Star.
London, England, 1825-05-13 00:00:00

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Lincoln'. Inn yesterday presented a scene of bustle
and determined activity, that caused no small sensa-
tion in the neighbourhood. It being Holy Thursday,
it has been usual for the boys of the parochial school
of St. Andiew, Holborn, to enter the hall of the inn,
where they were regaled by the li•nchers. In cense
quence, however, of disputes as to the right of the
parish to levy parochial rates, it was resolved not to
admit them, and accordingly, the forces of the inn
were mustered at an early hour, and every gate locked
and guarded. Persons were also stationed along the
western wall of the garden, to prevent access by that
way ; and, in fact, every precaution taken to repel
any attempt to enter the inn. About hall•past ten
o'clock, the LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the
bench, and proceeded with the business of the Court.
Shortly after the knocker, of the grand g ice was heard
thundering for admission, but no attention • was paid
to Am. demand. At length it was found that the
schoolboys of St. Andrew's, headed by their Church-
wardens, were claiming a right to enter the inn, and
maintain their boundaries. To this a refusal was as
peremptorily given ; and having expended some time
in vain, recourse was had to stratagem, and the little
army repaired to Holborn. On arriving at Messrs.
Mayan and &triremes, in Holborn, a request was
made to enter by their premises, at the hick of which
the boundarystone is placed. The request was com-
plied with ; but information was instantly sent round
to the inn, and just at the moment the boys had at-,
tained tile fiats, which would have enabled them to
have accomplished their object, the besieged arrived.
and placing an open umbrella over the stones, stop-
peg their progress. The scene was now truly laugh-
able. The porters and others belonging to the inn'
were s•. en i mining across the gardens, armed with the
brane.es of young trees, and at length a basket hav-
ing been placed over the stone, the assailants retired..
The gates, however, were kept shut during the whole
of the morning. •

Maj-i General S'r J. LANISERT, emmanding the
Cork district, is sirmmitned to give evidence before the
Parliamentary Committ, e on Irish affairs.
YeSterday being a dies non,the Courts of King's Bench
and Common Pleai were closed. The Loki) CHAN-
CELLOR, however, sat to hear lunatic petitions.
There is a Bill before the House of Commons to
amend the 7th and Bth William 111. for the more easy
recovery 4 f small tithes; and the 53d George 111. for
the recovery of tithes. The amendment is, that where
the Justices are Patrons of the Church or Chapel, the
tithes are to be recovered before two Justices of any ad-
joining County, Riding, or Division.
Monday last, his Majesty's ship ECRYALUS, Captain
Citarnan, on her return from the Mediterranean, was
paid off 'at Deptford, on the eighth d.ay from her ar-
rival at that place. The regularity and good order
observed by her crew, equalled the rapidity with whith
the laborious duties, and payini off, were discharged.
On the day previous, the Officers gave a dinner to
their Captain, in testimony of their high esteem and
respectful regard. On quitting the ship, the crew
requested per mission to cheer their Captain and First
Lieutenant, as a mark of their gratitude for the kitid
treatment they had experienced %shill under Captain
Cuvr,ran's command. The EURYALUS has been ab-
Mit from England upwards of three years, and has
returned without los'ng a man by desertion.
Wednesday night, between the hours of ten and
eleven, as an elderly Gentleman was proceeding through
St. James's street, he suddenly surrounded by four
or five females, who completely stopped the path;
but, owing to his infirm state, a few minutes elapsed
belie he could get clear from their annoyance. On
recovering himsel:,' he observed them to run off in
different directions; when he discovered that his pocket-
book was stolen, which at the time contained two ten-
pound and two • five-pound Bank of England notes:
happening t cast his eyes on the ground, he sow at a
few yards distance his pocket-book lying on the pave-
ment ; but, on taking it up, he found that it had been
emptied of its contents.
A shacking occurrence happened at Trowbtidge on'
S turday evening. A man and his wife, named Francis,
after drinking pretty freely, .abmed each other, and
having vented the most dreadful curses, she gave • her
husband several :eyrie blows, which, owing to his ine-
briated condition, brought h m to the ground with great
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DESCENT OF MR. Gg.4l-/AM.•

TUIITHIft PIILTICULA
Immedia!ely on their. ascent, the first object which
attracted their attention was the Regent's Pat k, u hich
to them had a vet y pictutescve appearance. The next'
object was Eoping Forest, which, although so extensive,
might have been taken for a Flot of ground of not more
than three or four acres. exten-. At this time their alti-
ru,ie was about 'two miles and a half. Instead of being
cold, they found, after p'ssing through the first stra-
tum of clouds, that the atmosphere was perfectly warm,
and Wile hovetin4 over Epping Forest, the aeronauts
opened a bottle of wine, a hen Captain Currie gave as
a toast—" His Majesty, and may he always continue
to reign in the 11 arts of his people." Tr.e succeeding
toast was. The Duke of York and the Army." Aftet
which, Mr. Graham drank—" Success to his brother
aeronaut, Mr. Green," who was expected to ascend
from Newcastle that day. The balloon Sowed along
for about an lour and a half, slowly and
,Pleasantly,
the weather being Ea serene (although the wind blew
shirply below,) that the aeronauts might be said to be
becalmed. This circumstance will account for the
length of time during which the balloon was visible to
the inhabitants of the Meropolis. 0.1 arriving over
Epping Forest they threw out a quantity of ballast to
insure their clearing the trees. They then again rose
for a little time, and exactly at half-past seven o'clock,
they descended in a bean-field belonging to Mr. Askew's
farm, at Waltham Abbey. Here every assistance was
kindly afforded by the country people, whom the no-
velty
of the appearanie had attracted to the spfit, and
who conveyed the machne to the house of Mr. Stokes,
of Epping-place, where the aeronauts partook of a se- I
past a little before e:even o'clock. Owing to the crowd
collected on their alighting, some damage was una-
vvidahly done to the young crop of beans, for which
Mr. Graham at once indemnified the props ietor by hand-
, ing him Iwo sovereigns. Mr. Graham speaks highly of
I the effect of the newly-invented grappling-irons, which
linsured them not only a safe, but an easy descent. He
also speaks in high terms of the coolness and intrepidity
manifested by Captain Currie in this, his first; aerial
excursion, and declares him to be the best companion he
ever met as ith in exploring the regions of the air.

Accounts frem'Cassel state, that the Eticron will
not only visit Ms estates in Bohemia, but also go toll
Vienna and Presburgb.
It is said that the King of PRUSSIA has assigned the
sum of 100,000 dollars to General ZASTROW, who is to
attend the Coronation of the King of FRANCS, to de-
fray the expenses of his mission.
Toe Norwegian Loan, contracted for by BENECKS,
Brothers, in Berlin, in 1820, at five per cent. which in
five years has risen from 70 to above par, is to be paid
off-on the lit of August this year, at once, instead of in
the term of 28 years. The Norwegian Government, it
seems, has secured the means of making this repajment,
by contracting a new loan at very low interest.
In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on Saturday,
in the case of Beere v. Lord Donoughmore, a motion
was made to set aside the verdict. It was an action
brought by Mr. Beere, a Gentleman of some considera-
tion in Tipperary, against Earl Donoughmore, for hav-
ing falsely and maliciously stirred up one Thomas
White to lodge informations against the plaintiff,
charging him with felony, and with having caused the
plaintiff to be prosecuted for the same at the .General
Assizes. The action was• tried at the last Assizes at
Clonmel, when a verdict was had for the plaintiff,
with 2501. damages. A point was reserved at the
trial, on behalf of the Noble Defendant. The Court did
not give judgment.
Mr. Secretary Pee 's Bill for consolidating and
amending the laws relative to Jorors and Juries, both
Common and Special, is reprinted with the several
amendments adopted by the Coinmittee on the Bill.—
There are four new clauses. The first defines " what
shall be deemed personal property," so as to qualify for
Jurors—namely, any person (in Middlesex) assessed for
the poor rate or inhabited house duty at 301. in any
other county at 201. The second new clause provides
that the " want of qualifications in Common Jurors to
be cause of challenge ;" adding, in the third additional
clause, that " no challenge shall be taken to any panel
of Jurors for want of a Knight's being returned in such
panel, nor any array quashed, by reason of any such
challenge." The fourth addition proposes to enact, that
" the King shall only challenge for cause ;" and that
" the prisoner be allowed twenty peremptory challenges
only in felony." If this Bill should pass the Commons,
and not be thrown out by the Lords; who seem to have
a strong predilection to "throwing out," Mr. Secretary
PEEL'S Ball will be by far the most valuable labour of
the Session. The amendment of the Special Jury sys-
tein, directing that the list of forty-eight shall be selected
by ballot, may be viewed as the leading merit of the
Bill. If it become law, it will repeal sixty-one Acts,
passed from the 43d Henry 111. to the .sth George IV.
.At the Secondaries' Office yesterday, in a case of
" Cantillon v. Maye," the Jury were called upon to
assess damages in an action brought to recover the
moiety of the charge for building a party wall between
two houses. The defendant was the beneficial occu-
pant, at an improved rent, of a portion of ground in
Jewin-street. By allowing judgment to go bq default,
he acknowledged himself liable to pay a moiety of the
expense of erecting a party wall. There was an im-
portant question as to the amount that should be paid
for the part, it beng proved, on behalf of the plaintiff,
that it cost fifteen guineas per rod, ,and he sought pay-
ment at that rate. On the part of the defendant, the
Act of the 14th Geo. 111. cap. 78, was set up in answer
to the ,demand. In the 38th and 41st sections it is
enacted, that one moiety of the expense of building new
party walls shall be paid by the beneficial occupant in
the improved rest, at the rate of 71. ISs. per rod, de-
ducting 11. Bs. for the materials, if any, of.the old wall.
In this case, the materials weteall new, and it was con-
teaded, that 71. 15s. per rod was all that could be re-
covered •by the plaintiff, although the milk had co t
him double that sum: The Counsel for the plaintiff
contended, that the Legislature had virtually repealed
this sta ute, by subsequently imposing so high a duty ,
on bricks as rendered it impossib:e to execute the w..rk
on the lei rns then specified, setting aside the iitcreased.
price of labour and other things. This was so sr. oogly
kit by builders themselves, that they never attempted
to m ke such an unjust and grievous application of
the statute. A s i,ht discussion en.ued, and ulti-
mately a verdict was taken for the plain ill, and the
I point reserved.
A placard was a few days ago exhibited at one of
the Bath coach-cdices to the following effect :—",Weres
I to Cheltenham, inside, ss. outside, 2s. 61 or anylsuns
Elie Public please."

, t v Llence; and as she threatened greater acts of violence,
time constables put her in confiWiltata This took place
between ten and eleven o'clotk -on. Saturday -night,
and• at 'five o'clock the following 'Morning the husband
was mood in a dying %tate, and was.a corpse b:fore he
.
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. ccad be a erpoced.
, Mr. W.. :11.os, Atirgenn, of
.Tonbridge Wells, on his
. -. 1.04 d hoollC,,tltet44ly last week, from Frant, perceived a
disk*e in t:.ormitl,l-ando4iniling-his horse was inclined
to lea/ over it;.pegtive him *ay, aod-the horse c:eared
it in,hitpdspme.styie. 'The dredge was supposed to he
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at:Sisav:tifteenfors, across. Theliistance Isom the spot
f.' • the horse took 49. w-lam e4he let 'was :measured,.
and
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