Star.
London, England, 1830-09-02 00:00:00

PROI'I7, CIAL I,VTELLI:',E.NrE•

The Bishop of WirAcster has munificently added 1001. a year,
from the it vertu:. of his see. to increase the hitherto scanty income of
the Vicar of Christchurch ; the patrons of the llornagh are expected
to do the trne..

on Sunday sennight the Church &Tyke at Newport, in the Isle of
Wight, was performed by two golden en, both natives of the town—
a circum•tanee rarely, Weyer, known to have occurred, either there or
else A' Lett!.

A clergyman residing within a f...w miles of this town has determined
that for the futtt;e r.o Disserttr shall he buried in the churchyard of his
parish. In the village alluded to there is already a Dissenting place of
worship, and it %mild be no difficulty for this society to procure a piece
of ground fur the interment of their dead. But, if this system of ex-
clusion be acted upon by the Clergy of the Establishment generally,
we think it will cause a greater schism between our Church brethren
and their fellow Christians of other denominations than already may
es is t.—Brd ford Mereurll.
An amusing incident occurred on Sunday fortnight, at a certain
Church not many miles front this town. The young incumbent having
been requested to supply a vacant pulpit at the north end of Liverpool,
obtained the assistance of the Curate of a neighbouring Church to oc-
cupy his own, who gave the congregation a very masterly and eloquent
discourse. In the afternoon the two divines changed places, the incum.
bent thus resuming the occupation of his own pulpit : when, to the
surprise, and no doubt great edification of the respective congregations,
lot the same text was taken as in the morning, and the same sermon
preached ver.intint —Liverpool Times.
The effigy of the Editor of The Brighton Guardian was burnt be.
tore the office of that paper, in North.street, on Wednesday evening,
amid the huszas and hootings of a mob, consisting of seven or eight
hundred persons, who afterwards proceeded to his house in Grenville-
place, and broke his windows. This ebullition of popular feeling was
occasioned, we understand, by the Editor having published a libel
against the King.—Brighton Herold.
It is a statistical fact of some interest to our citizens, as connected
with the manufacturing establishments of this town, that there are at
present in daily use, in our different manufactories, foundries, &c. 26
steam engines, whose aggregate horse power amounts to 515, requiring
a daily consumption of about 250 bolls of coals.—Merdeca Journal.
One of the many whimsicalities of the late election was the following:
—A freeholder proceeded to the poll mounted on a donkey. He dis.
played on either side of his hat the colours of Adeanc and Osborne,
while the headstall of his beast exhibited the purple and orange of the
Court candidate. Coming in such a " questionable shape," it was na-
turally asked of him who he voted for? " Why," says the freeholder,
" I am for Osborne and Adeanc ; but my ASS, like the asses of many
other great men, is for Manners."—Cambridge Independent Press.
The American horse Tom Thumb, which has become the property
of Mr. Osbaldestone, was lately backed by that gentleman to trot 16
miles in harness within the hour. Mr. Osbaldeston also made a heavy
bet that he would drive the same horse 161 miles within the hour on
the same day. The match was decided yesterday on the Trumpington
road, near Cambridge. It was arranged that the horse should go eight
miles and a half out, then turn, and come back to within half a mile of
the starting-post. He went over the 16 miles in 55 minutes, and
finished the 161 miles in three minutes and a quarter under the time
stipulated. The horse appeared as fresh at the end of the work as when
he first came on the ground. The cart in which Mr. Osbaldestone
drove him did not weigh quite a hundred weight.
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TIPPERARY.-11i. Wyse has been performing a tri-
umphal tour through this quiet county, for the purpose of expressing
his thanks to his gentle countrymen. On Wednesday he visited Tem.
plemore, which was illuminated on the occasion. The following day
he proceeded to Roscrea, where similar honours were showered upon
him ; and some say that he intends to prolong the ovation into Queen's
County. for the delight of his tenants there, and the benefit of the chand.
lees of Mountrath. The favourite song at Knocklofty is—" 'Tim good
to be Prittie and NVyse."
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At Thaxted, on Sunday evening last, about six o'clock,
during s thunder storm, the electric fluid entered one of the largest
barns in this county, standing by the side of the road, and belonging to
the parsonage farm °coupled by Mr. Scruby. The barn had the pre.
sous day been filled with corn. The whole was .instantly in a blaze,
and, notwithstanding the assistance of a great number of persons and
t.:veral engines, no part of the barn or its contents could be preserved.
Several stacks of corn and hay, which were prudently set at a proper
distance from the buildings, were at one time in great danger. The
stables also took fire, from which the hones were with difficulty re-
moved.—Esser Herold.

LORD 3IORPETH AND AIR. 8R017011A31. The return of these
popular representatives to Parliament, after having filled the county of
York with exultation, seems now likely to fill it with festivity. Public
dinners to celebrate the event are announced at Leeds, Shef.ield, and
Hull, the three principal towns of the county; and it will, we are
assured, arise only from the impossibility of the members attendance,
it similar entertainments are not given to them in many other places....
A: Otley, I)ewsbury, and Horbury, each forming • centre of a perfect
hive of freeholders, the presence of the members has been dispensed
with, and entertainments of the meat gratifying description have been
given, which serve at once to celebrate the recent triumph, and secure
their future victories.—Leeds Mercury.
Mr. u atz.—We have much pleasure in stating that a meeting, at-
tended by between fifty and sixty gentlemen, belonging to this city and
reighbourliood, took place yesterday in the Black Bull Inn, with the
siew of taking into consideration the proposal of showing Mr. Hume,
during the visit which he intends shortly making in this city, some
token of their respect and high regard. A committee was nominated,
of which 31r. Oswald is to he Convener, and Mr. David Bell, Secretary,
for the purpose of taking the necessary steps for showing every demon-
stration of respect to the distinguished statesman at a public dinner, per-
fectly unrestricted with regard to the gentlemanly expression of political
opinions.—Glasgow Free Press.
We have sect: a letter from Athy, giving an account of some occur-
rences in the Kildare election. The writer says that numbers of the
ten-pound freeholders had neglected to register, and that the supply of
voters was consequently remarkably scanty. The next election for the
county, he says, will find no less than five candidates, and "at least
2,500 voters." A curious scene, which occurred on the night of the
16th instant, is thus described by the writer of the letter to which we
have adverted :—On his return to his lodgings he found that a certain
Priest had forced into the shop (a respectable hardware establishment)
two handsome young girls, whom his reverence charged with being
street-walkers. A mob immediately collected about the door, and the
two humble and trembling criminals, whom the Holy Father had a few
minutes before " caught in a crowd," knowing they were on some bad
design" (such were his words,) being surrounded by the women of the
house, her daughter, a brace of servants, &c, his Reverence worked him-
self into such a fury, that he actually jumped at one of the poor pri-
soners, and addressed her in the following strain :—" Let me at her !
Now you're done, Miss Biddy Dunne ! I'll teach you your duty !"
After the holy man had vented a portion of his rage in words, he ailed'
for sheers ! Having obtained this implement, he roared out, " Let me
at them, the b—thches," made the unfortunate beings kneel down, and,
deliberately, with brutal violence, clipped, or rather tore, 'all the hair
from the heads of both his victims ! He then, with both his hands,
daubed their heads over with tar, and turned them out into the midst of
the savage and bigotted crowd, who applauded the barbarous conduct
of the Rev. ruffian ! What a barbarous state of society this depicts !
Dublin Warder.

RELIEF OF THE BUSINESS IN THE COURTS OF LAW.

After the 26th of next October the Court of Exchequer will be
thrown open to the profession, and the attorneys of the Courts of
King's Bench and Common Pleas will be permitted to practise
therein. It is much regretted by those citizens of London who
are endeavouring to throw open all trades, that this beneficial plan
is not to be adopted in the Mayors' and Sheriff's Courts of the
city. The practice of these two Courts holds out a cheap and
speedy mode for the recovery of debts, and combines with that
advantage the power of attaching property in the city of London,
but the business being confined to a very few persona (eight attorneys
in the Sheriffs' and Mx in the Mayors Court) the advantages which
if the Courts were open would be most extensive are now scarcely
worth naming. The regularly appointed attorneys in the Sheriffs' and
Mayors' Courts engross the whole of the narrow business, and sel.
dom or 'never will any attorney of the superior Courts bring in a
cause in either of them, as no agency fees are attainable. It is a well.
known fact that many of the respectable attorneys in London
would gladly bring their causes into one or other of the above-
mentioned Courts, on account of the economical nature of
the process, and the extraordinary dispatch used in bringing
matters to issue ; but the doors are closed against them as
professional men, and in order to live they introduce their
clients to the superior Courts, where the expenses are enormous, and the
delay intolerable. The throwing open of the Sheriffs' and Mayor'.
Courts would also contribute to relieve the superior Courts from the
press of husineu which leads to that delay. A great number of causes
set down for trial in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas are
upon bills of exchange, mostly undefended, to recover one of which the
plaintiff is put to the expense of 201. or 301. in costs, whereas if the City
Courts were resorted to, his expenses would not amount to more than
81. It Is common with those who arc advocates for the system of exclu-
sion to say, " Why do not clients place their business in the hands of
the City Courts attorneys, who are all respectable men ?" To tins it is
replied that there is no inducement for the public to bring their causes
into these Cowls, as they cannot do so without leaving their own pro.
fesslonal and confidential advisers to throw themselves into the hands of
persons of whom they are totally ignorant ; and there is, besides, exist-
ing
amongst the public a very natural and wise aversion to the multiply.
ing of lawyers round a man's affairs.
Some members of the Corporation of London are endeavouring tom-
cure an enlargement of the powers of the Court of Requests, If they
will turn their attention to the experiment of opening the City Courts to
the profession generally, they will obtain ail they are now seeking for,
and have the credit of upsetting a very Injurious monopoly, which
has rendered the original intention of these Courts any thing but
what they were intended to be. The number of the privileged
attorneys was no doubt suilleient 150 years age; but the great

increase of commercial business, population, and legal ques-
tions, calls loudly for increased facilities and economy. In the City
Courts an action may be tried and settled in a month, while in the
Court of King's Bench, or Common Pleas, it may remain twelve
months, at the comparatively enormous costa of 401. bOl. GO. or 701.
The citizens of Locdon, for whom the City Courts were originally in.
',Witted, would soon feel the advantage of the extension of the principle
in the new Act.

The following is the section of the act alluded to :—" That all per-
sons admitted or admissible to practice as attorneys in the Courts of
King's Bench and Common Pleas, shall be admissible in like manner as
attorneys of the Court of Exchequer, and be admitted and allowed to
practice there as such upon application to the Barons of that Court,
without being obliged to employ any clerk in court, in the capacity of
attorneys in the Court of Exchequer, any law or usage to the contrary
notwithstanding ; and that it shall be lawful for the Barons of the said
Court, and they arc hereby required to distinguish by their rules and
orders, the fees which shall be taken by the sworn and side clerks of the
Court for the duties performed as officers of the Court, similar to the
duties of the officers of the other superior Courts, from such fees and
charges as shall be allowed to be taken by the attorneys *a admitted
to practise, so that the amount of such fees and charges upon the
whole do not exceed the amount and rate of such fees and charges as are
now allowed upon the taxation of costs."