Star.
London, England, 1831-03-24 00:00:00

STRATHMORE.

This was an appeal from the decision of the Lord Ordinary
f Scotland, for the purpose of setting aside certain deeds of
settlement executed by the late Earl, the brother of the ap-
pellant, which the.judgment of the Lord Ordinary, in effect,
has declared to be valid. The interlocutor of the Lord Or-
dinary appealed from, among other matters, contains the
following propositions : " That the late Earl of Strathmore
held the estates (in question) in absolute fee-simple, and bad
full power to dispose of them in any manner not prohibited
by law ; that, by the deed of entail, dated Dec. 15, 1815, he
did, in due and lawful form, dispone the said estates to him-
self, and the heirs male of his body ; whom failing to the
heirs whatsoever of his body ; whom failing, to any heirs to
be named by him, by any deed of nomination or other
writings ; that, by deed of nomination of date the 15th of
December 1815, be declared his will and intention to ex-
dude entirely from the succession to his estates, the pursuer
(the appellant) ; that by certain clauses in the deeds of en-
tail and nomination, the conveyance and the rights thereby
created are declared to be subject to the burden of a trust
deed, executed of the same date ; that the said Earl con-
veyed the whole of the said estates, and also his whole
movable funds and effects, in the event of his own death, to
James Dundas,and, by a subsequent deed, to Sir John Dean
Paul (the respondents), as trustees; that the objects of
the trust appear to be clear and distinct—viz. on the one
hand, to accumulate the rents of the existing estate,
and any residue of the personal funds, after paying the
testator's debts and certain legacies provided, during
30 years, to be employed in the purehase of lands, to be add-
ed to the entailed estates; and, on the other, to continue
the trust and the employment of the rents, during the lives
of the Hon. Thomas Bowes, and of John Lyon and Charles
Lyon, except in the special case of a son of the Hon. T.
Bowes, or of John Lyon, having right, by their deaths, re-
spectively, to the honours and dignities of the family ; in
which events, the trustees are directed to convey the estates
to such son, to whom they are destined by the deed of en-
tail." The ancestor of the family of Lyon, now Earls of
Strathmore and Kinghorn, settled in Scotland about the year
1098 ; his name was Sir Roger de Leonne, and he obtained
from Edgar, King of Scotland, son of Malcolm Canmore,
certain large grants of land, which were designated, after
him, Glen-Lyon. The lands and ancient thanedom of Glam-
mis were, by Royal grant, bearing date the 18th of March,
137.2, given by Robert 11. King of Scotland, to Sir John
the heir-male and lineal desendant of Sir Roger
de Leonne. Shortly afterwards Sir John Lyon married
Lady Jane Stewart, the daughter of King Robert. He
possessed for dower the lands and thanedout of Tannadice
and barony of Kinghorn, and he was created a Peer of Par-
liament by the territorial dignity and title of Lord of
Glammis. On the 10th of July, 1606, King James Vi.
of Scotland, granted to the eleventh Lord Glammis, and the
heirs male of his body, the title of the Earl of Kinghorn,
Lord Lyon and Glannnis; and King Charles the Second,
by letters patent under the Great Seal of Scotland, bearing
date the let of July, 1677, as a reward for the fidelity and
services of the third Earl of Kinghorn, and of the services
which his ancestors had conferred, and losses they had
sustained, by adhering to their Sovereigns iu the worst of
times, and as an incitement to their heirs male and of talzie,
to persevere in the same, and, understanding that the greater
part of his lands lay in the vale of Strathmore, therefore that
Monarch granted him the title of Earl of Strathmore ; John,
the late Earl, succeeded his father in 1766. He died in
don on the 3d of June, 1820, leaving four deeds relative to
his estates in Scotland, the subject of the present action,
which have been above alluded to.

The arguments of Counsel on both sides were very long
and intricate, to which it would be impossible to do justice
ithin the limits which must, of necessity, be prescribed on
the present occasion.
These reasons, inter alia, were submitted to their Lord:
ships by the Learned Gentleman who appeared ou behalf of
the respondents. The appellant had no legal title, it was
alleged, to insist in reduction of the trust deed, seeing
!kit the late Lord Strathmore, being proprietor in fee sim-
ple of his estates, was unquestionably entitled to disinherit
the appellant, and exclude him from his succession, in whole
or in part, and to leave his estates to persons even absolutely
strangers to his blood. The appellant was barred by the
previous conveyance in trust, and by the deed of entail,
which I% ere not revoked by the deed of the Ist ofJuly,lB2o,
that deed, on the contrary, proceeding on the supposition
that the trust deed and entail were subsisting and effectual ;
itwas also contended that the deed of the lstJuly,lB2o,
was valid and effectual,since it was executed, not on death-
bed, but in liege ',Gaelic.
The LORD CHANCELLOR pronounced an elaborate judg-
ment, affirming the judgment of the Court below.

The gallant veterans of the Egyptian army and navy ce-
lebrated, by a grand dinner, at the United Service Club, on
Monday, the anniversary of that glorious day on which the
• brave Abercromby received his death wound." Lord Beres-
d nag in the chair, and there were present Lords Howden
and Cavan, Sir John Doyle, Bart; Sir William Houston,
(;.C.B. Sir Thomas Reynolds; Colonels Duffy, Hare, and
lieu% ts, with many other distinguished officers.

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PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.
BRIGHTON HERALD, MARCH 19.

One of the most numerous meetings we have ever known in Brighton,
took place on Monday last, at the Old Ship, for the purpose of con-
sidering the plan proposed by his Majesty's Ministers, fur a reform of
the representation of the people in the Commons' House of Parliament;
and to consider the propriety of strengthening the hands of the Govern-
ment, by presenting an address laMejesty, and a petition to the
House of Commons, in support of the intentions of his Majesty's
ministers therein. The High Constable, Mr. T. G. Sorel, was unani-
mously called to the chair.
The Brighton address and petition had, up to last night, received
about 5000 signatures. In glancing over the list, we observed among
the names the following :—the Hon. Gen. St. John, the Hon. Lindsay
Roper Curzon, Col. Lloyd. S. F. Milford, Esq, W. Seymour, Esq. T.
Attree, Esq. R. Bevan, Esq. G. Baaevi, Esq. N. Graham, Esq. J. H.
Boner. Esq R. Newnham, Esq. W. Croskr, Esq. and Dr. Gibney.
The Committee, who consist of the High Constable, Mr. R. Wigney,
Mr. Hilton, Mr. Good, Mr. and Mr. !..amprell, deserve the
thanks of the town, for their indefatigable exertions. Better working
men could not easily have been selected. They are animated with the
right spirit, and are just calculated to carry a public object, of &t-
-rate importance, into complete effect.
At the meeting, in this town, to bear the appeals of persons claiming
exemption from serving in the militia, a countryman presented him-
self, and, on being asked whether he could swear himself not worth
4100 ? replied, " I can safely swear to that, stir." He was then
asked if he had more than one child born in wedlock to which be
answered, with considerable gravity, " I have more than one child, eur,
but they were born in Brighton and not in wedlock."
Two meetings on the subject of Parliamentary reform were held at
Horsham, on Thursday. The first was held at the King's Head, at
which the bailiffs of the borough presided. There were present about
fifty persons, among whom were Mr. Robert Hurst, his son, Mr. R.
H. Hurst, and several other gentlemen of respectability. The pro-
ceedings occupied little more than an hour. The second meeting was
held at the Crown Inn ; Mr. William Rick wood, in the chair. Mr.
Thornton, of Springfield*, addressed the assembly in eloquent terms,
which was followed by addresses from Messrs. A. Beauclerk, G. B.
Holmes, T. and J. Hon wood, and W. L. Thomas. Mr. R. H. Hurst
was also present, and delivered a speech replete with argument and good
sense. Mr. Roberti Hunt, and several gentlemen, who were at the
former meeting, attended this also. The number assembled was about
two hundred.

Oa the morning succeeding that on which the reform meeting was
held in this town, a marquee was erected on the Steyne, in which a
table, and pens and ink were placed, with skins of parchment, to receive
signatures to the addles, to his Majesty and the petition to the House
of Commons. Flags were hoisted at the gates of the enclosure, and the
novelty of the scene attracted great numbers of persona, who hastened
to affix their names • upwards of five hundred signatures were thus ob-
tained daily, in addition to which several other places in the town were
assigned to a similar purpose. The idea of the marquee on the Stryne,
which was an excellent one, originated, we believe, with 'Mr. Savage, of
the Pavilion Hotel, who conceived that it bore a strong analogy to the
Barons of old contesting for their liberties at Rnnnvmede.
It is intended by government forthwith to aboli;h the coast blockade,
and substitute in lieu thereof the coast guard. In consequence of this
measure a large number of seamen have been drafted on board several
of his Majesty's ships of war at Portsmouth. The coast guard will
commence their duties next week.

Government have it in contemplation to take the whole of the funds
and the superintendence of the turnpike roads in England into their
own hands.

THE Nzwaavxx Mt:lnit.—A pamphlet, written by Mr. C.
VetraL of Seaford, entitled " The Trial of Captain Harry Winter," and
" with a Letter to Mr. Justice Taunton," has just been published.
We have only space for the concluding paragraph :—" I have, I am
quite certain, given proofs enough of that malice aforethought which
ought to have called for a verdict of murder ; and I have proved that
if the object of that inquisition which takes place in our Courts of Jos-
tice, be the search after truth, there ought to be sonic change made in
ithe modes of receiving and admitting evidence."
LswEs CORN BlARlRT.—Saturday, March 12, 1831.—Oats, 11. Ss.
to 11.66.—March Ib.—Wheat. white, 31. 141.; to 41. ; ditto, mixed,
31. 18s.; ditto, red, 31. 16s. to 31. 1116. ; Barley, 11. 11x. ; Oats, 11. Ss.
to 11. 7s. ; Beans, 11. 145.; Pease, 21. ; Oil Cake, 121. per thousand.
CHICHESTER CORN MARRZT.—inspector's return :—Wheat, 735.
60.; Barley, 384. bid. ; Oats, 275. 31 ; Beans. 41s. 7661.; Pease,
395.2.
Married—by special license, at Tilnest Park, the Hon. W. Law,
youngest brother of Lord Rilenborough ; to the Hon. Augusta Chain-
page Graves.
Died—At Mahan Rey, Nice, in his 3241 year the Rev. Eardley
Childers, second son of the late Col. Childers, of Centley, Yorkshire.
and late Curate of Maidenhead.

NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, MARCH 19.
At a numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of the
town of Northampton, held pursuant to public notice at the Guildhall,
in the said town, the 14th day of March, 1831, for considering of the
propriety of expressing their hearty concurrence in the measures of re-
form brought forward by his Majesty's ministers through Lord John
Russell, and praying both Houses of Parliament that the same may
forthwith pass into a law; H. L. Stockbum Esq. Mayor, in the chair;
it was proposed by George Peach, Ea+ seconded by Samuel Peach, Esq.
and resolved unanimously-
-Ist. That it is the opinion of this meeting that the loss of public con-
fidence in the House of Commons, as at present constituted, is mainly
attributable to the present corrupt mode of the election of a great pro-
portion of its members, in direct contradiction to the theory of the Bri-
tish constitution, the first and great principle of which is the just tepee-
sentation of the people. 2d. Proposed by Charles Whitworth, R.
seconded by Mr. Thomas Sharp, and carried unanimously ;—That this
meeting disclaims in the most solemn and unhesitating manner every
revolutionary feeling towards the existing institutions of the country.
3d. Proposed by Mr. Dennis, seconded by Mr. William Stanton, and
resolved unanimously;—That this meeting declares its full concurrence
in the comprehensive plan of reform proposed by his Majesty's minis-
ters, and offers their most hearty thanks for the uncompromising and
disinterested manner in which they have fully redeemed the pledges
they gave on the great question of reform ; and that this meeting is
thoroughly convinced that the success of the great measure proposed is
indispensable not only to the restoration of the confidence of the people
in the Commons'House of Parliament, but also to the prosperity, peace,
and security of the country.
The hall was crowded to excess, and an adjournment was loudly
called for ; and the mayor being informed that a vast number of people
were outside unable to obtain admission, at once adjourned the meeting
to:the Market Square, and himself and the speakers took their stations
in the balcony in front of the Peacock Inn.
On Thursday last, a very numerous and highly respectable meeting
of the householders and other inhabitants of Kettering and its vicinity
was held in that town, pursuant to public notice, when petitions to
both Houses of Parliament praying for the enactment of Lord John
Russell's Reform Bill, were unanimously adopted.
Meetings in favour of Lord J. Russell's measure for Reform in Par-
liament, have been held at Wellingborough, Newport Pagnel, and
Leighton Bossard ; at each of which places it has been almost unani-
mously approved.
On the 20th ult, between one and two o'clock in the morning, the
house of 51r. Francis Old, of North Crawley, was broken open by a
desperate gang of villains, who for a long time have infested the town
of Newport Pagnel and its vicinity, and, fortunately for the ends of
justice, many of them, through the vigilance of the constables, were, in
a few hours afterwards, apprehended, conveyed to Newport, and con-
tined in safe custody until Saturday the sth instant, when they were
brought before the sitting magistrates, the Rev. John Pretyman and
T. P. Duncombe, Raq. It appeared, during the investigation, that
the inmates consisted of Mr. Old and his aged wife, George Old their
son, and a maid-servant. The villains went to the bed.side of the aged
couple, who had retired to rest, and barbarously beat them with
bludgeons—the pillows, &c. were produced before the magistrates, and
presented a homd spectacle, being completely covered with their blood.
AYLESBURY; Frtday.—Wheat, per load, 171. to 19L 10s. Barley,
per quarter, 37s to 455. Oats 211 s to 325. Beans 38s to 445. Peas
38s to 445.

NORTHAMPTON, Saturday.—Wheat 72s to 80s. Barley 38. to
435._ Oats 26s to 31s Beans 364 to 38s.

MARKET HARBOROUGH, Tuesday.—Wheat 754 to 821. Barley
38s to 445. Oat. 25s to 31s. Beans 38s to 465. Fine Flour 645.
Thirds 595. Malt 765. Butter, 14d to 15d per lb. Eggs, 20 for Is.
DIED.—At Lower He ford, 30, Elisabeth, the wife of Mr Joseph
Adams, jun. The Rev. Thomas Allen, seventeen years Pastor of the
Baptist Church, Irthlingborough.--Mr. T. Shaw, Dunstable.—Mr. J.
Dunkley, of this town.
CHELTENHAM JOURNAL, MARCH 21.
A ILLIVALS—CoIoneI Kennedy, Colonel St. Clair' Lleatenant..Col.
rs
Burke, Major Moore, Captain and 3lrs. St. Clair, Captain and M.
Coote, Capt. Bennett, Capt. Vincent, Rev. Mr. Williams, Rev. &Carr,
Rev. T. Commeline.
The splendour, brilliancy, and general effect, of the Grand Dress
Ball on St. Patrick's Eve, exceeded the most sanguine anticipation
than even our knowledge of the liberal arrangements that had been
made to render the entertainment worthy of the occasion, and of
the lively interest it had excited in the fashionable world, led us to en-
tertain. Among the distinguished personages present, we noticed—
Sir Henry Pynn, Sir William and Lady Burdett, General Sir Wm.
Hutchinson, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles Dance, Colonel Berkeley,
Hon. Craven Berkeley, Rev. Dr. and Miss Coles, Lady Henry and
Miss Murray, Lady Dance, Lady Otway, Lady Rollo, the Hon. the
Mims Rollo.

At the Hereford County Meeting, at least one thousand persons at-
tended. The speakers for Lord John Russell's measure, " entire and
unmutilated," were Messrs L. Charlton, Davis, T. A. Knight, and
Coy Money; agaiust—Rev. A. Matthews and Counsellor Powell.
The tremendous hisses and yells which followed Col. Money's church
panegyric, in reply to Mr. Charlton against clerical magistracy, re-

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minded man y of Milton's picture of the uproar at Satan's disclosure of
his plans to the sable host.
In the House of Commons, on Thursday evening, J. Martin, Req.
M.P. for Tewkesbury, presented the petition of his constituents in fa-
vour of the royal, ministerial, and popular measure of constitutional
reform. The petitioners emphatically desire "The bill—the whole
bill—and nothing but the bill,"—and such is the demand of all Eng-
land. Will it be resisted? Assuredly not. Can Reform be
longer denied to the supplicatices of a long suffering, but determined
Pefire broke out on &today evening, the 136 instant, on the pre..
mime of Mr. Bown, farmer, Amney, near Cireencesta. Several of
the outbuildings fell a prey to the flames, but the dwelling house
was saved.
CaeLT estrum, Thursday, March 17.—What, per bushel, 8. 3d
to 91. Barley 4s to fis 6d. Oats 21 6d to 45. Beans 4s 94 to 6e. 6d.
Peas 6s to Bs. Beef, per lb. bd to 6d. Mutton 6d to 6d. Veal 6d to
6d. Pork 6d to 6d. Hay 31 lOs to 31 lbs per ton.—Price of Bread.—
Wheaten lid—Standard Wheaten 104. Best Butter, 174—Eggs 12
for Is—Potatoes 10d per peck.—Fowls, per couple, 3s 6d to 4s.
Chickens, do. 3e to 4s. Ducks, do. 3s 6d to 4s lid. Rabbits, do. la
tid tat. Pigeons, each, fid to 9d. Geese, do. 4s to bs 6d.
MARRIED.--14r. W. Clarke, of Winchannb-street, to Ann, se-
cond daughter of Mr. Crump, of Mereot—Mr. E. Aldis, of Ukton on
Severn, to Miss Mary Ann Goodwin—George Moor. Esq. surgeon, of
Moreton in the Marsh, to Eliza, fourth daughter of John New, Esq. of
Northw.
DlED—Miss Pitt, fourth daughter of the late Mr. J. Pitt, of
Cirencester—At Gloucester. Mr. J. Simpson, printer.
COLCHESTER GAZETTE, m _ARCH 19.
Her Majesty has ordered a very handsome dress from a manufacturer
at Norwich, which she intends to wear at the next drawing room. It
is a bombasin, made of wool of the finest possible quality : its appearance
is light, and beautiful as to texture, to a degree that cannot be im-
agined, and falls, when made up, in the most graceful folds. The
body is white, and the train pone/eats.
HAILWICIL—On Wednesday morning, about three o'clock, a diabo-
lical attempt was made to set fire to the dwelling house of our worthy
and exemplary vicar, which was happily frustrated by the vigilance and
providential arrival of Robert Gosnall, one of the inspectors of the
watch, who came up at the critical period, when a quantity of combus-
tible materials in a conk, placed against the street door, ignited,which he
speedily extinguished.
alar.non.—lt has always been the unhappy fate of this town,—
that every measure concerted fur its welfare, should be defeated by
the jarring of private interests, or the operation of political jealousy.
It was in consequence of these, that a plan was carried into execu-
tion which has robbed the town of much of the benefit which ought
to arise from its import trade. For the same reason it is, that the
valuable fisheries in the River Blackwater, are at present under no
cottroul—no restraint or impost is laid on the foreign fisherman, who
takes away the fish whenever he chooses, while the English fisherman is
obliged to be content with what is left.
The following is a verbatim copy of a letter received a few days ago
by Mr. Russel, keeper of the Huntingdon Gaol, from "Jack Ketch,"
who was desirous of having an annual salary from the county, instead
of being paid by the job. as heretofore, for carrying the last sentence of
the law into effect on condemned criminals :
" My best respect to Mr. and tin. Russell, and family, hopping it
will find you all in good health, as it leaves me at present, thank GOD
for it. I should like to know whether there is any thing to be done at
Huntingdon Gaol this time. I should wish to make agreement to do
it yearly at both Huntingdon and Cambridge, whether there is a job or
not. Please to let Mr. Orridge, of Berry St. Edmond's, know I wish
to make the same agreement with him to do the job by the year, and 1
will be your omble servant at any time, there or any where else when
you want my services. Send me an answer beck when you think proper.
" THOMAS IZZEARS, your omble servant."
COLCHISTER MAaaET.—The supply was very abort to-day.
Wheat was much the same as last week. Barley was dull sale and
rather cheaper. Oats appeared to be very dull sale. White Wheat,
78s a 80s. Red do. 72s a 745. Barley, 32s a 445. Oats, 24s a 325.
Tick Beans, 38s a 425. Horse Beans, 40s a 445. White Peas, 42s a
4tis. Grey do. 38s a 425.
HADLEIGH, Masten 11.—Our market had a middling supply of
grain today. Prime samples of Wheat fully maintained last Monday's
prices. Barley was full la. per quarter lower. In other articles little
or no variation. The Cattle Market was well supplied, and prices
much the same as last week, except in pigs, which are considerably
dearer.

MARRIED.—At Bexley, by the Lord Bishop of Rochester, the
Rev. Morgan Watkins, to Henrietta Auriol Drummond, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Hay Drummond, Rector of Hadleigh.—At St.
Andrew's, Holborn Mr. Benjamin Crouk, of Tring, to Maria, young-
est daughter of the late Mr. Wing, of llakenham.—Mr.Alfred Tucked,
of Frenchay, near Bristol, to Helen, fourth daughter of Mr. Samuel
Curds, of Glawnwood.—Mr. Benjamin Fuller, to Mary Ann, second
daughter of Mr. Mead, at Abridge.—At Weathersfield, Mr. Isaac
Adams, jun. to Catharine, youngest daughter of Mr. Metson.
DlED.—Elisabeth, relict of the late Rev. Matthew Thompson,
Rector of Mistley-cum.Manningtree, aged 49.-111 rs. Baker, relict of
the late Mr. John Baker, Monks Eleigh.—The Rev. George Belgrave,
D.D. Rector of Cock field, in Suffolk, and Vicar of Stebbing, aged 82.
KEENE'S BATH JOURNAL, MARCH 2.

Arne miss.—Hon. A. Jocelyn, Marshall Bourmont, Deputy In.
sector General Loulsworth and family, Mr. Commissioner Bowen,
Colonel Elton, Colonel Newton Lieutenant Colonel Baker, Lieute-
nant Colonel Barrow, Major Creechton. Captains—Arthur, Nl'Caul,
Fitzgerald, Randall, Stevenson; Lieut. and Mrs. Thompson, Dr.
Fox, Dr. Finlayson ; Rev. Messrs. Grouch, E. Gardiner, R. Rowden,
Wy, Whittuek, Giaboroe, Dudding.
A petition in favour of the emigration project is in course of signa-
ture in this city r but we are sure that many of those persons whose
names we have beard are attached to it—whom we know to be influ.
enced by the best motives—cannot be aware of the injustice which would
be consequent on such a measure. They can hardly be aware that one
clause of the intended act is, that the poor who by emigrating, shall lose
their parish settlements in this country, shall never again be enabled to
regain them. So that a person once starved into a compliance with the
emigration advocates, no sooner acknowledges the same, than he pro-
nounces his own doom to perpetual banishment.
Dorset Assizes commenced on Monday, at Dorchester. Edward
Wilson was found guilty of robbing, in April last, the Devonport mall
of a parcel containing 2,8111. in notes, Etc. and sentenced to seven
years' transportation.
On Thursday last, the next presentation to the Rectory of Frampton
Cottrell, in this county, was brought to the hammer at the Auction
Mart, London, and produced 3,500 guineas. The parish contains
2,140 acres of land, (with the hamlet of Wiekwick); the annual in-
come of 7181. 18s. The present incumbent is aged 72.
In consequence of the extension of the elective franchise to Frome,
the honour of representing that town, it is said, is likely to be
severely contested ; two, if not three, very respectable individuals,
having already commenced canvassing among their respective con-
nexions.

CLIFTON Suarez/610x Bazooe.—Mr. Brunel, jun. has been
unanimously appointed Civil Engineer, for the erection of this bridge.
Tuesday, the wife of a poor labourer, named Enock Porch of Brad-
ford, was safely delivered of three fine male children. Our informant
states that this increase of the poor people's family is likely to increase
their afflictions, which are of no small amount. The father' by trade a
weaver, has long been out of regular employment. A little straw only
forms the poor woman's bed.
John Hawksey Acherley, Esq. proposes, in Bath, a Grand General
Meeting, to lay a basis, in an Address to the King, and in the resolu-
tions to be entered into for presentation to his Majesty's Ministers,
leading to the incorporation of the out part of the parish of Walcot ;
and of the parish of Bath wick; and that of Lyncombe and Widcombe,
with the city of Bath ; so that all these may be represented by the
members to be elected for the city of Bath.
Tuesday, Thomas Bodman, who, though only ten years of age, is an
old and consummate thief, was committed by the mayor for trial at the
assizes, on the charge of stealing a breast of mutton from the shop of
Mr. Nowell, butcher, of Walcot-street. The prisoner has been re-
peatedly in custody and whipped for felony.
Yesterday morning, David Williams, a plumber, whilst fixing a
pump in the yard of the White Hart Inn, the arch on which he was
standing gave way, and he was in an instant coveted under an immense
mass of stone and rubbish. Fifteen men were soon engaged to remove
it and ascertain his fate. After fourteen hours incessant toil, they
rescued him alive and little hurt!

Bath, Saturday, March 19.—Corn Market.—Wheat, per quar. 50s.
to 78s ; Flour, Cis to 68s ; Seconds do. 57s to 58s; Beans, per quar.
sils to 525; Barley, per qr. 28s to 44s ; Peas, pee qr. 40s to 58a; Oats,
per qr. 24s to 30s. The Four Pound Loaf, Wheaten, 10d. Standard
Wheaten, 9d.

Warminster, Saturday, March 19.—Wheat, 50s to 71k ; Barley, 271
to 475; Oats, 25e to 30s; Beans, 40s to 60s; Peas, 40s to 80s;
Quartern Loaf, 9d.
MARRIED.—At Bristol, Mr. Starmand, surgeon, of Fareham,
Hants, to Clara, fifth daughter of the late Mr. J. Hall.—At Char.
mouth, Mr. J. Cox, of Taunton to Frances, second daughter of the
late Rev. Henry Ilayman, of Halitock.
DIED.—At Ballbroughton, Worcestashire, of a rapid decline, G.
Davis, the only son of the Rev. ;Dr. Blakiston.--At Measham, aged
52, Mrs. D. Newman, relict of the late B. Newman, Esq. of Jamaica.
—At Whiteway, M. E. Parker, Esq. aged 53.—At Axminster, J.
Mal lack, Esq.—At Temouth, Blass E. Cox.--At Exhalent, John
Brock, Esq—At Torpoint, Fanny, wife of Lieut. Wm. Jones, R.N.—
At Weymouth, Mr. Allen, surgeon.--At Clifton, Mr. J. Purria, son
of the Rev. H. Punier, of Little Hinton, Wilts —Mr. B. Board. of
Bristol, aged 61. —Amelia, wife of Mr. George Gran , Queen-square.
_may, wife of Mr. Wm. Cox, of Brockley. wile of Mr. T.
Harris, of Somerset-squae, soapaianufacturer.—March 3, in this city,
Mrs. Chamberlain, widow of the late Hon. Judge Chamberlain. of the
Court of King's Bench, Ireland.—March 12, in Alford-buildinp,
Lieut..CoL Drummond, of the Hon. East India Company's Service,
aged 48.—March 13, Mr. John Edwards, grocer, of Rlchmond.place,
near this city.—March 8, in London, Caroline, wife of the Rev. James
Harrington Evans, and youngest daughter of the late Thomas Joyce,
Egg. of Freahford House, in this county.

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THE FANCY.
A plea sent little MW, as the patrons of pugilism would
thee on Tuesday at Whetstone, on the Bernet road, between
lliCarthy sad Smith, the East-end Sailor Boy, for a stake
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men were pretty insets upon a par in point of weight--about nine stone,
but 1114Carthy had the advantage in length.
Upon coming to the scratch, MT -artily was waited upon by Net
Crawley and Shme ; and Smith by Harry Holt and Nal Stockman.
In the very first round the Sailor Boy bore down upon his opponent,
with a determination to do mischief; and dealt him such a tremendous
right-handed hit on the ribs, that two of them gave way, and wet*
fractured. This !Royce a fortunate commencement ; and for the 13
rounds which foliowed, the Sailor kept the " weather gauge"—always
hat! the advantage. and fought with such rapidity, head and fists, that
poor Mar had not a chance. In twenty-two minutes he was incapable
of continuing the combat, while the Sailor Boy had not a mark.
lac was taken from the ring with the consolation of three broken
ribs, while the Sailor.boy was "all salve and kicking"—justifying the
confidence of his friends, who had backed him at six to four on entering
the lists. There was a second fight between two outsides, named Mike
Cokely and Paddy Nowlin. The latter a perfect skeleton, and
" pigged," as the saintoscenti said, "from a bone yard." They fought
seventeen minutes bone giving way to flesh, and Paddy's grinders
leaving off candidates for a sinecure in his breeches pocket, for they
were as loose as the vane of a weathercock.
The sports of the day went off "most agreeably," and good humour
prevailed throughout.

LENT ASSIZES.
EXETER, TUESDAY, MARCH 22.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice TAUNTON.)
MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN DT THEIR OWN BOTHER.
Mary Revel stood indicted for having, on the 18th of October last,
feloniously and wilfully murdered John Fowel and William Fowel, by
strangling and suffocation.
The unhappy prisoner, on being placed at the bar, exhibited the
clearest symptoms of insanity. Her mental aberration was entirely of
a religious character, and during the whole of the trial she continued
muttering detached sentences, to the effect that her children were happy,
that she had killed them in obedience to the commands of her Saviour,
who had appeared to her, and given her directions upon the point, and
that she should be glad to ace them again; with other expressions of a
similar character, all denoting the highest degree of fanaticism.
Mary Wilcox deposed that she lived in the same house with the
prisoner and her husband in Plymouth. The husband worked in the
Mck-yard. They had two sons, one of them about six years and a
half old, and the other younger. Witness saw them both alive, and in
good health, on the 29th of October last. On the following morning
she saw them lying dead in one bed. The prisoner said that they had
died at four in the morning, and that the room was surrounded by
angels at the time of their death. The prisoner has always been in the
habit of talking • great deal to herself during the time that witness
knew her, which was more than three years. Witness never thought
the prisoner right in her mind.
William Honeycomb deposed, that on the 30th of October, the
prisoner came to her husband in the Dock-yard at Plymouth with his
breakfast. She told her husband that the children were dead. The
husband answered that if they were, she murdered them. She replied,
that no woman ever killed children. She;said that they had died near
the morning. She then asked witness to persuade her husband not to
come home, and inquired where the sexton lived that she might fetch
him to measure the children for their coffins, and she also requested
witness to come and help to bury them, as she wanted to get them out
of the way as soon as possible. Her husband had been on watch in
the dock-yard that night, all night. She had previously often told
witness that her husband was insane.
Ambrose Nosworthy deposed, that he saw the prisoner sitting on the
30th of October, in the morning, by the side of the bed where her two
children lay dead ; her hands were clasped and in her lap, and she
looked wild, and turned her eyes away from the bed. The children
had marks of finger nails on their necks and other parts of the body,
and the hands of one of them were firmly clinched, and he seemed to
have died very hard.* She said that they died a natural death, and
had a happy release; her husband asked her to tell him how it hap.
pened. She said to the husband, " You are mad, not I." Her eyes
were very wild; she asked witness to bring her a Bible when he took
her to gaol ; witness thought her decidedly insane.
(One of the preceding witnesses deposed, that on the evening in which
the children had been murdered the witness was engaged in reading the
Bible.)
James Day deposed, that he had known the prisoner for a long time,
and that she was subject to a pain in the head, which affected her mind.
In July last she told the witness that she had been a long time in
bondage. but that she was become • free woman, for that her Lord
Jesus Christ had at length appeared to her.
Thomas Crossing, &surgeon, deposed, that he examined the bodies of
the children after death. There were marks of human nails upon their
necks, and he had no doubt whatever of their death having been pro.
diced by strangulation and suffocation. Witness considered the pri-
soner as most decidedly insane.
The Jury, under the direction of the learned Judge, returned a ver.
diet of Not Guilty, upon the ground of the prisoner's having been Mame
when she committed the act.

The learned Judge directed that she should be detained in custedy
until his Majesty's pleasure should be known as to the method in which
she was to be disposed of. His Lordship stated, at the same time, that
there existed no ground for imputing any negligence to her husband, as
he had long before the destruction of the children, requested the parish
officers to place the woman in a Lunatic Asylum, which they refused
to do.

POLICE REPORTS.
Bovv-a T .—Yesterday a man named Starling was charged with
the following robbery :—lt appeared from the statement of a toor half-
witted Irish lad, named Cunningham, that on the night of the 10th Mat.
on hie return home with his Irish bagpipes, he was net by the prisoner,
who entered Into conversation with him. Just as the complainant had
got to the Willer of the court in which he lived, the prisoner suddenly
knocked him down, and kneeling on his chest, deprived him of the
power of calling for assistance- He then robbed hint of the bagpipes
and a sovereign. The complainant was found on the pavement nearly
insensible. The prisoner was fully committed on the capital charge.
MsaLsonouns; STREET.---Yesterday, a young female, named
Elizabeth Fuleher, was charged with stealing several articles of
jewellery, &c., the property of a lady named Verdun, residing in Port.
land Place. It appeared, that the prisoner had been a short time in
the service of Mrs. Verdon, in the capacity of an upper nursery maid.
Some weeks after she had quitted the ser.ice, Mrs. Verdon discovered
that she had been robbed of the artic'e- alluded to. The prisoner was
traced to a little coffee-shop in Aldgate Street, where she was
attending as a waltresb ; and on being taken into custody, some
of the stolen articles were found in her ponession, and dupli-
cates for others that she had pledged. The prisoner had, reel), before
going into the family of Mrs. Verdun, quitted her father's house in the
country clandestinely, and come up to London, in consequence of an at-
tachment she had unhappily formed, unknown to her friends, to a
coachman who drives one of the Norwich stages, and to whom it was
ascertained she had given as presents some of the stolen articles. She
was committed to Newgatc fat trial. Her father is a respectable farmer
at Norfolk.

BIRTHS
At Cowhill, near Dumfries, on the 18th inst. the lady of C►ptain
Charles James Johnston, Royal Navy, of a son.
The 20th Inst. the lady of Mr. H. R. Brtgg., of Primrose-street, of
a son—The 23d inst. Mrs. Wright, of Ruston-square, of a son.

MARRIED.
The 23d inst. at St. Magdalen, Bermondsey, Wm. Blortimore, Esq.
of Bermondsey, to Harriet, youngest daughter of R. Foster. Esq. of
the same place.—At Hackney, by the Rev. Edward Irish, Mr. R. M.
Pite, of Leicester-square, to Frances, fourth daughter of Mr. A.
Starkey, of Chatham.place.

DIED.
The 22d inst. in Great Marlborough-street, J. L. Gilbert, Esq. aged
40.—At Tottenham, the 20th inst. Mr. W. Wonley, of Charles-street,
Westminster, aged 55.- —The 18th inst. Augusta, the eldest daughter
of J. Barnes, Esq. of Chorley-wood-house, Hens.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL—THIS DAT.
By the Careese—Per stone or Bihs.
Beef as Od 36 10d os Od Mutton 31 641 4. 4d 4. od
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Veal se ad 4. ad Es Od Pork 59 6d 4. 4d 4s id
Lamb.... 6. ad ... 79 Od ... 7. ed.

SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET-THIS DAY.

Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow £2 2.. to jilt/S. Meta
ditto, £2 5.. to £5 10s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grua Hay,
£4 Os to £4 ss. Clover Hay, .23 Os. to £5 Ss. Oat Snows
£1 101 to ,fl 14s. Wheat Straw, £1 14t. to XI las. per load.

CUMBERLAND HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY.
Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, 172 Os. to Pit Sc. Dela
ditto, ,82 ss. to £3 los. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gram
Hay, AI 15s. to £4 ss. Clover Hay, 43 Os. to £5 Os Oat &MS.
Ll 101. to 141. Wheat Straw, £1 ins. to £2 Os. per load.

FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY.
Base--Finest Routing, Sd per lb. Boiling. did to ed. flu*•
ton—Leg, ed. Shoulder, 7d. VEAL—Les, Bed. Met, 10d.
Pont, Id to 94.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
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