Star.
London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

SIR %V M. WA ).WORTH.

Inquiry is made in the city after the stone coffin in which the famous
Sir N illiam Walworth was buried, in St. Michael, Crooked Lana—
After the 6re of London, the church, it is said, was rebuilt upon the
old walls and foundation, and the graves remained undisturbed. It is
the opinion of many that the coffin may be found upon the she. There
can be no doubt he was interred under the north chapel. Weaver has
preserved the following epitaph :
" Here under lyeth a man of fame
William Walworth call'd by name;
Fishmonger he was in lete time here,
And twice Lord Mayor, as in books appear;
Who with courage stout and manly might
Slew Vat Tyler in King Richard's sight ;
For which act done, and true intent,
The King made him knight incontinent,
And gave him arms, as here you lee,
To declare his fact and chivalry.
He left this life the year of our Lotd
Thirteen hundred four score three and odd."

Stow, in his description of St. Michael's church, gives a curious ac-
count of the great Lord Mayor :
" True it is that this William Walworth, being a man wise,learned,
and of an incomparable manhood, arrested Wat Tyler, a presumptu-
ous rebel, upon whom no man durst lay hand, whereby he delivered
the king and kingdom from the wicked tyranny of traitors. The
Mayor arrested him on the head with a sound blow, whereupon Wat
Tyler furiously struck the Mayor with his dagger, but hurt him not by
reasorf he was well armed. The Mayor having received the stroke.
drew his basiliard' and grievously wounded Wat on the neck, and
withal gave him a blow on the head ; in which conflict the Esquire
of the King's House, called John Cavendish, drew his sword and
wounded Vat twice or thrice to death ; and Wat spurring his horse
calls on the commons to revenge him. The horse leaves him about 80
feet from the place, and there he fell down half dead, and by and by
they which attended on the King environed him about so as he was not
seen of his company. Many of them thrust him in divers places of his
body, and drew him into the hospital of St. Bartholomew, from whence
again the mayor caused him to be drawn to Smithfield, and there to be
beheaded. In reward of this service, the people being dispersed, the
King commanded the mayor to put a basenet on his head, and the
mayor requesting why he should do so, the King answered—he
being much bound to him, would make him a Knight. The mayor
said he was neither worthy nor able to take such estate upon him, for
be was but a merchant, and had to live by his merchandise only. Not-
withstanding, the King made him put on his basenet, and then, with a
sword in both hands, he strongly struck him on the neck, as the manner
was then, and the same day he made three other citizens Knights, for
his sake, in the same place, to wit—John Philpot, Nicholas Brem.
ber, and Robert Launde, Aldermen. The King gave to the mayor one
hundred pounds by year, in land, and to each of the others forty pounds
in land yearly to them and their heirs for ever. After this, in the
same year, Sir William Walworth founded in the said pariah church
of St, Michael a college of a master and nine priests, or chaplains, and,
dying in ISM, was buried in the North Chapel by the Choir."

A tesaellated Roman pavement has recently been discovered in Lei-
cester. It treasures 20 feet by 17. The tamale are very small, and
exhibit a regular pattern, divided into octagonal compartments, richly
anbordered with wreathes, du. within which are devices of great variety
and beauty.
The cholera morbus has manifested itself at Leipeic.—
Ought not our Government to put under quarantine all ships
bringing bales of goods from those parts of the Continent
infected with this dreadful disease ?

A doubt having been started as to the safety and stability
of the floors in Buckingham Palace, a Committee of Archi-
tects, and' ther scientific men, have for some days past been
engaged there in applying immense weights and other
tests to the beams, all of which they are said to have stood
most satisfactorily.
The Hanover-square Rooms were put up for sale last
week, and bought in for £19,000. It was stated that the
directors of the Ancient Concerts have hitherto paid a rental
of £9OO a-vear for them.
The elephant just placed in the Zoological Gardens took
a great liking, when on board of ship, to articles of female
apparel ; while at Blackwall he took from her head, and de-
voured without ceremony, a lady's bonnet ; and took from
another her reticule, containing half-a-dozen nonpareils,
which he swallowed bag and all !

Slit RICHARD VIC ;YA .-it is said that the service of
the Cornish Baronet will not be missing in the new Parlia-
ment ; the opportune vacancy which the death of Mr. Raine
has occasioned in the representation of the Duke of North-
umberland's borough of Newport, Cornwall, will be filled up
immediately after the assembling of Parliament by Sir
Richard.

Rumours are abroad, that many of those Peers who
till now have been active and zealous in their opposition to
reform have at length become converts to a measure, whose
imperative necessity the present electors have placed beyond
the possibility of doubt. Among the Peers thus won over to
the cause of justice and the people, we believe we may
enumerate the Marquis of Bath, Lord Carteret, the Duke of
Buccleugh, and Earls Cawdor, Chesterfield, Harewood, and
Cork and Orrery.
Upwards of six thousand persons followed the Labbey de
Pompieres to Pere la Chaise, amongst whom were M.
Casimir Perier, and most of the Peers and Deputies at
present in Paris. The body was carried by young men,
all of whom wore the July ribond, which they displayed,
as if in triumph, under the very nose of Casimir.
TIIEATRICALS.-Mr. Kenney, in the preface to his new
play, states some painful facts of discourtesy and difficulties
against which dramatists have to contend, in their inter-
course with managers. As to the particular establishment
(Drury-lane) of which Mr. Kenney writes, it is said there
is too much cause for complaint ; nor is Mr. Kenney, if all
that is reported be true, the only author who has experienced,
in his dealings with the conductors, similar treatment :
" I state these facts at present as well as those which pre-
cede, not in anger, but deliberately. I state them in an
honest spirit of self-defence, and in the common cause of
my brother dramatists. I state them, because I have found
in this theatre an obtuse, an intractable, and an unblushing
insensibility to the claims of authors in every way, which
is only aggravated by forbearance. I state them because
we have become so signally and so peculiarly the victims of
the changed conditions of the London Theatres, that,
at a time when the spirit of reform and justice is abroad, it
may seem good to the enlightened and influential portion of
the patrons of the drama, that some efforts should be made
in our behalf, either in the way of legislative protection, or
relieving the regular drama from a monopoly so open to
abase. It is for these reasons that I begin to feel that
grievances of this nature, increasing as they are, should no
longer be indolently lost sight of, or dissipated as mine have
hitherto been, by a good night's sleep, or a walk in Regent's
Park."

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

BATH JOURNAL, MAY 15.

ARIIIVALS.—IIon. John Hawkins, Hon. Thomas F. Mason,
Sir George Bandylde, Sir John and Miss Briggs, Sir Richard Fletcher,
Lady Selina Williams ; Col. Mortimer, Col. Cochrane, Col. Latouche;
Major Pitman. Major Lewis, Major Cross; Captains—A. Houlton.
Nicholson. Morgan Dawlin, Bisden, Arthur; Dr. Taylor; Rev.
Messrs.—lreland,(juicke, Daniel; Mr. and Mrs. Cookson, Entedt
Handley.
However sanguine his Majesty's ministers might have been in their
anticipations of a favourable result from the appeal made to the people
of Fogland, every thing connected with the elections must satisfy them.
Wiivrever an extensive constituency Is concerned, we find the most free
and cordial co-operation to effect the great work, and that hearty enthu-
siasm expressed, which is due only to the deliverers of the people from
as oppressive and base a bondage as ever wealth and monopoly could
have inflicted.

The Reverend Mason Anderson, Clerk, has been instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Salisbury. to the Rectory of Sherrington, Wilts.
The Reverend Henry Hugh May, of Merton College, is instituted
to the vicarage of Henbury, near Bristol.
Three aquatic birds have been placed in the pond of the Bath Park,
which is stated to be the first step towards the formation of a Zoologi-
cal Garden.

The following lamentable fart of the state of the agricultural la-
bourers is copied from a pamphlet on their distressed condition
" I should mention several cases where the man who earns but 7* 6d.
per week by his labour, pays 2s 6d per week for the rent of his cot-
tage, without one foot of garden; and he has, moreover, to walk
two miles every morning to the farm in which he is employed.—
And I regret to say, that I am aware of many instances
where the principal of the family does not take home more than
sufficient to pay his rent and provide fuel ; relying upon the small
earnings of his wife and children for their maintenance during the en-
suing week."
We understand that the project of constructing a boating dock, at
Newport, is now seriously entertained.
On digging up the ground to form a cellar under a house now
Irebuilding at the upper end of Whitsun.court, on the north side of
St. James's church ; the workmen last week disinterred the skeleton
remains of four of the ancient inhabitants of the priory.
BATH, MAY 14.—Wheat, per qr. 52s to 76 ; Flour, 59s to 64s ;
Seconds, do. 34s to 555, Beans, 46s to 54s ; Barley, 30s to 48s; Peas,
46* to 58s ; Oats, 281 to 36a ; the four pound loaf, wheaten, 10d,
standard wheaten,
WARMINSTER, Mar 14.WheAt, 4411 to 7081 Barley, 30s to
445; Oats, 28s to 311; Beans, 41s to 50s; Peas, 40s to 60s; quer-
tern loaf, Bid.

MAlillED.—William Watson, Esq. of Ashley-place, to Miss
Fry, of &. James's Place, Kingsdown.—S. Pretor, Esq. of Sher-
borne, to Miss Dowding, of the Close, Salisbury.—At Caine, the
Rev. C. H. Gaye, M.A. Curate of Christchurch, Blackfriars, toFrances,
daughter of the late Wm. Hopkinson, Esq. Sutton, Northamptonshire.
John Stone, Esq. of Kensington-place, to Catherine Maria, youngest
daughter of the late John Barry, Esq. of Beaufort-buildings.—George
Hill, Esq. eldest son of the late Rev. J. B. Hill, to Elisabeth, eldest
daughter of John Rea, Esq. of St. Colomb's.—Mr. C. W. H. Evered,
son of John Evered, Esq. of Hill House, Somerset, to Emma, daughter
of Henry Candler, Raq—Mr. G. G. Paines, of Cheltenham, to Selina,
eldest daughter of Mr. G. Thompson, Gloucester.
DIED.—At Bellevue-house, near Devises, 81, Mrs. Tayler, relict
of the late S. Tayler, Esq. of Devises.— Martha, wife of C. H. Wans-
borough, Esq. of Shrewton.-74, Thomas Okey, Society of Friends.—
Priscilla, relict of the late John Brown, Esq.—At Beausinster, 70,
Mrs. Sarah Sawkins, eldest daughter of the late Rev. James &wkins,
and rector of 13attiscombe—John Hall, Esq. 65, of Grosvenor•place—
!annoy, youngest daughter of Sir Bellingham Graham, ban. of Norton
Conyers.