Star.
London, England, 1825-07-12 00:00:00

NA PAL IN TELLIGE A'CE.

Ia consequence of the light and variable winds for these few
days past, there has scarcely been any arrivals or *Wings from the'
different ports.
Arrived off Cork, the Constitution, —, from New York.
Polersatotrrn, Jove 9.—M. B. Melees, EN. Naval Store-keeper
at Jamaica, is appointed Naval Store-keeper and Agent victualler
at Gibraltar, vice M. Recce, Bog. who retires.
Mr. Lunt, Eow/egs, Master, is appointed to the ROYAL Oar,
in this Harbour, and is to proceed with her, early in September,
to Bermuda, where she is to be a depot for convicts. Mr. BALL.
Mager, to the JAMCIII vice Hasrin, appointed to the
Mr. Jensen STzarr, eurgeon of the Jasres, to the Ravage. Dr.
JAMES GREGORY to the ftracoen.
The RANGER, Capt. Lord H. J. Totemic, is hourlyezpected from
Chatham. She is ordered to fit for the conveyance to Lima of
CIIAILLU Roamers, Esq. recently appointed his Majesty's Consul
General in Peru, and suite, consisting of Mr. Rieman son, Mr.
J. Patmaxia. Private Secretary, and Mr. P. De-lhaconeste, ;of
the Consulate Department.
Mr. Witztaiss (late one of the Students in the School of Naval
Architecture at this yard) is appointed Foreman of, Plymougt
Dock-yard.
Lieut. Wn.aow is appointed Adjutant of the Chatham Division
of Royal Marines, vice Surnens, deceased, and Lieut. Foes,
Adjutant of the Woolwich Division, vice MALLOCIC, promoted.
We are gratified to hear that it is the intention of their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of C.ausamoz and suite, shortly
to make a visit to this port and arsenal.
Ps.ructers, JULY 7.—Sailed the Catesttos, for Portsmouth ;
Nimble, for Mount's Bay; Magnet, for Falmouth; Borodino
transport, for the Mediterranean. Captain Bactuota. ILK. Com-
missioner of the Peruvian Mining Company, Doctor Ryas, and
several other passengers, sailed to-day for Falmouth, to embark on
board the Auriga, booed to Valparaiso. having on board a large
party of miners, smelters, refiners. and every requisite for sons-
meeting active operations in the mines.
Remain at Spldsead--Rosisze, Tamest, Jaunt, CAMILIOI4 and
Brazilian frigate Peranga.
FAutotrist, JULY 30.. Wind variable, light airs.—No arrivals
or sailing*.
Dees., Jinx S.E.—No arrivals or miller.
Lercasoot., Joie 10.--Wind N. light airs.--Artived the Julius
Cesar, Panes, from New Orleans—sailed 27th May.

PURNPIKE TRUSTS.

The Report from the Select Committee on Metro-
polis Turnpike Trusts, which has just been printed,
contains some curious information. The state of the
turnpike trusts. about London is a pretty specimen of
volunteer management. Nothing seems more admit..
ably adapted to secure good roads than to leave the
whole management of them to the persons who are
usually trustees of them; vii.—all the persons of pro-
perty and respectability along the line of the road. But
it unfortunately happens, that to the greater number of
these managers, it is much less irksome to be dragged
over an indifferent road, or to submit to an imposition
of three halfpence a day, than to attend to the business
of checking clerks, squabbling with surveyors, and
economizing with attornies ; and to many of the-rest
no road is so pleasant as the beaten path of jobbing.
Accounts seem to have been considered by some of the
Trustees, in the fulness of th .ir confidence, very useless
or noxious things. The Committee says" Many of
the accounts were found to be in a very confused state,
and the Clerkeof the Trusts utterly incapable of afford-
ing the information which the Committee requited;
and it appeared in some instances, that no regular ac-
counts bad been kept till within these few years"—that
is to say, till inquiries began to be made on the subject
by Parliament.
The Committee reports, that the amount of di income
raked is much larger than is necessary to keep the roads
in the best state of repair, and that if the funds had
been skilfully applied, and proper materials obtained
and used for the last seven years; according to the re-
commendation of the Committees of the House, who
first instituted inquiries on this subject, the roads would
have been in a much more perfect state cf repair, the
debts of the Trusts much reduced, and the tolls conse-
quently lower."
The recommendation of the Committee is to consoli-
date all the Trutt: in the county of Middlesex under
one Act, and to conduct them by one uniform system
of management. When it is known that the multi-
plicity of these Trusts create a multiplicity of needless
gates and stoppages—of needless collectors and need-
less surveyors, that it occasions the raising of money on
high, interest (often exorbitant annuity interest), and
that it prevents the procuring-of cheap arid good mate-
rials—all which is fully established, we cannot but
hope the measure will be.carried into effect. A fine
specimen of the operation of little Trusts is to be found
in four contiguous ones—the City-road, Old-street,
Bethnal-green, and Shoreditch, which cover only four
miles and a halt of road.

From all parts of the country we receive the most
cheering accounts of the prospect of the harvest. The
wheat promises a most abundant crop. The oats
look uncommonly wells The only article which may
be expected to be rather short in crop, we understand
to be the barley.
The was nothing of leading interest in the Law
Courts yesterday. In the Court of Chancery, the LORD
CHANCELLOR stated, that he was prepared to give
judgment hi one or two cases, but the parties were
not prepared. Dr. Knox, in allusion to the Tun-
bridge School case, and in reply to Mr. HEALD, com-
plained of the great expense and delay which had taken
place. but entirely acquitted the Court of occasioning
it. The LORD CHANCELLOR jocularly assured that
Gentleman, that ell delays must Originate with the
Court; and Mr. HEALD rather tartly added, that
business could not be &ripped on there as at school.
A verdict of Manslaughter has been returned against
a young man named Green, of Manchester, for mal-
treating his mother, as mentioned in the STAR of the
sth inst. He assailed his father first with the -most
bitter epithets, and then attacked and kicked his mother,
who died in consequence. The prisoner was intoxicated.
Thursday afternoon, as three children were playing
on a stack of young trees, belonging to a turner In Glasgow. the
whole mass tell upon them: two of than were got out not much
hurt. bat the third was taken out lifeless.

.3.IILING Atereti.
The nieigiers of his 140.-eg 0
yCie.40042 begE
hav-
ing found that the xioe. would. Sew .permit the ceTelira.
tioa athe anniversary of that iviertit with lay degree of
,
cortVeuience upon tne regular 171 appointed yesterday
(Or carrying into effect the pu *cite for which they on
&ally assembled, and testifying their feelings upon, the
subject to which we have alluded. Tit putsuanceofthis
resolution, the members of the OUP asicribled at the
ToWer Stairs,'oa board the Venus stearn-boit, and pro-
ceeded with a numerous company, to (reenwich, where
they were..to be 'Met by as many of that class of fisher-
men, obtaining a living ,by their exertions, as may,
under certain restnetions as to the size and diMensions,
of their vessels, wish to enter into a contest for the
prizet Which the Gentlemen of the Association hid pro-
posed. According to the stipulation's, the candidates
were to sail in their common working Peter-boats, not
one of which was *to
:Fireed in measurement 24 feet
from stem to stern. The boats were also confined to
the use of the spritsail and foresail. Upon the arrival
of the steam-packet, there were found arranged and'
numbered 22 boats, 14 of which only sailed. These, oo
the appointed signal, started from Greenwich Hospital,

" The noblest structure imaged In the wavy,
A nation's grateful tribute to the braver

But on account of the dead calm that prevailed, their
efforts to make way were almost utterly fruitless.
Daring the greater part of the day, the entire exhi-
bition re,entbled (on account of the weather) more an
exercise of patience than a trial of skill. Tnrse of the
boats, however—the Growler of Gravesend, Bother-
laid, master ; the Father's Child Forgot, Garthwaite,
of Greenwich ; and the Betsey, Flynn, of London,
drifted with the tide a little a-head of their companions ;
and when at the conclusion of the day the wind sprung
up, the contest was coy fined to these.
The boats passed each other alternately, and each was
alternately proclaimed victor by the spectators. The
breeze, however. as it increased, gave a decided supe-
riority to the Growler, and finally brought her first
under the bow of the steam-packet moored for the pur-
pose of receiving the boats as they came up. The first
prize being thus secured, the two other boats struggled
for the second; and such was the equality of sailing
between these, that almost to the last moment the su-
periority of either could not be asserted with any degree
of certainty : at length the Father's Child succeeded,
by a manoeuvre, in getting the wind of her opponent,
and rounded the steam-boat with the bowsprit of her
companion over her stern, winning the second prize by
less than her own length. The company on board the
Venus evinced the interest which they felt in this strug-
gle, by receiving the fishermen on board with loud
cheers. The poor men, who had given such a grati-
fying specimen of their skill and nautical dexterity,
' were taken on board the Venus, where, after being
hospitably entertained, they were summoned to the
state-room, where the Commodore (Mr. Nettlefold)
conferred upon them the three prises of ten, six, and
our pounds.

HIGH COUICT OF DELEGAtES.

/SHERWOOD AND OTHERS AGAINST RICII.
This was an appeal from a sentence of the Prero-
gative Court of Canterbury, in a cause originally en-
titled ,4 Rich against Mimebet," and which, it may be
remembered, arose out of a cot tarn testamentary dispo-
sition made by a Mr. William Litchfield, late of Han-
well, in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman, deceased.
In that cause, which was proceeded in after Avis Isher-
wood, widow, a lawful sister of the deceased, and others
of his kindred, by themselves, or through their assigns,
executors, &c. had intervened ; and it appeared that
Mr. Litchfield, the party deceased, died, aged upwards
of sixty-six years, on the 31st of May, 1813, a widower,
leaving behind him one illegitimate son, whom he had
carefully caused to be baptized by and under his own
names of " William Litchfield," and seized of real pro-
perty, as well as personal, to the value of between
50,0001. and 60,0001. that the deceased was a man of
very parsimonious habits, and lived in a most perm.
rious manner ; and that at the time of his death, and
for some years previously, be had cohabited with his'
female servant, by whom he had the son in question.'
On the 18th of May, 1815, the deceased executed a'
will, appointing Mr. Mouchet his sole executor, be.
queathing 8001. to the female servant, and altering and
revoking all former wills theretofore made by him.l
Probate was granted, of this will on the 22d of Jun.
following, to Mr. Mouchet ; but on the Bth cf March,'
1821, a citation issued, calling upon that Gentleman to
bring into and leave in the Registry of the'Prerogativo,
Court, such probate so grained to him and to she*
cause why the same should not be revoked and ee.
dared null and void ; and why probate should not be
granted of a former will made by the deceased, bearing
date 3d of September, 1807, to Mr. John Rich, one of
the executors therein named. This will of September,
1807, was alleged and proved to have been made in
favour of the son, and in no ict conformity with the de-
ceased's repeated declarations of so benatting him at
his death, that he would make him a Gentleman.—
It gave the bulk of the property, accordingly, to
him. In the Court below, therefore, there were
three parties—the party propounding the will of May,
1813 ; that propounding the will of September, 1807 ;1
and the intervening neat of kin, having an in-
terest in the distribution of. deceased's personal estate,
and effects, in the event of his being pronounced to
have died intestate. On the 7th July, 1824, the Judge
of the Prerogative Court, by his decree, revoked the
probate lot reedy granted to Moucher, as executor of
the will of the 18th of May, 1813 ; and pronounced for
the force and validity of the will of the 3d of Septem-
ber, 1807, with two codicils annexed, bearing date 17th
of May, 1813. This sentence of course annulled the
case of the parties not benefitted under either paper,
but interested only in the event of distribution. But
previously, another Proctor had intervened on behalf of
Mrs. Litchfield, widow of James Litchfield, and Tha
mas Mott, executors named under the will of James
Litchfield, the brother of the deceased, and a legatee
named in the will of the 16th of May, 1813, pro-
pounded in this cause; which, accordingly, the inter-
veners did not oppose, though they opposed the will of
September, 1807. From the sentence of the 7th of July,
1824, finding for the last mentioned paper,these parties
appealed to this Court; before whom there appeared,l
by their Counsel and Proctors, the appellants, the re-
spondent, and the intervener.
After a short sitting of half an hoar, their Lordships
affirmed the sentence of the Court below ; and decreed'
all costs to be paid out of the estate. Thiusentenco
carries the bulk of the estate to the son, much increased
by the accumulations of interest, &c. during has maw-
rty. We understand he is now just of age.

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VOR'Zik AMY
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The following are sotne of onr latest aiiitals i •
• Sir Ch tialtaaft, tan. and fatitily; Sir John Palling, Bark
Dr. Beattie, Dr. Clarke, Admiral Scott, Major 'l6llTlunn, Captain
Higgins, Georg* Allan, F,sq. Rev. Mr. Carty, Rev. 11,. Minnie,
Captain Magell, Rev. J. Braise, Elliott, Rig.— Hulbert,
Raj...—. Corbett, Esq. Lord•and Lady L. F. Gower and family ;
J.P. Miles, Esq.' M.P. flela&ld, Esq. Aspden, Esq.
E. Rossetti Esq. W. It. Smith, Esq. —Vivian, Esq. IL S.Clukt,
Bic Lethbridge, Drinkwater. EN. O. Nightingale;
/sq. J. Langford, lieq. r, Esq. Church, Esq. Rev.
Mr. rotticary, Mr. and Mils Met. Knoitlesi lion. Miss
Cotton, Miss Whiting, Miss &MV, Miss Denotes., Mrs. Tatnall
Nis. Turner, Mrs. Baker, Mr. Kearney, M. and Mit. Marshall,
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead, Sco.
SPO/f ;TING INTELLIGENCE.

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NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.
Stonium Nsann.Es.avaii o'CLoca.
Tice present Meeting promises to be more numerously attended
by the Nobility than is generally the case at this part of the year;
notwithstanding th'e Races are not expected to exceed three days;
as, independent of the very numerous arrivals which have already
taken place of the firm-rate sporting characters fashirmatiks, &c.
the Duke and Duchesief Cambridge ire expected le-morrow, be-
sides several foreigners of distinction.
His !Royal Highness the Duke of Fork **relied at the King'i
Palace precisely at four o'clock this afternoon, in his travelling car-
riage and four, actompanied by Mr. Greville, Master of the
Horse to his Royal Highness. Immediately after, his Grace the
Duke of Rutland and Colonel Trench artived at the Palace.
The following are amongst the other arrivals :—Their Graeae
the Duke of Richmond and Grafton; Marquise's of Exeter ins&
Tichlield ; Earls Lowther, Jersey, Sefton (Counters and family) ;
Orford, Verttlam ; Lords G. Cavendish, J. Pttsrey. Anson, Don-
wish, Kensington, F. and G. Bentloek, Foley ; Sir J. Shelley,
lien. Mr. De Roos, Hon. Captain Anson' Hon. Colonel Russell,
lion. Mr. Edwards, Hoe. Mr. Irby, Colonels Udny and Thorn-
hill, S. Wortley, 1 M.P. J. Douglas, Sal. M.P. Poynta,
Zsq. ALP. Hon. Captain Anson. frOn. Captain Roils Dun.
combe, En. Christopher Wilson, Esq. (the Father of the Tar°,
Northey, Req. R. Wyndham, Seq. Ste. 112.
His Royal Highness dined with Mr. Douglas at the Palace, as
did his Grace the Duke of Rutland, Sir JODI Shelley, Cel.Treoch,
and a select few.
At the Rooms—Doke of Granite; Lords Z. Bernina, Kensing-
ton, and Orford; Hon. Mr. Irby, How. Mr. Edwards. Hem Col.
Irby, Col. Udney, S. Wortley, Esq. and C. Wilson, Esq. •
The Marquis of Ticbfuld, How Wt. Edwards, nd Mr. Don:-
comb*, are new members of the Jockey Club.
The amerchse-groond was tolerably well attended ti.day, and
some brisk betting took place at the following odds
JILT STAIMIL
14 to 't apt Lee's filly
37 to 1 apt Mr. Wilstofs
S to 1 Opt Ld Raeter's

6 to 4 apt Goabawk
4 to 1 ags& Octavian*
11 to I apt Jerboa

3 to 1 apt Memnon 25 to 1 apt Homer
6 to 1 agst Alderman 25 to 1 apt Dauntlen
7 to 1 agat Redgauntlet 25 to 1 apt Whisker
14 to 1 apt Cleveland I 2fto 1 apt any other
23 to 1 agst Altisidora
Great sport is anddpated for to-morrow, there being six Races '
and some fresh Matches are expected to be made for Tuesday asid
Wednesday. The July Stakes created the most lively interett, and
a capital race is looked for. .
The celebrated horse Phantom comes to-morrow under Mr.
Tattersars hammer, previous to the Races.
MONDAY, JOLT 11.
A Bweepstabes of 10 sous. each, for three years old 'colts, Ist. 61b.
and fifties, est. 31b. New T. Y. C.
Mr. Rogers's Muleieer
Lord Anson 's Miniature .
Mr. Wilson's c. by Smolensk*
Mr. Hunter's f. by Orville
4 to 1 on Muleteer.—Won by two lengths.
Mr. Wortley's Scandal, 7st. 101 b. beat Lord Exeter's Progreso,
eat. 121 b. T.Y. C. 100.-2 to 1 on Scandal.
Second Year. Renewal of the July Stakes of 50 son. each, 30 ft.
colts, est. Sib. 6liiey est. 41b. New T.Y.C.
Mr. Wortley's c. Crusader
Duke of Grafton's ch. e. Goshawk 2
Mr. Rogers mines brother to Scratch .
7 to It apt Crusader—S to 4 apt Goshawk. Nine others.
staited—eight paid. The Judge placed but three. Won by a length.
Lord Orford s Orion, 7st. 121 b. beat Lord G. H. Cavesdfth's
Ganyrnede, Sat. 12th. D.M. 500 nova.-4 to 4 agst Orion.—Woo
by two length..
Lord Aneon's Ina, est. 61b. beat Sr J. Shel's est.
First half of Ab. M. 100, h. ft.-6 to 4on Ins.—Won by a head. •
Mr. Prendergast's Witch, eat. ebb. beat the Duke of York% f.
by Soothsayer, /st. 61b. First half of Ab. IL 100, b. ft.-2 to-1 on
Witch.—Won by half a length.
BATH AND BRISTOL RACES—Larr Dar.
A ,e5O Plate, given by the City Members. Heats, two miles and
a distance.
Mr. Whiteside 's brother to Antonio, 6 yrs 1 1
Mr. Gaundett's eh. f. Prima Donna, 4 yrs - 2 2
The Dyrham Stakes of five sow. each, and 23 added from the
Fund. One mile.
II Mr. Smith's Sir Hildebrand, aged lk 1
Mr. C. MO Victorine, aged • 4 2
Mr. Gauntlett's Prima bonna, 4 yrs 11 dr
Mr. Banley's Congreve, S yrs 3 dr
A Handicap of S so% each, and 110 added from the Fond; for
beaten horses. One mile.
Mr. S. Bin's Bubow, 4 yrs
Mr. Small's b. f. by L'Orient, 3 yrs -
• Sweepstakes of 10 soe. each, for horses not thorough bred.
Gentlemen riders. Two miles.
Mr. Bayley's Grimace, aged
Mr. Harris's Dottye, aged
CRICKET.
Tuesday, a match at cricket. was played on Lavington Common,
by the Gentlemen of the Goodwood Club against those of Paid!' urst,
which, after much fine play, was determined in favour of the
former.
PEDESTRIANISM. •
Rayner, the celebrated pedestrian, undertook on Tuesday, to run
from the Hare and Hounds, Hastings, on the London road, to
the top of Higb-street, a distance of one mile, in four minutes
and a half, which he perfOrmed within seven seconds of the time.
Skik per, the pedestrian, is at Chichester. Tuesday monitor, at a
quarter past three, he started front the Fleece Inn, in F.ast-streer,
commencing a self-set task of sixty miles per day, for ten days in
succession. He has chosen his ground on the Portsmouth road, and
goes to the 15th mile-stone twice a day.

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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duch,.ss of
CLASIDICE. arrived at Frankfort, on the 2d inst. from the Baths of
Ems, and set out nest day for Amorbach.
The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA are not ex-
pected in Vienna till the beginning of August. At
the beginning of September the Court will go to Pres-
burg, where the Hungarian Diet will' he held, ac-
cording to the proclamation already issued. The Co.
ronation of her MAJESTY the Empress, as Queen of
Hungary, is said to be fixed for the 4th of October,
which is the Saint's-day of the Emperor. Prince Mtn,
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TERNICH goes from Italy to Ischel.
TRADE IN GERI/AMT.—The Germans have for some
time past efinced a disposition to share in the eras-
mace of the new world, and more than one society his
been formed for this purpose.—At Hirschberg, in
Silesia, a company has lately
,been formed for sending
flour to South America, cspital 500,000 crowns.
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