Star.
London, England, 1819-02-06 00:00:00

BOXING.

. Tuesday last was a prolific day enema provincial can-
didates for milling fame. Two matches were fought—the one
fir 150 guineas a side, a few miles from Gloucester, between the
Chandos-street butcher, who made a successful stand lately
against Scroggins at the Fives Court, and a reputed good one
fVom Bristol; and the other between John Norris, a Wiltshire
wrestle:, and Thomas Acton, a bargeman, which lass match
took place at Newton Common, Wiltshire, where Flowers beat
Cannon. Richnlond, and others of the pugilistic corps, were re-
tained. The latter combat warmest manfully contested, although
only foie rounds were fought, as no time was given between the
rounds. _ _ _ _ _

Round 1. The combatants stood and eielsanged hit for
hit for the space of eleven minuses, until they were deluged In
claret, and Acton was at length Moored. '
Round 2. Open mouthed and piping, the combatants stood
'within distance of each other, without endeavouring to hit for a
minute, when Acton unmuzzled, and drew two of his adver-
sary's teeth, but he at the same time was doubled up by the
cracking of two of his ribs. Some severe hugging fighthig fol-
lowed* and the wrestler in a close gave Acton a heavy Somerset,
which spoiled his efforts in the next round.
3. Norris worked upon his success, and placed half a dozen
heavy blows, without receiving any returns, but he fought him-
self weak and was thrown.
. 4. The men were terribly beat and worn out, and the efforts
in this round, which lasted nine minutes, were astonishing.—
They met and hlt until they were Cited three several times; and
at length Acton was hit again upon the broken ribs, and he could
appear no more. The battle was for 15 guineas a side, and it
liked e rainittes.

. .
. The Duke of Vi'eta.tswroN's Banquet has alarmed
half the Loungers in Bond street—the leg of a wild-
boar !—Prodigious -
; We have heard of Rats Low and then finding their
'way into St. Stephen's Chapel, but never thought of
Fetrets being brought into Parliament !
One of the American Papers says, that " the Uni-
ted States Bank and the States Banks are like acid
and alkali; for, whenever they come in contact, a
great fermentation takes place.
. The body of a young man, who was drowned three
weeks since, near Westminster-bridge, from being
blown out of a punrdtuing the high wind, was found
'ay yesterday morning by some fishermen, and im-
mediately conveyed on shore at Lambeth-stairs.
A shocking actident occurred at Llandidno, near
Conway, on Tuesday night, during the absence of a
Miner and hit wife; who had gone to attend a Me-
thodist Meeting, and locked the house-door, leaving
two children within. The house by some means
took fire, and was, together wish the children, con-
itizned sto ashes; the eldest only four years old!
About four o'clock on Sunday morning last, Rhua-
ben Church, near Wrexham, was discovered to be
on fire. The inhabitants of the village were imme-
diately apprised of the calamity, and used every ex-
ertion to extinguish the flames. However, the pulpit
and desks and two of the pews were entirely con-
'su.med. The beauiful organ was very considerably
injured ; all the metal pipes on the exterior were
melted, and the wood-work and carting of the case
much injured. The tablets in front of the altar, mad
those en, the Walls.of the south-side of the Church,
;were defaced. The accident was occasioned by over-
-heating a flue, used for.airing the Church;
The.ParishChurch of Pit bright, near Guildford,
was discovered to be on fire in the night of Saturday
last ; an.alarm- Oeiag L;:ven, a number of the villagers
.assembled, one of whom, with great presence of
mind, ran for a spade, and Stopped the flowing of a
small brook which ran near the Church, by which
Means, added to the praiseworthy courage and acti-
vity of the persons present, the flames were extin-
gutslied, after destroying the chancel- and slightly
. damaging the roof. The mausoleum of the HALM(
family was saved only by great exertions.
• Gueitsiscr, JANUARY 23.—Wednesday night last,
about eight o'clock, we experienced one of the most
violent storms that ever happened here in the me-
mory of the oldest person ; the thunder fell on the
pinnacle of St. Martin's Church, and damaged it
greatly ; the weathercock, and the large stone on
which it was fixed, were beaten down: the lightning
penetrated into the belfry, following a wire that was
. fixed to a small bell, which conducted it to the pal
pit; almost all the pews were damaged, the seats, in
the galleries torn up, as well as the stairs, and the
pilaster torn off the walls in several places; the pillse
where the Ten Commandments were placed, as alsp
several •of the pillars which supported the arches of
• this edifice, have cracks in them more or less large:
itt short there is scarcely a part of the church which
has not felt the effects' of the thunder : all the win-
. dews- have been broken : the enti. e of the east win-
, dow, we?od-work all, was drove into the church-yard.
Several persons whO were on the roads at that time
avere thrown on the ground, and the windows of a
house opp&ite to the church, were nearly all brokep.

LAW INTELLIGENCE:

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, FEBRUARY 3.

BOOT V. LABURN AND ANOTHIR.

Mr. Hater, in this case, applied for an injunction
' to restrain the defendant, Laburn, from collecting or
calling in any bills or sums of money, arising out of
a partnership concern between him and a Mr.
Thompson, who had, prior to his decease, made the
present plaintiff his. executor ; and also, that the de-
tendants might be restrained from receiving certain
rte: s ; and that the defendant, Laburn, might be di-
rect::d to. deliver up, within one week, all dse books,
papers, &c. relative to the said partnership transac-
tior,3 : and, finally, that a receiver might be appoin-
ted to whom the said papers were to be given up.—
The circumstances, as stated by Mr. Hart, were as
follows :—ln the month of March, 1810, Mr.
Thompson and the defendant, Laburn, entered into
:iv, agreement to trade as partners, for the•supply of
shipping with butcher's meat, with a capital of thirty
thousand pounds, each covenanting that in the event
of either dying within the period of ten years, the
successor was to take the whole of the property on
giving sufficient bonds to the executor of the de-
ceased partner, for the payment of such sum as
should be found due to him, which was directed to
be done by four equal instalments. The trade was
carried on till December, 1818, when the. defendant,
Laburn, had, as the bill alleged, got piissession of the
whale of the 430,000, and applied it to his own use.
A serious misunderstanding arose between the par-
ties, and Mr. Thompson demanded that the defen-
dant, Laburn, should give him three bills as a secu-
rity for the balance due from him to Mr. Thompson,
which was accordingly done.' Shortly after this time
Mr. Thompson, from the dismal state of his affairs,
became affected in his intellects, and closed his exis-
tence by suicide, having, by his will, appointed the
present plaintiff, and a Mr. Roper, his executors.—
The defendant, Laburn, having got possession of the
whole of the papers in Mr. Thompson's possession,
at his death, relative to the transaction, refused to
give them up.; it was however known that a.balance
of £lB,OOO was due to Mr: Thompson on the partner-
ship account. The defendant, Laburn, had refused
to give the plaintiff security, which he was bound to
do by the partnership agreement, or to come to any
settlement‘vith the plaintiff, and had himself since
become insolvent, notwithstanding which he was at
present collecting in the debts due to the estate. The
insolvency of the' defendant would, of course, he said,
•preclude his now giving the security required ; and,
therefore, the only remedy the plaintiff had was to
apply to the Court. The above facts were supported
by affidavit ; in answer to which the defendant's an-
swer alleged, that he had advanced various sums of
money on the partnership account ; but it did not
deny the material facts. Mr. Hart was proceeding
to read the the affidavit of Mr. Laburn, when
The Vtos-Cua.bioitu.oa said, there was no need
of troubling Mr. Hart, since the Defendant admitted
that the survivor was to take on the express condi-
tion of giving security; this he had not done, and
therefore his Honour felt himself bound to issue the
Injunction. Had the Defendant given the security,
his Honour would have felt great difficulty in bring-
ing
his mind to a conclusion to grant the Injunction,
but in addition to the admitted fact respecting the
security, it was also admitted that the Defendant
was in an insolvent state ; he could not of course
now give security. His Honour directed the Injunc-
tion to issue as prayed for.