Star.
London, England, 1825-10-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, OCT. 20.
Very few subscribers were present to•day, and what little bet-
ting took phce was at the Newmarket quutati )))) There will nut
be any decisive betting till after the Houghton Meeting, when it
will become steady in the usual events. Fur the preseatiodds on
the Derby and St. Leger, see our Newmarket account.
NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.

THIIItsDAY.
Sweepstakes of 100 snv. each, f 0 ft. colts, Bst.7lb. fillies, Bst.4lb. D.T.
Duke of Grafton's b. c. Bolero . . 1
Lord Clarendon's b. e. by Partisan . . X
Duke of Grafton's e. by Want . 3
Lord G. H. Cavendish's e. Black Cat . 4
Nine paid. Wen by a length-2 to lon Bolero.
Handicap Plate of £lOO, for four, five, six years old, and aged
horses. A.F.
Mr. Bloss's eh. L Dobble Entendre, 4 yrs old, 7st. 101 b. 1
Duke of Grafton's br. tn. Zinc, 5 yrs old, Bst. . 2
Mr. Lamhton's h. nt. Spermaceti, 5 yrs old, Bst. 21b. .
Lord Tavlstock's ch. c. Shadow, 4 yrs old, 7st. 81h.
Two others started ; the Judge placed but two. Won by a
Tength-5 to 2 agst Double Entendre; 6 to 1 agst Zinc; 6 to 1 agst
Spermaceti ; 2 to 1 agst Shadow.
31r. Wortley's Scandal, Bst. 31b. beat the Duke of Grafton's
Cramer, fist. T.Y.C. 100, h. ft. Won easy-7 to 4on Scandal.
The Town Plate of £5O, for 3 yrs old, 7st. 4th. four, Est. 4111. five,
tt..t. 111 h. six, 90. 11b. and lgi.ll, 9st. 41b. T. M. 31: The witi.:er
to he sold for 200 gs. if demanded, &c.
Mr. Pettit's ch. g. Cat.ilinr-, aged . . 1
Lord Exeter's b. f. Attica, 3 yrs old • 2
Duke of Grafton's h. e. by Woful, 3 yrs old 5
•
Nr. Goddard's b. f. Pretension. 5 yrs old . 4
Duke of Portland's h. c. Egyptian, 4 yrs old . 5
Mr. Meynell's br. f. by Orville, 3 yrs old . 6
Won by a length-2 to 1 agst Catallne.
Mr. Powleit's Logic, Bst. 91h. rec. 50 from Mr. Thornhill's Re.
former, Bst. T.Y.C. 100.
Mr. Greville's Dahlia, 74. 51h. rec. ft. from Lord Exeter's Pi.
leis Royal, Bst. 91h. D. M. 200, h. ft.
Mr. Powlett's Logic, Bst. 111 h. rec. 20 from Sir J. Shelley's
Infelix, 70. 71h. First half of Ab. M. 100, it. ft
Mr. Greville's Don Carlos, list. 51b. agst Mr. Pettit's Cadiz, Bst.
D. M. NO. Off by con,ent.
HOLY WELL HUNT-Oex. IR.
The Chieftain Stakes, of 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 3 yrs old.
Sir T. Stanley's hr. e. by litho da Puta . 1
Mr. E. Stanley's gr. c. Auocrat . . 2
Mr. blytton's Loam d . . 3
Lord Grosvenor's Achilles . .
Produce Stakes of 50 sov. each, h. ft. for colts and fillies three-yrs

old. Two miles.

Mr. Myttnn's br. f. by Blucher
Si: T. Stanley's h. c. by Blucher
The Mottyn Stakes for all ages. Mostyn mile.

. .
Mr. Geary's hr. f. by Arachne 3 yrs . . 1
Sir T. Mostyn's br. I. by Whi:ker, 3 yrs 2
Mr. Mytton's Flexible, 3 vs . 3
Four others started, but were not placed.
A Handicap States of 20 sov. each, h. ft. with 50 added, &c.
Three miles.
Mr. Mytton's Flexible, 5 yrs, 7st. 71b. . 1
Sir W. W. Wynn's hr. c. by ltabens, 4 yrs, 7st. 91b. 2
Lord Grosvenor's Hybla, 4 yrs, Slit. 3
HUNTING.

The Cheshire Hounds meet on Monday, at Bostoek Lodge ;
Wednesday, at Prover; Thursday, at 'Patton Park; Saturday, at
Winnington Bridge.
The Chester Harriers meet on Monday, at Caughall Bridge;
Thursday, at Stamford Bridge.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds meet on Monday, at S'iirley Park ;
Thursday, at Swarkstone Bridge; Saturday, at B:irbelield.
The Shropshire Hounds meet on Monday, at Battlefield; Wed-
nesday, at Stoke Heath; Friday, at Candover Park.
TROTTING MATCH.

Mr. lllid, the horse-dealer, at llnmerton, undertook yesterdaT,
on the Chelmsford read, to trot his horse Tiger, 14 miles in an
hour, saddled, and to carry 11 stone. It was undertaken over four
miles of ground. The first four miles was done in is min. 10 sec.
second four, in 17 min. 11 sec. third four, 17 min. 15 sec. and the
last two in 8 min. 59 sec. losing the match by one Min. 55 sec. The
match was for 100 suv. and it was lost by the fretfulness of the
hotse in making two breaks from the trot.
PEDESTRIANISM. . .

Metcalf, the Warminster runner, performed on font a quarter
of a mile yesterday, in 57 seconds, on the Lewisham path, for
tive sous. The time allowed was one minute. It was won easy.

It is expected that the Grand Western Ship Canal
will he commenced at Bridgewater in less than a month.
At Chester Michaelmas Fair there was a numerous
shew of horses ; but there were very few good ones,
and most exorbitant prices were asked.—Hurned ca.tle
were in abundance, and. the prices of last fair were
fully supported ; in short, every species of agricultural
stock maintained its previous value.
At Edinburgh a Magistrate lately fined a man 20.:
or in default of payment to be imprisoned six months,
for assisting a soldier of the regiment gummed in the
Castle, to desert.—The penalty imposed was in com-
pliance with the terms of the Mutiny Act, which ad-
mits of no mitigation in such cases.
John Trubshaw, a fine boy, about five years of age,
nephew of Mr. Llwe, of the Plume ut Feathers, Staf-
ford, met his death by falling from a pair of stairs into
a mashing tub of hot water in the brewery.—On the
following day, at Shirleywich, John Ansun, a year
and a half old, was killed by falling into a bucket of
lye, which had been used for washing.
So plentiful has been the supply of salmon trout in
our trinket lately, from the Coquet, that on same
evenings last week it was sold to the public at f►arn Sd.
to 4d. per pound. On cutting up one of the fish, was
found a pair of spectacles in a case, which appeared
little worse for having been in the watery el:ment.-
Ire Mercury.
Wednesday se'nnight, Mr. Thomas Helmeron, clerk to
Boma Bunnem., Eq. Proctor of Durham, was
grossly and outrageously assailed w:th stones on the
Palace Green, by a party of young men named Cock-
burn, Hodgson, Tilly, and Brown, for having liberated
the groom whom they had locked in the stable. Mr.
Helmeton, demanded to know why they had acted so ?
when they instanly closed upon him, knocked him
down, and got upon his breast wilt their knees, and in
the most brutal manner kicked and struck him all over
his body. A person of the name of Gascoine came to
his assistance, but the fellows attacked this man add
gave him a black eye, some othe►s advancing to the
spot, the offenders commenced a precipitate retreat.
Fortunately, however, Mr. H. has been able to i entify
the whole of them, and they have been committed to
take th it trials at the Quarter Sessions n:w holding
at Du: ham.

LAW Zvi f:LLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S HENCE', OCTOBER So.

The lean Cuter Jusver ffi4 morning resumed his sitting. We
are sorry to say tb.4 his Lork:b...iy appears to be in a very indifferent
state or health.

DIXON V. PRICE.
This was an action by the proprietor, of the establish-
ment for the disposal of horses, situate in Barbican,
called " The City Repository for the gale of H rses."
The defendant was .a propristor of stage coaches, run-
ning between Islington and London. The present
action was brought to recover the sum of 501. alieged
to be due from the def infant to the plaintiff, as die
balance ler the pike of son.e hors.s publicly sold by.
the plaintiff at his sale to Mr. P. ice, the defendant. The'
facts were shortly thee. The defendant had been in
unfortunate circumstances, and became bankrupt.—
Dixon, the plaintiff, was a creditor of his, and, with a
man named West, was chosen assignee wider the com-
mission. The date of the commission was in Novem-
ber, 1323 ; and in December in that year, about a month
after the commission, an extent, at the suit of the
Crown, was daily expected, for the duties due to Go-
vernment from the bankrupt: and, in consequence.
twelve horses, belonging to the bankrupt, were brought
to Dixon's Repository for sale, in order to prevent them
being seized by the Crown, and the produce cf them to
be banded over to the assignees. The plaintiff Dixon,
actini in the capacity of assignee and auctioneer, sold
AVE:ais by auction, at the. Repository, for 971. 471.
•.^ or which he received, and the remaining 501. was
- - 'placed to accouht ; and it was now contended that the
defendant Price, the bankrupt, was the actual purchaser
of the horses, and that the 501. credit was given to him.
On the other hand, it was contended that the !wises were
bought by a man named Nash, on the account of a person
named Augner, who had given a note to Dixon, as the
auctioneer, to trust his man to the extent of 501. on ac-
count of horses. The question of fact therefore was,
whether the horses had been sold to the defendant Price,
or whether they had been sold to Nash as the agent
of Augner ?
Mr. SCARLET?, for the defendant, submitted, that
even supposing the sate was to Price, the present de-
fendant, the action was wrongly brought, because
Dixon had sued separately; whereas, being a joint
assignee, he ought to have sued as such, jointly with
West, and although acting as an auctioneer, he might
be liable to an action, for any deposits paid to him in
that capacity, yet he could not turn round and shift
himself of the girb of a joint assignee, and assume the
garb of auctioneer for the purpose of bringing an action.
The Lotto CHIEF JUSTICE was strongly of opinion
that Mr. Scarlett's objection was fatal, but in order to
save the possibility of the parties having to come to a
second ti :al, he thought the question of fact had better
go at once to the Jury.
Mr. ScattLerr then addressed the Jury, and called
Nash as a witness, who swore that he bid for the horses,
and delivered to Dixon's clerk, at the sale, a note signed
by Augner, requesting him to give his (Augnet's) man
credit tin 501.
The defendant's Counsel called for this note, but the
plaintiff did not produce it. The catalogue, marked by
the auctioneer was also called for, but not produced,
nor did the defendant call the clerk who vas in attend-
ance at the sale.
The LORD CIIILF Jiwrioz, in charging the Jury, was
strongly of opinion that the non-production by the
plaintiff of either the note, the catalogue, or the clerk,
went strongly in support of the testimony of Nash, that
the horses mete sold to Augner, and not to the defendant.
The Jury immediately found for the defendant.
The Lotto Cuter Junica—Mr. Searlett, the verdict is much
better than the law for you.
ADDIS')N V. GARLAND, ESQ.
This was an action against the defendant, a, the late
Sheriff of Essex, for an alleged false return made by
him to a writ of fieri facia:, issued against the goods
and chattels of a Miss Daniels. It appeared that Miss
Daniels ss as the daughter of the late Sir Francis Cu-
lomb ne Daniels. Sir Francis died insolvent, and his
daughter is now an inmate of the King's Bench. The
present plaintiff was a creditor of the daughter, and
had obtained a judgment against her, and had, in con-
sequence, levied an execution on some property which
the plaintiff thought was the property of Miss Daniels;
and the question was, whether the property seized was
the property of Miss Daniels, or of her late father, Sir
Francis ? A deal of Conflicting testimony was produced,
and at length the plaintiff was nonsuited.
HOWSE V. KIDNEY.
This action was brought against a Lady, residing in
Maisie place, to recover the value of a dot, which it
Was alleged she had refused to deliver to the plaintiff.
Sinclair, a coachman in Wimpole Mews, proved the
sale of the dog to the plaintiff, in A pri1,1824., for half-
a-guinea. The dog was lost on the 25th of July fol-
lowing. The dog in the possession of Miss Kidney
was the same.
On the part of the defendant, it was contended that the dog was
not the plaintiff's.
Miss Crease was present when Miss Kidney purchased the dog,
at the end of July. It was a fine white puppy, and not spotted, as
described by the plaintiff's witnesses.
S. Spagnioletti, a musician, said the dog in question was not the
plaintiff s.—The Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict
for the plaintiff.—Damages, ten guineas.
THE KING V. GARNET f.
This was an indictment against Mr. Barnett, a partner
in the firm of Scott, Garnett, and Palmer, corn-factors
in Aldermanbury, for having refused to serve the office
of constable for the Ward of Ctipplegate, to which he
had been duly elected. The defendant pleaded " Not
Gnilty."
Mr. COMMON SER3EANT conducted the case f r the
prosecution, and from the evidence he Called, it appeared
that the defendant had been duly elected constable for
the Ward of Cs ippiegate, that he had always been sum-
moned to attend Wald and Pat ish Meetings, and that on
one occasion he had voted as a. householder at the elec-
tion of a Ward-beadle.
Mr. GURNEY subMitted, that persons liable to serve
• the office of constable, must be inhabitants as well as
h .usellolJets in the parish. Now, as there was no evi-
dence to skew that the defendant was au inhabitant, he
must be acquitted.
The Lend Chief Justice ABRITT said, that he must
consider a househoWer as an inhabitant, until die de.
fendant offered kome evidence to prove that le was not so.
Mr. GURNEY addressed the Jury for the defendant,
and called Mr. Palmer to prove that the defendant was
not an inhabitant of the Ward.
Mr. Palmer, who is a partner in the same film with
the defendant, said that the dwelling-house attached to
theii counting-house was occupied by him ; the eel vi""%
in that house were his servants, and paid out of his private
property'; that neither of the clerks, who were paid by the
firm, slept in the house ; that as occupier of that house he
kad served the offices of Churchwarden and Overseer of

`the poor of the parish, and had also fined for cnnstAble:
that the defendant resided at Hampton, and had not
slept one night in the house in Aldermanbury in the las,
twenty years, during which he had occupied the house.
On his cross•examinatinn, he a tmitted that the rent,
taxes, and parish rates of his dwelling-house were paid
lout rf the partnership Funds.
Mr. COMMON SBRJEANT did not ihii,k that there %as
any question fur the consideration of a Jury, as the real
quer:ion in the ere was ore of law, on which both hi
Learned Friend and himself 'wete anxious to have the
opinion of the Court.
The Loan Oust Justice told the Jury, that as it was the inten-
tion of the parties to take the opinion of the Court of King's Bench,
be should not now give any opinion on the point. In order to
enable the parties to take the opinion of the Court, the Jury must
find the defendant guilty.—A •erdict was taken accordingly.
WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, OCTOBER 20.

f►'ri;ht, an officer, in the service of the Men-
dicity Society, was put on his trial for assaulting and
falsely imprisoning a poor man of the name of Jams
Grant, and his wife.

James Grant said—l am a tailor, aid private in the
East Middlesex Militia. Oir the 19th f May last,
about five el six o'cl•ick in the evening, I stopped.
my wife and two children, at the door of Mr. Ila les,
in Piccadilly, to look at a carriage standing OA—,
which I was told belonged to the Marchioness of Lon-
donderry. I had one chili in my arms. Wiight, the
officer, was at the time endeivouriog to apprehend
tall man, standing there, who got away. Ile taco c itrc
up to me, together with his fellow officer, Jackson, and
laid hold of my wife by the shoul.!e.s, and began to
drag her along. I asked the reason of :ind he
said, "She mustcome along with me, aod we will have
you too;" upon which both took hold of me. I was
compelled to drop the child. I received several blows,
my hat was knocked off, and my coat torn off my
back. One of the blows fell upon the child. Upon
this I lost all patience, and struck Wright again.
They to,:k me then to St. James's watch-hnu e, and I
was pushed down the steps into the dunge in, and
locked in. My wife and two children were also taken
them The next morning I was brought before a Ma-
gistrate. A charge of assault was made, and I was
committed to prison, where I remained five weeks. 1
had told the Magistrate Wright had struck me first.
I had been in prison about a week, when Wright came
and told me, that if I wrote a letter to the Mendicity
Society, and owned myself in fault, I might get cut.
I told him that I would write, but I did not. He came
agail some time afterwards, and Eked if I had wrote?
I told him I had, hut the letter had miscarried. He
asked if any one could give me a character ? I said
Admiral Gage would, and be wrote the name down
in his book.

The witness was cross examined by Mr. ANDREWS,

in order to shew that himself, or his wife, were begging
at the time they were taken into custody; but this lie
denied. He had only once before been b. fore the Men-
dicity Society. He went to ask for a fo:k for hay-
making, having been robbed of his own ; and they
gave him a boson of s3up.
Ellen Grant stated, that on the day in question
neither she nor her husband had begged of any one.
They were on their way to Cat uaby Mark.t, to sing
ballads. She was never taken up to the Mendicit)
Society's Office, but once applied with her husband,
and the Society gave her sixpence ant; a bacon of s iip.
Mr. Nathaniel Hailes and Mr. Hercules Hailes, bolls
of Mr. Hailes, the bookseller, before whose shop the
occurrence took place, corr.)borate.l the evi!ence of
Grant and his wife. They added, that a Gentleman on
horseback, who was passing at the time, complained
to Wright of the shameful manner in which he was
treating Grant, when the officer observed, we will
have you too.

Some as-istants in the shop of Dr. Reece, Mr. Reed, a &Ater,
and other witnesses, spoke to the same effect.
Mr. ANDREWS addressed the Jury on the part f the
defendant. Ile observed, that the duty which
had to perfrrm in the apprehension of vagiacts was
extremely unpleasant, there being generally a bad
feeling on the put of the pnblic against the officer.
Here Wright considered himself in the exercise of his
duty, in apprehending the prosecutor and his wife,
s‘hom he recollected to have seen at the Mendicity
Office, and he trusted the Jury would not think Wright
had used any unnecessary vio:eiice in taking Grant and
his wife into custody.

The Jury found the p: ironer Guilty as to the assault upon James
Grant ; but Not Guilty as to the false imprisonment and the assault
upon Ellen Grant.
SOUTIIWARK SESSIONS, OCTOBER so.

These Sessions commenced yesterday, before the
Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the RECORDER, and Mr.
Alderman J. J. Smrrti, at the Town Hall, Borough.
J. Haines was indicted for feloniously stealing one
silver table-spoon. and one silver tea-spoon, value 12s.
the property of Mr. John Harri it, landlord of the Two
Brevi-ers, Redcross-street. The prisoner, wish two or
his companions, entered the prosecutor's Iriuse, and
drank together in the tap-room, and one of them, under
pretence of lighting h s pipe in the kitchen, wen: there,
and the spoons weie five minutes alter they
went ou'. The pt honer s. as stopped when endeavour-
ing to sell them to Mr. Roberti., silversmith, Tooley-st.
Verdict—Guilty. Transportation for seven years.
The prisoner wept bitterly on hearing his sentence.
Matthew Jackson was sentenced to three months'
imi.r.sonment at Brixtun,l r stealing from the shop door
of Messr:. Stafford, of Bermondsey-street, a pair of
breeches, value 12s.

Mary Keep was indicted for stealing a shawl from
the dwelling-house of :Mary Moorcroft. The prisoner
was proved to be Guilty, and, on hearing her sentence,
six months in the House of Correction, fell back into
strong hysteric,. She was only nineteen.
Two children, named George Clarkson and William
Robson, were ind cted for stealing a shawl from a little
girl, named Margaret Hardwicke, who was taking home
sonic work from her father to his employer, in White-
chapel, and, on her return, was followed by the pri-
son, rs, one of whom snatched the shawl from her
,shoulde.s in Tooley•st. Guilty; three months at Buxton.

Richard Graham was sentenced io hard labour at Brixton, for
twulve months, for stealing a pair of trowsers from the shop of Mr.
Townly, &aptr and tailor, Iligh-street, value 2.45.
SURREY SESSIONS, OCTOBER W.

The Court was occupied the greater past of the day
'in heating uninteresting Se:dement cases. At two.
o'clock ahoy was sworn, and
tam Agar and 1-Jcnry Child were put to the bar,
cliaigrd with having stolen two pieces of oak plank, the
profetty of Mi. William Eves, a coal merchant.
Mr. Willi ins Eves deposed, chat the prisoner Child
had been in the employment of himself and partners,
who had wharfs at Wandsworth, as captain of the
barge. Agar was his assistant. The pieces of titan.,
for the stealing of which the prisoners stood indicted,
woe, on the 22d of September, missed out of a rail-

mouse, where they had been placed lot sale custody ; any
having suspected Child, 1 e interrogated him tesp:ctinf
•he timbe,s. but he denied all knowledge rf
John Williams. a bargeman, depps.i that he h..il found the
plinks on board the barge Child commanded, on the .24th Sept.
John Rose, apprentice to Messrs. Eves", corrobeirittd the state-
ment of the former arrives% as to finding the plink-.
Wiqtari J.ibttce Bas,ett, a tishe.ina;i, re;ding on
the water-site, at Wandswurth, depsed that the pi-
sorier Agar came to him, and told him he had two
pieces o' timl:er chat would answer hii purpose. lie
asked him v.here be had got them? itnd he replied that
he had found them in the tiger. " %Veil, sii.l witness,
if that be so, I shall go dos‘n and hook a; them. I
then asked him what he would take for them ? and
he said four shillings. I told him I would t give him
more than three, which he said he wonld take. I saw
a nutrk on one of the pieces, and asked Lint wi,at it
meant? lie reel ed, no m liter, -.sett. I picked
diem up. The timber was subsecpiundy taken from
mt lihig.n4s by a conqable:
Mr. I.a:igtoa, a timber-merchant at Wandsworth,
deposed, that the pieces of tinker in cinestig.n had be-•
longed to hint, and bole the usual to k.—lt was im-
possible the planks could have slid down to the river,
as his trash r was esualiy piled h. hind .some cottages.
wrnesics were called, who gave Child a good character
for honesty and sobriety.
The CHAMMAN stormed up the evidence, and the Jury con.
victed Agar, a;,.1 acquitted Child.
The Court sente::ced Agar to six months' imprisonment in the
11.:.e of Correct ~ "ad hard labour.
The renrailiii.4; ems were wholly devoid of interest.