendour, in
about ten ) cars. Dr. FonsTeit estimates its 'carol
alyart January or February, 1833.
At Bristol Quarter Sessions, James Rutherford, Joh tts
Jenkins. James Leslie, and 'Valliant Hale, a well-km,wn.
gang of thieves, mere convicted of robbing Miss Eliza,
Louisa ()Tonnes, in Tyndal's Park, on the 28th ot.
September, and were sentenced to be transported for
life. On sentence being pronounced, Rutherford asked
if the witnesses, who, he said, had all perjured them-
selves, were to have their ears cut off ? And as the'.
prisoners left the bar, they gave three cheers!
SAVINGS BANKS.---All article has appeared in set.;
veral Papers on the subject of. these invaluable Institu-
tions, which is calculated to mislead the depositors, and
to create groundless misapprehension and alarm. It is
stated that persons having funds in 140 re than one
Savings 'link after the 20th November, will forfeit the
whole, and an extract of a clause in the Act of PZelia-
ment is given in corroboration. This extract IS only a
part of the clause of the Act, and therefore gives an
erroneous impression. The Act alluded to is the sth of
Geo. -VII, cap. 62, passed nit the 17th of dater last, to
have effect atter the 20:h of Nov,:mber next. 'rile clauses
of that Act only oblige persons, on making their first
deposit after the 20th November, to declare that they-
have no other deposits in any other Savings Banks, anti
if such declaration shall be untrue, the deposits iif such
persons shall in that case, and IN THAT CASE ONLY, be
forfeited. Ily another clause in the same Act, let sons
who may have deposits in more Savings Banks than one,
are authorised to transfer the whole into one Savings
Banks, in order that the limitation to the amount of
future deposits may be enforced, which otherwise could
not be done.
Gibbon's History of the beeline and Fall e. the Ro •
mean Empire, was originally published in quarto, and as
the volornes appeared singly, GIIIBON used to take
them to the puke of CU*SEELAND. Cot:veyiog the
,third volume to him one day, elated ith pi ide at the
delightfnl office, and imagining as he went, what
;handsome things the Doke would say to hint, what a
mortification it must have been to the bistotian, when'
the Duke, in his usual rough manner, accosted him with,
g. What ? ; another d—d big square book, ell !"
SPLCINIESS Or LEGAL LIBELS.—If a man says of
Counsellor of Law " thou art a daffadowndilly," an
action lies. So adjudged its Sosccatio, and agreed per
total?: curium.-1 Yin. Ab. 4.15. "He hath no more
law than Mr. C.'s bull ;" these words being spoken of
an Attorney, the Court inclined that they were action-
able, and that the plaintiff should have j udgment, though
it was objected that the plaintiff had not declared that
C. had a bull.—Sidertin, 327, pl. 8. Pasch. 19. Car. H.
Baker v. Morfue. The Chief Justice was of opinion
that if C. had no bull the scandal was the greater. And
it was pronounced per estrum in the same case, that to
say of a lawyer that " he has to more law than a
goo e," has been adjudged actionable.—Sid. 127, pl.B.
There is a queere added, as to the saying, " He !lath no
more law than the man in the Moon" (ib. 2 Kib. 209);
the-law, doubtless, contemplating the. possibility of there
being a man, in the moon, and his beng a good lawyer.
I.nreasoor., Ocz, g7,—Yesterday, between twelve and one o'clock,
a most violent storm of wind and rain was experienced in this'
town. The wind blew from the West, and swept over the town
with tremendous violence for *nearly an hour. Two vessels were
driven' ashore near the Potteries. Otte of them is'. the Zephyr,
from Malaga, laden withlruit ; the other is a ship,,,laden with
timber, from North America. They are both seriouily damaged,
and full of water. The vessels in the Prince's Doik sr stained
wane damage, by being driven against each other by the violence.
of the storm. We have not heard of any Hies having beeti • lair
during the gale. Fortunately ft *is nearly high water *ben the
storm was at its height, and the vessels which were ptitsidc reached
the river in safety.