Star.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

MIL RICHARD ELLIS.

The Four Awls public-beim, Abel's-buildings, Rosemary-lane,
let on lease to Messrs. Tickel and Co. brewers, for 324 years, at £2l
per annum—E39s.
Leaseholds.—The Bull's Head public-house, near the Green,
Camberwell, containing six apartments, club and tap rooms, eel-
larage, and play-grounds, held for 18 years, at 617:1 per annum, les-
see covenanted to insure for X600.--aC63O.

The Two Brewers public-house, corner of Wentworth-street,
Whitechapel, comprising seven rooms, tap, bar, and cellarage,
held at £5O per annum, for twenty years and a half. Lessee co-
venanted to insure—,C 1,200.

By a clause in the New Street Act, the fronts of all
the houses from Carlton-palace to Portland-place are to be reno-
vated, and made white, once in four years.
PRISONBREAKING.—A few days ago, an attempt was
made to escape from Chester City Jail, by seven of the
prisoners there awaiting their trial. They had perfo-
rated to a considerable depth inside the boundary wall.
with the evident object of working their way through it.
The vigilance of the keeper, however, defeated their
plans, and Swami a notorious character, was actually
detected at work in the hole, and placed in irons.
An unpleasant occurrence (says a Limerick Paper)
has taken place at Kilkee, in which two professional
Gentlemen of this city were concerned. One of them,
Mr. D—, proposed the health of Lord G—T,. which
was accordingly drank, without observation, by the
company ; when it came to the other Gentleman, Mr.
O'B—, to give the individual of his choice, he men-
tioned Mr. O'C— NN—ra., which was refused by Mr.
D—; this produced an altercation, in which' strong lan-
guage was used on both sides. Next morning Mr.
sent his ft lend (a Mr. L.) with a hostile message tot his
opponent, who candidly acknowledged, that not con-
sidering his antagonist a gentleman, he would not meet
him. The consequence of this. language was, a horse-
whipping on one side, and a flogging with a stout oak
stick on the other. Some of the parties have been since
bound over to keep the peace.
Wednesday, a Coroner's Inquest was held in Drury-
lane, Dublin, on the body of Hannah Byrne; who, being
in a; ltate of great intoxication about seven o'clock on
the evening of Tuesday, was put to bed by a woman
lodging in the next room, where she was found dead in
the morning. The Jury brought in a verdict-4, We
find Hannah Byrne came* by her death from suffoca-.
tion, caused by extreme intoxication.'
Saturday evening the bed-chamber of Mr. Carr; the
proprietor of the Union Tavern, Baker-street, Bagnigge
Wells, was broken into, and from a chest of drawers
two ES notes were taken, as also a gold watch. The
robbery was committed whilst Mr. and. Mrs. Carr were
below stairs attending to their customers.
MARGATE HEALTH-HUNTING.--" Conic to Mar-
gate," says Mrs. Abrahams, " there you will get a colour and an
appetite, bless you." Well, down they all go. First they -take a
warm bath, then a cold bath—floundering about for an hour In the
water—stay out sauntering about in the night air—poke themselves
into crowded libraries and dancing-rooms—go to bed at break of
day—and then come to town in a fever ! Thus it has been lately
with several; and there are many persons who have had a narrow
escape from death—all brought on by health-huntirig at Margate.
Let people, if they go to watering-places for health, go to bed at
ten o'clock—rise early—immerse themselves in the water daily,
and instantly leave it—live moderate—and mix with the amuse-
ments only at proper hours, and they will return with improved
health and spirits; but Margate now a-days, since steam cattle into
fashion, is the place to become an invalid.
In Surfers' History of Durham, some curious extracts
are taken from the parish books of Darlington, Viz.
1630. To Mr. Goodwin, a distressed scholar, Sic 6d.
1635. To a poor soldier, who came to church on a Sunday, 6d.
1650 For six quarts of sacke to the Mintatre that preached
when we had not a Ministre, 9s.
1691. When the Dean of Durham preached here (spent in a treat
with him), 3s. 6d. For a stranger that preached, a dozen of ale, Is.
During the last fortnight, the inhabitants of the New Forest,
Hants' have been amused with the royal sport of stag-hunting,
and as this is a treat not always accessible to plebeians, it May be na-
turally expected that hunters of all sorts and descriptions attended.
The hunters affording far more amusement than the hunted, more
particularly so to those unacquainted with such royal diversions.
Unfortunately fur those Gentlemen connected with the Forest Hunt,
they have not this time had' one day of good old fashioned hunting.
And now the merry huntsmen loose
Lyme-dog and grey-bound from the noose;
Crack sapling, gorse, and thorn ; •
Then each man's hand was to his quiver,
Then rang the woods as they would shiver,
With hound and bugle horn.
Loud waz'd the merry cry—" Avaunt!"
While shrouded close in woody haunt,
The gallants take their stand—
And a gallant show there was too, all sorts of horses and all sorts of
riders, and some no riders—blood bays to donkies. One unlucky
wiglit riding his horse at full gallop, looked one way and rode ano-
ther, butt against an oak tree, and broke his nose. Such a misad-
ventyre it may naturally be expected, spoilt his sport; and after an
hour • soliloquising, having lost himself in a wood, and after repeated
unavailing attempts to find his way, he gave his faithful steed the
rein, which more sagacious, soon gained the beaten track, and car-
ried home his wearied master satisfied with stag-hunting. Another
must needs go a hunting, and in so doing amused his friends and
brother Nimrod., by exhibiting his head pale and ghastly just peep-
ing above the surface of a hog. A third galloped away furiously,
without bridle or saddle, When the hounds were after a hind; and
presently, rider, horse, and hind, hunter and hunted fell, pell-mell,
promiscuously together, heels sprawling in the air—very fortunately
for this gallant, the hunted was not a stag, if so, his life would have
been the forfeit of his temerity. A fine trait of skill and good ma-
nagement on the part of the huntsman occurred, which to omit
would be improper. Whilst about sixteen couple of hounds were
in full cry after a hind, a drove of fifty fine bucks crossed and min-
gled with them and passed, without one of the hounds leaving the
trioe scent to follow the bucks.

ASSILE
ihltukriick

LANCASTER, SEPTEMBER 4.
Yantes dallagher and. Hugh 0' Seill ,were.put to the
bar on an indictment charging them with hawing as-
saulted Mr. Thnmas Tinlay on the highway, and with
having taken from his person a gold watch. a purse, two
sovereigns, and various other articles, his property.
The evidence being endei, Mr. JustiCe BAYLEY called
on the prisoners for their defence.
Gallagher first addressed the Jury.—He stated that
he had just returned to this country, from a visit ssirich
he had been paying to his friends in Ireland. On the
Sunday after his arrival, as he was sitting on some rails
in one of the streets in Liverpool, a man with a scratched ;
face came up to him, and asked him whether he would
have any objection to buy a bargain? On his saying
that he would not, the man took him aside, shewed him
a gold watch, and told him that he wanted to sell it, in
order to get some money to pay for his passage over to
Dublin. Observing that there was neither chain, nor I
key, nor seal to the watch, he asked the stringer what
had become of them ? The stranger replied, that, being ,
in want of money, he had sold them at Mancheter.
After some time spent in haggling about the price of I
the watch, the prisoner said that he purchased it for ten
guineas. He had at that time plenty of money about
him ; indied, when he was apprehended, the officers bad
found fourteen sovereigns upon him. He told the
officers Who apprehended him, that he had had the
watch about eight weeks, because he was afraid that
they would take it from him before he could find the man
who had sold it trim.—O'Neill asserted his innocence.
Francis Carr, a master cooper, in Liverpool, who
had known Gallagher for the last five years, gale him
a good. character, and said that he was as regular in his
conduct as the generality of young men.—The Jury
found both prisoners Gbilty.
Neither Gallagher nor O'Neill betrayed the slightest
emotion upon hearing the verdict given against them
by the Jury. They are both stout able-bodied men.
Gallagher's appearance is very respectable, but that of
O'Neill is not at all prepossessing.
The prisoners were again put to the bar, charged with
having assaulted John Banastre_ Falkner, on the 3d of
June, on the highway, at West Derby, and robbed him
of one watch, one gold chain, two gold seals, one purse,
four sovereigns, and two shillings, his property. Owing
to the illness of a Juror, the trial did not proceed.
• iJeseph Kaye was charged with killing and slaying his
infant child, Arthur Kaye.—lt appeared that the pri-
,soner had some difference with his wife, and lifted his
foot, as it with intent to kick her; she was sitting near
the fire with the child in her arms, and in rising to
avoid the blow she fell over a chair, in consequence of
which fall the child came by its death. The Counsel for
the prosecution not being able to carry the case any
further, Mr. Justice BAYLEY directed the Jury to acquit
the prisoner.—The unfortunate man appeared deeply
affected, and trembled violently while at the bar; and
when cautioned by Mr. Justice BAYLEY against giving
way to fits of passion, he said, in an agitated tone, "In-
deed, my Lord, I shall never do the like again, and I
trust that my misfortune may be a warning, not only to
myself, but to all those who have heard of it."
WELLS, SEPTEMBER 4.
PENAYRE D. ADAMS.
This was an action of trespass brought by the plain-
tiff, in consequence of the defendant having cut off the
branches of several trees, which overhung the defend-
eel grounds, to the great detriment of the produce
growin4 thereon,
Mr. Serjeant PELL stated the plaintiff's case:—The
patties were Gentlemen of opulence—neighbours--and
hitherto friends, at Upper Easton, Bath. The plaintiff's
grounds were ornamented upon that border which
joined the defendant's fields with a beautiful row of
elms, under whose arms •he had often reposed, as his
ancestors had before him ; finding beneath their ample
foliage, "health in the breeze, and shelter in the storm."
He had fondly hoped, that for many a generation to
come, their spreading honours would have afforded
,shade to his posterity. How mortified must Mr.
Penayre have been, to find on his return after ,a tem-
porary absence, that his beloved elms had become the
victim of profane mutilation. 44 Gentlemen," continued
the Learned Serjeant, 66 °culls subjeche fidelibus," hold-
ing up a paper on which there appeared the represen-
tation of two trees, and which were intended to convey
an idea of one of those elms, as it appeared in its an-
cient state, and as it appeared after it had undergone
Mr. Adams's mutilation—" Gentlemen, look on this
picture,"—pointing to the old tree with its broad and
luxuriant arms,—" and on this," shewing the other
tree, most miserably curtailed of all its fair proportions—
" the counter ptesentment of two elms. phis was an
elm, and Mat is—what shall I say—its half-starved
miserable brother—more conspicuously poor—more
eminently lean—more pre-eminently infirm by the con-
trasted exuberance, health, and proportions of its more
fortunate brother. Methinks I hear horn its exhausted
trunk this address to its brother:—' Behold me with
pity—a decayed and miserable victim—my strength
gone—cut off in the season of robust and thriving
youth, and prematurely sunk to decay—look on me and
pity me—let all my brothers of the forest mourn over
my untimely fate: "
The facts of the case, the cutting off of the branches to the very
trunk of about eighty trees, and the injury to the beauty and use-
fulness of the situation, were proved by several witnesses.
The defence was, that those branches extended a good way over
a field of lucerne belonging to the defendant, and that the injury
occasioned to the produce by the dripping from the boughs was
very considerable. The defendant likewise put in a letter, which
was sent from the plaintiff to him, which be considered to be a
license, affording a full justification for what he had done. The
letter, on being read, proved to have been a remonstrance with the
defendant for having cut the trees, and it adverted to an occasion
formerly, when the plaintiff permitted the defendant to lop off
some of their branches, which appeared to have been detrimental,
by their too great extent, to the field below them. The defendant
interpreted the leave which, upon that former occasion he had ob-
tained, into a genet al permission to remove as many branches, and
as much of them, as in his own judgment were prejudicial to the
ptoduce of his land.
The Jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 5001. a verdict that gave universal astonishment, particu-
larly as the Counsel disclaimed any other aim by this action than
that of settling a right.

CAtet. LOFT, son of the lawyer, whose death was re-
cently mentioned as having taken place at Rivoli, in Piedmont, has
just been elected to King's College, from Eton School.
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