Star.
London, England, 1823-08-08 00:00:00

PARISIAN SPORT&

Monday, a Grand Fete was given at the Champ de Mars,
Paris. At five o'clock the Nacos commenced. The brat stake
was ran for by three French mares. Rositre, belonging to 31r.
Drak, gained the prize, having run twice round the Cosine in.
five minutes and a half. TWo English horses contested the se-
nand stake. The lkighton, belonging to hi. Turner, gained it.
The owners and the winning horses were presented to the'
Duebess of Berri.—'Miss Garneriu went up in a balloon,
and
descended in a parachute, without any accident, upon the Plain
of St. Dinh..-The number of spectators in the Champ de Man
might be 20,000; those who were placed on the outside in the
enviraos, migb; be estimated at least at 100,000. The gardens
of. the TuMerks and•Lusembourg were also t.owdeci. The
price; of admission in the Champ de Man, were forty, five, and
ooe Mak. • The hasty-franc customers weak of tours. ant very
annifitess- Ilk day was encessiveky hot, and the price of a glas
of water. upon the mond was at one time 25 anus. The habouo
was not more thin two-thirds filled, to prevent in travelling to
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

vrer..ctlANTrtr.on.s COURT, AIYOUST 7.
THE Litre. QUEF.N.S PROPERTY.
The question of the demand of Mr. Hooper against
her late Majesty's property, was again brought be-
fore the Court. The question here was, whether the
sum of 23001. due to Mr. llooper, should be paid out
of the general assets of her Majesty, or out of the
5000/ claimed by Mr. Austin?
The VICE-CHANCELLOR directed that the Master
should draw up a Report to he submitted during the
recess, to the consideration of the Master of the Rolls,
tinol which that learned person would decide which
fund payment should be made from :-10001. it ap-
peared had already been paid ; and should his Ho
Lour, the Master of the Rolls, direct the payment of
the remaining 1300!. to he made from the 5000/.
there would still remain 3700/. as some provision for
the young man.
HAYDEN'S PICTURE OF MACBETH.
SYR GEORG% BF.AU\!ONT P. ALstterr.
Mr. BELL applied for an injunction, restraining the
defendant from selling, mutilating, or otherwise in-
juring a certain picture of B. R. Hayden's, called
Macbeth," which had come into his possession un-
der the following circumstances. In 1821, Mr.
Hayden being desirous of making an exhibition of
all his paintings, took a room in Pall-mall, belonging
to the defendant, for the purpose of fitting it up as
a gallery. Here he deposited his unsold pictures,
and he also applied to "those Noblemen and Gentle-
men, who had purchased some of his works, for the
loan of them. Amongst others, he obtained the
picture in question from Sir G. Beaumont, who had
given 1000 guineas for it. A catalogue of the pic-
tures was published, in which it was stated which
were sold, and who were the purchasers ; and a
ticket was also affixed to each, picture containing the
same information. The defendant was in the habit
eof visiting the gallery, and of seeing the catalogues.
Mr. Hayden failing to pay his rent, the defendant, in
August, 1821, put in a distress, and seized the pic-
tures, but did not proceed to sell them. An arrange-
ment took place, and the defendant consented to
permit Mr. Hayden to take away a certain number
of pictures to exhibit at Edinburgh, .Glasgow, and
Dublin, he undertaking to remit to the defendant
4:100 of the profits of each exhibition. The defend-
ant was to retain the other pictures as a security,
and amongst them was that of Macbeth. Mr. Hay-i
den's embarrassments increased ; he was not able to
make good his payments; and in the meantime Sir
George Beaumont, who had been abroad, returned
to England, and applied for his picture, but the de-
fendant refused to give it up, contending that he bad
a right to sell it to pay himself the rent due.—Sir
George, upon this refusal, made the application for
the present injunction, and his Learned Counsel now
contended that the defendant could have no right to
retain this picture, having by the ticket attached to
it, and the printed description in the catalogue, had
full notice that it was not Mr. Hayden's property.
Mr. Stinnett, on the other side, put in the affidavit
of Mr. Alnutt, stating, that he (the defendant) had
no recollection of ever having seen the catalogue, or
hbel •on the picture ; nor did he remember ever
having had any information that the picture was not
Mr. Hayden's property. The Learned Counsel also
contended, that, let the property be whose it would,
the landlord had a right to seize it for rent.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR agi eed in this last position;
but his Honour observed, that the defendant had lost
his right under the distress, by not selling the pro-
perty in due time. Whether he had now a right to
sell was a question of law. He should now grant
the Injunction, and direct that. the picture be deli-
vered over to Sir George Beaumont ; he undertaking
to deal hereafter with tt as the Court should direct,
when the opinion -a a Court of Law should base
been given on the point now reserved.

RETURN or Mn. RAMC Tacna Amt.!—Professor
Ram, of the University of Copenhagen, set out on
ajourney to Asia six years'ago, chiely with the in-
tention of investigating the relations which exist, or
which have existed, between the languages of bulk
and Persia on the one hand, and those of the Geithit',4
and Germanic nations on the other. Mr. RAsk bas
brought with him a great many manuscripts in Sim-
Zend, Bengali, and Persian, a which are
four copies of the Zendavesra, very different farm
that which M. ANQUBTIL translated. He has image
researches in the Bull writing, as well as into ibis
Cuneiform writing of Babylon and Persepolis.
Fiowsas DE Luca.—lt seems to be generally
agreed by French antiquaries, that these flowers de
lute were originally designed to represent the heads
of spears. Such a change is not uncommon in an-
cknt blazoning, from the painters imperfect repre-
sentation of the thing intended; the lions in the Arms
of England were originally leopards. • •
BEDFORD MISSAL.--.AS the Library collected by •
the late ktso is now likely to become the property
of the Public, owing to the liberal intention of his
present Nl...Jewry, every anecdote connected with the
formation of it acquires additional interest. The fol-
lowing is from good authority, and is curious for
more than one particular :—At the time when the
Bedford Missal was on sale, with the test of the
Duchess of PORTLAND'S collection, the late KING
sent for his bookseller, and expressed his intention to
become the purchaser. The bookseller ventured to
submit to his MAJESTY, that the article in question,
as one highly curious, was likely to fetch a high
price. ' How high ?'—. Probably two hundred
guineas r—. Two hundred guineas for a Missal !' ex-
claimed the Queer', who was present,- and lifted up
her hands with astonishment.—. %Veil, well,' said his
MAJESTY, 6. l'll• have it still ; but since the QUEEN
thinks two hundred guineas so enormous a sum for a
:Missal, I'll yo no further.' The bidding for the Royal
Library did actually stop at that point; and Mr.
EVANS carried off the prize by adding three pounds
more. The same Missal was afterwards sold. in April
1815, and purchased by the Duke of MA acioNouon
for £687 l
Juan Itufai said, there are two classes of. persons
who are.inconsolable: the rich on the point of death,
and women on the departure of their beauty."—He
said, on anothpr occasion, .. that be who riefined'a
contpliinentto be an agreeable falsehood, which saves
as a net to catch dupes, was nor fir short of truth,
wince the greater pan of compliments are expaesgions
dirsctly at variance-with the internal conviction."