Star.
London, England, 1828-07-10 00:00:00

SHERWOOD V. ROBINS.

This wes an action to recover the sum of 190/.IF. the
amount of deposit-rnoney paid by the plaintiff to the
defendant, on the ,purcbase by the former of a rever-
sionary. interest in a sum of 2,0001. which was sold by
auction by the defendant in October last. The titie
of the vender, a Gentleman cf the name of Dalton, was
said to depend on the event of his surviving his father,
whose age was stated in the particulars of sale to be
66. This was afterwards discovered to be a mis-state-
merit, and the plaintiff, contending that it had been
made wilfully, brought the present action to reco-
ver back the amount of the deposit money. It ap-
peared that the father's age was only 64 instead of
66, -and the vender being in 1826 in possession .of a
certificate of his baptitm, and having about a twelve-
month before the sale, on the occasion of a negociation
with a ceitain company for the disposal of this interest,
stated his father's age correctly, it was or ged that he
must, on the occasion in question, have wilfully mis-
represented it. No blame was attributed to the defen-
dant as auctioneer. He was identified in this action by
the vender, and it was admitted that in stating the party's
age in the printed particulars of sale, be bad merely
followed the instructions received from his employer,
Mr. Dalton. The case went to the Jury upon the single
question, whether the age had or had not been wilfully
misrepresented ? and they being of opinion tbdt it had
been so misrepresented, founsi a verdict for the plaintiff
for the sum claimed.

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The .Select Committee of Public Worki, &c. have
recommended to the House of Commons that the Royal
Mews at grating Cross should be convected into a Na-
tional Picture Gallery.
SAGACITT IN THE HORSE.—A farmer who lives in
the immediate neigh bout hood of Belford, Nortl tuna
berland, and regularly attends the market there,
was returning home in the evening, very recently,
on horseback, rather groggy, and not being able
very well to maintain .his evilibrium,. he rolled off
tgokns volens into the middle if the road. His horse,
which by the way we believe is a grey mare—but no
matter, be it mare or gelding the colour is certainly
grey—well, his hois-e.haring ceased to receive any im
pulse or cider trans 'his Master, like a faithful servant
).wed still. 'So *far' thit Is not uncommon—but after
tethaiiiing 'patierirly fur some time, and not observing
any disposition in Its 1 ider to get up or proceed jui the:,
he took him* by' the collar and shook him. Tins bad
little or no effect, 'for the farmer only gave a grumble
of dissatisfaction at having his repose di)tur bed. The
horse was not to be put off with any such evasion, and
so applied his mouth to one of his coat laps, and alter'
several attempts in this way to raise him upon his feet,
the coat lap gave war. Three individuals who wit-
nessed this extraordinary proceeding then came up, and
assisted him on to this charger, putting the one coat
tail into the pocket of the whet, and to he safely reached
his holm This horse is deservedly a favourite of its
&atter, and has, we enderstaml, occasionally been cu-
aged in gaMbols with him like a dog.
A numbed of forged notes o ere last week seized by
Batty; the superintendent of Police at Carlisle, under
ioctiewhat singular circumstances. John Graham, a
thrasher, bad obtained a number of bed ticks from dif-
fereitt'poor people. for the,purpose of filling them With
tbaff; but as he did, et appear in any hurry to return
ibeizi, the people 4recame clamor,us for their rroperty,
employed Batty to procure the ticks. It was as-
iertained that an old chitties woman, named Margaret
Loring, with :may aliases, in Annetwell-street, had
sonte'of them ; on being applied to, she produced one,
and said it was all she had. Graham having fled, was
pursued and taken near Hesket; and, on being brought
back, " peached' Irving, who, lie said, had the whole
Of the ticks. Search was made in Irving's house, but
the ticks nr't being 'ail found, Mr. Batty proceeded ta
search her person for pawrbrokers' tickets; but this was
an insult to her delicacy which she resisted' " tooth and
nail." struggling against every approach to her pocket
'With the strength of an Amazon. At length, however,
'she was overpowered, and in her pocket was found, not
pawnbrokers' tickets, but a roll of forged bank notes
to the amount of 581. They were of toe Royal B.ink
of Scotland, the L-ith Banking Company, and the
Huddersfield Bank of Doeson and Co. Jr. her defence
she alleged she-had feund the notes on the street. She
was taken before the. Mayor, and has since been corn-
Witted along with Graham lot trial.
Hoes.—There is an old aistich, the truth of which
has of,eri been verified, rut
Tin St. James be come and gorse,
There may be hops, or there may noes.
It may, however, he pied cted with some certainty.that
the farthcoming crop will he most abundant. Ihe oldest
planters agree in that opinion. It is, ilierefore, sliper-
fluonc for us to cold, that the bine looks remarkably
healthy, and that the flea and fly are scarce.—Kentish
CA
• . H lives?, which happens most years about the middle
of August, will, if the present fine weather continues,
in all probabi sty become general towards the latter end
of the, present month.—Bury Herald.
• Since our last notice, the hay harvest has proceeded
without interruption from the weather, which has been
highly favourable, except for a short time on Tuesday
afternoon. when we were visited with a thunder storm,
which was, however, of short duration. The-crops, as
we before stated, are most abundant, and a great deal
of hay has already been secured. The crops of corn
have greatly improved. and are now looking very
healthy and iatward.—Darkam Chronicle.