Star.
London, England, 1831-05-09 00:00:00

CAPITAL PUNISH NIENTS.

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PANORAMA OF _ THE

BRITISH

EMPIRE.
DERBY REPORTER.

Fordinghridge workhouse was consumed on Sunday morning. The
fire broke out in the fuel-house, amongst a quantity of dry fuse and
faggots. The wretched inmates were with difficulty saved in the
speedy progress of the flames. Three engines' with the united aid of the
villagers ( the women most nobly aiding) suppressed the fire after several
hours. The neighbouring villagers sent their engines, and poured
forth their population to the assistance of the distressed. The damage
is estimated at 40001. On Thursday morning early a fire broke out
in the house of Mr. Robinson, coal-merchant, Wapping. Screams
were heard in the house, and Mr. Fagan, an inspector, and J. Morgan
and W. R. Garde. serjeants of Hdivision, on hearing the cries, rushed
into the house, and crawled on their hands and knees intp the room.
the furniture in which was on fire, and, at the imminent risk of their
own lives, brought the mother and bee two children through the flames
and smoke, and saved them from peri.hing.
Notwithstanding the awful spectacle recently exhibited at Norwich,
by the execution of Nockholds, the work of incendiarism still proceeds
In that county. The pr: nises of Dr. Bulwer, of Heydon, were again
fired in the night of the 17th ult. destroying a new cart-lodge, new
bullock-shed, a waggon. luggage cart, pony gig, and various Imple-
ments of husbandry. What adds to the atrocity of the deed is, per-
haps, the pipe of an engine: was cut by some villain whilst in play on
the premises. On the following Tuesday another diabolical act of in-
cendiarism occurred at Mr. J. Buck's, of Rudham Grange, by which
his buildings sustained damage exceeding one thousand pounds, and
his corn implements five hundred pounds. The fire broke out about
midnight, consuming the entire roof of a large barn, containing five,
waggons loaded with corn in straw, a quantity of dressed barley, a large
wheat stack, recently got in, three dressing machines, thrashing ditto,
hay.cuttcr, long range of bullock sheds, and various other valuable

prOperty.
On Tuesday a proprietor of a steam engine belonging to one of the
silk mills, in this town, was convicted before the borough magistrates
in the penalty of forty shillings and costs, for negligently using the,
furnace, and thereby occasioning an excess of smoke, to the annoyance
of the neighbourhood. This conviction took place under the provisions
of the Derby Improvement Act, which imposes a penalty of forty
shillings per week during the continuance of the nuisance, and we
know it is determined to enforce this penalty in every instance.
ANNUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY,
1830, to EASTER SESSIONS, 1831.
Amount of Payment on Account of County Gaol a& 2020
Ditto Houses of Correction - - . 35
Ditto Judge's Lodgings - - - 209
Ditto County Courts - - - • 215
Ditto Coroner's . - . . 161
Ditto Military Stores - - - 30
Ditto Salaries . - - - 331
Ditto Bridges - . - - 3638
Ditto Vagrants • . • 02
Ditto Felons - - - - 2067
Clerk of the Peace's Bills - - - 850
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ir;nsfertatl;;CO;ntyCourt's Building Account 2700
Ditto to the County Court's Loan Account - 700
Ditto to the County Gaol Loan Account . 6000
Inspecting Weights and Measures in the Hun-
dreds of Applctree, Morlesion, and Repton - 160
Doorkeeper's attendance of Magistrates in Petty
Sessions . _ - 41

Stationery, Advertisements, &c. . - 180
Fees at Assizes - - - 84
Annual payment to the Prisoners in the Fleet,
King's Bench, and Marshalsea Prisons . 20
Repairs at the County Tavern - 39
Incidental Expenses . - . - . 32

Balance due to the County, carried to a new
Account . .

200

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MARRIED —At Chesterfield, Mr. Heane, to Maria, youngest
daughter of the late Mark Hewett, Eaq.—Mr. James N. Wilson,
hosier, Nottingham, to Mary, daughter of the late Mr. Alvery Dodsley
—Henry Jackson, Esq. solicitor, Leicester, to Frances, eldest daughter
of Abraham Iloakins, Esq. of Newton Perk, Derbyshire—Mr. Sale,
solicitor, to Ellen, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Morris.
DI ED.—At Kfliveton, 84, Lydia, wife of the Rev. William Ilurd,
vicar of Kriveton—At Repton,
_ Thomas Walton, Esq. aged 85—In
Chesterfield, 75 years, Mrs. Bunning, relict of the late Rev. Win.
Bunning, of Dronlield—At Ashhoum, Miss Frances Beresford—At
Chesterfield, in his 77th year, Jonathan Stokes, 31. D. who had for
many years exercised his profession in that town and neighbourhood.
with great skill and eminent success. He was exemplary in all the
relations of domestic and social life; and in his character as a man and a
citizen, it may with truth be said, that be never violated the obligations
of private friendship, or shrunk from the fulfilment of a public duty.
A slave to no patty, and a bigot to no creed; he was respected and be.
loved by persona of all creeds, and of all parties. His literary and
scientific attainments were equalled only by the urbanity of his man-
ners, and the amiable and endearing qualities of his heart. In his
death, society has lost a bright ornament, and the poor have been de-
prived of a beneficent friend. His bereaved family will long dwell
upon his memory with affectionate regret.
EXETER WESTERN TIMES.
Eight granite stones have been ordered from the Haytor works for
London Bridge. Each of these will, upon an average, weigh 23 tom.
Their dimensions are ten feet by eleven, and seven in depth ; and car-
riages must be purposely constructed to bring them down—they are
destined, it is supposed, to form the plinths of columns.
The Lord Bishop has conferred the Prebend in the Cathedral Church,
vacant by the death of the Rev. J. P. Coplestone, on the Rev. John
Bartholomew, his Lordship's Chaplain.
The Rev. Noel Thomas Ellison, A.M. has been preferred to the
rectory of Nettlecombe, Somerset, on the presentation of Sir John
Trevelyan, Bart. vacant by the death of the Rev. Walter Trevelyan.
A female bought at the shop of a druggist in this city, a few days
since, what she supposed to be a pound of Epsom salts, and soon after-
wards dissolved a portion of them, in order to give her children some
spring medicine, intending also to take some herself. Her eldest
daughter tasted it, but finding the flavour different from that of salts,
she refused to take her alloted dose, and the mother, to convince her of
her mistake, drank a considerable quantity; but experiencing a bum.
log sensation in the throat, she became alarmed, and sent for a medical
man, when he immediately discovered that she had taken oxalic acid.
Prompt remedies were immediately resorted to, and she is now out of
danger. The carelessness manifested by the druggist in this instance
cannot be too severely deprecated, as it appears that the whole pound of
this deadly poison was taken from a drawer, from which all customers
were to have been supplied.
MARRIED.— At Taunton, Mr. William Addison, eldest son of N.
Addison, Esq. of Bathpool, to Maria, only daughter of the late Capt.
Blake, R.N.—The Rev. J. Wallice, to Sophia Wilron Windeatt, only
daughter of the late S. M. Windeatt, Esq. of Tomes.—At Lyme,
Charles Knott. Esq. Grandson of Major Knott, of Lyme, to Caroline,
daughter of E. Hillman, Esq.—Henry T. Smith, Laq. Solicitor, of
Devonport, to Miss Mary Prukyn.
DIED.—At Honiton, Isaac Cox, Esq. Solicitor, who for "even
years was one of the Coroners for Devon.-24, Emma; Sophia, the
wife of Josh Perpercom, Esq.— Mrs. Hicks, widow of the late 1,111'.m
Hicks, Esq. of St. David's-HilL— At Lxminster, John Langdons ttt"l
of Bradninch, 28.—At Chudleigh, Catherine Rogers, daughter oft •
1 hey. T. Hawker, 15.—At Buckerell, Mrs. Anne Marks, aged 106,
leaving a numerous progeny of grand and great grand children.—ln
Plymouth, 25, Charles Nelson Foote, Esq. of Harewood.house.

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miler occurrences are desalbsd in South Towsa sad Wools Wu
Mines.
Foam. Sasta.s—There are now buown to British naturalists—
Simple univalves 6B gasses, which comprise 401 species.
Simple bivalves
Complicated bivalves
Multiloeular bivalves

135 1265
A foreign author states, that on a general view, the lines of stratifi-
cation of the great rock formations of Europe, they are nearly coinci-
dent with the lines of equal magneficintensity on the earth's surface.
Copper Ores for sale at Camborne, May s.—North Roskear, 1248 ;
Dolcoath, 948 ; Consolidated Mines, 900; Stray Park, 244 ; Copper
House, 170 ; Consols Crinnis Mina, 168 t Wheal Strawberry, 161
South Railcar, 143 ; lanescou 138: Fowey Consols, 128 ; South
Towan, 67 ; United Hills, 57. Wheal Charles, 42 ; Wheal Montague,
30; Wheal Andrew Bowmen, 18; Wheal Sparrow, 9. Total,
4469 tons.
Copper Ores for sale at Redruth, May 12--Marazion Mnes, 3
llac6o ;
IFowey Consols, 343 ; Herland, 334; Wheal Tol i
gus, 316 Retak
215; Wheal Bulet, 189 ; Wheal Trenwith, 180; Wheal Mary, 155;
Levant, 144 ; Whet' Busy, 142; Wheal Elisabeth, j 34 ; Wheal
Jewell, 109 ; Wheal Trsnnack, 83 ; Botallack, 40 great Work,
22 ; Wheal Caroline, 17 ; Wheal Edward, 10. Total, 2802 tons.
Country klarkets.--Truro, April 27.—Wheat, 264 ; Barley, 12s
9d : Oats, 91 fki.
Callington, April 27.—Wheat. 16 gallons, 188 66 ; Barley, 8s ;
Oats, 24 gallons, 8s; Mutton and Beef, sd. to 6d. per lb ; Butter, 16
ounces, lfid. per lb.
MARRIED.—At Liakeard, Henry Liddon, Esq. to Miss Anstis.
DIED.—At Falmouth, Mr. Gabriel Abrahams, bullion merchant,
68—at Frisk, in Mullion, the lady of Captain Head, R.N.—at Stone-
house. Mrs. Blackmore, relict of the late Mr. Blackmore, surgeon. St.
Austell—at London, Mr. Jeremiah Brett, 83, 24 years high constable
of the Liberties of the Tower of London, a native of this county.

LAW REPORTS.
COURT OF NINO'S BENCH, MAT 7.
RICHARD CARLILE.
This individual was brought up in custody of the keeper of Giltspur.
street t ompter, to hear the decision of the Court on the writ of error
he brought to reverse the judgment pronounced against him at the late
Old Bailey Sessions.
Lord TE vprz gone proceeded at considerable length to state the
facts of the ease, and the nature of the errors assigned by the defendant.
Under all the circumstances, and looking at the several decisions that
had already been given on similar cases, the Court ordered that the judg-
ment of the Court below be confirmed.
The defendant was then removed from the Court in custody, to un-
dergo the remainder of his sentence.
TQa DERE OP BEAUFOhT V. THE PRINTER AND PUBLIERRI

OF TIM SPECTATOR.
Sir J. SCARLETT applied for a rule to show cause wby a criminal In-
formation should not be filed against the printer and publisher for a
libel on the Dupe of Beaufort, which libel appeared in the said news-
paper on the 30th April. The libel represented the Duke to have con.
tributed to the Boroughttiongers• subscription money which rightly
belonged to the nation. It added, the amount of public money I
received by the Somerset.% since the late Duke of Beaufort came of age
far exceeds the value of the estates which he bequeathed to the present
Duke. The Duke of Beaufort in answer to these paragraphs, deposed
that all the public money which the &menets received, sleet the late
Duke came of age, would not amount to one year's rent of his estate%
At other times, his Grace might be inclined to pass over such false
statements, but now it was necessary that they should be met in the
way they deserved.
Rule to show cause granted.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY 7.

LIBEL —TILNCH V. LAWSON.
Mr. CAMPBELL (with whom was Mr. Hutchinson) stated the ease
for the plaintiff. His client was a gentleman of honour and respecta.
bility ; he was a Lieutenant on half-pay. He had been twenty years in
the army. and served in most of the engagements fought on the conti-
nent. After the battle of Waterloo, in which he distinguished himself,
he went with the army of occupation to Paris. His regiment was, how.
ever, finally reduced. and on his return to this country he succeeded in
obtaining the situation of Master of the Ceremonies at Margate. en office
which, for the most part, is filled by military gentlemen. At this pe.
clod Mr. Sinclair, the performer of Drury-lane theatre, anti his father-
la-law, Mr. Trotter, were proprietors of the Tivoli Gardens, and those
gentlemen subsetpiently leased that place of amusement to the plain.
tiff Some trivial differences took place between the parties, but
nothing that could justify the attack which bad been made upon the
plaintiff in an article contained in the Thais of the 2d April last.
The paper containing the libel was here read in evidence.
Mr. Goold, examined by Mr. Cassont.s...—Witness is brother to
Mr. Berjeant Goold. of the Irish bar, and knew the plaintiff for the
last thirty years. The plaintiff was a Lieutenant in the 18th Hussars,
and fought at the battle of Waterloo. He was also at Paris during the
occupation, and on his return got appointed to be Master of the Cere-
monies at Margate. He is the person alluded to in the libel, for wit-
ness knows of no other person of the same name.
Cross-examined by Mr. PLATTWIIIIMIII did not know that the
plaintiff was a man of some or any property. The plaintiff told witness
of the libel, and showed him the number of the Times in which it was
alaadaed. He did not say that the indictment had been misdescribed,
it dot he had been indicted at all. He also stated that the libel was
apisi into other papers, and that he meant to bring actions against
dim all.
Mr. PLATT then rose, and addressed the Jury, in mitigation of da-
contending that no case for excessive damages bad been made
wt. damages were laid at 1,0001. but that did not signify, as the
Jury Iseal the power of reducing them to one farthing, if they thought
z., He then adverted to the object for which the action bad been
At. and said that it was not for the purpose of vindicating the
Plaintiff's character, but to obtain damages.
Mr. Baron BAYLIIV summed up the evidence, observing that the
point for the consideration of the Jury was, whether or not the libel
applied to the plaintiff ? There was no doubt that it was a libel, and
the only question was who the individual alluded to by the name of
Martin French was ? if not the:plaintiff.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages 40s.
JUDGMENT.
CRAMBEILII V. BEILICASCONI.

Lord C.B.—We have heard this carefully argued,
and we are of opinion that there ought to be a new trial. With respect
to the facts there is no necessity for any observation ; and as to the
memoranda made by the Sheriff's officer, we are of opinion that the
case goes much beyond the principle of theme other cases In which such
evidence of written declaration was thought to be admissible evidence;
and on that ground we think there ought to be another trial.
Mr. Baron BAYLET.I am clearly of the same opinion. I doubt
much that if that document which my Lord alluies to were to be re.
ceived at all it would be to prove the place where the arrest was made:
and If the party had said I admit there was an arrest," you would
not be at liherty to read that paper at all to prove any additional cir.
cums•ance that that paper stated. It may be the duty of the officer to
make a return to the Sheriff that he has, in point of fact, arrested an
individual ; but, in my opinion, it is no part of his duty to state the
particular place where the arrest was made.
Barone GARIROW and BOLLAWD both concurred in the opinion above
expressed, and the rule for a new trial was accordingly made absolute.