Star.
London, England, 1828-07-29 00:00:00

PRINTERS' Pr.NSIoN SOCIETY.

Yesterday a General Meeting of the Subscribers to
the above laudable Society was held at the London
Tavern, for the election of eight maleand four female
pensioners.—The balloting commenced at 12 o'clock,
and was carried on with great spirit until four, when it
finally closed, and the following were declared to be
the successful candidates:

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Jones . . 2288 Mills
Paekharnis . 2051 Chalmers . .
Norris . . 1983 Scapleborn . .
Holmes . . 1876 Whiteata9 . .
FNMALBS.
Lean . . 19511 Gray . . 1828
Byrne . . 1869 1 Yates • • 1656
The CHAIRMAN earnestly implored the Meeting not
to relax in their exertions in support of the Society, and
expressed a hope that before long it would rank among
the first of the Charitable Institutions in the Metropolis.
Thanks were voted to the President, Secretary, and
other Officers of the Society, and to the Chair man for his
impartial conduct, after which the Meeting broke up.

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FIRE AT HEREFORD COLLEGE.
HEREFORD, Jest 26.
At two o'clock this morning the College of this city
was discovered to be on fire, and in a tew minutes hun-
dreds were around the College walls. The building
arms a quadrangle, the sides of which are nearly one
hundred feet each. At a quarter. past two o'clock the
furious element was raging awfully; the entire of the
south-east angle was in a MASS of flame. In lets than
ten rni.iutes the different parish engines were placed in
proper situations, and lines for the supply of water were
promptly formed to the bank of the river Wye, which
runs at the foot of the gardens, about a hundred yards
distant from the south side of the College. Another
hour, and the kitchen and buttery were a heap of ruins ;
the fire was fast penetrating into the hall of the great
dining room, and this spacious apartment was doomed
for destruction in spite of the determined and perse-
vering conduct of the persons working and supplying
the engines. The fire had now reached the south-vast
angle, bat as the fury of the devastating enemy in-
creased, so was the energy of its counteractors
doubled, and at a quarter-past six o'c ock t le fire was
extinguished. Fortunately there was no very seri( es ac-
cident except the breaking of a ladder, which precipi-
tated a very active and respectable individual, who,
howeve•, received one or two severe contusions; and
the poor butler, Constable, escaped very narrowly, the
horrible death of being burnt alive. About three o'clock
groans were heard in the direction of the butler's room,
in the south-east angle, and it was immediately dis.
covered that they muse proceed from Constable, who,
in his anxiety to save the plate, was enveloped in Lanes.
A ladder was quickly procured, and the poor fellow
was rescued, but exhibiting a wre chid picture of suf-
fering—his hands and face, and different parts of his
body, were dreadfully scorched ; a few seconds more
and he would have been suffocated.

The plate, the deeds and other p .pers, and the library
of the College, escaped uninjured ; but the private
library of the Rev. H. Munday suffered considerable
damage, as also the furniture of several ollsvr members.
The entire loss is estimated at from ten to bitten hun•
dred pounds.

Sunday evening the inhabitants in the neib:lsSourhood
of St. Martin's-lane were thrown into great confusion,
in consequence of a house in Moore-lane having fallen
down. All the inmates escaped without any great
in-
jury. It is somewhat fernarkable, that the house was built
on the spot where George Barnwell had been hanged.
KIREALDL—The following notice is recorded in the
obituary of a Newspaper printed at Miramichi, 15th of
April, 1828:—" Died at CJathain, on the morning of
Sunday, the 15th instant, highly respected, Itoht. Reid,
Esq formerly High S seriff and Registrar of the county
of Northumberland, at the advanced age of 88. He
held the Sheriffalty 21 years, and kept tne Regisiry till
1823. In early life Mr. R. acted ten years amanuensis
to Dr. Adam Smith, the celebrated Author of the
Wealth of Nations." The subject of the ablve notice
was well known to several people who are still alive in
this place, and various anecdotes are still current of
him and his illustrious employer. The apartment is
yet to be seen where the one dictated and the other
transcribed that celebrated work. The positions can
still be pointed nut where the amanuensis sat at his
little table, and where the philosopher sat in his chair
by the fire, leaning_his head to the wall:,
POOR •MA N-Or-MUTTON.—Dr. JAM mow, the lexico-
grapher of Scotland, explains that " that is a term ap-
plied to the remains of a shoulder of mutton, which,
after it has done its duty as a roast at dinner, makes its
appearance as a broiled bone at slipper, or upon the
next day." The Doctor gives the following anecdote
in illust,ation The late Earl of B popularly known
by the name of Old Rag, being indisposed in an hotel
in London, the landlord came to enumerate the good
things he had in his larder, to prevail on his guest to
eat something. The Earl at length, starting suddenly
from his couch, and throwing back a tartan night-
gown which 'had covered his singularly grim and
ghastly face, replied to his host's courtesy, Landlord,
I think 1 could eat a morsel of a poor man.' Boniface,
surprised alike at the extreme ugliness of Lord 8..
countenance, and the nature of the proposal, retreated
from the room, and tumbled down stairs precipitately,
having no doubt that this barbaric chief, when at home,
was in the habit of eating a joint of a tenant or vassal
when his appetite was dainty."
A very interesting and affecting occurrence tot.k
place at BraidwoOd Lime Work, in the parish of Car-
loke, on Wednesday afternoon. This lime work for
many years bad been wrought open cast, and the earth
or titling thrown over the level, and forced up to the
height of 22 feet. Mr. Barclay found it necessary to
oink a pit through this mound of earth into the level, in
order to make some alteration therein. The workmen
had got the pit dug to the depth of 22 feet, when it gave
way from top to bottom, and buried one of the work-
men in the ruins. Fortunately the pit was lined with
wood, and some of the spars had kept a corner open, so
that he could stand or sit. The bucket rope had also
kept a little opening, by which be was spoken to, and
from which be returned an answer that be was nothing
h*rt. By these means a correspondence was carried on
relative to the opening of the pit ; he wished them to
put down another pit upon new ground, to prevent any
danger of
peei was opened art
thsitting down upon him. Accord-
ned a few feet from the other;
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another
th
wood was carted and laid down; wrights and other
mechanics were at work during the night preparing
wood, &c. for the lining of the pit, and by pine o'clock
on Thursday morning the new pit was at a sufficient
depth to strike in the mine to the other, which was' the
work of other two hours. When daylight appeared in
his dungeon, he asked what o'clock it was, and was anr
sleeted it was elevon o'clock; is a few minutes longer.
he was brought safe out, in the midst of a grew; con-
course of people. Great praise is doe to the workmen
I for their perseverance and caution—in accomplishing
I this meritorious businessrGlespetChrooide-

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE.CIIANCP.I.I.Ott'S COURT, JOLT 28.
GREEN V. GREEN.
Mr. COOPER moved chat three persons. named Green,
defendants in this trial, shc.uld be committed to the cus
tody of the War&ii of the Fleet Poison, for contemp',
id not delivering up the possession of a certain house, in
obedience to an order of the Ging. It Was proved tnat
the order had been served .upon Clem t•eparatel v, and
an order for astir commitment was accordingly directed
to issue. •
At a subsequent period of the day, Mr. Conine stated
that be bad inquired of the parties whether they were,
of age? and round that one .was an infant, being
only fifteen.vears old; he, therefore, thought it tight to
apprise his Honour of the tart. The Learned Counsel
then cited two cases. one in Tuttel, 108, and another in
4 Maddock'. Repots. 128. in which infants had been
committed for contempt.
Mr. WAKEFIELD (amicsss curice) stated that this pro-
ceeding was altogether irregulat. The Court had D.
right, where the parties sought to be committed weir
not in the suit, as in this case, to commit them for not
obeying an order of the Court. The Sheriff was the
proper officer to take possession of the premises, and, ii
necessary, by force.
The VICE CHANCELLOR, seeing that the parties were
in Court, examined them as to whether they wete will-
ing to give up possession, and if not, why they refusal?
It .ipp9red that these young men bad imagined they
had some interest in the house, and acting tinder that
idea they took up their residence, and although re-
peatedly warned that their resistance to the order of
the Court was useless, persisted in keeping possession.
It was clearly proved they had no right or interest
Whatever to or in the subject matter in dispute.
Two of the brothers (one of them the infant) agreed
to give up possession, and the one of them of age un-
dri took to pay his costs of the contempt, and the mo-
tbli as against them was dismissed ; but the other, who
had p Issession of the key of the house, having refused
to, deliver it up,
His HONOUR ordeted him to be forthwith committed,,
and he was taken away in custody of the Serjeant atArms. I

READING, JiTtm 28.

Satur.lay the Sessions for this Borough were held
in.the Town Hall, before the Recorder, when James
Alexander, for stealing some linen, &c. from the garden
of Hetherington, was sentenced to be transported for
life. He had not returned to England from Botany Bay
above a month when he committed the above robbery.
Maria e lien and Ann Stokes, two incorrigible young
girls, for breaking into a linuse in Spring Gardens, and
stealing wearing apparel, the property of Wil-
liams, •• ere sentenced to be transported for seven years.
William Shrewsbury, [or stealing a copper tea-kettle
from the shop of Mt. Metcalfe, in Broad-meet, on the
2d of .May last, to be imprisoned fourteen days.
Them were four appeals agiinst convictions for
hawking tea, the question in which turned on this sim-
ple fact—whether a licensed hawker having an en-
tered room, might carry his tea round with him,
and sell it? or whether he must go round first and
solicit orders, and afterwards deliver the tea? In
tl ree cases, whce the parties had an entered room
in. Reading, the convictions were quashed for want
of sufficient evidence to prove that the tea was car-
ried round at the time the sale was effected. In
Vie fourth cause, the party informed against had
not entered room in Reading, but one in Hungetford,
which is at a distance of taenty-six miles front Reading.
The. question here raised was, whether tl.e vender
had a right to bring the tea with him to sell, or
must he send to Hungetford for every quarter of a
pound as he received an order for it. The Learned
Recorder observed, that the Act under which this in-
fortitation was brought was a highly penal giant-, and
undoubtedly a slifference of opinion on questions 01 this
soft exited. Mr. Corm had put an interpretation
u 'On the Act, which allowed true right of the hawker
I')' tea as he would any other article: this would
be fatal to the case; but the Cow/ n °old recommend a
cotist.to finally decide the question. By the 27th clause
of the Act, they had the power to state the facts sye
ci4tly, for the determination of the Court of King's
Brinch. The Court had taken a very full note of this
calk and therefore, without giving an opinion, would
kite the ultimate decision to the Judges of the King's
Bench.—The ease was accordingly referred.
The informer alludea to above (who is no less a per-
sonage' than a beadle of the parish of St. Lawrenci ) nas
been dismissed by the overseers.— needing Mercury.