Star.
London, England, 1819-06-17 00:00:00

NOR BUR V PARK AND BELMONT.

The Auction Mart has rarely exhibited such a nu-
merous assemblage of company as were collected to
witness the sale of these two favourite estates. Bel-,
moat 'his long been the envied retreat of Mr. Ilan,
RIS, sen. the much-respected Proprietor of Covent-
garden Theatre, and it is said that during a residence
of twenty-three years, he has eXperided full ten thou-
band-pounds on improvements and alterations of the
house and-offices only; and • yet 10,400 guineas was
all that could be obtained for it, with a demesne of
fifty acres of the choicestland attached to it.
Norbury-Park, however; itppeaied the great mag,
net of attraction ; for though it was the last of a king
list of estates, yet the room was, if pOlSible, more
crowded at last,than at the commencement. Mr
Giotto& ROBINS was intrusted with the sale of this
favoured property ; and in an -animated exordium,
which occupied full. half as hour, he depicted, in
strong colours,. and certainly in an able manner, the
variety of advantages that exclusively appertain to
Norbury, and in conclusioa he said,• that he could
occupy their time till six or seven o'clock in recapi-
, relating only those hcautiei which he had discovered
in two visits, and he doubted much if he should not
even then leave off forgetting a lithe part of them.
As the sale proceeded, much anxiety prevailed, and a
silence ensued that is not at all proverbial at an auc-
tion ; but when it was knocked clown, it is difficult
to conceive the extraordinary earnestness with which
hundreds of the company rushed to the rostrum, to
learn who was the fortunate purchaser. At this mo-
ment a Gentleman was heard to sny, " Oh ! it is not
sold I'll be bound." Upon which Mr. 'tam ob-
served, that he hoped that Gentleman was not in the
room when he had pledb,red hit honour that it had no
reserved price ; he should feel at a loss in any other
way to account for such an unworthy insinuation.
Nixeteen Tliousald Six Hundred Guineas was the
price. The timber, it is estimated, will add abint
25,000 more to the purchase.

The Drury-Lane Company are about to perform at
the Haymarket Theatre, which has been liberally
granted them by Mr. oan's, for nearly A month,
Their performances commence with The Pear Gentle-
7Pla n and other entertaminents.;
FEMALE FASHIONS.—Green and blue are the
colours now most in request. All fashionable dresses
now resemble a cone: they arz. tight at the waist,
and sloping off, appear with great cocumfzence at
Use bottom. Short waists are going out,. and short
petticoat are quite outrc indeed. White satin for
pelisses, and 'boots, are now worn by the saperior
Belles, the latter laced at the sides, and fringed.—:
This is the carriage costume.—Singular simplicity
prevails in the Parisian Ladies' dresses—long svaists,
bound with a Sccts riband, plain muslin gowns, straw
hats or white bonnets—and this is the ton!

Notwithstanding the length of the mourtihijAthere
has not been, of late years, so gay a *soh foe the
bean monde as the present. The' number of :fetes,
balls, and parties, has kept all the contributors to
fashion in full employment. The milliners andm4n-
tua-makers have therefore no reason to cputAam of
the times. -

A Coroner's Jury having sat lately on the bady.of
a young Lady, at Baltimore, America, who had'hung
herself in a fit of lavefienzy, gave a specimen of their
religious feeling by their verdict—Died &vat Fiala-
Lion of Curl])
James Fraser, who was condemned at last Circuit
Court at Perth, has received a pardon, oft condition
of his sentence being commuted to transportation be-
yond seas for life.

LAW INTELLIGrNCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. JUNE IS.

LORD C. S. CHURCHILL V. HUNT.
• It will be recollected that in this case, at the late
Sittings after Easter Term, a verdict was found for
theplaintiff, damages £6O, upon those counts of the
declaration to which no justification had been pleaded,
and that a verdict was found for the defendant on
the third count, to which a justification of furiuus
driving had been pleaded.
• Mr. P. WILLIAMS now moved to enter the verdict
generally for the defendant, upon all the counts,
contending that the inducement to the other counts
was the same as in that upon which the Jury had
found for the defendant, but
The COURT were of opinion that as the counts
were severable, the verdict might well b entered as
it stood, and therefore refused the rule.

JUNE 16.-TVONIY V. MILLS.

This was an action by the Assignee of a Bankrupt
of the name of Marton, to compel the defendant,
his brother in-law, to deliver up £95 to the use of
his estate. The plaintiff, however, failed in proving'
that it was put into his hands for the bankru2t's ac•
cemmodation, and he was rot.s&teLl..