Star.
London, England, 1821-01-29 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCIL-THIS DAY.

The Court was crowded at a very early hour, in
consequence of the two great causes fixed for this day,
namely, t'..e ATTORNEY-GEgERAL's motion that judg-
ment be pronounced upon Major Cartwright, Messrs.
IVooller, Edmonds, Maddocks, &c. and a case of vital
importance to the Liberty of the Press, that of the
King against Clement, which is to argue the right
of the Court to fine, in cases of the publication of
proceedings pending in a Court of Justice, contrary
to the order of the Court. Mr. Clement is the Pro-
prietor of the Observer, and published the trials of
Thistletvood and his accomplices before the whole
were closed, contrary to the order of the Court ; the
consequence was, that Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT,
who presided at the Special Commission at the Old
Bailey, fined Mr. Clement £5OO ; the latter resisted
the payment of the fine, and the case was appointed
for hearing this day.
As soon as the ArronNer-GEustam. took his seat,
he moved the Court for judgment against Major
Cartwright, Wooller, and others.
Mr. DEN MAN said, that he was for the defendants,
and had only this moment had copies of affidavits
for the prosecution put into his hands.
After some conversation in Court upon the subject
of delay, the motion for judgment was put off until
Wednesday next.

THE KING V. CLEMENT.
This cause Was next entered on, and the Court ul-
timately and unanimously refused the Rule Nisi,
obtained by Mr. Clement on a former day.

By an official Return made to the Treasury from
the Stamp-Office, it appears that there were used last
year, by all the Newspapers published in England,
24,8'20,307 Stamps ; of which number The Observer
(although only a Weekly Journal), used no less than
913,000—being nearly a twenty-seventh part of the
Stamps consumed by all the Newspaper Press of Eng-
land, which consists, in London, of 15 Daily, seven
published three days in the week, 35 Weekly, besides
168 Country Papers.
Thursday his Excellency the Duke DE CAZES, ac-
companied by several scientific Gentlemen, visited
' the Model-room of the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich, for the purpose of witnessing Mr. BAR..
LOW'S experiments on magnetism, and the local at-
eraction of vessels. It is singular that the correction
of the latter important error in navigation, which has
I hitherto resisted the most refined mathematical in-
vestigations, has at length been effected by the appli-
cation of a small surface of iron near the binnacle.
We hope that this method, which is as simple as its
object is important, will not be suffered by our Ad-
miralty and Navy Boards to find its first application
in a country foreign to that in which it originated.
Tuesday se'nnight, at the Grantham Sessions, Mr.
ROBERT LITCHFIELD, and nine other inhabitants of
the town, charged with riotous conduct, on the night
of the late illumination in honour of her MaJEsTr,
were fined Is. each, and discharged from their bail.
Wednesday sennig,ht, Mrs. Catherine Osborne, of
Church-street, St. Michan's, Dublin,.w•as murdered by
her own husband, Matthew Osborne, house-carpenter,
who absconded, but has since been taken into custody.
An Irishman of the name of Henry M'Curey, who
had gone to visit one of his countrymen residing in
Gatehouse of Fleet, in Galloway, on the morning of
Old New Year's Day, fell from the stairs of- his
friend's house, while about to return home, and was
killed on the spot.

A Qaack is travelling in the North, selling what he
calls Dreaming Powders; the parties taking them,
are to dream of what 4hey wish to be acquainted
with. 1-lad he been about London, we should have
imagined the whole population had been taking them,
for never was there a Lottery in which so many par-
ticular or fancy numbers were bespoke at the Lot-
tery Offices; but this we are not surprised at, when
we recollect there are Six £21,000 Prizes in the
Scheme, mid that the Contractors give away Three
Prizes of £2,000 on Valentine's Day.
COW" EICHANCIF, MA IM-I.AIII, JAN. 29.—Our Market was well
supplied with Wheat this morning, for which the demand wa
very inadequate, and even the finest s: topics from gster., Ken,,
and Suffolk, met heavy sale at a decline of its. and the ordinary
qualities were offered at an abatement of 3s. per quarter, without
being able to effect sale, at that. reduction. 1-Ltving had very
large arrivals of VINO since this day week, and a con.identsk •
quantity flesh• up 'this' morning, in .kilditiun to what remained
over from friday's market, caused exceedingly dull sale for all
descriptions; at a decline of 2s. per quarter in the best, and
In the inferior samples. In other articles no alteration.
SMITIIFICLD MAXIM; JAN. I:9.—Beef, 3s. led. to 4s. lOd. M e. .
stone of Sibs.; Mutton, 4s. Od. to ss. od. Veal, ss.•od. to Ts. OJ.
Pork, 45.6 d. to 54.10 d. Lamb, 05.0 d. to Os.ol—Cattle at Market
Beasts, 2753 ; 2:0; Slioep and Lambs, 15,7C0; figs, 230.

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