Star.
London, England, 1824-08-25 00:00:00

TIDE EARL OF FIFE'S CA USE.

Tt will be recollected that this cause, so highly important in re.
gard to the law of Scotland, relative to the execution of deeds and
instruments, by a person said to be labouring umilr defect of vision
at the time, and equally important to the present in of Firc, the
one party, and the Trustees of the late Rail, his Lordship', uncle,
the other party, the sum at issue, depending on the decision to he
ultimately pronounced, being upwards of 20,0001. a year, was heard
at great letepth in the !louse of Lords, and 'after ths nto.,t able and
ingenious okservations by the !Alto CNA/MELLOR at d Lord Rome.
DALE, ou tke subject of hestroments, the Court of Session in Scot.
land were directed to send an issue to a Jury to try whether
deeds of trust, dispo4tion, and entail, of the 7th of October, inns,
sought to be reduced, being in law probative instruments• eer,
or either of :hem was net, the deeds or deed of the deceased .4,0
-F.art of Fits; and whether the deed of alteration of the I.'ol of
Ndvern er iBoB, sought to be reduced, being in law a probat.,,
instrument,' /ai-tieillteldeed of the Harbor Flea. It i, t.nders-,n,
that this important trial will 9.4 place io the Jus y rr,in
burgh, on the 22d Novembrr neat.

The Marquis of BATH is entertaining a distinglli,be,;
party of visilOrs at his seat,lLong Leit. Wilts.
GEORGE BYNG, Esq. M. Y.Neatertained Sir GLoino..
WA/WINNER,. Bart. and altrge party at dinner on Moi,day, !. 5
seat, Wrotham Park; Middlesex.

Sir THOMAS RAEFLES and family have arrived at
.Plymouth, in the ;11artrierarm Boncoolen.' The Marirrtr sa!•
from Fort Marltiorough on• the 10th April, and from St.
on the 3d July. - 6ptath YOUNG, and the Officer s and crew of
late ship Fame; liave,alko arrived in the same vessel..
Mr. HURTADO,. the Colombian Minister, left town
yesterday for Paris, accompanied by his family. •
General SAN :AIA WM has arrived at Duff House, ca
a visit to the Earl of
A Noble Dpke has tied himself up against cart!
playing. " Per fifteen yeail,"-•lays his Grace," I have seen the
sun rise, whenever it has hew risible !"
LONDON Doottao—A correspondent informs cis, th,lt
the feed of the cats at the London pocks costs annually five himare.l
pounds; and that there are thirty.six gAllons of wine used ever,
'day in the mere matter of tasting.—Pr4tligious! •
Wednesday, Lord Viscount DONCANNON, eldest son
of, the Earl of Bitssosounit, arrived at Besbormigh 'louse fr6:a
England. On the following night the people of P;lltown and the
surrounding country testified their joy at his Lordship's arriv.i
among them by bonfires and filuminitions.
IlAs-rixo, A us-iusr 25.—The Earl of LIVORPOOL lias
recently honourea us with a visit, and on Saturday evening Sir
Gone rut v WESS.TER arrived, about ten o'clock, in his yacht.
arrivals here are very numerous. Good houses are readily ensraz..e,
and accommodation is nut obtained without some difficulty.
The Loup CoANcei.Loit has given iudgmeitt aga;nst
the right of publishing the private letters of Lord Brune: a col.-
tdderable sum was given by the bookseller sfor the copyright of them.
The Holyhead Triumphal Arch, in honour a hi,
Maaassv's visit to Wales, was publicly opened on the 6th instant,
by the Marquis of Avotascs, the Committee of Management, and
severs) hundred persons who had purposely assembled in honour of
the occasion:.
The Lord DE CLIFFORD, and Captain RUSSELL, of
the Navy, who has lately married his Lordship's niece, have been
at Kinsale for the last fortnight.
Canterbury race week, notwithstanding the unfavour-
ableness of the weather, passed off remarkably well, the company
being very numerous, and of the greatest respectability. The Balls
and Ordinaries were well attended, and have in part resumed their
former standard of life and gaiety. The Officers of the 17th Lan-
cers contributed much to the spirit and gaiety of the week, and af-
forded additional sport, by liberally forming a Garrison Plate. The
Theatre attracted its votaries, and was generally well attended.
A woman named Pearce, committed on a charge of
passing counterfeit money, escaped out of a room in
Woolwich workhouse on Sunday night. She had been
committed by the Magistrates of Woolwich on the above
charge, and previous to her being sent to jail, she was
locked up in a room in the parish workhouse, and de.
prived of all her clothes, except her chemise, in case of
an attempt to escape. In the course of Tuesday night,
she, however; contrived to get Out of herconfinement by
dropping fiom the window of the room in which she
was shut up, to the ground, a height of nearly thirty
Feet. She had not gained her libel ty in the usual way,
by tying the bedclothes together, but it appears had
jumped out of the window. She has nit, been heard ofsince.
This morning, as two of the MOil:coaches were pro-
ceeding down Long-acre to Millban.k-street,'Westmin-
ster, to be cleaned, a fine boy, about nine years of age,
got upon the pole of the hindmost to ride/, and on
coming opposite King-street, he fell off, .whin the Wheels
passing over both his thighs, they were broken. He
was conveyed to.the Middlesex Hospital.
Sunday se'nnight a young lad, an apprentice to a
plasterer, in Perth, 'hag his nose bitten off by one of
the mail coach horses.. The Taliacotic art of aoeigh-
bouring surgeon was.put in reqiiisition, and the tktached
member was restored to its proper. situation. The ope-
ration, however; had to be performed twice ere the plas-
terer was fully. satisfied of the perpendicularity of the
index of his 'COuntenince.

EDINSUROM ThlßATßlL—Thursday night, Miss TREE
had her benefit, when the Opera of Native Laid, with
the entertainment of anti, were performed. The house
overflowed- in every cart, and Miss -TREE performed
and sang with exquisite feeling and effect. She was
encored in. the favourite air of 4 My "leant is salt .for
somebody," ge Rest, Warrior, rest," which was given in
her finest style, and several other airs.. Mr. SINCLAIR
and MISS-HALLANDR lent their effective aid, and the
whole went off with great eclat. Miss HALLANDS also
lead an excellent house last night, and was encored in
two of her songs, • •
-. Wednesday, during. the representation of the last act
of Macbeth, in the Cot k Theatre; an accident occurred,
which for a moment.excited a very general alarm in
the House. Mrs. DALY, who-played Lady. Macbeth, in
the. scene with the Phyilciairl unfortunately came near
to a candle, which was placed on' a tattle at the left side
-of the stage, when .the flame caught the light drapery
which she wore, and in a moment it appeared in a
blaze. Some Gentlemen leaped froth the baxes-on the
stage, and the performers who were on the boards
ran .
to her assistance; but before they had reached her, Mrs.
DALY herself contrived, with wonderful presence of
mind, to extinguish the Rune, without having sustained
any material injury. The • Play--then proceeded, the
actress having immediatelryicovered her composure.
Mr. MACREADY was Macbeth.
It is really somewhat surprising; frurn the.numeruns
examples the public have constantly before tietni,
that persons are still found liroli‘h enough to velitwe
into a fair—into the very nest of thieves and Not
pockets with valuable .property, in their possessmi.
Yesterday, a respectable farmer, of the name of Wood,
from the Weald of Kent, was4thstled and robbed of his
watch and pocket-book, by a gang of five pickpoclets,
close to the Rosemary Branch, at Peckham.—On
vering his loss, he raved and tore his hair like a madman,
and it was a long time before he could be appeased so as
to explain the nature of his loss. The pocket-book con-
tained notes and cash to the amount of more than 2001.
So daring and systematic were the marauders, that many a per.en
with well-lined pockets had scarcely entered he scene of mirth .1
Melancholy, fun and fraud, when they were so completely strippeJ,
as not to have the wherewith to buy a stale oyster or a fried sausage
—for as to a pound of gingerbread nuts that was quite out of the
question. Several depredations were committed in the evening, and
a young woman living in Surrey-square, had her thigh much cut by
some sharp instrument. Two of the pickpockets were taken eau
custody, but rescued by their companions.