Star.
London, England, 1831-01-12 00:00:00

STATE OF TIIE corNrar.

BLANDTOII). Blorday night, 12 o'clock.
On my way from Salisbury to-night, I saw two apparently extensive
fires ; one, which cast an immense glare for miles round, was. I was in-
released, in the vicinity of Wilton; the other, which appeared a consi-
derable distance oil; I was told was between Wimborne and Ringwood.
The alarm amongst the people on the road to this place is excessive.
A party who were spending the evening here, were 0111 W off to the fires,
and broke up in much amfusioa. —Correspondent. rune&

MAIDITONZ, lionnaw.—Atthe termination of the trials at Mt
lam Ammo, the Judges adjourned null to-day, as it was apprehended
that there might be ',gleaners for trial. We are happy, however, to
state, that in eaoscgti om of the continuance of tranquillity since then,
it has not been considc necessary to open the commission to-day.

TRIAL or RIOTIMS —On Friday three pritontes wets found guilty
of a riot at Headhunt, on the 16th of November, and of an assault Oa
the Rev. P. Le Geyt and the Hon. J. W. King, magistrates. Mr.
Pollock conducted the prosecution. The circumstances arose out of one
tithe assemblages of the labourers during the late disturbances for an
increase of wages. The seine day. Price, a labourer, was found guilty
on two indictments for different riots at Stook bury and at Gnat
Mailing, and the next day, Saturday, he was found Guilty a
third time for a riot at Yalding. Is all these came he appeared to be
the leader of the mobs. He, however, did not puffer what he railed
" his mob" to injure any one. On Saturday three others were con.
vieted for a riot at Wrotham on the 114th of November. In this case
they initiated on a reduction of tithes from the rector. After thee- trials
the prisoners were called up for sentence—Price 9 years' imprisonment
and hard labour, 3 others 18 months, and 3 others to 9 months' int.
prisooment, and all to be kept to hard lahour. The maim* were bet
over till 9 at night on Saturday.

Mr. Kean La engaged by the lessees of Drury-lane The-
atre for a limited number of nights, at 501. per night.
It is said that the nightly receipts at the door of the Olym-
pic 'Theatre have amounted to 2841. since the opening.
It is reported that Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey has been
appointed solicitor to Lord Brougham's commission of chari-
ties—a situation worth about 20001. a year.
Monday last a fishing boat wu upset near Burghead, and
the crew, consisting of three married and two unmarried
men,were suddenly committed to a watery grave. They were
all sober and industrious fishermen.

The DundonneU cause (Mackenzie v. Roy and others),
involving the question whether certain deeds sought to be
reduced, were or were not the deeds of the late Kenneth
Mackenzie, which has excited mush interest in Scotland,
has been decided at Edinburgh, the Jury having found for
the plaintiff.
Rewards of 4001. are offered by the Earl of Gosford and
the principal inhabitants of Beccles, !Oa the apprehension of
the offender or offesbders who set fire to the stacks belonging
to Mr. Geo. Fenn. at Beccles, tenant of Lord Gosford.

The late Col. Boden, of the Bast India Company's ser-
vice, bequeathed the whole of his property to the university
of Oxford, for the ebtablishment of a Professorship
and Scholarship in Sanscrit Literature, " being
of opinion that a more general and critical knowledge of
the Sanscrit language will be a means of enabling his coun-
trymen to proceed in the conversion of the natives of India
to the christian re/igion, by disseminating a knowledge of
the sacred scriptures amongst them, more effectually than
all other means whatsoever."