Star.
London, England, 1822-11-25 00:00:00

lIIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.

Monday, the High Court proceeded to the trial of
James Burnlnay, accused of committing a rape upon
the body of Janet Anderson' a child aged eight years,
or thereby, and daughter of James Anderson, wright,
near Prestwick toll-bar, in the county of Ayr, on the
14th day of September, 1821. The examination of
the witnesses wars parried on with closed doors, as is
usual in like cases. "The Jury, after retiring for a
few minutes, returned a unanimous verdict, finding
the prisoner Guilty of the crime of rape libelled. He
was sentenced to be executed at Ayr, on Friday, the
20th day of December next.
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The Court then proceeded to the trial of Allan
Campbell, accused of shop-breaking and theft in Edin-
burgh. The libel being restricted to an arbitrary
punishment, and the evidence concluded, the Jury
found the prisoner Guilty of both the charges in the
indictment. He was sentenced to fourteen years'
transportation.

Convenient speed—forthwith, in Chancery I—On
Saturday application was made to the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, to hear exceptions to the Master's report,
in a certain cause, with convenient speed.—" Conve-
nient speed," said his Lordship, " means after all the
other cases which cliiris consideration are disposed of.
I have known an instance where money was ordered
to-be paid into Court forthwith ; and that meant, in
fact, at the end of nineteen years r
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On Saturday morning, during the justification of
bail in the court of Common Pleas, a successful
opposition was made in Mane, to the description of
a party in the bail bond. He was designated as gg a
Gentleman" in the notice, but it appeared that be car-
ried on the business.of a tailor.—Lord Chief Justice
DALLAS remarked, that tailors were sometimes army-
clothiers, embarked in extensive business • and often,
in ordinary phraseology, called " Gentlemen. the
law, however, held precise description to be indis-
pensable.

. One morning. is the Duke of YORK entered the
aisle of Whitehall Chapel, he encountered his brother
CLazzscz apProaChing the door.-L-" Why,'
WIL-
Lust," be whispered, " what +Afferent couises we ate
pursuing!"—" Nay,* replied he, " not so different as
rose May imagine; you are gain to worship, and I
am going to a=dorer
Some time since a country lad, in ti,e employ of
the Rev. Mr. HALL, the late Archdeacon of Dorset,
Went to the Post-office for his letters, When he ad-
dressed the Postmaster thus--" Zur, bae ye got any
letters vor measterr The Postmaster replied in the
affirmative, and began to calculate the postage of
the letters; upon which the boy said, " I hope, zur,l
you will let 1 hay 'em so cheap as you can, vorMeas-
ter do always pay ready money vor 'em
CtrataLzs KEMBLE evinced a kindred taste to that
which was so peculiar to his admirablelnother, to
whom we are indebted for the appropriate an 1
splendid style in which all S;IAKSPEARX'S dctiug
Plays were performed under his management, when
he decorated and re-produced Romeo and Juliet.. it'
is not the Garden scene alone, which we have before,
commended, but the entirely new, appropriate, and
beautiful dresses and embellishments throughout,
which are all most worthy of such a Juliet.
.Friday se'anight, a chap named Mat Early, was
confined in Church-street watch-house, Dublin, by
Rogers, a watchman, on a charge of feloniously steal-
ing, taking, and carrying away a certain sum of
money, out of a drunken tsionan s :shoes ! Mat pro-
tested that he was merely 16Oking for a tackyssixpence,
and that hearing the jingle.Of the blunt in the lady's
trotter case, be stooped down to ascertain the cause.
When has vas nabkd. •