Star.
London, England, 1828-12-23 00:00:00

FUNERAL RITES.

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180h1 AN AMARICAN ANNUAL.
0 bury not the dead by day,
When the bright sun is due the sky ;
Hilt let the evening's mantle gtay
Upon the mouldring ashes lie,
And spread around its solemn tone,
Before ye give the earth its own
The gaudy glare of noen-day light
Befits not well the hour of gloom,
When friend o'er friend performs the rill
That parts them till the day of doom :
Oh. no I—let twilight shadows come
When Heaven is still and nature dumb!
Then, when the zephyrs in the leaves
Spree breathe, amid their mazy round,
And every sigh that air receives
Is beard along her still profound—
Then at night's dusky hour of birth,
Yield the lamented dead to earth I
Yield him to earth, and let the deer
Weep o'er him its ambrosial tears.—
And let the stars come forth and view
The close of human hopes and fears:
Their course goes on; he ne er again
Shall tread the walks of living men !
Far in the west the teddy glow
Of sunset clouds is lingering yet,
And with Its brightness seems to show
The relics of a golden am ;"
But soon the fading grandeur flies,
And astiden'd night assumes the skies !
It is an holy hour of quiet,
By which the softened heart is woo's,
To thoughts that in the time of riot
Are rarely welcome to intrude—
To thoughts, which evening's balmy kiss
Will often being—nor bring ands.
No sound awakes through all the sky.
Bare the small voice of summer bird,
That chants his little note on high,
So distant that it scarce is beard, •
And yet sows floating softly by,
As %were a parted spirit's sigh.
A little cloud of snowy whiteness
la sailing through the fields of sir,
And seems with all its fleecy lightness,
Like a bright angel wooded** there—
That little cloud so calmly stealing,
Brings to the heart a ssdden'd feeling.
• spell of Ocoee breathes around,
Os if a single voice is shed,
It is a soft and stilly sound—
Oh! what an hour to quit the dead!
Choose not the day—take twilight's tone,
And let the earth receive her own.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Dac. se.
TIM ASSIGNEES OF FRISBY Ain) CO. V. RAZ.
This action was brought by the assignees of Frisby
and Co. late wine merchants in the City of London, to
recover the value of a quantity of wine deposited with
the defendant, under the following circumstances :
The defendant, who is also a wine merchant, had ex-
tensive dealings with Frisby and Co. before their bank-
ruptcy, and being creditors to a large amount, Messrs.
Frisby and Co. put into his hands certain warrants -for
the delivery of wines lying in the Docks. The warrants.
were not given to enable him to sell the wine, but to,
ascertain that a fraudulent preference would not be,
given to any individual creditor. When Frisby and
Co. became bankrupts, the defendant refused to deliver
the warrants, ou the ground that he had a lien upon the
wine. The assignees were consequently obliged to bring

this action.
Several witnesses proved the case for the plaintiff*.
Sir JAW'S SCARLET?, for the defendant, contended
that the warrants had been put into the delendant's
• bands as security for a -dtbt t f %owl. due from the
bankrupts to his client.
Lord Taarknozm left the Jury to say whether the
warrants bad been left with the defendant for the put-
, pose of enabling bias to watch the proceedings of the
bankrupts or as secwity fur a debt due to the deists.
dant? if they believed the warrants were not given to
sell the wine for his own benefit, they ought to find for
the plaintiffs.
The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiffs--Da•
usages 1,0081.
BRIGGS V. DOUGLAS AND °THUS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a mer-
chant of Liverpool, the owner of the third of a vessel
named the Hannah, which had been wrecked last year
on a voyage to the Brazils, against the defendants, who
are insurance broke; s, to recover the share of the amount
of his insurance effected on that ship.
Sir J. SCARLET? (with whom was Mr. F. POLLOCK)
stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiff had been
third part owner of the Hannah, the owner of the re-
mainder ass a Gentleman of the name of Gibson, also
a merchant at Liverpool. The latter Gentleman had
the management of the ship, and accounted for the ex-
penes and profits of it to the plaintiff. lie had insured
the Hannah to the defendants on a voyage from Liver-
pool to Maranham, and back again, for the sum of
0001. The ship had been lost on its way out, and the
plaintiff sought to recover the third of the amount for
which the insurance uas effected. It was necessary to
inform the Jury that Mr. Gibson had had a separate
account from this insurance with the defendants, and
h..d lodged, among other papers as a security, the policy
of insurance on this ship. As this had been a joint in-
surance, it was obvious that Mr.Gibmin had only made
at. assignment of that portion of the ship which belonged
to him. He believed that the defendants wished to show
that the insurance was only applicable to be Mr. Gib.
son's portion of the ship, and alms that it was a partner-,
ship concern.
Mr. Gibson was called. and his evidence fully con•
fir toed the statement of the Learned Counsel.
On his cress-ezamination by Mr. CasseariA, nothing
of importance was elicited.
The policy of insurance, and fariousletters, were put
in and read.
Mr. Castesatt. addressed the Jury for the defendants.
He conceived that the plai •tiff could not rawer in this
case, as,it did, not appear that his name bad ever been
sneatiouod in any part 4 f these transactions, until after
the tirof December, 1827. Messrs. Douglas were led
to believe that Gibson alone was concerned in this ship,
and tha Briggs had nothing whatever to de with the
insurance.
Lord Tzsysavest summed op the evidence.
The Jury, after consulting together fork few minutes,
interned a verdict for the plaintiff-. Damages 1,4691.
' COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Gustnno.f., Die. 20.
In the course of an action upon a bill of exchange,
which had become due souse years since, a witness was
called to prove ithit the defends' t bad acknowledged
his liability Aga the time'prescribed by the Statute of
• Limitations. The witness, who was an articled cieik to
' an attorney at Dartford. produced a memorandum,
• which he said be bad made immediately after a ton.
aeration between himself and the del ndant, in %Inch
be asserted that the latter had admitted his liability.
In cioss-eiaminatiosb the witness said that he had not
anted down every thing that Was said; but on 'lamina-
' Lion of the rnemorandons t aredthat the defendant
had said that he was they' tiefftt bf the bill, and that he
would not take it up.
The Loan Cam JUSTICE held that this was not sum-

dent evidence to prove the defendant's rability ; and he
observed that this case furnished a Wong instance of
'he necessity of the law which had *been made at Ore
suggestion of Lord Tenterden, and by which, after the
lit of January next. it was enacted that all admissions
of liability, to take a case out of the statute of limits
Cons, must be in writing.
A verdict was given for the defendant.
LAWSON AND BARKER V. DREW AND HUTCHIN.
This was an action brought against the defendants,
who were directors of the General Dying and Printing
Company, to recover a sum of money for work and
labour done by tire plaintiffs, as newspaper agents, in
the insertion of advertisements in the different papers,
at the desire of the Company. It was proved by the
Secretary to the Company that the plaintiffs had re-
ceived an order from the directors' to insert the ad-
vertisements for which the present claim was made,
and that the defendants had attended the meeti..g of
the Company, and had acted as directors. In cross-
examination he stated that Hutchin had attended one
meeting only, and had never taken up his shares; but,
at the same time, he said he had itterfered in the di-
rection of the Company with the other directors. Both.
the defendants, he said, had subscribed to the last reso-
lution of the Directors, by which it was determined, in'
consequence of tLe non-payment of subscriptions upon
the Shares, that the Company should be put an end to;
and as the different officers who had been employed
.refused to receive any pecuniary compensation for their
services, they were presented-by the Directors with the
thanks 'of the Company.
Mr. J. L Evans sta ed that he was in the service of
the plaintiffs in the year 1825, when the Company was
first started, and that I'e hid taken the advertisements
round to the different newspaper offices. He also stated
that the charges made for the advertisements were fair
and reasonable. As he could not prove, however, from
his own personal knowledge, the exact amount which
had been paid by the plaintiffs for advertisements, it'
was consented on both sides that the cause should be
referred.

DISCOVERY Or THE STOLEN STAMPS.

It may yet be in the recollection of our readers, that on
the night of the 3d of last Sept. or early on the following
morning, the premises of Mr. Shearman, of the Bull
and Mouth 1.,n. Bull and Month-street, St. Martin's-le-
grand, were burglariously entered, and robbed of an
immense quantity of stamps, to the amount of nearly
20,000 i. which had been booked at the above office to
go into the country on the following day. Government
immediately • issued placards, offering a reward of
,5001. for the restoration of the stamps. and the officer's
of the different police offices have used their utmost
endeavours to discover the perpetrators of the rob-
bery, but, until yesterday, without success, when, by
'enelyeeted circumstance, the whole of the property
fell into the hands of the police•officers, in the fol-
lowing manner : It appears that • Edward Handley
and William Woodberry, two officers belonging
tb
Queen-square police • office, together with Forder, a
'beadle belonging to Knightsbridge, received some in:
formation that a man with a light green cart, drawn by'
a bay horse, was going down the western road fok
some atuag-which might be worth looking afer. This
was supposed to be the plate lately stolen.froM Colonel
Whatley s, of 'Watford, Her.s, and they accordingly
went down the road and ve Ailed at the Kensington turdL
pike, in eapectation of meeting with the party described.
After sometime they obsekved a greed spring cart,
driven by a man exactly answering the descririon they
had received. with two large trunks and a package.
.They immediately stopped the driver and cart, which
they conducted to Queen-square Office, supposing that
they had obtained Colonel Whatley's plate, when, to
their great surprise, on breaking the locks of the trunks,
they found them to contain the stamps so long missed
from the Bull and Mouth Inn, The driver of the cart,
who has t' e appearance of a countryman, apparently
about 35 years of age, who called himself Thomas
Lloyd, was charged on suspicion with being concerned
is the above robbery at the Bull and Mouth.
The prisoner merely observed that he was employed
by two-men, and was to deliver the trunks near the

aushall-bridge.
The prisoner was remanded, to afford sufficient tin.
for the cfficers to make inquiries into the case, though
not the sliAtest douhi is entertained of the identity if
the sumps, and a 'communication was immediately
made to the Commissioners of Stamps on the subject.

BIRWICZ, Dec. 17.—A melancholy occurrence took
place near this spot on Friday morning, in the loss of the
large open boat E Ile, of Eyemonth. She went with
the other herds to the haddock fishing, and was seen to
upset by a sudden squall while shifting sails, about two
o'clock in the afternoon, nearly five miles off Dartmouth,
when the whole crew met a watery grave.
• EDINBURGH, Dec: 20.—Thursday about mid-day, a
horse (purchased the preceding day
,fot an extensive
establishment GO the Castle-hill), was Poked to a cart at
Mound Place. The usual carter; who is advanced in
years. and another person, were leading the animal
down the declivity, which, becoming fretful, shyed to
the off-side, and the 'assistant, to avoid being crushed
Against the railing in trout of the late Mr. Tod's house,
let go his hold, and the old man continuing to exert
himselfsto restrain the an'mal, was thrown down, when
a wheel passed over his body. the wheels at the same
instant becoming disengaged from the body of the cart,
the latter, we Understand, tell upon his wrist tindhand,
which were so dreadfully shattered that immediati am-
putation was found necessary ; he, is also hurt in the
b Aly. The horse. now lelt to his own will, set off at
full speed down the Mound, with every appearance of
his career being stopt in Miclean's fruit shop; he, how.
ever, turned eastward at tbe same furious rate, and at
the top of the road leading down to Canal street, he
took to the broad foot pavement in front of Mr. Trot-
ter's premises, sweeping away two of tl.e public lamp
pillars and t'seir pall stones, turned up the North Bridge,
and was not stopped till he reached the late Police
office, de:tit:lying another Lamp in his course.
STIRLING, Dec. 18.—blopday last, two men were
seen in the parish of Poignant, where they called at dif-
ferent houses, and gave themselves out, the one as a
tinsurth, the other as a mason, wanting work. They
were 'afterwards siren passing towards the barony of
Kinneil, near Bo'llol, in the county of Linlithgow,
where among the inclorures there, they saw a boy ga-
thering brushwood, whom they threatened to shoot, if
he did not take' Limself off. A little afterwards a Gen-
tleman, in the vicinity, hearing the report of firearms,
immediately ran to the spot kom which the report pro-
ceeded, when he found i man apparently just slant, with
a pistol near to him, and a handkerchief clapped on the
bleeding wound, but he was then quite dead. On the
alatni being given, he wined out to be one of the two
men Above Mentioned ; but the other could not be seen
or discovered ; and it is, therefore, strongly suspected
that he was shot by his companion, who wore a dark
coloured jean coat, sad had a halt, being lame in one
of his legs of feet. •

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