Star.
London, England, 1829-08-04 00:00:00

THE NEW POST OFFICE

This splendid public building will be ready to receive
the establishment on Wednesday. the 11th instant ; and on Thum-
day, the 11th, (Ids Ha)e.ty's birth-dad) at five o'clock is the sown.
ing, the Clerks, sod all connected with the present office in
Lombard-street, will wettable in their different depaitments in
the new building. as the Walla will oft that rooming be received
there. The following are some of the advantages which we
learn front undoubted awbority. the public will derive on Use
removal of the Alice from its present situation. There
are to be three general receiving-houses established ; one
at the present Office in Lombard-street, one at Charing Cr.'.,
altitude in Vere Street. Oxfutd-street ; and the time for putting
letters into the post, preparatory to their being forwarded to the
Olice in St. Nlartises-le•Grand, will be extended to a quarter be •
Cr. seven, up to which time no charge will, as i. at pre.eiit the
case, be made fur accommodation. A plan 1. also in cootenspla.
Man, by which the &leery of letters in distant port. of the low',
will be espedit-il Dy at least an hour; to effect which object.
tb-
following system is to be adopted ; at present the men who dei•se-
the letter. after receiving them at the l'ust-olliee, have many ot
them to go a distance of three or four miles befote they
reach the walk or district in which their delivery lies. This ow
only consumes a considerable Portion if time, but fatigues the sun)
betore be commence. has official duties; to obviate this eve,
rnmei.t has provided six caries's, built upon the Omnibus
plan, each to catry twenty p. roans ; thews are to be waiting
at the Poet-Ake to receive the postmen and their letters and
each taking a certain division of the kletrop.dis, will drop the
letter deli in his own particular walk as he arrives at
it, fresh and free from fatigue, and within much leas time
than would be occupied by him in walking the distance.—
Tise carriage is also built on such a plan that each passenger will he
able to descend from it no hit arrival at the spot most contiguous
to the district in which it is his duty to deliver his letters, without
the carriage stopping, or being at all delayed in ks progress. These
two improvemessis alone—namely. an early delivery, and an eaten -
skis of lime for putting the letters into the post, would of them.
selves form 2 very great accommodation to the pubk ; in addition
to self eh, we unaerstand, it is in contemplautin to extend the de-
livery by the general Post in the oohed» bes.iderably herald the
present h ' by which the loss of time and additional expense.
occasioned by the transter of getters troth the general to the two-
penny Post delivery, will be avoided to a cousiderable extent.

COLLECTANEA.

QUI ROG A.-Quiroga IA a short but very powerful nett:.
The muscular vigour of id. strong!) .knit tram, is a.toni.hing. lle
can Wide, a furious horse, wrestle with a bull, light equally well
with the dagger or the sabre, nil, when necessity obliges him, no
man is more tolerant of hunger and thirst. A peasant one day pre-
dented himself to Qdroga, and stated-that a soldier of his posed had,
without any reaumiabk cause, drawn his sword against him and
struck him. Quiroga made the soldier be called, and, addressing
him, said : " I shall punish you for two reasons ; first, because,
without suMcient motive, you have struck this par man ; s •conally.
because you ate an awkward rascal not to strike more effectually."
So saying, be drew the soldier's sword, and, at one blow, cut tiff
his arcs !—Psyeise.
Tuns ISII ABSTiNENCE.—Rum and Rekee are drank
at Const.ntioop* a. freely as Europeans might drink small beer.
Mr. Madden, in his Travels, lately published, relates that be gave
a slimier to five respectable Turks. one a merchant of large pr "req.
He provided three bottles of rum, and three of strong Cyprus wine.
The rem was exhausted before the second course. Though two of
them were very tipsy, it did not prevent their joining in the
mugreb-prayer. Then host bad some difficulty in preventing oar
of the parry from shooting a Greek at an opposite window.
THE Jusurrs.—The high dignity of General of the
Society of Jesus, has just. been conferred upon Juke Roothan, a
native of Amsterdam. The General. who N about 44 years of
ass, entered the Society at an early period in Russia. lie is re-
presented as peculiarly qualified by his virtues, talents, and
acquirements, to fill the important station to which he has been
called. As a lineutst. Le ranks amongst the first in Europe.—
Dublin Mersin; &garter.
FAMILY Jails. —Mr. JOSEPH LANE, of Keeseville,
advertises his wife, Charlotte as Mehl eloped (rein his bed and
beard, without any justillablecause. Whereupon Mrs. Charlotte
replies, that Mr. Joseph never had any bed but that she had taken
her bed with her, and that she leaves it to the public to say,
whether being knocked dime anal turned out of doors is or is n at
a **Sabi* earn for leaving his board :
" Oh! Matrimony, thou art like
To Jeremiah's figs
The geed were very good—the bed
Too bad to give the prgs."—afiewrionis Alper.
A baronet in the west of Scothuid, whom Convivial
habits were well known to all who bad the happiness of his ac-
quaintance, on one occasion, when in want of
a servant, was ap-
plied to by a man highly recommended foe probity, good temper,
etc. but who hid the candour to sektrowledge that be was " fend
of his glees" in which he sometimes unhappily Welted. The
baronet was altogether so much pleased with the appearance of
the fellow. that nethwkhstandlog his predilection far the
mountain dew, be agreed to hire him for air months. on the
condition that be should never get drunk on the same night
with himself. To this stipulation he agreed, and, at the term.
entered into the service of Sit J—. • Atter twelve week. had
nearly elapsed. during which be conducted himself to the
ssti.faction of every member of the Tamil f. he one day came up to
hia master, and respectfully addressed him thus : " I have come to
tell your honour that lam obliged to leave year service." " For
what ? " replied Sir Why, Sir," rejoined the yak-
°' you will remember that I agreed to become your servant on the
express understanding that I was nevi r to get foe on the same day
with your honour : I have now bees nearly three =Goths in your
service, and during all that time 1 have not had it in nil power to
take an curs glen." was so mush pleased with the
honest simplicity of the fellow, that he forthwith ordered the butler
to give him three bottles et whisky, with instrectinos that he might
have to himself as many days to enjoy them.--Falinlurgh Merv.

Dispatches were received at the Colonial Office yes-
terday Arum Sir Jana Lyon, Governor cat Derbadeth. dated the
Mb of June ; end also from the els..le of the Leeward Islands.
Their contents relate entirely to aft irs of a local oaterfe, connected
with those Colonies.

Dispatches were received at the Foreign Office, yester-
day. front Lord Cowear, our Amba•sador at Vienna; from Lord
STUART DB INTIM t. at Paris • and isms the Netherlands
Mr. BOLLA Dis already named as likely to be the
new Baton of the Ks , place of Sir Joins Homages.
The MarchiousestheUre in
CtIIOLMON nr:Lav has di:paetl of
her rens,iniog term it the Bee ao.asiat fa Piccadilly, for the pur-
pose of residing neat door to her son, the present Marvs, in
Cariton-piaese.
The Duke of Grafton entertained a select party at din-
ner ea Sunday, as his house in Clargerstreet.
On Monday, at a funeral in the neighbouring parish.
the Priest bid the Protestants " begone, v worshipper, of Baal ;
yell he standing in bell with your hats cto."—Ferosonoth Reporter.
Alumna STEELE, Esq. late of the East India Com-
pany's Bombay Civil &MCC, was drowned lately. whilst' hathiag
at Rucarberry, iss the county of Cork. The deceased was an
.llngli•hman, and had goat 1.. Ireland, on a visit to same Isiends.
The body was not found until eight days afterwards.
The Marquis of Hearrotta has hermetically sealed
up the doers and windows of his pkassat cottage at the foot of
Richmond Bridge, where the late Duke of Qum:manse enjoyed
" midnight song and seveky, tipsy dance and jollity." for half a
century. The good tradespeople of Richmond sigh for the r-turn
of the Marepts.
A HAN DSOME A POLOG Y.—One of the Hon. Members
for &Wolk being requested by Lard %%lamellae to vote in favour
of the sale et game bill, eacu.ed himself by saying, " The bill gives
such emasoragement to crime that if 1 vote for it I shall be afraid
et being Welk-Wed" (suffocated).
At Sydney wheat was 7u. 6d. per bushel; at Hobart
Town it continues at an average of about 8.. We learn
that the crop of bops this season is most luxuriant, and of
a very superior quality.
Letters from Holland this morning, bring accounts of
very heavy rains; and they state, should it continue
much longer, great fears are entertained of the crop.
At Buenos Ayres, a decree was issued by the (Orem-
meat, which states, that in consequence of the critical
state of the country, the annual festival of the 25th May
is to be postponed to the 9th July. On the 16th May,
about 50 mouteneros entered the estate of the Collegians,
in which were 16 German &tallies, and robbed them of
every thing which they had,—wounded one man with. a
ball, anti another with a sword. They asked for the
key of the Chapel, and took away the chalice, the sacra.
meat cruet, the crown of the Hay Virgin, and the haft
-moon on which she stood, ornamented with diamonds.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT AMPS S.

• SEARLE V. OOLANDER.
In this case a bill had been filed by the plaintiff, Col.
Searle, against the defendant, Sir William Oglander, to
compel him to pay to plaintiff, without deducting the
legacy duty, an annuity of 383/. se. bequeathed him by
hie late brother, Mr. Searle.
Mr. KNIGHT, in support of. the plaintiff's petition,
stated that the testator had left big estates to the de-
fendant, who was his nephew, and had directed that his
other legacies and certain charitable bequeath should be
paid " without any deduction whatever ;".for which rea-
son he trusted the Court would concur with him in
deeming it to have heel) the intention of the testator that
the plaintiff should be 'paid his annuity without any de-'
'faction. He believed the plaintiff tad incurred the dis-
pleasure of the testator, which circumstance would; in
some measure, account for the preference given in his
will by the testator to his nephew. His HoSew: would
observe, that the. annuity settled on the plaintiff was
exactly a guinea a day, a- fact which would, of itself,
suggest that the testator intended that his bequest should
be paid to the plaintiff without deduction. -
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the defendipt, con-
tended that the land tax and other charges of that nature
were the, exemptions contemplated by the testattit, and
sot the legacy duty, and that, consequently, the plaintiff
was not entitled to the exemption he sought.
Thb VICE-CHANCELLOR WAS of opinion that, as all
the property of the testator had been left to Sir William
Oglander in trust to pay certain bequests, without " any
deduction," he must pay the plaintiff the annuity without
substracting from it the legacy duty.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied for costs, which,
however, the Court refused.

PRACTICE OF THE COURT.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR said he had intimated during
the preceding week that he would on this, and every
subsequent day, until the court should rise for the vaca-
tion, sit until five o'clock. Unless the bar attended, the
causes must be struck out, as the public business could
not be suffered to stand still.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the proceeding had,
taken him by surprise. He was not on his own account
anxious to induce his Honour to depart from the resolu-
tion he had come to, as he (the Solicitor-General) should
in future decline bankrupt business ; but consideration
for the suitors would, he trusted, induce his HonSur to
pause. It was quite impossible that Counsel could at-
tend in the three Courts.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR said ho could not help it.
As there had been some misunderstanding he should, in
this instance, restore the petitions that had been struck
out, but would, for the future, not replace any cause
struck out for non-attendance of counsel.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, the whole of the in-
convenience had arisen out of the making the Rolls a
day court.
The VICE-CitANCELLOIL—I cannot help it.
THE MURDER OF MR. DOW.

The Ayr Advertiser of Thursday, after quoting the
account from the London Papers, of the examina-
tion of the person charged at Bow-street, with this
murder, which took place at Ayr in 1812, says---
This statement appeared in the London papers of Sa-
turday, which reached Ayr on Monday night, and, from
that time till the arrival of the mid-day coach yesterday,
when the man alluded to in the narrative was brought

here, the feelings of the people of this place were excited
greatly, and those *feelings strongly manifested by the
crowds surrounding the coach, every succeeding arrival.
It will be observed the statement in the London papers
differs from the real circumstances detailed at the time, as
to dates a little, and as to the cause or motives of the
murder considerably, and this difference had a tendency
to throw some doubts on the probability, otherwise great,
that the murderer was detected ; and this served only
to augment the curiosity or excite the feelings of the
people. But, just as the excitement rose to the
highest, the coach arrived, and it was allayed in an in-
stant. A man of colour, certainly, was. on the .coach,
chained by the arm to an officer of justice, with another
in escort, and having all the symbols of a man lying un-
der a heavy charge ; but the coach was surrounded by
people intimately acquainted with the person and features
of Johnston, and with one voice they declared he was not
the man. The sheriff, magistrates, gaoler, and consta-
bles, were in attendance, and the man, with the officer to
whom he was coupled, was taken into the King's Anus :
but without a moment's delay, the testimony of a ntlabar
of gentlemen, having the very best means of knowing
timately and accurately the person and features of John-
ston, was taken, proving decisively that there is no iden-
tity and little or no similarity between him and the man
in custody, and in an hour after his arrival, he who lay
se long under the most heinous charge, confined for such
it length of time, and dragged so far to answer for it, was
released from bondage, and was walking at large on the
streets ; and the feelings of indignation against the mur-
derer of Mr. Dow, renewed by the circumstances just re-
lated, gave place to those of pity for the man having the
misfortune to be taken for him.
John Johnston, the murderer, was born at Cross-hill,
in this county. He is the offspring of a white woman
and a Mulatto, and in the language applied to that gra-
dation, is called a Quadroon. He served an apprentice-
ship on board the barque Hopewell, and was ultimately a
sailor on board the barque Avon, both of this port. He
will now be about 32 years of age. On the other hand,
the man taken for him is called Thomaa Stevens or Ste-
. phens ' • he was born in Grenada, and is about 27 years of
age. His father, according to his account, and there is
no reason to doubt his statement, was a Manxman, of the
lame of Thomas Stevens, who went to Trinidad and mar-
ried his mother, a Creole, having a plantation in the
iaiand, and he was their only child. He, therefore,
an contradistinction to Johnston, is a Mulatto. When
about six years of age he was brought to the Isle
of Man, where he lived with a relative of his father,
*a person called " Vicar-General Stevens," and was
apprenticed to a hatter in the parish of Ballaugh,
sear• Ballykain. On the elapse of his apprentice-
ship he wrought as a journeyman, and, latterly, took up
baminess for himself at Ballaugh-bridge, and had a wife
and four children. In 1826, his business becoming
dank, he sailed for Trinidad in the brig Lady Dawson,
Dawsen,lnaster,• leaving his wife and children in the
isle of Man. In Trinidad he wrought in the plantations
• -of his mother, became sick, and went through a variety
•of '4l4S:wings.
. Teo gentlemen in Trinidad, belonging originally to the
Isle of Man, came forward and made oath to the chief

_.....,instance* just related, and especially that he resided
• there AS. wrought as a hatter for many years up to 182(3,
• ahB7'conaequently, in 1824, when the murder was cam-
:Bitted; but die•authorities of Trinidad found it proper to
proceed teatimow of the soldiers, and, after being
ior some time in prison, he was transferred from Trinidad
to Barbadoes, liihere ho suffered a farther imprisonment,
and latterly he was conveyed to England and from hence
aither, in the manner already described.

THE BOOK OF THE BOUDOIR.
• Couwaa—LoNsox.
Lady MORGAN, we think, is wrong, when she calcu-
lates that her new book " will probably escape the dis-
tinction of a criticism,"— for she grapples with her enemy
.in her anecdote of "My Reviewers. We have nothing
to do with that anecdote ; but, if the Reviewers of " Sal-
vator Rosa" are in the body, they are now called upon
to speak out. " The Book of the Boudoir" is egotistical
from beginning to end. It is a gossiping journal of many
—not to say all—of the things that have come under the
observation of Lady MoRGAN, from the commencement
of her career " on the banks of the Bog of Allan" to her
interview, in the " Mons Quirinal'," with Cardinal
GONSALVI ;- -from her " first rout in Lmdon," down
to the 4th of last April. To criticize such a work would
be idle. Her Ladyship, in her preface, cuts short criti-
cism. She tells us the truth :"Its character is essen-
tially egotistical, and its style inevitably carelens."—.4ust
so;—but it is amusing withal; and, .as we observed yes-
terday, it is a book, which, although it cannot possibly,
add to the literary reputation of the authoress, 'must
shortly find its way into the hands of the majority of the
gossiping-reading public. Proceed we to our selections: